User:Alux

About Me
This user submits data to OpenStreetMap under the name alux. This user hails from the United Kingdom This user is based in Hertfordshire Alux submits data to OpenStreetMap using JOSM. Alux submits data to OpenStreetMap using Potlatch. Alux uses a Linux-based computer. Alux uses an Arch-based computer. Alux prefers Mozilla Firefox. Alux prefers to go outside and map.

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My mapping

All my contributions to OpenStreetMap are released into the public domain. This applies worldwide. 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.

My contributions so far, I'm focusing my mapping around Tanners Wood at the moment.

The area is is in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, it covers parts of Abbots Langley, Kings Langley and Leavesden

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OpenStreetMap images (and underlying map data) are freely available under the OpenStreetMap License

Areas of interest

Place	Area	Wiki	Notes
Tanners Wood	5945512 5945512	Tanners Wood	The place that got me into OSM
Tring Park	36438621 36438621	Tring Park	A park in tring!
Twinwood Events	207009366 207009366	Twinwood Events	Twinwood Festival Site
Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden	116820422 116820422	Warner Bros. Studios	One for Harry Potter fans

Public Rights of Way

UK local councils

rowmaps.com has datasets, KMLs and GeoJSONs for public rights of ways. Hertforshire ESRI Shapefiles

Rjw64's notes on PRoWs

Web version of the Definitive Map of Hertfordshire

District Council

threerivers.com Wikipedia

Other Links

Census data

Wikifiddling

User:Alux/Collaboration_with_Wikivoyage - Currently working on

User:Alux/notes

User:Alux/using_references

User:Alux/dog_waste_bin - Don't ask!

User:Alux/MOD_Sponsored_Cadet_Forces - Ideas about how to map the various cadet forces in the UK

Interesting

Proposed_features/Wikidata

My Hardware

Computers

• Raspberry Pi

Phone / GPS

• HTC Sensation

My software

• Arch
• Awesome
• JOSM