Re: [Talk-GB] Adding unofficial cycle routes

2009-07-28 Thread Peter Childs
2009/7/27 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM, John McKerrellj...@mckerrell.net wrote: How about a bus route? Though there's bus stops along the way there's no arrows or anything like that saying bus route goes this way. Not trying to be difficult, just

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding unofficial cycle routes

2009-07-28 Thread Richard Mann
While a signposted route on the ground is the best criterion for a reactive mapper, I think you can proactively identify cycle routes unambiguously prior to that (at least well enough that there won't be edit wars). Sometimes the reality follows the map. I think the criteria are something like:

[Talk-GB] UK Boundaries - update

2009-07-28 Thread Peter Miller
Progress on English boundaries has been amazing recently. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_England . Wales and Scotland seem to need champions and are not so far advanced for some reason. What is really good is that we now have people using them for useful purposes (see Peter

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Boundaries - update

2009-07-28 Thread Brian Quinion
1) Complete the conversion from boundary=administrative - boundary=ceremonial for the ceremonial-only counties. I will do this and also change the name of these to 'Blar (ceremonial)' to make a clear distinction from the administrative boundary. Changing them to boundary=ceremonial is great,

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding unofficial cycle routes

2009-07-28 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Richard Mannrichard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: While a signposted route on the ground is the best criterion for a reactive mapper, I think you can proactively identify cycle routes unambiguously prior to that (at least well enough that there won't be

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Boundaries - update

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Hill
Why is this 'great'? What is the point of boundary=ceremonial? If you change a boundary=administrative to boundary=ceremonial what does this do except break existing renders and tools? If you *add* boundary=ceremonial then this is available for those who want it and leave the existing

Re: [Talk-GB] Progress on estimating UK coverage

2009-07-28 Thread Jim Brown
Peter, Very interesting work you have done here, the CSVs are particularly interesting. Where did you source the Dept of Transportation data ? We (CloudMade) look at similar stats on a county level in the USA - and at a full country level in Europe and the rest of the world, taking a check

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Boundaries - update

2009-07-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 28 Jul 2009, at 13:33, Chris Hill wrote: Why is this 'great'? What is the point of boundary=ceremonial? If you change a boundary=administrative to boundary=ceremonial what does this do except break existing renders and tools? If you *add* boundary=ceremonial then this is available