[OSM-talk] cadastre, ways, rendering

[Steve Chilton]

At the risk of appearing overly precious I should point out that apart
from myself there is at least one other very experienced and qualified
"printed map cartographer" deeply involved in the OSM project (and
possibly others that I don't know of). So matters of cartographic design
can (and have been, where appropriate) certainly be addressed
internally. Indeed, it was suggested in the first IRC meeting for
organising the State of the Map conf that cartographic principles should
be a strand/thread of one of the sessions
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/The_State_Of_The_Map/Notes1). I
also have many contacts within the Society of Cartographers, which
broadly speaking represents practical cartographers rather than the
commercially-dominated BCS - whose Better Mapping Seminars I agree are a
good call for anyone with interests in this area - who can always be
called on in an advisory capacity if need be. I can also reveal
preliminary details of a development that may interest some on this
list: "....joint ventures between the British Cartographic Society (BCS)
and the Society of Cartographers (SoC).  The first will take advantage
of an offer from 'Futuresonic', the Manchester-based arts and music
festival www.futuresonic.com to create a new style event to delve
further into the map-graphics and map-art aspects of map making.  This
will take place at the 'Futuresonic Social-Technologies Summit' around
the 9th to 12th May. Our event will be an opportunity for cartographers,
artists, designers, map hackers, DIY technologists, architects, games
programmers, bloggers and semantic web philosophers to meet and share
their experiences." More details of that will be available subsequently
from the SoC website http://www.soc.org.uk/. 

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

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Ben Ward wrote:
> However, while we're on the subject of making good looking maps, it'd 
> be good to get some input from actual printed map cartographers (eg. 
> A-Z, Ordnance Survey in the UK, Michelin) to know the best approach 
> for massaging of formatting for maps.

The British Cartographic Society are probably the guys to speak to. They

recently ran a series of 1 day workshops on making better maps from GIS 
data.

My notes from the day I went to are at:
 	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Better_Mapping_Seminar
Well worth a read for people pondering ways to make renderers better,
and 
how to tweak the rendered output.

Nick