[OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Wed Oct 1 01:14:54 BST 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 18:59 -0500, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>
> wrote:
>         Dear all,
>         
>         I had a look at campus maps on the web sites of the Big Ten
>         Conference
>         universities.  I was surprised at the range in quality.  See
>         my notes
>         and comparisons to how the OpenStreetMap community is doing on
>         each of
>         the campuses as well.
>         
>         I made a note of the one I thought was far and away the best
>         of the
>         bunch.  http://weait.com/bigtenmaps-part1
>         
>         I've also cast my vote for the best OSM campus map that I've
>         seen so
>         far.  I'd love to hear of others.  http://weait.com/bestcampus
> 
> It might be interesting to start a "draw your campus" competition
> similar to the one that Google did for its Sketchup application, but
> on OSM. What d'ya think?

What a great idea, I should put some time into writing something
up.  ;-)

I think we can get the Foundation to donate one of those Lolcats of
awesomeness for the winning team.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Lolcat_of_awesomeness

Best regards,
Richard





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