I was thinking recently how my local council could use OpenStreetMap.
A couple of months ago I put a freedom of information request in to Durham
County Council in the hope of getting a full list of all Waste Bins in the
area with locations. I wanted to use this as a basis to survey for
I would think it would be the actual surveyed heights and exact locations
that would be the most use for OSM. Could we not use only the ones that
have been surveyed in the DoBH data, then this could not be claimed to be
Ordnance Surveys data.
Regards,
Steven
On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:14 AM Andy
Hello,
Is that true though for the hills with details in the survey column, they
have been measured with the instruments listed, eg. Abney level, Leica
Disto D510, etc. If they don't have anything recorded in the survey column
you would have to presume they are derived from OS mapping as there is
Take a look at http://www.shareyouradventure.com this maybe what you are
looking for. Originally Phil designed it to track walking routes live.
It could certainly be used how you described with an embedded map or direct
on the site. It is now a paid service but very cheap.
You can use a variety
>
> Postcodes refer to points, not to polygons.
Are you saying a point in OpenStreetMap terms?
UK postcodes generally cover an area/polygon. How big that area is appears
to come down to how much mail that area is likely to receive, I think
that's how its described on Wikipedia. So it could cover
Maybe not quite the correct place but thought other OSM mappers may have
similar thoughts?
The new Pebble Core looks like it could be useful for surveying. It has
GPS, voice input as well as Bluetooth and an API. It could be useful for
recording voice notes with GPS coordinates if the API allows.
Hello,
Have you looked at using QGIS and the OpenLayers plugin. You should be able
to use the OpenStreetMap layer and create a new Composer of any size you
like.
QGIS used to not like using Tile sources to create print outs but it did
just work with an internal tile server, it did give a warning
Use the direction of the way, i.e. the direction in which the OSM
object was drawn.
Sorry in my defense I had just woken up, clearly not fully. I should have
thought about the direction of the way. The direction isn't all that
obvious if using ID rather than JOSM.
When I sometimes
Hello,
It's interesting and highlights a few problems local to me, some I had
buried my head in the sand temporarily because I don't know how to fix them
correctly. My biggest problem when tagging roads is what to name a road
when either side of the road is a different street. For instance the
Hello,
I would be happy to help in anyway and have previously had a conversation
with Chris at NLS regarding helping georeference some of their maps.
I had been looking into creating my own historical version of OSM for a
local personal project, when I looked a few weeks ago Open Historical Map
I think what is best is a 'world file'. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file.
Apologies I sent an email earlier but had not copied into the list, I
mentioned I had tested using the World file. Copied my email below.
Hello,
I haven't had a lot of time the last few days to look at these
Corner coordinates are now displaying, allowing these to be aligned
adjusted to fit. Have fun!
Are the configuration files available already somewhere or is there a plan
to make them available so users of the maps could just load the maps rather
than having to align themselves with the given
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Rob Nickerson
rob.j.nicker...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Steven,
I've never heard of MAPC2MAPC but it looks great. I posted a comment [1]
on the talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list noting that there are KMZ/KML
files available on British Library website that
Was it http://www.openhistoricalmap.org you were thinking of?
On 31 Aug 2013 07:15, Brian Savidge a_sn...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi
A friend of mine belongs to a local Archaeology group and they are going
to do some surveying shortly using a variety of methods including ground
penetrating radar.
Hello,
I am mapping the Probation offices in Durham Teesside, I work in IT for
them but I am unsure how to actually tag them correctly. Obviously they are
not courts or prisons.
Many probation offices are next to or part of courts.
For an idea of numbers there are around 20 in my area and
of a shared building, such as
a court, you could add a tagged node for the office, if it is separate
building you could just tag the building.
Go for it!
Steven Horner ste...@stevenhorner.com wrote:
Hello,
I am mapping the Probation offices in Durham Teesside, I work in IT for
them
://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=probation#values
If you search for the names on the main OSM page you can find them to
inspect the tagging.
Tom
On 7 August 2013 14:11, Jonathan Bennett jonobenn...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/08/2013 13:47, Steven Horner wrote:
Thanks I will go
Personally I just produced the Durham map to show how much work is still to
be done.
Then use this as a basis to go out and survey.
A lot of the PRoW are incorrect anyway when actually on the ground. Even
when they have been amended officially, either the council doesn't update
their data or
I did a little bit of work early this morning on this for County Durham but
its very rough and nowhere near 100% accurate but gives a good idea of the
status of PRoW mapped in the area.
If you have a look at the 2 images linked below they show PRoW in County
Durham, one with background mapping,
Hello,
If you are just wanting to visualy inspect them, could you do it in
TileMill. I produced a map of a large part of County Durham that showed
both OSM footpaths and PRoW differently coloured. It produced a MBtiles
file which I then converted to Z,X,Y PNG tiles I then added that as a
source
I've used the NLS maps a lot and wish there were more maps from England
available. Obviously this isn't a priority for them but would happily help
in anyway I can. I have looked at their online georeferencer but almost all
are done.
It's a shame the English equivelant aren't as open.
Steven
On
I live near and and am a voluntary ranger for Durham County council. I will
follow them up for you. Will check on the map but if you can pass on any
extra details.
Although to be honest they haven't done anything recently I have reported
On 29 May 2013 20:20, Dudley Ibbett
Hello,
I am still not clear of the outcome of how to add the references to OSM,
there doesn't appear to be any standard format across each local authority.
A better source for the data is probably www.rowmaps.com Derbyshire data is
available from there, it's released under an OS Open Data
According to the government site below in Scotland the local authorities
don't have to signpost or record the Rights of Way:
https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/public-rights-of-way
The paths are recorded and signposted by the charity Scotways where there
appears to be plenty of
There is a good tutorial using QGIS to create a heat map here:
http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2012/07/tutorial-making-heatmaps-using-qgis-and.html
I haven't tried it yet though.
regards,
Steven
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
A friend has
barrycorneliu...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:47:34 Steven Horner ste...@stevenhorner.com
wrote:
I have followed the guidelines
at http://wiki.openstreetmap.**org/wiki/United_Kingdom_**
Tagging_Guidelineshttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines
but
should
I hadn't looked at the South of Durham around Houghall before, that is
fantastic. I had seen the centre was well mapped, but to go to the detail
of individual trees. It isn't too much detail either in that particular
setting (in my opinion). There does appear to be quite a few people mapping
that we have high resolution Bing imagery for countryside
areas, but it is a lot of work, even from an armchair.
Graham.
On 31 December 2012 21:17, Steven Horner ste...@stevenhorner.com wrote:
Personally I would love to see fields (landuse) and the walls/fences
that make this up marked on OSM
Hello,
I have been adding to OSM for about 18 months but more active in recent
weeks. I have requested the PRoW from Durham County Council, they currently
have not released their data but do have it electronically, just
not publicly available to download yet. Their response was more postive
than
of Way
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Barry Cornelius
barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012, Steven Horner wrote:
I have been adding to OSM for about 18 months but more active in recent
weeks. I have requested the PRoW from Durham County Council, they
currently
have
as such then it's not an official PRoW. That is how I understood it
to be used. The surface tag possibly shows if it exists on the ground but
not very reliably because you may tag as grass but is it visible.
Steven
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Steven Horner ste...@stevenhorner.comwrote
Thanks Andy that's what I was looking for. The job of adding footpaths,
bridleways and byways gets more complicated if we want it to be as accurate
as possible. The prow=ref obviously isn't needed but good to have if it's
known.
--
www.stevenhorner.com http://www.stevenhorner.com
@stevenhorner
:
Steven Horner wrote:
A more interesting example of the differences between on the ground and
recorded PRoW exists here (just NE of your link):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**lat=52.91864lon=-0.77876**
zoom=17layers=Mhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.91864lon=-0.77876zoom=17layers=M
It's a small world, the incident I described was also in Weardale near
Thimbleby Hill South of Stanhope. I didn't use OSM then and checking OSM
the path is not marked. A path on the opposite side of the wall where the
farmer was stood is marked which is incorrect and will lead to someone else
during 2013but there are huge numbers of 'normal' public
footpaths too.my challenge is trying to incorporate these into a nice
walk, as we don't tend to go 'mapping' - we go for a walk, and I take my
GPX receiver with me!
Cheers
Graham.
On 31 December 2012 16:20, Steven Horner ste
Personally I would love to see fields (landuse) and the walls/fences that
make this up marked on OSM but as per the Wiki this is a complicated area:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Land_use_and_areas_of_natural_land
I mapped a small area with landuse and some fences months ago but refrained
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