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<body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Phil (trigpoint)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2019-03-08 at 14:38 +0000, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi<br>
Welcome to OSM.<br>
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Mapping new developments is trickier without aerial imagery, but
there's quite a bit you can do to make it more accurate than
guesswork.<br>
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<ul>
<li>if you're mapping the roads use the GPS to walk down their
centre, if it's safe to do so, of course)</li>
<li>Takes *lots* of photos. Videos are even better</li>
<li>If there is something already mapped in OSM Field Papers may
help: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Field_Papers">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Field_Papers</a></li>
<li>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</li>
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<p>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. <br>
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Cheers<br>
DaveF <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/03/2019 10:35, Dave Abbott wrote:<br>
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<pre>Hi,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'm quite new to OSM, and am wondering how I might go about mapping new</pre><pre>housing plots in my area.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>In general, there is nothing on the imagery - I know I can walk the new</pre><pre>streets and map them with GPS - but how to go about mapping the new</pre><pre>buildings?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Is there a guide I can look at?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>TIA,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Dave Abbott</pre><pre><br></pre>
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