[Talk-ca] Mapping 'proposed' or 'planned' or 'construction' trails/roads/buildings

[Gregory]

Well here is an example in the UK:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.76883&lon=-1.59148&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

It's an old/disused university college that is now a housing construction
site. I've been up to the fence where they started to build the roads in
(you can see the kerbs).
If you see the one in the South side of the construction site I couldn't go
all the way to that T-junction, but I could see it existed by looking
through the gate.

I like the idea of OSM being up to date, so I kept passing by to see if it
was built/open yet.


In September I'll be back to check it again. Doing my final university year
at Durham.

On 15 April 2010 18:08, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> People try to get this sort of information from textual descriptions (and
>> local knowledge). Then of course it will probably need correcting once it is
>> open/accessible.
>> You can try and work it out from standing at a construction fence and
>> looking at which direction the road takes. You can also try contacting
>> people for permission to copy their map (if they surveyed/created it or have
>> full rights to give to you) or to access their land. It all depends how much
>> work you want to do when sooner or later you will be able to map the trail
>> in the normal way of going along it.
>>
>
> Ya, your probably right.   After all, there is still alot of work todo to
> map the existing world. :)
> I'm just getting ahead of myself.  That'll be a project for next year :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>
>>
>> On 14 April 2010 13:06, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> What is the communities policy for mapping 'planned construction'?
>>>
>>> Here's the situation, the Capital Region District (Victoria area) has
>>> already gained the approval of the people to actually build a trail
>>> section (from Langford to Shawnigan lake).
>>> All that needs now is some funding and some land ownership agreements.
>>>
>>> It goes over existing 'wooded area' and wont interfear with anything
>>> else.
>>>
>>> My guess would be that 'because the proposal is now in the 'waiting
>>> for construction' phase, it would be OK to map. (so it needs to gain
>>> council approval)
>>>
>>> But the catch is, is that it needs direct permission from the
>>> cartographer who drew that map that was on public display. Or the
>>> person was directly part of the 'scouting mission' to physically hike
>>> the terrain (with landowner approval) and donated the tracks to
>>> OpenStreetMap.
>>>
>>> Of course, at eithor end, the road/path should not be physically
>>> connected, and gates & signage drawn on the map where it physically
>>> exists.
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sam
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Gregory
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>>
>
>


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