Or organise a get together event for mappers.

I'm starting to think about my Easter return to London, with my new bicycle.
I'll at least cycle Kings Cross to Waterloo to avoid the tube, maybe I should make it a wednesday and aim to accidently conincide with the pub meet. 1st of April probably, maybe 8th.
I'm also considering cycling a bit out of Durham to get some stretch of mapping done (we'll see how much of that happens).

I remember when people started mapping terrace buildings (just as house numbering started to have a defacto), I thought it would end up being a statement of mappers level. As in if you were well know for mapping a lot of places, it should be expected that your home area would have full coverage of buildings and bus stops.
I haven't really got interested though.

Someone did some clever thing on most of the Durham University college wiki pages, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Cuthbert%27s_Society

There is one OSM image for Durham, and it is displayed in the template with the addition of a dot marking the latitude and longitude given in the article. Perhaps this could be expanded to work out which image(map tile) needs to be displayed under the dot.

Happens to all of us. :)

cool, Newcastle needs more mapping love

Welcome to the addiction.

About 6 months ago someone started asking psychological mapping questions here for a phd study they were doing.

One of my favourite improvements on personal conceptual space was when I cycled 2-3 hours to a mapping get-together rather than take the train. It's helped me geographically place several London suburbs/stations that previously I had grown up only knowing in a linear fashion.

Please continue to blog about your phd here, or at least make a post when it's complete.

Oh I thought I vaugly remembered an OSMer wearing a lat/lon t-shirt, now I remember it because it turned out to be Earls Court. Don't think I saw the tshirt though, so probably another blog post I read some time ago.

I thought it would nicer to have more access to weather data when I worked on some stuff for 'OpenSantaMap' over the holidays. I wanted to get all locations in an area if it is snowing. The Yahoo Weather API can tell you about 14 different types of snow fall, but you need to search for and know each station. The other thing is it gives snowfall, but not snow depth which I don't think would be hard for amateurs to measure. I'm sure being able to query a historic database would be very good too (and users/developers can process the data how they want).

Another problem I have with Yahoo and my Linux(using weather.com) forecast widget, is that the closest location to me is apparently Newcastle. Despite Durham being a city(small, but we have a cathedral!) and having a university that must have a weather station somewhere (I think the physics and geography departments are highly ranked). If a system like you propose was set up then I'd like to think it would be easy to get universities to automatically send some data. Or failing that, student societies/groups could be set up at the unis to read the equipment and enter into the project. This could go down to several levels, I remember my junior school getting a little weather gadget fixed outside the tiny computer room. Once we got to have a look at the values (temperature, pressure, wind chill, it was smaller than a brick). I imagine this being a lot easier for current teachers to set up/run.

My concern from general user contributions would be the continued reliability. Mapping is something that can be done once, and then have little updates (even by passing mappers or remotly reading planning notices). With the weather you hope that the number of stations your happy with remain online. If someone suddenly goes on holiday for two weeks, how will you know wether to put your coat on before leaving the house or not?

Hope you didn't forget the copyright attribution on the front?

For a very long time I've been wanting to make a tshirt along the lines of "Never far from...", "No place like...", or "If found please return to..." + some co-ordinates. Never got round to it, and now I need to decide where home is.
Did you work/find out the location on the t-shirt?

Is the tower tall enough to get a ducks-eye photo, or would the rectifying be too extreme?

I don't get reading weeks, my understanding was that they were a few days off in effect.

Is there an area that is particularly interesting? E.g. has a high concentration of wells, or shows all the examples (onshore/offshore, active/disused) near each other.
Someone could whip out icons and a render of wells (e.g. Kosmos). Even if they don't host the full UK online, it would make a good 'featured image' on the wiki and the stylesheet could be made available for others to use.

I take it you are CloudMade's Community Ambassador, rather than an OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) role?
OpenStreetMap Foundation being an official organisation for OSM, the 'protectors of OSM' if you will. CloudMade being a commercial company that spun out of OSM (and employees include most of the top OSM people!).

Perhaps someone from CloudMade should post about what these new Community Ambassadors are and what the title means? I thought there was only one, now they seem to be a regional thing. Are you employees of CloudMade or volunteers? What if I(or someone) wants to be an ambassador?
Not to say you need to be the one to answer them, you just happen to be the 2nd 'hi, I'm your ambassador' post I saw before knowing what that means.

You could contact the local authority and ask them what the name of the rivers are officially.

What ever you do put something for the value of 'note' then a later mapper won't think you got the name wrong or copied OS.

I hope you've been warned how addictive it is ;)

Even places I thought I knew are amazing to map, I discover new roads and paths that somehow I passed regularly without noticing.

And HannesHH is right, when all of the world is mapped* and I don't have anywhere to investigate, then I'll go back to Geocaching.

*or when my machete gets blunt and funds for plane tickets run out.

If you place it this far up North (Newcastle area) then less is mapped(or even being mapped) so it won't get in the way during editing.

Read my blog post here, from about the 6th paragraph:
http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2008/07/more-mapping-cornwall

It took me about 5-10 minutes to use Kosmos(windows program) and create a Kernow (Cornish) map. You could then upload the tiles it creates to a webserver somewhere and share.

what tags have you been adding to the roads?