> • Two-tier cycle parking: This is unfortunately becoming more and more
> present in the UK, but bizarrely OSM does not have a representation in
> widespread use currently, with only 6 instances worldwide of
> bicycle_parking=two_tier. It is proposed this be used, which will hopefully
> then
> From: Jez Nicholson
> Going back to this January discussion, has anyone tagged a kiosk/pod yet?
> what would you tag it if it isn't a
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtelephone any more?
I tend to use either:
man_made=telephone_box typically for ones repurposed with
I've had a quick go at the validator, and I like it a lot.
However, I just had a thought about some tagging that I don't think has been
discussed before.
My method of mapping is generally the amenity=fuel on/in the area of the actual
fuel pumps and then the shop/paypoint/kiosk as a separate
Hi Ilya,
I think some more attention needs putting on the creation of new/missing fuel
stations.
Some issues I've come across:
Around:
http://bl.ocks.org/Zverik/raw/ddcfaf2da25a3dfda00a3d93a62f218d/#18/50.85426/-1.73008
Looks like it will attempt to create a node over the top of an existing
I agree with SK53 that identifying missing RoW is the primary importance.
Robert: Is your code open / available anywhere such that one can help improve
it / take inspiration from / run it locally ?
I would like to use something better than flipping on/off a display of the ways
in a Hampshire
Ffordd_Pen_Llech is steep but it's one way (down), so if you're looking for
challenge to go up it on your bicycle you have to do so illegally.
Apparently Vale Street (http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/32024547) in Bristol
is meant to be very steep, but I don't know the incline. (Doesn't seem to
need lcn_ref tags as these are visible
signed.
David
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From: "Robert Norris" <rw_nor...@hotmail.com>
To: "Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>; "David
Groom" <revi...@pacific-rim.net>
Sent: 10/01/201
If I remember correctly the use of "prow_ref" tag is normally when the
reference is taken from the Council ROW information documents that are
compatible with OSM.
'ref' is used when the Reference itself is on the signed on the ground.
Thus for the Isle Of Wight, it is probably recommended to
Well done to all those involved in drudgery of the formal legal process.
I know I'm too lax to have input into the procedure but it's great to have
motivated people who are!
--
Be Seeing You - Rob.
If at first you don't succeed,
then skydiving isn't for you.
't for you.
From: Gregrs <gre...@fastmail.co.uk>
Sent: 28 November 2016 22:15:23
To: Robert Norris
Cc: Talk GB
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project
Thanks Rob. I hope you don't mind me CC'ing the Talk-GB list.
I've updated the wiki page
[http://wiki.openst
Does anyone have any idea how best (if at all) to tag "mobile" caterers - e.g.
Burger vans and variants thereof?
Some mobile caterers are truly mobile going to various events - and so
obviously not for inclusion in OSM, however some are trade from a fixed
location (or may be a couple?)
> From: jack.fitzsim...@ntlworld.com
> To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:13:56 +0100
> Subject: [Talk-GB] phone boxes used for other purposes
>
>
> I’m sure it must have been discussed before but how do I map a K6 booth
> with no phone currently used for another
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 10:28:31 +0100
> From: vosc...@gmail.com
> To: talk@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Georeferencing lots of photos using JOSM
>
> Hi Russ
>
>
> Solution: I remember where I took every photo (but if I see you
> walking on the street I won't remember your
>
> One open source cross platform program (including Windows) that can
> georeference photographs against existing waypoints, tracks or for any place
> you choose is Viking.
>
A link might be useful too:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/
>
> On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 17:33 +0100, Simon Poole wrote:
>> Ahemm that was the whole point: is it about completing information
>> (the
>> website URL) in OSM by systematically (as in going through "all
>> schools"
>> in the UK) querying google and not about retrieving information from
>> the
>>
___
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 18:15:13 +
> From: rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com
> To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project: Map of changesets
>
> Hi all,
>
> Can you please add "OSMschools" to your changesets so that we can track
>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:42:01 +0100
From: bpran...@gmail.com
This could be Royal Mail postboxes (still loads to do); Royal Mail
delivery offices and sorting offices; delivery areas/gates to factories
and town centre shopping malls; maxheights and maxweights on roads;
courier
Anyone know if it is possible to download the OS OpenData Locator layer
(by ITO) to use on a smartphone in offline mode?
I believe one can access the overlay tiles via this sort of TMS URL scheme:
http://tiles.itoworld.com/os_locator/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
You'll need have some kind of
Ignoring the source information for now, but I suspect it is very
similar to rights of way information in that it is probably derived from
OS maps.
The following overpass query highlights the issue, Norfolk standing out
as especially bad. This is just tertiary roads, there are issues with
Happy 10th Birthday OSM!
For a 10th birthday present - I thought I'd reprise SK53's 10 fascinating facts
posting from April 2013[1],
to see where OSM GB is at, at of the beginning of August 2014 compared to
Ordnance Survey GB(OSGB)[2] (values not updated).
So here's the comparison with the
It might be useful to give a couple of examples. We would link St
Paul's Cathedral to :
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173882
That, in turn has links to the Wikipedia articles about the cathedral,
in ~50 languages,
cut
How do/would Wikidata links relate to Wikipedia links in OSM objects?
I've been doing a bit of attributing to post boxes of late, and have a
couple of queries:
* Around Maidenhead a wall post box mounted in a brick pillar is a
fairly common type. I'm at a loss as to how these might be tagged using
post_box:type. A good example is SL6 4, which
Given the efforts of AndyS, NickW, myself and many others - most of Hampshire
is very well mapped.
An interesting question is how much? (Compared to the Hants CC).
There is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hampshire/Rights_of_Way
but that was last updated over 2 years ago :(
I suspect in
A quick comparison of HCC's numbers with the latest Geofabrik
Hampshire extract yields the following:
51% designation=public_footpath
60% designation=public_bridleway
58% designation=restricted_byway
111% designation=byway,public_byway,byway_open_to_all_traffic
Nice - thanks for the stats
Sorry if I've not seen the old posts on this, the wiki pages are
contradictory which is why I asked the question.
In the UK we are defining Trunk or Primary based on some arbitrary
definition not on anything that is of use to any user or renderer.
What we should be mapping is reality, so
The thing is I need a way to use the geolocation that OsmAnd has
recorded in the gpx file (in the waypoints corresponding to the
pictures).
I wasn't doing any tracking when I noticed that things had changed
quite a lot at a certain location. Normally I would have my gps logger
and a camera
I would be, however I'd be more keen to take my mountain bike out - there's
seems to be a few missing bridleways...
However if one goes a little further south
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/51.0600/-0.5734) - there is a
suspiciously ROW free zone in the OSM data.
Be Seeing You - Rob.
I'm buried in other code at the moment so don't have time to dig for an
answer,
so can someone point me in the right direction to get a 'search result' via
the
API for looking up a location.
I know I can go via the website, but I need to be able to search for
Just a note to mention that this is being repeated on Saturday mornings on BBC2
and of course now on iPlayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0078y2t/Map_Man_Series_2_Bartholomews_Cycling_Map_of_England_and_Wales/
A must see for map, walking, cycling, history, geography enthusiasts or
.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Robert Norris
rw_nor...@hotmail.commailto:rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How to create very large jpeg from OSM file
If any of the available tile set styles are suitable, simply
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How to create very large jpeg from OSM file
If any of the available tile set styles are suitable, simply download
the tiles, at the desired zoom level, for your area of interest, stitch
together with a tool such as gdalmerge,
I encountered a tree blocking[1] the byway along Stancomb Broad Lane back on
the 1st July this year.
Which I thought about reporting but wasn't bothered / didn't know how - I
guessed a local person would do it in time.
Now, I'm not sure if it was actually on 'Bighton 7' or on the track
, and
I think are better resolution.
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/publications/data/default.aspx
Ed
-Original Message-
From: Robert Norris [mailto:rw_nor...@hotmail.com]
Sent: 02 November 2012 23:50
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-GB] Request: Norfolk Broads
I believe that currently a boundary way or relation for the National Park of
the Norfolk Broads is missing from OSM.
I was wondering if any one in the East Anglia area would be up to the challenge
of creating it?
I assume the best way of creating a tentative out-line would be a manual
Looks bonkers to me. Have you tried sending them a polite message
asking them what what the purpose of the links are that they're adding?
It was quite succinct, so maybe not that polite.
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Talk-GB
because of the WIWOSM feature in Wikipedia. By adding one link to a
Wikipedia-Article (which language is not important) on the relation of
an administrative district, the area will be marked in the maps of some
wikipedias (de, it, es etc (however, not yet en)) as a field. Find more
In the case of motor vehicles only being prohibited for half of the
year, is there any consensus on the correct way to tag it?
Yes, that reminds me I need to update some byways around Avebury...
[e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/25793851]
I think the idea is to use the
I think it's nice that the Royal Mail have chosen to use OSM for the backdrop
to their site for Great Britain Golden Postbox listings to celebrate Team GB
successes in the current Olympics:
http://www.goldpostboxes.com/
1. I think a certain Attribution clause is missing[1]
2. I think they
-gb@openstreetmap.org
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:40:51 +0100
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Meetup - Botley - 24/07/12 - NEW DATE
On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 14:18 +0100, Robert Norris wrote:
I propose the Bugle Inn at Botley at 8pm on Tuesday the 24th July.
Sounds good to me. I'm out of town
Some time ago I mentioned a Hampshire area meetup, however with a busy schedule
of summer time sport (Euros/TdF/Wimbledon) and poor weather I haven't been
particularly motivated, however this week looks very promising.
I propose the Bugle Inn at Botley at 8pm on Wednesday the 25th for July.
What is actually meant by 'Rights of Way Data' here?
As per the online maps [1] it also includes:
. Long Distance Routes
. Countryside Services
. District Boundaries
Are these part of the Open Data release as well?
Note they don't appear in the KML download that I've looked at. (I've not
I always use Potlatch an editor, and so the majority of the paths I have
added are highway=footpath, unless I know it's designated as a bridleway in
which case I've set it as highway=bridleway. If I use a path, but it's not
actually signed as a public or otherwise footpath then I think I
I've added my 2 penneth.
Maybe we should gather more samples of signs - e.g. to show differing Councils
styles (and then hopefully agreed tagging) to give better guidelines.
I've have a look my photos but I think I tend to delete these types of pictures
after use.
If I remember, next time
NB There's a group on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/postboxbypostcode/
With a reasonably active number of members and photos with varying amounts of
tag info.
Photographs are under the copyright terms of the original taker.
Be Seeing You - Rob.
If at first you don't succeed,
then
I could equally claim that information on the surface of paths is
absolutely essential for cyclists with road bikes, and that toilet
opening hours are absolutely essential for people with weak bladders.
In many areas OSM is completely hopeless at accurate routing for cars,
On a slightly different tangent, how if at all do we have have timed
restrictions on access types?
As the other day I was walking around the Ridgeway:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.422242618282993lon=-1.8314579782714844zoom=15layers=B000FTF
1. Some byways have permissions of no
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:27:31 +0100
From: openstreet...@jordan-maynard.org
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Vandalization - No Bere Forest?
On 29/03/2012 19:30, Robert Norris wrote:
I've just
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:27:31 +0100
From: openstreet...@jordan-maynard.org
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Vandalization - No Bere Forest?
On 29/03/2012 19:30, Robert Norris wrote:
I've just noticed Bere Forest
My 2p:
Leave it to [2].
A. since it is no effort
B. any problems created by the redaction should be noticeable by [2] whether it
was caused by the bot or *any other normal edit*
Apart from deletions, but then the gives mappers (including new mappers!)
something to (re)map via local knowledge
I've just noticed Bere Forest (and trails) has been wiped from the map:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.91178lon=-1.15578zoom=15
It's literally empty space!
Probably most where Andy Steets initial trials, but he's agreed so was there
some over zealous deletion by some one?
Unfortunately
On 23 March 2012 12:58, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
Incidentally, is just knowing the footpaths evidence enough to tag with
odbl=clean? Or is there the risk that the footpath was created with iffy
sources?
Use odbl=clean to clear features which contain historic
OK may be I wasn't quite using it quite with the proper intention, although
I think most of the ways I added it to have been revised in some manner.
However it's quite difficult to determine how much a ways' geometry has
changed.
You should definitely always err on the side of caution.
Re: Andy Streets changes in Hampshire.
So I thought I should get around at least to sticking in odbl=clean on ways
(mainly paths tracks) I know to be OK, that I've personally been on whilst
cycling or walking.
Which turned out to be more interesting than I thought...
First via using JOSM it
Robert Norris wrote:
Here's my manual check (taking me about 2 hours) of Andy
Streets changes.
That's excellent. Thank you very much for that.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nick%20Austin/edits
I note the above user has been very busy with remapping efforts in Hampshire
Michael Collinson wrote:
On 19/03/2012 13:40, John Sturdy wrote:
I think the time's getting close enough that I'll resume that work
anyway.
This is almost certainly a person I had an amicable phone
conversation with a week last Monday who is still concerned
that OS open data
On 24 January 2012 03:09, Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote:
The Taunton Sedgemoor import data seems pretty messed up.
Eg Mansuel Road, seems have picked out wrong points (over 5+ miles away) to
generate crazily wrong geometry.
Thanks Robert - I'll have a look
Are there any online tools for Searching Changeset Comments?
Preferably by area ala OWL, but perhaps also on a per user basis?
I appreciate this is probably computationally intensive / large resources
required.
Be Seeing You - Rob.
If at first you don't succeed,
then skydiving isn't for you.
I can't say I'm convinced about the value of adding FIXMEs to 7000+ postboxes
in the UK in changeset:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10834378
1. Collection Times when missing can be cross referenced with the open data
request with the Royal Mail when the postbox has a
Seeing as it's Charles Dicken's 200th Birthday soon,
http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/charles-dickens/charles-dickens-200
I thought I should get around to mapping the Blue and other Coloured Plaques in
my area of Portsmouth, especially as there's one at his birthplace.
However OSM
I have stated to map the 60ish p laques (mostly blue) in Hull and
update the openplaques site too. I wrote a blog about it earlier this
month http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2012/01/plaques-blue-or-not.html .
It seems there is a plaque to Dickens here too, though I haven't
checked it
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:49:13 +0100
From: o...@tobias-knerr.de
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-talk] Mails to undecided mappers (was: Editing of content that
will be deleted on April 1st)
David Earl wrote:
I'll certainly be contacting people now Frederick has provided an
I notice the South/ South West is looking a bit empty, so I started a list of
places I know but need investigating further before marking on the map (some I
could do as single node as a very rough placement - but should be able to get
better trace / identify stuff using Bing Aerials).
Thanks
Brian Prangle wrote:
How to distinguish real ale from industrial mass market breweries?
Put something descriptive in real_ale= perhaps?
In my mind, in the UK most (small/micro)breweries are real_ale, thus this
should be assumed default.
(According to http://www.beermad.org.uk/, there
I’m primarily a cyclist and interested in ensuring that our cycle
coverage is great. Whilst looking at the Bing! aerial imagery in
Portsmouth recently I spotted some cycleways and cycle lanes which we
don’t have in our map. They looked like they were in fairly established
areas of
From: bobhawk...@waitrose.com
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:25:08 +0100
Subject: [Talk-GB] How to use relations for The Chiltern Way and its
extensions
The Chiltern Way has a North Extension, a South
Extension and, new in 2010, a Berkshire Loop. Perhaps
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