these are some links I may use to help with cross-refenced data checkeing about the electric supply in areas I map the mapsdon’t show the smallest voltage substations as they are very numourus and I guess may be semi-bypassed on a back feed.

In the UK verious enviromental based iniciatives have seen the need for the uk electrical distribution network that had once been organised with a top-down economies of very large approch start to be able backfeed for people originaly just supplied to one of these pages shows that current spare capacity to achive that for a new generator. Of course SSE will probably provide more capacity if requested with potentialy network enhancement costs which could cost more than a basic backfeed as well as the addtional time for new cables,trenches,towers and transformers to be built into the system. The other is a map of declared power cuts, small ones happen a lot from oftern from things going on around infrastucture like digging and things simply bashing into overhead lines, etc. the effect of cold weather is designed into the system but things not design to handle high winds like cars, trees and rubbish bins can crash into strained lines during high winds as if hurled by a battury of catapults in an anchient battlefield. Floods also cause headaces but works are underway in some places to impove isolastion from flood water through rasing or encapsulation.

https://www.ssepd.co.uk/Powertrack/ https://www.ssepd.co.uk/GenerationAvailabilityMap/?mapareaid=1

This is my links for personal future referance:- osm.wiki/Tag:power%3Dcable_distribution_cabinet osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Power_routing_proposal osm.wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Street_cabinet#UK_Cable_TV_street_cabinets osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Street_cabinet osm.wiki/File:French_postal_relay.jpg

http://github.pavie.info/openlevelup/?lat=51.747317&lon=-1.222492&z=19&t=0&lvl=0&tcd=1&urd=1&bdg=0&pic=1&nte=0 http://www.gaugemap.co.uk/#!Map https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2015/10/30/openstreetmap-org-map-changing/ osm.wiki/Tile.openstreetmap.org/Usage_policy#Alternative_OpenStreetMap_Tile_Providers osm.wiki/Stamen http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/12/37.7706/-122.3782 osm.wiki/Featured_tile_layers/Guidelines_for_new_tile_layers osm.wiki/Proposed_features/indoor

I’ve recently been tring with varying degrees of success to begin mapping area shapes of highways and more doors, walls, hedges and fences in various locations and have also attempted level [-tag] seperated indoor tags for adding addresses to multi-occupier sites like residential blocks [housing towers] and mixed retail and housing buildings with distinct 3D splits {vertically and hoizontaly}. This has led me to try adding info about the floor and roof arangements of some buildings I’ve been working on {see wikki pages about building_levels and roof types etc for more info in this type of tagging}.

When I visited The national goverment mapping agency for Great Britain Ordnance Survey I found that there examples of public mapping on the page:- https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/index.html [click to public if not automatic comming up right] I was pleased to see that the lower half of the page had a big section about the profesionaly made map of OS Mastermap Topography Layer as the top product with a lovely equvalent of a building outline with individualy numbered flats/houses built by a old posibly defence wall [there seem to be blankly marked turrets and larger building stucture built withen the walls but unattached that is marked as split into different parts now. the sidewalks and footwatways are [in OSM terms] areaised [, not just as lines [ways]].

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osm.wiki/Lanes osm.wiki/Proposed_features/lanes_General_Extension osm.wiki/Key:lanes osm.wiki/Key:turn osm.wiki/Key:destination osm.wiki/Relation:waterway osm.wiki/Relation:destination_sign

http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.7450786&lon=-1.2227778&zoom=16&camera.theta=26.681&camera.phi=-156.886

Fix up data, defang or remove actively broken stuff. Closed 6 days ago by Andrew Chadwick Tags created_by JOSM/1.5 (8586 en_GB) source local_knowledge;Bing;OSM Discussion

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Somone or something seems to have flooded all Ireland today in the standard rendering.

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/roadworksmap

http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/

Following complaints from local map users about an arificial demotion of a main road I spent 7 hours adding features to premote the rendering of the part-time bus gate in the middle of the road with the lorry turning circles, cctv enforcement camera plus the enforcement zone relation need now and barrier gate tag with timings and used are:highway to clearly show several islands and two one-way cycle lanes area:highway and routing lined sidewalks and lots of extra route lines needed around the traffic island and and the turning circle….

Withen hours it was demoted again. So now I can’t use the map for my client today as I hoped all of my efforts would allow.

Someone had mentioned in there reson a note about a list but as no place for where it was I worte this on its changeset and am repeating here:-

Regarding the A420 as it passes through the centre of Oxford.

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I’ve received complaints about this road being misrepresented. Ordence Survey and Goverment Departments local and National treat this as a major road. It has been rebuilt twice this mellenium because it has become worn out with traffic use. It has so many vehicals that it can still have a traffic queue stretching from Longwall to Turl Street in the rush hour when the through traffic restictions are still in place. Its the main 24hr spine route for two of the lorry access zones. Its wide enough to take five lanes of traffic and two more are dedicated to masses of local student tourist pedestians. It collects all the bus routes from the west side of the city to run down it and around and down St. Aldate’s. As the Buses act as the Citys mass transit system and the majority of people working and living in the city avoid driving to the City Centre as it is officialy discoraged through inflated parking charges and a rejection of additional private parking provisons such as adding an underground car park to a college building when its not been already…

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https://www.groundstability.com/public/web/home.jspx

http://oxfordbusinesspark.com/park-plan-2

I’ve just been out checking the latest situation around south-west central oxford for just over the last 4 hours. I found the new roundabouts and new carparks assess the surfacing and layouts , checked the new junction chnages there and closer to glosterg green and the ashmolean, and finished of with a new look at the westgate site.

I’ve looked at the entries on OSM for some of the new features and I think I wil upgrade the roundabouts (based on sinage traffic movements and local phase diagrams at st frideswide square.

I’ll also want to add details of new huts and bouth double decking and plastic surfaceing (a part out the back near the river) at the ice rink.

I also intend to look at the turn permission changes at glostergreen area including the mid junction cycle facilitiey.

Though after so long walking around the sites I may run out of time to complete much tonight :(

but can be able to do some more tomorrow hopefully….

the permision was apporved and availble from the Central State goverment’s Department of Transport Case worker section contactable in Newcastle-upon Tyne. address details are on the barriers and I tryed to film them today but not yet rady to view yet… please tray to do the bus re routeing as I’m less experianced at that and may be a while till I’m on the internet again. buses follow the open roads marked. (ie not as construction. Most under the constuction tag have barriers to block them off at the moment though I did stert to add some there are others present the western site is largly leveled by mid-day today and large pipes stred toward the SW someway from the edge of the site.

Roadworks are active at “The Plain” today.

The current basic scheme is designed to make the former graveyard/village-green into a pro-bicyle roundabout with the removal of the old bus stop come parking bay next to the Waynflete Building probably better reckognised by the level 0 shop that used to sell wine and is now a “Sainsbury’s” supermarket. {though the surfacing is likly to confuse as the there is a differentiation were the bay may still be though it is rasied to the footway hight. This streamlines the heavy foot traffic from haveing to detour around the bay. The footway has also been widened in the narrow parts and speacial alingment

contontue tomorrow. out of time today.

well I’ve done some more surveying and am looking at what is best for all the bus routes that are now going the wrong way. Strangely OSM seems to have the bus route a little confused even before the disruption (just from the current , so it might have been more correct before); as the bus stands at the top of Norfolk Street are absent. Though now they aren’t lickly to be in use.

 Norfolk streets Eastern edge now abuts directly to grass as the highway looks to have been relain wider (maybe why the buses are shown going down the otherside (Old Greayfriers) only.  Pedestrians are blocked from using Norfolk street though an access path has been created by barriers erected along the western side of the western footway (therefore only along access to the east side and frontages, but only as far south as the blaocked end of Abby Place.

The A420 at the south end of Norfolk street dosen’t logicly exsist as the north carageway of the previously downgraded dual carrageway is blocked off totally and no turn from oxpens road is possible eventually these going to be an underground carpark entrance around this old junction but for now with the southern (north-south section running down the west side) of old greayfriars out of use too {apart from the footway} [note the block starts on the west side of the level -2 goods entrance/exit under the “Bridgelink Mall” footway that used to connect to the Shops to car park (at level 0) over the road (running at level -2), then ends at the turn with turn at speedwell Street]

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I’ve been a bit more away from osm in the last week than I planned so apologies for those waiting for bit from me. I’ve not forgotten!

I’m planning to do the whole of wash common’s roads in a big stint very soon.

I began in the area before I’d learnt about area highways. so the results became a bit strange (footpaths narrow and road surfaces very wide creating mismatchings and dislocated sidewalk features that tried to join the footpaths. Then when I tried to add area highways using the early area=highway type tagging it fell foul of mentors auto-validator and the “corrections actually messed up in some renders as mentor tagged the with a lot of highway tags to confuse things. The key reason why they weren’t suppose to be added in the first place. So I gave up on Wash common for a while to see if mentor would finish the site off, (I had other fish to fry too). But nothing seems to have been added and parts are just looking like a mess so I need to go back and get it done properly.

As area highways and sidewalk tagging seem to have been a moving target to draw with I was going to put a general question out on the help wiki to find out what the consensus is at the moment on this apparently such an awkward feature (most maps I commercially use just use vectors to show edges of things and then the space between the “edges” of the same type become areas or a seeding dot or simplified routing line to carry the pathing logic in a cheap way.

Features I want to look at is:-

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A tough fix to the Kennet centre in Newbury (begun). the offset problem on the structure is quite severe and contributers don’t seem to agree on it I picked the roads and mapped the whole thing in one offest setting a lot of features need to be shifted and converted to indoor types. I’ve pdf’s of the new shopping and residentual area to the north but rasteriseing and importing is delay behind other things and not being able to use the latest josm anymore…

http://skyvector.com/?ll=31.246401,34.2761&chart=301&zoom=3