On 05/07/2011 10:51, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Tom Chance wrote:
So I suspect it's potentially breaching copyright, and a matter of
judgement as to whether it's worth the risk. For example, if you
were copying in data from a commercial web site whose business
model was based around that data
To my horror I see that I did't update the mani wiki page when I changed
the calendar. Many apologies. Let me know if this is now too short notice.
Just a quick reminder, that this is scheduled for 19:30 tomorrow, meet
up at 18:30 for mapping walk outside the Lincolnshire Poacher.
Wiki page:
On 16/06/2011 15:31, TimSC wrote:
My communication recent with the woodland trust, regarding open data:
It would be good if you could do more on data openness - that is more
permissive permissions to use data on your web site. Also it would be
good to be able to upload creative commons
On 13/06/2011 00:38, TimSC wrote:
The OSMF is currently reviewing its role in OSM. I want to know the
view of ordinary mapping contributors about how decisions should be
made in OSM. Is OSMF a supporting body? If so what does supporting
mean in this context? Is it a governing body? What
On 14/06/2011 10:41, Craig Loftus wrote:
On 14 June 2011 10:26, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net wrote:
Potlatch 2's improved (not deployed yet) shapefile background layers asks
you for the projection before loading, rather than relying on the .prj file.
Thanks for clarifying.
I'm not
Generally, I am still opposed to a bot. There is a substantial body of
evidence that automated imports damage the ability to recruit and nuture
new mappers. Recent posts about Latvia, Austria and The Netherlands on
talk all substantiate this: in many cases the people recognising the
issue were
On 09/06/2011 15:47, SteveC wrote:
On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:42, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM
sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk mailto:sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Generally, I am still opposed to a bot. There is a substantial body
of evidence that automated imports damage the ability to recruit and
nuture new
On 08/06/2011 15:58, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
TimSC wrote:
On 07/06/11 14:37, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
You don't need to put stuff into OSM to make it mashable-uppable. Most
competent licences will have a Collective Work/Database provision to
enable this.
While this this strictly true it is
I plan to be in S. Wales for a few days late June, and will be free on
Sunday 26th June.
My suggestion would be Carmarthen : its not well mapped and is
convenient for me, and reachable by public transport.
Any takers?
Jerry
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Just a quick reminder that I (and I hope some others) will be at the
Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30 tomorrow night for Nottingham area pub
meet-up. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup
Providing the weather isn't too bad I'll be there at 18:30, so that we
can do something
I recently did a blog post on Access Land
http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2011/05/access-land.html.
Part of the idea of doing this was to do something concrete to provide a
basis for discussing better tagging for this sort of land. Basically, I
added a relation tagged designation=access_land and
On 14/05/2011 18:28, TimSC wrote:
On 14/05/11 17:39, Andy Mabbett wrote:
The Woodland Trust do something similar (no URL, sorry, as I'm mobile).
Do you mean http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/visit-woods/ ? I
already asked for their data set but they were not very
communicative... It would
On 05/05/2011 09:35, Peter Miller wrote:
On 5 May 2011 09:02, TimSC mappingli...@sheerman-chase.org.uk
mailto:mappingli...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
I thought this UK list of orchards was interesting. It would be
nice if they were to release it as open data. Not sure
On 26/04/2011 12:38, Thomas Wood wrote:
On 04/26/11 12:04, Peter Miller wrote:
Baker Street. There are three separate nodes tagged
'railway=station,name=Baker Street' (one for each line served). In
reality there five separate lines each of which may have 2 platforms
(unless any of them share
Just a quick reminder
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup.
Lincolnshire Poacher, Mansfield Road, 19:30.
I'll do an hour mapping before hand, and will be outside the pub at 18:30.
Cheers,
Jerry
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On 21/04/2011 13:50, TimSC wrote:
...
If you have patience, the OS 7th series sheets that are coming out of
copyright and have rights of way on them. Of course they are 50 years
out of date... (but it's mostly accurate in my experience).
...
Regards,
TimSC
I've been remiss in getting another Nottingham Pub Meet-up organised.
I'm going to suggest next Tuesday 26th April at the Lincolnshire
Poacher, Mansfield Road, from 19:30 onwards. Preferably in the back-room
snug. I'll check out if they do food at that time.
I'll be outside at 18:30 for
On 15/04/2011 19:21, Phil Endecott wrote:
Dear Experts,
Can anyone propose a test that I can use to distinguish between
roadside cycle-lanes and off-road cycle paths?
This is part of my effort to superimpose OSM path info onto OS
District Map. I would like to show off-road cycle paths that
On 11/04/2011 21:20, Paul Williams wrote:
Hi,
In and around Cardiff city centre, a new user has recently decided in
his first edit (see
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7775606) to go about and
delete several things from the map including POIs, roads or parts of
roads, and even the
On 09/04/2011 12:00, dan...@daniel-watkins.co.uk wrote:
Hello all,
Over the past couple of weeks, I've come up with a couple of interesting
walks from my house. I would like to publish these on my blog, in the
hopes that other people looking for walks in the area will find them.
However, I
On 06/04/2011 17:46, Jason Cunningham wrote:
Hi all,
Recently was made aware of Findmaps new free service that overlays a
lot of recently released UK data over maps.
http://free.findmaps.co.uk/
The available background maps are 'google maps' 'osm mapnik' and OS.
You then chose to see several
On 04/04/2011 19:36, Stuart Grimshaw wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com wrote:
What we seem to be edging towards is a mixed tagging of route_ref and relations,
being respectively the 'rough' and 'proper' way to tag bus routes, and the need
for some lint-like tool
On 02/04/2011 15:14, Stuart Grimshaw wrote:
This weekend sees Sheffield's first Transport Hackday, hosted at
theGistLab[3], we've got a bunch of guys sitting here with various
apps we've written or would like to write and one of the projects we
identified as a potential target for today would be
On 02/04/2011 17:32, Richard Mann wrote:
Sounds like a highway=living_street to me (but highway=pedestrian would be fine)
In general you need to tag the characteristics of the whole street if
you can. Micro-mapping is a bonus, and you need to be careful not to
make it unintelligable to the data
On 11/03/2011 10:19, Steve Chilton wrote:
I have been asked by editor of the Cartographic Journal to write a short piece
on the effect of the release of OS OpenData on the OpenStreetMap project, and I
am just trying to gather my thoughts, and make sure I cover all bases.
I was present at
On 18/03/2011 22:56, Kev js1982 wrote:
Resurrecting an old thread I know but with the NSPD Open data also
being available allowing Northern Ireland to be generated and having
access to an otherwise idle 64bit server I've taken the opportunity to
revisit this, and have successfully created the
On 17/03/2011 14:33, Derick Rethans wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Matt Williams wrote:
snip..
It doesn't currently parse any postcode tag on highway=* roads since
strictly it's not the roads themselves that have postcodes, but the
houses themselves. I didn't want to encourage this too much I
We had a well attended meeting last night with 8 of us. A good mix, of
active local mappers, old hands (smsm1 ;-) ), relative newcomers and
interested map lurkers. There was enough enthusiasm to do it again, and
a general view that a monthly was fine, so I'll suggest a time place
for early
On 09/03/2011 11:57, Michael Collinson wrote:
At 12:32 10/02/2011, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
Henry Gomersall [mailto:h...@cantab.net] wrote:
Sent: 10 February 2011 11:07 AM
To: Peter Miller
Cc: Talk GB
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect use of OS VectorMap District when
mapping?
Reminder that we're having a pub meet-up in Nottingham is this Tuesday 8th
March from
7:30 pm, Sir John Borlase Warren, Canning Circus, Nottingham NG7 3GD.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup
Cheers
Jerry
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On 03/03/2011 09:51, Richard Mann wrote:
I think you might also consider a path density map or a
shop/pub:street density map. That's the sort of stuff where OSM can
really do much better than OS / Google.
Richard
This was exactly what I was trying to do with my various pub density
maps
On 03/03/2011 03:21, Jason Cunningham wrote:
Well done to all those who finished off the road network in Southwark.
I was drawn into OSM when searching for a mapping solution in the far
south of Southwark, and it's brilliant to see how things have come along.
Tom, I've noticed you've added a
Recently, I have noticed a number of MapDust bugs which contain a
postcode sector and, apparently, a range of housenumbers (e.g.,
Southdale Dr 40-98, NG4 1, GB for http://www.mapdust.com/detail/142061).
There is no postcode or address information at this locality in OSM.
I presume that it is
On 24/02/2011 13:42, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 24/02/2011 13:14, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM wrote:
Recently, I have noticed a number of MapDust bugs which contain a
postcode sector and, apparently, a range of housenumbers (e.g.,
Southdale Dr 40-98, NG4 1, GB for http://www.mapdust.com/detail
On 15/02/2011 15:32, Ed Avis wrote:
Andy Robinson (blackadder-listsajrlists@... writes:
http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2011/02/whats-in-postcode.html
Great work! How can you tell when you have every postcode and is there some way
of checking them against the OS OpenData postcode centroids?
I
On 15/02/2011 17:23, Ed Avis wrote:
Andy Robinson (blackadder-listsajrlists@... writes:
Great work! How can you tell when you have every postcode and is there
some way of checking them against the OS OpenData postcode centroids?
Just by being systematic. If you have Chillly's codepoint
Just a quick announcement.
A first pub meet for OSM mappers in the extended Nottingham area is
scheduled for Tuesday 8th March at the John Borlase Warren
http://osm.org/go/eu8ZoGm84--, Canning Circus, Nottingham NG7 3GD.
from 19:30 onwards.
Wiki page at:
On 09/02/2011 20:27, Kevin Peat wrote:
Hi Jason,
I am the mapper (user:devonshire) who imported the woods in your first
example around Dartmouth but it was last May so not exactly recently.
The woods that are there now are a lot better than the NPE traced ones
that we had before. I took the
On 02/02/2011 21:10, Peter Miller wrote:
ITO have been offering a service to compare osm road names with os
locator road names for a while now[1] which has encouraged a lot of
activity - and has even led to Andy to obsession.[2] I have also
suffered from a bout of urgent mapping myself while
On 03/02/2011 13:36, Tom Chance wrote:
On 3 February 2011 11:51, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
mailto:e...@waniasset.com wrote:
I think automatically importing the OS data for areas where OSM
currently has
little to no coverage - or coverage merely traced from Yahoo
imagery - is
On 03/02/2011 15:24, Peter Miller wrote:
Or do both? Surely the guys at the Royal Commission on Ancient
Monuments are not about to head out on bikes to survey the area. What
they will do, possibly, is get the boundary correct and put names on
the buildings but not until the road
On 02/02/2011 13:39, Richard Mann wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:51 PM, SK%3 sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk
mailto:sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
... this information is needed and is currently poorly
communicated: see if you can obtain a leaflet showing the edge of
the fare zone with any
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