Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-11 Thread Ed Loach
Lincolnshire is still on my list for 2009 snip Not sure whether it is of any use, but I did a couple of hours mapping in Lincoln fairly recently, and had expected to have much longer. So in advance I'd made myself a bit of a cake diagram, and in case it was of use to anyone else added it to

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-10 Thread Brian Quinion
Has anyone made any plans for mapping parties for any of the unloved north yet? After cycling up and down the hilly climbs of Sheffield I quite fancy mapping somewhere flat like Lincolnshire :-) I've checked the wiki but didn't notice anything - so are their any unannounced plans in progress?

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-10 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Brian, There is nothing prohibiting yourself organising mapping parties. I think the events are few and far between due to the not so great weather at this time of year. Shaun On 10 Feb 2009, at 17:12, Brian Quinion wrote: Has anyone made any plans for mapping parties for any of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-10 Thread Brian Quinion
There is nothing prohibiting yourself organising mapping parties. I think the events are few and far between due to the not so great weather at this time of year. Why did I just know that was going to be the response :-) I'll probably be up for trying to organise something for Rotherham or

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-10 Thread Brian Quinion
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 that Mikel and eye have been sorting out for Gaza Strip is costing $11

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-10 Thread 80n
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk 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

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Hill
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote: google are saying is that if one places a layer of OS data on top of google data then google don't claim ownership of that data Is this actually different to the OS's rules? My take on the OS's complaint was that the councils' data was actually

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-16 Thread Peter Miller
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,

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Miller
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 is

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Hill
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 for UK users

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Miller
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

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
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 for

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Hill
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 for some and there are about 19 added so far.

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Dave Stubbs
2008/12/11 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: A quick scoot around our green and pleasant land reveals a number of really unloved places (Why are so many in Lincolnshire!). We need ideas on how to get these places on the map, whether it be motivating the natives or

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: For some time we (at ITO) have being planning to do a thematic mapping view of these un-loved places by combining the census data and OSM data. Each census output area covers about 100 households so there must be

[Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-11 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
A quick scoot around our green and pleasant land reveals a number of really unloved places (Why are so many in Lincolnshire!). We need ideas on how to get these places on the map, whether it be motivating the natives or sending in the OSM swat teams to raise the profile. I'd like to hear your