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

[Rob Nickerson]

There is one strip that runs straight through the city centre that is even
older. It was taken prior to Millennium Place/Whittle Arches so is from
very early 2000's. Annoyingly that area has changed quite a bit now.
Rob


On 28 August 2012 18:02, Jonathan Harley <jon at spiffymap.net> wrote:

>
> 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@**openstreetmap.org<talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org>
>>     <mailto:talk-gb-westmidlands@**openstreetmap.org<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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