Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse in greater london

2010-05-25 Thread Brian Prangle
Doing a similar thing slowly in the West Midlands as we survey - stuff we do now as a local mapping community always includes landuse and some of us use landuse data recording as an excuse to go out and resurvey older work. Generally I Iike the effects that addition of landuse gives in urban area

Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse in greater london

2010-05-25 Thread Gregory
A few weeks ago I thought I should write something about my views on landuse. They flicker between liking landuse and disliking. Also should they share nodes with roads or be independent of anything else. Overall I like them now an see reason for them, even in a finished map database. What if I wa

Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse in greater london

2010-05-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Tim, > I am surprised that people don't comment on how odd the map looks without > landuse being assigned and work to rectify it. I think that what people expect from a map is wildly different. Some people expect a map to be an abstract representation of important concepts (for their definiti

[Talk-GB] Landuse in greater london

2010-05-25 Thread TimSC
Hello people, I have finished a personal project of mapping landuse in Greater London from yahoo imagery. The inner section (roughly underground zone 1) cannot be usefully mapped from yahoo since all the buildings look the same - houses don't have gardens that are discernible. Outside zone 1 to