Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Social Housing in the United Kingdom

Layout
To build up this page I am refering to WikiProject Mills which keeps most sections on one page and the more db structured WikiProject Bristol. Nothing is sacred, we just need to get the basic structure underway. --ClemRutter (talk) 13:37, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * - looks good, although you might want to add the Peabody Trust and its various estates in. Mjroots (talk) 14:12, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Scope
I've just come across this wikiproject following the post on the wikimedia UK blog. I have read the scope document but I'm still unsure whether this just relates to recent housing developments (last 30 years or so) as almost all the examples I cna find relate to this period. "Social Housing" in its many forms has been an issue for hundreds of years - I wonder whether it could include Vicars' Close, Wells, or model villages such as Blaise Hamlet, or Selworthy? These may also help to balance the "London & Manchester bias" I detect in the article listed so far. I will start adding some of the estates in Bristol & Bath but some greater clarity about what is covered would be helpful.&mdash; Rod talk 15:24, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Would almshouses &/or workhouses fall within the scope? What about mining villages or agricultural workers tied cottages?&mdash; Rod talk 15:35, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Estate maps-
There was discussion elsewhere about whether we need Estate maps- that are so generously provided at many estates. They are incredibly useful- but whether they are copyright free, fair use or closed needs to be established. An alternative is to do a screen grab of OSM- and gimp in the blocks and captions manually/ or edit up the OSM first. If we do that what are the conventions- do we have a guidance on a MOS? Here is a OSM of Cressingham Gardens :- https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.446&mlon=-0.1121&zoom=11#map=18/51.44626/-0.11211.

If you look at the estates around https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.5524&mlon=-0.1587&zoom=15#map=17/51.55177/-0.15779 Dunboyne Road Estate you will see that at the higher zoom levels, captions for different blocks appear and disappear, and there is no boundary information either by colour or line. Not all are yet are labelled- compare
 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.php?zoom=18&lat=051.526976&lon=-000.092668

with the estate map on
 * https://www.dropbox.com/s/yg0g60ffsgkq0q7/Islington%206892%20Radnor%20Street%20Pleydell%20Estate%20.JPG?dl=0

And with a little inkscape
 * https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccw4y1g5ht1n795/Pleydell.svg?dl=0

What do we want to do? --ClemRutter (talk) 14:52, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

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