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More roads around Ynstawe

Posted by Steve Hill on 21 April 2008 in English.

I've now mapped almost all the roads in the patch I have been working on, having done a stack more roads around the Ynstawe area. My Sunday afternoon stroll around the estate became unexpectedly long when I discovered the very pleasant footpath along the Clydach river and followed it all the way up to the Cwm Clydach nature reserve.

There are still quite a few little footpaths to do, but I probably won't do those at the moment - I think mapping the roads is a more productive use of time for now. However, I must walk along the Swansea Canal tow path at some point and map it. I've noticed that Google Maps gets it *completely* wrong, showing the canal joining the Clydach river - in reality the canal crosses the river as an aquaduct and continues a for few hundred metres South, whilst the river joins the Tawe just on the South-East side of the aquaduct.

I haven't quite worked out the best way to tag aquaducts though - setting waterway=aquaduct seems a bit silly since it doesn't let you specify the sort of waterway being carried (i.e. canal), so for now I have settled on bridge=yes instead.

Location: Clydach, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
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Comment from Steve Chilton on 21 April 2008 at 18:11

I have used waterway=canal bridge=yes and have added it to the mapnik render, as at: osm.org/?lat=51.68289&lon=-0.05455&zoom=17&layers=B0FT which actually shows a short section of tunnel too.

Comment from smsm1 on 23 April 2008 at 09:47

uh Google maps actually has a canal on it? It hasn't had any of the canals I've mapped.

Comment from Steve Hill on 23 April 2008 at 10:10

Yep:
http://www.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=51.693735,-3.896971&spn=0.006039,0.022659&z=15

The southerly waterway is the River Tawe, the other waterway on the North side of the High Street is the River Clydach. After crossing under the High Street, the Clydach River actually joins the Tawe. The bit heading up to the North East is actually the Swansea Canal, which crosses the River Clydach on an aqueduct.

So as you can see, Google have it completely wrong - I suspect someone traced it from aerial photos without understanding quite what was going on.

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