Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-10-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 October 2013 10:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 September 2013 08:12, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 29 September 2013 10:05, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: How about saying that 70mph can only be valid on a way

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-30 Thread Peter Miller
of caution with the numeric limit. Regards, Peter Colin On 2013-09-29 10:14, Peter Miller wrote: To attempt to summarise the situation: - The maximum legal speed for any vehicle should be a number in maxspeed following by mph. - There should also be information available to say

[Talk-GB] Fwd: National speed limit changes

2013-09-27 Thread Peter Miller
I have just noticed that this response went only to Andy. Forwarding to to the list now. Peter On 24 September 2013 14:26, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Hi Peter, Thanks for replying here. Peter Miller wrote: So...on the basis that we should tag what is there, we see

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-24 Thread Peter Miller
/listinfo/talk-gbhttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Peter Miller CEO +44(0) 7774 667213 ITO World Ltd - Registered in England Wales - Registration Number 5753174 Office - 2nd Floor, 25 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, IP4 1AQ. Registered Office - 32 Hampstead Heath, London

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-23 Thread Peter Miller
. Thoughts? Regards, Peter Miller (PeterIto) On 23 September 2013 09:34, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 22:09 +0100, Andy Street wrote: I'd agree that maxspeed=national is insufficient as it is impossible to tell what speed you can do in a built up area

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 mapping

2013-08-28 Thread Peter Miller
regards Brian On 21 August 2013 15:52, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Just to highlight some mapping ITO have just released, which was developed with CPRE showing the construction, landuse and operation impacts of the High Speed 2 line. Many thanks for the hundreds

[Talk-GB] HS2 mapping

2013-08-21 Thread Peter Miller
when we do so. http://hs2maps.com/ Regards, Peter -- Peter Miller CEO +44(0) 7774 667213 ITO World Ltd - Registered in England Wales - Registration Number 5753174 Office - 2nd Floor, 25 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, IP4 1AQ. Registered Office - 32 Hampstead Heath, London, NW3 1JQ

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-07-04 Thread Peter Miller
-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Peter Miller CEO +44(0) 7774 667213 ITO World Ltd - Registered in England Wales - Registration Number 5753174 Office - 2nd Floor, 25 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, IP4 1AQ. Registered Office - 32 Hampstead Heath

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-12 Thread Peter Miller
meet the strict requirements for 'proposed'. Can I suggest that we work out what we believe are appropriate guidelines here and then get them discussion on an appropriate international list and also on the wiki? Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd On 12 December 2012 09:37, Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN Bus Stops

2012-12-12 Thread Peter Miller
Sounds good. Do however check out the code Thomas Wood wrote for a complete NaPTAN importer a long time back. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Import Regards, Peter On 11 December 2012 21:55, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Donald Noble wrote:

[Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-07 Thread Peter Miller
is if it is certain enough to happy to be in OSM at all. Regards, Peter Miller (PeterIto) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-07 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 December 2012 14:10, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Just to say that I have added tagging and a relations for both of the main road schemes mentioned specifically in the Autumn Statement. Is there any actual benefit to doing this before construction

[Talk-GB] OS Locator comparison and Google Streetview

2012-11-15 Thread Peter Miller
Google Maps as a primary source (which is called plagiarism)! Regards, Peter Miller (PeterIto) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator comparison and Google Streetview

2012-11-15 Thread Peter Miller
On 15 November 2012 12:20, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Just to say that I, along with a number of other people, have being doing some OS Locator based updates to OSM over the past few days following the release of the latest OS Locator update

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

2012-09-30 Thread Peter Miller
On 27 September 2012 17:42, Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.comwrote: As I mentioned earlier on it was speed limits for roundabouts along a dual carriageway that led to me doing a bit of research on UK speed limit legislation. My 'notes' are below

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

2012-09-20 Thread Peter Miller
On 20 September 2012 16:59, Gregory Williams greg...@gregorywilliams.me.ukwrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [mailto:o...@raggedred.net] Sent: 20 September 2012 16:27 To: Talk GB Subject: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes It seems that PeterITO is once again making changes

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Miller
On 4 July 2012 09:39, Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote: However, there are also instances of highway=no, where roads have been realigned or ripped up, should these also be removed from the database? I think highway=no is typically used as a temporary tag to try to stop

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 1 July 2012 22:49, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 30/06/2012 15:11, SomeoneElse wrote: Obviously mapping things that aren't there any more is a bigger issue Has there been discussion about this outside talk:railway? If there hasn't I'm a bit annoyed that a niche user

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-06-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 29 May 2012 16:05, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.comwrote: I think Peter was planning on making the ITO boundaries available as a traceable layer, but haven't heard anything about this recently. You are right. It should be possibly to use ITO Map tiles in Potlatch and JOSM,

[Talk-GB] Shaun McDonald to join ITO World!

2012-06-02 Thread Peter Miller
of a wider expansion of ITO's activities. If there are any top notch C++ programmers out there who are looking for a new job and who fancy living in the normally dry county of Suffolk then do please send me your cv. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd

Re: [Talk-GB] Recovering NaPTAN bus stops

2012-04-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 April 2012 18:59, Andrew andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Some of the bus stops imported from NaPTAN in the Teddington/Hampton area appear to have been deleted where they duplicated stops entered by a mapper who has not accepted the Contributor Terms. As the stops will disappear from

[Talk-GB] NaPTAN and ODbL

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Miller
on the tiles because the service was introduced prior to OGL being finalised and before the OSM switch over to ODbL was very serious. We will update the text at a suitable time. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN and ODbL

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Miller
to compare the positions of bus stops in OSM between current NaPTAN data and OSM and also to highlight where stops are missing, duplicated or are missing ATCO codes etc. Regards, Peter ** ** Cheers Andy ** ** *From:* Peter Miller [mailto:peter.mil...@itoworld.com] *Sent

Re: [Talk-GB] Onward Travel Information posters

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Miller
, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd BZ __**_ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-gbhttp://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] New VectorMapDistrict comparison maps on ITO Map

2012-03-17 Thread Peter Miller
wanting a direct link to Potlatch? We do have lots more on the way btw, including clickthroughs for individual features. Peter Graham. On 13 March 2012 20:21, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: I am pleased to be able announce that ITO Map now has a bunch of new map views

[Talk-GB] VMD - coastline comparison map on ITO Map

2012-03-17 Thread Peter Miller
I have just added a new coastline VMD comparison map to ITO Map which focuses on high water, low water from VMD, coastline from OSM and also tidal and non-tidal rivers. http://www.itoworld.com/map/189 I have also made some adjustments to the VMD - Water comparison to align the colours and symbols

Re: [Talk-GB] VMD - coastline comparison map on ITO Map

2012-03-17 Thread Peter Miller
On 17 March 2012 10:22, Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 10:15 +, Peter Miller wrote: I have just added a new coastline VMD comparison map to ITO Map which focuses on high water, low water from VMD, coastline from OSM and also tidal and non-tidal rivers

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 route is open data!

2012-01-25 Thread Peter Miller
://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10486240 [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1986944 ** ** ** ** *From:* Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 23 January 2012 22:39 *To:* 'Peter Miller'; 'David Earl' *Cc:* 'Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org' *Subject:* RE: [Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] HS2 route is open data!

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Miller
We had a discussion recently about getting a usable source of route data for HS2. I am pleased to say that it is on data.gov.uk and is available on an OGL license. http://data.gov.uk/dataset/hs2-gis-route Can we get to use this as a backdrop in Potlatch or JOSM to get the route added? Regards,

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 route is open data!

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Miller
On 23 January 2012 20:27, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 23/01/2012 20:21, Jason Cunningham wrote: Good to see the data being released, But I don't believe this proposed route should yet be added to OSM. You'll regularly here the phrase map what's on the ground, but we

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 10 January 2012 13:19, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: ** On 10/01/2012 13:43, Peter Miller wrote: On 10 January 2012 12:07, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 10/01/2012 11:44, Peter Miller wrote: Is there no way in this case to formally 'claim' the IPR

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 10 January 2012 13:53, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 10/01/2012 13:46, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Michael Collinson wrote: +1 to Richard's suggestion odbl=clean Just a tiny little clarification - this isn't something I've dreamed up, it's a real live tag with 9,000

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 route

2012-01-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 10 January 2012 18:19, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Just noticed that this response when to Andy alone. Copying to the list. On 10 January 2012 11:14, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Latest HS2 announcement today means that there will be a lot of discussion

Re: [Talk-GB] Waterways Map (was invisible)

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Miller
There are various waterway views available using ITO Map, as well as many others. They all have global coverage and are updated daily (rarely more than 24 delay on getting new data on the map). http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=3 (general water view)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I am not going to remove any old node in my hometown

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 December 2011 13:58, fk270...@fantasymail.de wrote: After watching the License Change View on OSM Inspector, I have decided not to change any of the few red dots and ways marked in the OSM inspector. Some ways have one old version by an anonymous or undecided author and up to seven

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Can't load map'

2011-09-29 Thread Peter Miller
On 29 September 2011 09:03, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 28/09/11 20:36, Peter Miller wrote: A major inconvenience for me recently has been the return of the 'can't load map' error message when using Potlatch 2 which I understand is some sort of time-out between Potlatch

Re: [Talk-GB] Highway lanes data for GB

2011-09-29 Thread Peter Miller
. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd itoworld.com On 29 September 2011 09:13, thomas van der veen th.vanderv...@gmail.comwrote: I have been tagging parts of the M3 and M27 recently, both lanes and maxspeed. The map below really help with this, thanks for that. And I have been mostly

[Talk-GB] 'Can't load map'

2011-09-28 Thread Peter Miller
A major inconvenience for me recently has been the return of the 'can't load map' error message when using Potlatch 2 which I understand is some sort of time-out between Potlatch and the server. What needs to happen to get this resolved (in Potlatch or in the server as appropriate)? Is that work

Re: [Talk-transit] Mapping public transport network in Port au Prince

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Miller
is a diagram and some modeling details from the UK schema if that helps. http://www.dft.gov.uk/transxchange/schema/2.0/examples/flexible/ I will be very interested to hear how you get on with this one. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd Feedback of all sort is much appreciated. Cheers

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed conundrum

2011-07-29 Thread Peter Miller
I suggest that any 'temporary' speed limit change that will last more than 6 months could reasonably be tagged in maxspeed. Shorter periods should probably use a maxspeed:temporary or some other suitable overriding tag? Fyi, I have used 'proposed:maxspeed' to hold the intended new value where

Re: [Talk-GB] 3 new vector map district roads views/comparison maps from ITO Map

2011-07-04 Thread Peter Miller
(and remove these VMD layers) to sort out a gremlin in the code. We expect to be able to re-release these layers (and add some interesting new ones) within the next week. Regards, Peter Miller Cheers, Jason On 28 June 2011 14:11, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Here are three

Re: [Talk-GB] Another heads up - new mapper appears to be deleting stuff in Ashbourne

2011-06-29 Thread Peter Miller
On 29 June 2011 16:12, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) gra...@dalmuti.net wrote: There was a similar case to this on the Help Centre recently: http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/5839/map-changes-for-personal-use-is-this-right I suggest we need to make it more obvious to first-time users that

Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-29 Thread Peter Miller
layers for a few days. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/UK-road-name-coverage-now-over-80-tp6529750p6529750.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-29 Thread Peter Miller
On 29 June 2011 18:02, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/06/2011 17:55, Peter Miller wrote: I have also been very impressed with the initial results from the visual comparison of OSM and OS Vector map district as well. We seem to have an much to help the OS improve their data

Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-29 Thread Peter Miller
in Norfolk during the summer then ITO would be happy to supply drinks, pizzas etc to keep people's energy levels up! Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd Great job everyone! -- Borbus. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-GB] 3 new vector map district roads views/comparison maps from ITO Map

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Miller
Here are three new map views using Vector Map District roads data for ITO Map. 1) 'VMD - roads'. This is a view of vector map district roads colour coded according to its internal classification system. http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=136 Colours blue: motorway dark green:

Re: [Talk-GB] 3 new vector map district roads views/comparison maps from ITO Map

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 28 June 2011 14:23, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: I don't want to seem picky, but: Colours dark green: A road dark red: Primary Road could you swap these two over? At least locally the dark red correspond to the ways we have tagged as trunk and the green as primary. It just seems to

Re: [Talk-GB] 3 new vector map district roads views/comparison maps from ITO Map

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 28 June 2011 15:34, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: All this from a quick look at my village. We cannot rely on this data without a survey. Near here I zoomed in on the ways that are in VMD and not OSM. We have footways along the seafront where the black lines are (not worked out what

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO OSM Analysis not updating?

2011-06-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 21 June 2011 22:02, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 21 June 2011 21:32, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: At the moment I can't get into ITO OSM Analysis at all. If I enter the URL http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main?showMinor=true

[Talk-GB] speed limits, speed limit enforcement and speed limit fixme mapping

2011-06-22 Thread Peter Miller
We have created a new speed limit layer which renders both mph and km/h speed limits on the same map. In addition to showing speed limits it also shows sections of speed limit enforced using average speed camera as a black border to the road (using either enforcement:maxspeed=average). There are

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO OSM Analysis not updating?

2011-06-22 Thread Peter Miller
We believe that OSM Analysis is now fixed and up to date. Apologies for the inconvenience and do of course let us know if we are wrong about that! Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd On 22 June 2011 09:35, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 21 June 2011 22:02, Peter Miller

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 11 June 2011 14:22, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Fyi we are doing some investigation in ITO into adding OS VectorDistrict 'road missing' data on the OS Locator tiles or possibly onto an alternative map layer. The aim being to make tracing of roads

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 June 2011 20:36, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Peter Miller wrote: ITO are probably not the best people to set up maintain simple mirrors of existing content. Are there not 100 sites where a mirror could be set up and maintained? Why is the OS site not sufficient anyway

Re: [Talk-GB] Filter to show only certain ways e.g. bridleways?

2011-06-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 June 2011 15:41, Michael Brewer mich...@thebrewerfamily.co.uk wrote: I'd find it really useful to filter what is displayed, to limit e.g. to showing only bridleways. Basically, I'm trying to plot cycleable routes through the countryside, and it would be nice to avoid distracting

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Miller
On 11 June 2011 09:09, Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: So the question is, who is going to come forward and write the bot, and who is going to come forward to write documentation. Any takers? Yup! I agree that we are now at a point where we agree that not everyone likes

Re: [Talk-GB] Onward travel posters

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Miller
attribution has been applied to the posters, if indeed that is what has happened and will work with our client to get the situation resolved asap. We will provide an update to this list later today. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd On 10 June 2011 11:04, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 10 June 2011 11:20, Chris Jones roller...@sucs.org wrote: On 08/06/11 07:58, Peter Miller wrote: Warwickshire is the biggest gainer/looser with 33 new names; over half of the districts have got at least one new road and there are now only 8 places still at 100%. We do  have 51 at over 99

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis: highlighting missing roads over those without a name

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Miller
be soon or might not be for a month or more. Sorry I can't be definite but it just depends on when we can a chance to sneek in a few hours work on it. Thanks for the suggestion which certainly will move it up our priority stack. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd End users of the map are much more

Re: [Talk-GB] Onward travel posters

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Miller
course. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd Compare and contrast with http://osm.org/go/erU5Lvdkm- . cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Onward-travel-posters-tp6461416p6461640.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 June 2011 09:33, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: It would be better if ITO put long-roads-without-names in a separate layer, because at the moment they dominate the completeness map. My strategy has been to deal with the long roads first and then go back and deal with

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 June 2011 10:41, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Peter Miller peter.miller@... writes: 1) A list of not:names that orginated from OS Locator but where OS Locator does not currently contain that error. The challenge is that not all not:name entries in OSM will have originated from error

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 June 2011 10:44, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2011 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: Indeed, here is a map showing verified/surveyed+souce:name in dark red, source:name without verified/surveyed in orange and any instances of verified/surveyed without source:name as blue

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 June 2011 12:14, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Peter Miller peter.miller@... writes: I have not used commercial mapping while creating the map,  but some errors in Navteq, TeleAtlas and AA naming locally have subsequently come to my attention subsequently and I see no reason why

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 June 2011 13:30, Graham Stewart gra...@dalmuti.net wrote: Fyi, here is the full list of content in the source:name field for Suffolk and bits of Cambs,Norfolk and Essex (ordered by frequency of occurrence)! Well that nicely demonstrates what a complete mess the source tags are! I have

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Miller
: source:name=some other value Light blue: source=survey or similar Orange: source= OS or similar Light purple: source=something other value grey: no source:name or source provided Regards, Peter On 9 June 2011 14:39, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 9 June 2011 13:30, Graham

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 June 2011 13:31, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Peter Miller peter.miller@... writes: I have not used commercial mapping while creating the map,  but some errors in Navteq, TeleAtlas and AA naming locally have subsequently come to my attention subsequently and I see no reason why

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 June 2011 17:53, Graham Stewart gra...@dalmuti.net wrote: If you import data into an area that doesn't already have an active community, the community will spring up more slowly or not at all. But that logic suggests that we should actively *discourage* people from doing any mapping, as

[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Miller
that a manual survey has not been completed of the area and invite people to take a look. It will free up human effort to do work that can't be done by a computer. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OS_bot Regards, Peter Miller (user:PeterIto) ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Miller
On 3 June 2011 11:45, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Hi all, Some stats on OSM coverage of Kent. I tried to pair the records of KCC OpenKent with the OSM database. Assuming the KCC list is complete (which it is usually, but not entirely), we can estimate OSM's coverage in the

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Miller
On 8 June 2011 14:18, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Steve Doerr doerr.stephen@... writes: I wonder if the good folks at ITO could devise a way to analyse the not:name tags in the database and see whether any of them are now redundant? In other words, are the OS correcting any of the mistakes

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Miller
On 8 June 2011 09:39, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: On 08/06/11 08:15, Peter Miller wrote: My experience is that the LWG never makes definitive statements! I find that annoying sometimes but, if we are to follow to Spinoza's example that we should made a ceaseless effort

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Miller
and no OS Open data when tracking down new roads! Why not see what is missing in your area :) http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=5lat=52.310633029288894lon=-0.5165746127230731zoom=8 Regards, Peter Regards Brian On 8 June 2011 07:58, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote

[Talk-GB] Electricity generator tagging

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Miller
We have releases a new Electricity generation map using ITO Map which people might like to look at which colour-codes power stations by fuel source (coal/nuclear etc). Take a look here: http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=106lat=51.822370189439184lon=0.6237611854769254zoom=9 It

Re: [Talk-GB] Electricity generator tagging

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Miller
On 26 May 2011 12:38, Borbus bor...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/05/11 11:51, Peter Miller wrote: We have releases a new Electricity generation map using ITO Map ... snip That's convenient since I just tagged the gas fired and biomass CHP plants at my university the other day. :) Very good

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata names copied in Harrow

2011-05-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 18 May 2011 13:01, Andrew andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: An editor has cleared the OSL difference analysis in the London Borough of Harrow (http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/area?name=Harrow ) with the unusually low score of 5 not:names out of 1800. As someone who used

Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 May 2011 18:45, Robert Whittaker (OSM) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.comwrote: On 5 May 2011 18:01, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Should we add something about permissive and private paths to this view? If we had that then the job to do locally would be to convert all

Re: [Talk-GB] New British Waterways map; why not use OSM?

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Miller
On 6 May 2011 16:58, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Tom Chance wrote: I completely agree that the tools aren't there yet, but could they not have used OSM for their database? In theory, yes. But there are huge costs to that, too. The effort required to work with the

Re: [Talk-GB] New British Waterways map; why not use OSM?

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Miller
On 6 May 2011 18:42, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Peter Miller wrote: It does however seem disappointing for them to be duplicating some a lot of work. I agree that the OSM data is not perfect however it is good and could be even better very easily. AIUI they're

Re: [Talk-GB] traditional orchard survey

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 May 2011 09:02, TimSC mappingli...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Hi all, I thought this UK list of orchards was interesting. It would be nice if they were to release it as open data. Not sure if they traced it from some restricted source though. Just what I was thinking as well. Would

Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 May 2011 10:45, monxton gm...@jordan-maynard.org wrote: On 04/05/2011 15:57, Peter Miller wrote: Here is a global map view showing highway=footway in blue and highway=path in brown. http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=97 There is indeed something like an 80/20

Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 May 2011 15:49, Robert Whittaker (OSM) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.comwrote: Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: You may wish find the 'surfaces' view more useful for getting a general insight into path density around the UK and elsewhere. This view does in fact mirror

Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 May 2011 17:03, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Take a look at this one which I hope does roughly what you have asked for with the exception that I have coloured 'other designations' with a off-yellow (as used for unrecognised values in other

Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 May 2011 17:28, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 05/05/2011 16:40, Peter Miller wrote: http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=87 First reaction - thank you - that will be _extremely_ useful. Second reaction - have I really forgotton to add footpath

[Talk-GB] Rewired state: Norfolk - this Saturday in Norwich

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Miller
, Peter Miller ITO World (user:Peterito) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Miller
it if you want to come back to it. Regards, Peter Miller -- Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-transit] New administrator and comments/questions on the new public transport schema

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 May 2011 05:44, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) te...@teddy.ch wrote: Hi Peter On 05/01/2011 10:49 AM, Peter Miller wrote: Just to say that I have just set Stefan Bethke up as an admin. There are now two administrators, myself and Stefan which is much better. I would like to also say how

[Talk-transit] New administrator and comments/questions on the new public transport schema

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Miller
want the map to look like and therefore what we want the rendered to do! Regards, Peter Miller ___ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit

[Talk-GB] 'couldn't load map' in Potlatch2

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Miller
the response time from the server than Potlatch 1. Whatever the cause, it must be very off-putting for an newbie trying to edit for the first time. Anyone else getting this and have any other information or work-rounds? Regards, Peter Miller (user: PeterIto

Re: [Talk-GB] 'couldn't load map' in Potlatch2

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Miller
On 1 May 2011 11:57, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Anyone else getting this and have any other information or work-rounds? It's actually an API issue rather than a P2 issue. P2 is simply saying either the API refused to send any data or I couldn't get any

[Talk-GB] railway stations (again)

2011-04-26 Thread Peter Miller
railway lines, platforms and connecting passages/stairs/escalators. http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=79 Regards, Peter Miller (PeterIto) ITO World ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] railway stations (again)

2011-04-26 Thread Peter Miller
On 26 April 2011 14:37, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM sk53_...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: On 26/04/2011 12:38, Thomas Wood wrote: On 04/26/11 12:04, Peter Miller wrote: Baker Street. There are three separate nodes tagged 'railway=station,name=Baker Street' (one for each line served). In reality

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Miller
of these are the right tag for this purpose. When we agree what the tags should be used then ITO can host an overlay map showing the view and maintain it going forward using ITO Map. We might even be able to get the National Byways website to include a slippy map on their website based on it. Regards, Peter

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Miller
On 20 April 2011 12:11, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Peter Miller wrote: What tagging would you expect us to use within OSM to identify something as being part of this network? Just route=bicycle, name=National Byway should be enough IMO. I wouldn't really call

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Miller
need or other or it may get canned in the near future if we don't need it any more! Regards, Peter On 20 April 2011 12:23, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 20 April 2011 12:11, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Peter Miller wrote: What tagging would you

Re: [Talk-GB] Things that aren't stations tagged railway=station

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 April 2011 10:30, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Lennard wrote: Any unambiguous tagging scheme you can think of would be fine. (railway=abandoned_station would also be possible) This variant has the added benefit that it would make it into most current rendering databases

[Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
Andy Allan just asked me a question privately about changes I have made to layers in Wandsworth which has prompted me to do a post here saying what I have been up in order to rationalise use of the layers in East Anglia, London and now Kent. The ITO Map 'Layers' view highlighted a huge amount of

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Contributor Terms vs OS OpenData Licence

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
, I am not going to let it worry me. I expect them to do their job and ensure that it works and I will get on with mapping. Regards, Peter Miller (user:PeterIto) TimSC ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 April 2011 14:49, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 19/04/2011 14:31, Peter Miller wrote: ... railways at layer=1 or -1 Well, that might be correct if they're at layer -1 or +1 relative to a feature that hasn't been mapped yet. A conversation with the original

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 April 2011 14:50, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Andy Allan just asked me a question privately about changes I have made to layers in Wandsworth which has prompted me to do a post here saying

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 April 2011 15:20, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: On 19 April 2011 15:50, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: I'm assuming his map layers view has some logic that layers tags only apply to ways

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