[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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