Re: [Talk-GB] Dropped or lowered kerbs

2019-02-01 Thread Paul Bivand via Talk-GB
with restricted mobility (like sticks). So, absent local authorities putting in textured paving routinely, it might be conceivable to think of an app that warned people of such dropped kerbs. We could of course spend the next ten years mapping all of them and not get halfway through. Paul Bivand

Re: [Talk-GB] Route planning (was:Re: Restoring a usable map service!)

2015-11-01 Thread Paul Bivand
1st series was black and white, road importance was distinguished by both thickness (in some cases supposed to be representative of actual width) but also the road edges have differing thicknesses. The differing importance of roads are clear to the eye. Paul Bivand (paulbiv) On Sunday 01 Nov

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Bivand
As this has dropped off the active thread list a bit. I'd broadly agree with this, though I'm more corporate sponsors than members. My feeling on responding with a greater emphasis on community rather than techy stuff was that those OSM discussions I've been to (mapping parties in Gravesend,

Re: [Talk-GB] Odd highway=primary_link changes in gyratory systems

2015-08-09 Thread Paul Bivand
Looks like urViator has changed them back. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33222199 Thanks, urViator. Paul Bivand (paulbiv) On Sunday 09 Aug 2015 14:40:19 Paul Bivand wrote: Noticed some changes that I think odd that appear to derive from mapper urViator changing highway= primary

[Talk-GB] Odd highway=primary_link changes in gyratory systems

2015-08-09 Thread Paul Bivand
was not appropriate. What do people think? Paul Bivand (paulbiv) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Road Names Quarterly Project

2015-02-17 Thread Paul Bivand
A small story about this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31117763/history Laurie Gray Avenue, Bluebell Hill, Kent, used to have a street sign saying Laurie Gray. Various council documentation and OS locator referred to the 'Avenue' form. After two discussions an openstreetmap mapper asked

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM University of Liverpool exercise (or 200 free(ish) volunteers)

2014-11-28 Thread Paul Bivand
. More here on how to do the datashine maps. http://oobrien.com/2012/02/reworking-booth-geodemographics-of-housing/ Paul Bivand On Thursday 27 Nov 2014 23:05:42 David Woolley wrote: On 27/11/14 14:09, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Nice initiative! I think adding building outlines is quite useful

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Bivand
always getting linked to ratings as others do. Paul Bivand On Friday 23 Aug 2013 04:04:31 Richard Fairhurst wrote: Colin Smale wrote: Calling the transformation from OSM data to international format trivial does not do justice to the creativity of mappers when entering phone numbers

Re: [Talk-GB] Govt Consultation Uses OSM Mapping

2013-05-24 Thread Paul Bivand
Probably easier for DfT to use an OSM base rather than go through the bureaucracy required to use their Ordnance Survey licence. However, looks like an opportunity to map anything that might put a spoke in their wheel - they mention Ramsar wetlands and the North Kent Downs AONB. Doesn't seem

Re: [Talk-GB] Refs on Tertiary Unclassifed Roads in Highland

2013-03-17 Thread Paul Bivand
between B (signposted) and C (not signposted). Paul Bivand (paulbiv) On Sunday 17 Mar 2013 09:54:22 sk53.osm wrote: I've noticed that many minor roads in the Highland Region of Scotland have been tagged with ref=[CU] based on a PDF document from the regions transport department. I've

Re: [Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names

2012-09-30 Thread Paul Bivand
Small cautionary note on Housing development sales boards. Development names may well be different from local authority final names. In my patch we have had a development known as Capstone Heights with that name on all the development signs including maps. However the local authority

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode update

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Bivand
Statistics attribution, that should be OK. However, the perpetual attribution requirement (and its odd that National Statistics is in there, as ONS has always been more open e.g. census output area shapefiles) is quite well buried. Paul Bivand On Wednesday 11 Apr 2012 08:57:53 Robert Whittaker (OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Consultation - Traffic orders: simplifying ( mapping?) the process

2012-01-31 Thread Paul Bivand
to their updating processes/costs) Paul Bivand (paulbiv) On Monday 30 Jan 2012 16:14:04 Ralph Smyth wrote: DfT has launched a new consultation today on amending requirements placed on traffic authorities in England when they propose and make temporary and permanent traffic orders (TOs