[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
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
More information about the Spellyans
mailing list