[Talk-gb-westmidlands] new contributor coming to coventry

[Jonathan Harley]

Welcome, Florian. I'm also in Coventry. I'm rubbish at making it to 
meets, but if we had more of them in Coventry I'd probably show up...

As Rob says, the Bing imagery for Coventry and the surrounding areas is 
pretty old. From the state of various building projects it appears to be 
from July/August 2007. It does seem pretty well-aligned around here 
though, not like some places.

Jonathan.


On 28/08/12 16:40, Rob Nickerson wrote:
>
> Hi Florian,
>
> Good to hear from you. I live in Coventry and am happy to help you 
> where I can. There's plenty of villages in the surrounding area that 
> have just the roads mapped. One word of warning - watch out for Bing 
> Imagery, some of it is very old now. Looking forward to Microsoft 
> updating their aerial map tiles!
>
> Rob
>
>
> On 28 August 2012 16:29, Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ajrlists at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Florian,
>
>     Great to have you joining us in the West Midlands!
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Andy (blackadder)
>
>     *From:*Florian LAINEZ [mailto:winnerflo at free.fr
>     <mailto:winnerflo at free.fr>]
>     *Sent:* 28 August 2012 16:15
>     *To:* talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org
>     <mailto:talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org>
>     *Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] new contributor coming to coventry
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I'm Florian, french OSM contributor since 2009.
>     I'd like to introduce myself to the local community because I'm
>     moving from Paris to Coventry in october because of my work.
>
>     I map wherever I go with a Garmin Etrex 20. I like to map entire
>     small villages and accessibility is my favorite topic : I want a
>     map available also for disabled people.
>
>     In France I worked with the french association Jaccede
>     <http://www.jaccede.com/> to import such data. I also already
>     organised some mapping parties, most of them for collecting
>     accessibility's data.
>
>     I'm also a founding member of the french OSM association
>     <http://openstreetmap.fr/>, you can see me in the top banner, with
>     the pink shirt : https://www.facebook.com/osmfr
>
>     I will take part of the "Mappa Mercia" project with pleasure :)
>
>     Waitin' to meet you at the next IRL,
>
>     Cheers
>
>     -- 
>
>     *Florian Lainez*
>
>     http://twitter.com/overflorian
>     http://www.nouslesgeeks.fr <http://www.nouslesgeeks.fr/>
>
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