On 10 May 2010 13:50, Christopher Osborne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.gaijin@gmail.com">chris.gaijin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Have just received a heads up at the great work being carried out by OSM mappers in Surrey. The new aerial imagery seems to have stimulated a lot of new mapping, this is definitely the case in Dorking, is it true elsewhere?<br>
<br>Would like to collect stories of how useful the imagery has been, there may be an opportunity to get funding for larger coverage of high res aerial imagery.<br><br>Thanks<br>Chris<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Christopher Osborne<br>
Business Development Director<br>
<a href="http://www.itoworld.com" target="_blank">www.itoworld.com</a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></font></blockquote></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><br></div>There's been a lot of tidying up going on in Guildford and surrounds by myself and others. Not a huge amount of new highways as Guildford is already well-mapped but there was a lot of guesswork, visual_estimates and inaccurate GPS traces in some areas. <div>
<br></div><div>In particular, the imagery has helped me focus on cleaning up and rerouting many of the NPE-traced waterways in the region. Instead of flowing through industrial estates and over roundabouts, the rivers, canals and streams I've edited now flow alongside the accurately mapped towpaths/footpaths and under the bridges that others had carefully added! The imagery is great for adding/correcting other landuse/leisure areas; correcting parks, woods, golf courses etc. I've also used it to trace a few major buildings and add detail to car-parks and complex road junctions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The combination of high-res aerial imagery and OS StreetView data is very powerful indeed.</div><div><br></div><div>For the sake of walkers and cyclists, I'd encourage others to tackle Surrey's waterways. The road network is fairly sane but the (typically NPE-derived) water network makes a somewhat confusing mess of the more recently and accurately mapped geography.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Wilf.</div><div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mezzanine">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mezzanine</a></div></div>