Bob, I can't offer any specific advice myself but it might be worthwhile contacting the original creators of the AONBs that have already been mapped on OSM to see if they can offer any specific advice on how they came by their datasets.
Steve_NI Dashers UniEagle jochta User jochta has mapped the North Wessex Downs AONB which I understand shares a boundary with the Chilterns AONB so you might start with them :) Existing AONB relations are here: http://ra.osmsurround.org/searchRelation?name=aonb Hope this helps. Regards, Paul Berry On 16 December 2015 at 15:36, Bob Hawkins <bobhawk...@waitrose.com> wrote: > I am a retired cartographer who enjoys extending his connection with and > love of mapping by contributing to OpenStreetMap (OSM). My current project > is to improve Public Rights of Way (PROW) attributes and add their PROW and > Chiltern Society references to ways in OSM. I am concentrating on > Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire because that is my geographical area. > Their local authorities make available downloads of their Public Rights of > Way and I have Ordnance Survey OpenData civil parish boundary data, too. > It would be most useful to have a digital boundary of the Chilterns AONB. > I have searched the internet and cannot find such a file to download. I > communicated with Lucy Murfett, Planning Officer at Chilterns Conservation > Board and received this reply: > > Dear Bob, > > Thanks for your message and great that you are able to give your time to > improving this map resource. I am attaching an AONB boundary map with an OS > base. > > I love using GIS but I’m afraid I am not knowledgeable about how to share > layers or know whether we have permission to do this. Have you tried > accessing the AONB boundary on the Government’s websites: > > http://www.magic.gov.uk/ or > https://data.gov.uk/data/map-preview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geostore.com%2FOGC%2FOGCInterface%3FSERVICE%3DWMS%26UID%3DUDATAGOV2011%26PASSWORD%3Ddatagov2011%26INTERFACE%3DENVIRONMENT%26LC%3D800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&n=55.816&w=-6.236&e=2.072&s=49.943 > > Neither of these sites seem to offer the opportunity to download a digital > file. I wonder if an OSM user here can help? > > <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > This > email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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