The bridges look good, but the town is clearly lacking.<div>Now we have OS Street View, we could quickly respond to natural disasters by improving the mappedness of the area.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course the argument still remains that it can mean the area never gets well mapped. But think, if people see their local bridges in a news story about the fastest responding map, and then just out of town their street is missing or they go for walks in the Cumbria countryside, they could be encouraged to get adding to the amazing OSM.</div>
<div>Even better would be if 1-2 months later a mapping party, or just a talk/workshop was held locally, but I don't know that anyone is around or able to travel there to do so.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2010 02:39, Tim François <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sk1ppy14@yahoo.co.uk">sk1ppy14@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">I think that was the one they 'officially opened' on the One Show yesterday (BBC 1, on the iPlayer now) with a load of RiverDance girls - I kid you not....<br>
<br>Tim<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 21/4/10, Russ Phillips <i><<a href="mailto:russ@phillipsuk.org" target="_blank">russ@phillipsuk.org</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<br>From: Russ Phillips <<a href="mailto:russ@phillipsuk.org" target="_blank">russ@phillipsuk.org</a>><br>Subject: [Talk-GB] Workington Bridges<br>To: "OSM Talk-GB" <<a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>
Date: Wednesday, 21 April, 2010, 10:34<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>After the November floods, the map of Workington [1] in Cumbria was<br>updated very quickly to show the state of the bridges, and the<br>location of the temporary road bridge that was to be built. I've just<br>
read on the BBC news site [2] that the temporary bridge is to open<br>today, at
10:30. Can a local please update the map? I'm wary of<br>changing it remotely.<br><br>I'm giving a presentation/demonstration on OSM to my local LUG soon,<br>and I'd really like to use this as an example of how OSM can be better<br>
than commercial maps, especially since TomTom's VP of ecommerce told<br>PC Pro "There are services like OpenStreetMap, and it's good, but<br>sometimes there's not a bridge when it told you there would be." [3],<br>
and their map of Workington still routes people over the damaged<br>bridges :)<br><br>Russ<br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.64893&lon=-3.54955&zoom=16" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.64893&lon=-3.54955&zoom=16</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8627276.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8627276.stm</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/356008/tomtom-shrugs-off-free-apps-threat-with-new-iphone-app" target="_blank">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/356008/tomtom-shrugs-off-free-apps-threat-with-new-iphone-app</a><br>
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