Ipswich

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Ipswich, Suffolk
latitude: 52.0516, longitude: 1.1773
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Ipswich is a town in Suffolk at latitude 52°03′05.76″ North, longitude 1°10′38.28″ East. This page refers to the town in England. For other uses, see Ipswich (disambiguation).


Improving the Map

Housenumbers

Map of Housenumbers in Ipswich

NOTE: This map does not diffrentiate between buildings that only have addr:street tags and buildings/nodes that have both addr:street and addr:housenumber tags, making it misleading. A github issue has been opened on this, with no response so far.

The brown indicates buildings with address tags. Black indicates nodes with address tags. Pink indicates housenumbers that do not have an addr:street=* tag. You should add street tags to those housenumbers. (NOTE: many of the housenumbers without addr:street tags use an old way of linking streets with houses known as the Associatedstreet relation).

Like most of England, address data is mostly missing.

Local shops in many areas are also probably missing.

How to map housenumbers

The most efficient way is to use Keypad Mapper 3. It is an app with a keypad, which lets you enter house-numbers as you walk around some streets. This will create address nodes, which you can open up in JOSM. You then move these address nodes over their respective houses, and add this data to OSM. If you like, you can also draw buildings, and merge the address nodes with buildings (Ctrl+Shift+J). However, drawing buildings is extremely time consuming, even with the BuildingTools plugin.

There are a few disadvantages to this approach. It requires knowledge of JOSM, which is an advanced editor. KeyPad Mapper 3 is an old piece of software that has not been updated in years, and there are chances the software could stop working. As well as this, Keypad Mapper is only available on Android.


Another approach is to draw the buildings first, and add the street tags to them. This way, Streetcomplete will ask for the house-numbers of the buildings while you are surveying.

Here is a tutorial on drawing buildings quickly so that they can be mapped in Streetcomplete

To know whether a building contains multiple houses, look for fences in the backyard. A fence indicates where the house ends and the next house starts. Make sure you mark the buildings as building=house (or any building tag that is not building=yes) otherwise the housenumber tasks will not show up on Streetcomplete. It is also a good idea to add the street that the building is. If you are unsure, you can leave a note. If you are unsure, leave it empty, you can find out while surveying.

Once you have drawn buildings, in streetcomplete, you can zoom into the area where you drew buildings, and "scan for quests here" (can be found by clicking on the button with three bars in the top right). A ton of quests asking for the house-numbers of the houses you drew will show up. You can go surveying by walking through those streets and marking the housenumbers in StreetComplete.

If you didn't mark the street of a building, and you realise which street it is on after walking past it, resolve the OSM note you made earlier recording the housenumber and street of a house.

Shops

Local shops are probably missing too. To map local shops, you can make a note on an app such as Streetcomplete or osmand outlining the information of the shop.

Conversly, you can take a geo-located photo of the shop. Keypadmapper and OSMand let you do this. Streetcomplete lets you include photos in OSM notes you make.

If you are using streetcomplete, you can simply name the shop, and include a photo that shows additional details.

The problem with taking photos is that it make look intrusive to people who are passing by, or to people within the shop.

You can try using audio notes (which is available when using Keypad mapper or OSMand), however the noise of cars on major streets may make this unusable.

Another option is to only record the name of the shop, and then go home and search for the shop. This should lead you to their website, (or a page on another website such as tripadvisor), where you can get more information (such as phone numbers). There may be copyright issues with this, however.

Surveying

Surveying for these two things (addresses & shops) is a good way to improve the map. Addresses can be surveyed using a software like Keypad mapper 3, or using field papers. Shops can be surveyed by taking geo-located photos/audio.

NOTE: These issues (addressses & local shops) is basically a problem everywhere in the UK, including most parts of London. The easiest way to fix the addressing issue is to persuade the government to release address data freely. Shops will have to be mapped manually, however.

Wards

The ward boundaries are approximate because the only reliable source is the Ordnance Survey and we are not allowed to use that source. There is pressure on the government to allow the official data to be used but in the mean time this will have to do. The boundaries have been determined by conversation with councillors and others with a knowledge of the area.

Ward Notes
Alexandra  164667
Bixley  164648
Bridge  164678
Castle Hill  164823
Gainsborough  164653
Gipping  164677
Holywells  164654
Priory Heath  164649
Rushmere  164664
Sprites  164834
St John's  164088
St Margaret's  164666
Stoke Park  164833
Westgate  164674
Whitehouse  164825
Whitton  164822

Bus Routes

Bus services in Ipswich

Bus timetables in Ipswich

Public Transport Version 2

These are the bus routes that have en mapped properly & have the tag "public_transport:version=2".

The "opening hours", "duration", "interval" columns indicate if the bus relation has tags describing it's operating hours, the duration of the ride, and the interval between each bus. If this information is missing, please get this information from the bustimes website.

Name Ref Link Operator Notes/Fixme Interval? Conditional Interval? Duration? Opening hours?
Bus 1: Ipswich Town Centre - Gainsborough - Ravenswood - Futura Park 1  8255972 Ipswich Buses yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 1: Futura Park - Ravenswood - Gainsborough - Ipswich Town Centre 1  11733261 Ipswich Buses yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 2: Ipswich Town Centre - Ravenswood - Ipswich Hospital 2  9383640 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 2: Ipswich Hospital - Ravenswood - Ipswich Town Centre 2  216501 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 3: Ipswich Town Centre - Nacton Road - Futura Park 3  2410689 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 3: Futura Park - Nacton Road - Ipswich Town Centre 3  11717044 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 3: Ipswich Station - Nacton Road - Ransomes Europark - Nacton Road - Ipswich Town Centre (peak mornings) 3  11717042 Ipswich Buses yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 3: Ipswich Town Centre - Nacton Road - Ransomes Europark - Nacton Road - Ipswich Town Centre (peak evenings) 3  11717335 Ipswich Buses add evening route that goes to railway yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 3: Ipswich Town Centre - Nacton Road - Sainsbury's - Nacton Road - Ipswich Town Centre (Sundays) 3  11733259 Ipswich Buses yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 3E: Ipswich Town Centre - Nacton Road - Landseer 3E  11717043 Ipswich Buses This is a new route (as of 4th October 2020) that goes on Landseer road. It is meant to replace 60 & 60A buses in the evening. yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 3E: Landseer Road - Nacton Road - Ipswich Town Centre 3E  11733260 Ipswich Buses This is a new route (as of 4th October 2020) that goes on Landseer road.

It is meant to replace 60 & 60A buses in the evening.

 yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 4: Ipswich Town Centre - Felixstowe Rd - Broke Hall - Bixley - Broke Hall - Felixstowe Rd - Ipswich Town Centre 4  2565436 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 5: Ipswich Town Centre - Foxhall Road - Ipswich Hospital 5  11632616 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 5: Ipswich Hospital - Foxhall Road - Ipswich Town Centre 5  2359617 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 5E: Ipswich Town Centre - Foxhall Rd - Hospital - Sidegate Lane 5E  11717800 Ipswich buses Evening service that runs instead of 5 & 6 yes unnecessary no yes
Bus 6: Ipswich Town Centre - Northgate - Ipswich Hospital 6  332729 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 6: Ipswich Hospital - Northgate - Ipswich Town Centre 6  9401379 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 8: Ipswich Town Centre - Whitehouse - Asda 8  331838 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 8: Asda - Whitehouse - Ipswich Town Centre 8  11633961 Ipswich Buses yes yes yes yes
Bus 12: Ipswich Town Centre - Chantry (Cambridge Drive) 12  332644 Ipswich Buses add route in other direction yes yes yes yes
Bus 13 - Ipswich Town Centre - Chantry - Copdock Tesco 13  9401908 Ipswich Buses add modified sunday & evenings route yes yes yes yes
Bus 13 - Copdock Tesco - Chantry - Ipswich Town Centre 13  331858 Ipswich Buses add modified sunday & evenings route yes yes yes yes
Bus 15 - Ipswich Town Centre - Stoke Park - Hadleigh Road - Town Centre5 15 add Ipswich Buses Add modified Sunday & Evenings Route yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 15A - Ipswich Town Centre - Sainsbury's Hadleigh Road - South West Ipswich - Ipswich Town Centre 15A  1825964 Ipswich Buses Add modified Sunday & Evenings Route yes yes yes yes
Bus 59: Ipswich - Rushmere - Rushmere St. Andrew 59  29098 First Norfolk and Suffolk yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 59: Rushmere St. Andrew - Rushmere - Ipswich Town Centre 59  11787377 First Norfolk and Suffolk yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 59: Ipswich - Rushmere - Rushmere St. Andrew - Bealings First Norfolk and Suffolk Once a day service to Little & Great Bealings


Add this route in the other direction

 yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 66: Ipswich - Kesgrave - Grange Farm - Martlesham Heath 66  9383641 First Norfolk and Suffolk check duration/openhour info.

Also, the routes 66 & 66A are almost the same, meaning their intervals combine. Inquire on how to map this.

 yes no yes yes
Bus 66: Martlesham Heath - Grange Farm - Kesgrave - Ipswich 66  190701 First Norfolk and Suffolk yes no yes no
First Bus - 66A - Ipswich - Kesgrave - Grange Farm - Martlesham Heath 66A  10061523 First Norfolk and Suffolk yes no yes yes
First Bus - 66A - Martlesham Heath - Grange Farm - Kesgrave - Ipswich 66A  9984463 First Norfolk and Suffolk yes no yes yes
Bus 92: Bendalls Court, Manningtree => Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich 92  4440966 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped. no no no no
Bus 92: Bendalls Court, Manningtree => Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich 92  4441368 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 92: Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich => Bendalls Court, Manningtree 92  4441293 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 92: Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich => High School, East Bergholt 92  4441321 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 92: Suffolk One, Chantry => Bendalls Court, Manningtree 92  4440834 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 93: Cooks Garage => Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich 93  10263427 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 93: Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich => Cooks Garage, East Bergholt 93  7945408 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 93: Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich => Osborne Street, Colchester 93  7945394 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 93: Osborne Street, Colchester => Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich 93  7945490 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 93: Osborne Street, Colchester => Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich 93  11560409 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 93A: Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich => Osborne Street, Colchester 93  9201807 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 93A: Osborne Street, Colchester => Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich 93  9202278 Ipswich Buses Mapped by other user, so no additional info has been mapped no no no no
Bus 111: Ipswich - Somersham - Bildeston - Hitcham 111  11733736 Mulley Motorways Map this bus in the other direction, as well as the other shorter 111 route. yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 116: Ipswich - Coddenham - Debenham 116  3586410 First Norfolk & Suffolk Map this bus in other direction as well as alternative route yes unnecessary yes yes
Bus 119: Framlingham- Earl Soham - Witnesham - Ipswich 119  2221461 Ipswich Buses Map this bus in the other direction as well (do bus 118 first) yes unnecessary yes yes
Public Transport Version 1 (outdated)

This table is outdated, all the bus routes should be updated to public transport v2 anyway. Many of these relations don't exist anymore, or have been changed.

Once a bus route has been mapped both ways in version 2, remove it from this table.

Type Ref Route Notes
Ipswich Buses3 222816
Ipswich Buses7 331773
Ipswich Buses9 215619
Ipswich Buses10 332716
Ipswich Buses11 332729
Ipswich Buses12 332644
Ipswich Buses13 331858
Ipswich Buses14 332646
Ipswich Buses16 332650
Ipswich Buses18a
Carter Coaches31 104424
Ipswich Buses59 333174
First Eastern Counties61 222004
First Eastern Counties62 221999
First Eastern Counties63 222366
First Eastern Counties64 227898
First Eastern Counties65 224981
Galloway European70
Carter Coaches70A
First Eastern Counties75 222313
First Eastern Counties76 222245
First Eastern Counties77 223412
First Eastern Counties78 963827
First Eastern Counties87
First Eastern Counties88
Ipswich Buses98
Ipswich Buses202
Ipswich Buses800 333477

Residents parking zones

These don't really have any tags. Inquire on how they should be tagged properly.

Is there any purpose of these being mapped? (Inquire). Instead, parking on street could be marked as amenity=parking and access=private.

Cycle Routes

Type Ref Route Notes
Local2 29057
Local2A 29056
Local4 2649
Local4A 2650
Local10B 29084
Local11B 29082
Local12 29078
Local12A 29080
Regional48 29098
National1 75894
National51 15020

Walking routes

Name Route
The Fonnereau Way 2670
Sandlings Way 2663
Gipping Valley River Path  1723044


I more comprehesive list of paths in Suffolk should be available on the Suffolk page.

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