> All this from a quick look at my village. We cannot rely on this data > without a survey.
Near here I zoomed in on the ways that are in VMD and not OSM. We have footways along the seafront where the black lines are (not worked out what type that is in VMD - perhaps I need to look at the VMD layer for a colour code). There is also a black line in the middle of the area which I'm sure isn't a way. We have a footpath following part of it, so perhaps a farm tack. I'll need to resurvey to be sure though. It isn't just the roads layer which is a bit dubious. I was looking at one of the other layers (I forget which now) which marks nodes for points of interest (perhaps churches, schools and leisure centres IIRC). I thought this might be interesting to compare VMD with OSM but picking a few nodes at random in whichever package I opened the VMD layer in (QGIS perhaps) I stumbled across a "leisure centre" which is in reality a garden centre called "Outdoor Leisure". So yes, I'd agree, while the OS data can be useful in seeing what needs surveying, I'd be a bit worried about trusting it without one (though in combination with Bing imagery some of the obvious discrepancies can be ignored), though you do seem to have encountered more issues with it than I have, so perhaps quality varies from area to area. I'll confess when OS Locator first became available I tagged a few road names using that and Streetview but have tried to visit them all since to confirm they are correct. It's a bit like anything tagged source=NPE; I'm still trying to track all those items down and either survey them where they are on publically accessible land or the best I can from Bing if not (one highway=road was a farm track with a gate at the road end I couldn't get past, and only recently did I get around to updating the way from Bing). Ed _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
