@SK53 - you can add the EA LIDAR images to JOSM (and probably ID) via wms:https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/lidar-composite-digital-terrain-model-dtm-1m-2019/wms?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=1&STYLES=&CRS=EPSG:3857&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

I’ve noticed that the guidance on the Cadastral images here - https://osmuk.org/cadastral-parcels/ - is a little out of date, because ID now has them built in, under Background Settings / Overlays.

You might also turn on the new Cadastral Layer to help clarify building boundaries, and to align the aerial imagery from.

I’ll also put in a word for the JOSM Terracer plugin.

Morning mdk,

Thanks again for pursuing this; I’ve CC’d myself onto the de-duped ticket and upvoted it.

Hi mdk ,

Have you tried it, and does it work for you?

Asking because I have found many such descriptions and although some of them appear to work, none of them have yet provided me with a JOSM that can do Bing Streetside, Kendzi 3d and readably-sized UI text and readably-positioned UI text. I get two-out-of-four at best.

I’ve tried scores of JDKs in various versions, and Snap / Flatpak editions of JOSM too.

A new fedora is released today, so I hope for better from it.

@Glassman I think I’ve seen something like that - I’ve had no luck getting JFX implementations up and running on Fedora; at least not alongside HDPI scaling and Kendzi 3d working. So I’m always interested to try new JDKs. I’ll look at that support request, it might help me figure it all out.

Thanks!

Do you know if it has Java FX-support, needed for the Bing Streetside plugin on Linux?

We have a few of these springing up in east London too, including some modal traffic filters which are ‘enforced’ by camera systems. I think that means you can drive through easily enough, but if you shouldn’t have, you get a fine later.

Do you think there would be some value in having a set of tags for these types of scheme? Perhaps including an outline way for the area, and having a relation that includes it with the filters, gateways and other infrastructure? It would probably require agreement of lots of new tags.

Nice to hear from you - I’m doing something similar in my neighbourhood of London. Though I’m walking, not running!

What is an ‘emergency location sign’? What is an ‘emergency location’?

Is it the sign you’d like to add, or the emergency location?

@IpswichMapper I found it because I have the RSS feed for diary entries in my feed reader. http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/atom.xml

@kucai - You can use this, I think - not strictly interpolation, but it gets the next number ready in the sequence, and helps apply it - https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Plugin/HouseNumberTaggingTool

Hello again!

This is a great tutorial, it summarises a lot of techniques that would otherwise take months to discover. Thank you for writing it.

I just wanted to draw attention to four related factors - image offsets, and the National Library of Scotland out-of-copyright maps, postcodes and back gardens.

1. The current Bing imagery is great, but it doesn’t necessarily end up in the right place - it appears to be ‘off by a couple of meters in my area. If you don’t have the equipment necessary to figure out the offset accurately, you might find it useful to turn on the OS Opendata tiles, and use it as a baseline for aligning the Bing imagery and any other imagery you find useful. Which brings me to two other useful layers for this noble housemapping mission…
2. High resolution historic (out of copyright) OS map has become available as a JOSM imagery layer. It shows very clear house and garden outlines, at least for London. Thanks to user rskedgell https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rskedgell for pointing it out. The URI for the map tiles tms:https://geo.nls.uk/mapdata3/os/britain10knatgrid/{z}/{x}/{y}.png https://geo.nls.uk/mapdata3/os/britain10knatgrid/%7Bz%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png (may need to be offset)
3. RaggedRed’s postcode tiles - details here - https://codepoint.raggedred.net/
4. If, like me, you are the sort of person who likes to complete the extrusions on classic L-shaped houses, AND fill in back gardens (which can take up a lot of space); you might also find the balloon Josm plugin useful - available here - https://github.com/ubipo/shrinkwrap. (gardens - leisure=garden; garden:type=residential, access=private).

I enjoy this sort of thing, especially for the several oddly-shaped modern buildings in my area. Like user googlenaut says, kendzi doesn’t work very well unless you have a building relation set up, with all the parts inside. But F4 and OSM Buildings don’t always seem to need it.

There is building relation guidance here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:building

If you want to look at some examples, which do have building relations, try these:

• https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11147872
  • https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.5446812&lon=-0.0119117&zoom=19&camera.theta=47.005&camera.phi=-34.95
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11366719
  • https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.5488710&lon=-0.0146785&zoom=20&camera.theta=55.6&camera.phi=-71.906
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9221111
  • https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.5430834&lon=-0.0004312&zoom=19&camera.theta=39.27&camera.phi=-2.578
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11516679
  • https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.5472678&lon=-0.0061175&zoom=18&camera.theta=39.27&camera.phi=-2.578
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9068580
  • https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.5432845&lon=0.0026231&zoom=20&camera.theta=51.589&camera.phi=-139.229

@alexkemp:

With today’s update of Rob’s school system, all the NI schools are now DONE. Nice clean and green display here, with all the red bobbles limited to the Republic of Ireland - https://osm.mathmos.net/schools/progress/BT

Thanks for your help and encouragement!

What does it do?

One of the very few marathons available this year!

I too will eventually get to some institutions I attended; though I understand two of the three have been demolished and rebuilt since my day.

@alexkemp: Fair enough, re: moving to HU. But I suspect BT will take longer, so do feel free to chip in any time. You could possibly avoid collisions by starting at the other end of the table - with the BT94s, etc.

And thanks for the website resources - I hadn’t found all of those!

Regards,

K

I too am looking at adding some schools to NI. The charts and tables here https://osm.mathmos.net/schools/progress/BT/ are naturally very helpful. I recently (mostly) finished the E and EC postcodes, and NI has the lowest completion rate of what’s left.

I sorted by Postcode and began working my way down it yesterday. I’ve only managed a handful so far; but I noticed that some of them are closed (according to aerial photography, one of those has been built over by housing).

You’ll probably encounter some Irish language schools too (in the sense of schools where Irish is the everyday language used). I’ve added the tag language:ga=main to these, but perhaps there is something better. There were two of them in my first batch.

Lots of detailed discussion hete. Looks positive. This is the place to offer help or support- https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2019-August/023318.html