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I had a go at whole residential development (+museums) last time I went to see my friend by the river; but my gps wasn't getting a good lock (inexperienced user + too-cloudy weather) so I went round a few roads again and actually got data good enough to create the missing streets on. Its one of the few areas around there that's missing a lot of detail, and almost none of the road names are filled in (well, I did several from memory but had to correct how far some of them went and when they became other roads this time). I feel privileged to be in a position to update it, like a little hidden secret that noone else got here first amongst a generally fairly-well-covered (the basics anyway) town. Anyone else get like that?

So its mostly done, added barriers in and the pier there - tag man_made=pier, but not sure how to go about marking it more specifically for the water way for thames clippers; have the open times somewhere in another pic taken ages ago when I was there more regularly and making use of it, but I know its changed a bit since. Just have to fix the east end of it, can't remember how far Duke of Wellington Avenue goes and it's a bit more of a walk...

Google data is horrible here too (unless the normal web client doesnt show everything at full zoom), missing names, roads too short/long, names in the wrong places and so on, roads that just dont seem to correlate all that well with what I know/see; so a great win for OSM!

Still editing, gonna scroll around and see what the other stops for the boat are marked as (and ps: the jetty/pier is rather a guess in how far it goes out/the angle it bends / how far to the boat stop...)
Unfortunately they keep the jetty closed until just before the boat arrives as they suffered vandalism a while ago and Im almost never there when I need to be (jetty maybe more appropriate but only seen it suggested on the wiki, not official). Plus its a covered walkway, so dunno how good the gps will be down it. Its on the map anyway - ya can't complain too much!

Also had a great photography club day out in Greenwich so will see what I can add there (had some unnamed roads marked which I went to check on but not sure if its just the renderer - please tell me how to get an unnamed roads map list, someone mentioned it at the Tulse Hill meet recently!)

Another post coming re: unnamed roads.

Location: Royal Arsenal Riverside, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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Comment from Breezer on 25 August 2008 at 05:16

Also doing some entries in the Deptford (in particular, leading up to the station) - Dept. Church Street was a main road not yet named!

Comment from Breezer on 26 August 2008 at 19:23

FYI: Check one of the posts soon-ish after this for smsm1's comment about unnamed ways rendering (marks them red round the outline of the roads, so shows up on the map easily and at fairly zoomed-out levels). it's http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/no-names/

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