Southampton
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 Southampton, UK |
| Latitude : 50.97, Longitude : -1.4 |
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Southampton is a city in UK at latitude 50.97, longitude -1.4.
Map of Southampton from OpenStreetMap
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Southampton is the home city of a certain well-known mapping organisation. It is one of the better mapped cities of the UK in OSM, but there's still plenty that could be done.
Some tasks that could be done by one person with a bit of OSM experience and an hour or two spare
- The Six Dials junction, a busy intersection between several major Southampton roads, is not represented in the OSM data. If you zoom in you'll see that so far all of us have been too cowardly to connect these roads in a way that reflects what's possible (how you can get from one to another) while being faithful to the geography of the area. Visiting by car probably isn't very helpful for this.
- Because the Southampton Docks are a strategic resource, you're prohibited (at least in theory) from entering without business there. A student or member of staff of the University might have reason to visit the National Oceanography Centre though, which has several roads inside the restricted area. The resulting OSM Ways should probably be tagged with 'private' access. Other visitors might have some reason to enter the other Dock Gates, perhaps you have business with a shipping or other heavy industrial company ? If so, why not take a GPS?
- Similarly, the freight railway enters the docks near Ocean Village. It's a single line by that point, and it crosses a very busy road, so it's rarely used (has anyone actually seen it in use recently?), but it should really be on our map. At the moment the Way stops at the gates.
- Southampton General Hospital wasn't mapped during the last mapping party in Southampton. Someone was supposed to be covering that area soon afterwards, but for whatever reason they never uploaded data for the hospital. Were you that someone? Are you visiting the General Hospital? Hope it's nothing serious, but please take a GPS and add some data.
The City Council provides high quality maps of central Southampton (from Polygon and Northam south to the Docks) which may not have been created from Ordnance Survey data (there's no Crown Copyright mark on them, nor a license number). These maps are obtained from Walking Distance (phone 023 8023 7654) and if they're really not Ordnance Survey data then the council might be persuaded to let OSM use them as a source in the future. Otherwise it's a free, legal way to get copies of a decent map of the city for any project that requires such a thing and can't yet use OSM.
