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Latitude : 51.75, Longitude : -1.23
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Oxford is a city in UK at latitude 51.75, longitude -1.23.

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Description

The University City of Oxford lies to the north west of London and Reading, and to the south of Birmingham. The western edge of the ring road is the A34, and the northern edge is the A40. It is a short distance from the M40.

The River Thames runs through the centre of the city, the Oxford Canal comes in from the north, and the River Cherwell from the north east.

OSM Coverage

The ring road, and most major roads into the city are covered, as are some areas.

Weekly snapshots of the coverage are available from http://gagravarr.org/misc/osm/

Yahoo aerial imagery coverage is also available, which can speed up some editing.

Past Events

There was an Oxford mapping Sunday on 11th December 2006. See http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/OxfordMeetup2006 for more details.

Oxford Specific Tagging

(These are presumably also applicable to Cambridge) It may be insightful to look at Durham#Durham_Specific_Tagging.

Colleges

Represent Oxford College grounds with area tags representing each separate area owned by the college for the use of its students, including meadows, college buildings, playing fields, whatever.

Where possible, if college grounds (or other similar areas, see below) go right to the street, they should share nodes with the street (actually, that's debatable-see the talk page--achadwick). However, since this is not always easy with the current editors, it is acceptable to separate them.

Tag the enclosing areas with:

  • name=<name of college>
  • amenity=university
  • tourism=attraction
  • learning=oxford_college

College Buildings and other sub-areas

Until relation support for buildings is improved, college buildings should be entirely within an college area (as described above) tagged with

  • name=<name of building, not including the college name>
  • building=university

Permanent Private Halls

As colleges, but with

  • learning=oxford_pph

instead

Other University areas

Parks and sports facilities should just be tagged as specified in Map Features perhaps with a tag to indicate access rights. Departments can be tagged as colleges but with

  • learning=oxford_department

Puntable Rivers

Tag with:

  • name=<name of river>
  • waterway=river
  • punting=yes

Tag punt hire locations with:

  • name=<name of punts hire>
  • amenity=punt_hire

Plans for further mapping

Those planning to cover an area should indicate so below. Those considering an area should qualify it with a ?

Phase 1 - inside the ring road

  • Iffley / Rose Hill - Nick - Done
  • Cowley Road (near town) - Nick+Socks - Done
  • Cowley Road (towards Temple Cowley) - David, mostly done? achadwick
  • Temple Cowley - achadwick
  • Florence Park
  • Wood Farm Socks - Done
  • Headington (Centre) - magnayn, achadwick
  • Headington Hill - magnayn, achadwick
  • Headington Quarry - magnayn, achadwick - Done
  • Old Marson - David - Done
  • New Marston - David - Done
  • Northway
  • Summertown - David+Nick - Almost done, just around Marston Ferry Road remaining
  • Wolvercote - David - Done
  • Park Town / Norham Manor - David - Done
  • Jericho - David - Done
  • Walton Manor - David+Nick - Done
  • Osney / Botley Road - David
  • Grandpont (inc nature reserve) / Abingdon Road - Dom
  • University Park - Dom+Nick - Done
  • Conservation area E of N and S Hinksey and W of railway - Dom
  • Town Centre:

Phase 2 - just outside the ring road

  • Blackbird Leys - andrewc, started
  • Barton / Risinghurst - Done
  • Kidlington - MattW - Done.
  • Botley - David
  • Cutteslowe - David - Done.
  • Kennington - Dom - Done bar footpaths.

Phase 3 - surrounding villages

  • Horspath
  • Wheatley
  • Littlemore
  • Cumnor
  • Boars Hill
  • Eynsham - David - Done
  • Yarnton - Robert Munro - Done.
  • Begbroke - MattW - Done.
  • Woodstock - MattW - Village done, just footpaths out of village and within Blenheim Park remaining

Phase n+0.5 - floating tidy-up tasks

  • Bus stops - achadwick (as I go). We also need to decide on some conventions to use (Discussion tab, please!).
  • Maplint patrol - fix up any trouble spots identified by the maplint suite
  • Land-use areas - landuse=residential in particular
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