[OSM-talk] Lake District Mapping Week

[Andy Robinson]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>Sent: 29 January 2007 8:54 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Lake District Mapping Week
>
>Following on from my post on countryside mapping events this year, I'd
>like to start the ball rolling for one possible event: the Lake District
>Mapping Week. The idea of this week will be to try and map a significant
>amount of one of the most popular walking areas in England, an event which
>could generate significant interest from UK walkers.
>
>Wiki page started at:
>
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Lake_District_Mapping_Week
>
>I've suggested two possible weeks: June 17-23 or July 22-28. The earlier
>one has the advantages of not being peak holiday season (less
>busy/cheaper?) but the later one is perhaps more likely to coincide with
>work holidays. That said, the aim is to run weekend-weekend so if people
>are unable to take time off work they could come one or both weekends.
>
>One question relates to accommodation. One option would be for me to rent
>a cottage as per the IoW, but I'd need to be sure quite a few people were
>coming to avoid being landed with a huge bill :-) The other option would
>be for people to make their own arrangements for accommodation - would
>people be happy with that? Likely base is the Langdale/Grasmere area (easy
>access to both high/low level stuff)
>


The July 22 - 28 week is currently doable for me.  We would need to decide
on a base location, I'd almost certainly camp, although if numbers were
needed for a cottage I could be persuaded otherwise :-)

Agree that Langdale/Grasmere area is the logical base.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

>Nick
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