Wikipedia talk:WikiProject OpenStreetMap

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[edit] Deleting this project?

Miscellany for deletion This page was nominated for deletion on 12 August 2007. The result of the discussion was No Consensus.
—Anthøny 21:57, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
How "active" do we have to be? Personally I had a look at this fairly recently (by my standards) back in August, but since then I went away to think about how I might tweak SVG maps to improve the final image, so I'm taking stock of these things before I go on a frenzy of map contributions here on wikipedia.
Think of this page as a front for the large (and very active) project over at openstreetmap.org, which is tooling up to do some serious wikipedia contributing. Please don't delete this project while we are not looking! You could head over to this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Wikipedia ...and leave us a message about it.
By the way somebody on that deleting discussion suggested that this should actually be a kind of HowTo appearing under the more general maps project. That might be a better way forward I guess. -- Harry Wood 10:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Streets in London

Somebody said "Anyone going through lists like this, for areas where we know OSM has good coverage?

Yes. I knew there had to be a list like that somewhere. That's exactly what we need to do! OSM has very goodcoverage of Central London, although the renderings are little untidy in many places. There's lots of articles we can add to there. How to coordinate this? Maybe I'll do some of the Category:Streets in the City of London. -- Harry Wood 18:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GPX waypoints

How do you tell your GPS (specifically Garmin Nuvi 370) to save waypoints to a .GPX file. The current.gpx file on the GPS I borrowed was empty... gren グレン 11:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Gren. From a very brief fiddle with my dad's new garmin, I found I was able to get a GPX file out of the 'mapsource' software. Just do 'save as...' and choose the file type gpx. Seemed to work. There might be smarter way of doing it though.
For a quicker (and probably better) response, you'll need to contact the OSM community more directly (e.g. hop on the IRC channel quickly) and ask everyone. -- Harry Wood (talk) 14:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)