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London, Greater London
Latitude : 51.485, Longitude : -0.15
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London is a city in Greater London at latitude 51.485, longitude -0.15.


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London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. Greater London is one of the nine regions of England and is divided into 32 London boroughs. For ceremonial purpose it excludes the City of London. It is the largest city in Europe (over twice the size of Paris). All road distances to the destination "London" refer to Charing Cross.

See also Central London

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Events

If you missed Derick's ignite talk on May 3rd watch the video!

Recurring ideas

Local User Group
OSM LondonFlag of the United Kingdom.svg
meetings
When: fortnightly
Where: London/Summer 2012 events (map)
mailing list
mailing list - archive
website
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London Angel 2009-03-03 4.JPG

A couple of other London events which are related:

Please use the wiki to pro-actively coordinate the setting up of an "OpenStreetMap presence" at these events... or just go along (Other OSMers may or may not be there)

Follow Twitter icon.png OSMlondon for events and London OSM news

See Current Events for a list of other mapping parties / conference / social events, which come to London fairly often.

OSM Coverage

London is still progressing in terms of coverage. Pretty much the entire area within the M25 is mapped out with road coverage, but some of this was sketched in from Yahoo imagery, and now have had their names filled in from Ordnance Survey data. So there are some outlying areas which have never been surveyed and mapped in any detail. We don't have a very clear view of where these area are, but areas around Hillingdon north of Heathrow used to glow red on the NoName map.

We have complete coverage of London underground network. See the Tube Network Map. We also have a set of GPS readings for all the stations on the London Tube Stations page (as well as putting them straight into the database).

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) 95% Marinheiro 00:23, 5 June 2011 (BST) All named roads and footpaths believed to be completed 2007. But since then (2011) new roads created and not mapped, pubs closed, parkland encroached etc - map gradually becoming obsolete. ITO difference OS/OSM shows 89%, but some of this is OS wrong. Anyway, all needs a refresh. SeparateHounslow page created to list tasks needing to be done. Marinheiro 22:12, 3 October 2011 (BST)
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:

  • cycle routes: 1%? (the council is terrible at signing these)
  • bus stops: 5%? (do I care?). Existing stops are mostly missing name and ref no too.
  • post boxes: 40%?
  • pubs: 95%? How to prove?
  • schools: 100%? (need to prove this, wish the OS hadn't insisted on northing/easting being removed from the public release of the schools database. OS are the bane of our existence.)
  • important buildings: 5%? ('building' only came along after I'd done half of this)
  • Post codes: 0%. I want to do this one. But how? A few streets do have postcode on the sign, and like an idiot I didn't record them
  • Monuments and historical sites: 5%?


Status by 'town' August 2008:

  • Hounslow: roads complete
  • Heston: roads complete
  • Isleworth: roads complete
  • Hanworth: roads complete
  • Bedfont: roads complete
  • Feltham: roads complete
  • Brentford: roads complete.
  • Chiswick: roads probably complete

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 90% Street names almost complete. Paths through council estates have often been added, but not verified as 100% done. Bus stops mostly handled by Naptan import. Still to do:
  • cycle routes
  • post boxes: 50%? (verify against the list of all post boxes in E10, E14 etc.)
  • pubs
  • schools
  • major buildings
  • postcodes (though the postcode prefix is often there for streets)

Ed Avis

Borough boundaries

The region and administrative area of Greater London is subdivided into 32 London boroughs.

progress tagging borders as of Jul 2009
Administrative area Note
Barking and Dagenham Relation.png 185483 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Barnet Relation.png 51831 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Bexley Relation.png 51903 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Brent Relation.png 75767 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Bromley Relation.png 152126 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Camden Relation.png 51827 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Croydon Relation.png 51907 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Ealing Relation.png 181321 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Enfield Relation.png 51841 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Greenwich Relation.png 51902 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Hackney Relation.png 51806 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Hammersmith and Fulham Relation.png 184484 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Haringey Relation.png 51814 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Harrow
Havering Relation.png 185478 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Hillingdon Relation.png 183779 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Hounslow Relation.png 51848 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Islington Relation.png 51821 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Kensington and Chelsea Relation.png 51793 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Kingston upon Thames Relation.png 51909 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Lambeth Relation.png 184710 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Lewisham Relation.png 184724 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
City of London Relation.png 51800 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Merton Relation.png 51905 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Newham
Redbridge Relation.png 65598 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Richmond upon Thames Relation.png 151795 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Southwark Relation.png 184700 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Sutton Relation.png 17529 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Tower Hamlets Relation.png 51805 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Waltham Forest Relation.png 65595 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Wandsworth Relation.png 51906 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Westminster Relation.png 51781 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

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

The OSM Inspector tool is excellent for checking that a boundary is complete and that all the tagging of the ways and relation is correct. A relation of London Borough Boundary relations is available for reference.

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.

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)

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