Martin - CycleStreets wrote: > >I agree in an ideal world, ground-surveys done from first principles will >be preferable. But the fact is that there remain areas of the country that >routing. Wolverhampton and Newcastle for instance are places which we >certainly would love to see become usable for routing as early as possible. >
Wolverhampton and the rest of the Black Country is on the west midlands mappers hit list. Currently I'm working on completing Walsall district and others are working to the south and east of Wolverhampton. There is a good chance we will wrap up these areas this year but revisiting patchy Wolverhampton may take longer. These heavy urban are areas have to be surveyed on the ground because there is so much detail to add that is not available from any other source. At full detail each 1 sq km of the urban area takes me somewhere around 4 hours to map on the ground and edit into the database and there are a lot of squares still to do. While it may be a quick win to drop the basic road network in from the latest OS release that's not really creating a great OSM map and of course it can't tell you which roads are one way etc etc so there will always been navigation issues for road users, cyclists or otherwise, until we can get the ground survey done. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands