[OSM-talk] Cambridge complete!

[Andy Robinson]

Chris Morley wrote:
>Sent: 19 January 2007 4:45 PM
>Cc: OSM
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Cambridge complete!
>
>David Groom wrote:
>
>> From: "David Earl" <david at frankieandshadow.com>
>>> I am very pleased to be able to say that the City of Cambridge (UK) is
>now
>>> comletely mapped (all street names, cycleways, key footways, amenities
>>> etc,
>>> E&OE).
>>>
>> Congratulations on your achievement, well worth a press release.
>>
>> Is this the first UK city to be completed?
>
>Chester, about the same size city, was all tagged and named last July.
>But the quality of the Cambridge map is much higher and is a better
>advertisement for the project. It is interesting to see how the project
>has developed since then. In July the use of areas was just beginning,
>while they are common today and make the maps more attractive.  My
>current mapping includes several features I didn't record then - the old
>work really needs to be augmented. It is difficult to say that mapping
>is ever 'complete'.
>

Its interesting, I thought I'd mapped most of Sutton Coldfield last year but
in reality all I had done back in the early part of last year was to cycle
the streets and lay down the tracks so there has been a lot of revisiting to
do to gather the street names, take pictures of the features and rework the
mapping. So today for an hour or so I was doing just that and while I was
going around I realised I would still need to do it all again because at
some point I'm going to want to add all the tower blocks and blocks of flats
and these all have their own names as well. Trouble is, if you are not
wearing a bright green vest and you dwell in an area just that bit too long
you start to arouse people's suspicions!

So, as you say, we will never be 'complete'.

Cheers

Andy

>My congratulations to David Earl on a piece of high quality mapping.
>
>Time for somewhere more grimy?
>
>Chris
>
>
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