[Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi all, Just in case you missed it, there is an article in the Guardian about the location of Postboxes and post offices in the UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/16/freedom-of-information-postboxes It then leads to the place where we can put this info onto openstreetmap

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Glenn Proctor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi all, Just in case you missed it, there is an article in the Guardian about the location of Postboxes and post offices in the UK.

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
Nice article, though I'm sure there is an inaccuracy there as the Royal Mail don't actually know the exact locations of the post boxes, instead they have a rough description which was provided through the FOI. Shaun On 17 Sep 2009, at 10:48, Bob Kerr wrote: Hi all, Just in case you

Re: [Talk-GB] UK government postcode/geolocation/nhs information leaked

2009-09-17 Thread Tim Waters
Doh, without quote marks I mean, not asterisks! hehe. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, Also I've spoken to Draco in the past, and his website does not sync with OSM. He has tried to get help with a mass import but the discussion was rat-holed due to supposed problem deriving data from Royal Mails postbox list.

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Hill
Ciarán Mooney wrote: Hi, Also I've spoken to Draco in the past, and his website does not sync with OSM. He has tried to get help with a mass import but the discussion was rat-holed due to supposed problem deriving data from Royal Mails postbox list.

[Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread David Earl
Two changesets: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2510163 reverted cleanly http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2510485 failed to revert 410 gone - I suspect there was a node/way changed in the second changeset that was also in the first. The automatic reversion is

[Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Peter Miller
On 17 Sep 2009, at 13:23, David Earl wrote: Two changesets: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2510163 reverted cleanly http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2510485 failed to revert 410 gone - I suspect there was a node/way changed in the second changeset that was also

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Nick Barnes
I've been thinking about this for a while. Is he doing anything (legally) wrong? Is he always connecting from the same IP address? Can the login script be amended to point suspect users to a You've been dicking about with the map - we're going to let you continue in the hope that at some point

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread David Earl
On 17/09/2009 14:09, Peter Miller wrote: Who would join a 'talk-counter_vandalism' list or support its creation? Yes. But can we call it something less judgemental: not all incorrect changes are vandalism, and people seeing their account names on such a list would be most depressing.

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread David Earl
On 17/09/2009 14:30, Peter Miller wrote: Possibly a different name would be clearer talk-Counter_vandalism_tools, but that is getting a bit long. Any other ideas or feedback? talk-reversion-tools? ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 17/09/2009 14:38, David Earl wrote: On 17/09/2009 14:35, David Earl wrote: Another one at 13:56, also failed to revert http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2511524 changeset upload failed: 412

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Matt Williams
2009/9/17 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: On 17 Sep 2009, at 14:30, David Earl wrote: On 17/09/2009 14:30, Peter Miller wrote: Possibly a different name would be clearer talk-Counter_vandalism_tools, but that is getting a bit long. Any other ideas or feedback?

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread John Robert Peterson
I'd join too -- but I doubt I would be of all that much help. JR 2009/9/17 Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk Peter Miller wrote: The other question though:- 1) Would you support the existence of such a list? 2) Would you join it? Yes, I'd join.

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread John Robert Peterson
I'm pretty sure I heard from somewhere that the post code associated with the post box is actually a post code assosiated with the collection office, and that a house next to it can have a totally different post code. JR 2009/9/17 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net Ciarán Mooney wrote: Hi,

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, We seem unable to contact Liam123 via normal channels. This means we have to think of other ways of contacting members who continually put mistakes into the dataset. Is it not possible to put a flag on his account, so when he logs in he is told what he has been doing and asked to explain

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Russ Phillips
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:49 PM, John Robert Peterson jrp@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure I heard from somewhere that the post code associated with the post box is actually a post code assosiated with the collection office, and that a house next to it can have a totally different post

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
David, David Earl wrote: ... which also won't revert now its closed (changeset upload failed: 409 Conflict) I also hear you talk about automatic reversion which gets a failure rate of about half. Are you sure that you know what you are doing? Because if not then there's a risk that you make

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-17 Thread John McKerrell
Ok, just to let you all know, I have the images on my laptop so should be fine for taking them down to the AGI next week. It's showing as just over 20GB on my snow leopard base 10 laptop ;-) I'm tempted to try uploading them to my server but I imagine it'll take too long so basically I'll

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-17 Thread Kev js1982
Or even a single operator - during Nottingham City Transports transition to a fully low floor operation the old buses were cascaded down too other routes which shared the same stops, And what about Preston bus station where they had to lower the kerbs to allow low floor buses to access it ;-) On

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Jennifer Campbell
Not a big contributor to the lists, but... 1) Yes I'd support it 2) Yes I'd join (but unlikely to contribute much) Jeni http://blog.jennystuff.com Peter Miller wrote: The other question though:- 1) Would you support the existence of such a list? 2) Would you join it? If no one supports it