[Talk-gb-midanglia] Hi

[Peter Miller]

Possibly you might enjoy adding rural roads in Norfolk from NPE maps using
Potlatch one some cold dark winter evenings! I drew the line (literally) at
the Suffolk/Norfolk border (except for a few extra bits around Cromer and
Great Yarmouth which I did for particular purposes). It doesn't take long
and makes a big difference to the mapping for the area.

 

You might also be interested in adding church using the excellent site:

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mainpage.htm

 

It would be appropriate and tactful to email SimonK to ask if would give you
permission to add church names to OSM maps from his site (which I did for
Suffolk and he said yes). Assuming he says yes it can be fun to match up the
church symbols on NPE maps with his descriptions of the churches

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Peter

 

 

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[mailto:talk-gb-midanglia-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Tristan
Scott
Sent: 15 October 2008 10:20
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Subject: [Spam] Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Hi

 

Hello

I'm Tristan Scott. I've been doing some half-arsed mapping in Norwich (and
indeed seem to have ended up being the only major contributor)

I do callouts a lot as part of making my living, so find myself driving
around a lot. I try to take all the various options of routes to a common
destinations (norwich to cantley, for example, is now well covered!)
This does mean i'm not good at housing estates and also non-car-routes.
Though I have been making an effort with mapping Norwich's extensive pub
population!

I drive through eye, near Diss frequently, so I'm converting the NPE-traced
highway=road routes into mapped highways in that area, and I'm also trying
to end up in north norfolk more, as it seems there isn't much in the way of
mapping happening up there.

I've got a modified cheap natnav (essentially a PDA with a built-in GPS and
some (since removed) crap nav software) which i'm using to grab traces as I
drive about.
Using my traces in JOSM at the mo, as it seems that I can't upload (403
error when I click the traces tab in slippymap) for other people. Plus when
driving I don't write helpful waypoints... I do things like tap to add a dot
and try to remember what it was afterwards... It sometimes take a good few
trips before I remember things like which dot was the pub!

Tristan

2008/10/14 Robert Norton <robert.m.norton at gmail.com>

Hi,

2008/10/14 David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>:

> If people feel like it, I wonder whether you'd each like to introduce
> yourselves to the others, just saying where and what kinds of things
> you're working on.

I'm in Cambridge (Mill Road). I was very disappointed when I first
discovered OSM to see that my local area is already excellently
mapped! Kudos to David and others for this. Anyway I got a Neo
Freerunner so that I could start contributing and recently managed to
grab some tracks whilst on a trip to rural Shropshire. Now I've
finally managed to make a small contribution!

Cheers,

Robert


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Tristan Scott BSc(Hons)
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