[Talk-GB] New Popular Edition based point-of-interest editor

[Shaun McDonald]

On 27 Mar 2007, at 10:33, Chris Fleming wrote:

> Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> Hi Nick,
>> On 27 Mar 2007, at 00:20, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Would like to announce a demo of a New Popular Edition based OSM
>>> point of
>>> interest editor, available at:
>>>
>>> http://www.free-map.org.uk/index.php?mode=POIeditor
>>>
>> That is one nice map. It might be old, but it contains a lot of very
>> useful date for the Edinburgh and Lothians. Few of the recent maps
>> have the Union Canal marked on it, even so it is a great place to
>> cycle. There is a lot of old rail lines that are still about and are
>> in a disused state or have been upgraded to a foot path and cycleway.
>> Many of these are difficult to track on the Yahoo maps due to the
>> surrounding trees. This would be an ideal data source, until I can
>> afford a GPS unit. OK I will have to double check everything, but
>> even so.
>>
> There you go spoiling my plan to cycle the length of the Union  
> Canal (and the Forth & Clyde) over to Glasgow in order to get a GPX  
> track :)

Great minds think alike. Before I came across OSM, I had cycled from  
Sighthill to Glasgow along the canal, and want to do it again at some  
point.  It took me  6 or 8 hours. First though I want to do the  
National Cycle Route 75, unfortunately I don't yet have a GPS unit.

>
> Seriously though I think that you would be fine tracing the Union  
> Canal, apart from the section where it goes through Wester Hailes  
> (where a housing estate was built on top) and so has been re-routed  
> since the old maps were created....

The Yahoo imagary works fine for the Edinburgh area. I've done parts  
of it using the Java Applet. I'm having issues with JOSM as I just  
get a 400 error when I try to get data. I think the GPS data would be  
more accurate or easier to work with though.

Shaun
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