Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

[Shaun McDonald]

On 12 Dec 2008, at 09:13, Steve Hill wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote:

I have been working on adding wiki pages for every County and Unitary
Authority in the UK (there are 140 in total) so that we have a
consistent place to add this sort of information. There were articles
for some and there are about 19 added so far. Could people add county
pages for their areas and and use this for a hit-list section of
wanted places?:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:County_in_England

Just a thought, but UK != England - might it be an idea to rename this
page, or is the plan to create separate pages for Wales, Scotland,
Northern Ireland...?

There are no longer any counties in Scotland. You would have to do it by region or council. Probably best to have a category .. in [Wales/ Scotland/NorthernIreland].

Do remember that the local councils might be interested themselves.
There is growing official awareness that OSM exists and might be
useful to them. That is one reason why I am building the local
authority pages.

I'm not sure why the councils would use OSM - as far as I know the

interpret it):

1. The council's own layers are derived from OS maps so could never be
integrated with OSM

money.
3. Like it or not, OS maps are usually more detailed than OSM - most
(all?) areas in OSM don't map detail like where the running lanes of a

mapped.  For example, zoom into some of the residential streets on:
http://maps.swansea.gov.uk/localview/OnTheMap.aspx

councils' internal systems (e.g. highways department, etc) are heavilly based on OS maps with the council's own layers overlaid. This means (as I 2. Since the councils have to publish their maps they presumably already have a licence from OS to do so, so using OSM *as well* won't save them road end and the walkway begins and few areas have individual buildings

Shaun

Yeah, but there are so many things that the council can't do with the data. So if they put the data into osm, suddenly they can use the data in ways that the OS won't allow. I know of some council employed people who are adding data to OSM, to use OSM as the base.

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