[OSM-talk] Large Hadron Collider at CERN now in OppenStreetMap
Karl Newman
siliconfiend at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 14:28:15 BST 2008
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <
ajrlists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Its not perfectly positioned and I think the circumference is a tad short
> but I made a reasonably good insert of the CERN LHC (and SPS) into the
> database last night in time for the first full circle beam test of the LHC,
> which has just successfully completed. So, for anyone wanting to know
> exactly where the two accelerator rings are in the world it's now possible
> to point them to OpenStreetMap. Another first for community mapping :-)
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.2731&lon=6.073&zoom=12&layers=0B00FTF
>
> I hope the data made the planet dump (JIT), in which case it should appear
> also on the Mapnik layer shortly.
>
> For now the two rings are tagged with highway=trunk and highway=primary
> respectively. They also carry tunnel=true of course. There are a couple of
> big notes tagged as well that confirm the highway tag is less than ideal
> and
> that something better needs to be used. But for now, since they don't
> connect with the road network I don't think anyone will be routing over
> them
> ;-)
>
> enjoy
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
Not sure if you should be chastised for tagging for the renderer or
commended for the PR effort :-P
Karl
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