[OSM-talk] Large Hadron Collider at CERN now in OppenStreetMap

Andrew McCarthy me at andrewmccarthy.ie
Wed Sep 10 14:45:10 BST 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 06:28:15AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote:
> 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

Perhaps highway=footway, bicycle=yes, access=private isn't too far from
the truth? :)

Andrew
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