[Talk-GB] Virtual place mapping 'party'

[Barry Crabtree]

Sounds like a great idea. Count me in!

Cheers. .Baz

On 5/16/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> As I was filling using the NPE maps to confirm some details recently I
> found
> myself adding one or two places which had been missed, and then checking
> others for name and is_in, and I wondered about this:
>
> How about having a place mapping week in the near future: we each take one
> or two whole-degree squares (there's about 60 covering the UK if we fold
> tiny bits of land into adjacent ones) and systematically add all the
> places
> from NPE, aiming to do them all by a deadline. (We might choose to exclude
> the biggest conurbations like London, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham
> as
> modern suburbs won't be obvious and in any case have mostly been done),
> but
> villages and towns almost never disappear (ok, I know about Ashopton and
> Kielder, but they're rare), and we can confirm current status of most with
> wikipedia. Most areas have a road or river on the map to align NPE with,
> and
> perfect accuracy isn't needed for place names. A few postdate NPE, of
> course, but most of these will have been picked up.
>
> We could also check and complete some other physical details while being
> systematic, with assistance from landsat: rivers perhaps, and mountain
> peaks
> (people who have sparsely populated squares would have more of these, and
> again I think quite a lot of these have been done).
>
> Those with coastal areas could also check and complete any work that needs
> doing to bring coastline up to spec.
>
> A degree square is about 110 x 60 km in the UK so it is significant but
> manageable. Many places will already have been done, but it would be
> really
> nice to have a good degree of confidence that we have a systematic roster
> of
> all the places in the UK on the map.
>
> What do people think? Shall I set up a wiki page to allocate squares?
>
> David
>
>
>
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