User:Richard
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I'm Richard Fairhurst, journalist and cartographer. I've been involved in OpenStreetMap since November 2004.
In case this is not legally possible, I grant anyone the right to use my contributions for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
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What do I do?
- I've written a Flash editor for OSM, Potlatch.
- I scanned all the England & Wales New Popular Edition maps, the most recent out-of-copyright OS maps. These are available over at npemap; you can use Nick's GPX tracer to get data into OSM, or the slowly expanding Potlatch background layer.
- I'm a member of the board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Particular responsibilities are licensing and media relations.
- I co-founded (with a few friends) a GPS-derived mapping site, geowiki.com, in 2002-03. I've been collecting GPS tracklogs ever since, and my trusty eTrex has amassed well over 10,000 miles, all now duly uploaded to Openstreetmap.
- Real SteveC thinks I'm Fake SteveC.
Miscellaneous development
- http://richard.dev.openstreetmap.org/upload.cgi - upload a non-GPX file to OSM, e.g. NMEA
- OSM Map On Garmin/Cycle map - put a customised cycle map on your Garmin
- Exporting to Adobe Illustrator
Places I'm mapping
I'm not really a housing-estate mapper, but do travel quite widely within Britain. Particular things I'm mapping:
- National Cycle Network - what could be more fun?
- A roads - let's get them finished
- Burton-on-Trent - slow but steady progress mapping this "delightful" "picturesque" Midlands "s---hole"
- Chipping Norton
And various other places (amongst them Brugge, Hereford, East Cotswolds, Stow-on-the-Wold, Worcester...).
Bookmarks
- Slippy map tilenames - a useful page and I always forget what it's called
- Spherical Mercator on OpenLayers wiki
Other stuff
- Cartography portfolio here.
- I've put together a free Adobe Illustrator base map of the UK containing coastline and hill shading. You can get it here.
- Blog here.
- And I'd like to figure out some sensible way of tagging tracks.
