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Posted by Glygoo on 29 July 2012 in English.

My second day of editing around the Birches Head area of Stoke on Trent. Basically I just want to tidy things in my local area and add some more features to a fairly featureless area of the map. I have lived in Stoke for all my life so I know the area pretty well. So far I have concentrated on tweaking the road positioning and making the road shape more accurate. I have added some public footpaths through the off road areas and several shortcuts dotted around the estate. I have found quite a few map errors including some roads joined where they shouldn’t be which results in wrong sat-nav directions. I have also fixed some turn restrictions and wrong traffic-flow direction at a major junction. I have added a few buildings and intend to map every building in my local area with correct names, labels and addresses. I am pleased to see my updates appearing on OSM and I’m waiting to see how long it takes before the additions are incorporated into sat-nav maps.

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Comment from Rovastar on 29 July 2012 at 22:20

Good to see you still have the OpenStreetMap bug. Keep it up. You’ll be a pro in no time at all.

You might be interested in the following if you have not seen already. They are comparisons from “official” Ordinance Survey maps to the Openstreetmap one.

Stokey is nearly fully covered but it is nice to hightlight the odd road or two that might be missing (or new streets, etc) and if you are passing you can check the road names.

http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/area?name=City+Of+Stoke+On+Trent

There are a few missing just off Leek Road near the station so around where you have been mapping.

http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/map_browser?bbox=387682.531,345176.717917,388512.969,345686.189083&layers=os_locator&base_style=white,aa_2&clear_map_history=true&referrer=area

Any questions about mapping just ask me via mail here or post on the user diaries.

Comment from robert on 29 July 2012 at 23:38

A great start.

If you’re not afraid of getting your hands dirty and have a garmin sat nav you can put the data on it yourself osm.wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin

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