Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Townsend
On 29/11/2016 19:19, Andy Robinson wrote: As it happens the Phase 2b shape files are available. Just rather buried under an obscure filename. I'll post again once I've made the route updates for 2b (Manchester & Leeds) Which routes do the 2b updates have for north and south of Sheffield?

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Philip Barnes
On Tue Dec 6 20:46:03 2016 GMT, Rob Nickerson wrote: > All great ideas. The trick for Q1 is to find one that will work well in the > cold weather. I'm not sure I know the answer to that but the idea of doing > Fixmes and Notes is interesting - it could through up literally anything! I > will

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
All great ideas. The trick for Q1 is to find one that will work well in the cold weather. I'm not sure I know the answer to that but the idea of doing Fixmes and Notes is interesting - it could through up literally anything! I will probably learn a great deal from doing that one. Best regards,

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Brian Prangle
My vote goes to clearing up Notes and FIXMEs. Last time I looked the UK had one of the poorest clearup rates of Notes. On 6 December 2016 at 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I'd like to float the following ideas for quarterly projects, and see what > folk think. > > *

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Townsend
On 06/12/2016 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote: also Wikidata - ... Upon reading that my first thought was actually "checking all of the wikidata references that have been added by people not necessarily familiar with the area". See, for example, the discussion on

[Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
I'd like to float the following ideas for quarterly projects, and see what folk think. * GLAMs - Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. As with schools we could turn points into ploygons, add names, URLs, street addresses, Wikidata items, and other info. * Blue lights - police, fire and

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping dangerous - but valid - routes

2016-12-06 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-12-05 16:12, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Greetings At Stirling Corner, on the A1 in Barnet, there is a cycle way (hence also available for pedestrians) that goes around the outside of the roundabout (http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/78315291). A cursory glance at satellite mapping shows it

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping dangerous - but valid - routes

2016-12-06 Thread David Earl
I also marked some cycle crossings as hazardous, but perhaps with a certain amount of official legitimacy, in that I was preparing the data to use in cycle maps for Cambridgeshire County Council, and the ones I marked were ones they had provided but *they* recognised were not satisfactory: marking

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes

2016-12-06 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 5 December 2016 at 20:19, Dave Barter wrote: > Excuse the noob question as I’ve not been on the list long. > > I’m doing a bit of work trying to create an open version of the OS Codepoint > Polygons. To do this I need as much postcode data as possible. I’ve been > looking