[Openstreetmap] node map demo

[Jo Walsh]

hello,

as a byproduct of the work happening on wireless london[0], and the
london free map[1], i made this mapserver demo of the consume nodedb:

http://locative.us/freemap/consume.cgi?layer=consumeoperational

(the demo is dodgy in a few respects; if you don't click on or near a
node, it triggers a mapserver error which i havent got rid of yet; and
because my london data model has spatial things that aren't consume nodes
but are near to them, sometimes mapserver finds them instead and complains
:/)

anyway. the copy of the nodedb i'm using, is one i scraped from the
website a couple of weeks ago. it's a little saddening to see lots of
"i've just moved in, i have roof access, where do i connect"
speculative nodes created in 2002 or so that never changed their
status... we have talked about an email outreach / "update your node
or drop off the map" / netstumbling confirmation campaign...

The shiny satellite basemap from Landsat is only provided for
east/central London right now. We could offer a UK-wide Landsat
service given enough disk space, or collaborate with the nice people
at UCL who do http://iceds.ge.ucl.ac.uk/ (they don't have Landsat yet
though, only a low-res colorised SRTM layer which doesn't, to be
honest, look very good zoomed in close up)

given the state of consume.net site this last week, i'm not sure this mail
will even get through, though i have an idea the lists are not on the
machine that was taken down. 

i am mooting this as a possible replacement for the old consume.net
nodedb map viewer, and digging around for other potential base layers
such as the material at http://www.geowiki.co.uk/ and the work that is
tickign along on the openstreetmap list...


-jo

[0] http://uo.space.frot.org/?LondonFreeMap
[1] http://wirelesslondon.info/