Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline confusion

On 03/11/2018 15:50, Colin Smale wrote: The coastline ways with source=PGS are really old and inaccurate. I am not sure of their exact provenance but I think they were traced from some primitive aerial imagery. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:source%3DPGS Tom -- Tom Hughes

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #432 2018-10-23-2018-10-29

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 432, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/10878/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline confusion

Hi Sean, The coastline ways with source=PGS are really old and inaccurate. I am not sure of their exact provenance but I think they were traced from some primitive aerial imagery. HWM data is available as part of OS Boundary-Line. It shows the "island" ("Inner Trial Bank") is (just) within the

[Talk-GB] Coastline confusion

Hi all, I've been contacted by an OSM user confused about what to do on the coast of The Wash. Basically the two ways: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/2961222 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/35834999 are both natural=coastline there, but the former, an "island" is inside the latter so can't

Re: [Talk-GB] Facebook Map Query - Thames rendered as Thanames

On 26/10/2018 10:56, Dave F wrote: I'd be more concerned that on Facebook's mobile website (Android/Silk Browser) that image clicks through to Google Maps. I suspect it depends (I did look into issues related to this in response to some DWG* tickets).  The maps you saw depending on where you