David Earl wrote: >Sent: 16 May 2007 5:02 PM >To: Andy Street; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Virtual place mapping 'party' > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Street >> Sent: 16 May 2007 15:38 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Virtual place mapping 'party' >> >> >> On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:00:06 +0100 "Barnett, Phillip" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Sounds good - can we nominate squares? >> >> Geobingo anyone? ;) >> >> On a more serious note, is the idea to just copy place names from NPE or >> is it intended to try and trace in as much of the area as possible (e.g. >> roads)? > > >Not really. It's places and other obvious point locations like named peaks >I >was thinking about - to keep it manageable and doable in a reasonable >timescale. > >Another reason not to do roads is it is hard to get accurate traces from >NPE, they change location and number, you don't know their names and so on. >Basically NPE doesn't give us good enough data for this where there is no >other input to help. > >Rivers though, while they do change a bit, may be more doable. So great if >you can do them, but the key aim is all places and peaks.
So what you are really saying here is we would concentrate on the natural rather than the built environment. That seems logical to me for the reasons you give. Cheers Andy Andy Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I'm preparing a map to claim your squares on as we speak. > >David > > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
