Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm expecting to organise another 6 parties through the rest of this year so people's preference for locations please shout up again. Scotland! I was just browsing around on z10 (i.e. the last

Re: [Talk-GB] Generating Mapnik Images to epsg:27700 (British National Grid) Projection

2009-04-22 Thread Andy Allan
Well, the purpose of the forward projection code is to take the ll variable as lat long and then use the defined projection to calculate what the projected c0 and c1 points are in projected coordinates. So you should leave the ll in degrees. But it does sound like the projection string isn't

Re: [Talk-GB] designation and designated tags - support in renderers?

2009-04-20 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Hello everyone, I'm planning to do a wholesale conversion of all my surveyed footpaths, bridleways etc to use the designation (designation=public_footpath, designation=public_bridleway etc) or designated

Re: [Talk-GB] Possibly using highway=path for country footpaths

2009-04-07 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Al Girling acgirl...@gcguk.demon.co.uk wrote:  Why footway exists but a tag for public footpaths doesn't is frankly beyond me. Because you're reading too much into the name. All the highway tags were initially made up to end in '...way'. So forget you're ideas

Re: [Talk-GB] Clarifying tagging for footway/cycleway etc

2009-03-20 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: So if you have a shared use cycle/footpath where the bicycle and people are above each other white on a blue sign I'd say that highway=cycleway, foot=designated, cycle=designated and highway=footway, foot=designated,

Re: [Talk-GB] Free National Grid Vector Layers for gas and electricity?

2009-03-16 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Yes, I read their TCs but it never hurts to actually ask, they might just grant us the right to use their data.  It doesn't cost much to ask. Absolutely, and it's a good attitude to just plough on and ask. But I'll

Re: [Talk-GB] Data from Foia request

2008-12-17 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Kærast kaer...@newscloud.com wrote: Hi, I received a response to a freedom of information request today with a list of CCTV cameras owned by my local council http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cctv_coverage_and_information_4 The exact locations aren't

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: For some time we (at ITO) have being planning to do a thematic mapping view of these un-loved places by combining the census data and OSM data. Each census output area covers about 100 households so there must be

[Talk-GB] Reminder - upcoming API development events

2008-11-04 Thread Andy Allan
Hi All, Seeing Ivan's new icon for dev events on the wiki prompted me to send out a quick reminder of the two upcoming development events over the next few days: Wednesday evening - APIzza 0.6. Come along and get familiar with the code that powers the OSM API - and have some pizzas too! Perfect

[Talk-GB] APIzza 0.6

2008-10-30 Thread Andy Allan
You can all blame Matt Amos for the terrible wordplay. We're having a pizzas-and-coding event next Wednesday (5th November), in lieu of any London pub meetup and as a warm-up to the upcoming API 0.6 Hack weekend. It gives everyone a chance to get up to speed on the recent work on the API, get set

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only

2008-10-01 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Loach wrote: What is it we are trying to address here exactly? I'm assuming it is cyclelanes that are part of the road/way as This is with reference to

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, But generally the question is should oneway to cars be tagged as oneway=yes? Because it paints a big oneway arrow on the map which will confuse everyone except car-drivers. Even if you're a cyclist or other user

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy wrote: Actually they aren't - what they are doing is making one end of the road no access to motorised vehicles. So the road itself is no longer technically oneway, so it shouldn't need cycleway=opposite... So

Re: [Talk-GB] Very accurate GPS devices

2008-08-29 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Gates wrote: Further to Ed's post, are there really GPS devices with one inch accuracy? I could imagine letting a device sit for some time, and then averaging the position, which might lead to increased accuracy at

Re: [Talk-GB] Nottingham progress?

2008-07-04 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Russ Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone here give me an idea of progress in Nottingham? I had a quick look recently and it appeared that all the roads are in place, but some (many?) don't have names. Hi Russ, I don't know Nottingham myself, but you

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans

2008-06-23 Thread Andy Allan
There's a few Sustran's volunteer Rangers within the OSM community, myself included. We've tried various approaches to them with very little success. They seem to like having sucky maps on their website, charging a small fortune for maps that would be mostly unnecessary if the routes were properly

Re: [Talk-GB] StreetCar information in OSM

2008-05-20 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Grant Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle Gordon wrote: Surely not, since it's Google data... How is this Google's data? Regardless of if StreetCar has a Google map on their site. Data likely comes from: http://www.streetcar.co.uk/LocationsXml.xml Our

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Unsurfaced road and Byway?

2007-12-17 Thread Andy Allan
On Dec 16, 2007 4:37 PM, Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you going to re-tag every way in the database that uses this?. Nope, everyone is free to use whatever tag they want. Same goes for rendering. If its useful locally in the UK that is fine, but it should not suddenly

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Unsurfaced road and Byway?

2007-12-17 Thread Andy Allan
On Dec 17, 2007 10:51 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy R., Andy A., As for the voting process, I think it has to be taken with a grain of salt. Some people are doing a lot of work in that field and we shouldn't disregard their work completely - it is ok to have a structured

Re: [Talk-GB] talk in london on thurs

2007-10-30 Thread Andy Allan
On 10/30/07, Steve Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: harry wood put this on the wiki, I forgot come to london on thurs! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/ London#MySociety_Disruptive_Tech_Talk_on_Thursday Would be great to have an OSM crowd there to answer questions, talk etc beer

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: [CARTO-SoC] RE: WORK OPPORTUNITY - GPS CYCLE ROUTE SURVEYING

2007-09-27 Thread Andy Allan
On 9/27/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Via CARTO-SoC... - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:55:18 BST From: Richard Peace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello I have been approached by leading cycle map cartographers Cycle City

Re: [Talk-GB] Speed limits

2007-09-20 Thread Andy Allan
kph? On 9/20/07, Andy Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Sent: 20 September 2007 10:48 AM To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Speed limits Dave Stubbs wrote: I came across a speed limit in Windsor Great Park a few weeks back for 38mph which

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] dangerous cycling lanes (was Re: A new highwaytagging scheme - thinking about)

2007-09-10 Thread Andy Allan
On 9/9/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Aug 2007, at 12:55, Andy Allan wrote: On 8/29/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you (or anyone else) think I should tag the National Byway? (http://www.nationalbyway.org) If it could be drawn in brown

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] dangerous cycling lanes (was Re: A new highwaytagging scheme - thinking about)

2007-08-29 Thread Andy Allan
On 8/29/07, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Aug 2007, at 12:55, Andy Allan wrote: On 8/29/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The ncn and rcn are more generic, so that other countries can use the same tags. However these definitions are pretty much correct

Re: [Talk-GB] cycling routes

2007-08-16 Thread Andy Allan
On 8/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has just been brough to my attention. http://maps.camdencyclists.org.uk/ Had a quick look but nothing too understand it properly. Was wondering if it may be of use to those working on the cycle routes if you werent aware of it

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridges (Edinburgh)

2007-08-08 Thread Andy Allan
On 8/8/07, Minty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed many bridges around Edinburgh appear to be done using three seperate Ways See George IV Bridge, and also Castle Terrace if you pan to the left a little. http://tinyurl.com/298f7t * way_before_bridge * way_for_bridge *

Re: [Talk-GB] designated cycleway, designated bridleway, designated footway

2007-08-02 Thread Andy Allan
On 8/2/07, Rik van der Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main question now is how should I tag footpathes without a 'legal way of right' ? highway=footway access=permissive Shaun McDonald replied: The difference between a track and a path is more in the surface quality, rather than the

Re: [Talk-GB] Future UK mapping parties

2007-07-17 Thread Andy Allan
On 7/16/07, Abigail Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/16/07, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... not in my experience! They all use GPS devices, and the last time I got a taxi he took us to the wrong part of Hammersmith (the streetname was similar to the one we wanted, and pulled out

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