Changeset: 103787775
Christchurch neighbourhood added with relation for border
Closed by Tallguy
Tags
created_by | JOSM/1.5 (17833 en_GB) |
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source | local knowledge with exact boundary confirmed with OS_OS_OpenData_Boundary_line |
Discussion
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Comment from Colin Smale
Hi! I was just wondering what the source of these neighbourhood names and boundaries was. Are they actually wards of SDC? You mention OS Boundary-Line; which data set exactly?
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Comment from Tallguy
Hi,
Thanks for keeping track of the boundaries, and adding most of them as far as I can see.I've lived in Swanley for over 30 years, but have had connections here for much longer. The names I've used are the names that friends who live in Swanley would use for the area that they live.
The 'White Oak' node was actually added by someone else a couple of years ago - it's correct for the area as far as I know. The local sports centre is White Oak leisure centre, and the Bowls centre is also white oak. Until it was renamed Horizon Primary, the school was White Oak Junior. The dentists are White Oak Dental practice. This also coincides with the local voting area. I know there is, or was, a local community group also with White Oak in their name.
St Mary's has a church, and school remaining with the name in them, both on St Marys Road, but the secondary school had St Mary's in its name at one point in the distant past. St Mary's is on our voting papers, and the leaflets currently being posted through our doors.
Christchurch has a church and community centre, and in the past the schools name included Christchurch. Its also on the voting papers for the residents.
High Firs is the name I've always known that estate as, and it has the High Firs County Primary School there.
The OS data shows another area, between White Oak and Christchurch, but I'm not aware of local people using a name for that, so I've not added it. It's probably St Bartholomews from the church and school, but the people I've known living there have always referred to places like 'off of Northview', or 'near Swanley Lane'. It could also have been 'New Barn' as Swanley Park was previously called 'New Barn Park' - really confusing as there is another area called New Barn Park, which is a couple of miles away near Longfield. Altogether too vague for me, so not added.
The data set was downloaded from the Ordnance Survey opendata site - I think the link is https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BoundaryLine?_ga=2.160548157.1865002306.1619649726-1447813470.1619303355, and the filename I have is bdline_essh_gb.zip
The particular boundaries are from The Polling Districts England Region, and the shapefiles were (I think from my notes) 16311 to 16316
My interest in these areas was sparked by the strange results for searches that Nominatim, and other apps, produce. At some point in the past a node was added just off of Hockenden Lane for 'Upper Hockenden'. This resulted in searches for, for instance, Crescent Gardens, producing a result with Hockenden in the name - really confusing because we have the border with London Boroughs nearby, and Hockenden itself is actually classed as part of London.
The neighbourhood nodes and borders that I've added should (maybe!) result in more sensible search results, and will fit in with the names that we all use locally.
Regards
Nick (Tallguy)
Ways (5)
Relations (6)
- Christchurch (12641773), v1
- Sevenoaks (2204490), v88
- Dartford (2210488), v50
- Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley (2246521), v11
- Swanley (2274439), v21
- White Oak (12628644), v3
Nodes (15)
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