[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

[Andrew Mackenzie]

Thanks Andy.
For the allotments open data project
http://www.slideshare.net/Flygirltwo/growing-back-to-the-future-ogdcamp-farida-vis
the immediate priority is just to make sure all allotments are on the  
map. I'm pretty confident about Birmingham. Manchester has an  
incomplete listing and the whole MappaMercia area may not be complete.
For this purpose cartographic detail is secondary-being able to locate  
allotments is good enough. Waiting lists, distance to travel,  
different tenancies, charging schemes, supply and demand could be  
shown with very basic mapping.
Open Knowledge Foundation will back OSM but Guardian Datastore and  
developers may not.
I realise Mappa Mercia veterans are already committed to plenty of  
projects but hoping I can get advice so we could make a tutorial  
showing how to check allotments are on the map and tag them. Then if I  
can understand it anyone can.

Andrew


On 1 Nov 2011, at 00:18, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> On 31 October 2011 23:31, Andrew Mackenzie  
> <a.mackenzie at bethere.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> There are some tagging questions: allotments are called community  
>> gardens in
>> Europe and how should prospective growing spaces be tagged?
>> I'm hopeful that MappaMercia people will be interested.  Maybe we  
>> could
>> discuss at Thursday meet?
>
> I'm interested - I mapped many of the (North) Birmingham allotments a
> few months ago - but won't be there on Thursday.
>
> Here's one example:
>
>   <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/22652548>
>
> Note that I plotted the toilet block separately, but didn't tag the
> site as toilets=yes - I'm now wondering whether that would have been
> useful also?
>
> Also not the short BCC URL -
> <http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/walsall-road-allotments> - which, sadly,
> only exist for those I mapped while working at BCC. I did request that
> they complete the set after I left, but no joy.
>
> -- 
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk