[Talk-GB] Any West London mappers out there?

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:

> Grant wrote:
>
> > I went out tonight and mapped the building layout as best I
> > could. (snow
> > = yes; wet = yes; cold = yes; dark = yes)
> <snip>
>
> Looks pretty good (checking on Osmarender, though there seems to be
> a bug with rendering the eastern edge of the tile that I've raised
> on the Tiles at Home list). The guesstimated trunk_link in the
> northeast has layer=2 and the building has layer=1, whereas the
> access road from the north (I didn't check the layer) seems to be
> below the building. I'd be tempted to split the link in two and
> remove the layer tag at the shopping centre end, unless the parking
> is on the roof.
>
> I was going to mention the new Brierley Hill bypass (in the Black
> Country) on this list when it opened the other day, but when
> checking to see if it was already there flagged as construction I
> found there is a lot of work still to be done in that area and the
> bypass is just a minor part of it. That you've been able to update
> something so quickly is something I wish we could do anywhere. One
> day...
>
> While I'm writing does anyone have any opinions on whether there is
> much point in uploading traces I've taken only to find the roads are
> already mapped? I haven't been as I figure it is just extra points
> to download in the GPX layer on JOSM, slowing things up a bit, but
> yesterday I was looking at a section of the A12 and realised that on
> the scale I was looking at it there was about a 70m gap between the
> two carriageways, and switching to Potlatch and switching on the
> traces I was able to move the nodes from where they were to align
> with the trace information - in places there were so many it was
> possible to easily see where each carriageway of the dual
> carriageway ran by the dark blue lines with only the odd single line
> between. Some of the sections of road I nudged claimed to be sourced
> from NPE, though I guess therefore the estimate of position is based
> on the fact it's been converted to dual carriageway at some point
> since then. However, getting back to my question, it was these
> multiple traces that allowed me to reposition more easily, so I
> think perhaps I should upload any traces I make whether the area has
> already got roads mapped or not. Any other opinions?
>

Yes, definitely.  There are lots of potential uses for aggregated track
logs.



>
> All the best
>
> Ed
>
>
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