UK 2017 Q1 Project: Water

The first UK Quarterly Project for 2017 is Water.

The aim of this project is to find any mapping activity related to water. Previous projects have been very task-oriented, so this one is deliberately loose, but of you do want something to focus on then waterways with source=npe is a good start.

Suggested processes & tags

There is a page about United_Kingdom_waterways which includes tagging guidelines.

Resources

• OS OpenData:
  • OS StreetView (this is available as a layer in the main OSM editors).
  • OS Open Map - Local (has several water layers, updated 10/2016).
  • OS Open Rivers (updated 10/2016).

Tools

ITO World maps of water features.

• Visualisation of currently mapped features:
  • OSM Inspector.
  • OpenRiverboatMap.
  • ITO World maps of water features.
• Quality Assurance tools:
  • There are many waterways tagged with source=npe. This is a historic map and the detail tends to be quite poor. You can find these waterways by running this script.

Previous projects

See the list of UK Quarterly Projects