[OSM-talk] Exposure for OSM

[Andy Robinson]

Steve,

I have my slides and a not so great MP3 of my presentation from Friday. I'll
get that ready for download and prepare a review of what my impressions from
Friday were. I had some interesting discussion with on of the OS Carto guys.

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>This past week has seen considerable exposure for OSM. I have been at the
>Society of Cartographers Summer School at Keele University all week. On
>Wednesday Stephen Isaacs gave a presentation on OSM, and Nick Whitelegg one
>on Freemap/OSM. We (Stephen, Nick and I) followed this with two workshops
>(2 due to popular demand) explaining the project in greater detail. The
>point of this note is that this was exposing the project in depth in front
>of practising cartographers. Some of the feedback was quite instructional.
>The audience were all people who make maps for a living - either at
>commercial companies (usually small rather than governmental), at
>universities or as freelancers. The thing that stood out in the discussions
>we had were that people think the data is potentially very usable and that
>the means of accessing the data - rather than maps made with the data -
>needs to be made as easy as possible. The wish list was for a process that
>made it easy to select a particular geographical area, and the "layers" of
>data required, and then to export simply in a format suitable for standard
>mapping software - perhaps shapefile (ESRI and others) or .dxf (Autocad and
>others). The scenario envisaged is for a freelance cartographer wanting
>data for a limited area for a project (say a map of a company location, a
>web map or whatever, where they don't want to pay OS licence fees). They
>could draw the basic data from OSM - roads, rivers, coast, etc and enhance
>with whatever extra data the client required. The ability to achieve this
>would considerably enhance the credibility of the project. I know there be
>those that say that these users would be taking but not giving, but to me
>that is the ethos of the whole project - freely available maps and data.
>There would have to be some decisions about how the CC or other licence was
>used in these situations but I am convinced it is something that will move
>the project forward bigtime. Does anyone have the skills to write a data
>filter with shapefile or dxf output? The other point made by a couple of
>people was about inputting from out-of-copyright maps. As far as I can see
>there isn't an easy way to do that at present as GPX input is the standard.
>Have I missed something or else how does anyone do this? I would like to
>input things like rivers/streams in the area I am mapping but don't feel
>happy with the Landsat as source for this, although I use that through the
>applet for parks and reservoirs. Anyone any suggestions? I have ability to
>scan maps or use existing scanes as backdrops to trace from in CorelDraw or
>Inkscape or something but don't know how to get resulting linework into
>OSM.
>Finally, Andy Robinson also gave a presentation on OSM at the British
>Cartographic Society at the University of Manchester on Friday. I attended
>the Saturday sessions there as a delegate and heard good things said about
>his presentation by some fellow delegates. Perhaps he would like to give
>any feedback that he had, bearing in mind that his audience will have
>included many more corporate types, including from Ordnance Survey - who
>incidentally gave a very ill-prepared presentation on their GIS/Map Zone
>website.
>
>Cheers
>STEVE8
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