London Borough of Hounslow - from Bedfont in the west to Chiswick in the east - is finally finished and the boundaries sealed off... or is it? What does 'finished' mean? Well, I think all named roads and footpaths are in there. Seems hard to believe I've physically visited every one. But I can't prove it. How do I prove there aren't odd streets I've missed? And how do I keep it finished with the new estates popping up everywhere?
It looks like the task may be changing from getting away from the computer and goingg out on a bike to a mix of hassling the council for information and writing scripts to validate my data against other people's lists, neither of which is inspiring. Or I could move on to more interesting stuff, like adding my own layers to use which local statistics based on LSOAs etc - which will need postcodes and more tedium :-(
Maybe I should just get back on the bike and go over the border to Southall, one of the few areas not to have been blanket covered by the armchair yahoo tracers...
Discussion
Comment from LivingWithDragons on 24 August 2008 at 13:50
It looks good. I live next door in Hampton and just saw you put the boundary in.
Perhaps it's worth subscribing to http://www.planningalerts.com in the way Ordnance Survey monitor new planning applications.
Gregory
http://www.livingwithdragons.com
Comment from marinheiro on 24 August 2008 at 14:40
Yes, I'm subscribed. But the guy running it is having to screen-scrape each different council's site, so you can do as well from the council's own site. Tedious though, because it's only applications, and I don't really care about all the garden 'sheds' people are trying to build...
marinheiro
Comment from 80n on 25 August 2008 at 14:36
Congratulations.
Coincidentally, I just finished Ashford, so the whole adjoining stretch north of the A308 from the M25 to Sunbury is also complete.
Do you happen to know whether the Surrey county border, to the north of Sunbury, follows the same path as the Hounslow boundary?