[Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Spring and summer UK countryside mapping parties

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

David Groom wrote:
>Sent: 04 January 2008 2:23 PM
>To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Spring and summer UK countryside mapping
>parties
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nick Whitelegg" <nick at hogweed.org>
>To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>; <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>;
><party at openstreetmap.org>
>Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 10:58 AM
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Spring and summer UK countryside mapping parties
>
>
>>
>> Well, it's that time of year again I guess where our thoughts turn
>> thoroughly
>> to the upcoming spring and summer, and I'd like to suggest a couple of UK
>> outdoors-orientated mapping parties.
>>
>> 1. The Southwest Surrey Mapping Party, or "Fill The Gap III" (following
>on
>> from  Richmond and East Hants). At the moment there exists a gap of about
>> 10
>> miles between the SW London/Guildford well-mapped area and the
>> Haslemere-Petersfield-Midhurst triangle (the original home of Freemap).
>> I'd
>> like to propose a mapping party to close that gap, pencilling in the
>> weekend
>> of April 5/6 (two weeks after Easter). Like the East Hants party this
>will
>> be
>> countryside orientated (foot/off-road bike/horse???), the aim is to try
>> and
>> complete as much of the footpath network along the
>> Haslemere/Hindhead-Guildford axis as possible, but there will be scope
>for
>> car drivers (e.g. Godalming, complete Haslemere). If this gap is filled
>we
>> will have a swathe of good mapping stretching from London all the way
>down
>> to
>> the New Forest, almost 100 miles.
>>
>> 2. A mountain-area mapping party, following up to the Lake District party
>> last
>> July,  I'd like to suggest a couple of options:
>>
>> * either return to the Lake District and cover the west side
>> (Wasdale/Scafell
>> Pike/Great Gable/Buttermere, etc - currently not mapped at all),
>> * central Snowdonia. Some Snowdon paths are mapped but there's still
>> plenty of
>> gaps.
>>
>> Please let me know any preference (or other suggestions).>
>
>Wasn't there some town up north which had out of dates maps and it was
>suggested we might map it.  Unfortunately I cant remember its name at
>present.
>
>David

That was Chorley?:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2006-August/006341.html

Cheers

Andy