Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-20 Thread Henry Gomersall
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 07:13 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: The other activity around here is 'aerial', such as microlight and hot air ballooning, and in those cases CHANGES to fied boundaries - which these days are not as stable as even OS would seem to imply - are something that would be very

Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-12 Thread Mike Harris
Dave So sorry to hear that you only walk in good weather. Approx. 240 km of walking with GPS receiver so far this year ;-) ... but of course you are right in saying that field boundaries near paths (whether or not PROWs) are the most important. My point was simply that OSM is unlikely

Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-11 Thread Lester Caine
Dave F. wrote: Mike Harris wrote: The lack of public right of way information is disappointing - but it is within OSM's capabilities to walk and map it. However, the lack of field boundary information is a serious deficiency as these are invaluable in practice to walkers attempting to plan,

Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-10 Thread Dave F.
Mike Harris wrote: The lack of public right of way information is disappointing - but it is within OSM's capabilities to walk and map it. However, the lack of field boundary information is a serious deficiency as these are invaluable in practice to walkers attempting to plan, navigate,

[Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Despite being disappointed at the lack of public right of way/field boundary info in the OS releases, I have to admit that VectorMap District does *look* very nice, kind of like Landranger minus contours and footpaths. So I'm wondering, would it be possible to create maps which combine the

Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-04 Thread Richard Bullock
and contours from SRTM (or even the OS's own contour data, if that's better than SRTM?) To give you an idea of what the contours from the OS Land-Form PANORAMA Contour dataset look like, I've taken a small section of the Cheshire Peak District, centred on the hill Shutlingsloe. See what