Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Meeting at Nuneaton - 5th Aug

2010-08-05 Thread Christoph Boehme
I can't make it today -- my PhD needs me. Hope you have a good time. Cheers, Christoph On 29/07/2010 18:07, Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: Iain, would be great to see you next Thursday if you can make it. During the summer we normally do a spot of mapping individually first before meeting

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus route changes

2010-03-31 Thread Christoph Boehme
Another change of bus routes in Birmingham. This time on Broad Street after 8pm at weekends: http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-transport-news/2010/03/31/birmingham-s-broad-street-buses-to-be-axed-over-traffic-jams-65233-26143325/ Cheers, Christoph

Re: [Talk-GB] XAPI lagging behind by days?

2010-03-24 Thread Christoph Boehme
christ...@b3e.net wrote: Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net schrieb: On 23 March 2010 13:20, Christoph Boehme christ...@b3e.net wrote: Well, I just updated t... Yes, exactly. My current plan is to have four types of stops in the basic scheme: 1. Non-NaPTAN stops: Stops without naptan:*-tags

Re: [Talk-transit] [Talk-GB] XAPI lagging behind by days?

2010-03-23 Thread Christoph Boehme
shows them needing work. It is a bit confusing having the three colour schemes when I'm aiming to fix the data up to a canonical OSM standard. Tom On 23 March 2010 12:16, Christoph Boehme christ...@b3e.net wrote: Tom, If you wish I can change the Hull scheme to mark stops

Re: [Talk-GB] XAPI lagging behind by days?

2010-03-23 Thread Christoph Boehme
I hope the load is not due to Novam using the server now. Novam is displaying the value of xapi:planetDate below the map key to give an indication of the age of the data. Perhaps the attribute could be amended with a full timestamp of the last update? Cheers Christoph On 23/03/2010 11:49, 80n

Re: [Talk-GB] XAPI lagging behind by days?

2010-03-23 Thread Christoph Boehme
Tom, If you wish I can change the Hull scheme to mark stops with naptan:verified=yes as completed as well. Cheers, Christoph On 23/03/2010 09:38, Tom Chance wrote: Hello there, I had a look at the NOVAM tool for bus stops to check my area:

Re: [Talk-GB] XAPI lagging behind by days?

2010-03-23 Thread Christoph Boehme
shows them needing work. It is a bit confusing having the three colour schemes when I'm aiming to fix the data up to a canonical OSM standard. Tom On 23 March 2010 12:16, Christoph Boehme christ...@b3e.net wrote: Tom, If you wish I can change the Hull scheme to mark stops

Re: [Talk-transit] OSM / OPNV-Karte to Excel/SVG

2010-01-20 Thread Christoph Boehme
Hi Tiziano, I am not aware of any tools which can do what you want out of the box. but here are some ideas which might be helpful for you: I use Xapi [1] a lot to retrieve only a specific portion of the OSM data for a large area (e.g. all relations with a route=bus tag). Once I have osm file

[Talk-transit] NOVAM is back

2009-10-22 Thread Christoph Boehme
Good Morning, this is just to let you know that NOVAM is working again. It can be found on http://mappa-mercia.org/novam . Please update any old links and booksmarks. Since I decided not to implement a merging functionality on the website I have removed most of the old user interface elements

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Boehme
Robert Naylor wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle bpran...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi everyone Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or not. For two reasons: indication of a shelter is a

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Boehme
Robert Naylor wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:15 +0100, Christoph Boehme christ...@b3e.net wrote: Robert Naylor wrote: How about adding an option to set wheelchair=yes to mark the new higher kerbs that are suddenly appearing everywhere (at least round here anyway) http://www.flickr.com

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Boehme
Thomas Wood wrote: 2009/9/16 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Christoph Boehme christ...@b3e.net wrote: Robert Naylor wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle bpran...@googlemail.com wrote: snip How about adding an option to set

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-15 Thread Christoph Boehme
Peter Miller wrote: On 15 Sep 2009, at 08:27, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyone Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or not. For two reasons: indication of a shelter is a representation of what's present on

Re: [Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-04 Thread Christoph Boehme
Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: We would also need to consider slope, steps and lifts between layers and the situation where a lift only connects some layers but not all of them. A lift is currently represented as a single node because it is vertical. How does one indicate

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Christoph Boehme
Matt Williams wrote: 2009/9/3 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/9/3 Patrick Petschge o...@petschge.de: Right. Any sane mail client does that. Based on the list-header, without Virtually no mail client does this. Right, wrong or indifferent it's how things are and I highly doubt

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-30 Thread Christoph Boehme
Christoph Böhme christ...@b3e.net wrote: Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com schrieb: I am also aware that there is a 50K place gazetteer sitting there untouched - last week I was adding villages in Norfolk by hand and the data is sitting available in NPTG. I taught myself XSLT at

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-02 Thread Christoph Boehme
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: Nic Roets wrote: And if the user indicates that he just wants to add a PoI, redirect him to http://ae.osmsurround.org/ so that he can add it directly to the database. That's the point I was trying to make - do not hog all the bugs in one central place and allow

Re: [Talk-transit] West Mids Bus Routes

2009-07-01 Thread Christoph Boehme
Thomas Wood wrote: 2009/7/1 Christoph Boehme christ...@b3e.net: Hi! Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: FYI, I'm only adding the routes in for sections where I've already verified the NaPTAN bus stops and added the route refs displayed at the stop. I it might be helpful here that I

Re: [Talk-transit] West Mids Bus Routes

2009-07-01 Thread Christoph Boehme
Andy, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Looking great. Thanks! I didn't play for more than a couple of moments so I may be missing something here, however if a stop has been merged, ie it appears to have all the right data, then there will be no wish to merge it with another stop.

Re: [OSM-talk] Thousands of small changesets by Tim Proegler

2009-06-25 Thread Christoph Boehme
Celso González wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:00:55PM +0100, Christoph Böhme wrote: Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com schrieb: Can we ban it, the stuff its uploading is completely useless. (single nodes with only note tags and no other useful metadata) All the nodes I have looked

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Bicycle boulevards

2009-06-11 Thread Christoph Boehme
Shaun McDonald wrote: On 10 Jun 2009, at 03:25, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/6/9 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org: I'm curious if bicycle boulevards would qualify as living streets, given that a living street would most closely describe a bicycle boulevard in OSM terms, though a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicycle boulevards

2009-06-10 Thread Christoph Boehme
Shaun McDonald wrote: On 10 Jun 2009, at 03:25, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/6/9 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org: I'm curious if bicycle boulevards would qualify as living streets, given that a living street would most closely describe a bicycle boulevard in OSM terms, though a

Re: [OSM-talk] Corine Land Cover becomes a potential OSM data source...

2009-05-14 Thread Christoph Boehme
Hi Pieren wrote: But we are facing the problem of how to detect and resolve the conflicts with existing landuse data in OSM which are usually (but not always) more accurate (Yahoo imagery or french cadastre). I know we are not the first country having this problem and we would like to know

Re: [OSM-talk] Languages

2009-05-07 Thread Christoph Boehme
Peter Childs wrote: 2009/5/7 Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com: On Thursday 07 May 2009, Tal wrote: Imagine that you plan a business trip to Tel-Aviv and want to print yourself a map of the city. Or maybe you'll be spending a week in Cairo. Can you not see the benefit in having a map with the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly social and some micro mapping

2009-04-30 Thread Christoph Boehme
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: 7-8 mapping then into the pub? Yes, that sounds good. Shall we meet at the pub (outside, of course :-D) before to split the cake? I note you didn’t colour the cemetery, nobody at home there? I'm not aware of any tagging scheme for graves yet, but feel

Re: [Talk-transit] Modelling complex stations

2009-02-26 Thread Christoph Boehme
Peter J Stoner wrote: In message 1350f7a40902260245l31fbfe88jc05af7faef79b...@mail.gmail.co m Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote: Indeed - I've started to do a few stations near me. One of the unsolved problems (to my mind), is how to add platforms numbers. ref=*

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-07 Thread Christoph Boehme
Joshua Scotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added some streets recently on an industrial estate and tagged them highway=road as I'm not sure what other tag to use. They are roads on a uk industrial estate with the normal white lines in the middle of the road. I usually tag these roads as

Re: [OSM-talk] Calling all Yahoo! tracers. Manchester, UK needs you before Saturday!

2008-10-23 Thread Christoph Boehme
Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would suggest you limit the tracing to simply marking the roads and applying an unclassified tag plus any notable buildings or points of interest that are obvious. Should the traced roads not be tagged as road instead of

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking aisle as boundary of car park not showing

2008-09-25 Thread Christoph Boehme
80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless of whether people are centerlineists or not, there are always going to be mappers who will tag ways this way. We have a free form tagging scheme so we cannot prohibit such things. For example, a way tagged as highway=waterway, power=line (two linear