[Talk-GB] Got a bike? then this mapping party is for you

[David Earl]

I'd probably take part, again if the starting point is on the rail 
network (Boston is).

Boston is 55,000+ people. So that's 55 person hours of on the ground 
surveying, so quite a challenge for a weekend if you want to do rural 
roads too, unless there's a big crowd of volunteers.

Spalding is a 22,000 and is also on the railway. It's 15 miles from 
Boston, with quite a dense network of rural roads and villages west of 
the A16 between Boston and Spalding.

David


On 31/07/2008 23:24, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
> OSM cyclists,
> 
> I'm organising a bunch of mapping parties courtesy of some excellent funding
> from Cloudmade. To break up what will be otherwise a rather urban campaign
> I'd like to intersperse with a few cycling and walking orientated ones.
> 
> One of the weekends is October 25/26 and I wanted to get a feel for how many
> cyclists would be interested in mapping the Lincolnshire Fens (basecamp
> probably Boston) that weekend or if there would be a preference to leave it
> to the spring. We are a hardy bunch so my feeling was that it probably
> didn't matter when we did it but the raw winter winds should probably be
> avoided!
> 
> The idea would be to map the whole of the area by bike alone (including
> Boston and villages if possible) similar to the Rutland party a couple of
> years ago but without hills ;-)
> I'll be hoping to make it quite a big event by encouraging CTC interest (not
> too many street names to get, just good traces etc)
>  
> Would be great to hear views and how many would be interested.
> 
> Oh, and in case you are interested the season will kick off with the first
> mapping party in unexplored Bradford on 27/28 September.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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