[Talk-GB] Virtual place mapping 'party'

[Andy Robinson]

David Earl wrote:
>Sent: 16 May 2007 5:02 PM
>To: Andy Street; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Virtual place mapping 'party'
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-gb-bounces at openstreetmap.org
>> [mailto:talk-gb-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of Andy Street
>> Sent: 16 May 2007 15:38
>> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Virtual place mapping 'party'
>>
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>> On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:00:06 +0100 "Barnett, Phillip"
>> <Phillip.Barnett at itn.co.uk> wrote:
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>> > Sounds good - can we nominate squares?
>>
>> Geobingo anyone? ;)
>>
>> On a more serious note, is the idea to just copy place names from NPE or
>> is it intended to try and trace in as much of the area as possible (e.g.
>> roads)?
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>
>Not really. It's places and other obvious point locations like named peaks
>I
>was thinking about - to keep it manageable and doable in a reasonable
>timescale.
>
>Another reason not to do roads is it is hard to get accurate traces from
>NPE, they change location and number, you don't know their names and so on.
>Basically NPE doesn't give us good enough data for this where there is no
>other input to help.
>
>Rivers though, while they do change a bit, may be more doable. So great if
>you can do them, but the key aim is all places and peaks.

So what you are really saying here is we would concentrate on the natural
rather than the built environment. That seems logical to me for the reasons
you give.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk


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>I'm preparing a map to claim your squares on as we speak.
>
>David
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