Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Reminder: Hampton-in-Arden meet up this Thursday, Coventry next month.

2012-05-02 Thread Matt Williams
On 30 April 2012 16:07, rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Just a quick reminder that the next social meet up for OSMers in the Midlands is this Thursday (3rd May, 2012) 8pm-ish to 10pm-ish at The White Lion, Hampton-in-Arden. Feel free to come early and get some mapping done before

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Davenports plaque

2012-05-02 Thread Brian Prangle
Visited the Maltings today looking for the plaque - and it's not there! Had a long chat with the receptionist and security guard: it was taken down immediately after the press ceremony and they've yet to decide where to put it. It's not a blue plaque but is financed and organised by Davenports

[Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-02 Thread Peter Rounce
In view of recent interest in UK rights of way, should we set up a wiki project, possibly at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom/RightsOfWay It would seem to be a good addition to the current UK projects. Current Projects Mapping of this country has been split into a

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-02 Thread SomeoneElse
Peter Rounce wrote: In view of recent interest in UK rights of way, should we set up a wiki project, possibly at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom/RightsOfWay If you do that what would be helpful would be to include some reference to the other wiki pages that

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick
On 02/05/12 12:38, Peter Rounce wrote: In view of recent interest in UK rights of way, should we set up a wiki project, possibly at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom/RightsOfWay It would seem to be a good addition to the current UK projects. Are you planning to

[Talk-GB] Do you run/attend a regular meet-up?

2012-05-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Based on my experience with OSM, I have spent the rainy days of April improving the wiki. I've tried to redesign [1] as the main hub for mapping efforts and members in the UK. Yesterday, I started to add more of a community element to this page in the form of a grid of main mapping

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Tagging Guideline - wiki page proposals

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick
On 20/04/12 23:17, rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: (iv) Scotland - Now has a separate section ready to be filled in. Not just Scotland, but Northern Ireland, Wales and England. I think you need to lift the differences between the countries out of the Rights of Way section, because the

[Talk-GB] Designation: should we begin using prefixes

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick
designation=* has been evolving recently, and has added some open land classifications: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation#UK_Protected_Areas With the proliferation of these designation codes, would it make sense to begin coming up with country- or jurisdiction-coded prefixes for

Re: [Talk-GB] Designation: should we begin using prefixes

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Hill
On 02/05/12 16:29, Andrew Chadwick wrote: designation=* has been evolving recently, and has added some open land classifications: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation#UK_Protected_Areas With the proliferation of these designation codes, would it make sense to begin coming up with

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
One project goal might be to consolidate the various scattered information on the wiki describing how to map RoWs in the first place. Come up with *one* consensus approach. We seem to be settling on designation=* + highway={foot,cycle,bridle}way, by the looks of it (full disclosure; it's the

[Talk-GB] Have you contacted a UK local authority in regards to Rights of Way?

2012-05-02 Thread rob . j . nickerson
The second of a few emails from me today (apologies)! As part of the Public Rights of Way work I have added a table of all the English surveying authorities responsible for maintaining the Definitive Map and Statement, to the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_local_councils

[Talk-GB] UK rights of way tagging guidelines page.

2012-05-02 Thread rob . j . nickerson
The third (and hopefully final) email from me today! 1) Thanks for the feedback on the tagging guidelines page. Lots of good things and ideas (especially expanding to include more than just England), for me to work on for the next iteration of this wiki page. 2) In regards to the idea for

Re: [Talk-GB] Have you contacted a UK local authority in regards to Rights of Way?

2012-05-02 Thread Andy Street
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 16:22 +, rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: The second of a few emails from me today (apologies)! As part of the Public Rights of Way work I have added a table of all the English surveying authorities responsible for maintaining the Definitive Map and Statement,