Durham
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 Durham, UK |
| Latitude : 54.766, Longitude : -1.5666 |
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Durham is a city in UK at latitude 54.766, longitude -1.5666.
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Description
The City of Durham lies in North East England situated 13 miles (21 km) south west of Sunderland and 10 miles (16 Km) south of Newcastle.
Project
Durham is being mapped as part of a project involving living without other maps. See the Living With Dragons website for details and the blog. It would be good to look there for upto date coverage details and any events.
Work / Progress
| Cake-slice | Description | % complete | user eating | note(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 | The Peninsula / Market Square and The Bailey | 98% | Finish off footpath no. 62. | |
| 0-2 | Old Elvet and The Racecourse / Green Lane | 100% | LastGrape | |
| 0-3 | New Elvet / Whinney Hill | 90% | LastGrape | I keep meaning to do the few things between New Elvet (the road) and the river. |
| 0-4 | Elvet Hill/The Hill Colleges | 7% | I've done a little of the Science site. -LastGrape | |
| 0-5 | The Viaduct | 3% | I'm living here from September 08, so leaving it for now. -LastGrape | |
| 0-6 | Claypath | 15%+ | LastGrape | This is my current area of focus. |
| 0-7 | Hilde Bede College | 10% | ||
| 0-8 | Maiden Castle (university sports centre) and Houghhall College | |||
| 0-9 | Mostly empty | 0% | ||
| 0-10 | Mostly empty | 0% | ||
| 0-11 |
Blog updates on the project of mapping Durham:
Durham Specific Tagging
The University of Durham is separated in to Colleges in a similar way to some other universities, though to a greater degree than most. Some form of College tagging similar to that in Oxford may be appropriate.
- Aerial photography is as good as non-existent so most buildings are hard to get an accurate outline.
- We also need a way to tag all the departments that are dotted around the city, there are several separate uni places on Old Elvet.
- I've been tagging (probably wrongly) in the following way...
Colleges
- amenity=college
- name=Name of college (building name, if useful)
See new stuff below.
Club boathouses
There are plenty of these and the following tagging doesn't mean they show up fully.
- amenity=club_house
- leisure=boathouse
- sport=rowing (though it may be kayaking/canoeing or other water sports)
- name=(whatever college/club) boathouse (unless it has a specific name?)
To comply with the new tagging system:
- building=university
- department=society
New tagging system
Hopefully this will produce something more valuable, I may even get a a server set up to do a uni-map.
- building=university
- name=Brooks House (building name)
- college=St Cuthbert's Society (look at something else to get spellings the same)
- department=Law (if a building is for teaching rather than accommodation/sport)
- rooms=CG.. (the prefix of room codes in this building followed by 2 dots where numbers go, or a range like CG10-26)
For colleges that have an area large enough that it should be mapped:
- boundary=college
- admin_level=10
Hopefully this is fine with [Key:boundary]
Issues arising with tagging system.
- Should it be building=durham_university to avoid clashing with other academic institutions (some local), or should it be kept open for other universities to use?
- Should we use department=DSU for the Student's Union and other societies?
- Should the admin building(Old Shire Hall), Library, and ITS block, random office blocks, all be tagged as department=admin?
- The club boathouse tags may still be good but should probably be proposed as main OSM tags.
- Any other relevant tags can be added, such as amenity=library can be added.
Discuss further in Talk:Durham
Mapping Party
There was a Durham mapping party on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June 2008.
Categories: City in UK | UK | UK cities
