[Talk-GB] Significant planning applications

[Jon Pennycook]

You're right. Unfortunately, I can think of at least three people in my
area of interest who map directly from plans leading to non-existent
houses, roads, and footways being added (they probably will exist in
future, but it makes using OSM to plan a journey difficult in those areas),
or roads that exist being removed from OSM because they didn't appear on a
plan.  One of the dead giveaways is the sudden appearance of loads of
barrier=fence ways, many of which are clearly visible from the road as
either hedges or nothing (ie they've taken the property boundaries from a
plan).

Jon


On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, 11:15 Dave F via Talk-GB, <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> 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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