[OSM-talk] Bringing OSM to walkers - countering negative attitudes

Mikel Maron mikel_maron at yahoo.com
Mon May 7 09:14:46 BST 2007


Here's another example where the OSM approach rules..

http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/footpaths.html

----- Original Message ----
From: Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org>
To: Steve Chilton <S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk>
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, May 7, 2007 9:07:08 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing OSM to walkers - countering negative attitudes


Hello Steve,

> Nick - I completely sympathise with you on bringing OSM to others (and
> bringing others to OSM - which should be considered too). 

I was thinking the "exemplar" approach might be an idea myself. The obvious 
area - although admittedly an area which doesn't have mountains, but 
nonetheless is popular with walkers - is the New Forest, as much of it is 
mapped already and it's feasible that by the time the Lake District week 
comes round, the remaining "holes" in the central (Brockenhurst/Lyndhurst) 
area could be filled.

It could therefore be feasible to prepare an OSM map of that central area of 
the New Forest which compares, favourably, with the equivalent OS map (which 
isn't that good for navigation, it has to be said as OS maps of the Forest 
have a tendency to show paths which don't really exist on the ground and 
often don't clearly show how well-defined the path is). If the map includes 
woods and heaths (estimable from NPE, Landsat and Yahoo), water features 
(ditto - though there aren't many) and other navigational aids such as gates 
and stiles (just by waypointing them) that would help further.

Admittedly the New Forest is easier to map the OSM way as basically it's more 
or less all woods and heaths - no fields and field boundaries to worry about. 
But it would for the variety of reasons discussed above be the easiest area 
to produce a map usable by your average man in the street.

So if it will help for the Lake District event I can focus my efforts on this 
area.

In addition there are other, more typical countryside (field and wood) areas 
in the Southampton area where I could use NPE and Landsat/Yahoo to estimate 
the positions of woods, though field boundaries would be trickier.

Steve (Coast) - hiring a hall in Grasmere sounds a good idea, how do I go 
about funding this via Rightmove? Are you intending to do the lakes week btw?

Nick

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