Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-14 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
I believe there's a difference between discouraged & deprecated. i agree path & footway are synonymous. When they're substituted for each other there's no difference in meaning. The path proposal never produced a clear, unique definition. AFAIA, neither tag had any impied permissions or

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-14 Thread Warin
Path and footway are the same .. to me. When I first joined OSM I was told they had different default permissions to allow UK people to do a short way of tagging those permissions, true or false I don't know. Seemed like a nasty way of doing it to me. In Australia .. the view was taken -

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-14 Thread Andy Townsend
On 14/03/2019 15:55, Martin Wynne wrote: ... . Do you mean wheel ruts, footprints? I really, really wouldn't worry about it.  There are always edge cases - just pick whatever seems most appropriate to you.  You've been there, other people haven't been, and while a photo is useful it's only

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-14 Thread Devonshire
Yes and yes. Just tag it as a footway then with the appropriate designation. Kevin On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 4:14 PM, Martin Wynne wrote: > On 14/03/2019 15:29, Devonshire wrote: > > If there are parallel tracks visible (even if maybe historic) I would tag > > it as a track, if a single track is

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-14 Thread Martin Wynne
On 14/03/2019 15:29, Devonshire wrote: If there are parallel tracks visible (even if maybe historic) I would tag it as a track, if a single track is visible then tag it as a footway. Thanks Kevin. Do you mean wheel ruts, footprints? In the case of my photo, there was no evidence of any use

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-14 Thread Devonshire
If there are parallel tracks visible (even if maybe historic) I would tag it as a track, if a single track is visible then tag it as a footway. Kevin On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 3:19 PM, Martin Wynne wrote: > > The path tag is actively being discouraged. > > Which makes it more necessary to have

Re: [Talk-gb-london] bulk importing london open data to osm

2019-03-14 Thread Nick Allen
Hi Joe, Just in case you were wondering if Tom was the only one here. Welcome, and I look forward to seeing progress. I think Tom made a very good job of answering you, so I won't interfere and confuse things. Regards Nick (Tallguy) Nick & Daphne my phone is responsible for any spelling

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-14 Thread Martin Wynne
The path tag is actively being discouraged. Which makes it more necessary to have some direction on what constitutes a "track". Is sufficient width for vehicles enough by itself to convert a footpath to a track, or does there need to be some evidence of actual vehicular use? It's a common

Re: [Talk-GB] Lake District NationalPark

2019-03-14 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 01:54, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > The larger something is the longer it takes of the renders to see it. This is not true. > And if it is a change the renders are slower to see that too. This is not true either. > Something new and small gets rendered fairly

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-14 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
Hi Nothing except the fact people walk along a way is implied by path or footway. The legality or ability to use it is defined with sub/adjective tags, such as width. The path tag is actively being discouraged. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333 OSM-Carto rendering

Re: [Talk-gb-london] bulk importing london open data to osm

2019-03-14 Thread Joseph Leach
attending the meetup sounds like a very good idea on the bus stop example, corporate data releases can have inaccuracies ... at this point i should note that i copied a drinking fountain dataset to sixteen amenities

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

2019-03-14 Thread phil
It could make reasonably priced trains hard to come by. Phil (trigpoint) On Thursday, 14 March 2019, Tony Shield wrote: > FYI > > Saturday 8 June is the Queens Birthday - Trooping the Colour occurs. > Don't know London well enough to know if this could be disruptive. > > TonyS > > On

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

2019-03-14 Thread Tony Shield
FYI Saturday 8 June is the Queens Birthday - Trooping the Colour occurs. Don't know London well enough to know if this could be disruptive. TonyS On 13/03/2019 23:14, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi all, For the next OSM UK annual general meeting we thought we would try London as a possible

Re: [Talk-gb-london] bulk importing london open data to osm

2019-03-14 Thread Tom Chance
Hi Joe, There's further useful guidance on the wiki, inc on the licensing point: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines There's also a regular pub meet-up where you'll find people more up to date and knowledgeable than me! The next is on Thurs 28th:

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

2019-03-14 Thread Jez Nicholson
The ODI? On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:08 AM Tom Hughes wrote: > Geovation is on Goswell Road now, not far from the old address: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3527722639 > > Tom > > On 14/03/2019 10:02, SK53 wrote: > > I don't think Geovation are at 1 Seckford Street anymore (Future

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

2019-03-14 Thread Tom Hughes
Geovation is on Goswell Road now, not far from the old address: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3527722639 Tom On 14/03/2019 10:02, SK53 wrote: I don't think Geovation are at 1 Seckford Street anymore (Future Cities Catapult have taken over IIRC), which is a shame as Seckford Street is a

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

2019-03-14 Thread SK53
I don't think Geovation are at 1 Seckford Street anymore (Future Cities Catapult have taken over IIRC), which is a shame as Seckford Street is a really nice venue. It' still available for events, but I suspect with substantial costs. I don't think Geovation have moved very far away. I suspect

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

2019-03-14 Thread Spike
The London Hackspace (in Wembley) has a classroom that seats 30 with ease >> https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Classroom If interested I am a member and could host and facilitate the event. My next-door neighbour works at Google - I could ask him for a contact there? Spike On

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

2019-03-14 Thread Jez Nicholson
Bury the hatchet with an old rival at the Geovation Centre? On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:29 PM Andy Mabbett wrote: > On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 23:14, Rob Nickerson > wrote: > > > For the next OSM UK annual general meeting we thought we would try > > London as a possible location. Does anyone know

Re: [Talk-GB] Lake District NationalPark

2019-03-14 Thread Andy Townsend
On 13/03/2019 21:28, Paul Berry wrote: Relation looks OK to me but I can't see the name at any zoom level: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/287917 Looks OK at https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=8=54.228=-2.569 , so I guess OSM's renderer will catch up. Best Regards,

[Talk-GB] (re: Re: Road name contradictions in the UK)

2019-03-14 Thread Dudley Ibbett
Open before Friday View message here 03:05:12 (Openstreetmap) Re: [Talk-GB] Road name contradictions in the UK ___ Talk-GB mailing list