[Talk-gb-westmidlands] National Memorial Arboretum this Saturday

[Andy Mabbett]

On 18 June 2012 10:31, Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have a micro mapping party proposed for this Saturday to the National
> Memorial Arboretum [1] at Alrewas, Staffs [2].

> Our plan is to improve our own detail and get as many of the memorials on
> OpenStreetMap as possible (there are hundreds!)

Sadly, I don't think I can make it due to a prior commitment, but I'd
been planning to go there and do some mapping of memorials, as
follow-up to an event I was at last weekend:

    http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon

which was part of a larger activity, improving coverage of WWI on
Wikipedia in the run-up to the 100th anniversary commemorations.

May I urge those of you who can attend to please consider taking and
uploading pictures to Wikimedia Commons, to supplement those already
available there:

     http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:National_Memorial_Arboretum

and including Wikipedia links in OSM, per:

     http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikipedia

and its talk page discussion on related articles:

     http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:wikipedia

The main English Wikipedia article on the NMA is:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Memorial_Arboretum

I'm sure you'll find it  fascinating place to visit. You my also like
to note the adjacent River Tame/ Trent confluence.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk