<div dir="auto">You're right. Unfortunately, I can think of at least three people in my area of interest who map directly from plans leading to non-existent houses, roads, and footways being added (they probably will exist in future, but it makes using OSM to plan a journey difficult in those areas), or roads that exist being removed from OSM because they didn't appear on a plan. One of the dead giveaways is the sudden appearance of loads of barrier=fence ways, many of which are clearly visible from the road as either hedges or nothing (ie they've taken the property boundaries from a plan).<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jon</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, 11:15 Dave F via Talk-GB, <<a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Personally I don't waste my time with proposed developments, especially <br>
roads, as they're often rejected or take decades to come to fruition. <br>
The 'as built' rarely corresponds with the application. I wait until <br>
turf has been cut before adding data to OSM.<br>
<br>
As has been suggested, something like uMap is your best bet.<br>
<br>
DaveF<br>
<br>
On 29/01/2021 17:59, Martin Wynne wrote:<br>
> What if any, is the guidance on mapping the location of a significant <br>
> planning application?<br>
><br>
> There is an application locally to build several hundred houses on <br>
> what is currently mapped as farmland.<br>
><br>
> I have been asked if there is an online map available which shows the <br>
> location. At first sight OSM seems the obvious answer, but there is <br>
> absolutely nothing on the ground to be mapped to show the existence of <br>
> the planning application (apart from a few A4 paper notices on <br>
> fenceposts - hardly mappable).<br>
><br>
> What if anything can I add and then provide a link to on the standard <br>
> OSM map? A boundary relation? Tagged as what?<br>
><br>
> Of course, there are the application maps on the local planning <br>
> authority's web site, but they are difficult to access for the general <br>
> public - require a file download, they don't have North at the top, <br>
> and they don't show the surrounding countryside.<br>
><br>
> Thanks.<br>
><br>
> Martin.<br>
><br>
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