[Talk-gb-midanglia] Hi

[Mark Williamson]

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 12:13:31 Peter Miller wrote:
> 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.

I've found some places where rural roads from NPE seemed to be missing 
(specifically between Somersham and Chatteris) but I wasn't sure whether it'd 
be good practice to trace them without physically going and checking they're 
still still following the same course.  It would certainly make the map better 
but I was worried that it would discourage others from doing a full survey of 
the route.

My problem here is that by bicycle it's a relatively significant trip to get to 
these places - I can and do do it but it takes a long while and has to be 
fairly infrequent.

Any thoughts on this?

Cheers,
Mark

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> You might also be interested in adding church using the excellent site:
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> http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mainpage.htm
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> 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
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> Regards,
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> Peter
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> From: talk-gb-midanglia-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> [mailto:talk-gb-midanglia-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Tristan
> Scott
> Sent: 15 October 2008 10:20
> To: osm-midanglia
> Subject: [Spam] Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Hi
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> Hello
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> 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)
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> 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!
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> 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
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> 2008/10/14 Robert Norton <robert.m.norton at gmail.com>
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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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