[OSM-newbies] How to (awesomely) map a small Northern Ontario town
Andre Engels
andreengels at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 02:42:30 BST 2010
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm spending a few days next week in a town in Northern Ontario. It has
> all the roads in, thanks to the import of Canada's map data by dedicated
> OSMers. What it doesn't have is the trails, museum(s), hotels,
> restaurants, shopping mall, donut shop ...
>
> I'm pretty new to this. Assume I have a notepad and pencil, GPS (and
> know how to use it), camera, laptop and net connection. I've entered a
> few edits in my neighbourhood, around 43.73ºN, 79.26ºW. What could I
> usefully do in a day or so to make this little community's map pop?
>
> If I knew how, I'd print out the existing tiles at a decent zoom level
> on my large format printer, then mark it up. Unfortunately, I don't know
> how to get the tiles.
http://walking-papers.org - gives you a map in pdf format, intended
for precisely this purpose.
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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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