OpenStreetMap
Recently Google Research labs published details about http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/deepdream-code-example-for-visualizing.html “Deep Dream”
Its useful for visualizing how a neural net works - the neural net is asked to find images within other images. (usually its used to classify what’s in an image) The result is hallucinatory, or dream like.
So I thought about how about what if we give it a map or two? here we go:
Liverpool
There’s another forum for communication - an OpenStreetMap Subreddit on the reddit website - It’s got 1,400 subscribers already!
So, I got around to reinstalling Eclipse, and fixing the usertools plugin to work with the new JOSM, but some kind hearted JOSM developers beat me to it (not really surprising, I was dragging heals) but they didn't get around to updating the .jar file for JOSM to download. This should now be all sorted, though, thanks to crschmidt!
You can get it here http://chippy2005.googlepages.com/usertools.jar and it will also be picked up by JOSM. (version 13055)
talk-gb-thenorth
for the North region.
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-thenorth
We'll be having the first regional social get together with tea, cake and/or beer pencilled in for Sunday 25th January in a location somewhere in Leeds.
Sign up to the list, and let's map the north!
At sheffield Barcamp, I made this flash animation, which has OSM maps!
http://timetravelagents.com/sheffield.html
Fun thing to "put sheffield on the map"
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/mcdonalds-sorry-wiping-western-sahara-map
McDonalds publish a map showing Western Sahara as apart from Morocco. Morocco complains. McDonalds says sorry and changes map. Now, the UN and several countries don't acknowledge Morocco's claim to the Western Sahara region. Bloggers on both sides upset.
(Google maps shows the border as a dashed line. Osmarender shows it as all Morocco, but with Western Sahara as a country-level label)
made using http://wordle.net/
I use this "twiglet" for putting on websites.
a "micro" mapping party, ending with the WYLUG social, to map parts of Leeds. Looking forward to it.
details here:
Just made a plugin for helping with user / authors.
http://geothings.net/osm/usertools.jar
plugin adds a new menu item to the top bar.
Select map data, show the author panel (alt-a), select a user from that panel.
Using the menu, click to open browser to open that user's profile page, for easy messaging, looking at traces etc
Using the menu, click to replace the map selection with all the selected user's map data.
todo:
Make it a right click menu for author table
Add a show user panel button
list all users in data
suggestions welcome.
Just got final details for the Leeds Mapping Party, next weekend (15th and 16th September) Come along and help map the UK's 3rd largest city!*
Saturday:
9:45/10:00 - Starbucks Albion Street - upstairs, theres a room for us and space to spread out. Introductions, coffee, dividing out areas to map, the out mapping til
1pm - The Lounge, Merrion St. for lunch, beer, uploading, talks etc (Free internet and good food), the out for more mapping until
5pm - Beer at the Victoria Hotel Pub, Gt George Street.
7/8pm - Food somewhere! (curry?)
Sunday:
Leeds Metropolitan University have kindly lent us a room for the day. Thanks to Linda Broughton from New Technology Institute & Ben Dalton from Innovation North.
Its in the main university building on Woodhouse Lane, opposite the Dry Dock Pub (its a pub in a boat on a roundabout!). Room C515. Go through the main doors, walk down corridor, find signs for C Block, go up to 5th floor, and its room 15.
10:30 meet and greet, then head out
1pm meet back for lunch, uploadings, chat, then head out to map
4-5pm back for final time, and head off home.
Come along for both days, one day, or part of a day, all welcome! More details on the wiki page osm.wiki/index.php/Leeds_Mapping_Party
See you there!
