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Dean Court / Botley, OxfordFinally got the chance to do the Dean Court end of town some justice; named and added several roads, tweaked and detailed. The St Thomas / Osney area was missing a few pubs and other things on the way up so I've either fixed those or queued them up on OpenStreetBugs for a future visit.
Coordinates:Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Sun Jun 29 01:35:10 +0100 2008
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No-signup-needed OSM problem-reporting tool
OpenStreetBugs (made by Xavier) is an awesome, no-signup-needed TODO and FIXME entry system that you can tell your non-OSMing friends about. The only thing I can think of that it doesn't do (yet!) is automatically flag up FIXMEs from the OSM database so that users don't double-report known problems.
Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Fri Jun 13 16:32:41 +0100 2008Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Weekend
I'll be mapping parts of Abingdon on Saturday, weather permitting.
Coordinates:Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Fri Jun 13 12:03:32 +0100 2008
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Oxford meetup
I seem to be trying to organise a weekend meetup in the Oxford (UK) area. Anyone out there interested?
Right now the plans are not much more than "Find a pub → with wifi → ... → profit!", but I'm sure we can come up with something better than that, perhaps make it a mini mapping session. If nothing else, it'll be nice to put faces to the IRC/wiki nicks.
The Jericho Tavern has been mentioned, and is supposed to be quite a nice place these days. 5th or the 19th of July, perhaps?
Coordinates:Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Mon Jun 02 12:48:21 +0100 2008
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Night hospital'er
Begun detailing the Warneford Churchill hospital area that sits just outside my office last night. building:type=Complex, no kidding, but the N/S layout of the site and JOSM's extrude stuff makes it easier. I'm deliberately restricting myself to only naming buildings which have some relevance to the general public or to visiting academics.
How to map subdivisions like wards in buildings with more than one use? We need some way of mapping (important) building entrances too.
Coordinates:Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Sat May 31 14:42:55 +0100 2008
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Further mapping down towards Wallingford
Day out in Wallingford with the family, who are visiting Oxford this week. I've improved the map of the town's mediaeval centre a bit - hope I've got the one-way system right - and found some unmapped tracts of land on the way there and back.
- Previously unmapped restricted byway between Drayton St Leonard and Chiselhampton. highway=byway sounds quaint. Renders oddly in Osmarender.
- Two new villages: Newington and Warborough.
- Innumerable churches and pubs.
- Connected the River Thame using OAM and NPE data. Not sure about the direction of flow though.
Coordinates:Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Fri May 09 00:46:56 +0100 2008
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Derailed, damn
Having systematic plans for a half-hour lightning mapping session and then finding streets and alleys and dense little time-consuming conservation areas in areas you just meant to de-maplint sucks. Finding C. S. Lewis's grave after a hint from a passer-by and being able to evangelise a bit about OSM helps make up for that, though.
Coordinates:Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Fri Mar 14 14:22:52 +0000 2008
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Small-scale Oxford
Circuitous route to the sandwich shop this lunchtime via Headington Quarry - not an area I'm familiar with - and finding all sorts of hidden footpaths, parklets, allotments, and the usual small-scale stuff. Oddities: one tiny Assemblies of God[1] chapel about the size of a small shoebox.
[1] The Jimmy Swaggart lot, unless that's some other sub-cult^Wsect.
Coordinates:Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Wed Mar 12 14:52:24 +0000 2008
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Cuckoo Lane in Headington, Oxford
More detailing of the land North of Headington way this lunchtime, after filling in the maze of pedestrian access around The Croft over the middle of this week (difficult, but rewarding: high walls, trees, and sunken footpaths make my n810's GPS unhappy, so multiple passes are sometimes necessary). I now want to capture the modern extent of the ancient Cuckoo Lane running down to Marston Lane and the new Centre for Islamic Studies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Centre_for_Islamic_Studies >. As ever, headington.org.uk has history, photos and out of copyright (-looking) maps:
http://www.headington.org.uk/history/headington_hill/cuckoo_lane.htm
http://www.headington.org.uk/history/headington_hill/cuckoo_lane_west.htm
Posted by Andrew Chadwick at Fri Mar 07 14:17:49 +0000 2008
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