In situations like this, if there is good agreement between the cadestral layer and bing imagery I would now generally use the road centre line. If the bing imagery is at an angle and the area is quite hilly more judgment may be required.
Dudley > On 2 Mar 2026, at 13:06, Daniel Hatton via Talk-GB > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/03/2026 10:58, Ken Kilfedder wrote: > >> You can turn on the "OSMUK Cadastral Parcels" (available in the iD >> 'Overlays' section under >> Backgrounds) and align everything to that. > > Oh, thanks, that's nifty: that's registered ownership boundaries as they're > depicted on Land Registry title plans, right? Do you know how up-to-date it > purports to be? (There was a very annoying land-grab by adverse possession > in this area that was accepted by the Land Registry around 2010, and that > doesn't seem to be reflected in the cadastral parcels overlay, for example.) > > Back to the original topic: the gap between the registered plots of land is > the road. But the original question remains, now recast as: should I adjust > the OSM-mapped course to go along the centreline of the road as identified > from the cadastral parcels, or leave it along its existing zig-zag GPS track, > which is (largely) within the road as identified from the cadastral parcels? > > -- > > Kind regards, > > Dan Hatton > > Dr. Daniel C. Hatton > > E-mail: [email protected] > Signal: dch.28 > Threema: 5UAVHC96 > SIP: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > <OpenPGP_signature.asc> _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
