[Talk-GB] Looking for places to map?

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Steve Doerr wrote:
>Sent: 23 February 2010 2:43 PM
>To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Looking for places to map?
>
>On 23/02/2010 14:18, Peter Reed wrote:
>> We start with a list of about 1,600 UK settlements, and a figure for the
>> population that lives there. Baring a few errors and omissions, the
>> settlements are the same ones that Cyclestreets uses for local areas -
>> http://www.cyclestreets.net/area/
>>
>>
>>
>> We then try to find a boundary for each of these settlements. This is
>based
>> either on the local authority admin area where there is one, the naptan
>> pay-scale area if there is one, or if all else fails, a guesstimate of
>how
>> big the settlement must be based on population density.
>>
>
>OK. How can we help in supplying better boundary information? For
>instance, in the Medway Towns (Kent): Strood, Rochester, Chatham, and
>Gillingham are overlapping horribly. It should be possible to map the
>boundaries using NPE. How would we go about doing that? These are
>historical parishes/authorities within a single current district
>(unitary authority).
>
>Looks potentially useful, by the way.
>


Worth noting that the old parish boundaries are shown well on the ooc 1:25k
mapping. Of course we have major gaps in these maps currently but... all in
good time. Except where boundaries have been moved to meet changes in
landuse, especially where towns and cities have expanded, the current local
authority boundaries often still follow historical parish boundary lines.

Incidentally I have ooc 1:25k sheets for Maidstone and Chatham which I'll be
uploading this week.

Cheers

Andy