WikiProject United Kingdom
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This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to the United Kingdom.
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Top priorities
- WikiProject United Kingdom A Roads - New! Let's complete OSM's A-road coverage!
- National Cycle Network - Map Sustrans cycle routes
- Now complete - Motorways
- Now complete - London Tube Stations
- And then there's waterways, railways, long-distance paths footpaths, B-roads...
Counties/Districts
For details on Northern Ireland see: WikiProject Northern Ireland
For details on Scotland see: WikiProject Scotland
| Number complete | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Cities | Towns | Villages | Notes |
| Bedfordshire | 0 / 0 | 1.5 / 4 | 9.5 / 40 | Bedford |
| Berkshire | 0 / 0 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 0 | |
| Buckinghamshire | 0 / 0 | 0 / ? | 0 / ? | Adding detailed mapping of High Wycombe, GPX loaded on a weekly basis 20% mapped |
| Cambridgeshire: Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire | 1 / 1 | 1 / 1 | 98 / 105 | |
| Cambridgeshire: East Cambridgeshire | 1 / 1 | 0.5 / 1 | 25 / 44 | includes Ely and Soham |
| Cambridgeshire: Huntingdonshire | 0 / 0 | 0 / 3 | ? / 78 | includes Huntingdon, St Ives and St Neots |
| Cumbria | ? / ? | ? / ? | 1 / ? | Much work needed, both in towns and on B roads, through to country lanes. Some work remaining on A road network. |
| Essex: Uttlesford | 0 / 0 | 1 / 1 | 12 / 61 | includes Saffron Walden and London Stansted Airport |
| East Yorkshire | 0 / 0 | 1 / 12 | 110 / 276 | |
| West Yorkshire | 0 / 3 | ? / ? | ? / ? | |
| Hertfordshire | 0 / 0 | 0 / 26 | 0 / ? | several active users - join in! |
| Hebrides | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | added GPS points covering > 70% of A and B class roads (Including the C83!?!), on Eriskay, South Uist, Benbecula, Griomasaigh, North Uist, Berneray, Harris, Lewis (Dolphinpix) |
| Highland Region | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | added 3 Million GPS points covering > 90% of A and B class roads (Dolphinpix) |
| Isle of Wight | 0 / 0 | 9 / 9 | 20 / 20 | |
| Lincolnshire | 0 / 1 | 0 / ? | 0 / ? | |
| Monmouthshire | ||||
| Northumberland | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | Northumberland PaulHurleyUK has just started on some of the towns between Newcastle and Alnwick. James_Derrick is working on Cramlington |
| Rutland | 0 / 0 | 2 / 2 | 28 / 58 | |
| Surrey | 0 / 0 | 4 / 23 | 5 / ? | |
| Suffolk: Forest Heath | 0 / 0 | 1 / 1 | 4.9 / 27 | includes Newmarket |
| Suffolk: St Edmundsbury | 0 / 1 | 0.9 / 2 | 7 / 83 | includes Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill and Clare |
| East Sussex | ||||
| West Sussex | ||||
| Tyne and Wear | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | Newcastle is well mapped, PaulHurleyUK has just started on some of the towns betwen Newcastle and Alnwick. |
Non-county areas
| Number complete | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area | Cities | Towns | Villages | Notes |
| Solent | ||||
Cities, Towns and Villages
The following table shows our progress with mapping various cities and towns in the UK. See also Category:UK cities , Category:UK towns and Category:UK villages
Please add a city that you're interested in or tracking/mapping here. Try to keep the list ordered by Town Name. Where necessary create a sub page to try and keep this table quite succinct.
| %age complete | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postal Area | Town Name | Tracks | Mapped | Labelled | Notes |
| TN23-TN24 | Ashford, Kent | 80% | 80% | 25% | |
| IP28 6A | Barton Mills, Suffolk | 90% | 90% | 75% | Should be complete within a week or so. |
| HP20 | Aylesbury | ~15% | ~10% | ~15% | Undertaken some library research and due soon to "walk the bounds" of this postcode. Footsore Finder 15:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC) |
| RG24 | Basingstoke | ||||
| MK40 MK41 MK42 | Bedford | 99% North, 80% South | 99% North, 80% South | 75% North, 75% South | |
| CM11 & CM12 | Billericay | ~42% | ~35% | ~34% | Billericay is a town in Essex. Much of the north of the town is mapped. Ksbrowntalk 17:11, 16 April 2007 (BST) |
| B | Birmingham | ||||
| FY1-3 | Blackpool | ~10% | ~10% | ~10% | Trying to walk as many roads within a mile of Great Marton and also taking the GPS with me on journeys in the area to capture as much detail as possible. Will also try to cover main and some minor roads in St Annes, Lytham, Kirkham, Cleveleys, Thornton, Fleetwood as I drive around. Great Marton is now filling out with residential roads. Also reasonable coverage of roads between Blackpool and Kirkham. Having difficulty with road classifications. Some 4-digit A roads and even fairly minor B roads have green signs which should make them trunk routes! Packman 28 Sept 2007 |
| BD | Bradford | ||||
| BD23 | Upper Wharfedale, Upper Airedale, North Yorkshire | Some mapping of country road structure and physical features of Wharfedale. | |||
| BD24 | Settle, North Yorkshire | ||||
| PE21 | Boston, Lincolnshire | ||||
| BN | Brighton | ||||
| BS | Bristol | ||||
| DE14 | Burton-on-Trent | ||||
| CB1-CB5 | Cambridge | 100% | 100% | Systematic mapping of Cambridge between October 2006 and January 2007 means the City is now complete to the level of street names, all cycleways, key footpaths, and civic features (parks, commons, schools, churches, post offices). Cambridge page includes progress for South Cambridgeshire villages.
--David.earl 10:35, 18 January 2007 (GMT) | |
| CT1-CT2 | Canterbury | CT2 to start with, and in particular I'm looking at the Hales Place area. However I'll collect data whenever I'm out to try fill in other areas of town. --Jammeh 20:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC) I'm concentrating on the cycle routes, and am also generally mapping areas of the city as and when I visit them. --Gregoryw 18:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC). | |||
| SE6 | Catford | 95+% | 95+% | 95+% | Catford in Lewisham, London. Including wards of Rushey Green, Catford South, Bellingham and half of whitefoot. Each ward appx 14,000 inhabitants therefore around 49,000 inhabitants. |
| SK23 | Chapel-en-le-Frith(1),Whaley Bridge(2),Chinley(3) and Buxworth(4) | 100%(1), 100%(2), 100%(3), 100%(4) | 100%(1), 100%(2), 100%(3), 100%(4) | 100%(1), 100%(2), 100%(3), 100%(4) | Chapel-en-le-Frith and Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, lie on the A6 trunk road between Buxton and Stockport. Chapel is a market town of about 6,000 people. Completed mapping in March 2007. Neighbouring town Whaley Bridge also enclosed by the A6 bypass (and the starting point of the Peak Forest Canal) completed, plus other nearby villages, notably Chinley and Buxworth. --David.earl |
| CM1 & CM2 | Chelmsford | ~3% | ~2% | ~1% | The county town of Essex. Mapping has started. Ksbrowntalk 23:20, 29 April 2007 (BST) |
| CH | Chester | 98% | 98% | 98% | Almost all roads city centre, in suburbs and in near-by villages mapped and named. Chrismorl 19:42, 22 Jul 2006 (BST) |
| S40 - S45 | Chesterfield | A and B roads are mostly complete. There is still the town centre and many surrounding residential areas to track. | |||
| RH10 | Crawley | 30% | 97% | 30% | Daveemtb started mapping Crawley in Nov 2007, when only the ring road and most of Northgate were on the map. Most roads are in place, added using a mix of GPX tracing and Yahoo aerial photo tracing. Road naming in Maidenbower is nearly complete, Three Bridges and Tilgate areas are about 80% done as of Jan 2008. All other areas need a lot of road names adding. |
| CV1 | Coventry | ||||
| KY12 | Dunfermline | ||||
| DH1 | Durham | ||||
| OX | Cotswolds - East | 20% | 15% | 15% | The eastern side of the Cotswolds, drawing a line from Swindon north, and then everything east of that to Oxford |
| EH | Edinburgh | ||||
| CB6-CB7 | Ely and East Cambridgeshire | 100% | 100% | Ely and Littleport complete as at April 2008, Soham underway. Ely page includes progress for other East Cambridgeshire towns and villages. David.earl 18:54, 8 April 2008 (BST) | |
| DE13 | Fradley | ||||
| G | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||
| RM15-21 | Grays, Essex![]() | Largely complete now (2008), but new developments continue to appear. | |||
| IP7 | Hadleigh, Suffolk | I've made a start at getting this small Suffolk town mapped, and will add more over the coming days MarkPostalk 7 November 2007 | |||
| TS24-TS26 | Hartlepool | 10% | 10% | 8% | Main roads done, but lots of residential areas left... |
| SO32 | Hedge End & Botley | Botley is complete bar a few footpaths, In Hedge End, all of the major roads are done, just needs residential streets and all the closes mapping. | |||
| HR | Hereford | ||||
| RH12 | Horsham | 35% | 35% | 25% | The far North East of Horsham is relatively complete, but much of the town is blank. Is anyone able to make some progress here? |
| Kenilworth | |||||
| HU | Kingston upon Hull | 2% | 2% | 2% | Kingston Upon Hull (widely known has just Hull) is largely incomplete but a start has been made. A few of the surrounding villages to the west of Hull are now mapped. |
| LS29 | Ilkley | - | - | - | Ilkley 50% mappped, Burley-In-Wharfedale 90% mapped, smaller villages still to do. |
| LA(1) | Lancaster | Including Lancaster University (Out of town) | |||
| LS | Leeds | including suburbs such as Headingley. Borders on Bradford, Otley and Ilkley | |||
| Lincoln | 30% | 30% | 29% | Ojw did about 6 hours of mapping there | |
| L | Liverpool | 20% | 10% | 9% | Mcknut is a local and is trying to single-handedly map the whole thing ;-) |
| London | Central London is very close to being fully mapped, largely thanks to the London mapping party in Jan '07, but we dont have the whole of zone 1 mapped quite yet.
Greater London coverage is a bit patchy, with parts of SW London and N London looking more complete than the rest. London mapping should be greatly helped by the Yahoo! Aerial Imagery | ||||
| LE | Leicester | 15% | 15% | 15% | Most major roads now in place, individual districts now need fleshing out. |
| NG10 | Long Eaton | 25% | 20% | 20% | u76682, a newbie is embarking on this |
| LE11 | Loughborough | 98% | 98% | 80% | Most of town nearly complete. |
| M | Manchester | See also Mapchester for information on the mapping of Manchester. | |||
| NG24 | Newark-on-Trent | 40% | 40% | 35% | Marcin Floryan currently living there, actively mapping the area |
| Newcastle | 60% | 60% | 40% | Ojw visited briefly | |
| Nottingham | 5% | 5% | 1% | u76682, a newbie is embarking on this | |
| LS21 | Otley | 95% | 95% | 95% | MikeCollinson grew up here and mapping it as a nostalgia trip. Otley town is 100% done, Pool village done, some fill in of surrounding hamlets still required. |
| OX | Oxford | 75% | 75% | 50% | |
| PO16 | Portchester | ||||
| PR | Preston, Lancs | ||||
| Portsmouth | 50% | 50% | 1% | Large numbers of nodes and segments already created, but very few ways or labelling. | |
| RG1, RG2, RG6 | Reading | 35% | 25% | 20% | |
| DN | Retford, Nottinghamshire | ||||
| CB11 | Saffron Walden, Essex | 65% | 65% | 65% | David.earl is systematically mapping Saffron Walden and vicinity. |
| PL | Saltash, Cornwall | 1% | 10% | 0% | Keith Thomson is outline mapping from yahoo imagery and will try and fill in detail on trips there. |
| SL2 | Slough | ~5% | ~5% | ~1% | It looks as though the current data on Slough is based on runs up and down the A4, coupled with existing data on Motorways and Waterways. No matter. I'll be digging in as soon as I've selected a GPS unit ^_~ Darkshine 02:26, 3 Nov 2006 (GMT) |
| AL1,AL2,AL3,AL4 | St Albans | 15% | 10% | 10% | |
| SO | Southampton | All classified roads done, I believe. Most through unclassified (highway=unclassified) roads are also done, though some are missing in the western areas like Millbrook and Shirley. Residential roads mostly done in the area bounded by The Avenue, Burgess Road, the A27 and West End Road, except Townhill Park (partial coverage only). Almost all roads are ways with name and highway tags; very few unwayed segments. | |||
| ST17 | Stafford | ||||
| HS1 | Stornoway | ||||
| B72, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Sutton Coldfield | 100% | 100% | 100% | Sutton coldfield is a town within the Birmingham conurbation. |
| PE37 | Swaffham | 75% | 75% | Swaffham in Norfolk, Needs the street names adding plus the final 25% missing on the sw side of town. Could also do to have the surrounding rural roads covered more fully. Blackadder 13:02, 24 May 2006 (UTC) | |
| SA | Swansea | 20% | 15% | South side is not bad, but mapping gets sparse to the North | |
| BS35 | Thornbury | Small town in South Gloucestershire, north of Bristol. The town and surrounding area is pretty well mapped now, just adding footpaths; the map is live here, on the Thornbury community website, with an OSM puff-piece page. | |||
| WA8 | Widnes | Part of Halton, near Liverpool | |||
| WF | Wakefield | City just south of Leeds, to the SE of the intersection of the M1 & M62. | |||
| WF1 | Central Wakefield, Agbrigg, Eastmoor, Newton Hill, Outwood | ~99% | ~99% | ~99% | Complete except for FIXMEs |
| WF2 | Lupset, Newmillerdam, Portobello, Sandal,Kettlethorpe, Wrenthorpe, Walton | ~90% | ~90% | ~90% | Northern half has complete coverage southern half underway. |
| WF3 | Bottomboat, Carlton, East Ardsley, Lofthouse, Moorhouse, Stanley | ~75% | ~75% | ~75% | Western Tingley, East Ardsley and Carlton still to complete. |
| WF4 | Durkar, Crigglestone, Chapelthorpe, Hall Green, Woolley | ~10% | ~10% | ~10% | Durkar, Crigglestone, Chapelthorpe, Hall Green, Holingthorpe, Painthorpe complete. |
| Worcester | |||||
| BN14 | Worthing Broadwater | A few key streets missing which I will fill in over the next few weeks | |||
Major towns and cities lacking maps
- Luton
- Derry
- (Ripon?)
- Newport
- North of Lincoln
- Basildon
limited maps:
- Carlisle
- Salisbury
Motorways
All mainland motorways (excluding motorway class A roads) have been mapped.
People Involved
There's quite a lot of people involved in mapping the UK. Many are focussed on individual towns/cities as indicated above.
See also Category:Users in the United Kingdom
Useful Resources
Please respect the copyright of these sites:
- List of motorways in the United Kingdom
- Great Britain road numbering scheme
- SABRE - The Society for all British Road Enthusiasts
- CBRD - Chris's British Road Directory
- Highways Agency - Design Manual for Roads and Bridges


