[Spellyans] Disappearance of Cornish placenames from OS maps

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Tue Feb 5 04:52:46 GMT 2013


I am of course happy to discuss publication of the atlas. Once you determine how you can capture the data you want from JOSM etc, the next thing to do is choose a scale for publication and a page size.

On 4 Feb 2013, at 18:34, Christian Semmens <christian.semmens at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had a dig around and the wonderful world of Free software has all we need. Open StreeMap allows downloads of the maps, a piece of software called JOSM amongst others allows us to edit this information.
> 
> I have an xml file of the whole of West Penwith including all XML data from the Open Street map site, all I need to do is to sort out the coastline. Editing is easy. All this in ten minutes. From this data, entire maps can be created down to town/village street level.
> 
> It will take a while to sort out exactly how to filter out the relevant level of detail, and to get a suitable map image, but that shouldn't be impossible.
> 
> All we need to do is do it!
> 
> I'll have a play and see how I get on.
> 
> Christian

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