Hi,
It seems that the UK administrative boundaries in OSM are rather
incomplete. I'm looking for advice about the possibility of doing a bulk
upload of the OS BoundaryLine data for counties, districts and unitaries.
I have conquered the projection issues with the downloaded shapefiles
and I
On 29 May 2012 15:44, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
My questions to the community:
1) Would a bulk upload of any or all of this data be interesting?
Thanks for raising this, it would be great to get a more complete set of
boundaries. In answer to your first question, no, please
Colin Smale wrote:
My questions to the community:
1) Would a bulk upload of any or all of this data be interesting?
I think uploading the files somewhere for people to use would certainly be
interesting, yes. You could find some webspace and upload (say)
leicestershire.osm and cumbria.osm and
I think Peter was planning on making the ITO boundaries available as a
traceable layer, but haven't heard anything about this recently.
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
On 29 May 2012 15:44, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
My questions to the
On 29 May 2012 16:03, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Colin Smale wrote:
My questions to the community:
1) Would a bulk upload of any or all of this data be interesting?
I think uploading the files somewhere for people to use would certainly be
interesting, yes. You could
On 29/05/12 16:00, Tom Chance wrote:
Most boundaries follow existing features like roads, rivers, etc.
Not always by any means. Many urban boundaries follow roads, but many
rural ones run alongside roads and have little jinks in them where they
cross to the other side of the road. This allows
Hi again,
I realise I probably caused some confusion by using the words bulk
upload when I really intended bulk import. Sorry about that... I was
thinking about a way of getting all the data into OSM without having to
do too much manual work. But if people would prefer me to dump the
Colin wrote:
I have uploaded an example GPX to OSM with the boundary of
Sevenoaks DC
in Kent. If anybody is interested in taking a look, you can
download
it
here (with a bit of luck):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/trace/1242073/data
If people want to create their own .osm versions of
Tom Chance wrote:
1) Most boundaries follow existing features like roads, rivers, etc.
That raises an interesting question - how is the boundary actually
defined? Is it defined as the boundary between X and Y is the middle
of the river Z, or has someone plotted a series of points P
I've been doing a lot of the boundaries in Devon and Somerset, and a lot of the
boundaries seem to use streams and rivers. I therefore use the Centre point of
larger rivers.
I've also come across ox bow lakes and such which the boundary does still
follow.
Jason (unieagle)
Connected by
On 29 May 2012 17:19, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
They need to be manually entered as relations sharing nodes with those
features.
I would say that sharing nodes can lead to problems. Boundaries that get
imported or manually traced from OS data often have no visible reference on
On 29/05/12 18:10, Tom Chance wrote:
On 29 May 2012 17:19, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net
wrote:
They need to be
manually entered as relations sharing nodes with those
features.
Colin Smale wrote:
I realise I probably caused some confusion by using the words
bulk upload when I really intended bulk import. Sorry about
that... I was thinking about a way of getting all the data into
OSM without having to do too much manual work.
That won't really fly, I'm afraid -
On 29 May 2012 18:52, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
My question is: how do you know the boundary aligns with an existing
object?
Aha! A very good point.
I suppose in my case because I've been actively involved in canvassing for
a political party for years in the area, I know which
On 29/05/12 20:16, Tom Chance wrote:
On 29 May 2012 18:52, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net
wrote:
My question is: how do you know the boundary aligns with an
existing object?
Aha! A very good point.
I suppose
Hi
Having done the import for the all of the Worcestershire parishes I will add
my views:
It should only be attempted by an experienced mapper who is familiar with
revert and other advanced techniques and can follow the guidelines on the
wiki. The potential to break something is very great, so I
It should only be attempted by an experienced mapper who is
familiar with
revert and other advanced techniques and can follow the guidelines
on the
wiki. The potential to break something is very great, so I would
question
making converted data available. Any conversion needs to build the
I mentioned:
http://www.loach.me.uk/osm/boundaries/
You might notice on the National Parks page I say that the National
England boundaries weren't compatible. Since I designed the page
they have switched to OGL. I might get around to updating the pages
at some point, and also check all source
Having just taken a look at ogr2osm I think that is probably the best
way of achieving OSM-data with a view to a bulk import. However there
are lots of disadvantages and gotcha's on that route as several people
have pointed out. If we were to take that route there would not be any
point in
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