OpenStreetMap
The new arsenal football ground Emirates Stadium feels like it is practically on my doorstep. It isn't. But it feels like it is because it's so frickin' big. I'd always meant to wander over there and take a closer look, but so far hadn't quite found the occasion to do so. Until...
I realised that it wasn't on the map! A whole ginormous stadium... Missing! It isn't showing up on Yahoo imagery, because it's too new. So I guess nobody's done any real surveying work in the area, until I got up early this morning, left my girlfriend at the gym while I went on brisk walk around the area. Bagged a whole load of unnamed streets, and a sixty-thousand seater stadium. Not bad for a quick morning stroll!
I wasn't able to get a GPS trace around the base of the building because it was fenced off (and generally deserted), so I've just had a guess at the building's outline (oval shape) based on rough photo views and a cheeky glance at a map on a stadium signpost.
Discussion
Comment from marscot on 20 July 2008 at 11:27
good stuff, and I now see my local teams not on the map... another gps trip to plan and grab the rest of that side of coatbridge while am at it.
Comment from IgnoredAmbience on 22 July 2008 at 12:25
How could I have missed this? I realised the stadium was new and massive as I passed it on a train on the East Cost Main line, afterwards I looked at OSM to see where the tracks went, as the complexities of the routing through the area fascinated me. Never did realise it was missing though...
I hope we have other large stadia such as Wembley!?
Comment from Harry Wood on 22 July 2008 at 14:09
Well I'd looked at Wembley stadium before actually (here) It's been on there a while. I was noticing that google maps shows nothing there. tee hee.
...however we've got a trace from the OLD Wembley stadium (show in the old Yahoo Aerial Imagery), so somebody needs to figure out where the exact outline of Wembley stadium is too, because the new one is bigger I think.