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Early September 2012 - Post boxes

Posted by PaulInWolves on 4 September 2012 in English.

Spent the last week adding postboxes and their references / collection times for the WV3/WV4 area into OSM. These are being picked up by http://dracos.co.uk/made/locating-postboxes/

Unfortunately, the times the dracos site has listed are out of date, so I’m manually checking each post box. That also guarantees the reference code is correct!

محل وقوع: Penn, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, WV4 4EN, United Kingdom

This area of Wolverhampton is covered with footpaths - some of them named. Today I used GPS mapping to trace a chunk of them (and they way they criss cross, I’m sure any locals watching thought I was somewhat mad).

As the main purpose of this to me is an aid to walking routes, I’ve left out some paths that are just there to cut off a corner, and in most cases joined the end of a walkway to the road it leads from. However, I’ve included some paths that run parallel to the road where there are many such junctions.

محل وقوع: Merryhill, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, WV4 4PH, United Kingdom

Great Brickkiln St / Ring Road

Posted by PaulInWolves on 21 August 2012 in English.

There’s a bizarre cycle route running across the ring road and partway down Great Brickkiln Street. It actually interrupts itself several times, but I drew it as continuous otherwise it’d be a bit pointless. It was mainly so I could add the pedestrian crossing to allow walks to be routed across.

I tried using highway=crossing, but this didn’t allow the route to be used in some route planners. So, I changed it to footway and added nodes for crossings - this matches the other crossings on the ringroad anyway.

محل وقوع: All Saints, Old Heath, Rough Hills, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, WV2 1DH, United Kingdom