I ran the Munich Marathon yesterday (in a relay team of 5 - 42km is definitely not for me). It was great to see that the printed maps of the course given to all competitors were based on OSM (correctly attributed, too).

The map in the centre of Munich is bugging me a bit but I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.13632&lon=11.59109&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

The river north of the Maximiliansbruecke is the right width but south of the bridge it becomes pencil thin and the island (Praterinsel) is the wrong shape compared to the aerial photography (although the outline of the island is drawn correctly if I look in Potlatch). I suspect this is something to do with multipolygons for the riverbank?

I thought it would be a nice demonstration of OSM's flexibility to produce a map of all the places in the world containing Darwin in the name - from Darwin College Cambridge to Darwin in Australia. Although this is a gimmick, it would be of some interest in 2009 as it is the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work, ‘On the Origin of Species’ (see www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk). The many organisations which will be staging events in 2009 might be interested in a map like this which they could freely use on their sites and this would showcase OSM to a wider audience.

Making such a map is slightly beyond my (very limited) abilities and making it look pretty might take a bit of time. I thought I would start by posting something here to see if anyone has an ideas / suggestions and wants to take this on. I am happy to help if I can, for example by trying to generate publicity once the map exists. If there are no takers here, I'll try the mailing list.

Oliver

Much of my daily route to work is on the Capital Ring betweeen Richmond and Osterley, so today, inspired by the rendering example that Andy Allan put on his blog, I joined up most of the sections between Richmond and Osterley. It's a bit of a dilemma whether to split a way, when a route joins it halfway along. Mostly, I did split them, except where the route joins close to the end of one of the ways.

Fixed up the overflow car park, the common across from the Palace, added Campbell Road and the Hampton Court House school. Area looks much cleaner now.