OS Opendata buildings are simplified polygons. Tracing over Bing imagery is much better generally, at least in the Birmingham area it is as the resolution of the imagery is good.
Cheers Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: Big Fat Frog [mailto:bigfatfro...@gmail.com] > Sent: 08 June 2012 23:15 > To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Houses and other buildings > > OMG that's amazing. > > Why can't we get it from OS Opendata? > > On 08/06/2012 23:06, Andy Robinson wrote: > > All done manually, there is no magic import. Its several years of hard > > graft tracing from Bing imagery and if they also have numbers also > > from ground survey. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Big Fat Frog [mailto:bigfatfro...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: 08 June 2012 22:46 > >> To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > >> Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Houses and other buildings > >> > >> If you look in Birmingham then all the houses are there, I can't > >> beleive > > that > >> was done manually. There must have been an import sometime. > >> > >> On 08/06/2012 22:38, Matt Williams wrote: > >>> On 8 June 2012 22:12, Big Fat Frog<bigfatfro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> When I look at a lot of towns all the houses etc have been traced > >>>> but not in others, I can't beleive someone has sat down and done > >>>> each house > >> one by one? > >>>> Where is this coming from and how can I get it for my area? > >>> > >>> It depends on where you're looking but I think that in most areas, > >>> the building have been traced manually. For example almost all the > >>> buildings at > >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.39399&lon=- > >> 1.57597&zoom=15&layers > >>> =M have been traced by me from Bing aerial imagery. It can be > >>> tedious but sometimes my OCD gets the better of me :) > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Matt > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > >>> Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > >> Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
