So the result of all the discussion about a proposal to develop and deploy a
bot which failed to get near to a consensus, let alone agreement is
to develop and deploy a bot. The discussion has ignored the basic
problem of not having enough mappers on the ground collecting data - so we
There are many landuse polygons in the London area that were created by user
TimSC, who has not yet accepted the Contributor Terms. They will all be purged
from the database when the licence changes if he continues not to do so. TimSC
is now demanding changes to the way OSM is run with the
I don't normally get involved in licencing stuff, but I disagree with
unnecessary data destruction.
While I have accepted the CTs, and to be honest don't care one way or the other
about ODBL, CC, etc I would urge most strongly that this is *not* done. Tim
is a decent guy and has
I'd find it really useful to filter what is displayed,
to limit e.g. to showing only bridleways.
Basically, I'm trying to plot cycleable routes through
the countryside, and it would be nice to avoid distracting
footpaths that I can't use anyway.
So a filter which shows e.g. roads and
On 11 June 2011 14:22, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
Fyi we are doing some investigation in ITO into adding OS
VectorDistrict 'road missing' data on the OS Locator tiles or possibly
onto an alternative map layer. The aim being to make tracing of roads
Peter Miller wrote:
ITO are probably not the best people to set up maintain simple mirrors
of existing content. Are there not 100 sites where a mirror could be
set up and maintained? Why is the OS site not sufficient anyway?
The OS site
a) offers download-only access behind an e-mail
On 12 June 2011 20:36, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
ITO are probably not the best people to set up maintain simple mirrors
of existing content. Are there not 100 sites where a mirror could be
set up and maintained? Why is the OS site not sufficient anyway?
On 12 June 2011 15:41, Michael Brewer mich...@thebrewerfamily.co.uk wrote:
I'd find it really useful to filter what is displayed,
to limit e.g. to showing only bridleways.
Basically, I'm trying to plot cycleable routes through
the countryside, and it would be nice to avoid distracting
Peter Miller wrote:
If this is what you want then it clearly isn't a simple FTP mirror
Let's not overcomplicate things. :)
All that is needed is that someone
a) downloads all the OS VectorMap District files
b) unzips them
c) places the unzipped shapefiles on an FTP server somewhere
d) copies
Steps (a) to (e) require someone
with FTP space and bandwidth to
spare
Roughly how much bandwidth do you think would make a worth while
contribution?
I'm happy to donate what ever I have remaining on my current package and
upgrade within reason (with ITOs help or not).
Craig
On 12 June 2011 20:53, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Steps (a) to (e) require someone with FTP space and
bandwidth to spare and I don't have either, or I'd have done it by now.
Can you give a rough estimate for how much bandwidth would make a
worthwhile contribution?
I'm happy
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