<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 April 2010 13:37, Henry Gomersall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heng@cantab.net">heng@cantab.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
.... is it worth bothering, as it seems some of<br>
the new OS datasets will have decent lakes and rivers.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Henry<br></blockquote><div style=""><br>I'd say it's not worth the effort tracing. I had a look at the 'water area' and 'water line' layers in the 'VectorMap District' example provided. The 'VectorMap District' product is due to be released next month.<br>
The detail for water is excellent and may be the most 'detailed' vector data OS is going to provide. It's far better than the OSM community could achieve with GPSr's and aerial image tracing.<br><br>I've mentioned this in another post, but I had a look at the 'water area' and 'water line' data yesterday. OS map areas of water/streams greater than 1m, and do it very accurately. Streams less than 1m are mapped as simple lines.<br>
But where a bridge/path goes over the water the water does not exist, so the data will need to be stitched together (in JOSM?) using personal knowledge.<br>Below is the example I produced to show the missing sections of a stream in Milton Keynes where a road bridge and path bridge cross the stream. You can see the roads/paths in the aerial image of the second link<br>
<a href="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd132/jamicu/grassvectorofwaterinMiltonKeynes.jpg">http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd132/jamicu/grassvectorofwaterinMiltonKeynes.jpg</a><br><a href="http://snipurl.com/v9xsq">http://snipurl.com/v9xsq</a><br>
<br>Hopefully 'the community' can reach agreement on how the vector data will be used. I hope it will be converted in to 2km files that can be viewed in JOSM, the corresponding OSM info for the area can then be downloaded, then the two brought together with some though given to the results.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Jason Cunningham<br></div></div>