OpenStreetMap
With my local area practically complete, I thought I'd take some time to investigate new housing developments in the area.
There's some old barracks in Mill Hill that are being redeveloped. It's now being rebuilt into lots of 1 or two bedroom apartments, with new street layouts. It looks like some of the apartments have been sold, and people have moved in. Ah, the joys of living on a building site. It's a lovely location, I may like to live there myself if they had proper family houses there.
Once again, it seems that Openstreetmap is now ahead of all the commercial mappers. I surveyed the new road layout that has been completed to date. I may go back and take some photos to help do some building layouts of the blocks (would be a lot easier with an aerial photo).
Discussion
Comment from Longbow4u on 6 May 2009 at 13:32
Hi Welshie, you could add landuse=residential and landuse=farm to the area. But it all looks very nicely done! Congratulations.
Comment from Welshie on 6 May 2009 at 13:47
well, since the area is still under development, I guess that landuse=residential is a bit of a misnomer. There's still plenty of mud and diggers around.
landuse=farm is once again something that can be heavily overused, especially when you get out of town, since much of the country would be covered in it. This area, being right next to Green Belt land, will have lots of landuse=farm around.
What I do tend to use is landuse=farmyard to denote the area of farm buildings, and occiasionally, I use landuse=farm to denote something out-of-the-ordinary, like city farms and so on.
I tend only to use landuse=residential for established, named areas (named housing estates, etc). At the moment, the development is going by the developer's project name of "Ridgemont", but these names barely ever get used once the last plot is sold - for instance, the road itself got named by the council as Morphou Road.
Once the diggers, concrete mixers and so on move out of the area, I'll get rid of landuse=construction