[Talk-GB] OSM mapping parties/events in London in November

Steve Doerr doerr.stephen at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 15:44:40 GMT 2012


On 31/10/2012 14:45, Kathleen Danielson wrote:
> Are there any meetups or mapping parties planned, or would anyone be 
> interested in meeting up for a drink then? One thing that I know for 
> certain I'll be doing is heading to SoHo to check out the [site of 
> the] Broad Street pump and the John Snow pub. No idea if the pub is 
> any good, but John Snow is a pretty interesting character, so I'm 
> excited to follow up some of the reading I've done recently by 
> actually walking around the neighborhood that saw the worst of that 
> particular cholera outbreak 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak>.

Nice idea. Here's some links to near-contemporary maps:

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?txtXCoord=529395&txtYCoord=181024
http://motco.com/map/81006/SeriesSearchPlatesFulla.asp?mode=query&artist=390&other=599&x=11&y=11

-- 
Steve
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