Bristol

V・T・E Bristol, South West England

latitude: 51.448340, longitude: -2.588140

Browse map of Bristol 51°26′54.02″ N, 2°35′17.30″ W

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Bristol is a county in South West England at latitude 51°26′54.02″ North, longitude 2°35′17.30″ West.

Bristol (57539 57539) is a city, unitary authority and ceremonial county in the South West of England, 115 miles west of London with a population of 400,000. It is England's sixth most populous city, one of England's core cities and the largest city in South West England. Bristol is a transition city (see Transition towns).

Where

Clifton Suspension Bridge by Lacu Schienred (CC-BY-SA 4.0

wikitravel has lots of details on how to get to Bristol, what it's like and so on.

Completeness

According to ITO's comparison of Bristol's OSM road names against that provided by the Ordnance Survey, the City of Bristol is 97.34% complete, ranking it 63^rd out of 408 in the UK. There are currently 135 incorrect or missing road names in OSM in Bristol.

Bristol meet-ups

Local user group
Bristol meet-up
Meetings
When:	irregular
Where:	the Harbourside (map)
Mailing list
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Website
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Bristol Open Data, "Intro to OSM" 23 April 2019

OSMer Neil Matthews presented an Intro to OSM at Bristol Open Data

Bristol meet-up, 9 April 2014

Better by Bike http://www.betterbybike.info/ organised a meeting about cycle-related issues in OSM.

A proposed methodology was presented.

Line issues to check are at: BANES issues Bristol issues North Somerset issues South Gloucestershire issues

Point issues to check are at: BANES issues Bristol issues North Somerset issues South Gloucestershire issues

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, 15 September 2011

Anyone wanting to earn how to edit Wikipedia, or who already does, was fraternally invited to an edit-a-thon http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wildlife_Bristol

Bristol meet-up, 17 May 2011

At Cafe Kino, 108 Stokes Croft, 6.30pm for a bite to eat and a chat. Decamping to the Hillgrove for good beer around 8pm. No agenda! In attendance:

• user:Lorp
• user:Tiiiim
• Dave F

Bristol meet-up, 26 Oct 2010

Took place in the Harbourside, next to the Watershed. In attendance:

• user:Lorp
• user:Tiiiim
• user:Southglos

2007 Bristol mapping party

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Bristol historical/community POIs

Bristol City Council have a "heritage map" Know Your Place (also available in a non-Silverlight version) with historical/community POIs that could be visited and added to OSM.

Imagery

Originally, Bing was the best source of imagery with a high degree of resolution and contrast -- a great number of buildings were traced using Bing imagery (before end of 2017).

Towards the end of 2017 a new set of Bing imagery was made available -- it is more up to date, but unfortunately, doesn't have the original resolution, or contrast -- and more significantly has an offset compared to the original set of Bing imagery -- so that previous tracing appears offset. If using 2017+ Bing imagery (generally grey in colour) then please adjust its offset to match already mapped features.

At present at the start of 2018, the original Bing imagery (or a variant thereof) is available in JOSM as the "ERSI Clarity layer (beta)" -- it is probably the best imagery to trace from (given previously mapped buildings) -- but care should be taken where it could be out of date.

Lifecycle

Lifecycle process used by some Bristol mappers.

1. name is the name -- so don't add extra "(Closed)" or whatever
2. Only to add a name if there's some signage / something else that can be seen -- or maybe a planning notice stuck outside
3. If it's not open yet, then use the same tag as normal but add "proposed:" in front -- which makes it really easy to fixup when it does open
4. if it closes -- then add "disused:" in front of the main tag -- and remove old phone #, website, etc. Some people will put "old_" in front of phone #, etc. instead -- might have an advantage if it isn't really closed -- but in general not sure how useful it is
   1. if the sign is still up, then it is a useful aid for navigation, so leave the name on the object - don't move it to disused:name (a disused:name doesn't make sense -- it either has a name or doesn't).
   2. if the sign gets taken down, then remove the "name" or maybe change it to "old_name", or if really well known as some local landmark then "loc_name" / "alt_name"
5. if it's "just something planned / just read in the paper" -- then add a note, until it's actually surveyed (remember to log in before adding the note)
6. If there's a housename / something carved on to a wall -- then use addr:housename to capture it -- e.g. old police station in Bishopston
7. if it was an old church, then maybe building=church, rather than building=yes -- some people add building:use=residential too -- there's also historic:building.

There may well be better ideas -- there seems to be a discussion at the moment on https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- about "tagging for decaying features" which might have some info'.