Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

On 28/12/17 22:33, Warin wrote: On 29-Dec-17 07:28 AM, Mark Goodge wrote: On 28/12/2017 19:31, Lester Caine wrote: Get the return address right ... On 28/12/17 16:12, Colin Spiller wrote: I've been adding postcodes in the Bradford BD area using Robert & gregrs useful tools. I've just

Re: [OSM-talk] What is 'Attic Data'? or 'Why can't wiki writers use plain language'.

re up into the attics of their mansions. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC4 tonight 9 pm - A Very British Map: the Ordnance Survey Story

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:27:21 +0100 Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/09/2015 04:16, mick wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:59:59 +0100 > > Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > > > >> Spotted this on the Rambler-Net list. &g

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC4 tonight 9 pm - A Very British Map: the Ordnance Survey Story

On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:59:59 +0100 Philip Barnes wrote: > Spotted this on the Rambler-Net list. > > In case you hadn't already spotted this: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06b36q3 > > See also: > http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2015/09/watch-os-on-bbc4-in-a-very

Re: [talk-au] A way with no tags

run out of columns and still have about 1,500 entries left over with nothing to say what they are. It not all bad though, some road sections have anything up to 8 entries. I'd try to sort some of it out but I keep getting confused and don't want

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:09:43 +0100 moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/08/2015, John Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: So, if you are looking for a route without steep grades, a former railway is a natural choice. Do people actually do this ? It sounds like a strawman

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane river

* I find editing in mapinfo far simpler than the alternatives. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] possible duplication of streets by new mapper

On saturday night I made my first edit, adding a couple of streets that appeared to be missing and naming an unnamed street in Glen Innes NSW. I used Mercaartor (SP) included in ubuntu 14.04.2. When I got JOSM working yesterday I looked at two of the streets and there appeared to be two

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Niveau de Zoom à 18 sur mon serveur perso...

Parfait, j'avais réouvert tous les fichiers à la recherche d'un MaxZoom, et c'est le seul que j'avais oublié. Ca marche parfaitement. Merci ;-) -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Niveau-de-Zoom-a-18-sur-mon-serveur-perso-tp5839479p5839492.html Sent from the France

[OSM-talk-fr] Niveau de Zoom à 18 sur mon serveur perso...

Bonjour a tous, Alors voila, après quelques jours de bataille à essayer d'installer un serveur de tuile, j'y suis arrivé. Je me suis basé sur le tuto https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-14-04/, mais j'ai du faire pas mal de modification, rien ne fonctionnait chez

Re: [OSM-talk] Second decade visions

out the actual limit. Personally I would like to see an hierarchical tagging scheme, it would make it so much easier to extract relevant data from the .osm/pfb files. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Is a saddlery limited to horses? (BE English)

the word not have the same meaning in English? In German there always seems to be a bit of a overlapp with upholsterer and saddler, it seems like this isn't the case in English so saddler should really be limited to horses, is that correct? In Australia the equivelant is MOTOR TRIMMER mick

Re: [talk-au] Bruxner Motorway

of construction and maintainence) it has been for years and there is no sign of any motorway construction anywhere. mick in Glen Innes ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[OSM-talk] Converting .osm file into shape file or mapinfo table

After a few months break from mapping I'm having dificulty converting .osm files into mapinfo tables. Before the break I could import the .osm into qgis then export is as needed but now Qgis wont do this. With the old wiki I could find a section that listed and described a number of tools for

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping flood

, historical flood risk areas. To sum up, fine grade mapping of transient climatic data can be very useful to more than just professional but it isn't relevant on a street map. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [talk-au] Murchison - Square Kilometer Telescope not showing on Garmin maps

On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:17:30 +1100 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noted that some (if not all) of the Australian Square Kilometer Telescope north east of Murchison WA is entered (and has been for some time) in OSM but it does not show up on my Garmin maps. 26.7S 116.7E

Re: [talk-au] Adding residential properties?

in backyards (access=private?) * similarly for swimming pools My tuppence worth: It would (possibly) be useful to map significant private homes otherwise just tag the blocks as residential area. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

times with my two GPS units recording and find an acceptable level of coincidence before I add anything to OSM. Mick aka 'sparrowhawk' ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

and mapping when it reaches a suitable level of accuracy. This work is taking an order of magnitude more time than my initial guesstimate. Mick uid: sparrowhawk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [talk-au] Suburbs in Australia

indicators and turn off major highways on to tracks leading nowhere. The Australian bush is unforgiving and will soon take the life of the unprepared. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Historical rail lines

be rendered on the map. BUT, by default, OSM has become a source for mappers doing more than mere street maps and the loss of historical data would be a serious setback. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Historical rail lines

be rendered on the map. BUT, by default, OSM has become a source for mappers doing more than mere street maps and the loss of historical data would be a serious setback. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Historical rail lines

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:06:27 +1030 Alex Sims a...@softgrow.com wrote: On 26/11/2012 10:38 AM, mick wrote: I'm in two minds about removing 'historical' data. Yes, objects no longer visible on the ground shouldn't be rendered on the map. I've been following this discussion with interest

Re: [talk-au] Historical rail lines

get my head around it. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [OSM-talk] Who is a good mapper? Who isn't?

. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [talk-au] Aboriginal sacred sites

to government contractors with bulldozers and high explosives blasting sites out of existence. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Introducing myself and I have a question too

realestate.com.au mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [OSM-talk] OT - Unusual Bing imagery

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:43:19 -0400 Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: I spotted this today as I was entering survey information: http://greenvilleopenmap.info/Airplane.jpg I didn't realize that the Bing planes flew so high. What is the correct tag for the plane?

[OSM-talk] Help with Extracting feature types and all their key=values

it for each section. My health isn't to great currently so please forgive me if I've missed needed details, just tell me what I forgot to include. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

Frederick I just read your blog and I'm amazed the amount of effort and resources that go in to the download country files I have been taking for granted. I feel we all owe you and your's a tremendous vote of thanks. Mick On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:47:51 +0200 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org

Re: [talk-au] How to fix the coastlines?

anyone have the skills and tools to import them? Due to a death in the family I don't have the time to devote to the project at this time. mick the sparrowhawk ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OS maps circa 1900 wanted, will contribute to scanning cost

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:48:47 +0100 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: mick wrote: Does anyone on the list possess the set of Ordinance Survey maps of England, Scotland Wales of about 1900, I'm trying to map the Roman roads described by Thomas Codrington in his book Roman Roads

[OSM-talk] OS maps circa 1900 wanted, will contribute to scanning cost

THIS HISTORIC CONTENT TO THE MAP I plan to server it myself. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OS maps circa 1900 wanted, will contribute to scanning cost

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:37:20 +0200 Reinder Verlinde zwart...@mac.com wrote: In article 20120329154907.4718bd61@cave.bareclan, mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: Does anyone on the list possess the set of Ordinance Survey maps of England, Scotland Wales of about 1900, I'm trying to map

Re: [Talk-GB] Hatfield Tunnel not appearing as a tunnel

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:42:07 +0100 Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 23-3-2012 3:55, mick wrote: A relation tagged as a motorway will render as such. What would then happen is that the tunnel way is actually rendered, but then the non-tunnel motorway relation is rendered on top

Re: [Talk-GB] Hatfield Tunnel not appearing as a tunnel

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:07:06 +0100 Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 24-3-2012 1:00, mick wrote: The rendering of 'tunnel' should over-ride 'motorway' showing that the motorway passes through a tunnel. And so it does. But then someone creates a relation, tags it as non-tunneled

Re: [Talk-GB] Hatfield Tunnel not appearing as a tunnel

failed to indicate a tunnel the first time it happened. mick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

in the instigator being immediately removed from the list but then I thought of the case of a tool developer looking for info on directions to take or announcing new releases. The lose of those people and their contribution would hurt mick ___ talk mailing

[OSM-talk] PUBS and their changing names

there are some people who would be interested in building up this information and sharing it. I'd do it myself but I don't have ready access to the information and I'm flat-out with my Romano-British research. mick ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:15:00 -0600 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: My original interest was if there was a specific point that said 'this is Sometown', where distances to adjacent towns were measured from, similar to the Australian convention

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

on the dusty shelves of the museum and its up to the new generations to clean up our mess. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:14:47 -0600 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:16:18 + Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: I have found some interesting stuff whilst playing with routing on http://open.mapquest.org

[OSM-talk] QGIS v MapInfo observations

are sorted MapInfo will live in the bit-bucket. I hope this might be of some use or interest to some one and within the topic. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Creating a subset of OSM and storing it in Postgis tables

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:39:51 + Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 25/02/2012 04:19, mick wrote: I need to build a database of a subset of features from a specific area, storing them in a series of tables according to feature type (eg. natural, historic, waterway, ...) from

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

I doubt there is any formal criteria to define these points. They are becoming 'just another curious folk-way', as evidenced by the lack of 'Zero-Points' in .au since metric conversion. thanks mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

, the church has been the focal point of the village since Saxon times while the Post Office didn't appear until the 19th? century. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

and a common sense approach is taken. From a number of hints in some of the genealogy lists I'm on, in .au the post office and a 'coaching inn' were usually either next door to or opposite each other and sometimes they were the same building. thanks mick

[OSM-talk] Creating a subset of OSM and storing it in Postgis tables

to help me with any part of the above. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] THANK YOU!!

a quick thank you to those mappers who have contributed a substantial amount of roman features to the map in the last few weeks. I have now got about 20% of my initial tracing of about 11,000 km of roman roads narrowed down to a comfortable level of accuracy. Many thanks mick

Re: [Talk-GB] New OOC OS 1:25,000 tiles (beta)

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:28:02 - many thanks to those involved in this project, I found it much easier and smoother than my last look at the existing OOC, WELL DONE mick Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to Grant there is now a new beta version of the Out-Of-Copyright OS 1

[OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

marking the 5 KM intervals but with no 'Zero Post'. A few towns kept their Zero Posts and moved them to a park. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Size number of Keys (was osm2pgsql hstore)

it down to a crawl. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 on a core i5 2500 with 16 gb ram. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [talk-au] sydney edit natural=bay

, if you need redundant tags use man_made mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[OSM-talk] How I got here - was Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)

list at the rootsweb genealogy site when I was looking for the names and locations of Parish Churches. I had seen the site before but (mis)interpreted the rule along the lines of 'must be your own work' as meaning you had to go out with your GPS and do your own survey. mick

Re: [OSM-talk] How I got here

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:59:54 +1100 Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: mick Wrote I was pointed here by someone on the Devon list at the rootsweb genealogy Hi mick When I map a country town I am always on the lookout for any cemetery. I find some very obscure ones and always

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:43:27 + Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mick, On 14 January 2012 05:28, mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: My goal was to create a 'Bastard Son of OSM' as a means to share my work with those people of similar interest but, as OSM has no ability

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

work with those people of similar interest but, as OSM has no ability to offer user selected layers I'm looking at other options. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] 23 ideas for osm and its forks

that vary from their own blinkered vision. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

is outside the remit of OSM and had no intention inserting it in OSM. I requested data on the mailing list because I thought there would be like minded people subscribed to it. I did manage to get some good pointers from some readers, for which I am very grateful. mick

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

in the existing data mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

would remain in the main stream. MY OPINION FROM A GLANCE AND A GUESS AT THE RULES mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Roman road map of Britain

. All the underlying data is publicly available from the project's database. I am also cc'ing Mick who has an independent interest in the same area. Regards, Mike Michael Collinson PS Just reading http://keithbriggs.info/Bayes_placenames-2.html . It is fascinating. I have my

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM osm2psql global data - 10 days

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:50:55 +0700 Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: hi all my server just finished load the 250GB data of OSM data (global data) to our psql, using osm2psql, wow almost 10 days... and I thought 4 hours to load south-west England was bad mick

Re: [OSM-talk] Harming the community

mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:23:39 + Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: Surveying private cliff tops or walking under crumbling cliffs against a rising tide makes surveying awkward too. hmmph, some people have NO spirit of adventure mick ___ Talk

Re: [talk-au] Residential Roads

highway=rural_road or similar because unclassified seems too much like incompletely entered, then again I think highway= is a bad choice but its so deeply embedded now. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] Residential Roads

. mick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Residential Roads

On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:46:50 +1000 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 December 2011 11:54, mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: In northern Brisbane I have yet to see anything that shows you are moving into a 50kph default zone. In Queensland the 50kph limit applies to all built

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

would it take to provide a 'dummy' server that could be readily be downloaded and installed at the training site, perhaps along the lines of a 'LiveCD'. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial photo offsets

of the error range. At the end of the month almost all the circles were reduced to under 1/2 a metre. I guess everyone knows this trick. mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:30:03 +0100 Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am interested in creating maps of historical features (e.g all roman remains, medieval things, World War 2 things etc.). At the moment we have quite a lot of things tagged with 'historic=*' which I can

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:05:46 +0100 John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am interested in creating maps of historical features (e.g all roman remains, medieval things, World War 2 things etc.).

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:41 -0700 Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Mick [mailto:bare...@tpg.com.au] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:28 -0400 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:51 PM

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:37:22 +0200 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Mick, On 10/20/11 08:22, Mick wrote: I've downloaded all of UK from nick.dev.openstreetmap.org and extracted the bit I want, its a bit old (28 Oct 2009) but mayhap I can update it without massive downloads. I've

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:50:14 +0100 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Mick wrote: I hadn't thought of UK as being Northern Europe, I looked in Western Europe. That's where they hid it ;) I'd found the Isle of Man ... That really threw me, I'd seen several references to England/UK

[OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

than the server can chew or using the wrong procedure? could some kind soul point me in the right direction mick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:28 -0400 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have been struggling to get a largish chunk of open street map covering an area from the Isles of Scilly in the south west to Bristol