Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Old Longbridge building outlines

2014-08-22 Thread Andy Robinson
Looks to me like the Longbridge works was never traced into OSM, at least there is nothing present prior to May 2010 and only the undemolished ones a month later (added by Brian). Stu, if you need to create the building outlines I can send you a rectified scanned map showing them.

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Old Longbridge building outlines

2014-08-22 Thread Brian Prangle
When I worked at the University there was chatter about a model mine underneath the Edgbaston Campus that was used by the now defunct School of Mining, also that the School of Physics used the tunnels for a minor branch of research for the Manhattan Project. Regards Brian On 21 August 2014

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Chamberlain Clock

2014-08-22 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Andy Is it technically the Chamberlain Memorial Clock? If so you could add the tag historic=memorial. I debated whether to add this originally but decided against it as the thing really is a clock physically and functionally- but that's just my opinion Regards Brian On 21 August 2014

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Old Longbridge building outlines

2014-08-22 Thread Jonathan Harley
Hi Brian, the mining tunnel is certainly true - when I was a student there was a ventilation shaft into it just behind the Guild. I'd guess the entrance into it was destroyed when the multi-story car park between the Guild and the Gun Barrels was built. There were also rumours of steam

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] September mapping party

2014-08-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Yeah I was thinking the same when I drove to work this morning. Shouldnt make a habit of it though :-p I'll put a tweet out. On 22 Aug 2014 15:06, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: As two of us are only available on 28 August and not on 4 September, I have decided to go ahead

[Talk-GB] Thankful Villages

2014-08-22 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone This being the season for commemorating the centenary of the First World War I thought we might add the Thankful Villages ( aka Blessed Villages) to our map. Thankful Villages have no memorial to the war dead since everyone of their service personnel returned home ( not necessarily

Re: [Talk-GB] Thankful Villages

2014-08-22 Thread David Woolley
On 22/08/14 15:23, Brian Prangle wrote: I'll leave it to others to judge whether this is data they would want on the map, but: Thankful_Village= yes_WWI Thankful_Village= double_WWIII I believe that Thankful_Village=WWI Thankful_Village=WWI;WWII would be more in the spirit of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Thankful Villages

2014-08-22 Thread David Woolley
On 22/08/14 15:50, David Woolley wrote: Thankful_Village=WWI Thankful_Village=WWI;WWII Other things I would want to investigate are whether this can be generalised to other countries: do the Americans have a similar category; does it include Korean and Vietnam wars? What about the

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey National Grid maps of Edinburgh

2014-08-22 Thread Eric Grosso
Hi all, Thanks Rob for that. Chris Fleet (NLS) asked me to announce to the OSM community that the NLS is also adding the Ordnance Survey Maps - 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949, which is the most detailed topographic mapping for all the inhabited regions of Scotland from the