Field boundaries are often retained (development usually takes a field at a time), look out for these. They are a useful guide to aligning stuff with old aerial imagery. Phil (trigpoint)
On Fri, 2019-03-08 at 14:38 +0000, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote: > Hi > > Welcome to OSM. > > > > Mapping new developments is trickier without aerial imagery, but > there's quite a bit you can do to make it more accurate than > guesswork. > > > > > if you're mapping the roads use the GPS to walk down their > centre, if it's safe to do so, of course) > Takes *lots* of photos. Videos are even better > If there is something already mapped in OSM Field Papers may > help: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Field_Papers > I found that many new estates have a certain amount of > conformity. Try offsetting a copy of the road centre lines to > use as guidelines ensuring buildings equidistant from the > road > & the same width > > To map larger buildings you can walk walk around it taking > waypoints with a GPS whenever you're in line with the plane of > a > building's side. These points can then have a way drawn with > their > opposite number to create the buildings outline. Make sure > you're > far enough away from it to avoid GPS interference. > > > > Cheers > > DaveF > > > > > > > > On 08/03/2019 10:35, Dave Abbott wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > I'm quite new to OSM, and am wondering how I might go about mapping > > newhousing plots in my area. > > In general, there is nothing on the imagery - I know I can walk the > > newstreets and map them with GPS - but how to go about mapping the > > newbuildings? > > Is there a guide I can look at? > > TIA, > > Dave Abbott > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________Talk-GB > > mailing listtalk...@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________Talk-GB mailing > listtalk...@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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