I've just seen some very strange edits from the user
ExperimentalNarratives showing up in Coventry:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ExperimentalNarratives/history
I'm not sure whether the change itself makes sense (I no longer live
in the area) but the changeset comment is odd. Could anyone
Hi all,
I don't have time to check it in full right now but I saw a suspicious
edit crop up today in Coventry
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43006455 Given that they titled
the shop 'lol' I'm guessing it is semi-deliberate vandalism. I seem to
remember that we have a process in place
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On 18 March 2015 at 09:13, Paul Sladen o...@paul.sladen.org wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Pmailkeey . wrote:
Anyone know why the search facility can't find Waingatebridge Cottages ?
Presumably this terrace in the Lake District which has no 'name=';
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/314851241
On 13 August 2014 01:22, Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote:
AFAIK there are some (but very few) roads where the C number is sign posted
but not that I'm aware of any explicitly.
Whether any of these have ever been captured in OSM is hard to tell.
Near where I used to live there's an
On 14 January 2014 14:06, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote:
On 14/01/14 12:02, Grant Slater wrote:
On 14 January 2014 10:43, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone
Warwickshire County Council have released 3 sets of aerial imagery under
OGL.
Brian: Where did you get
On 4 October 2013 09:42, Ed Loach edlo...@gmail.com wrote:
As you might all know, Lloyds TSB split to become Lloyds Bank and
TSB a couple of weeks ago. To help find those that still need
remapping I had a quick play and came up with
http://www.loach.me.uk/osm/LloydsTSB/
I've not added a key,
On 21 August 2013 00:00, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote:
I've come across a building that provides the sort of facilities that
one might find in some hotels for day time and evening functions
(weddings, posh birthday parties, etc.), but does not have any
overnight accommodation.
On 29 July 2013 13:15, Nick Allen nick.allen...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there were any updates / progress on UK Postcodes. I have
seen that the Land Registry Price Paid data is partially available on the
'Postcode finder website', but don't seem to be able to contact
On 25 April 2013 16:23, John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com wrote:
To be honest I am struggling to see anything wrong with what I have done.
Let take grass in your example Jerry.
There are always more suitable tags than natural=grass, landuse=grass being
the most obvious there is also
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Hi everyone
I'm composing a press release and want to compare this year's event with the
previous conference in the UK - Manchester 2007. Can anyone who was there
remember how many delegates there were? Has anyone got any group
On 27 February 2013 12:07, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote:
Coventry folks. Is this kosher?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2177040650
I'm fairly sure those are all just residential houses along Albany
Road and so it's likely a 'joke' edit.
Matt
page on
OSM.org).
If you search for a more precise postcode, do you still get matches
from far away? Could you give me an example so I can see if I can
track it down?
I'll add 'edit this way' to my TODO list.
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addresses.
The big straight section in the middle is from where I didn't update
the tool for ages.
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As discussed at the last meetup
(http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2012/11/november-pub-meeting.html) a few
of us are thinking of doing a little armchair (followed by a survey?)
mapping of Balsall Common, particularly focusing on buildings. I see
that Brian has already started a bit and I've
still need to put together my
statistics tool to see how the coverage grows.
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) Something else?
I'm guessing it's meant to be (a), but just thought I'd canvas opinion
before tagging.
I think I agree with (a). I would find it a little strange to disallow
cycling just during the day (why not just ban it entirely?).
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On 23 October 2012 15:29, Graeme Mulvaney web@gmail.com wrote:
Would I be able to use openstreetmap to map all of the trees in the
war memorial park in Coventry? - each tree represents a citizen who
was killed during the world wars.
We did something similar a while back which you can read
On 22 October 2012 13:35, Nick Verdegem digital.dia...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Just updating my local area and want to add a couple of Parcel Depots, one
for the Royal Mail, and one for TNT.
The Royal Mail one is *not* amenity=post_office as it does not accept
parcels/letters for onward
On 19 October 2012 11:11, Richard Mann
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That's pretty much entirely a relation-as-category, though, isn't it?
I would argue not. Don't use relations as categories was devised to
combat people doing things like adding all buildings designed by a
particular
in the steps you took? My postcode finder
doesn't use Nominatim inside at all. However, occasionally, when it
can't find anything using its internal database, it will offer you the
option to do a simple search using Nominatim instead. This is when it
says Search for foo in OSM.
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on the front page when
the data was updated. My initial plan is to have one session a month
correcting adding postcodes, but you may get other views.
Yes, I've been meaning to do this. I'll add that ASAP.
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On 13 September 2012 12:08, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
On 13/09/2012 10:38, Matt Williams wrote:
Could you be more explicit in the steps you took?
Typed postcode clicked Search
Under the 'search address' column I clicked [search]
Next window said 'Search for 10 Downing Street
; postcode so
I'll look into that in the future.
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On 31 August 2012 12:26, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
The other problem with the Companies House data is that there is no clear
statement of the licence other than free. Come on CH please be more
specific!
Indeed. It looks like it could be another quite useful source of
On 31 August 2012 16:50, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that translates to Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) then?
Probably, but I wouldn't feel comfortable using the data without an
explicit set of license terms. Unless they have done and I just don't
On 27 August 2012 23:18, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Please correct me if I am wrong, but to the best of my understanding we are
still struggling to find a good source of postcode data under an open
licence. From what I understand the CodePoint data set is
On 8 June 2012 22:12, Big Fat Frog bigfatfro...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
When I look at a lot of towns all the houses etc have been traced but not in
others, I can't beleive someone has sat down and done each house one by one?
Where is this coming from and how can I get it for my area?
It
On 3 May 2012 14:42, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
Is there a good way to tag flats within a building so that it is clear the
flat numbers (e.g. 1-12) correspond with the building and not with the
street? These are two examples I'm struggling with:
A block of flats, 1-12 Honor Oak
On 30 April 2012 16:07, rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Just a quick reminder that the next social meet up for OSMers in the
Midlands is this Thursday (3rd May, 2012) 8pm-ish to 10pm-ish at The White
Lion, Hampton-in-Arden. Feel free to come early and get some mapping done
before
On 28 March 2012 17:51, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
The much-talked about Island House, in Birmingham's Eastside, is now,
controversially, demolished, and someone has tagged it
'building:demolished=yes'. Is that correct? Or should it be
building=demolished, or some other tag?
On 26 March 2012 21:42, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Delighted to report that Andy Street has agreed to the CTs. Thank you Andy.
This is great news. Thanks Andy and I'm glad you were able to resolve
any problems you had with the CTs/license.
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On 2 March 2012 14:35, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
We change to the new licence in just under a month's time, so it's a good
time to look at the current state of the UK. What's likely not to be carried
through to the new database?
The good news is that the UK is in a very
the grit bins?
On a related note, could someone remind me where the gritting route
info for Coventry is. I seem to remember that some was published last
year but no-one uploaded the data to OSM.
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contact route for him as otherwise I'll have to
start remapping Coventry myself soon (maybe an excuse for a mapping
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bugs.
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[1] http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/house/way/102862467/7/
[2]
http://linter.structured-data.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmilliams.dev.openstreetmap.org%2Fpostcodefinder%2Fhouse%2Fway%2F102862467%2F7
[3] http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org
that the OSM data is at least a year old
since this (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=73100232) footpath isn't
present on the printed map yet was added in August 2010
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/73100232/history).
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there to disambiguate cases where there would otherwise be
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a look at something like Show Your Journey http://syj.renevier.net/
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amenity=social_facility may be appropriate for that one.)
I have mapped one as a school, but I guess it should be a kindergarten:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/58242208
Indeed. I've been tagging these as amenity=kindergarten [1].
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that it deserves more differentiation?
In whichever case, I think that 'SureStart' should be fine.
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know.
The error map can also be a bit slow due to the database queries
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[2]
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On 20 March 2011 16:20, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
On 20/03/11 15:06, Matt Williams wrote:
The errors on the map are the same as those which are shown on the
house and street pages. Of course these 'errors' should be taken with
a pinch of salt but make what use of them you can.If
On 20 March 2011 18:00, Paul n...@pointdee.co.uk wrote:
On 20/03/11 15:06, Matt Williams wrote:
I've made a few updates to the postcode finder [1]. There's a mixture
of fixes suggested by you people and some other features I'd been
planning on implementing anyway.
Call me a pedant
On 20 March 2011 16:06, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
I've made a few updates to the postcode finder [1]. There's a mixture
of fixes suggested by you people and some other features I'd been
planning on implementing anyway.
As an addendum I've now also added Codepoint-augumented
on:
- Correct format but is lower case
- Partial postcodes like the one you mention above
- Completely wrong postcodes like [1]
The first two will probably just be 'information class' errors but the
last will be at least a 'warning'.
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On 20 March 2011 21:19, Steve Doerr steve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
On 20/03/2011 15:06, Matt Williams wrote:
[snip]
Keep up the good work!
Possible bug: I just tried searching for my own address (42c Mulberry Road)
and it returned no results, but if I search for my postcode (DA11 8PP
On 20 March 2011 22:21, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 20 March 2011 15:06, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
I've made a few updates to the postcode finder
All good stuff. Any chance of you applying the microformat mark-up I
supplied in the recent thread, please? Do
other
cases of duplicates though like can be seen nearby at [3].
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[1] http://random.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodes/?layers=000F0F0FBT
[2]
http://www.raggedred.net/codepoint/?zoom=17lat=52.37981lon=-1.25043layers=B0T
[3]
http://www.raggedred.net/codepoint/?zoom
mapping and parsing.
I had considered grouping all the street segments together into a
sub-relation and then adding that relation as the role=street in the
associatedStreet but that didn't really seem to add any useful
information to the database and seems over-engineered.
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On 17 March 2011 12:09, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Matt Williams wrote:
Greetings all,
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5
queries a day limit without
On 17 March 2011 12:13, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Matt Williams wrote:
On 16 March 2011 21:16, Tim François timhafranc...@gmail.com wrote:
Good work!
I just tried searching based on house number and street name, and it didn't
work if I didn't
think it should be a problem. Most likely the people who first
defined the relation didn't consider the possibility of split streets.
I certainly don't consider it a 'bug' in the postcode finder.
As for statistics on this, it should be quite easy for me to make a
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the direction I was planning on taking this. I'm slowly
making my way there :)
As for P2, I hadn't thought of that but it sounds like a very cool
idea. I'll have to see what it entails. It won't be at the top of list
anyway.
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On 17 March 2011 13:17, Ben Pollinger benpollinger+...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5
queries a day limit
On 17 March 2011 13:37, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder
That's great; and I trust that my constructive
to a
mass 're-tagging'. If people want to discuss this though I suggest we
start a new thread.
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On 17 March 2011 13:49, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder
That's
had indeed been considering this and so I'm glad that someone else
thinks it would be useful :) The website is already HTML5 and so
extending it with as much semantic markup as possible (whether that's
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On 17 March 2011 16:25, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
Matt Williams lists@... writes:
I'm not sure that adding the postcoded street itself to my database
would work since the base unit I work with is the 'house' or 'delivery
point' whereas the street is simply part of the address.
That's
On 17 March 2011 14:35, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
On 17 March 2011 13:37, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode
On 17 March 2011 18:55, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
On 17 March 2011 17:44, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
A few weeks ago I did pull out postcodes from all tagged objects compared
them with CodePoint, IIRC OSM had about 0.6% of them (around 7000
Codepoint Open to augment my postcode finder by
using to assist searches and reporting missing and misplaced postcode
centroids in OSM.
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This doesn't directly affect OSM but it will provide tougher competition when
we
try to persuade local councils to use OSM.
On the other hand, it's great to see that our gratis offering is
already pushing down the price of the opposition.
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with my suggestions on hierarchy :(
This is why I've been using the associatedStreet relation suggested by
the Karlsruhe Schema
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema#Using_relations_to_associate_house_and_street_.28optional.29)
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as at the
moment local edits are drowned out by global changes, often of no interest
to the UK, let alone the area being looked at. If I knew who to poke for a
fix, I would poke them.
ito world's osm mapper
(http://www.itoworld.com/static/openstreetmap.html) should be able to
help you with that.
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is on the wiki
page [1]
Hopefully we might see some of the other Coventry folks there? Peter
(sherbourne) is a regular traveller to the Brum meet-ups.
I'm based in Canley (west Coventry -- near Warwick Uni) so I shall aim
to get there. I'll see if I can drag along some people too.
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page [1]
Hopefully we might see some of the other Coventry folks there? Peter
(sherbourne) is a regular traveller to the Brum meet-ups.
I'm based in Canley (west Coventry -- near Warwick Uni) so I shall aim
to get there. I'll see if I can drag along some people too.
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existing relations on that street? It
seems like I may have broken the ncn through town here...!
When you split a way which in in a relation editors should
automatically add both the new halves to the relation in the same spot
as the original way was.
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yourself should always be done but quickly getting roads
traced/surveyed lets us OSMers get on to mapping the stuff that gives
OSM the advantage over the 'competition' -- the POIs, local knowledge,
secret footpaths, traffic restrictions etc.
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supplement Nominatim?
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(more) vertical
photos by sticking the camera out a loading door at the side of the
plane on a mounting so that the camera could always face straight
down. Worth bearing in mind for the future?
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This should create a nice composite image ready for rectifying.
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It will be quite slow the first time a person views any particular as
I have to fetch the image from the server but this will only be done
once for each image. John, if you'd rather I'd do this a different way
just tell me. Especially if it's hitting
2009/9/18 Matt Williams li...@milliams.com:
If at any point someone wants the statistics, just ask me.
Now that just over 95% of the images have been tagged (with about 4/5
of those rated by more than one person), I'm providing the ratings for
each image in an easy format. The link for the file
on talk:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UserActivity. It may be of use for
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the photos would be
better (anyone want to code up a tagging script?) but in the mean time
these would be good ones to rectify.
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2009/9/18 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net:
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:44, John McKerrell wrote:
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote:
A random selection of vertical(ish) photos:
113-124 (all of one single area)
127
149
628,632,633,636,637,638 (all of the centre near the bridges
2009/9/18 Matt Williams li...@milliams.com:
2009/9/18 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net:
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:44, John McKerrell wrote:
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote:
A random selection of vertical(ish) photos:
113-124 (all of one single area)
127
149
a half of those are good enough for rectifying and
tracing well.
The whole site is horribly inefficient at the moment and if you get
any errors (particularly on the stats page) just refresh.
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make new edits. Possibly methods of rating
contributors with white lists for users who don't get reverted and
have been editing for some time etc.
talk-moderation or talk-moderation_tools? Since this all falls under
the umbrella of moderating the edits being made.
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these 'serviceway alleys' from the smaller 5
foot (or so) alleyways that you can also get behind houses. I've been
tagging those as highway=footway thus far.
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it
doesn't have fine grained enough control. Try it out.
http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor
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