Steve Doerr wrote: >Sent: 23 February 2010 3:45 PM >To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Looking for places to map? > >On 23/02/2010 15:02, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: >> Steve Doerr wrote: >> >>> OK. How can we help in supplying better boundary information? For >>> instance, in the Medway Towns (Kent): Strood, Rochester, Chatham, and >>> Gillingham are overlapping horribly. It should be possible to map the >>> boundaries using NPE. How would we go about doing that? These are >>> historical parishes/authorities within a single current district >>> (unitary authority). >> >> Worth noting that the old parish boundaries are shown well on the ooc >1:25k >> mapping. Of course we have major gaps in these maps currently but... all >in >> good time. Except where boundaries have been moved to meet changes in >> landuse, especially where towns and cities have expanded, the current >local >> authority boundaries often still follow historical parish boundary lines. >> >> Incidentally I have ooc 1:25k sheets for Maidstone and Chatham which I'll >be >> uploading this week. > >That'll be great. What I was mainly looking for was guidance on tagging. >I've not mapped boundaries before, and it would be useful to know what >the Peter Reed project (needs a name, by the way) is looking for in the >OSM database. (Not that we should map solely with that in mind, of course!)
You have seen the boundary page info on the wiki? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary Most of the admin level breakdown being on: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
