On 04/03/2015 22:59, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
Ok, last call for comments.
I don't see a huge amount of support for automatically importing these
from the GB community. If there's such a small number, why not just list
them on this mailing list and local mappers can check the accuracy
before mapping
On 20/01/2015 22:34, David Woolley wrote:
That information would be extremely valuable to terrorists. I suspect
that it would allow a small group of people to disrupt phone, mobile
phone and internet communications over large parts of the country for
many days or weeks.
Oh no. I guess if we
On 21/12/2014 14:39, David Woolley wrote:
In my view, they are not really bookmakers. For fixed odds, bookmaking
requires no skill and for the horses, I imagine that all the bookmaking
is done at head office.
I'm not sure this detail is really relevant to us. Apply the Duck Test
-- you go
On 18/12/2014 12:05, Ed Loach wrote:
Perhaps just posting Overpass links and locals manually making the changes
would be better?
I think Ed has hit the nail on the head here. All your mechanical edit
does is correct one tiny part of the mapping, and possibly to no great
effect - it's just
On 10/02/2014 17:29, Steve Doerr wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of the name tag?
No.
J.
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On 01/02/2014 21:38, Kevin Peat wrote:
Only for helicopters on race weekends and for sightseeing trips, the runway was
repurposed a few years ago. To complicate things further there is a new
university building on the site so you could add campus to the list of possible
tags.
You're all
Based on the Somerset Levels thread, I've realised someone will probably
try to edit the railway line, station and other bits of Dawlish based on
the storm damage.
Please don't.
Apart from the temporary nature of the damage (Network Rail are
predicting a few weeks to fix the line) there's no
On 06/02/2014 19:25, jonathan wrote:
Too late:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20413392
Has been edited by a User called Daleks with just 5 edits experience.
Do we reverse?
I'll get DWG to revert it. The username and changeset comment make me
think it's more about mischief than
On 03/12/2013 21:36, Robert Norris wrote:
Normally I visually compare Hants KML (and indeed West Sussex) vs OSM tile
images to identify missing ROWs and then make that a basis to include in a
route for a days out walking or cycling.
This might help:
On 07/08/2013 13:47, Steven Horner wrote:
Thanks I will go with office=probation unless others disagree.
No disagreement, but *please* document what you've used the tag for on
the wiki. Don't bother with the approval process, but do give a brief
description of what a probation office does and
On 25/04/2013 16:23, John Baker wrote:
There are always more suitable tags than natural=grass, landuse=grass
being the most obvious
Are you claiming that the land *is used for* grass? That the purpose man
has put that piece of land to is just grass? surface=grass yes,
landcover=grass maybe
On 11/03/2013 21:26, Dudley Ibbett wrote:
Is there a correct answer for this or is it a matter of mapping style?
I am leaning towards using Highway=Service for these and keeping
Highway=Track for tracks that link from fields to farms or roads to
fields (i.e. not from roads to farmyards or
On 10/01/2013 13:30, John Sturdy wrote:
We could have a keyword convention for indicating the pronunciation
(in various languages) using the International Phonetic Alphabet; for
example, we could supplement name:language=* with
name:language:IPA=*
I did this:
On 13/09/2012 13:30, Gregory wrote:
Other city suggestions (I would still help loads!)?
Although everyone is going to do this, I'd like to suggest Guildford,
where I live. The things is has going for it is:
* less than an hour from both Heathrow and Gatwick for international
attendees.
* 40
On 23/07/2012 23:17, SomeoneElse wrote:
but I'm not actually a cyclist -
Burn the heretic!
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tl;dr: Please tag your local station(s) with platforms=n where n2
I had a conversation with Andy Allan, ooh, ages ago (it was probably at
WhereCampGB in Notts) about his lovely transport layer
(http://osm.org/go/euup98?layers=T) and mentioned it would be great to
see station names at lower
On 16/04/2012 12:26, Barnett, Phillip wrote:
Off -topic ---
Apparently it's not been a good year for bluebells - wrong kind of spring.
The ones in my garden have flowered for the first time in years!
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Further to this, one helpful thing is if everyone makes sure they've
uploaded all their traces to OSM. I know I'm guilty of working from the
trace files locally when mapping, then forgetting to upload them so
other mappers can make use of the data.
That way we're not entirely reliant on OS data
On 08/01/2012 13:49, Michael Collinson wrote:
I find it very easy to replace them with much better since we now
additionally have Bing for position and OS StreetView for names
On this one particular point, use Bing for positioning with caution in
coastal and hilly areas. The parts of Cornwall
On 11/01/2012 10:02, Ed Avis wrote:
OK guys, it's public domain. Enjoy.
Ed,
Thank you, from a mapper whose work doesn't overlap with yours very
much. You've made a lot of contributions over the years, and it's great
that OpenStreetMap can continue to use them.
The licence change process
On 19/12/2011 00:31, Nick Austin wrote:
1) Judging by the status message that Firefox produces they are using
the OSM tile server. Is that allowed?
Yes, and it won't cause a problem. Browser-based applications like this
only request a small number of tiles at a time for the area the user is
On 28/11/2011 18:29, SomeoneElse wrote:
The problem with proposed routes is that they don't exist yet and so
the usual on the ground check is difficult.
Then don't map them. Seriously, if these networks aren't at the
implementation stage, there's little point in adding them to OSM. Even
On 08/11/2011 11:12, Andy Allan wrote:
The easy-for-mappers-but-maybe-a-bit-computationally-intensive scheme
you're trying to avoid
Colon-delineated key namespaces are the exact opposite of
easy-for-mappers,
Sorry if I wasn't clear -- I wasn't necessarily referring to colons and
On 05/11/2011 21:48, Graham Jones wrote:
I know that tagging for the renderer is frowned upon, but I really do
not like all these colons in key names, because (as far as I know) that
means having an extra column in the database produced by osm2pgsql for
renderingand every time I want to add
On 03/11/2011 14:22, Ed Loach wrote:
Wasn’t Ted Pottage out of Postman Pat?
No, that's Ted Glen.
I'll get me coat.
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On 23/09/2011 13:22, thomas van der veen wrote:
Is there a good trick I am missing?
Yes. Merkaartor's Axis align tool. :)
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On 11/12/2010 16:27, Brian Prangle wrote:
Here's a challenge and probably more of an ethical one than a physical
one. The installation of these by west Midlands Police in Birmingham
has caused a stir in the news. Should we attempt to map them? Despite
their being installed in 31 US cities
On 18/11/2010 12:55, Martin wrote:
We've had some feedback which indicates there is a missing link that
enables cyclists to avoid a nasty roundabout over the A24 joining
Horsham with Broadbridge Heath.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.06709lon=-0.35466zoom=17layers=M
The link basically
On 18/11/2010 19:36, Dave F. wrote:
There are too many to list, but whilst this is topical, I have a minor
problem with natural=*. It's far too general. I mean, everything under
the sun is either natural or man made.
Also historical=* is just too subjective to be useful. Everything, by
On 18/11/2010 20:18, Dave F. wrote:
If key tags don't mean anything, why have them?
It's a quirk of the way tagging works more than anything. We need
key-value tags for properties like name=* and oneway=* and there's no
point in having two separate tagging systems for class type tags and
On 13/07/2010 17:30, David Groom wrote:
1) add the slippymap plugin
2) then in preferences advanced preferences , add the following two
entries
key = slippymap.custom_tile_source_1.name ;value = ITO World OS
comparison
key = slippymap.custom_tile_source_1.url; value =
On 05/07/2010 23:28, Guy Collins wrote:
Another search: high street, barnstaple and yes the result includes various options but
always ...Devon County, Kelland Cross
You'll find the answer here:
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=12741345
Kelland Cross has been
On 15/06/2010 10:58, Chris Hill wrote:
OS claim not have any easter eggs in their data. I, like you, would
definitely visit before adding anything. You may find that it is a
track, rather than a road.
The data may not contain easter eggs, but there are definitely errors.
Here:
On 02/05/2010 16:27, Graeme Wilford wrote:
This does look a good source and I've been using it to tidy up and add
detail to many of my previous edits. Anyone know it's vintage? Looks to
me like it's a couple years old; sometime mid 2008?
I can put it between mid 2006 and late 2008, based on
On 01/05/2010 13:04, James Rutter wrote:
Guys, there's been some suggestions on the list that there are
discrepancies between the new air survey and previous GPS traces and
also suggestions that the image needs 'reprojecting' etc.
James, you've got the wrong end of the stick on this. I'll
On 30/04/2010 11:48, Andy Allan wrote:
However, the new owners of the imagery gave us it to use for tracing,
so I'm pretty sure any licensing issues are solvable technicalities,
so I'd say crack on with using it.
That's exactly what I've been doing. However, I've noticed a varying
amount of
On 29/04/2010 09:10, Graeme Wilford wrote:
Anyone know where we are with this?
http://opengeodata.org/surrey-county-air-survey
Graeme,
Sorry -- I've been meaning to write this up on the wiki. Gravitystorm
has created a set of tiles for z19 using the imagery. The tiles are
available at:
On 05/04/2010 12:31, Tim Francois wrote:
Does this mean we can (gasp!) start tracing in Potlatch and JOSM? If so,
what's the final verdict on source=* tags?
Hold your horses, please. See:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata
for a summary of what's happened so far, what
On 05/04/2010 16:38, Tim François wrote:
So then the question is: what's more of a problem? Features with no
name, or no features at all? Personally, I'd rather see the road on the
map with no name than not see a road at all, especially when using the
maps for in-car navigation.
Which would
On 29/03/2010 10:52, Gregory wrote:
I understand avoiding the ending character from being
non-alphanumeric(not letters or numbers) would mean a serious rewrite of
how the shortlinks are made/decoded. How much longer would short links
be if all digits were alphanumeric only?
It's also allowed
On 04/03/2010 10:31, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
.and for around £50 you can look and feel the part:
Shouldn't that be *a* part?
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On 19/02/2010 09:49, Peter Reed wrote:
Looking at the result, the broad pattern is what you would expect, with
the south-east of England fairly well covered and gaps further north.
But at a detailed level things are not as simple as I had hoped. There
is too much variation between the
On 19/02/2010 20:56, Graham Jones wrote:
I can't find any recommended tags for such places, so I wondered how
other people are tagging them?
I've tagged the ones I've mapped as amenity=social_club and OSMDoc tells
me there are 66 uses of this tag in the DB.
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On 17/02/2010 14:06, Someoneelse wrote:
I suspect that the problem is that the places on this list tend not to
be places that you'd actively choose to visit in summer. I live not far
from Mansfield, so taking that as an example (to avoid being
disrespectful to anyone else's home town!), it
On 21/01/2010 15:21, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
Maybe a big map of Haiti or something?
Hardly a valid criticism of OS though, is it?
You don't have any maps of Haiti...
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On 13/01/2010 16:48, Brad Rogers wrote:
Not in my MUA. :-(
http://www.getthunderbird.com/
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Just a reminder that this is tonight, at the Britannia in Guildford:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/29580054
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Chris Andrew wrote:
Hi, all.
I'd like to add my local veterinary practice to the map, but can't
find an appropriate tag.
Does one exist?
Cheers,
Chris.
OSMDoc has amenity=veterinary as the most-used version of the tag:
http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/veterinary
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Does anyone from Surrey (and Hants, Sussex or Berks) fancy a social in
Guildford during the first week in December? I'm thinking of Wednesday
2nd or Thursday 3rd.
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Ian Caldwell wrote:
On part of the Malvern Common there is a football pitch which is notable
as it flat and mowed, unlike the rest of the common but on Mapnik they
are shown as the same colour.
Any suggestions?
Leave it be?
Seriously: You've got the tagging right, so there's no need to
John Robert Peterson wrote:
If you look at the use cases -- 2 spring to mind: some people looking
for somwhere to play football; somone out with a mobile device trying
to work out where they are on a common (if they can use the football
field as a frame of reference, they will know exactly
Steve Chilton wrote:
I am pleased to announce that the first of the OS 7th series out-of-copyright
maps are available for use in OSM.
Steve,
The list of sheets on the wiki pages doesn't include any information for
list sheet 79, Stranraer -- it doesn't have any colour markings. Is this
just an
Shaun McDonald wrote:
I've noticed that there is an offset in Dumfries that is noticeable
(the current data is based on GPS). I've not checked to see how
widespread the problem is.
Over the other side of the region in Newton Stewart there's a pretty
good match between some GPS traces I took
Peter Reed wrote:
I have done some preliminary measures of OSM coverage for Scotland and
Wales based on using NUTS-3 regional boundaries as common ground to
compare DfT figures for the length of roads in a local authority
against the length of roads in OSM.
Peter,
Thanks for producing
David Earl wrote:
On 18/08/2009 12:42, Chris Hill wrote:
What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language
conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues.
The main reason is one of the reasons behind the idea of local chapters
in the first place - to give an
Peter Childs wrote:
Its just I can't find anything on the wiki.
There's
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dsand
and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Breakwater
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Richard Mann wrote:
If only it were as black and white as that. In practice it's a continuum
of usage, maintenance and signposting, not a fact=yes / fact=no.
We have a pretty good rule of thumb, which is Can an independent mapper
verify the information?. If there's no way of doing so without
Brian Prangle wrote:
If it's a red route I'd suggest red_route=yes
traffic_restriction=red_route ?
or maybe
traffic_restriction=no_stopping
I'm not a fan of key=yes/no tags if they can be avoided -- they don't
explain what key means a lot of the time.
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Peter Childs wrote:
In short if some local bike group have published them, then map them.
They are official to that bike User Group and perfectly good routes to
use (I guess) In short feel free to put in a relation for any
published route. So long as it either has signs and/or some documented
Peter Childs wrote:
What I think we're saying is; we don't want things on the map that are
not actually there on the ground. either via Signs or Real Things.
So a Route route round a country park marked with Purple Arrows can be
marked. But a Route on a leaflet, notice board (or website)
John McKerrell wrote:
How about a bus route? Though there's bus stops along the way there's no
arrows or anything like that saying bus route goes this way. Not
trying to be difficult, just wondering.
There are some people in the OSM community who argue that bus routes
shouldn't be in the DB,
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
If anyone has old 1:25,000 Provisional/First edition maps that they are
happy to donate to the cause I'd be most interested to hear from them.
On this subject, do we think it's worth contacting Alan Godfrey to see
if he has digital images of the maps he
Mike wrote:
Folks,
Does anyone know what the state of play is with the XAPI servers?
According to the status page, Hypercube is b0rked, OSM is still on v5
and bearstech is running with stale data.
Are there any other servers? Are the others likely to return to full
service?
I don't
Andy Allan wrote:
Gah, the common misconception rears up again. Repeat after me:
It is perfectly OK to tag for the renderer
It's not on to tag incorrectly for the renderer
Or if you like:
OK = Hey Andy I see you render NCN mileposts. What tags make them get
rendered since I want to put
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
Sustrans do not have accurate locations for their mileposts and art so
are interested in data gathered by OSM contributors.
I'll try to get all the ones on the northern half of NCN 7 the weekend
after next.
Do we have an existing tagging scheme for
Tom Hughes wrote:
I normally just use tertiary for roads which are not A/B but are
significant through roads of some sort.
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Steve Hill wrote:
You'd need a different projection since the disc is flat. :)
Coordinate system, surely?
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Ed Loach wrote:
Indeed you can have designated public footpaths that pass through
urban areas
snip
Like this one?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.23497mlon=-0.59355zoom=17layers=B000FTF
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Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
for standalone bits. Of course, without visiting a place, you can't
really map it. So who wants to try to try to organise a map-up event at
their local brewery?
Mine definitely needs mapping:
David Earl wrote:
My bet is they were produced by pointing at an OS map (especially as
they are grid refs not lat/lon) and are therefore OS derived. The DfT
may be happy for anyone to use them however they want, but the OS will
not be.
Giving the coordinates as gridrefs, and not lat/lon
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
For features with a previous use (eg abandoned stations) I have more of as
problem at this juncture of the project. At some point I'd really like to be
able to record some historical map data but I don't feel we have the tools
and editing visualisation
Andy Allan wrote:
Doesn't seem to stop people arguing about it on the wiki, but every
single time someone has claimed that there are cycleway=opposite in
the UK it's never (AFAIK) actually held up to scrutiny.
I think Union Street in Southwark:
Just to confirm the details:
Wednesday 13th, 7.30pm onwards,
The Britannia pub, Millmead, Guildford
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.233227mlon=-0.576105zoom=17
Hope to see you there.
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Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Not a Surrey person (but residing in the next door county at least)
but I
might be interested particularly if I can combine it with a mapping trip
to the area on the same day.
Nick,
I've always thought of you as a Surrey person -- you've done more
mapping around
SteveC wrote:
I'm no longer in the UK so I won't make it.
I have 3G -- we can Skype you in from wherever you happen to be.
I can forward some people who might not follow this list if you want.
Please do...
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It's been a while -- anyone fancy meeting up for a beer in Guildford
soon? We could even go to 80n's choice of pub this time...
I propose Wednesday 13th, but am open to other suggestions.
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Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
While we won't have access to the live db at the event
Andy,
Do you have enough machines available that if a virtual machine image of
a working OSM stack got built, you could use that?
I'm thinking:
* Build VM image of OSM server
* Import latest
Shaun McDonald wrote:
For those that haven't noticed, the cake is available to sign up to.
The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie...
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Apologies for the slightly spammy mail, but I need to find the right
person for this job, and they may just be an OSMer. After all, we're a
frighteningly intelligent bunch...
Note that the reply address is different to the one on this mail.
Job: Open Source Editor, heise online
heise online
OJ W wrote:
Well done to everyone involved in the southwest surrey mapping party --
we now offer a useful map to anyone needing a walk, a bike ride, or a
country pub in an area of countryside which is accessible to many people
Well done indeed -- looks good. Sorry I couldn't join you in the
Bruce Cowan wrote:
Sorry, I meant there is a blank area bounded by Ayr, Stranraer and
Castle Douglas, but I now assume there are no roads here anyway. I'm not
very good at the geography around there, I didn't realise that bit that
sticks out was Galloway.
It's the Rhins of Galloway -- and one
Bruce Cowan wrote:
Probably the most empty area in the UK just now is the Galloway region
What are you complaining about? I've mapped Port Logan in its entirety:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.72378lon=-4.95618zoom=16layers=0BFT
(OK, apart from the road over to Drummore...)
Dave Stubbs wrote
Leaving the units off is quite a bit like not bothering with the first
2 digits of the year for whatever reason.
It's more like not stating that the year is in the Gregorian calendar
every time you write one. Yes, if someone comes along and uses a Julian
year things are
Does someone want to own up to mapping the northern Hindhead Tunnel
approach? There's one issue with this being rendered, since neither
Mapnik nor Osmarender appear to recognise under construction tags, but
I'll deal with that on the main list.
What I'm more concerned about is the sourcing of
80n wrote:
It was me.
Yes, it really was surveyed, on foot, up to the point where there road
will enter a tunnel (which hasn't been built yet).
:-O Bloody hell! Was this before or after they brought in the Heavy
Plant, and started removing heavy plants? I admire your dedication to
the
Steve Coast wrote:
That burning question - if you have a GPS and a dashboard which lets
it slide off when you turn a corner - what do you do?
Maybe blu tak?
Works perfectly for me. Use many small blobs rather than one big one,
though.
Jono
80n wrote:
I believe there is somebody mapping in the Guildford area at the moment
so maybe they will be up for it.
That would be me, probably. I probably won't be able to get out to do
any mapping during the evening, but could meet up in a pub in town later.
Which way are you likely to
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