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  1. steveo
    Member

    I'm struggling to find a map of the various community woodlands around the city so I thought I'd make/crowd source one.

    How easy is it to do this sort of thing in Open Street Map?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. wingpig
    Member

    What about "Local Nature Reserves" layer in the "Environmental Data" group in the council atlas? It has one of the Community Woodlands I know of (Fillyside Road) but not the other one (Jewel).

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. steveo
    Member

    Cheers, thats a start any way. Adding urban forests to Local Nature reserves gets me a few more.

    Looks like its easy to do on Google Maps.
    I'll add more when I get a chance any one else feel free.
    https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zpaAmp_kFWr4.keRtNDurIhLc&usp=sharing

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. chrisfl
    Member

    If you did want to add this information to OpenStreetMap - the it would be fairly easy. We probably have most of the woods actually mapped. But as far as I can see we've not been recording the names or that they're community woodlands.

    So, I've has a quick play with adding the tag community_woodlands = yes to some of these, They can then be found/displayed here: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/dBK

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. steveo
    Member

    Thanks chris, So if I search on the main OSM site for "Edinburgh Community Woodland" will that return all the sites tagged appropriately?

    And to add others I'll need to login and just add the appropriate tag?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. chrisfl
    Member

    I don't think the main OSM site search will find the custom tag. But the Overpass Turbo link I posted above should find all of them.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. rbrtwtmn
    Member

    Stevo there's plenty of help available on here with OSM (from chrisfl for example) and I'd certainly encourage you in this direction. There'll be a small learning curve if you don't know your way... but it opens up lots of possibilities in the longer term.

    As a quick example of some one-off mapping take a look at this Livingston map. With others I've been involved in some work to survey where Livingston has roads which have pavements (lots don't). There was no public map available. This is an interim map based on what's been recorded so far:

    https://rostranimin.cartodb.com/viz/ec393fe4-74fa-11e5-b38f-0ef7f98ade21/public_map

    My point is that having added data to OSM you can get it back out from OSM in multiple ways... not least maps designed by yourself.

    So, start with Chrisfl's Overpass Turbo link... add data... but don't let your imagination be limited by the existing services. It isn't too big a leap to end up with Steveo's map of UK community woodland.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  8. steveo
    Member

    Thanks rbrtwtmn OSM is something I've been meaning to spend more time with so this a good little intro project for me.

    If any one can think of any community woodlands close by feel free to add them to the google layer above and I'll plug them into OSM. Meanwhile I'll need to try and do some desk research to match up.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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