Place name party
The idea is for each person to select an area (use the table below) and use NPE map background and Landsat images to comprehensively populate the map with places, so that we end up with every place name in the UK represented.
Primarily we are interested in putting place markers on all the towns and villages. In addition please consider adding mountain peaks and generally reviewing the area for problems, for example with coastline. If it can be done with sufficient accuracy, rivers would be good to add as well.
David.earl has been spearheading this idea. See original mailing list post
Software
There is an online POI editor which allows you to easily scroll around the NPE map adding points of interest.
Alternatively, use JOSM with the WMS plugin.
Party?
This is not a real party gathering. It's an online "virtual" party.
The original idea was to make this a "party" in that we get stuck all at once, and do it as a concerted push. To make this happen we probably need to chose a date (and start time/end time)
- Start date : May 16
- End time : ideally May 31, but can be revisited
Alternatively we could just call it a mapping "project", if we are just going to chip away at the task whenever we feel like it.
Areas
Most of the areas are one or more whole degree squares. Where there's a little chunk of land in an otherwise disjoint area, I've included it with the obvious square.
By all means do more than one, but just take a square at a time please.
I've suggested excluding certain metroplitan areas because they have changed so much since NPE maps were published that what we add might well be inaccurate.
Area list - choose your squares here
Tags
Just as a reminder:
- Places are represented with the following tags