Re: [Talk-GB] Authorities, boundaries and admin-levels

2009-06-11 Thread Abigail Brady
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.comwrote: *UK *England/Wales/Scotland *English regions (North East, East of England etc) *Ceremonial counties/unitaries *Districts *Parishes/Wards etc (but lets deal with the big ones first) Ceremonial counties are not

Re: [OSM-talk] Name finder and home page search working again

2008-03-26 Thread Abigail Brady
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It uses name, then place_name (but only when name is not given), then ref, iata, icao, old_name, and loc_name as if these were in square brackets after the name as described above. Hence name=Archway Road; ref=A5;

Re: [OSM-talk] Stares

2008-03-10 Thread Abigail Brady
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 7:07 PM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed the number of stares going up? I had about 5 in my hour or so of mapping. I waved at 3 of them and got one wave back. Last month I had someone ask me if they had parked their car in an OK place. They

Re: [OSM-talk] Map_Features not loading

2008-03-10 Thread Abigail Brady
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Pieren Pieren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but again, the problem is not the templates but PHP on the server has a limited memory and this page takes about 900Kb size of text and pictures (with or without templates). (the error is a not possible to allocate

Re: [OSM-talk] place=country/nation/state

2008-02-19 Thread Abigail Brady
On Feb 19, 2008 1:03 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example: here in Spain, the NUTS1 level is an artificial classification. Nobody in spain would use that. And in the UK, NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 at least are artificial classifications that nobody would use. Seriously, look

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping canals

2008-01-24 Thread Abigail Brady
On Jan 24, 2008 11:26 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also worried about people using gauges adding 5ft 5in somewhere, we should at least require decimals. I've tagged low bridges in Leicester with maxheight=15'0, for example. That's what the sign on the bridge says,

Re: [OSM-talk] Units convention (Was: Mapping canals)

2008-01-24 Thread Abigail Brady
On Jan 24, 2008 4:18 PM, Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: US: 1,000.00 m = 1 km DE: 1.000,00 m = 1 km 1 000.00 m = 1 km ... my recommendation There is really no point using a thousands separator in figures which are supposed to be machine-readable. -- Abi

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Thread Abigail Brady
On Jan 9, 2008 11:50 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand why numbers are used instead of names. My question is why are there no odd numbers listed? It just looked strange. Future-proofing. It leaves gaps so that if new units are invented that fit between existing ones you

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Thread Abigail Brady
On Jan 10, 2008 11:06 AM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Gower wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:11:35PM +1300, Robin Paulson wrote: the boundary data should be relatively easy to come by Not where it isn't marked on the ground, and is only defined by reference to

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Thread Abigail Brady
On Jan 10, 2008 11:35 AM, Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Greater London debatable or for a mapping/administritive meaning are you counting the outside boundaries of the London Boroughs? I personally do it by the London Transport zone, as your generally need a 10-12minute bus service so

Re: [OSM-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're going

2008-01-10 Thread Abigail Brady
On Jan 10, 2008 11:52 AM, Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm right then compatibility isn't quite as much as an issue as the discussion has made me think. Wikipedia's position is indeed that they are allowed to illustrate GFDL articles with cc-by-sa images, because the images and the

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Thread Abigail Brady
On Jan 10, 2008 4:37 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? Trying to future-proof against hierarchies that have been around for (in some cases) millenia? Ooh, I know, we could have negative numbers to indicate planet, solar system, galaxy, etc. For future interstellar use. I'm not

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Unsurfaced road and Byway?

2007-12-16 Thread Abigail Brady
On Dec 16, 2007 9:37 AM, Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An unsurfaced road should simply be a road with the surface tag set: highway=secondary surface=unpaved That's not to say some non-Map Features tags are being supported. If so, I've never heard of either of them and suggest

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] disputed territories

2007-12-14 Thread Abigail Brady
On Dec 14, 2007 11:40 PM, Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Her Majesty in Council. (Without claiming that the judgment is in any way flawed, it should be pointed out, of course, that this is just a judicial review, and in no way binding or precedent setting) As a side-note, when we

Re: [Talk-GB] Conflicting tagging of london undergound stations

2007-09-20 Thread Abigail Brady
On 9/20/07, Alex Mauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would be better to use the layer tag rather than the tunnel tag, but I agree that the whole thing should be railway=subway. I prefer tunnel to indicate tunnels. In addition, layer=-1 would be useful for where the underground goes in

Re: [Talk-GB] Future UK mapping parties

2007-07-16 Thread Abigail Brady
On 7/16/07, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... not in my experience! They all use GPS devices, and the last time I got a taxi he took us to the wrong part of Hammersmith (the streetname was similar to the one we wanted, and pulled out an A-Z. Was that a real taxi driver (who do have to