London
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London is a city in UK at latitude 51.485, longitude -0.15.
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Map of London from OpenStreetMap
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Description
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom, surrounded by the M25 motorway. It is the largest city in Europe (over twice the size of Paris). See also Central London
All road distances to the destination "London" refer to Charing Cross.
Events
- London/Winter 2008-9 Random Pub Meetup is a fortnightly pub meet-up. This kicks off on Wednesday 1st October. It's a follow on from the successful summer Mapping Party Marathon.
- London/Wembley mapping party coming up Sunday October 12th
See Current Events for a list of other mapping parties / conference / social events, which come to London fairly often.
OSM Coverage
Quite a large chunk of North / North West / South West London is done. Much of the remaining area within the M25 has been traced from Yahoo imagery already, but needs mapping properly to add names and features that can't be seen from the aerial imagery.
We have more or less complete coverage of London underground network, with just a few tagging glitches to iron out. See the Tube Network Map We're working on all of greater London's overground railways. We are collecting these GPS readings for all the stations on the Tube Stations page (as well as putting them straight into the database).
Yahoo! Aerial imagery coverage
Yahoo! Aerial Imagery covers a very large area of London. Everywhere inside the M25 and also Leatherhead, Redhill, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Gravesend, Brentwood, Bishops Stortford, Harlow, Waltham Cross, Ware, Hertford, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, St Albans, Harpenden, Hemel Hempstead, Slough & Windsor
We can map these areas much more easily. We still need to visit the streets to gather street names and other details, but the general road layout can be mapped without even going there. See Yahoo! Aerial Imagery. Let's get the major roads and rails mapped in.
Completion by postcode areas
Those interested in covering an area should indicate so below. Those considering an area should qualify it with a ?
Of course organising by postcode area is a little awkward, because the post code system isn't free (yet). normal London Postcode map, Properly free, but rather higgledy-piggledy map.
| Postcode area | Name | %age complete | Checked by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DA14/15 | Sidcup | 40% | roundel 00:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC) | Gradually working in sectors around home |
| EN2 | Enfield | 90% | steve8 16:11, 2 Apr 2007 (UTC) | Gradually working outwards from home and work locations. All streets done. Working on areas (eg schools), and POIs (eg pubs, churches). |
| EN5 | Barnet | 100% | Welshie 11:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC) | All streets named in council rubbish collections rota named |
| E1 | Stepney | 80% | NickF22, Firefishy 08:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC) | Eastern Section needing more work. Once hospital construction complete, extra roads. |
| E16 | Canning Town | Slowly adding road names, points of interest, buildings and GPS tracks when walking around the Canning Town and Royal Victoria Dock area SchematicMapper | ||
| HA0 | Bent / Sudbury | 70% | Firefishy 14:25, 4 September 2007 (BST) | Fair number of Road names still missing |
| HA1 | Harrow | 70% | Firefishy 14:25, 4 September 2007 (BST) | Fair number of Road names still missing |
| N1 | Islington (mainly) | 40% | Emil 00:48, 20 Jul 2006 (BST) | Still plenty of work: removing bad segments and getting GPS tracks of various residential streets (see hitlist on User:Emil) |
| N2 | East Finchley | 77% | Welshie 14:25, 2 April 2007 (BST) | |
| N3 | Finchley | 100% | Welshie 20:57, 26 Jan 2006 (GMT) | All streets present, about 95% named and tagged |
| N10 | Muswell Hill | 74% | Welshie 16:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC) | |
| N11 | New Southgate | 52% | Welshie 16:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC) | |
| N12 | North Finchley / West Finchley | 95% | Welshie 11:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC) | |
| N15 | South Tottenham | 30% | Morwen 12:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC) | |
| N20 | Totteridge & Whetstone | 100% | Welshie 12:40, 21 September 2007 (BST) | Completed all roads, including a few new developments that aren't on any other maps yet. Still some pathways and POIs to map. |
| NW1 | Regents Park, Camden | 15% | Welshie 18:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC) | |
| NW4 | Hendon | 87% | Welshie 21:02, 19 April 2007 (BST) | |
| NW7 | Mill Hill | 70% | Welshie 15:48, 28 March 2007 (BST) | |
| NW11 | Golders Green | 86% | Welshie 21:02, 19 April 2007 (BST) | |
| SE5 | Camberwell | 13% | Secretlondon 13:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC) | |
| SE6 | Catford | 85% | Welshie 18:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC) | |
| SE9 | Eltham / New Eltham / Mottingham | 30% | roundel 00:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC) | Major roads done. Gradually working in sectors around home |
| SE17 | Walworth | ? | Secretlondon 13:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC) | |
| SW 6/11/13/15/18 | Hammersmith & Fulham / Wandsworth / Merton | 50% | Randomjunk 24 Oct 2006 | Not sure where most of the boundaries are... but I have street signs with all of these postcodes on |
| TW3-8 | Hounslow (including Brentford, Chiswick, Cranford, Heston, Isleworth, Bedfont, Feltham) | 100% | Marinheiro 18:20, 28 October 2007 (UTC) | All named roads and footpaths believed to be completed |
| UB6 | Greenford / Perivale | 85% | Firefishy 21:43, 28 October 2007 (UTC) | Needs checking |
| W5 | Ealing | 80% | Welshie 10:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC) Firefishy 21:43, 28 October 2007 (UTC) | Some smaller roads missing |
| W7 | Hanwell | 85% | Firefishy 21:43, 28 October 2007 (UTC) | Some smaller roads missing, few names still missing |
| W10 | North Kensington | ? | --RichChestmat 21:52, 7 July 2007 (BST) | I live here and I can see you have some streets missing |
| W13 | West Ealing | 75% | Firefishy 21:43, 28 October 2007 (UTC) | Some smaller roads missing |
| WC1-SE1 | Central London | See notes from the London mapping party |
There's a fair amount of quality trackpoints south of the river in the Croydon/Coulsdon area, but not many streets laid down. Dig in!
Completion by London Borough
| Borough | Border? | Coverage assessment | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inner London | |||
| Camden | Done | Pretty good | |
| Greenwich | OK | Missing quite a lot of street detail | |
| Hackney | Done | ||
| Hammersmith and Fulham | |||
| Islington | Done | OK | Missing lots of detail around Highbury and Islington station. |
| Kensington and Chelsea | |||
| Lambeth | Some | We had a Stockwell mapping evening which improved coverage in the middle/north. Kennington mapping evening is half in this borough. That'll hopefully finish off the most northerly missing sections. | |
| Lewisham | |||
| Southwark | ? | Poor | Kennington mapping evening (Happening Wed 14th May) is half within Southwark (North West end of the borough) |
| Tower Hamlets | Done | ||
| Wandsworth | 15% | 90% | Just a bit South of Tooting and a bit East of Battersea Park remaining to be covered |
| Westminster | Done | ||
| Outer London | |||
| Barking and Dagenham | |||
| Barnet | Done steve8 | ||
| Bexley | Some | Traced roads from Yahoo TimSC | |
| Brent | |||
| Bromley | |||
| Croydon | |||
| Ealing | |||
| Enfield | Done | 90% | Further POIs, major buildings and some fine detail to add steve8 |
| Haringey | Done | ||
| Harrow | |||
| Havering | |||
| Hillingdon | |||
| Hounslow | 100% | 100% |
All named roads, footpaths and parks believed complete (possible exceptions are private gated roads where the gate was closed..). Still to do:
Status by 'town' August 2008:
Borough border complete but I'm aware it's different from the official maps in a few minor places |
| Kingston upon Thames | |||
| Merton | |||
| Newham | Poor | Main roads and trainlines only | |
| Redbridge | |||
| Richmond upon Thames | |||
| Sutton | See WikiProject page | ||
| Waltham Forest | |||
Borough boundaries
Note that most online maps showing the position of the borders are copyrighted. Even supposedly open licensed maps on wikipedia are actually derived from copyrighted sources. Ideally we'll keep it clean by surveying signs in the streets, hence the slow progress. Keep a look out for those "Welcome to London Borough of X" signs while you're out and about.
Boundaries between the London boroughs have been tagged boundary=administrative and left:district=name right:district=name
Out-of-copyright maps of London
See the various Out-of-copyright maps many of which feature London, but particularly detailed is...
Richard's scans of the 1933/34 ABC Street Atlas of London (Torrent) (Alternative)
I have georeferenced parts of South-London from the ABC Atlas, you can access the maps online through a OpenLayers Interface at http://www.spatialknowledge.eu/ABCAtlas/openlayers.html--Petz 10:12, 19 October 2007 (BST)
Related projects
See also:
- London/Images
- Wikipedia has a rather comprehensive list of boundary changes within London, which links to the relevant governmental orders which made the change. Although many refer to maps not included, the explanatory notes may assist mapping of both the Greater London and borough boundaries.
