Thanks everyone. When streetview came out last month there was talk about not rushing to trace buildings but from what I've read this doesn't seem to be the case any more.
Is streetview the best building level detail we have from the OS? There is no aerial photography where I am. Thanks, Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org > [mailto:talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Chris Hill > Sent: 02 May 2010 18:01 > To: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] State of play of OS Vector data > > The Meridian data is pretty crude and incomplete. The residential level > roads seem to be largely missing, especially in rural areas. The curves > are chunky and crude. Similarly the woods and water are not fully > represented and are chunky. The admin borders have chunks missing. > > I just ignored it as worthless. > > I am strongly in favour of surveying on the ground where possible. I'm > trying to use the OS data for things we can't gather, such as boundaries > and inaccessible things such as docks, some waterways and some railways. > > Tracing the StreetView, with a suitable source tag, seems to me to > provide a way for people who can't survey on the ground to add > something, but the data you miss by doing this (shops, maxspeed, pubs, > schools, churches, post boxes and so on, as well as stuff OS got > wrong/missed/have changed) still makes this a poor, second rate job. > > Using such a tracing to then walk/cycle/drive around to add the POIs > does add a lot of value. > > Cheers, Chris > > > Graham Jones wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > That is a really good summary of what the dataset contains thank > > you - the woodland areas will certainly be useful for countryside > > maps. > > > > Do you know how this data compares to the Meridian data that OS > > released last month? I know many people were unimpressed with > > it, but I think that it contained street names didn't it? If so > > maybe that would be a more useful 'first pass' import? > > > > I am thinking of some areas where I know there are housing > > estates, but I have neither the time nor inclination to cycle > > around them to do a proper survey - Having something in the map > > for these seems better than nothing to me. > > > > If we were to import such data (via an editor as discussed before > > - not a bulk import!), we could tag it as 'verified=no' and get > > the renderers to show them in a lighter colour until someone > > checks it and takes the 'verified=no' tag off? This could > > alleviate the concerns that people had that users will not survey > > an area if it looks complete on the map? > > > > Regards > > > > > > Graham. > > > > On 2 May 2010 13:14, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net > > <mailto:o...@raggedred.net>> wrote: > > > > Seventy 7 wrote: > > > Can someone tell us what's happening with the latest release of > > OS data please? When streetview came out there were quite a few > > emails about tiles being rendered for tracing etc but this time > > it's all been very quiet! > > > > > > I presume someone somewhere is doing the vector data, but what > > about the others? > > > > > I've just written a blog about VectorMap http://is.gd/bQUgR > > > > Cheers, Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > > > > > > > -- Dr. Graham Jones > > Hartlepool, UK > > email: grahamjones...@gmail.com <mailto:grahamjones...@gmail.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
