London
 London, Greater London
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London is a city in Greater London at latitude 51.485, longitude -0.15.
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!
- #geomob - 17th May - Including a talk by Harry Wood about HOT.
- London/Summer 2012 events regular pub meet-ups and mini mapping parties (continuing on from winter pub meet-ups)
Recurring ideas
| Local User Group | |
OSM London
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| meetings | |
| When: | fortnightly |
| Where: | London/Summer 2012 events (map) |
| mailing list | |
| mailing list - archive | |
| website | |
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A couple of other London events which are related:
- rewiredstate.org events - Hack weekends on various topics, always involving some map maships. Go promote OSM!
- Crisis Camp London monthly meet-ups. Good place for teaching newbies, or doing technical hacking
- http://www.rhok.org/ may also be worth looking into (same idea)
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 
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | 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:
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Borough boundaries
The region and administrative area of Greater London is subdivided into 32 London boroughs.
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)
Related projects
- WikiProject United Kingdom London Cycle Network
- WikiProject_United_Kingdom_London_Cycle_Hire
- London Tube Stations
- London bus routes
- BBBike @ London - a cycle route planner for London
