On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 09:49 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Hi All, > I spotted this by chance and doesn't look like it has been notified on this > mailing list yet: > > Natural England (formally the Countryside Agency) has released GI data > under the Open Gov License (OGL) on April 1st 2012. The notification can be > viewed on their website:
Nice find! > http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/publications/data/gidatasetsfeature.aspx > > I haven't yet looked at the specifics of the data but there appears to be > quite a lot of different categories available including: > > * National Trails > * Open Access Areas (CROW Act) > * Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty > * Ancient Woodlands > * Lots of landcover types > > I guess there are a few steps/questions: > > Q1. Is any of this data useful for OSM? It sure is. > Q2. Is the data in good form? I've not managed to download it yet but I hope so. > Q3. If yes to 1 & 2, how best should we go about adding it to OSM (auto > import or providing a tool to visualise the data)? There are a lot of different categories in that dataset so I'd imagine that the decision would need to be taken for each one individually rather than as a whole but broadly speaking I'd vote for a visualization rather than a direct import. In well mapped areas it is likely that the physical characteristics (woods, fields, etc) are already present in OSM and just need the additional legal/administrative details added to them. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
