On 3 March 2011 03:21, Jason Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tom, I've noticed you've added a large number of trees with species details > supplied by Southwark Council. Some of the trees appear a bit random > eg http://osm.org/go/euuuYWULe-- > Whats the story behind this? I wondering if they're from Southwarks TPO > list? or list of plum trees? > I got the council's tree database off them with permission to use it. I've not put them all in as the default Mapnik render gives them too high a priority and you end up with almost no road names at certain zoom levels. I started in my patch of Southwark (East Dulwich) and then stopped when I noticed this problem: http://osm.org/go/euuuX2dM I've submitted a bug report on trac: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3511 In order to be useful for non-experts, I've also tried to crowdsource the common names for all of the species in the data set and add those in, along with any fruit/nuts they produce for people like me who are interested in foraging. The work-in-progress is here: http://bit.ly/hvv0Ok (help appreciated!) To test it out, I tried importing the trees in the Prunus genus that have edible fruit (plums, damsons, cherries, etc.) You can see the results pulled out into a KML file overlaid on OSM maps here: http://bit.ly/fp6LJF Those are the slightly random trees you might notice. > Noticed Southwark are one of the better councils for providing maps on > their website showing important info (hopefully they can start using OSM as > the base map) > Alas, they were considering this for some time but really wanted a dataset with building outlines and I've been too slow in my mass-tracing efforts. In the end they went for a third party product based on OS Mastermap. But the council are still interested in OSM as a data source & repository, e.g. some work I'm doing with Southwark and on a pan-London level to map food growing spaces. Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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