Re: [Talk-GB] Wales Boundaries (Wrexham Denbighshire)

2009-08-11 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 11 Aug 2009, at 06:41, Peter Miller wrote: On 10 Aug 2009, at 23:09, Bogus Zaba wrote: With Denbighshire however I made a new relation (192442) and am slowly adding various ways that will make up this boundary. Not sure however how to edit the Denbighshire entry in the wiki to add

Re: [Talk-GB] Wales Boundaries (Wrexham Denbighshire)

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Miller
On 11 Aug 2009, at 07:43, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 11 Aug 2009, at 06:41, Peter Miller wrote: On 10 Aug 2009, at 23:09, Bogus Zaba wrote: With Denbighshire however I made a new relation (192442) and am slowly adding various ways that will make up this boundary. Not sure however

Re: [Talk-GB] Progress on estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Emilie Laffray
Shaun McDonald wrote: It would be interesting to see the same charts taking into account the nonames, to take into account the places that have been traced but not yet named. +1 Emilie Laffray signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Reed
I have now uploaded a summary of the figures for the UK coverage estimates as a CSV file here - http://www.reedhome.org.uk/Documents/OSMCoverage.csv Several people have expressed an interest in seeing the proportion of named roads by local authority area. Those figures are included in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Jaggard
Hi Nice work! The area figures are obviously including the wet bits. Bristol is half water: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7019663.stm I also notice the OSM motorway figures are generally a fair bit above the official figures - slip roads? Cheers Paul (southglos) -Original

Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Donald Allwright
The area figures are obviously including the wet bits. Bristol is half water: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7019663.stm This article mentions Denny Island - which was absent from OSM. I've now added it from the NPE map, although I don't know whether its location has changed with

[Talk-GB] Mapzen Community Panel

2009-08-11 Thread Emma Williamson
Hi there, We’re looking for OSMers of all abilities to take part in an early hands-on preview session of Mapzen, CloudMade’s new OSM editor. As an early tester of Mapzen, you get to try out new features before anyone else and most importantly, get to make your mark on a new OSM editor. The

Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Reed
Interesting point from Paul (southglos) about slip roads. I've just worked the numbers slightly differently and he seems to be right. Adding up the total length of motorways in England according to DfT it comes to 6,021km. My total from OSM for England = 6,962km On face value we have

Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Nick Austin
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Peter Reedpeter.r...@aligre.co.uk wrote: What do you think – should I be ignoring “motoway_link” in the totals, counting it as something else (and if so what?), do we just put this down to the way DfT count the numbers, or is it just coincidence that the

Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Jennifer Campbell
Nick Austin wrote: There are marker posts every 100 yards alongside the hard shoulder of all motorways. I don't think slip roads have marker posts so if the DfT are calculating distance by counting the marker posts then excluding slip roads sounds a reasonable thing to do. Nick Pedant mode

Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Hill
Peter Reed wrote: Interesting point from Paul (southglos) about slip roads. Ive just worked the numbers slightly differently and he seems to be right. Adding up the total length of motorways in England according to DfT it comes to 6,021km. My total from OSM for England =