https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2017_Q1_Project:_Water
It might be that someone finds a really good water project that could be spun up into a quarterly project in the future. I started noting some of the ideas https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_quarterly_project_ideas so that they don't get forgotten. On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 at 16:24 John Aldridge <j...@cantab.net> wrote: > Perhaps also worth trying to get the flow direction right. > > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=water > > can be helpful here. > > -- > Cheers, > John > > On 04-Jan-17 15:22, Andy Townsend wrote: > > On 03/01/2017 22:34, Rob Nickerson wrote: > >> Water sounds good. > > > > ... and to me too - in fact it's what I've been doing on and off for the > > last couple of months, mainly in South Wales bordering areas that I've > > been walking where I've noticed that streams are in the wrong places. > > > > OS OpenData StreetView is quite predictable here - it's usually correct > > except in the following (checkable) situations: > > > > 1) a mountain stream has obviously moved (which you can see from Bing > > imagery, even if the latter is offset somewhat) > > > > 2) there's been some recent man-made intervention (e.g. a fishing lake) > > > > 3) it's a ditch beside a road - the OS tends to draw these in the > > "wrong" places for cartographical purposes, but again you can align via > > Bing, even if the latter is offset, because you can align the road. > > > > 4) the OS often adds a "catographic flourish" at the upper ends of > > mountain streams which in my experience (Black Mountain / Beacons / > > south of Hay) doesn't exist. > > > > 5) Sometimes the OS has the top ends of streams and ditches extending > > further than you might think (e.g. through a boggy area). That's the > > only one of these 5 that really needs surveying to check. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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