Re: [Talk-GB] multiple GB lists

Hi Jez, happy to stop talk-gb-thenorth and merge it but how would I do that? it would be nice if it was kept in archived form This one has not been used for several years now - it has 60+ subscribers. Tim On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 10:13, Jez Nicholson wrote: > Demonstrating my ignorance, I did

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible Unattributed Map on Labrokes Website

I think it's Blipstar - a UK company who provide store locator tools Looking at their example map https://blipstar.com/blipstarplus/examples it seems to be the default to hide the attribution (via CSS media query) on narrower window widths Tim On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 13:31, Robert Whittaker (OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] When is a hedge a wood?

At first look I thought this was a once-hedge, a hedge that's been left to itself. But each tree is equally spaced, looks the same age, doesn't seem pollarded or coppiced as what you might expect a tree in a hedge to be, and so I don't think that's the case now. So to my mind now, it's a fence,

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping horse steps?

Wikipedia calls them "mounting blocks" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounting_block I spotted a new ish concrete one the other day which had an official looking "horse riders may mount here" sign above it, but I don't think those signs are in the HM Sign Manual. I prefer "mount" to "dismount"

Re: [OSM-talk] Directed Editing Policy

I've a couple of examples, and a couple of questions which might aid the discussion. I recently did some work which would label me as both a directee and a director. For each changeset I added a custom changeset tag which I thought was the sensible thing to do. It was also helpful for me to be

Re: [Talk-br] [OHM] Possibility to build a new Historic Project to OSM

Hi Rodrigo, Speaking of OpenHistoricalMap I think historic events bound to geography would be welcome. The Historic Event proposal was for the different but of course bigger OSM project.The example given in the wiki page was historic battlefields which would be suitable. I think there could be

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

At time of writing this email, the Kickstarter project has reached its goal with $1,085 and 18 hours left. This would mean in this case that the Universe cares about this project, but wouldn't in my mind indicate that this would mean that volunteers would magically appear to work on it! Regards,

[OSM-talk] The New Cloud Atlas - Mapping Physical Infrastructure of the Internet with OSM

Hi folks, with Ben Dalton, I'm happy to properly launch The New Cloud Atlas project at http://newcloudatlas.org I've written a blog post to explain it in more detail: https://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-new-cloud-atlas-mapping-the-physical-infrastructure-of-the-internet/ It's a

Re: [OSM-talk] Uber most likely using OSM data

Hello, given they may well have a very large body of GPS traces, they may be using these to route along. The way to check if they are using OSM is if the OSM map has intentional errors - a kink in the road where there is none on aerial imagery or on our GPS traces, for example. Some of my early

Re: [OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?

I use a trusty Microsoft Intellimouse (although I do not customise the buttons), but I'm really replying to an observation about a helpful tip for mapping parties and workshops. When putting on a mapping party / workshop where people bring their own laptops, bring a bag of mice for participants

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

Heather and folks who are often perplexed, are you actually perplexed or do you understand but disagree? I ask because I have heard some mappers say the opposite: "I don't understand why people would choose w3w!!11". Is it a turn of phrase? Or a genuine plea for illumination? I often disagree

Re: [Talk-GB] Night Time Aerial Imagery?!?

This is great! Thanks for putting these online. I've been trying to find the source on the EA website - as I was wondering whether they were also recording other bands (infra red etc) which could, I imagine, be used to map vegetation. Also, I was curious to find out why they chose these specific

Re: [Talk-GB] UK OSM final articles of association

Hi Rob, Great news, it's good to see that things are becoming more and more concrete! May I ask, does the red text in the document indicate simply that they were the last changes made? Also - for initial directors, to remind folks, these are just in name only for a little while before the

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project (Health): Pharmacies and Defibrillators

Are the some hospitals that do not have pharmacies? Would these be the smaller clinics, or would they be tagged differently anyhow? Tim On 15 May 2016 at 21:51, Andrew Black wrote: > I notice the list of registered pharmacies includes hospital pharmacies. > Not

Re: [OSM-talk] Upload slowness - what's going on?

I believe the Dev mailing list may have some of your technical answers https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2016-May/thread.html It appears from that list that the database servers are now a few hundreds of miles from where the web servers are, causing the increase in latency. I do not

Re: [Talk-GB] OSGR & OSM

There are a few tools out there which may do the job, I seem to recall a few. http://nearby.org.uk/ might have it. The search keywords which might help is "os national grid spherical mercator". Do remember that a tile is not the same square as an os grid square, but you should be possible to

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

Frederik is correct in saying that OpenStreetMap Project does not appear in the OSMF Articles of Association. However, on the OSMF website, the following words are used: "The Foundation supports the OpenStreetMap Project." So the wider OSM "thing" is the OpenStreetMap Project rather than the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter: Who will be the "we"?

Hi Dave, I think that the "we" would be the members of the organization. Tim On 21 March 2016 at 00:40, Dave F wrote: > Hi all > > OK, this a genuine, non rhetorical, non cynical question. > > I've loosely been following the discussions of setting up a UK:chapter

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

R.. WOOS-8-3-1" map a >> fair bit. Started by using recognisable locations (features on lakes, etc.) >> but eventually settled on tagging the grid lines and using online conversion >> tools to give me the WGS-84. The ones with hills in look great in Google >> Earth, e.g. ht

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

y have firewalled the office with an > https whitelist. > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 at 17:34 Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: >> >> On 1 February 2016 at 13:02, Tim Waters <chippy2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Great stuff. I think a few hundred maps (i

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

On 1 February 2016 at 12:30, Jez Nicholson wrote: > I've copied my control points over to http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/629 > Great stuff. I think a few hundred maps (if not all) from this collection are already in the wikimaps warper. However there was an issue with

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenRandomMap

Great site! I got OpenRiceMap which you could actually imagine happening (although with maybe the same likelihood happening as OpenSantaMap) You could add an affiliate link to namecheap or something and give profits to OSMF! On 23 January 2016 at 19:04, Russ Nelson wrote: >

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK group - Sign up to mail lists

Hi Rob, I've read over the minutes. Things look good. On 17 December 2015 at 22:02, Rob Nickerson > As noted I would like to set up mailing lists as a replacement to the > current system (mailing those who submitted an email address in the > original survey). Please

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

As an infrequent poster to osm-talk I think I'm excluded from Colin's "3 or 4 people" and "most active participants" and am not in the Fetted Inner Core (at least I wasn't the last time I checked!) - however my views are similar to the ones previously, in this case, very sorry Colin! :-) In

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

Could subtracting between the DSM and DTM where we have buildings already in OSM give the height of the buildings? On 23 September 2015 at 15:08, Chris Hill wrote: > On 23/09/15 14:18, Phil Endecott wrote: >> >> Has anyone reviewed how useful this LIDAR data would be for 3D

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

September 2015 at 10:34, Tim Waters <chippy2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > back in June we had a thread announcing that this LIDAR data was due > to be released. Well some of it has. > > https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-ligh

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

I'd like to recommend OpenHistoricalMap.org (OHM) which will welcome all types of historical, disused and abandoned features. Please, go add every abandoned railway to OHM, and then together we can eventually get an accurate map of 1880s railway network compared to a 1940's, compared to yesterdays

Re: [OSM-talk] When to celebrate OSM birthday?

In previous threads discussing the anniversary, and there have been a few, there was a generally accepted agreement that the birthday is the time when the openstreetmap.org domain was first registered, 9 August, which happily fell on a Saturday last year for the 10th Anniversary. (This year it's

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM services

cheers! Glad that mapwarper proved a little bit useful, it was built for OSM. Tim ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Underground services

I'm also interested in underground cables and mapping communications routes, in particular the major internet trunk cables. My question would be, similar to tunnels and other somewhat hidden underground features - how would we represent lengths along the route where the positioning is unclear.

Re: [Talk-GB] Update: Deploying our own version of NYPL Building Inspector

[1]. 1. Chris Fleet from National Library of Scotland (NLS) has kindly provided a couple of GeoTiff example scans from their London 1890's maps [2]. 2. Using the NYPL map-vectorizer [3] I am able to get initial building outlines from these maps. 3. Tim Waters has managed

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

[1] https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer On 18 May 2014 22:35, Tim Waters chippy2...@gmail.com wrote: Couple of things - building inspector update and British Library Goad maps. Building Inspector update: I've got it working and have put up an instance on heroku for the moment - Works

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

that. Best, Rob p.s. The code for vectorizing maps is also on GitHub. Chris has sent me a couple of GeoTIFs so I'm going to have a go with them this weekend. On 16 May 2014 12:51, Tim Waters chippy2...@gmail.com wrote: I might have some time this weekend to look at the Rails side of things

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

I might have some time this weekend to look at the Rails side of things (that is, if no one else has made any progress) Will ping back in a couple of days Tim On 12 May 2014 21:08, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steven, Thanks for the offer of help. Yesterday I managed

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

We have a pretty good relation with NLS. Is there any interest in our community to enquire about working with them? Rob On 30 April 2014 15:46, Tim Waters chippy2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob, it has been on the list before - but they have recently revamped it and added many more features

Re: [OSM-talk] ReMAPTCHA Demo BETA 0.2 online! (Was: Hate captchas!!!!)

On 28 April 2014 08:54, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: At least at face value, this presents issues for the US chapter, given blind people... The most frequent response I have heard to similar comments in the past was that the map as a whole presents more of an issue. It may seem a

Re: [OSM-talk] gittip.com

I think this is great, many thanks! I particularly like the option to just log in to another site via OpenStreetMap OAuth. Tim On 9 January 2014 10:09, Simó Albert i Beltran s...@probeta.net wrote: Hi, I am proud to announce that now you can use your https://openstreetmap.org user to

Re: [Talk-GB] Magistrates and Crown Courts listings as open data – hack event coming…

and address exists, it can be contributed to. Assuming the licenses are compatible. Tim Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 15/12/2013 13:36, Tim Waters wrote: I wonder if court listings also has the addresses of those involved / defendants? A further source of addresses and postcodes

Re: [Talk-GB] Magistrates and Crown Courts listings as open data – hack event coming…

I wonder if court listings also has the addresses of those involved / defendants? A further source of addresses and postcodes On 9 December 2013 17:16, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: From:

Re: [OSM-talk] New layout

This looks like the best place for this, but I think (and forgive me if I can't find it - I'm a bit blind) but I think that there is not even a link to the main OSM Blog from anywhere on the osm.org homepage or sub pages! http://blog.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] NPE data

I think this shows one of the benefits of adding source tags to our edits - because in the future a better source may come along. At the time a lot of natural features in the UK were traced from NPE maps and they made many parts of the UK in OSM much better than nothing. It's really

Re: [Talk-GB] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

Hi folks, just to add a little bit of brain food. I'm involved with the georeferencing / georectification side of things with the Wikimaps project with Wikimedia Commons with Susanna Anas as mentioned earlier. We're using a stripped down version of the open source mapwarper software which

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

Thought this would be a good place to plug mapwarper.net if folks have their own images and want to upload and georeference them online. Cheers, Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Orientation of buildings from OSM in the UK

Thought this may be of interest to folks. The chart illustrates the alignment of buildings in the OSM database, for the British Isles. The trace of each building was divided into line segments, and the orientation of each segment to due north was calculated. Then the lengths of segment were

Re: [OSM-talk] Explanation of crowd sourcing?

On 16 March 2013 00:59, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Hi I wanted to send a link to people who'd never heard of OSM that explains the basics of what it is entails, but I couldn't find a page with a clear, simple explanation of what crowd sourcing is that they can contribute . You

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Group of croatian mappers is visiting UK

Hi Hrvoje, this sounds great, I hope that some local mappers can meet up (I'm a little bit far away). Could you tell us a little bit more about the project? Is it being held in other countries? Are they all using OSM? cheers, Tim On 11 January 2013 10:14, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Problem with an Etrex 20

On 20 November 2012 00:03, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone compared the etrex20 to the gpsmap 60Csx regarding positional accuracy? Recently got strange problems on my 60Csx (can turn it on, but when turned off it won't switch on again unless I remove the batteries

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Problem with an Etrex 20

Hello, I have a new etrex20 also. On 18 November 2012 03:02, Banick, Robert robert.ban...@redcross.org wrote: Hi Sebastian, It certainly sounds like your USB Controller is dead, but here's a thought: Garmins can be finicky about the cables they're used with. Are you using the USB cable that

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Viewer in distance

Hello, On 14 November 2012 18:35, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: hi all we develop a POI VIewer on Leaftlet, with distance around 300 POI around 10 km. the engine develop using hibernate with Lucense, Hibernate SEarch.. www.hibernate.org this search is the search engine which

Re: [Talk-GB] Garmin eTrex 30 - just reduced on amazon

Nuts, I just this week got a etrex 20 for a little bit less than this. Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Gibraltar - Mapping Party?

On 2 October 2012 22:47, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, I'll come back with more once I catch up with Roger. In the meantime, would this idea float anyone's boat Sounds good - also, yes to advance notice for cheaper airfares etc Tim

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2013

Hi On 17 September 2012 18:00, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote: Just to throw another venue idea into the mix, how about Warwick University? Advantages: it keeps winning awards as one of the best conference venues in the UK, and can offer a very full-service event where the venue

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Digitizing from Balloon Maps

From what I recall, but this is not canon (insert disqualification etc) Ed Parsons from Google has basically said in one of his personal blog posts in 2008 [1] that interpreting the location of a point to create a new bit of data using their aerial imagery does not make it derived data, because

Re: [OSM-talk] Helping mappers feel comfortable about their contributions / quality control

I also think that a voluntary opt-in review system would work - and only really needs someone to write one, and a JOSM plugin, and a Potlatch 2 patch. It's on my list of things to do, but I doubt I will ever get around to doing it. But that's all that needs happen by someone - do-ocracy etc... In

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM server on a (Ubuntu) VM?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rails_port will help with installing the main application. There are, of course, more pages on the wiki which can help, some of which are linked to from that page. Tim On 21 December 2010 00:12, Arlindo Pereira openstreet...@arlindopereira.com wrote: Hi

Re: [OSM-talk] Category: Users who contribute their data in Public domain

On 19 December 2010 03:28, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm just wondering how many users out their still need to update their wiki.openstreetmap.org page wit their licence preference. Well, I for one do, but like many users, don't do wiki's much. Is there a how-to

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

Cool idea - I can see how it can help the OSM project. There are a couple of things. 1) What to do about users adding the same point, but differently. For example user A goes I'm at McDonalds, it's a cafe, user B goes I'm at Mac Donalds, it's a fast food restaurant for the same location. What

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

Hi, Zsombor, thanks for the reply, and clarifying about chickens. When/how does OSM get edited with the app by the user? (Sorry, not got an Iphone so cannot see for myself :) Earlier in the thread you said Every user that makes an edit to OSM via the app does it with their own OSM user.

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

On 17 December 2010 11:49, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: From http://www.ourairports.com/about.html , under Credits: Google Maps for providing a free, high-quality mapping API and geocoder But it also says: Marc Wick at Geonames for permission to run thousands of batch

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

We (EntropyFree) made a tentative start towards this a year or two ago at OpenHistoricalMap.org - but although the resources needed for it didn't come through, there was an incredible amount of interest in it. Essentially it was planned to be a customised SM server instance with some backend

Re: [OSM-talk] New: A blackwhite base layer

On 3 November 2010 14:37, Donald Campbell II donaciano2...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah that Glittermap is great stuff I gotta thank you for freeing my mind of the constraints of stuffy boring mapping. Now I'm thinking of cartoon style maps with text effect scripts run on Country/City/Town names...

[Talk-GB] Volunteers wanted to lead mapping party with MapAction, Swindon, Nov 20/21

Sent on behalf of the HOT and Mikel, we're looking for 2 people to go - this should be a great day, and useful for both us and them :) Hi Are you interested to lead an OSM mapping party with MapAction on November 20/21, at their weekend training near Swindon? MapAction is UK NGO that deploys

Re: [OSM-talk] Post-SOTM idea: Volcanoes of Olot

I am also thinking of staying a couple of days after SOTM, was thinking about Barcelona mainly, but Orlot looks looks interesting too. However, I see the words, volcanic landscape and bike rental and match these with Spain in July and think that I'd rather be on a bus than cycling up a volcano

[Talk-GB] Settle OSM Mapping Party 15 May

Hi, apologies for cross posting, but OpenStreetMap and the Association for Geographic Information's Northern Group are having a Mapping Party / Field Workshop on Saturday 15th May in Settle, North Yorkshire and you are all invited! More details:

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code Projects

Just a little bump to us that applications are open for organisations to apply, and we have 3 days left. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html Tim On 28 February 2010 19:05, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi There, It

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti Talk List

I'm getting a 404 when trying to confirm my registration to the list at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/confirm/talk-ht Is it just me? Tim On 29 January 2010 23:59, Ulf Möller o...@ulfm.de wrote: Jan Tappenbeck schrieb: is there a link to read this in a newsreader ??? Yes, it's already

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti Talk List

On 30 January 2010 14:21, Tim Waters chippy2...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a 404 when trying to confirm my registration to the list at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/confirm/talk-ht Is it just me? Tim Just me I think. carry on. After 2 more tries clicking the link from the email

Re: [OSM-talk] Timeline animation of Haïti map evolu tion

Great stuff! Any plans to put this on any social video sharing websites of choice? Tim 2010/1/24 Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr: Hello, I have created two video animations that illustrate the rapid improvement of Haïti coverage in OSM following the earthquake. One shows the Port au

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: cannot load flickr photo kml in openlayers

First things is when doing things with javascript is to use a debugger tool. Firebug firefox extension is great, and the built in developer console in Chrome/Chromium will also give you an advantage. using these we can see that theres an error: Cannot set property 'innerHTML' of null at line 151

Re: [Talk-GB] CFP - SECOND OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE - OSGIS 2010

Any takers? deadline is end of Jan. I'll do an OpenStreetMap presentation if no one else is planning on doing one (but can also do one on historical maps if there are any takers). Cheers, Tim 2009/11/20 Tim Waters chippy2...@gmail.com: FYI, Think that OSM should be represented - last year

[Talk-GB] Fwd: CFP - SECOND OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE - OSGIS 2010

FYI, Think that OSM should be represented - last year, although the project was mentioned a few times, there was nothing explicit about it at all. Looks like all the workshops have been already planned though it may be work asking if anyone up for it. Any takers? Tim

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PublicEarth and their Terms of Use

2009/11/18 Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi: Hi, Somebody might get interested in having a look at the business idea of PublicEarth and their Terms of Use. I feel they won't get very many places from me. http://publicearth.com/ http://publicearth.com/terms Then there's the nice

[Talk-GB] OSM vs Meridian2 completedness march 08 - october 09

Hi folks, There's a new post on Muki Haklay's blog where he has re-run the Meridian2 and OSM comparison for march 2008 to october 09. Couldn't see it on the lists so am sharing here :) http://povesham.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/openstreetmap-and-ordnance-survey-meridian-2-progress-maps/ previous:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK government postcode/geolocation/nhs information leaked

Doh, without quote marks I mean, not asterisks! hehe. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

Hi, yes was about to suggest map warper (warper.geothings.net) it can handle oblique photos, given enough control points (which you'd need for a desktop equivalent) However, the server it's running on is crappy and shared and stingy on processes that need some power, so I've had to restrict it so

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

Hi Alexander, Nice to see it popular, however... a few of us like to use a twitter search for openstreetmap to see what humans are saying but recently pretty much all of the tweets we receive for this search are from these bots. Would it be possible to reduce the level of spam - one example

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.1

2009/7/11 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: == Photo-mapping == You can now do photo-mapping with Potlatch. Just click the camera icon, and it’ll talk to your favourite online photo storage service to get pictures. By default it uses openstreetphoto.org - so many thanks to Stefan de

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

2009/7/9 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: A few months ago in some local news media a talking head claimed that Amsterdam's Red Light District wasn't in central Amsterdam and moreover that it didn't contain any Coffee shops, i.e. ones of the type that'll sell you more than just

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

Hi, whilst on the subject of Flickr, probably 1/2 of the photos tagged with openstreetmap in Flickr would match what you are looking for: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/openstreetmap/ cheers, Tim ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

One of the main annoyances that people tell me that they have with OSM is that whenever they visit the site, the map shows them just the UK. What are people's thoughts about the default zoom? I'm aware that sometimes it may use a cookie and so the map will open up to a previously viewed area -

[Talk-GB] Pateley Bridge mapping party 7th June 2009 with the AGI Northern Group SIG

Hi Folks, been on the cards for a while, but we've decided on a location, Pateley Bridge, in North Yorkshire, a nice little place, with the UK's oldest sweet shop, apparently! All welcome, the more the merrier. The surrounding area needs mapping too, and there should be excellent walks nearby.

Re: [Talk-GB] Generating Mapnik Images to epsg:27700 (British National Grid) Projection

please correct me, I want to be wrong, I heard yesterday that by projecting any data into OSGB, the OS has copyright / dominion over it, since they own that coordinate system. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] People's Map

2009/4/10 andrew heggie l...@sylva.icuklive.co.uk: On Friday 10 April 2009 22:05:15 Martin Spott wrote: D Tucny wrote: How much does a small plane with camera mount cost to hire for a day? :) I don't know about a day but 17 overlapping images of an approximately 10 by 10 km area cost me

Re: [Talk-GB] Wincanton streets in the news

2009/4/7 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: I notice this week that Wincanton has a new house estate and the streets are getting named after Ankh-Morpork (If any one is going to map that I'm not sure where we put the data :) Is there a way to tag towns with there twin town. Oh where is Peach Pie

Re: [Talk-GB] Route planner using UK OSM data

Hi Andrew, This is really neat. it's good to see a few excellent routers occuring because of OSM. I think your one is quite powerful for the ability to customise the weighting, nice! Also, any plans to release the source for the router available so we can play too? Tim 2009/3/22 Andrew M.

Re: [OSM-talk] Call for Papers for SOTM09 is now open

2009/3/16 Nick Black nickbla...@gmail.com: That's right - there's only 117 days until we start SOTMizing in Amsterdam. Details of the Call for Papers are here: http://www.stateofthemap.org/2009/03/16/call-for-papers-for-the-stateofthemap-2009-is-now-open/ You can buy an early bird ticket for

Re: [OSM-talk] Call for Papers for SOTM09 is now open

the online form.  When the Biz Day is finalised (in the next few days) you can always re-submit or submit a second paper. Cheers, On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Tim Waters (chippy) chippy2...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/16 Nick Black nickbla...@gmail.com: That's right - there's only 117 days until

Re: [OSM-talk] California bill to limit detail on online mapping tools

And yet, the exact opposite is required, for certain locations in California. Megan's Law http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/ Specific home addresses are displayed on more than 33,500 offenders in the California communities; as to these persons, the site displays the last registered address reported by

[Talk-GB] OSM Guardian Open Platform, press

Guardian release new API http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/guardian-open-platform Gives a nice sizeable shout out towards the project. OSM are partners in the launch with Stamen, apparently. Other partners for the launch of the service include web design firm Stamen and OpenStreetMap,

Re: [Talk-GB] Large format scans, A0

couple of ideas, in case you don't get access to an A0 scanner (local copy shop charges quite a lot for one scan)... With a project I'm working on at the moment, the old maps have been photographed from above rather than scanned. You could scan / snap smaller areas of each map and ask the

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

A few points to throw in the mix: * Do we have people who want to write a blog for the project as a whole? - Blogging requires quite a bit of commitment, especially for such a fast moving project, if things get busy elsewhere, the blogs tend to suffer. * Assuming we have enough people

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

Interesting how a few of the comments echo the early Wikipedia criticisms, and miss the point about open data. 2009/2/11 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk: I saw this yesterday and wondered why it took El Reg so long to report on this? The announcement made these mailing lists on 23rd December last

[OSM-talk] New Map Warper

Hi, I'd like to announce the release of the latest Map Warper image rectifier application, designed with OSM in mind. http://warper.geothings.net/ You may have seen or used the older application, this one has got a few more bells and whistles, including: * Search for maps. * Users

Re: [OSM-talk] New Map Warper

2009/2/11 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Tim Waters (chippy) chippy2...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to announce the release of the latest Map Warper image rectifier application, designed with OSM in mind. http://warper.geothings.net/ Firstly thanks

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

2009/2/11 Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk: One thing that might be useful would be some sort of My OSM or a saved play mode feature* - Now, that would be an interesting idea - being able to access all your edits and the history of these in one place.

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham Apostrophes

was also in the Guardian and the Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5614962.ece ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Network Rail UK

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:45 PM, andrew heggie l...@sylva.icuklive.co.uk wrote: Is it possible to derive a vector layer of UK's rail network and would I be allowed to use it to produce reports for my work? If so how because it will save me a lot of tracing! AJH Worth mentioning that

[Talk-GB] Northern Meet-up, Leeds - Sunday 25 Jan at the Scarborough Hotel pub , 3pm

Hi, In what I hope will be the first of many regular meet-ups throughout the North, just a little reminder about the upcoming meet-up at the Scarborough Hotel, in Leeds, at 3pm this Sunday the 25th Jan. Look out for geeks with GPS units and maps! The pub is located just outside the train

Re: [OSM-talk] google wms

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) andrewc-email-li...@piffle.org wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: apologies if this has been brought up before, but some people I have brought into OSM have stumbled across this site: http://www.peterdamen.com/GoogleWMS/ and were all

[OSM-talk] OpenSantaMap

One of the main strengths of OpenStreetMap is that we have access to the raw data, and one of the best ways we can illustrate this power, whilst also reinforcing the idea that the map is just a rendering of the data, is to create custom renders. Great examples of these are the Mapnik and

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