[Talk-GB] Edinburgh

[Chris Fleming]

Nick Black wrote:
> A mapping party would be cool.  August maybe? 
I've been mulling over the idea of a mapping party for a while now...  I 
couldn't decide if it was a good idea to avoid August or not. On the 
plus side, it's a great time of year to be in Edinburgh with all the 
festival stuff going on. However the downside is that accommodation is 
harder to find and probably more expensive... although infoseed have 
volunteered their space to help with any potential mapping party 
(http://infoseed.org.uk/tiki-index.php)

Cheers
Chris

>
>
> *Donald* < shaunmcdonald131 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:shaunmcdonald131 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On 5 Jun 2007, at 13:51, Daniel Glassey wrote:
>
>     > Hi,
>     > I can't remember who has been doing Edinburgh but there is a talk
>     > about OSM at Debconf[1], the Debian conference. afair it is on 18th
>     > June. Sometime during the week following that it would be great
>     if a
>     > group of us could help with mapping.
>
>     Looking at the calendar on the wiki there is Chris Fleming who is
>     going to talk to the Edinburgh Linux Users Group on June 7th. Your
>     event doesn't appear to be in the calendar. [0]
>
>     I'm currently in Sighthill in the west of the city. [1] Going by
>     JOSM, I'm currently one of the main mappers. I should have time and
>     space here, if you need wifi/power/shelter.
>
>     Currently there is no real strategy in Edinburgh as far as I'm aware.
>     The wiki page is very out of date. [2]
>
>     >
>     > For the folks there in Edinburgh what is the best thing we can help
>     > with - most people will be on foot and public transport? And
>     will you
>     > be able to get along and help?
>
>     There are a lot of areas that have segment, but no ways. I have been
>     going through many of them and turning them into ways so that they
>     show up on the map. However I have not been naming them. It would be
>     a good thing to get them named, and this would be able to be done by
>     those who don't have GPSs. The areas that I know of that need
>     wayified,  names added or more work to tidy them up are primarily:
>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?
>     lat=55.924773895703304&lon=-3.2984263206919593&zoom=16
>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?
>     lat=55.933116488584076&lon=-3.307052303015519&zoom=15
>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?
>     lat=55.95445765446907&lon=-3.301902462822349&zoom=14
>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html
>     <http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html>?
>     lat=55.96082408005075&lon=-3.2016093250603617&zoom=15
>     http://www.informationfreeway.org/?
>     lat=55.981773200814416&lon=-3.2022135474480926&zoom=14&layers=B000T00
>
>     Search for name FIXME and use the maplint layer on the
>     informationfreeway are my recommendations for finding some areas that
>     need some TLC. The very city centre seems to be well covered.
>
>     http://www.informationfreeway.org/?
>     lat=55.981773200814416&lon=-3.2022135474480926&zoom=14&layers=B000T00
>     has an issue with the docks, that I'm not sure how to fix.
>
>     The main public transport company in the Edinburgh area is Lothian
>     Buses [3]. They have a flash route map which is useful, and fairly
>     cheap day tickets. [4]
>
>     Shaun
>     [....]
>
>     [0]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Template:Calendar
>     <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Template:Calendar>
>     [1]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?
>     lat=55.919603952774914&lon=-3.28480070184753&zoom=15
>     [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Edinburgh
>     [3]: http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/
>     [4]: http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/routemap.shtml
>     <http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/routemap.shtml> and http://
>     www.lothianbuses.co.uk/tickets.shtml
>     <http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/tickets.shtml>
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