[Talk-GB] Landuse in greater london

2010-05-25 Thread TimSC
Hello people, I have finished a personal project of mapping landuse in Greater London from yahoo imagery. The inner section (roughly underground zone 1) cannot be usefully mapped from yahoo since all the buildings look the same - houses don't have gardens that are discernible. Outside zone 1

Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse in greater london

2010-05-25 Thread Gregory
A few weeks ago I thought I should write something about my views on landuse. They flicker between liking landuse and disliking. Also should they share nodes with roads or be independent of anything else. Overall I like them now an see reason for them, even in a finished map database. What if I

Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse in greater london

2010-05-25 Thread Brian Prangle
Doing a similar thing slowly in the West Midlands as we survey - stuff we do now as a local mapping community always includes landuse and some of us use landuse data recording as an excuse to go out and resurvey older work. Generally I Iike the effects that addition of landuse gives in urban

[Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-05-25 Thread Roy Jamison
I have tried using the JOSM plugin to trace buildings but can't get it to work, it keeps coming up with a problem with the child process. Is there any other easy way(s) to do this - even if it's on a few buildings? As the self-appointed 'mapping supervisor' for the Isle of Sheppey, I'd rather have

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-05-25 Thread ael
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:24:25PM +0100, Roy Jamison wrote: I have tried using the JOSM plugin to trace buildings but can't get it to work, it keeps coming up with a problem with the child process. Is Same here: see http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/5068 ael