[Talk-gb-westmidlands] M42, J6

2010-03-29 Thread Ed Loach
I didn't notice this until I got back, but this roundabout looks a bit wrong: http://osm.org/go/euzhlOxF_- The Coventry Road seems to go over one side of the roundabout and under the other, but I'm fairly certain both are fairly level. Perhaps someone who knows the junction could have a look?

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Kidderminster

2010-03-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Hi Mary, Great you will be coming along to Kidderminster. Happy to take you over. I'll need to take my car because of the bike (room for more on the roof too, that's bikes of course not people! ;-) ) You popping along to the social on Thursday? Cheers Andy -Original Message- From:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] M42, J6

2010-03-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Oh, I also noted we seem to have rather a lot of tertiary roads in Hampton. Old Station Road doesn't look to be tertiary for me. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com] Sent: 29 March 2010 9:49 AM To: 'Brian Prangle'; 'Ed

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] M42, J6

2010-03-29 Thread Ed Loach
Andy wrote: It's an odd configuration. The A45 goes over the M42 and there are bridges for the roundabout on the north and south (over M42) and west (over A45) but not on the east side. On the east side the A45 is on a bridge over the roundabout. So the A45 goes under the roundabout at

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] M42, J6

2010-03-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Ed Loach [mailto:e...@loach.me.uk] wrote: Sent: 29 March 2010 9:58 AM To: 'Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)'; 'Brian Prangle' Cc: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: RE: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] M42, J6 Andy wrote: It's an odd configuration. The A45 goes over the M42 and there are

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Newbie Interested in Project

2010-03-29 Thread Brian
Hi I am interested in the learning to assist the project. Are there any courses, tutorials etc. Your web information about equipment and support seem to be aimed(rightfully) at the brummidgums. I am a pensioner I have no transport, though I do enjoy walking around our village area. Any

[Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem

2010-03-29 Thread Tom Chance
One for devs really but I'm not on the list. Perhaps someone could pass this on? I've noticed that the osm.org shortlinks ending with a dash - often don't work in emails. The dash gets missed off from the link. In my area, at least, this seems to move the centre slightly and switch from zoom

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem

2010-03-29 Thread Gregory
Forwarding to dev as requested. I think it has been noticed already, it can also break in applications such as twitter. But is anything going to be changed? I understand avoiding the ending character from being non-alphanumeric(not letters or numbers) would mean a serious rewrite of how the

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem

2010-03-29 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 29/03/2010 10:52, Gregory wrote: I understand avoiding the ending character from being non-alphanumeric(not letters or numbers) would mean a serious rewrite of how the shortlinks are made/decoded. How much longer would short links be if all digits were alphanumeric only? It's also allowed

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem

2010-03-29 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 March 2010 11:09, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.ukwrote: On 29/03/2010 10:52, Gregory wrote: I understand avoiding the ending character from being non-alphanumeric(not letters or numbers) would mean a serious rewrite of how the shortlinks are made/decoded. How much

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 29 March 2010, Tom Chance wrote: If you have any particular powers over Google and Microsoft... :-) As mentioned, I can and do use a different URL shortener for now, but it is a UI element right there on the home page that will lead to people sending around broken links. That can't

[Talk-GB] OSM coverage

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Reed
It's been three months since I last tried to measure road lengths on OSM against the Department for Transport statistics, and I thought there might be some interest in how things are progressing. At the moment this has only been updated where I already have decent admin boundaries from OSM.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem

2010-03-29 Thread Steve Doerr
Would replacing the hyphen by %2D cure the problem? Steve -- From: Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 3:04 PM To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem On Monday 29 March 2010, Tom

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Coverage

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Reed
Apologies for bad link - it should now work OK. http://www.reedhome.org.uk/Documents/OSMCoverMar2010.csv ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM coverage

2010-03-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:22:26 +0100 Andy Street m...@andystreet.me.uk wrote: Hello Andy, to download the csv file but the link isn't working (404). It worked for me; Temporary snafu somewhere, perhaps? -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)rad

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM coverage

2010-03-29 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Peter, Thanks for that - I can see another target now - to turn Hartlepool Blue! How do 'Trunk' roads fit into yours (and the DfT's) scheme? Someone changed the main road into Hartlepool to be 'Trunk' on the basis that it has green signs, but I have never thought of it as being a significant

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM coverage

2010-03-29 Thread Tom Hughes
On 29/03/10 20:35, Graham Jones wrote: How do 'Trunk' roads fit into yours (and the DfT's) scheme? Someone changed the main road into Hartlepool to be 'Trunk' on the basis that it has green signs, but I have never thought of it as being a significant enough place to have a Trunk road,

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM coverage

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Reed
DfT provide separate figures for trunk and primary, but I'm afraid that at the moment I just count all trunk and primary as primary. From: Graham Jones [mailto:grahamjones...@googlemail.com] Sent: 29 March 2010 20:36 To: peter.r...@aligre.co.uk Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject:

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-dev] OSM shortlinks problem

2010-03-29 Thread Gregory
On 29 March 2010 15:15, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/16271 yeah, it was originally =, but changed to - to work with twitter. given that the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, @, - and = have already been used, what's the next best character? ~? +?