I try to add the rivers & streams when I can, but it always takes a lot of work.<br>Previously didn't agree with adding straight from OS Vectormap without fixing all of it's peculiarities, and was unhappy with a lot of woodland added. But, I coming round to thinking OSM is about incremental improvements, it doesn't have to be perfect first time, and the woodland added is an "improvement". Still wouldn't add without cleaning up the data myself though, and there are a lot of water features, especially drains, that are not really there on the ground.<br>
<br>Original release of Vectormap had more detailed water features, but this years release appears to have been "dumbed down". If you got them I'd use the first detailed release of water features. <br><br>Jason<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 December 2011 11:40, Ed Loach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ed@loach.me.uk">ed@loach.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> Have any large scale imports from this dataset already been done?<br>
><br>
> Do people think this is a good idea? Any suggestions regarding<br>
the<br>
> process?<br>
<br>
</div>As others said it is quite a bit of work. I've done the Tendring<br>
district of Essex. The Vectormap data includes some water areas<br>
which are now dry, some swimming pools belonging to larger rural<br>
properties (seem to be ignored in towns), and often need breaks in<br>
streams joining up. So local knowledge is really needed and why I<br>
only did the local area.<br>
<br>
If you do the work though you will end up with OSM having a better,<br>
more current set of such data than OS have currently released.<br>
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Ed<br>
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