Hi everyone Every building ( please check - there's bound to be the recalcitrant 1%!) inside the outer ring road has now been traced. There's also quite a few under construction that have also been added ( thanks Andy M). I believe- but this is a biassed opinion - that we now have the best mapped city centre in the UK in terms of a single contiguous area of building outline detail and correct road alignment. Edinburgh and London come close but have many gaps in building coverage ( do we want to wind up talk gb with this opinion?)
BTW in comparison to both GoogleEarth and Bing (even more outdated than GE!) our aerial imagery is much fresher so our maps should be too - and as our building outlines are more detailed than OS StreetView we beat this map too! What's left to do? Check that building outlines are correct ( shadows often obscure finer detail such as buildings being joined or separated) Populate the buildings with names, addresses, and functions Complete the building tracing outside the ring road to the limit of the aerial photography Ground surveys to complete the population of land useage types (maybe not worth doing in the core city centre as the building density is too great) Populate with heritage information ( e.g Listed Building Status, former useage) Ongoing maintenance for demolitions and constructions Railways and canals have been left as single ways ( canals at locks where there are in many cases parallel ways) and I think it's probably best to leave this well alone. Happy mapping! Regards Brian
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