Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] OS StreetView tracing vs surveying

2010-04-12 Thread Brian Prangle
Sub stations as nodes definitely do not render - drawing them as small enclosed ways gets you a nice grey box On 12 April 2010 14:12, Ed Loach wrote: > Mary asked: > > > On another point. I have mapped two electricity sub stations, > > one near home using my GPS handheld, and a second near work

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] OS StreetView tracing vs surveying

2010-04-12 Thread Ed Loach
Mary asked: > On another point. I have mapped two electricity sub stations, > one near home using my GPS handheld, and a second near work > using my Android tracker. Neither have appeared on the map. Why? Have you mapped them as a node or as an area? I've mapped a few near here as nodes, an

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] OS StreetView tracing vs surveying

2010-04-12 Thread Mary Mooney OSM
I am with Brian. I have never taken data from another source and mapped it within OSM. Would it be worth covering this at Kidderminster next Saturday. On another point. I have mapped two electricity sub stations, one near home using my GPS handheld, and a second near work using my Android track

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] OS StreetView tracing vs surveying

2010-04-12 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I know that there are strong opinions on surveying being more fun and more accurate and richer in POI/addressing/bustops/etc detail but given the scale and remoteness of what's left to be done in the Black Country, I can't help feeing that we should make use of all this OS data to comp