[OSM-talk] Field boundaries

[Jack Stringer]

Well if somone does map the fields please could they put the gates on there.
It would be nice to route people to the nearest gate. We do have the right
to roam but those of who live in the countryside have always had that option
we just used our common sense by not walking down the middle of crops.

I keep thinking there must be a way to get the field data from the farmers
if only it was to sit down and draw from a walking street map.

Jack Stringer

On Sep 23, 2009 2:39 PM, "Ed Avis" <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:

Someoneelse <lists <at> mail.atownsend.org.uk> writes: >>In the UK,
certainly large-scale Ordnance ...
Hmm, perhaps then tracing it from out-of-copyright maps is not such a bad
idea...
Although most likely the one-inch maps currently emerging from copyright do
not
have the field boundaries.

>That doesn't mean >they don't have some other more accurate data in a
format not readily >reprod...
Hmm, where do you see field information on that?

>In areas where there's complete public access (Open Access Land)
Ah yes, Open Access...
<http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/enjoying/places/openaccess/>
lets you see these areas superimposed on OS maps, but I didn't see a
place to download the whole data set.  Has anyone asked?

As for adding field boundaries by doing ground surveys, I think this is
too impossibly enormous a task, even for enthusiastic OSM mappers.  Perhaps
we could install GPS devices on every tractor in the country and over a
couple
of years record ploughing patterns, which would let you deduce the shape of
arable fields...

--
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>

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