Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-04 Thread Dave F
I'd also be happy with water (even though I'm still slogging through FHRS data) One thing which needs agreement is the tagging of areas of water, especially the waterway banks: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details This is appears to be the accepted method

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-04 Thread Philip Barnes
On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 17:05 +, Christian Ledermann wrote: > BTW: > https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html > > OS Open Map - Local (has several water layers) and OS Open Rivers > were > updated 10/2016 > It certainly a useful project. I often come across npe streams,

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-04 Thread Jez Nicholson
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2017_Q1_Project:_Water It might be that someone finds a really good water project that could be spun up into a quarterly project in the future. I started noting some of the ideas https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_quarterly_project_ideas so that they

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-04 Thread John Aldridge
Perhaps also worth trying to get the flow direction right. http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=water can be helpful here. -- Cheers, John On 04-Jan-17 15:22, Andy Townsend wrote: On 03/01/2017 22:34, Rob Nickerson wrote: Water sounds good. ... and to me too - in fact it's what I've been

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Townsend
On 03/01/2017 22:34, Rob Nickerson wrote: Water sounds good. ... and to me too - in fact it's what I've been doing on and off for the last couple of months, mainly in South Wales bordering areas that I've been walking where I've noticed that streams are in the wrong places. OS OpenData

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-04 Thread Harry Wood
We never actually tried out loomio properly for this. I think we can go here... https://www.loomio.org/d/xagnZoK4/what-should-the-next-project-be- ...and "Start a proposal" for several different ideas and then vote on them, and a pretty pie chart starts appearing. But... yeah if Brian just

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 2 January 2017 at 12:35, Brian Prangle wrote: > Well we seem to be no nearer reaching agreement on the plethora of > suggestions with more people suggesting what they don't want to do rather > than what they do want to do. This will always happen [1]. Unless there are

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Water sounds good. There are 15,825 ways tagged source=NPE + waterway=* and an additional 23,146 with lowercase npe. So plenty based originally on old data that can be improved upon. I will set up a tag script in the next few days to track progress of source=NPE/npe + waterway=*. Any other

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-02 Thread Jez Nicholson
+1 for 'water' as a general subject for Q1 activities, leaving it open for individuals to interpret as they wish. Q2 can be more data-driven, like the schools and fhrs:ids were. Regards, Jez On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 at 12:37 Brian Prangle wrote: > Hi everyone > >

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-02 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Well we seem to be no nearer reaching agreement on the plethora of suggestions with more people suggesting what they don't want to do rather than what they do want to do. The only drift I think was there was that it shouldn't be too labour intensive and given the season it sould be

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2016-12-31 Thread Paul
On Saturday, 31 December 2016 19:31:06 BST, Jez Nicholson wrote: I would welcome a less labour intensive task this quarter. Am still forging ahead with fhrs:ids but with 2700 establishments in Brighton & Hove and only me mapping it is hard (but useful) work. On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 23:50 Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2016-12-31 Thread Jez Nicholson
I would welcome a less labour intensive task this quarter. Am still forging ahead with fhrs:ids but with 2700 establishments in Brighton & Hove and only me mapping it is hard (but useful) work. On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 23:50 Rob Nickerson, wrote: > It's not just Notes but

[Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2016-12-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
It's not just Notes but the fixme tag too. And yes, this will be skewed to areas with fewer active mappers. This is partly the point of the project - to help improve lesser mapped areas and to encourage us to spread the word about OSM! The aim for me has always been "at least one mapper in every