[Talk-GB] Edinburgh

[Shaun McDonald]

Hi Daniel,

I'm glad the information is useful.
If you want to meet up at some point over the next few weeks, I'd be  
happy to.

Shaun
On 13 Jun 2007, at 14:40, Daniel Glassey wrote:

> 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 The wiki page is very out of date.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
>>

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