[Talk-GB] New Tool: Linear High Street Maps

[Chris Hodges]

That looks really interesting.  By chance you've picked 2 places I know 
quite well - I have family in Wymondham, and was in Tewkesbury on Saturday.

One thing that's a little counter-intuitive is that it feels like a 
two-column list, but of course it's actually a map. So as you walk along 
the street, perhaps ticking off each business in turn, you'll be working 
your way up the page, not down.

It makes perfect sense but would feel unnatural to me.

I have an related interest in that I want strip-maps of roads (using map 
tiles in the cycling layer), and if I find myself out of work might do 
something about it


Thanks for another useful tool,

Chris



On 02/02/2022 20:06, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> For some time, I've wanted a way to obtain a printable list of
> shops/businesses along a given street to help with on-the-ground
> re-surveys. Printable maps like Field Papers ( http://fieldpapers.org/
> ) are great, but don't always show all the detail for a densely mapped
> high street. I couldn't find anything suitable, so I had a go at
> making a tool myself. With some extra coding, it turned out it could
> also be used to flag missing/inconsistent address tags and other
> tagging issues that can often be fixed by arm-chair mappers.
>
> This is what I've come up with:
> https://osm.mathmos.net/linear/
>
> Further details of what it does can be found on that page. I've been
> testing it myself for a while. If anyone else would like to try it out
> on a high street near them and provide some feedback, then please let
> me know, and I can add some streets for you. If you want to get a good
> idea of the sorts of things flagged up by the checks, then a good
> example street is this one:
> https://osm.mathmos.net/linear/great-yarmouth/king-street/ . (For most
> of the other streets there at the moment, I've been round fixing
> things, so you'll get a false impression.)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Robert.
>