[Talk-GB] OSM Nottingham

Will Phillips wp4587 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 18:25:35 UTC 2014


For a while now I have been working on creating a website to showcase 
OSM data in the Nottingham area - http://osm-nottingham.org.uk/

My aim has been partially to create something that is useful for people 
searching for services and amenities locally, but in particular to make 
it easier for local mappers to spot errors and omissions, and I hope, 
motivate them to contribute more data.

I have tried to cover things that are well tagged, but don't necessarily 
appear in the standard renderings. For example:
* Listed buildings - I've been gradually tagging listed buildings for 
the last few months and it does increase my motivation to have somewhere 
to easily visualise my progress.
* Plaques - myself and another Nottingham mapper kevjs1982 have tagged a 
lot of memorial plaques around the city.
* Shops - a good proportion of Nottingham's shops have been mapped, with 
particular credit for this going to SK53. There are a series of layers 
for different categories of shop. Extra tags such as opening hours, 
website and wheelchair access are shown where used.

There is also an address search: Nottingham has 70,998 addresses tagged 
as of today. The search takes account of details such as flat numbers, 
which I routinely tag, but often seem to get overlooked.

Cheers,
Will Phillips (will_p)




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