[OSM-talk] Campus Map examples sought

[Stefan Keller]

Thanks to all who added even more great examples!

In the meantime I've implemented this uMap map for Rapperswil-Jona
(near Zurich) which is part of Eastern Switzerland University of
Applied Sciences (OST): http://umap.osm.ch/m/3313/ .

I am still very interested in more examples of campus maps - including
not only university plans but also maps e.g. from hospitals grounds!

My intention is to put together freely available Campus Map templates
for at least two technologies, first uMap and second a static website.
This static website would include a building/room search (based on a
simple GeoJSON file) and it will use JavaScript with Leaflet map lib
and as few possible other dependencies as possible.

~ Stefan

Am Do., 18. Feb. 2021 um 23:57 Uhr schrieb stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com>:
>
> On Feb 18, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > UC Santa Cruz
> > Campus map
> > http://maps.ucsc.edu
>
> Thank you, Volker.  I certainly have contributed here (it being my alma mater), working with faculty, staff, students, interns and more to improve this area and its OSM data contents, but it is really a lot of additional OSM volunteers making many contributions over many years, as well as very good collaboration and communication among numerous people to keep it as "harmonious" as it is today.  One thing I will say (and so does our wiki [1]) is that because the majority of the campus (both the ten residential colleges as well as the "academic core" buildings) is heavily wooded with redwood trees, consensus emerged that the natural=wood tag is not used "usually" at UCSC, (quoting from our wiki):
>
> "so the campus renders with its preferred light-yellow amenity=university tag.  Being simultaneously a university yet also heavily wooded with redwood trees, local OSM convention assumes UCSC is 'already' wooded, 'except where it is not.'  For contrast, the Campus Natural Reserve polygons ARE explicitly set to natural=wood...".
>
> For example, "The Great Meadow" (and other meadows / grasslands, some of them DO have cattle grazing on them at certain times of the year) like the East Meadow, Mima Meadow (so named because of geological features called "mima mounds" featured there) are specifically set to natural=grassland (or might be landuse=meadow during grazing).  Of course, buildings, dormitories, roads and other features render as usual, but I can attest personally that redwood trees are quite dense throughout the entire campus (except where there are grasslands / meadows or water or perhaps small scrub areas).
>
> This might be considered tagging for the renderer, but it took some thrashing of many people over a couple of years to get to the current displayed state of things, where eventually "local harmony seems to have been achieved," so we do it like this and document it like this in our wiki (and here, where it might deserve re-stating, in this context).
>
> Part of how we did this was with a "cake map" [2], which is now several years old and not necessarily relevant any more as an active method to achieve better campus mapping.  However, this cake map tool (or task management schemes like it) can be quite useful as a kind of "divide and conquer," shared-fabric-to-better-map approach that worked well for us while it was underway seven or eight years ago.  Please click the Info button for a useful Key to the colors.
>
> Additionally, having been to Cambridge University in the UK and seeing how well it is mapped, (as is the city of Cambridge), I can also attest that it is an exceedingly well-mapped university campus.
>
> Cheers,
> SteveA
>
> [1] https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_County,_California#Local_Conventions
> [2] https://mapcraft.nanodesu.ru/pie/191
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