Hi Tim I do think this is a good use of mappers time, personally I'm interested in hyper-local mapping (or whatever trendy tag someone thinks up).
This is what I've been doing for my local area in London: http://osm.org/go/euu7Sqqu-- With local knowledge it is quite trivial to markup landuse around you. > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:59:42 +0000 > From: TimSC <[email protected]> > Subject: [Talk-GB] London landuse=* request for help > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi all, > > I have been working on doing a first estimate tracing of landuse in the > Greater London/M25 area. I think it is good to have this admittedly > imperfect starting point and it can be refined based on local knowledge > or survey as we go. I have now traced more than 50% starting from > Dartford, working clockwise and I am now north of Heathrow. However, the > remaining tracing will take one person weeks or months. > > If people are willing, can people trace landuse for anywhere in the > remaining London area? If we have a group doing this, we can make the > map look much more consistent and, I think, more useful too. It will > give us something to do if it is cold and raining this winter. > > I am holding fire on tracing the centre because it is very dense in > features. > > TimSC > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > End of Talk-GB Digest, Vol 38, Issue 21 > *************************************** > -- Christopher Osborne www.itoworld.com
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