[Talk-GB] Significant planning applications

[Dave F]

Personally I don't waste my time with proposed developments, especially 
roads, as they're often rejected or take decades to come to fruition. 
The 'as built' rarely corresponds with the application. I wait until 
turf has been cut before adding data to OSM.

As has been suggested, something like uMap is your best bet.

DaveF

On 29/01/2021 17:59, Martin Wynne wrote:
> What if any, is the guidance on mapping the location of a significant 
> planning application?
>
> There is an application locally to build several hundred houses on 
> what is currently mapped as farmland.
>
> I have been asked if there is an online map available which shows the 
> location. At first sight OSM seems the obvious answer, but there is 
> absolutely nothing on the ground to be mapped to show the existence of 
> the planning application (apart from a few A4 paper notices on 
> fenceposts - hardly mappable).
>
> What if anything can I add and then provide a link to on the standard 
> OSM map? A boundary relation? Tagged as what?
>
> Of course, there are the application maps on the local planning 
> authority's web site, but they are difficult to access for the general 
> public - require a file download, they don't have North at the top, 
> and they don't show the surrounding countryside.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martin.
>
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