Re: [Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

2016-01-26 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi Dudley, Why? If an organisation wants to be a member, why shouldn’t it have a say in how OSM UK is run, including being nominated for and electing members to committees. I’m quite comfortable with requiring an individual to be nominated, which we can consider not allowing to be delegated,

[Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-26 Thread Walter Nordmann
Hi, any reason why there are only admin boundaries with admin_level=10 in Northern Ireland? No counties (AL6), no cities (AL8), no Suburbs(AL9) - nothing regards walter/germany ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-26 Thread Colin Smale
What is missing, is AL8 - used for "Districts" in the UK. Counties used to exist in NI but they are now defunct as administrative entities. The boundaries seem to be (still) there in OSM, but with boundary=historic admin_level=6. I am not sure where the existing AL10 data came from, and what these

[Talk-GB] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
A third update on the quarterly project. 0. The what project? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Projects 1. Open Data Manchester Following a tweet Open Data Manchester have asked whether anyone can go and show them how to map. Looks like their next meeting is Monday February 1st,

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-26 Thread Brian Prangle
AL10 boundaries came from the OSM Ireland Project on Townlands rgds Brian On 26 January 2016 at 17:38, Colin Smale wrote: > What is missing, is AL8 - used for "Districts" in the UK. Counties used to > exist in NI but they are now defunct as administrative entities. The >

Re: [Talk-GB] [Imports] OSM with Wikidata: 27232 matches found in England

2016-01-26 Thread Edward Betts
Neil Matthews wrote: > I had a look at your Bristol matches -- most are reasonable, a few issues: > > Q5015771 — Cabot Circus — Cabot Circus (way, distance: 165 m) building=yes > Matched to parking not the shopping area -- OSM updated, was a suburb > place I've added

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Lester Caine
On 26/01/16 19:38, Rob Nickerson wrote: > 4. HS and ZE are 100% complete! > Wow! The HS (Outer Hebrides) and ZE (Lerwick) postcodes are complete. > Thanks go to OpenStreetMapper seumas. Many other postcodes (with more > schools within them ;-) ) are close to this now too >

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
Am aware of this Lester. It makes the blog post a lot harder though. Feel free to write something up and send it through :-) BTW: The amenity=college page on the wiki [1] is lacking a lot. Could do with some extra details (rather than simply linking to wikipedia) and it's context needs expanding

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Lester Caine
On 26/01/16 21:20, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > BTW: The amenity=college page on the wiki [1] is lacking a lot. Could do > with some extra details (rather than simply linking to wikipedia) and > it's context needs expanding beyond just the UK. Any takers? > > [1]

Re: [Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

2016-01-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
Brian wrote: >On legal structures, please read Rob's excellent summary before the >concall. I've read it and my conclusion so far, and I'm still not clear on >some things, is that we shouldn't go for unincorporated society (unlimited >liablity for officers) or charity (we don't have a charitable