FYI, here's the schema I personally use in Sweden, where heavy use is
made of ramped staircases, though not thankfully on major cycle routes.
My objective is to allow routers to intelligently route for both
sport/club/large group riding and happy meandering or commute:
bicycle=yes only on
Perhaps there should be a access/foot=open_access tag?
Paths across open access areas aren't really "permissive". First, you
usually have some rights to wander off the path/make your own. Second,
there is (always?) some sort of regulatory/public right involved, it
isn't just dependent on the
On 2020-07-11 07:47, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 10/07/2020 11:27, Mark Goodge wrote:
So, it seems that Fairfield [Road] isn't known to either OS or
Google. It is shown (in abbreviated form) on streetmap.co.uk, but at
that zoom level, in London, that's based on the Bartholomew A-Z maps
rather than
Which makes it difficult to know or guess what the a tag relates to
without research, especially if used wrongly or without consultation.
Tags should be self-descriptive to the extent possible. Sorry,
parochialism just gets up my nose! :-) Definite thumbs up up to using an
ISO country
My thoughts also.
The description tag is very underused , IMHO. Specialist tags are
undoubtedly extremely useful, they are precise, (should be) unambiguous
and machine-read-friendly, but they do need to gain traction to be
useful and are unfriendly when trying to convey fuzzy information, as
On 2019-06-01 13:26, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 01/06/2019 11:11, Jez Nicholson wrote:
Brighton has also just gained a sidewalk
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/JAn which i'm not overly impressed
withor am I being a Luddite?
I personally wouldn't map sidewalks in a dense UK city like that
I too was very anti at first. Reykavik was the first time I saw it on a
systematic basis, and I thought it made a map I did aesthetically
dreadful. But a small tweak, rendering sidewalk-tagged footways as a
very unobtrusive narrow line fixed that.
I now map them zealously for three reasons:
What do you call the type of wall crossing the that consists of two
stone pillars placed close to each other (usually in a drystone wall) to
leave a gap wide enough for humans and sheep dogs to squeeze through but
not cattle or fully-grown sheep? Has anyone one got a barrier= tag for
them?
Lester's comments look logical from a general perspective: 1 network
(National Rail), 1+ operators (Merseyrail, Northern, ...). I'd expand a
bit by saying the it IS possible to have both multiple networks and
operators at the same transport point (rail/bus station/platform). I
have local
At the risk of being pedantic, but would a "network" tag, similar to bus
routes, not be more appropriate?
Here in Sweden, the post office system is now Post Nord, network=Post
Nord, but post offices are frequently inside and operated by
supermarkets, e.g. operator=ICA. These outlets often
This is really good news and thank you Rob for flagging it. Thanks also
to the unknown folks at OS who have been working on this ... it follows
through on a promise made to me in 2010 that they would look at.
As cautioned by Rob, do wait until
Not OpenStreetMap, but even as a Yorkshireman devoid of sentiment for
those areas down south I found this interesting to watch:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/15/the-evolution-of-london-the-citys-near-2000-year-history-mapped
Mike
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Not OpenStreetMap, but even as a Yorkshireman I found this interesting
to watch:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/15/the-evolution-of-london-the-citys-near-2000-year-history-mapped
Mike
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On 15/05/2014 09:27, Steven Horner wrote:
Personally I like Marc's suggestion of using the 2 street names
separated by a hyphen. This allows both names to be rendered. Then
identifying each street with left and right tags. How do you chose
which is which if the road runs East to West?
I'm
OK guys, time to end this thread. Not sure if I am an official moderator
on this particular list, but wading in.
We Brits are supposed to be ladies and gentlemen every one, so let's act
like that on our own list. May I ask all concerned to take a read
through
On 28/10/2013 19:28, SomeoneElse wrote:
series, Mapbox Satellite or Mapquest Open Aerial, and if anyone's
using NPE, Bartholomew 1/2 inch or OS 1 inch as backgrounds they
probably shouldn't be using iD to do it (if for no other reason due to
alignment issues). Am I maligning these sources and
It is an area that interests me too, explicitly surface expression of
geology, (outcrops and faults mostly) and geomorphology (interesting
drumlins, meander loops, landslips, ...).
My personal conclusion is that by all means do low-key experimentation
but that any systematic mapping is better
Hi Brian,
Open Historical Map has a sporadically active mailing list
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo historic which your mate might
like to join to get a feel for what is going on. It is very early stage
stuff though.
I map surface expression of historic mining activity in the north
On 23/08/2013 12:07, OpenStreetmap HADW wrote:
On 22 August 2013 10:03, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
website=xxx - which will give the details (if we could access them from the
map)
I'm not sure if I can quote the website in this case as Google may
have a database copyright on it.
On 30/07/2013 11:49, o...@k3v.eu wrote:
Robert,
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:57:13 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote:
...
OSM takes a conservative line on copyright and licensing issues...
I agree with Rob 100% on this, it is pretty obvious that the
dataset published under the OS
OpenData License by other organisations, such as English Heritage, (or
by OS if any).
Mike
On 30/07/2013 15:58, Michael Collinson wrote:
On 30/07/2013 11:49, o...@k3v.eu wrote:
Robert,
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:57:13 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists
Well, the scenery around Malham and upper Wharfedale, Nidderdale, Swaledale is
simply the best in the world ... Though I do admit to a slight bias. The beer
int half bad neether.
I have very extensively mapped and cross-referenced Wharfedale+ paths and
tracks from Npe, os25k and Bing but the
On 30/10/2012 22:33, Dudley Ibbett wrote:
Hi
My version of JOSM seems to have just updated on my Fedora system and
I now have NLS OS 1:25k 1st Series 1937-61 imagery.
I am probably behind the times but presumably this can be used for
mapping. If someone could confirm its use this would be
On 17/07/2012 09:40, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
London's finally complete:
http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php
Great! Thanks to all concerned.
Today London, tomorrow the World. There, someone had to say it.
Mike
On 25/03/2012 11:40, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
On 23 March 2012 12:58, Nick Whiteleggnick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
Incidentally, is just knowing the footpaths evidence enough to tag with
odbl=clean? Or is there the risk that the footpath was created with iffy
sources?
While we're on this
I've been invading Lancashire from Yorkshire and have got as far as
Rochdale.
I concur with Brian's methodology. My theory is that, at this point,
concentrated holes in the centre of towns and cities are not a bad
thing, they may encourage new or less active mappers to go out and map
their
On 19/03/2012 13:40, John Sturdy wrote:
I started to work on Hampshire, but got the following request from a decliner:
I was wondering if you would mind refraining from 're-mapping' my contributions
for the time being? I'm still in discussions with the OSMF regarding
re-licensing some of
Hi,
I got an email from a respected contributor and I want to pass on one
concern. It is very natural to want all the red ink on OSMI License View
disappear as quickly as possible so that we don't have to revisit the
spots. I suggest though that where there are things that you can't remap
Contributor Guy has now accepted the new contributor terms and OSMI
License View is already showing the new picture [1].
I would like to acknowledge that he felt very reluctant to do so so,
being happier with CC-BY-SA or perhaps dual-licensing under CC-BY-SA,
but has done so for the good of
On 13/01/2012 17:30, Emilie Laffray wrote:
Hello,
as part of a new initiative from the French OSM association, we have
created a point of contact so other communities can contact the French
community. I think it is important to have different point of contacts
between the different countries
On 12/01/2012 13:41, Andrew wrote:
Michael Collinsonmike@... writes:
I regretfully have to relay that while the Ordnance Survey has no
objections to geodata derived in part from OS OpenData being released
under the Open Database License 1.0, this has to permanently exclude
Code-Point Open,
On 10/01/2012 19:34, Jason Cunningham wrote:
Can anyone provide more detailed info on the final stance of the of
the top decliners? Looking at one of the websites, some are Guy, Ed
Avis, Andy Street, Simon Ward, Paul Martin and ulfl.
I'd given a bit of though to mapping some of the areas that
I regretfully have to relay that while the Ordnance Survey has no
objections to geodata derived in part from OS OpenData being released
under the Open Database License 1.0, this has to permanently exclude
Code-Point Open, (postcode) data. This was an open issue previously. If
anyone wants to
On 11/01/2012 17:39, Ed Avis wrote:
Michael Collinsonmike@... writes:
I regretfully have to relay that while the Ordnance Survey has no
objections to geodata derived in part from OS OpenData being released
under the Open Database License 1.0, this has to permanently exclude
Code-Point
licence
change view)
http://osm.mapki.com/history/
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Andy [mailto:andy...@gmail.com]
Sent: 09 January 2012 17:47
To: Michael Collinson
Cc: OSM talk-gb
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness
Does anyone know of a way to see just the tagging
On 10/01/2012 13:43, Peter Miller wrote:
On 10 January 2012 12:07, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com
mailto:da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
On 10/01/2012 11:44, Peter Miller wrote:
Is there no way in this case to formally 'claim' the IPR for this
features on the
On 10/01/2012 15:13, Peter Miller wrote:
On 10 January 2012 13:53, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com
mailto:da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
On 10/01/2012 13:46, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Michael Collinson wrote:
+1 to Richard's suggestion odbl=clean
Back to the original thread, good news. Three of the top UK undecided
contributors have responded to my messages and kindly accepted the new
terms. York, South Wales and High Wycombe looking much better now.
Mike
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definitely a crowd sourcing project.
Regards,
Mike
Michael Collinson
LWG
[1] Based on node count, http://odbl.poole.ch/
[2] Nodes Created http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/munin.html
[3]
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfelon=-4.21344lat=54.58575zoom=6opacity=0.69overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean
On 08/01/2012 16:05, Lester Caine wrote:
Michael Collinson wrote:
In the UK, the situation is slightly less rosy, with 96% of nodes and
94% of
highways coming from folks who have accepted the new terms.
Is there a mechanism for listing users with the greatest number of
'problem' commits
...@acrewoods.net wrote:
On 8 January 2012 13:49, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz
mailto:m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
I strongly recommend that fi...
Just a quick note to say I've had a few successes with this, it
doesn't take long and saved me lots of trips to remap little bits of
detail all over
On 24/10/2011 14:43, John Sturdy wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andy Mabbetta...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I recently mapped a couple of Police Memorial Trust memorials, for example:
Hi Chris,
Thanks for this posting. I just personally discovered the TPT in
September and hope to ride some more at Christmas as it passes not too
far from the Centre of the Known and Unknown Universe [1].
I am not familiar with NCN 62 but agree with you that we treat the TPT
and NCN routes
Just catching up so a late posting. Thanks to Andy and Mike for this.
Even with Bing imagery and OS OpenData, the 1:25k series are a great
source of local names in rural areas and of historic features,
(archeological sites, tumuli, stone rings, battle fields, roman roads,
old mining sites and
, I will make some of the correspondence public so that you
can see the exact question asked and the response.
I would like to thank the Ordnance Survey for their kind consideration
and the speed in which they were able to give a response.
Regards,
Michael Collinson
License Working Group
On 04/07/2011 12:48, Donald Noble wrote:
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I was just wondering what
the copyright position is with checking details of, say a church or a
shop, on their website and then adding those details to OSM?
I would have thought that this was fair use of the
On 17/06/2011 14:50, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:
On 16 June 2011 17:50, Michael Collinsonm...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
Here is as much information as I can give. It is not conclusive so I would
summarise by saying that I *personally* (great emphasis!) have some
contributions derived from OS
Here is as much information as I can give. It is not conclusive so I
would summarise by saying that I *personally* (great emphasis!) have
some contributions derived from OS StreetView data and have accepted the
new terms without qualms. I explain my reasons below and what I intend
to do. I
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?
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 10:30 +, Peter Miller
At 13:29 09/03/2011, Chris Hill wrote:
On 09/03/11 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
Jason, Yes, I'll try to do this over the weekend. Give me an off-line
poke if I forget.
Mike
At 14:45 09/03/2011, Jason Cunningham wrote:
Hi Mike,
Can you provide us with a grid ref(s) for a location where the OS
data is wrong
Jason
On 9 March 2011 13:33, Michael Collinson
mailto:m
My specs were about the same as yours though I had to drop the
Optical viewfinder - they are now rare at the lower end. For brand
new cameras, I came up with lower cameras in the Canon range (IXUS
range and/or A450 or some such purely from memory) and in the Nikon
LX range. Sony Cybershots
At 04:41 PM 12/3/2007, Mark Williams wrote:
A set of county_or_other_area.poly files might be handy, also this might
be useful to work on to define the boundaries in the map, as these are
very awkward to map otherwise.
And slightly at a tangent, might not these be useful for
systematically
At 11:13 AM 9/21/2007, Dave Stubbs wrote:
I'm definitely against this idea!
For the record, I have no great urge to go metric ourselves; I just want
things to work, and perceive a point of failure in this. I realise that
programmers can easily add a comversion routine - but why cause the
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