On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Laurence Penney wrote: > I was recently in Kaliningrad[1], where I had the opportunity to > inspect its seven bridges[2], the conundrum surrounding which, solved > by Euler, kicked off topology. > > Much to my dismay I found that two of the bridges - numbers 3 and 4 if > you start numbering from the west - no longer exist. > > I wonder if, in honour of the founding father of routing, anybody is > interested in a mapping party there. The two missing bridges would > make a fine use of the end_date tag, with which we could enjoy some > historic routing.
What a terribly good excuse to get a Russian visa :D (I guess that enclave still requires it right?) > More ambitiously, now that the cathedral[3] has been beautifully > restored with German money, I wonder if any German OSM enthusiasts > with fund-raising talents might consider an international appeal to > rebuild the destroyed bridges as footbridges, so that Kaliningraders > (perhaps wedding parties, since that's who seem to dominate the island > on a Sunday afternoon) might have the pleasure of a topological ponder > and wander as did their German forebears. > > The Brits might consider donating too, since it was the RAF that > bombed the city to bits. Think such thing would require some skills to set up. Especially an architect for the actual new bridges etc. But the idea is terribly cool :) Stefan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
