[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap
Andrew Mackenzie
a.mackenzie at bethere.co.uk
Tue Nov 1 07:59:07 GMT 2011
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
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