[Talk-GB] Barking/Becontree/Redbridge/Dagenham

[Robert Skedgell]

On 19/02/2024 22:38, Tom Hughes via Talk-GB wrote:
> On 19/02/2024 21:18, Kai Michael Poppe wrote:
> 
>> I'm not on a local accent and it therefore is almost one of my 
>> business, but can anyone reasonably describe what happened to the 
>> building coverage in the above mentioned London-ish areas out in the 
>> East?
> 
> Do you have some reason to believe they once existed?

I don't believe they ever existed. There are few active mappers in that 
area other than @dankarran, who has added a lot of detail recently.

Barking Riverside gets more updates because it's new and shiny.

>> Did they not make the license transition over a decade ago? It looks 
>> rather strange seeing hundreds of streets that have names and follow 
>> aerial imagery but without any houses...
> 
> I mean it's not unusual to have roads but for houses not to
> have been added yet? I did all the roads round me long before
> any of the houses...

I've updated a few roads and bits of pedestrian infra in the area, as I 
tend to go through it rather than to it. I expect @MacLondon has kept 
the cycle infra up to date. There's probably a lot to fix on roads left 
over from the TfLCID import fiasco, which I'd usually prioritise over 
houses.

>> I'm not (and cannot) volunteering to draw them back on the map, but 
>> helluva curious what happened and if we have any means nowadays to fix 
>> this without months of manual labour :-]
> 
> Not if you want a high quality result, no. Crowd sourcing is
> what OSM is all about.

The challenge would be to get people who live or work in these areas 
interested. Otherwise, it'll be gradually chipped away at from the edges 
where there are active mappers.