[Openstreetmap] experiments with the New Popular Edition

[Saul Albert]

Hi Jo,

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:32:01AM -0700, Jo Walsh wrote:
> http://uo.space.frot.org/freemap/popular.cgi is the north-east london

nice one - although I reckon that area has changed a lot more than north
north london for example - maybe hampstead or swiss cottage might be less
altered - perhaps we could go gpsdrive them tomorrow or something.

I'll do my best to provide feedback on plans:

> - i'd like to do the four London sheets and offer a NPE base layer as
>   part of a london free map service

sounsd great - if we have tube stations, landsat and popular edition,
that's pretty good for starters.

> - Schuyler has a half-finished GUI client for georeferencing; i might
>   wait for that rather than doing the other 3 by hand. 

is that really going to happen? I think it would be really great to  see
LMT (if that's what you're talking about) ready for the workshops in late
may. Schuyler, any cahnce of that given your existing committments?

> - we will have a 'lab' soon in the Map Room and would like to do some
>   free map workshops over late may and june; this could be a session...

That would be excellent - I should post about this soon. 

Basically, the University of Openess is working with letslinklondon - the
london-wide Local Equity Trading Scheme's organising body to do a series
of 10 workshops - introductions to Free Software tools and developmental
lets administration systems.

Anyway - we're building a lab of 10 linux workstations at limehouse town
hall - possibly running ubuntu, and were thinking that it would be
perfect if we could also buy 10-15 GPS units, some handheld computers and
a tandem or two, then try to run some free map workshops between late may
and late june.

I'm working on ways to pay for all that - but if anyone has workshop
suggestions - or thoughts about how to employ a team of people to do an
intensive session on central london - that would be great.

I'll write a more detailed plan in a bit, but I'm just mentioning it now
in case anyone has any ideas.

Cheers,

Saul.