> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 May 2007 06:56 > To: David Earl > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Virtual place mapping 'party' > > > David Earl wrote: > >> 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. > >> > > > > > > Places (place names) were my starting point, definitely the built > > environment! So we get a full gazetteer. > > > > David > > > > Talking of Gazetteers, is there an old one? > Having looked at NPE (at this scale) I am struck by 1) how much > difference the map projection makes; I'd only looked at small areas > before, & 2) how hard it is to be sure you got them all; in areas I > know, I'm having to hunt for village names amongst the farms, and areas > I don't know I'm going to miss a few. > > A list of NPE villages would be handy!
I wonder if this helps: you could do things the other way up - instead of scanning the area geographically, go through places in the list alphabetically and find them on npe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_England http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_Wales BTW did you intend to send to the list? I'll send this reply to the list in case it is useful. David _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
