[OSM-talk] Bounty for mapping Mottram and Tintwistle areas! (west of Machester on edge of peak district near Glossop)

[Peter Miller]

There is a really messy public inquiry into a controversial road scheme on
the edge for the Peak District national park on the A268. You can read all
the gory details on the wikipedia article here: in summary: 4 mile route,
£180m scheme (doubled in cost since 2006), public inquiry adjourned till at
least Easter 2008, inquiry cost so far is £4m, Highways Agency in real
trouble with traffic modelling, mapping is rubbish: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longdendale_Bypass

 

The DfT have published various maps (notice that the location of the tunnel
mentioned in the article above is not shown at all!):

http://www.saveswallowswood.org.uk/background.shtml

http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/10084.aspx

 

Here is a Google Maps overlay that I have done to get my head around what it
is all about (try fiddling with terrain setting)

Mottram
<http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=10727925564616544
9244.0004443e390678cca733f&ll=53.474255,-1.990929&spn=0.049246,0.138531&z=13
&om=0>  Tintwistle proposal overlay 

 

The Highways Agency has been making a right meal of the traffic modelling
and the inquiry has been adjourned 4 times to let them sort it out (it keeps
on showing that traffic will get worse!)

http://www.glossop.com/bypass.htm

 

Here is a news item when the inquiry was suspended

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjM99O2WwI8

 

However the OpenStreetMap coverage needs some work before it can be used

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.4604
<http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.4604&lon=-1.9787&zoom=13&layers=B0FT>
&lon=-1.9787&zoom=13&layers=B0FT

 

 

My company wants to sponsor someone who would like to spend some time in a
mixture of beautiful countryside and a transport nightmare and complete the
OSM mapping within the scheme area (as outlined on the Google overlay). We
would pay travel expenses and a per-day rate. Accommodation would be
provided by local campaigners.  My company will then look to see what we can
do to help present to the public and officials with a clearer idea of the
options than can be achieved with the current mapping in true
‘neo-geographer’ way. Others will of course all have access to the resources
for their own purposes.

 

We would be looking for the following:

*       All roads, including classification, name, one way status in the
area

*       Schools, pubs and other significant community facilities within the
scheme area

*       The locations of key buildings that will be destroyed by the scheme

*       Key footpaths, in particular the walks mentioned on the campaign
site: http://www.saveswallowswood.org.uk/walks.shtml

*       An approximate outline of Swallow wood.

*       An indication of the location of the new road and the position of
the entrances to the tunnel section to the extent that this is practical.

*       Enter all data in OSM and validate by mid March at the latest.

 

 

Please ask any questions on the list or email me directly if you are
interested.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Peter

 

 

 

Peter Miller

Ito World Ltd

63 Cowper Street

Ipswich IP45JA

(m) +44 (0)7774 667213

 <http://www.itoworld.com> www.itoworld.com

 

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