On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Dave F.<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I noticed that one of the landscape features that appears to be most > missing from the UK is the runs of electricity cables & pylons, which > seems a shame seeing their height are useful for getting your bearings. > I suppose the reason is that many are hard to get a location for.
Most power lines can be traced from NPE (the out-of-copyright background in Potlatch). Whenever I'm mapping and cycle under a power line I take waypoint and an approximate compass bearing. That way I can check that the NPE information is correct (and align it more precisely). If the line is missing from NPE I use the compass information to draw short 'stubs' (about 1/4 mile long) either side of the road or path. Once there are enough stubs in the same area these can be joined together to form long lines. Nick. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
