[OSM-newbies] The London Loop - Sections 15 to 23

Jason Cunningham jamicuosm at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 27 23:48:34 GMT 2010


Sorry, I pasted the wrong link into multimap link showing the OS map for
comparison. It should be
http://www.multimap.com/s/B1w5Lr07

Jason
2010/1/27 Jason Cunningham <jamicuosm at googlemail.com>

>
> 2010/1/27 Someoneelse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk>
>
>
>> Personally I think that the levels at which Mapnik shows e.g. hedges is
>> actually about right, and if the LOOP PDF maps had hedgerows on them at
>> their current scale, they'd look a mess.
>>
>
> I think hedges(barriers) would work at the next zoom level up in mapnik.
> They dont appear to cause clutter on (roughly) the same zoom with the OS
> maps on Multipmap.
> Chigwell area in mapnik [link<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.6219985485077&lon=0.101816654205322&zoom=15>
> ]
> Chigwell area in multimap(OS) [link <http://www.multimap.com/s/NgF8hPej>],
> contour lines make it a mess though
>
> The only way to see if it is acceptable is to try it, which I guess is best
> done something like Kosmos (think thats the right software). Dont have time
> to experiment for several days. Any computer literate person want to try?
>
>
>> (there's actually been a lot more detail added to OSM since the LOOP PDF
>> maps were created, by the looks of it)
>>
>
> Agreed, but thats the beauty of OpenStreetMap. I've made several
> improvements to land around the London Loop in Bromley that went into the
> map just after Walk London created their maps. The maps can only get better.
>
> Cheer
> Jason
>
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