[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Houses and other buildings

[Big Fat Frog]

OMG that's amazing.

Why can't we get it from OS Opendata?

On 08/06/2012 23:06, Andy Robinson wrote:
> All done manually, there is no magic import. Its several years of hard graft
> tracing from Bing imagery and if they also have numbers also from ground
> survey.
>
> Cheers
> Andy
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Big Fat Frog [mailto:bigfatfrog67 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 08 June 2012 22:46
>> To: talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Houses and other buildings
>>
>> If you look in Birmingham then all the houses are there, I can't beleive
> that
>> was done manually.  There must have been an import sometime.
>>
>> On 08/06/2012 22:38, Matt Williams wrote:
>>> On 8 June 2012 22:12, Big Fat Frog<bigfatfrog67 at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> When I look at a lot of towns all the houses etc have been traced but
>>>> not in others, I can't beleive someone has sat down and done each house
>> one by one?
>>>>    Where is this coming from and how can I get it for my area?
>>>
>>> It depends on where you're looking but I think that in most areas, the
>>> building have been traced manually. For example almost all the
>>> buildings at
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.39399&lon=-
>> 1.57597&zoom=15&layers
>>> =M have been traced by me from Bing aerial imagery. It can be tedious
>>> but sometimes my OCD gets the better of me :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Matt
>>>
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