Archive for July, 2009

OpenStreetMap at the Farmleigh Park Geeknic in Dublin, anybody?

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

There’s a Geeknic (picnic for geeks if you aren’t too sure) on in Farmleigh Park, Dublin in a few weeks time (on Sunday 2nd August @ 1pm). I can’t help but notice that the OpenStreetMap map of Farmleigh could do with a bit of attention – from what I can make out there are unnamed roads on the OSM map along with ones that aren’t there – and as we all know, we can add as much detail as we feel necessary ;-)

So, anybody on for a bit of socialisin’, evangelisin’ and map making?

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New Accessibility mailing list for Open Street Map

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Lulu-Ann posted to the general Open Street Map mailing list an announcement of theaccessibility mailing list .

From her posting, this mailing list will be focused on the discussion of

  • How to create non visual maps for the blind and visual impaired
  • New tags that allow to map objects of special interest for disabled persons
  • New maps that contain information about barriers like steps for wheelchair users
  • Special routing, like wheelchair routing or pedestrian routing for the blind
  • New maps that contain worthful information like theatres with subtitles for the deaf or braille writing signs or acoustic traffic lights for the blind
  • Data exchange to the navigation tool “Loadstone-GPS” for the blind

All very interesting.

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Reorganising the WikiProject_Ireland Page

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I sent a post to the talk-ie mailing list wondering whether we should reorganise the “WikiProject_Ireland” page to be more useful for those of us that are interested with mapping in Ireland.

If you’re interested please chime in with your opinion so we can arrive something workable.

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