User:Harry Wood

Harry Wood submits data to OpenStreetMap under the name Harry Wood.

Harry Wood commits code to OpenStreetMap under the name harrywood.

harry_wood

I support OSM by being a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation Are you?

I support the license upgrade to ODbL v 1.0

I'm based in London. I work for placr.co.uk on projects relating to transport information and GPS data analysis. Previously I worked for a while at CloudMade as part of a team working on furthering the goals of OpenStreetMap.

I am currently on the board of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and part of the Communication Working Group, and Management Team of the foundation.

Harry Wood Homepage

Including blog category 'maps' although I'm planning to make more use of...

my OSM 'user diary'

My mapping

I used to go mapping using pen and paper and yahoo aerial imagery. Very low-tech, but it does work, and it should be stressed to newcomers that you do not need a GPS to contribute. Walking Papers has made these ideas more fashionable.

However these days I tend to do Photo Mapping for more efficient surveying of many details. For this I use a NaviGPS GT-11, and a normal compact digital camera. I then use JOSM to correlate timestamps between the devices and display the photos in the right place while editing.

My NaviGPS is also waterproof. Useful for WikiProject Whitewater Maps! I don't have a car or a bike, so aside from kayak mapping, I'm generally on foot... although I have also tried roller-mapping! I've also done a fair amount of "armchair mapping", sketching in road layouts over the Yahoo! Aerial Imagery in some areas where I am not necessarily planning to complete the mapping myself. See my thoughts on two-phase mapping below. Some of this has been part of Humanitarian OSM Team activities.

Locations

Mostly mapping around Central London. I live near Archway, but I tend to think about mapping whenever I am out and about anywhere these days. This includes various holidays and trips out of London. Places like Aberdeen, Nimes, Plymouth, Huddersfield, and (more ambitiously) Sao Paulo and Cairo

Wiki

I'm a wiki enthusiast. my fiddling with this wiki has probably been my main contribution actually. Still lots more work to do though: WikiProject Cleanup

Creating open content map images for wiki projects, was my initial attraction to OSM. For example I'm a long time contributor to WikiTravel.org (user 'Nojer2') where we had extensive discussions at wikitravel mapmaking ideas before OSM came along.

OSM models itself on wikipedia in many respects. Since the big API 0.6 development push of early 2009, we now have Changesets with comments, which in turn gives us a 'history' tab, and a 'my edits' display. There's more work to do to make Change monitoring more useful and Change rollback more possible.

Coding

I've learned the basics of ruby on rails, and done some little bits and bobs in The Rails Port code including creating the 'history' tab for viewing changesets.

A while ago I made two little MediaWiki Extensions for OpenStreetMap, both of which are installed and running on this wiki, enabling you to embed a static map image or a slippy map into a wiki page here. That's in PHP. I have also experimented with Phprender and recently got OAuth working in php (need to publish that code somewhere)

Having familiarised myself with the basics of setting up OpenLayers, I also created (documented really) the OpenLayers Simple Example. While at CloudMade I did a lot more work with their equivalent Web Maps API JavaScript library. I created some displays for various old TIGER fixup/250 cities projects and later the Waychains TIGER fixup tool.

I know java, and dabbled in JOSM coding to create the JOSM/Plugins/WayDownloaderPlugin. I also made an osmosis 'simplify' plugin (as part of the Waychains TIGER fixup) and I made a little java tool, tiletabber, for creating MapInfo .TAB files for tilesets

Also know a bit of Python.

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In the interests of properly categorising myself...

Babel en This user is a native speaker of English. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. fr-1 Cette personne peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. pt-1 Este usuário/utilizador pode contribuir com um nível básico de Português.

...bit of lie actually. I know jack all Portuguese, but can quiz the girlfriend

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