Is the version from os.openstreetmap the original?
http://os.openstreetmap.org/data/
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Borbus [mailto:bor...@gmail.com]
Sent: 12 December 2011 22:14
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import
On
If not, I have got them on dvd if anyone would like them - probably quicker
for me to post them than upload to a server - I prefer handling the new
bigger files because it keeps the style files for rendering simpler.
Graham
from my phone
On 13 Dec 2011 08:51, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com
Andy asked:
Is the version from os.openstreetmap the original?
http://os.openstreetmap.org/data/
Looking at TM, the original zip was about 74MB and the newer one is
about 44MB which seems to be the one available on the above link.
Ed
___
Talk-GB
Perhaps you should cross-check the OS water features against Bing imagery.
That would eliminate some of the errors from trusting any one source too much.
Of course it still wouldn't be as good as walking around the outside of each
water feature with a GPS to get the boundary, but I can say from
On 13/12/11 11:05, Ed Avis wrote:
In some parts of the country there are waterways traced from out-of-copyright
OS maps or from Street View tiles. Getting the shapes from OS VectorMap will
certainly be an improvement on that. In my opinion it will also be an
improvement compared to not having
Ed Avis wrote:
In some parts of the country there are waterways traced from out-of-
copyright OS maps or from Street View tiles. Getting the shapes from
OS VectorMap will certainly be an improvement on that.
Absolutely. Some of the tracing from NPE appears to have been done either
from the
From: Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk
To: 'Borbus' bor...@gmail.com; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, 12 December 2011, 11:40
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import
Have any large scale imports from this dataset already been done?
Do people think this is a good idea?
Pawel Stankiewicz wrote:
I wonder who can know this maze of channels in such
degree (s)he could improve significantly a long-term
work of professionals from OS.
Someone like the guy who wrote
www.localboating.co.uk/The%20Walton%20Backwaters.pdf , perhaps?
Richard
--
View this message in
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:23:39 +
Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
Surveying private cliff tops or walking under crumbling cliffs against a
rising tide makes surveying awkward too.
hmmph, some people have NO spirit of adventure
mick
___
On 11/12/11 11:26, Borbus wrote:
First of all, when I say import I mean a manual import: reprojection of
OS shapefiles, conversion to OSM data and careful processing in JOSM
before uploading.
I'd really like to get all the water features from OS into OSM. It's
very useful data and also makes
10 matches
Mail list logo
