[OSM-talk] London Mapping Party - reflections
John McKerrell
john at mckerrell.net
Mon Jan 29 10:05:46 GMT 2007
Hi
I did the section south(ish) of Aldwych before heading to the pub on
Sunday. Will update the wiki now.
John
On 29 Jan 2007, at 09:46, Steve Chilton wrote:
> From where I am sitting the London Mapping event was a great
> success - loads of people (Sat pic on wiki), plenty of mapping done
> and good fun too.
> Formally, can I ask anyone that attended to annotate the table on
> the wiki page with as much detail of what coverage you achieved in
> which sector, and also to do edits and uploading of new data as
> soon as reasonably possible.
> It was great for me, living in London and seeing places I had never
> seen before. The contrast between Hatton Gardens (wall to wall
> jewellers shops) and the adjacent rather forlorn streets was
> certainly weird. In mapping terms the many courts, yards, passages,
> pedestrianised half/streets etc were all a bit of an eye opener and
> certainly a challenge to align and tag (for instance not
> necessarily being identifiable on the excellent Yahoo imagery). I
> was also unaware that such large swathes of Lincoln's Inn Fields
> and Grays Inn were private and not accessible to general public -
> even the roads, footpaths and open spaces (come back in the week
> Sir!). Meeting other people from the project was a real plus, and
> good banter followed in the pub later on Saturday. That was the
> plus side. The low point for me was getting stuck in a lavatory
> cubicle in a Wetherspoons pub on Theobalds Road during the
> afternoon's mapping. I had gone in in a bit of a hurry and hadn't
> noted the pub's name. For a moment I thought I was going to have to
> dial 999 and ask police to come to an unnamed pub and get someone
> from pub to release me from the trap!
> So, if you have ever remotely thought of attending a mapping party
> I would thoroughly recommend it. You meet people of similar (and
> disimilar) dispositions and get some real progress made on the
> project, plus you get the feel for an area that you may or may not
> know already. There are spring weekend ones upcoming (details on
> wiki) at Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, etc) and planned longer
> ones for the summer in such locations as the Lake District and the
> Black Forest, Germany.
> So, finally a few thanks.
> Thanks to SteveC for being the main organiser, to Multimap and
> Nestoria for their support, to NickB for finding us a food and
> drink venue Sat night (pity the George hasn't discovered what
> proportion of the population are vegetarians, but hey ho!), and to
> Dutch for the excellent animations of progress so far. And finally
> a callout to Jochen who had probably travelled furthest for the
> event - coming over from Germany.
> We planned to map all of the existing central congestion charge
> area, and it looks like we may have just about achieved that, apart
> from maybe a couple of areas south of the river. Bizarely, we may
> have missed the very end of sector 6 (area between Aldwych and the
> Thames). If someone did it just shout. If not, and anyone from
> Multimap who was on weekend and is reading this perhaps you could
> nip out and map it - it is virtually opposite your offices!
> Well done all, and hope to see you at a future event.
> Cheers
> STEVE
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