The nights are closing in and the weather's getting lousy... cycle mapping after work isn't such an appealing option right now. So here's a mapping project where you can survey with the heater on.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_A_Roads The aim is to complete all inter-urban and rural A roads in Britain: that is, all A roads apart from those solely within towns. OSM's A road coverage has been increasing steadily, but haphazardly, over the last year. Some counties are now complete (Rutland and the Isle of Wight, obviously!), and some are almost complete: after a day's work yesterday, I reckon there's now only about three miles of unsurveyed A road in Oxfordshire. So now's the time to finish the job. A complete A-road network will vastly improve OSM's usefulness for routing; it'll make the Mapnik and Osmarender layers look complete at higher zoom levels; it could even be used for a road atlas or for any maps that require a general-purpose road background. And we're not actually that far off being able to achieve it. The principle's simple: add any missing roads you know of to the wiki page. Then either go out and map them, or (more environmentally friendly option (: ) print out the wiki page and take a detour next time you're passing. You can, of course, use NPE and all the usual tools to help. (And remember: green signs, highway=trunk; black-and-white signs, highway=primary!) cheers Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
