[OSM-talk] Baghdad maps

[J.D. Schmidt]

Robert (Jamie) Munro skrev:
> I know we've been making maps of Baghdad from Yahoo aerial imagery. I
> wonder if they'll be used:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6357129.stm
> 
> Robert (Jamie) Munro


Following sent as a comment/email on that story to the BBC :

Google Earth might have satellite imagery for Baghdad, that the 
inhabitants can use for their escape routes out of the sectarian 
violence.. But try to navigate after a printed satellite photo, it's 
harder than you think.

OpenStreetMap.org, an british originated opensource wikipedia-like 
initiative for free and open geodata access, has had for some time now a 
detailed map of Baghdad available, free for all to peruse, zoom in, 
print out, or download the actual vector data and convert it to use on 
Garmin compatible handheld GPS devices.

Link to the browsable map : 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=33.3347527971797&lon=44.386386794263&zoom=14

Link to a PNG file, created by rendering the free vector data with one 
of the tools created by the OpenStreetMap community : 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Baghdad.png


OpenStreetMap can be found at the following URL : 
http://www.openstreetmap.org

B. Rgds J.D. "Dutch" Schmidt