User:Ojw
From OpenStreetMap
About me
- Involved in mapping Bedfordshire, Newcastle, Oakham, Lincoln, Waddington, Central London, Shanklin, Sandown, Wellingborough, Dorking, Kew, Köln, North Kingston and various other places
- Personal website at http://almien.co.uk/
- Talk page here
How's the map?
One of the features of cartography: maps should be interesting just to look at.
I quite like this one:
Not so long ago, maps like this (especially in digital form) would have been prohibitively expensive to obtain. But the one shown here was just a few hobbyists cycling around in their spare time.
Self hosting?
In the computing world, there's a concept of self hosting, where a project becomes good enough to use as a tool for its own continuing development. A programming language might be able to compile itself, an IDE might be used to write its own source code, and a source-control tool might be used to store its own files.
For OpenStreetmap, that point might come when we can use free geodata to plan our journeys. Instead of using google maps or the A-Z to get to an area that we want to map, we'd use something like PDF atlas, or put GPS Drive onto the in-car laptop.
But is that something which can happen? For one thing, more people are concentrating on input than output of OSM data (e.g. no regular Planet.osm). But more importantly, OpenStreetmap surveyors are irresistably drawn to the blank areas of a map, like old-time explorers, where they must find their own route.
A second GPS?
Considering getting a Garmin Legend Cx to use with OSM Map On Garmin. Sod 'em. Have Garmin contributed anything to opengeodata communities?
Bookmarks
- http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/47/presentations.html
- http://blogmarks.net/marks/tag/gps,geo
- http://www.gueritte.net/geomax.html
- http://www.webmapper.net/svg/create/ (Geo::ShapeFile)
Routing
City browser
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http://almien.co.uk/City- no longer updated
Tiles@home
Tools
Ideas
Misc
Notes
Rotate a directory full of images:
for i in *; do convert -rotate 90 $i $i; done
To make wind turbine render:
man_made = power_wind
Pub on box end road is Slaters Arms
