Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-06 Thread Dan S
That's interesting Andy, thanks Dan 2014-10-05 23:07 GMT+01:00 SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk: With new editors though I sometimes think we forget how hard it is for someone to start editing now in e.g. the centre of London compared to when we experienced mappers started. Here, for

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-06 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 22:28, Lester Caine wrote: All achievable if the API monitors the constraints on relations and checks that what JOSM submits is complete. That would represent a radical change in design philosophy. At the moment, the code behind the API (I standards interface) implements very

[Talk-GB] Stansted - cartography vs routing, and levels

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Can you help? I have a problem with Stansted, and don't know how to go about sorting it. Fundamentally, it is drawn so that it looks nice cartographically, but there are no routeable connections between the rail station and the coach station, or up into the terminal building. So I need to add

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-06 Thread Lester Caine
On 06/10/14 09:26, David Woolley wrote: On 05/10/14 22:28, Lester Caine wrote: All achievable if the API monitors the constraints on relations and checks that what JOSM submits is complete. That would represent a radical change in design philosophy. At the moment, the code behind the API

Re: [Talk-GB] Stansted - cartography vs routing, and levels

2014-10-06 Thread Richard Mann
Layers are _relative_, so I'd use layer=0 (ie default) for the layer with the most detail (probably the public area of the terminal building), and if that has to use stairs or escalators to fit in with adjacent layer=0 areas then so be it. Richard On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Stuart Reynolds

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-06 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 21:31, David Woolley wrote: Whilst the archive exists and is accessible, what I'm not aware of is an API interface that allows one to retrieve the versions of objects that existed at a particular date. It has been pointed out to me, off list, that the overpass API can retrieve a

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-06 Thread Tom Chance
I'd echo Andy's comments, particularly about politely contacting all new users in your neck of the woods. My principal difficulty is in working out what people have done in each changeset. The best tool we had for this - OWL - is now defunct. This let you browse around the area looking at all

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-06 Thread SomeoneElse
On 06/10/2014 11:30, Tom Chance wrote: My principal difficulty is in working out what people have done in each changeset. The best tool we had for this - OWL - is now defunct. This let you browse around the area looking at all changesets, seeing features that had been deleted / moved /

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-06 Thread Lester Caine
On 06/10/14 10:35, David Woolley wrote: On 05/10/14 21:31, David Woolley wrote: Whilst the archive exists and is accessible, what I'm not aware of is an API interface that allows one to retrieve the versions of objects that existed at a particular date. It has been pointed out to me, off