Richard<br>There is some small interest in the Rutland event from the folks on Wikipedia. They have been compiling a list of places that we might be able to help with. A lot of them are POIs. This looks like an opportunity to kill two birds with one GPS unit and a camera. See
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography#Rutland_wanted_list">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography#Rutland_wanted_list</a><br><br>Etienne<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Fairhurst</b> <<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This weekend is the Rutland mapping party. I hope the non-UK members<br>of the list will excuse me sending a Rutland-related posting to the<br>main list, as the general approach could be relevant to other mapping<br>weekends. (Follow-ups could go to talk-midlands if it drifts off the
<br>general point.)<br><br>By the end of the weekend I hope we'll have all of Rutland's roads,<br>plus a smattering of footpaths and cycleways. But as we're passing,<br>should we try and mark a few Places of Interest, too?
<br><br>Three that spring to mind are tourist locations; pubs; and churches.<br>There are doubtless many more possibilities, but we won't have time to<br>do everything, and concentrating on a couple will make it much more
<br>likely that we get consistent coverage. Rich data like this makes it<br>easier for us to produce real-world maps that will be of interest to<br>the great unwashed - I don't believe there is yet a Rutland pub map in<br>
existence, for example.<br><br>Mindful of David S's point that OSM shouldn't try to do everything,<br>that some things are best left outside the OSM database and reserved<br>for mashups, the POIs could be stored somewhere else if need be.
<br><br>Would this approach find favour, and if so - given Rutland's<br>predominantly rural character - what should we concentrate on?<br><br>cheers<br>Richard<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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