[Talk-GB] Announcing OpenEcoMaps (to geeks)

2011-04-12 Thread Tom Chance
Hello all, After a long period of development I'm happy to announce that OpenEcoMaps is basically functional: http://www.openecomaps.co.uk OpenEcoMaps takes data about “eco” (green / sustainable) features stored in OpenStreetMap and turns them into KML files that are shown as overlays on the

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 11 April 2011 23:39, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 9 April 2011 08:15, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com mailto: peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: ... We seem to be nudging towards something close to a conclusion. Can I suggest that the following two

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread SomeoneElse
On 12/04/2011 09:38, Peter Miller wrote: On 11 April 2011 23:39, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: We've lost the information that the sign is actually NOT a 60 mph sign. Something like method 2 above would have avoided losing

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread Steve Doerr
On 11/04/2011 23:39, SomeoneElse wrote: Great - someone has now changed a bunch of maxspeed=national locally to me to to maxspeed=60 mph. Next I guess someone will come along and add source:maxspeed=i_was_sat_in_my_armchair_and_it_seemed_like_a_good_idea or similar? We've lost the

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 April 2011 11:04, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: SomeoneElse lists@... writes: I can still map maxspeed=what_the_sign_says as I have been doing. Maybe it would be best to tag that as maxspeed_sign=what_the_sign_says. Probably maxspeed:sign would be better than maxspeed_sign. I do

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Miller
I apologise for editing too soon and having taken silence as agreement. I will not any more editing of maxspeed while we resolve this issue. In my defense I would note again that a considerable percentage of unrestricted roads in the UK had already been tagged in numeric format and that my manual

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Hill
On 12/04/11 09:38, Peter Miller wrote: The general conclusion of the discussion above was that where maxspeed=60mph is applied to a single carriageway road there is also a default 'maxspeed:type=GB:unrestricted' (or whatever value is decided on). This default (and the one for 70mph for

[Talk-GB] SABRE Maps

2011-04-12 Thread Bob Kerr
I just heard about this, I don't know anything about the group but I thought I'd pass it on since it's using openstreetmap http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/ Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] OS 1:25k Layer in Potlatch 2

2011-04-12 Thread Steve Doerr
Is this working? I just noticed that, for Meopham in Kent, I can view the 1:25k OS map as a background in Potlatch 1, but nothing displays in Potlatch 2. -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] SABRE Maps

2011-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
Bob Kerr wrote: I just heard about this, I don't know anything about the group but I thought I'd pass it on since it's using openstreetmap http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/ They have links to a number of growing historic maps as well as OSM ... the National Library of Scotland archive is

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 April 2011 12:30, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: On 12/04/11 09:38, Peter Miller wrote: The general conclusion of the discussion above was that where maxspeed=60mph is applied to a single carriageway road there is also a default 'maxspeed:type=GB:unrestricted' (or whatever value

Re: [Talk-GB] [Potlatch-dev] OS 1:25k Layer in Potlatch 2

2011-04-12 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: Steve wrote: Is this working? I just noticed that, for Meopham in Kent, I can view the 1:25k OS map as a background in Potlatch 1, but nothing displays in Potlatch 2. It looks like Potlatch 1 is loading .jpg and Potlatch 2

[Talk-GB] Open Data Challenge

2011-04-12 Thread Bob Kerr
A bit of cash maybe? http://opendatachallenge.org/ Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread Ed Avis
Peter Miller peter.miller@... writes: Are people happy with: GB:motorway (which implies 70 mph at present and possibly 80 mph in the future) GB:dual_carriageway (which implies 70 mph at present) GB:single_carriageway (which implies 60 mph at present) I think this is a sensible scheme and can go

Re: [Talk-GB] [Potlatch-dev] OS 1:25k Layer in Potlatch 2

2011-04-12 Thread Steve Doerr
On 12/04/2011 15:08, Andy Allan wrote: I've just created the patch to fix this, and if anyone notices any more mistakes (or omissions) in http://git.openstreetmap.org/potlatch2.git/blob/HEAD:/resources/imagery.xml then let us know, either by trac tickets or on the potlatch-dev list. Many

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-12 Thread Steve Doerr
On 12/04/2011 15:16, Ed Avis wrote: Peter Millerpeter.miller@... writes: Are people happy with: GB:motorway (which implies 70 mph at present and possibly 80 mph in the future) GB:dual_carriageway (which implies 70 mph at present) GB:single_carriageway (which implies 60 mph at present) I

Re: [Talk-GB] Open Data Challenge

2011-04-12 Thread Steve Doerr
On 12/04/2011 15:15, Bob Kerr wrote: A bit of cash maybe? http://opendatachallenge.org/ Headline sponsor: Google! -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] SABRE Maps

2011-04-12 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 12 Apr 2011, at 14:14, Lester Caine wrote: Bob Kerr wrote: I just heard about this, I don't know anything about the group but I thought I'd pass it on since it's using openstreetmap http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/ They have links to a number of growing historic maps as well as