Thanks to Peter Reed for recognising my efforts in Cornwall over the last few
months. I have been making a concerted effort to capture all roads from NPE
mapping
that are unlikely to have changed. It was an aim to change the colour from red
to green so mission accomplished! Unfortunately the main towns in Cornwall are
very poor still but I feel that by putting in the rural road structures this
will be a catalyst to people who may give the map more acceptance if the
coverage is
slightly better than it was. There is still lots to do there but most needs to
be ground work now. I may well have missed lanes off serving farms or around
more
recent road developments (where the NPE roads will most likely have changed).
Peter Reed wrote:
>> OSM Coverage By Local Authority
...there is improved coverage all over the place. The biggest increase in
coverage is in Cornwall, which has moved from less than 50% coverage to
more than 80%.
>>
As a model to improve coverage in counties I feel my approach offers benefits -
this was a relatively big
change to coverage from existing NPE mapping in an area where the rural roads
do not alter much over time. The
exception being in rapidly developing areas or where new roads alter rural road
courses. The latter is easy to
pickup on as OSM tended to have main road coverage in Cornwall. I did have to
change several mis-classified roads
during my mapping as they were incorrect so the work also, I hope, improves the
quality of the information.
Guy
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