[Talk-GB] Mapping project & parties in Sutton, SW London

[Thomas Wood]

On Feb 8, 2008 9:07 AM, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
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> Hello,
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:12:23 +0000, "Thomas Wood"
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> <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 2/7/08, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> >> On 07/02/2008, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
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> >> > There's already a Surrey party planned for late April - would anyone
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> be
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> >> > interested in doing something in late March with another straight
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> >> > after in early April to knock it all on the head?
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> >> I'll be back in the area for Easter, but was planning on focusing
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> >> finishing Hampton/Twickenham.
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> >> Are there buses from Kingston (takes me 10-30mins to get there)? I might
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> be
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> >> up for doing a few days, if there was a mini-mapping-event, or something
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> >> might persuade me.
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> > Living in the borough, I'd hope to get as much finished asap, I've got
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> > half term coming up soon - I hope to make a big dent in the blank
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> > areas with at least 5 days of solid mapping.
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> Great! There doesn't look to be all that much of Sutton missing so it would
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> be good to plan how to do the rest after that mapping binge.
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> > I'll update the wikiproject sutton/london pages with my progress from
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> > last month.
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> Thanks.
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> > I'll also add as an aside that someone has recently added in the
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> > southern greater london boundary fairly inaccurately, this is just a
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> > note to self to fixup the sections with sutton.
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> Jolly good, we also need to put in the Sutton boundary, which I suppose
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> will be a day of wiggling around the rough area looking for the signposts.
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The Sutton / Croydon boundary is partly complete from my recent
mapping of this area. I just need to join the unknowns - I'll probably
trace boundaries from Yahoo.

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> I've still not worked out a good way of finding out the ward boundaries,
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> the council won't give them to me because they're all derived from OS data.
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> Short of asking every resident which ward they're in, or just copying them,
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> I don't know what to do. It seems a bit ridiculous that we'd actually cause
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> a problem by getting the council's data on electoral boundaries, which
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> happens to be drawn on OS maps!
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> Kind regards,
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> Tom
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Ward and electoral boundaries are a pain - you noted that auditors are
doing door-to-door surveys? Maybe its a good question add to a sample
of the surveys?


Currently the areas in most need - ones that we'll probably get around
to last are Worcester Park/North Cheam and North/West Sutton. My
immediate aims is the cul-de-sac maze of Roundshaw, fix the remanants
of incomplete roads from the Hackbridge party to the north of
Carshalton, and to complete a few bits I missed from the tagging up of
east Sutton.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)