Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Tom Hughes
On 30/04/14 11:59, Dan S wrote: 2014-04-30 9:52 GMT+01:00 Ed Loach : Tom wrote: In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. http://binged.it/1iByiPy), the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery so you can accurately guess individual bu

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Dan S
2014-04-30 9:52 GMT+01:00 Ed Loach : > Tom wrote: > >> In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. >> http://binged.it/1iByiPy), >> the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery >> so you >> can accurately guess individual buildings. > > Perha

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Shaun McDonald wrote: > On 30 Apr 2014, at 09:52, Ed Loach wrote: > > > Tom wrote: > > > >> In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. > >> http://binged.it/1iByiPy), the typologies and shapes are pretty > >> easy to understand from aerial imagery

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 30 Apr 2014, at 09:52, Ed Loach wrote: > Tom wrote: > >> In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. >> http://binged.it/1iByiPy), >> the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery >> so you >> can accurately guess individual buildings

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Brian Norman
Certainly for my client its commercial buildings that are of more interest and I'm sure they would love full addressing and buildings correctly split into individual properties but they are pragmatic and could probably go with bounding outlines only at least initially. Do we think that adding ac

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Ed Loach
Tom wrote: > In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. > http://binged.it/1iByiPy), > the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery > so you > can accurately guess individual buildings. Perhaps it is just me, but I don’t think residentia

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 April 2014 17:24, Derick Rethans wrote: > I wouldn't not just trace, without also having a look. Also, this is a > lot of work. > I think this depends on your purpose and the area. If you just need to know "here be buildings" then there's no need to visit the area. But if you need to know

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Brian Norman
Thank you everyone for your help and advice so far. Your recommendations are along the lines I expected and you are right we could use the OS vectormap district data specifically in our clients project which may be the starting point but medium term our client will want something more detailed.