Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-20 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
On 20/12/2020 18:44, ipswichmapper--- via Talk-GB wrote: What you do is give the outline way "buildong=terrace" and "name=" and all the houses with "building:part=house". The software can then tell that all those houses are part of the terrace called This is a good solution. I usually

Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-20 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
On 20/12/2020 16:09, Chris Hill wrote Using the two separate towns is not correct. The house (or whatever) is not in Largertown,it is in Smalltown. By convention addr:* tags are for addressing, not for mapping administrative boundaries. For the latter we can use is_in tags, although explicit

Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-20 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
On 20/12/2020 12:45, Dave Abbott wrote: There is a page at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping which mentions "suggested tags" but there is no evidence that this is in use. If correct I would be tagging as - addr:housenumber=99 addr:street=Postal Street

Re: [OSM-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-09 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
Sorry for adding to the noise but this is important. Quote from the document: Changes to form part of OSMFs agenda over the coming 1-2 years: 1. Make Working Groups and OSM activities more equitable: the Diversity and Inclusion special committee should actively work

Re: [Talk-GB] Footways bikes can go on

2020-11-22 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
JOSM preset is: highway=path bicycle=designated foot=designated segregated=no I quite like it as it doesn't imply one use is preferred to another. On 21/11/2020 10:28, Edward Bainton wrote: Is there established tagging for a tarmac path that isĀ ~1.5m wide, but designated foot and cycles

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK's first tile layer

2020-10-17 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
Hi Rob, Good stuff, it's definitely worthwhile. Thinner lines could work better (for me 1px would be perfect), especially that the max zoom stops at 17. You could perhaps consider increasing the max zoom a notch as well. Are the numbers in wms tiles UPRNs? If so, you could consider

Re: [Talk-GB] Hello world and automated change proposal: Add missing URL scheme on UK's Pubs websites

2020-09-28 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
d. IMHO it's a good mini project for starting your journey with osm. I would go a step further though: "If no valid scheme is found, do nothing" - that's OK, but as the next step please could you *manually* verify these links and either fix them or a

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-06 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
On 02/07/2020 17:38, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: I'm not completely sure if/how we can best make use of the new OS OpenData (UPRNs, USRNs and related links) in OpenStreetMap, but as a first step I've set up a quick slippy map with the UPRN locations shown:

Re: [Talk-GB] positioning of shop nodes as entrances

2020-06-30 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
Hi Jez, I am not a fan of using entrances for tagging POIs for three reasons: - An entrance to a shop is not a shop. - Multiple primary tags cause problems with consuming data (e.g. when rendering). Is the point mainly an entrance or mainly a shop? In practice, we leave this decision to a

Re: [OSM-talk] Could/should editors detect/disallow huge changeset bboxes?

2020-06-12 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
t's what most people see first before examining the changeset in osmcha or similar tools. Ndrw ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Could/should editors detect/disallow huge changeset bboxes?

2020-06-12 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
and listen to more experienced mappers. More guidelines: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Armchair_mapping Ndrw ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Toward resolution of controversies related to iD

2020-06-10 Diskussionsfäden ndrw
to change _that_. Ndrw ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk