Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Brian Norman
Thank you everyone for your help and advice so far. Your recommendations are along the lines I expected and you are right we could use the OS vectormap district data specifically in our clients project which may be the starting point but medium term our client will want something more

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 April 2014 17:24, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote: I wouldn't not just trace, without also having a look. Also, this is a lot of work. I think this depends on your purpose and the area. If you just need to know here be buildings then there's no need to visit the area. But if

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Ed Loach
Tom wrote: In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. http://binged.it/1iByiPy), the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery so you can accurately guess individual buildings. Perhaps it is just me, but I don’t think residential

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Brian Norman
Certainly for my client its commercial buildings that are of more interest and I'm sure they would love full addressing and buildings correctly split into individual properties but they are pragmatic and could probably go with bounding outlines only at least initially. Do we think that adding

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 30 Apr 2014, at 09:52, Ed Loach edlo...@gmail.com wrote: Tom wrote: In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. http://binged.it/1iByiPy), the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery so you can accurately guess individual

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 30 Apr 2014, at 09:52, Ed Loach edlo...@gmail.com wrote: Tom wrote: In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. http://binged.it/1iByiPy), the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Dan S
2014-04-30 9:52 GMT+01:00 Ed Loach edlo...@gmail.com: Tom wrote: In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. http://binged.it/1iByiPy), the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery so you can accurately guess individual buildings.

[Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-29 Thread Brian Norman
Hi Everyone As a newbie contributor I was hoping to get some advice and wisdom before making a mess of things ;-). At the moment I am working on a commercial project that needs to show building outlines for inner London. I have done some simple analysis to try and identify the gaps in the

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Hughes
On 29/04/14 15:41, Brian Norman wrote: 1)Does anyone know if there has been a deliberate reason to not fill in the gaps with the generalized buildings from OS vectormap district? I can think of many reasons this might have been decided by the community but noticed that this has been done in

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-29 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, Brian Norman wrote: Hi Everyone As a newbie contributor I was hoping to get some advice and wisdom before making a mess of things ;-). At the moment I am working on a commercial project that needs to show building outlines for inner London. I have done some simple

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-29 Thread Graham Jones
If vector map district outlines are good enough for your application you could use it to render maps without importing it into osm - just merge the osm and vector map district data when you render it into images. Graham Hartlepool, UK (from my phone) On 29 Apr 2014 15:42, Brian Norman