[Talk-GB] Edinburgh

[Daniel Glassey]

Thanks for the info below. It looks like some debconf folks are going
geocaching today but hopefully we can do some more next week as well.

Regards,
Daniel

On 05/06/07, Shaun McDonald <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 The wiki page is very out of date.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?
> 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
> [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 and http://
> www.lothianbuses.co.uk/tickets.shtml
>