[OSM-talk] Potters Bar map. - Was: Presentation materials

[Steve Chilton]

There is now a page for Potters Bar
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Potters_Bar) which has a link
to the map, and an explanation of the manual interventions used. I
mention it because Andy asked, and because it was obliquely mentioned in
the summary of the week's talk list on the blog
(http://www.opengeodata.org/).

Cheers
STEVE

Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager
School of Health and Social Sciences
Middlesex University
phone/fax: 020 8411 5355
email: steve8 at mdx.ac.uk

Chair of the Society of Cartographers:
http://www.soc.org.uk/
Mind the (Map) Gap:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5413010.stm


-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Robinson [mailto:Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:08 AM
To: Steve Chilton
Cc: 'OSM'
Subject: Potters Bar map. - Was: Presentation materials


Steve, that's a nice looking map. Its not often we see what is
effectively an area map showing all the main roads which also shows all
the major street names and major orientation features as well. It just
goes to show how creating very good cartography is actually quite easy
with OSM data.

It would be very useful to know exactly what you needed to do over and
above a basic osmarender. For instance I can see that all the road names
are displaying fully suggesting you deleted those that did not. If this
was done manually then it's about time we worked out a method in
Osmarender of doing it automatically, perhaps by reference to the number
of letters and the length of the path at the relevant scale.

And a +1 for featured map of the week on this one, we need to promote
real world uses of the data as much as possible.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Chilton [mailto:S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk]
>Sent: 25 April 2007 10:37 PM
>To: Andrew; Andy Robinson
>Cc: OSM
>Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Presentation materials
>
>Anyone doing presentations who wants an example of OSM data in use for 
>real is welcome to use the map done for my children's secondary school 
>website. It is an Inkscape-enhanced version of customised SVG output.
>See: http://www.school- 
>portal.co.uk/GroupRenderCustomPage.asp?GroupID=54756&ResourceId=447015
>
>Cheers
>STEVE


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