On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:27, Ed Loach wrote:
Ed: I notice you have tweeked the 'non-simple' way today. Do
you think
it is now simple? If not do you want to try and sort it.
I checked the way quite a bit. It shares most of its nodes with a
section of a beach area, but that shouldn't be an
--- Cross posted from Talk West Midlands
On 1 Jul 2009, at 19:39, Brian Prangle wrote:
Hi everyone
I've added a railway relation for the West Coast Mainline as it
runs thoruh New Street - so far I've got as far from Rugby Junction
to Sandwell Dudley station. I've named it as
On 23 Jun 2009, at 13:08, Chris Hill wrote:
Having looked at this and other counties elsewhere, the coastline in
some places is clearly a poor choice for the county and regional
boundary. Off the Northumberland coast the Farne islands and the very
substantial Holy Island are apparently in
On 22 Jun 2009, at 14:45, Chris Hill wrote:
I'm interested the relations of the boundaries for counties. I notice
that some counties (and recently English Regions) include the way for
the coastline (natural=coastline), and some coastal counties do not.
I think that coastal counties would
On 22 Jun 2009, at 15:14, Matthew Westcott wrote:
On 22 Jun 2009, at 14:45, Chris Hill wrote:
I understand that
councils are responsible for the beach so the county could be said to
extend beyond what we currently mark as the coastline. Does anyone
know
where council boundaries actually
On 22 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Peter Childs wrote:
2009/6/22 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk:
The Essex one I traced from the dotted line on NPE. I'm not sure
about 12 miles for county boundaries - I don't think Essex would
want to have to maintain it's own navy to repel Suffolk encroachers
for
On 13 Jun 2009, at 18:41, Peter Childs wrote:
2009/6/13 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com:
Whats the simplest way of adding a boundary? I notice that Medway
does
not have one, I know ruthley where it should be, but have no idea of
how to go about adding the relevant relation/way
On 13 Jun 2009, at 09:30, Peter Childs wrote:
2009/6/11 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk:
And here is the current OSM guidance:-
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level
In order to tie in with NUTS and with guidance for other
countries
within OSM we might want to do the
I guess that when one sees a warning sign for 'Tanks turning' on a UK
road one should tag it as 'tank=yes'!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/3619361478/
The joy of extensible tagging systems.
Regards,
Peter
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On 11 Jun 2009, at 07:49, Abigail Brady wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com
wrote:
*UK
*England/Wales/Scotland
*English regions (North East, East of England etc)
*Ceremonial counties/unitaries
*Districts
*Parishes/Wards etc (but lets deal
I have found a number of damaged road and rail links done by this user
who registered on June 2nd and has done a number of edits since then:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/liam123
I removed a spurious railway line in London yesterday and also
corrected the position of a roundabout. I
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:06, Peter Childs wrote:
2009/6/4 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com:
Makes sense.
Another log... What about trains? Network Rail use mph, so I would
suggest we do the same.
Do they? I've seen quite a few Rail Signs that seam to be in km/h. Not
being a train
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:35, Peter Miller wrote:
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:06, Peter Childs wrote:
And also I think the railway lines in london need relations for
each line. Currently the names of lines are encoded in the ways which
just doesn't work. One ends up with ways named as 'Circle
On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
Fyi, Joss (who works for ITO) is in the process of preparing a
new OSM railway wiki page in his user area which lists lines and
gives relations where they are available.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki
, 5 Jun 2009, Peter Miller wrote:
I am certainly not proposing separate ways for separate lines. I think
there should either be one way for a bunch of parallel tracks or
alternatively one way per track if people are getting nerdy (surely
not!).
Tracing individual tracks might make sense if people
I have been looking at the coverage of maxspeed limit data for
highways in the UK and we seem to have a right mix of styles.
Here is the data for bug chunk of England while avoiding including
anything from France or Ireland (which would include km/hour figure).
We current have over
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:48, WessexMario wrote:
Isn't all this already specified?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed
If your country uses kilometers tag the value without unit!
If your country still uses miles tag the value and append mph OR
convert to the EXACT kilometers per
The DfT have just published a contract out for the collection and
management of cycle data for St Leonards on Sea
Lot 1. Cycle data collection. Undertaking cycle surveys to extend the
Ordnance Survey Integrated Transport Network to include information
about existing cycling infrastructure
, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com
wrote:
The DfT have just published a contract out for the collection and
management of cycle data for St Leonards on Sea
Lot 1. Cycle data collection. Undertaking cycle surveys to extend
the
Ordnance Survey Integrated Transport
On 4 Jun 2009, at 17:11, WessexMario wrote:
Robert Naylor wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:13:28 +0100, David Earl
da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
I also came across someone tagging maxpeed=NSL yesterday. If it
gives
someone happiness, fine, but I don't really think it should be
On 29 May 2009, at 15:42, Shaun McDonald wrote:
I'm wondering if someone will be able to implement an efficient
version of the snooker ball visualisation on
http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2009/03/26/thats-a-really-odd-route/
That's very useful. Is it possible for anyone to view that
I have created a wiki page for appeals for money for aerial
photography and added a basic FAQ to it.
Is still very raw but I think it is valuable to have one page to
support all the funding appeals wherever they are for in the world and
provide answers to the basic questions.
Feel free
to the 'Wales' or 'Scotland' category.
Regards,
Peter Miller
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Firstly, I have copied the table from the boundaries page showing the
hierarchy of administration in Wales to the Wales page and merged it with
the content in the Unitaries table which helps the uniformity of the UK
pages.
Secondly we seem to now be in a position where we are maintaining a
We are planning to give the UK administrative wiki pages a bit of a
spring clean which are all a bit random, not very well linked and
contain quite a lot of duplicated content and some very out-of-date
content.
The plan is as follows:
Firstly we will create wiki pages for the English and
On 9 Mar 2009, at 12:12, David Earl wrote:
On 09/03/2009 12:04, Peter Miller wrote:
We are planning to give the UK administrative wiki pages a bit of
a spring clean which are all a bit random, not very well linked
and contain quite a lot of duplicated content and some very out
On 9 Mar 2009, at 13:06, Ed Loach wrote:
r. I think
therefore that the towns listed on each district page are probably
more correct than those in the template (though some places are
perhaps open to debate). Since then I've tended to concentrate on
the district page where I live.
The Essex
On 9 Mar 2009, at 15:36, Ed Loach wrote:
There is plenty left to do, but I hope people are happy with
what we
have being doing so far.
Would it make more sense for
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England
to redirect to WikiProject_England now instead of
WikiProject_United_Kingdom?
On 10 Feb 2009, at 20:07, Chris Hill wrote:
Brian Quinion wrote:
Should we investigate buying aerial photography for some of these
un-loved
places which would allow us the capture the base road structure and
land-usage prior to any actual visit and speed things up a lot? The
photography
which we should respond to positively.
I (Peter Miller/PeterIto) will make the introduction and will be happy
to be on the
team but am not offering to do the bulk of the technical work.
This work is supported in this work by 'IdeasInTransit' which is a
five year research project funded by the UK
On 17 Dec 2008, at 22:03, Steve Chilton wrote:
Bizarely, the day Kaerest released his openrailmap I had rendered a
UK rail network map - purely for visualisation and checking
purposes, but have only just had time to upload it to the server.
It is at:
On 18 Dec 2008, at 11:12, Shaun McDonald wrote:
On 18 Dec 2008, at 10:52, Peter Miller wrote:
Could these maps render the 'lanes' tag, around which there seems to
be an emerging consensus for showing the number of tracks, typically
1 for single track working, 2 and the 4. The rendering
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On 17 Dec 2008, at 22:03, Steve Chilton wrote:
Bizarely, the day
On 16 Dec 2008, at 10:08, Steve Hill wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
We all know about the OS licencing issues and so do councils! There
is a real bun-fight between the OS Google and councils over
licencing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps
Ok
On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:20, matthew-...@newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:14:53PM +, Peter Miller wrote:
This list is called 'talk-GB' but in the description it is described
as General discussion for UK users
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo
I think GB
On 15 Dec 2008, at 21:00, Chris Hill wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:20, matthew-...@newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:14:53PM +, Peter Miller wrote:
This list is called 'talk-GB' but in the description it is
described
as General discussion
On 12 Dec 2008, at 09:13, Steve Hill wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote:
I have been working on adding wiki pages for every County and Unitary
Authority in the UK (there are 140 in total) so that we have a
consistent place to add this sort of information. There were articles
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