Until recently the Roadworks.org site provided access to their original version that used OS mapping and could zoom in to the 1 : 1250 maps. There were quite useful for urban maps.
They have now changed to google maps that do not zoom as far and do not have as much data. (probably perfectly OK for the site purpose).
Does anyone know if there is anywhere else that gives access to good quality urban bases. Google Earth is OK as far as it goes but shadows make it poor in many urban situations.
Urban Basemaps
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Re: Urban Basemaps
I know that some local authorities have extremely detailed OS mapping available for their areas. I know that mine does, but adjacent ones do not, so it is worth having a good rootle around their website to see if you can find anything, you might get lucky.
I don't know of a country-wide site that gives this level of detail.
I don't know of a country-wide site that gives this level of detail.
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I've registered with emapsite, which allows me to access the OS Mastermap and to zoom in to a scale of 1:283, but the lower scales of 1:850 or 1:1701 are more useful. Not sure how to export a large area but simple enough to printscreen and composite the necessary image in a package such as Photoshop or Artweaver.
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DaveR wrote:I rootle around their website to see if you can find anything
More radically, you can just ask the council. Edinburgh and Livingston were perfectly happy to give me the vector data in return for a bit of council acknowledgement - there are people who want to see activities happen!
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http://streetmap.co.uk seems to have different sources at different scales. Some may be of use.
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The OS do not condone use of any of their data no matter how acquired for use as base maps as I understand things.
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Freefall wrote:The OS do not condone use of any of their data no matter how acquired for use as base maps as I understand things.
If I understand their website correctly, you can use some of their mapping freely as long as you give them a credit - http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/busines ... ducts.html
And isn't there some sort of BOF licence? I have a lot of orienteering maps that credit OS mapping and quote a licence number.
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graeme wrote:DaveR wrote:I rootle around their website to see if you can find anything
More radically, you can just ask the council. Edinburgh and Livingston were perfectly happy to give me the vector data in return for a bit of council acknowledgement - there are people who want to see activities happen!
(This post part-sponsored by Edinburgh and Livingston Councils. Come orienteering in Edinburgh and Livingston. Hurrah etc. etc.)
Hurrah indeed for Edinburgh and Livingston, however our experience asking local authorities has been somewhat different.
One local authority had a map (Muirsheil) which was based on OS data licensed to the council. We wanted to update and extend the map, which they were keen on too. They consulted their lawyers (don't know why) and concluded that we could only use the existing map as a basemap if they owned the copyright of the final map. Further we could only use the map to put on events if we did not charge anything for the events. Effectively we could pay to have a mp made which we could never recover the money on. In the end we had it mapped ourselves without recourse to the council OS data.
A second local authority has so far failed to give any useful data even for mapping their schools.
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Re: Urban Basemaps
When doing school maps I always ask the Active Schools Coordinators to source base material - they usually come back with large-scale OS stuff from the council. This puts the onus on them to find legal, legitimate base material.
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Yes - school maps are not usually a problem - if it is a local authority school and the school wants the map they will usually get OS basemaps through their local authority licence.
The maps I have in mind will credit the OS and should be covered by the BOF licence, but it is the problem of getting the data in the first place at the commencement of the mapping process that was troubling me. I don't think our local authority are going to be too helpful.
The maps I have in mind will credit the OS and should be covered by the BOF licence, but it is the problem of getting the data in the first place at the commencement of the mapping process that was troubling me. I don't think our local authority are going to be too helpful.
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Re: Urban Basemaps
Just wondered if there were any further ideas on available data for urban maps. Miss the old Roadworks stuff so much given the level of detail available.
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DaveK
Have you tried your local government websites.
Eg the interactive map in www.kent.gov.uk (home, leisure and culture, countryside and coast, interactive map) gives quite a lot of detail.
http://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploreK ... max=142044
Martin
Have you tried your local government websites.
Eg the interactive map in www.kent.gov.uk (home, leisure and culture, countryside and coast, interactive map) gives quite a lot of detail.
http://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploreK ... max=142044
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Many thanks Martin - yes the level of detail is indeed good. I hadn't looked there because as a voluntary Countryside Access Warden for KCC I have access to other (less detailed as it happens) mapping data and had assumed (incorrectly) that this is all they had available. Just off to Whitstable!
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