Thought I'd investigate this diary thing...

This week I've been doing a few things OSM related. The first one was to try to organise a large printout of the current Liverpool coverage to use for planning the upcoming Liverpool Mapping Party. I used a dump of Liverpool data from Sunday (2007/10/21), tidied it up by removing some long straggling ways and converted it to SVG. I then loaded the SVG into Inkscape and played with it a bit before exporting a PNG. I sent these files off to my friend Thom Shannon who was going to get it printed out (on A0 paper!) Unfortunately as it turned out Thom's friend couldn't print out the dodgy Inkscape files so I had to do a new one yesterday using PDF. That has apparently worked and even gave me chance to include some changes I did on Monday and Tuesday :-)

Which leads onto the next thing, I've been trying to avoid mapping Allerton too much as I know there's at least one potential mapper there and I don't want to spoil his fun as he's more likely to get involved if he gets to map his own area. I'm struggling to find places close enough to my house to do within a lunch hour though so I decided to visit an area I'd already been but got a poor trace for. Marlcroft Drive which you should hopefully see on the map was, until recently, a straight line between Mersey Road and Riversdale Road. I cycled down it for the second time to get a better trace. Unfortunately I got another bad trace and had to go back a second time on Tuesday!.

On the way back from Marlcroft Drive, and on Tuesday I collected the last roads off Brodie Avenue (North West) and today I collected (hopefully) all the roads between Brodie Avenue and Mather Avenue (further North West). I'm going to aim to get the entire block between Mather Avenue, the river and Jericho Lane-Elmswood Road-Rose Lane now, should be able to do that in the next few days.

Final thing this week is that I'm going to be talking a little bit about the Liverpool Mapping Party at geekup (geekup.org). Hopefully I'll get everyone interested enough so that they'll come along to the party at the beginning of November. Thom will also be bringing along the A0 printout and we can start plannig which bits we'll try to get covered.