Bristol
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| Latitude : 51.448340, Longitude : -2.588140 |
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Bristol is a city in UK at latitude 51.448340, longitude -2.588140.
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Map of Bristol from OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap images (and underlying map data) are freely available under the OpenStreetMap License
What
Bristol is a city, authority and county in the South West of England, 115 miles west of London.
With a population of 400,000 it is England's sixth most populous city, one of England's core cities and the biggest city in South West England.
More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol
For mapping info contact User:Steve.
Where
wikitravel has lots of details on how to get to Bristol, what it's like and so on.
Yahoo! Aerial Imagery coverage
Yahoo! Aerial Imagery covers all of Bristol and a lot of the surrounding area:
We can map these areas much more easily. We still need to visit the streets to gather street names and other details, but the general road layout can be mapped without even going there. See Yahoo! Aerial Imagery.
Bristol Mapping Party
24/25th February 2007.
Saturday 24th
- 10am Meet at Watershed (1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, http://www.watershed.co.uk) for GPS units, project explanation, dividing up the city
- 1:30pm Meet at Watershed to upload GPS data
- 2:30pm Go out for more mapping
- 5:30pm Meet at pub The Ship for drinks and then onward for a meal.
Sunday 25th
- 10:30am Meet at (1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, http://www.watershed.co.uk) for GPS units, project explanation, dividing up the city
- 1:30pm Meet back at Watershed to upload GPS data
- 2:30pm Go out for more mapping then home
Partners
- bristol wireless: http://www.bristolwireless.net/
- Connecting Bristol: http://www.connectingbristol.org
Who's coming
- User:Steve
- User:Matt
- User:Petef
- User:Southglos (a) hello, (b) first mapping event for me, and (c) hey, I've started... :-)
- User:Edward didn't make it, busy looking for a place to live
- User:Bathterror yeah def. coming. Although my new eTrex Legend got nicked, so I'm back to that "yellow thing"... I hope nobody's planning on showing off their kit... I'll sulk!!!
- User:LastGrape possibly if I decide in Jan, I said some stuff on Talk:Bristol
- User:LibbyMiller hope so!
- User:DanBri hope so (but I live there so am optimistic...)
- User:Blackadder expects to be there for the Sunday
- User:woodsy will be available on Sunday
- User:Nickw hopefully
- User:Lorp
- User:Firefishy Anyone need a lift from London?
- User:Mlpoulter will be available Sunday morning. No kit or transport but like running.
- User:Steve8 will be in Chepstow for weekend with family. Will try to make the Saturday (prob pm only)
GPS base map
There is a Garmin IMG file available for Bristol based on OSM data from 22/02/2007. This was created using mkgmap which is still experimental, but I've had good success using it as a base map for my mapping in Bath.
Outreach
Please hack the Bristol Press Release and list places it should be sent to below (but don't send it yet - we need to confirm venues).
- Bristol Evening Post (PR sent)
- Venue (PR sent, too late for 22/2 issue)
- Points West (BBC local news) Bristol TV - 0117 973 2211 (called and spoke to Jemma Cooper, sounds interested, PR sent)
- Radio Bristol 0117 974 1111 (called and spoke to Mike Wilkins, PR sent)
- HTV (ITV local news)
- BBC Focus magazine (PR sent)
Local online groups to contact. Please add groups here and contact as appropriate when we have venues confirmed above.
- bristol wireless
- Bristol & Bath LUG - woodsy is member; will contact
- university(ies) geography dept
- underscore (best from Dan or Pete)
- Cube mailing list
- university(ies) computer science dept
- dorkbotbristol (PR sent)
- Connecting Bristol mailing list
- Watershed mailing list
- Bristol & Bath Mac Users' Group (woodsy to forward details to Colin Strickland - member - for circulation)
- Bristol BCS (PR sent, and they emailed their list 22 Feb)
