[Openstreetmap] map limehouse

[Saul Albert]

Hi All,

Well Jo and I had fun with the workshop today. A little sketchy at first,
but a few valuable lessons were learned. Sorry again for the ridiculously
short notice, especially to Steve.. I should have double-checked and
assumed you wouldn't make it after your party rather than surprise
booking you :).. Wish I'd made it on Saturday too.. but the limehouse
town hall 'open weekend' was a bit mental.

One really nice lesson that was learned from this workshop attempt - was
that people are actually really interested in this activity, find it fun
and eyes lit up quite a lot when people saw their tracks on Tom's google
maps gpx viewer.

It might be worth postponing/cancelling the Map Walthamstow workshop
until the new applet is ready though.. It was quite difficult keeping
people's attention on the slower, more procedural approach of creating
segments from points after the google maps gpx view 'oooh' moment.

Anyway, the fact that people were into it and seemed to enjoy themselves
was a positive outcome, I'd like to try this again and develop a more
robust workshop plan with proper materials etc.. The 5 garmins borrowed
from the British Library were useful to. I think I can source those
again.

I've written a few bits up here and bunged up an image:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/Past_Events

Cheers,

Saul.