[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Imagery Birmingham

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Awesome work Brian. Maybe submit for image of the week?

Cheers

Andy

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>From: talk-gb-westmidlands-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
>westmidlands-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Brian Prangle
>Sent: 11 September 2010 10:48 AM
>To: Talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Imagery Birmingham
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>Hi everyone
>
>Every building ( please check - there's bound to be the recalcitrant 1%!)
>inside the outer ring road has now been traced. There's also quite a few
>under construction that have also been added ( thanks Andy M). I believe-
>but this is a biassed opinion - that we now have the best mapped city
>centre in the UK in terms of a single contiguous area of building outline
>detail and correct road alignment. Edinburgh and London come close but have
>many gaps in building coverage ( do we want to wind up talk gb with this
>opinion?)
>
>BTW in comparison to both GoogleEarth and Bing (even more outdated than
>GE!) our aerial imagery is much fresher so our maps should be too - and as
>our building outlines are more detailed than OS StreetView we beat this map
>too!
>
>What's left to do?
>
>Check that building outlines are correct ( shadows often obscure finer
>detail such as buildings being joined or separated)
>Populate the buildings with names, addresses, and functions
>Complete the building tracing outside the ring road to the limit of the
>aerial photography
>Ground surveys to complete the population of  land useage types (maybe not
>worth doing in the  core city centre as the building density is too great)
>Populate with heritage information ( e.g Listed Building Status, former
>useage)
>Ongoing maintenance for demolitions and constructions
>Railways and canals have been left as single ways ( canals at locks where
>there are in many cases parallel ways) and I think it's probably best to
>leave this well alone.
>
>Happy mapping!
>
>Regards
>
>Brian
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