I’'m after some assistance if possible please, around my area there has been a building boom, with lots of new housing estates being built, Does anyone have any pointers? I did a quick search last night on here, but couldn’t find any guidance.
I’ve looked at the Council planning portal for plans which I’ve got (see attached -Hopefully its not too big), so can map out the road layout to an extent, however none of the plans I find ever have road names on them.
I’ve also looked on the building/Sales websites and they have the same maps but in colour, still no road names.
What should I do?
Add what I can to the map and just complete the town and no road names?
Leave the map as is until either I or another editor gets time to go round the estate to collect road names?
Map them as accurately as you can and add the city field. Leave the street to a time when they have names.
Undoubtedly someone will raise a UR with the names of a/some roads.
There may be info on the royal mail site at some point as they will determine the postcodes for the addresses.
Something I’ve done a few times which has reaped rewards with URs with helpful information is to name the roads for the development. All estate development seems to warrant a scheme name to attract house buyers (one in Weston-super-Mare was called Weston-super-Mare Gate) and I think it was less than a month after adding it that a UR was posted with the actual street name.
Having had a lot of new estates around me that I spend time editing while I was active, I would drive round it once a month , and occasionally go cycling around it with a chest cam recording it all.
However, I found that the best approach was to go into the sales officr, tell them you want to map out the estate for an community spirited app that will help their new homeowners to have their friends find their houses if they used pur app, and it would cost them nothing other than 5 minutes and a photocopy of the map plans and any more info they had.
While mapping the estate out a year on, ive noticed a lot of wazers in the estate, no apparant editors though, but google maps doesn’t have much of the estate mapped out at all.
The other thing about road names is in our area the road names are temporary for a long time… It’s taken 6 months or more for the names to be allocated from the local council, as they have due dilligence to go through.
It can also be worth emailing the sales office or developer. I had multiple reports of a new estate north of Aberdeen, but couldn’t find anything online. I emailed the sales office and they sent me a full site plan. Then, a few days later, they sent me the builder’s detailed site plan, including all the house numbers and road names. They also helpfully informed me of 2 roads on the plan that had been cancelled from the development and that the southern access road was bus-only. :mrgreen:
Most developments are effectively dead-ends. You can safely map them out before you know they’re finished because only someone routing to somewhere on the development will be sent there. However, if the development can potentially be used as a through-route from one side to the other, then it’s probably best to map it as private roads until you’re sure they’re all built.
I’ve walked/cycled/driven very slowly (*) around a new estate paving each street and raising UR’s to record the names. Just make sure (1) that you raise the UR well along the road rather than at the junction so it’s clear which road it refers to, and (2) action and close them yourself when you get home rather than leaving them for someone else to sort out.
(*) normally I wouldn’t advocate using Waze in this way as it corrupts speed data, but speed data in a new housing estate full of dead ends isn’t important.
Sorry, I wasnt’ clear that was my preference - For me it was purely the pain of trying to type the name of the new road into that tiny edit window using the crappy soft keyboard, vs a compass and gps tagged photo, allowing you type the
On that note, I recall that I found an greasemonkey extenstion for waze that overlaid a bunch of pictures over the map with their GPS co-ordinates when I did the last batch, but can’t remember what it was called.
Cool thanks for the Tips… will have a wonder round these new estates and have a nose at the posh new houses at the same time, while dreaming of ever being able to afford one some day!
