Comments on: Finishing the UK road network

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:43:33 +0000

On the sticker front, I’d like a sticker that said “this bike parking spot (and thousands like it) are mapped on opencyclemap.org” to be added to the bike rack most visible to the street. Maybe similar for putting on the poles holding bike route signs, toucan crossings etc. Maybe a generic “this is on opencyclemap” for other random and obscure items like bike bridges, cool short cuts etc.

By: Martin, CycleStreets

Martin, CycleStreets — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:24:38 +0000

We (CycleStreets) have a real need to know the level of coverage in different areas around the country. Pete: I’ll send you an e-mail shortly as the work you’re doing could be very helpful to our project.

By: Pete Reed

Pete Reed — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:06:09 +0000

Does this help with priorities?

For each local authority in England it compares the length of roads in the database (as of January this year) with road lengths published by DfT.

(Scotland and most of Wales are approximations based on EU regions, because some of the local authority boundaries were not all available at the time I did the extract.

See http://www.reedhome.org.uk/Documents/OSMCoverJan2010.png for map, and http://www.reedhome.org.uk/Documents/OSMCoverageJan2010.csv for data.

By: Christopher Osborne

Christopher Osborne — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:33:45 +0000

A little organisation around press releases would certainly help spread the message a lot. Collating a list of press contacts would help, as would a collection of images/media that can be used as a press pack. Wiki pages are a great place to gather thoughts and knowledge etc but it needs to be clearly written as a press release with an accompanying media pack.

The ‘press info’ on the Haiti wiki page was a great resource for me to gather and write a proper press release, but nothing that a journalist working to deadlines would actually use. All the Haiti and OSM coverage I saw came from companies, NGOs and individuals who had written their own press release.

Creating ‘press info’ wiki pages for all mapping parties would be a good start, a batch of photos after the event, before and after the mapping party images of OSM. Crucially, get at least one person to commit to writing it up as a formal press release and send it out.