[OSM-talk] New user mistakenly nuking things

[Toby Murray]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>
> Show him some of the existing alternative renderings, like
> opencyclemap and wheelmap.org.  Also the University of Maryland
> pedestrian map.
>
> http://www.map.umd.edu/map/#
>
> Then have a look at the route filters. ;-)

Unfortunately wheelmap is kind of sub-optimal for things like a
university campus. They ignore building=entrance nodes and focus
primarily on individual amenity nodes and (maybe?) entire buildings.
Well virtually every building on campus is "wheelchair accessible" (by
law) but the buildings are often quite large and may only have one or
two accessible entrances which are often hidden away at the back of
the building because the building was designed in the late 1800s when
they thought it would be just grand to have huge sets of stairs
leading up to the main building entrances. So just saying "the
building is accessible" means nothing. Users want to know which
entrance to go to.

Now the UMD map indeed handy and I plan on showing that off if they
ever ask me to another meeting about maps. :) The project to replace
the campus map is a low priority right now so I'm not holding my
breath.

I did however whip this up in about an hour using Maperitive and he is
definitely interested:
http://shannon.telecom.ksu.edu/~toby/images/map1.png
(gripe: Maperitive doesn't put attribution on generated map images!)

Toby