[Talk-GB] Mapping in South Wales - Updates

[Jez Nicholson]

Adding to Rupert's earlier summary....

I would like to give a massive thank you to Sam Colchester for helping to
clean up the Micron21 poor-quality edits in Merthyr.

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 1:44 PM Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/05/2021 12:55, Rupert Allan wrote:
> >
> > Most definitely, the main thing is to get every building mapped, so
> > that we have the basemap.
>
> This might be a silly question - but how would that help?
>
> What could data consumers do with an OSM map that had complete building
> data (FSVO of complete - does "building=yes" count?  What about
> construction material?  Roof material? Colour? etc....)
>
> Merthyr (particularly the northern bits) seems to be doing pretty well
> for "raw buildings".  What it also apparently has is a high street with
> almost no shops on it:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.74494/-3.37811 . Similarly, a
> quick web search suggests at least 3 convenience stores in Dowlais, but
> OSM has nothing between Merthyr itself and the Heads of the Valleys:
> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/17oZ .
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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