Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] new contributor coming to coventry

2012-08-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Florian, Good to hear from you. I live in Coventry and am happy to help you where I can. There's plenty of villages in the surrounding area that have just the roads mapped. One word of warning - watch out for Bing Imagery, some of it is very old now. Looking forward to Microsoft updating their

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] new contributor coming to coventry

2012-08-28 Thread Jonathan Harley
Welcome, Florian. I'm also in Coventry. I'm rubbish at making it to meets, but if we had more of them in Coventry I'd probably show up... As Rob says, the Bing imagery for Coventry and the surrounding areas is pretty old. From the state of various building projects it appears to be from

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] new contributor coming to coventry

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Hi Florian We have active an active mapping community and open data too. You'll be very welcome. Regards Andrew @DJSoup On 28 Aug 2012, at 16:14, Florian LAINEZ wrote: Hi, I'm Florian, french OSM contributor since 2009. I'd like to introduce myself to the local community because I'm moving

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] West mids energy pipelines

2012-08-28 Thread Andy Robinson
While having a clear up in my office I found the two schematic energy maps I'd mislaid for some years. They date from late 90's so are a little out of date now but being in copyright all I can do is relay some basic info for the West Midlands in case anyone spots markers at field boundaries and

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] new contributor coming to coventry

2012-08-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
There is one strip that runs straight through the city centre that is even older. It was taken prior to Millennium Place/Whittle Arches so is from very early 2000's. Annoyingly that area has changed quite a bit now. Rob On 28 August 2012 18:02, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Chance
On 28 August 2012 00:44, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: What I have in my mind is to grab each months data release from land registry (thus building up a good database of address + postcode), and then have some tool to visualise where we can match OSM addresses (without

Re: [Talk-GB] Hadrian's Wall

2012-08-28 Thread Gregory
There are relations for Hadrian's Wall. http://ra.osmsurround.org/searchRelation?name=HadrianrelationType=route=ref=network=operator= The wall sections should be tagged as they physically are. barrier=wall where it is still a structure historic=wall I think is suitable where the route goes but