[Talk-GB] National Library of Scotland - Out of copyright mapping

2012-03-12 Thread Andy Robinson
Chatted for an hour with Chris Fleet, the senior map curator at NLS on Friday. He's keen to see OSM use the historical mapping they now have online. I've created a wiki page (which Chris has contributed to) [1] that documents those georeferenced maps that are likely to be of most use to mappers in

Re: [Talk-GB] National Library of Scotland - Out of copyright mapping

2012-03-12 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Robinson wrote: He's keen to see OSM use the historical mapping they now have online. Magic and exactly what I'm looking for myself. I have looked at second hand scanners but availability is like hens teeth and they are generally very bulky or heavy and often running on old SCSI

[Talk-GB] Searching UK addresses on the osm.org website

2012-03-12 Thread Dan Avis
Hi, Without wishing to descend into a license debate... (I've seen previous posts suggesting that *importing* the postcode database is at least contentious) Is it possible to get the osm.org search box to return results of the full postcode database? The data's been geocoded already, and it

Re: [Talk-GB] Searching UK addresses on the osm.org website

2012-03-12 Thread phil
I believe that the royal mail postcode database is copyright and so importing such data would probably be a no no. Until recently I was a Ramblers Membership srcretary, and the problems caused by postcode allocation of new members, in particular around the county boundary led me to believe

Re: [Talk-GB] Beta test of cycling date merge-tool

2012-03-12 Thread Andy Allan
On 9 March 2012 23:00, Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote: I don't want to steal Andy's thunder, but I thought I'd check the progress and what good timing! . My reported geometry issues are solved. . Many more areas have been processed (~ 1/3 of DfT areas including my local area*)

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle route 20 / Wandle Trail fragmented

2012-03-12 Thread Andy Allan
On 11 March 2012 14:23, MT_Payne trevy...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: NCN route 20 used to be continuous on the OSM, as it is on the ground and on Sustrans site, checked from Wandsworth to Carshalton and on to Oaks Park. Several sections appear to be missing on OSM:

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle route 20 / Wandle Trail fragmented

2012-03-12 Thread Andy Allan
On 12 March 2012 13:37, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 March 2012 14:23, MT_Payne trevy...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: NCN route 20 used to be continuous on the OSM, as it is on the ground and on Sustrans site, checked from Wandsworth to Carshalton and on to Oaks Park. Several

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle route 20 / Wandle Trail fragmented

2012-03-12 Thread Ed Loach
http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/12179/166 If someone wants to try reinstating the relation, that would be great. Done Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle route 20 / Wandle Trail fragmented

2012-03-12 Thread Ed Loach
As a PS there are still some small gaps according to the JOSM relation editor after sorting the ways, but I've not investigated those. Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle route 20 / Wandle Trail fragmented

2012-03-12 Thread MT_Payne
On 12/03/2012 14:38, Ed Loach wrote: As a PS there are still some small gaps according to the JOSM relation editor after sorting the ways, but I've not investigated those. Ed Thanks Andy and Ed, I just didn't have the knowledge or experience to fix this quickly, though I'm learning! I will

Re: [Talk-GB] Searching UK addresses on the osm.org website

2012-03-12 Thread Gervase Markham
On 12/03/12 11:57, Dan Avis wrote: I'm not talking about importing them, because I understand some people are leery of the potential copyright issues, and because it's not an on the ground source. That's fine; I'm side-stepping that question (hopefully!) and instead asking: Can the osm.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle route 20 / Wandle Trail fragmented

2012-03-12 Thread SomeoneElse
Andy Allan wrote: It's hard to see the history of such well-edited relations, since our browsing interface will simply time out. This should work, I think: http://osm.mapki.com/history/relation.php?id=12179 ___ Talk-GB mailing list