A number of different boundaries such as SSSIs, national parks, and nature reserves are available from http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/WebStore?xml=environment-agency/xml/ogcDataDownload.xml <http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/WebStore?xml=environment-agency/xml/ogcDataDownload.xml>
Shaun > On 5 Oct 2015, at 09:29, SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm well in favour of mapping nature reserves, but they usually are quite > difficult to find actual boundaries. > > Nick Whitlegg and I walked through a couple of Woodland Trust areas on > Saturday and working out the extent of the area owned by the WT is difficult. > Similarly, over another non-OSM matter, I've been exchanging emails with NT > Eastern Office about Wicken Fen, but they have added so much new land over > the past few years that they dont have a ready to use map of the reserve. > Another one is the new RSPB reserve at Medmerry near Selsey, which is the > site of a massive managed retreat and new sea wall breach. This was brought > to my attention by Liz Scott (@birdmaps). Lastly, I haven't even resolved the > bounds of Attenborough NR: the staff now manage the area in Derbyshire > labelled Erewash Field <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/229705879> on OSM. I > don't know if it has been formally incoriporated into the reserve, so the > current mapping is a sensible compromise (and yes Nottinghamshire Wildlife > Trust operate a reserve in Derbyshire). > > There are Natural England datasets for National NRs, Local NRs and SSSIs. I > think these are under OGL these days, but like PRoW or Land Registry inspire > data, they may incorporate OS MasterMap data, and I have always treated them > as not fully open. Some local authorities have open data showing boundaries > of LNRs. Note that NR & SSSI boundaries are often not coincident. NRs depend > on either landowner agreement, or willingness to sell land; SSSIs are based > on conservation importance. And of course, some NRs have geological SSSIs in > their midst which are much smaller than the NR. > > The second thing which is really important for NRs is to get path networks > and access mapped out. Experience shows that even if one wants to start > mapping the things the NR is about, having the paths in is a necessary but > not sufficient condition for a decent map. Many NRs are very deficient from > this point of view (including the big ancient woodlands S of Coventry, such > as Wappenbury & Ryton, the last of which I visited at end of August. > Similarly both Wyre Forest & Werneth Low which I visited in September lack > many paths. > > There's a lot more to say about NRs, I have already started a draft for the > blog to do so inspired by looking at Medmerry. > > My feeling is that the most value can be added to OSM by improving details of > NRs local to individual mappers, and initially, at least path networks (there > are probably 10+ km of unmapped paths in Ryton Wood alone). > > One other plea, please don't map areas of grass as meadows unless you know > them to be meadows: Dudley wrote something about this in the past. > > Regards, > > Jerry > > On 5 October 2015 at 08:39, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com > <mailto:bpran...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi everyone > > For the remainder of 2015 lets concentrate on Nature Reserves > > Regards > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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