[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Black Country Cake

[Ed Loach]

Hi all,

It feels a bit like trespassing as I now live in Essex (although lived in Wolverhampton for 30 years up to 2000 and visit regularly), but it was suggested I mention on this list that I've revised the Black Country Cake page on the wiki[1] a bit.

Rather than just have the 8 maps that were there previously, I have created 4 new maps covering each council area and linked to the previous maps as "close-ups" below each. As they cover a larger area the 600px versions on the page look a bit small but I think the numbers are just about visible. I find the full resolution looks quite good printed on an A4 page though.

In the progress section I have currently added a new column for the area each slice is in, and made the table sortable. I was planning on splitting the table by council area to correspond to the 4 new maps, but some slices cover a border and I wasn't sure what to do about those (Blackadder suggested adding them to both tables with suitable note). I also added the missing rows so all cake slices have a row now. I may yet split the table by area - it should help see how each of the individual areas are progressing, and if you find yourselves in one of those areas with some free time identify what needs doing a little quicker

The information about the West Bromwich mapping party I also moved to it's own page to make the cake page a bit more manageable.

What got me looking at the page is I plan to be in Wolverhampton the weekend after next and was trying to work out which area(s) to look at while there, and have marked the slices I intend to try and get done on the page - concentrating mainly on the area south of the railway line in the northeast corner of Wolverhampton without bothering yet about the bits in South Staffordshire (i.e. mainly Tettenhall and bits either side).

I also noticed on the Mappa Mercia page[2] that "the Midlands group" will be in Wolverhampton that weekend, so didn't want to risk double mapping the same areas.

Ed

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/Black_Country
(shortened form http://is.gd/4jjuJ )
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia