[OSM-talk] Freemap news: Geograph photos and contour heights

[Chris Morley]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Here's the latest news on Freemap: thanks to code contributed by Artem, 
> contours on Freemap now show heights.

Looks good. But currently the rendering seems excessively picky about 
the quality of the ways (branching, ordering, segment direction?) and 
several roads are not rendered. While this is an incentive for me to 
clean up my early slovenly editing, other Mapnik renderings seem don't 
have this problem. I also look forward to the waterways being shown.
> 
> The other news is a linkup with the Geograph project. As you move the map 
> around on Freemap, camera icons will appear. Click on the icon and it will 
> show the Geograph photo at that location. This is part of where I see Freemap 
> headed: a general free data source for countryside users.

This is a great feature. A small point: clicking on the picture to see 
the picture full size on the Geograph site should open a new browser 
window, otherwise you lose your position in Freemap. But maybe cookie 
storage of the position might be a better way, so that when you start 
Freemap you be somewhere you are interested in.

Chris