On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm visiting my friends at ShropGeek, in Shrewsbury, on 26 September
to talk about OSM and demonstrate the use of JOSM:
http://osmshrewssep11.eventbrite.com/
While it may not be something for those
On 7/16/07, Abigail Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/16/07, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... not in my experience! They all use GPS devices, and the last time
I got a taxi he took us to the wrong part of Hammersmith (the
streetname was similar to the one we wanted, and pulled out
On 8/2/07, Rik van der Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My main question now is how should I tag
footpathes without a 'legal way of right' ?
highway=footway
access=permissive
Shaun McDonald replied:
The difference between a track and a path is more in the
surface quality, rather than the
On 8/8/07, Minty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed many bridges around Edinburgh appear to be done using
three seperate Ways
See George IV Bridge, and also Castle Terrace if you pan to the
left a little.
http://tinyurl.com/298f7t
* way_before_bridge
* way_for_bridge
*
On 8/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has just been brough to my attention.
http://maps.camdencyclists.org.uk/
Had a quick look but nothing too understand it properly. Was wondering if
it may be of use to those working on the cycle routes if you werent aware
of it
On 8/29/07, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 29 Aug 2007, at 12:55, Andy Allan wrote:
On 8/29/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The ncn and rcn are more generic, so that other countries can use the
same tags. However these definitions are pretty much correct
On 9/9/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 29 Aug 2007, at 12:55, Andy Allan wrote:
On 8/29/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you (or anyone else) think I should tag the National Byway?
(http://www.nationalbyway.org)
If it could be drawn in brown
kph?
On 9/20/07, Andy Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Sent: 20 September 2007 10:48 AM
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Speed limits
Dave Stubbs wrote:
I came across a speed limit in Windsor Great Park a few weeks back for
38mph
which
On 9/27/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Via CARTO-SoC...
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:55:18 BST
From: Richard Peace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello
I have been approached by leading cycle map
cartographers Cycle City
On 10/30/07, Steve Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
harry wood put this on the wiki, I forgot
come to london on thurs!
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/
London#MySociety_Disruptive_Tech_Talk_on_Thursday
Would be great to have an OSM crowd there to answer questions, talk etc
beer
On Dec 16, 2007 4:37 PM, Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you going to re-tag every way in the database that uses this?.
Nope, everyone is free to use whatever tag they want. Same goes for
rendering. If its useful locally in the UK that is fine, but it should not
suddenly
On Dec 17, 2007 10:51 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy R., Andy A.,
As for the voting process, I think it has to be taken with a grain of
salt. Some people are doing a lot of work in that field and we
shouldn't disregard their work completely - it is ok to have a
structured
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Grant Slater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kyle Gordon wrote:
Surely not, since it's Google data...
How is this Google's data? Regardless of if StreetCar has a Google map
on their site.
Data likely comes from: http://www.streetcar.co.uk/LocationsXml.xml
Our
There's a few Sustran's volunteer Rangers within the OSM community,
myself included. We've tried various approaches to them with very
little success. They seem to like having sucky maps on their website,
charging a small fortune for maps that would be mostly unnecessary if
the routes were properly
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Russ Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could anyone here give me an idea of progress in Nottingham? I had a
quick look recently and it appeared that all the roads are in place,
but some (many?) don't have names.
Hi Russ,
I don't know Nottingham myself, but you
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Gates wrote:
Further to Ed's post, are there really GPS devices with one inch accuracy?
I could imagine letting a device sit for some time, and then averaging the
position, which might lead to increased accuracy at
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
But generally the question is should oneway to cars be tagged as
oneway=yes? Because it paints a big oneway arrow on the map which
will confuse everyone except car-drivers.
Even if you're a cyclist or other user
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy wrote:
Actually they aren't - what they are doing is making one end of
the
road no access to motorised vehicles. So the road itself is no
longer
technically oneway, so it shouldn't need cycleway=opposite...
So
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed Loach wrote:
What is it we are trying to address here exactly? I'm assuming it is
cyclelanes that are part of the road/way as
This is with reference to
You can all blame Matt Amos for the terrible wordplay.
We're having a pizzas-and-coding event next Wednesday (5th November),
in lieu of any London pub meetup and as a warm-up to the upcoming API
0.6 Hack weekend. It gives everyone a chance to get up to speed on the
recent work on the API, get set
Hi All,
Seeing Ivan's new icon for dev events on the wiki prompted me to send
out a quick reminder of the two upcoming development events over the
next few days:
Wednesday evening - APIzza 0.6. Come along and get familiar with the
code that powers the OSM API - and have some pizzas too! Perfect
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
For some time we (at ITO) have being planning to do a thematic mapping
view of these un-loved places by combining the census data and OSM
data. Each census output area covers about 100 households so there
must be
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Kærast kaer...@newscloud.com wrote:
Hi,
I received a response to a freedom of information request today with a
list of CCTV cameras owned by my local council
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cctv_coverage_and_information_4
The exact locations aren't
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Yes, I read their TCs but it never hurts to actually ask, they might
just grant us the right to use their data. It doesn't cost much to ask.
Absolutely, and it's a good attitude to just plough on and ask.
But I'll
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
So if you have a shared use cycle/footpath where the bicycle and
people are above each other white on a blue sign I'd say that
highway=cycleway, foot=designated, cycle=designated and
highway=footway, foot=designated,
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Al Girling acgirl...@gcguk.demon.co.uk wrote:
Why footway exists but a tag for public footpaths doesn't
is frankly beyond me.
Because you're reading too much into the name. All the highway tags
were initially made up to end in '...way'. So forget you're ideas
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Nick Whitelegg
nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm planning to do a wholesale conversion of all my surveyed footpaths,
bridleways etc to use the designation (designation=public_footpath,
designation=public_bridleway etc) or designated
Well, the purpose of the forward projection code is to take the ll
variable as lat long and then use the defined projection to calculate
what the projected c0 and c1 points are in projected coordinates. So
you should leave the ll in degrees.
But it does sound like the projection string isn't
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm expecting to organise another 6 parties through the rest of this year so
people's preference for locations please shout up again.
Scotland! I was just browsing around on z10 (i.e. the last
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
I notice from the rerendered cycle map layer, that some of these have been
tagged as a local cycle network Redway
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.0473lon=-0.7524zoom=13layers=00B0FTF
Should we do this with all the
Hi Everyone,
As a reminder, the London Hack Weekend kicks off on Friday evening
with a planning meeting (heh) in the pub, and coding on both Saturday
and Sunday. Full details and sign-up on the wiki at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_Hack_Weekend
If you can't make it in person - IRC
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
you may well find
that someone else goes round systematically changing them to km/h and
puts in maxspeed:mph - that's what's happened to most of the ones I've
done.
Call them out publicly. This kind of thing is a
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Jonathan
Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote:
Ed Loach wrote:
Have you a wiki page to say how to tag for things to render under
each category?
Tag... Render...
BURN HIM! BURN!
:-)
Gah, the common misconception rears up again. Repeat after me:
It
I should clarify - I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion, just your
stated reasoning ;-)
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Andy Allangravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
What? That page says nothing like that - it says you can use your
bicycle for free, and someone will drive you and it across the
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Peter Millerpeter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
I have create a wiki page for reversion requests for GB data and have
added all Liam123s recent changesets to it with a reference to the
discussions of the nature of his edits.
I believe that this will be a
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Nicholas Barnesn...@thebarnesfamily.eu wrote:
Shaun McDonald wrote:
I have seen many roundabouts split up so that the bridges can be added
properly, so started doing it myself some time ago.
Which begs the question what is the point of tagging as way as a
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
Lennard wrote:
Brian Prangle wrote:
Most public transport route maps do show the whole roundabout as part of
the route - perhaps we should follow their example?
If the return trip takes the same roads, eventually
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Steve Hillst...@nexusuk.org wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Nicholas Barnes wrote:
Should, for example, the component ways making up the roundabout be
grouped in their own I'm a roundabout relationship?
Do we need to be able to tell which ways are part of a
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM, John McKerrellj...@mckerrell.net wrote:
How about a bus route? Though there's bus stops along the way there's
no arrows or anything like that saying bus route goes this way. Not
trying to be difficult, just wondering.
I can verify which way the number 37 bus
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Richard
Mannrichard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote:
While a signposted route on the ground is the best criterion for a
reactive mapper, I think you can proactively identify cycle routes
unambiguously prior to that (at least well enough that there won't be
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Peter Millerpeter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
Can I suggest that you (David) immediately add this to the GB Revert
Request log (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/
GB_revert_request_log) , send Liam123 asking him to stop and forward
the revert request to Andy
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:21 PM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
3 more changesets today from Liam123 for reversion.
I have added them to the revert page and have copied this email the
Andy.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GB_revert_request_log
You got
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Nick Barnesn...@thebarnesfamily.eu wrote:
To my mind, nobody ought to be able to edit live map data unless:
No, no, no - completely wrong approach. Think using Dettol
continuously to keep your house clean - most people now realise that
healthy immune systems come
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Christopher
Osbornechris.gai...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to hear from the DWG on how they handle the edit wars in Cyprus.
Must be some kind of precedent?
Handled, past tense, I believe. I've heard that it's now resolved.
Anyway, that was a dispute, not
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Bob
Kerropenstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
Is there any legal or other reason that there is not an option to export
Opencyclemap tiles. In the 'format to export' opencyclemap is not there.
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1049
It's not
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Nick Blacknickbla...@gmail.com wrote:
Focus. OSM-F focuses on global issues, OSMF-GB focusses on local / national
issues.
That sounds like the need for a working group, not a separate legal entity.
OSM-F Local
* Local community building and outreach
*
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Christoph Boehme christ...@b3e.net wrote:
Robert Naylor wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle
bpran...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi everyone
Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to
whether a bus stop is
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Frankie Roberto
fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote:
I believe it should be possible to use this in Potlatch somehow but
haven't figured it out. Some of the link from Warper result in errors.
I tried using some of these links:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Frankie Roberto wrote:
Have copied chippy and RichardF in, in the hope that they can help us
connect things up.
Potlatch doesn't do WMS, it only does 900913 tiles (like OSM itself).
You specify them in this
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
Mike osm-talk...@... writes:
I've been looking at the Dracos postbox list
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/
I have recently started work on importing this,
see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Dracos_import.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
Andy Allan wrote:
automated imports of sub-standard data
It is probably wishful thinking to hope that they will go away.
Not really. We could state that imports are not permitted, and enforce
it, if we want
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd rather have a
partially complete, high quality map than a bodge of crap data
(NAPTAN, anyone?) that just encourages more people to add crap data
and get the community to fix it.
I've been mulling over this point
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tom Taylor t...@tomtaylor.co.uk wrote:
On 9 Nov 2009, at 16:06, Andy Allan wrote:
Please don't. Imports are a real, real annoyance. There's no
indication that anyone using the dracos site has located these with
any accuracy or personal knowledge - I wouldn't
Hi All,
Where did we end up with the Stratford imagery in the end? When I left
things, I'd made a layer containing about 7 images, made tiles from
them, and stuck them online. You can see them in action in potlatch at
one of these URLs (both are the same):
http://bit.ly/8yJhG
Hi Peter
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
Thanks Andy, your wiki page is very useful and it is also good to see the
imagery in Potlatch. Is the location of image encoded in the image somehow,
or how else does PotLatch know where to load it?
They
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
The thread is here in case you want to get involved:-
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb-westmidlands/2009-December/000398.html
I've had a quick read of that, forgive me for not signing up to yet
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Richard Fairhurst
rich...@systemed.net wrote:
brenda cameron wrote:
The A495 runs from Oswestry to a junction with the A525 a mile or so
west of Whitchurch and is tagged as 'trunk'.Can anyone confirm that
this is correct?
Surprisingly so:
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
I think it's high time this was done. IMO, OCM should be removed from
the main map options asked persuasively to rename themselves as they're
not really open, are they?
I'll ask you for one favour - when you are talking
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
As for the name, it was originally The OpenStreetMap Cycle Map and I
pondered long and hard on the use of the word The in the title since
that sounded a bit exclusive. Eventually I gave up worrying about it
since
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Though custom cartography is the right answer for many applications, it
will find it difficult to compete with the free, universally-recognised
cartography of the OS.
Are you saying you want to prevent these releases to
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:33 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
Richard's a socialist so I can see him arguing for weird government
monopolies on making pinball machines for one-legged immigrants living in
wales or whatever, but what are you arguing this for? What product will be
nuked
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:41 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
Oh don't be so sensitive, Richard and I go back and forth on this all the
time. I can understand why he argues for strange monopolies given his
politcal ideals. Is that better?
It's a bit of a recurring theme on these lists
Yeah, I'm going too.
Cheers,
Andy
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Steve Chilton s.l.chil...@mdx.ac.uk wrote:
I am definitely going.
Anyone else?
Beer-up afterwards?
I will investigate a possible pub.
Cheers
STEVE
Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
Manager of e-Learning Academic
Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know that the OpenStreetMap Surveyors Jackets are
now available to buy online. I'm selling them on behalf of the OSMF,
who supply me the vests and receive £10 for every sale. Sizes
available are Small, Medium, Large or Extra Large. If you’re looking
for a bulk order,
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I am sitting alongside Julian Burgess (CCd, also @aubergene ) of
http://opening-times.co.uk/ which lists opening times for all sorts of
shops and public service outlets in the UK. We have just tagged a local
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:57 PM, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote:
I guess the questions we have to address are: is
this data worth having in OSM?
Yes
are there any better sources of
building outline?
OS Mastermap. But since we won't get access to that any time soon
If we do
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Tim François sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The idea of OSM, as I see it, is to create a free-as-in-speech map of the
world. All data which goes into the map must be the same sort of 'free'.
Whether that be surveying or copying other people's maps is irrelevant -
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:46 PM, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote:
In response to the comment no imports ever, I would point out that
building imports is a completely different situation than that of public
roads. A glance at OS Street View suggests that about 99% of buildings are
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote:
I'd say about 95% of buildings are rectangles. About 99% of buildings are
purely orthogonal lines.
We need to be careful about extracting shapes from products that are
known to be downsampled. A quick look at Street
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net wrote:
I've been keen for a while to improve the lake and tarns outlines in the
lake district. It seems the current data is a little coarse and could be
improved.
Awesome. Having top-notch maps in popular outdoor areas is one of
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:23 AM, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote:
But it
would be worth checking what strings are attached to the data by the
licensing.
Well, the licensing is pretty clear - it's been given to us under the
ODbL. Anyone feel qualified enough to suggest what that
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
On 08/05/2010 12:08, Sam Vekemans wrote:
+101 for rendering it brown, so its different than NCN, RCN, LCN
I can use it promote it for the 'Trans Canada Trail' as a 'exact
definition' as a leasure route with
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
On a rainy afternoon I took a look at your overlay and I think it is
potentially very useful. The main issue I guess is this new tag. I think
not:* is imaginative, but it rankles with me somehow. How about just
putting
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Roy Jamison xtee...@googlemail.com wrote:
then these could probably just be ignored instead of having
millions of not:* tags for all the possible permutations that *could* be
entered incorrectly by an end user.
I think you've misunderstood the issue under
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Phil Endecott
spam_from_os...@chezphil.org wrote:
This leads to questions like priority between e.g. foot=no and
designation=public_footpath. Perhaps that one's unlikely to conflict
in practice, but I bet someone else has already found the right way
to parse
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Robert Whittaker (OSM)
robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote:
[...snip...]
Maybe we should also start a
campaign to ask them to dual license under ODbL+DbCL as well as
CC-By...
Right, there's no way we can ever discuss this licensing without
getting one thing
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
On the contrary, OS have given explicit permission to distribute their data
under CC-BY. I quote:
This means that you may mix the information with Creative Commons licensed
content to create a derivative work that can be
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Nick Whitelegg
nick_whitel...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Greg,
Yes, there are a large number of POIs not in the correct place. Whether
these are a genuine mistake or some idiot trying to be funny I don't know,
but I think they should be reverted. I think a sysadmin
I just had a look at the UK Mapping Priorities page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Mapping_Priorities
and I noticed that Darlington has gone from unmapped to awesome over
the last few months. Who wants to step up and take credit for such
immense progress on what was the UK's highest
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:58 AM, SomeoneElse
li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
On 27/08/2010 08:50, Ian Spencer wrote:
I don't think there is anyone rendering it explicitly at the moment,
however, it would be trivial for someone to take the OpenCycleMap code and
apply a similar style to an
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
So the question is then whether the OS has given 'explicit permission' to
'grant to OSMF a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual,
irrevocable
licence to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Graham Stewart gra...@dalmuti.net wrote:
For example I'd previously added the Evans Cycles at the Metrocentre
(near Newcastle) as a building (closed way).
Tags: building=yes, name=Evans Cycles, shop=bicycle
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On 29/10/2010 22:22, thomas van der veen wrote:
You might like to take note that nothing is implicit in OSM. There are no
defaults as renderers or other consumers of the map data are unconstrained
as to how they handle
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
As for the place nodes representing the centre of counties, can these be
removed
now we have the borders?
Yes, please. Such nodes are an abomination!
Cheers,
Andy
___
Talk-GB
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Andrew Ainsworth
andrew.ainswo...@gmail.com wrote:
I've just noticed that every tree has been edited by a bot recently, adding
tags such as denotation=cluster and fixme=set better denotation?
What a stupid thing to do (and denotation is a stupid word to use
Hi All,
Promotional leaflets! For Free! You don't even need to pay postage!
I have here under my desk thousands (~9,450 remaining) of promotional
flyers that Frederik has designed and got printed, for use at meetups,
conferences and generally handing out to potential new recruits. They
are A7
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:55 AM, James Davis jam...@jml.net wrote:
I've come across a few combinations recently of ways being tagged
'foo=bar;fixme=foo is wrong, please check'.
If you know that the foo tag is definitely incorrect; isn't it better to
remove it completely?
Not in every case.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Black
andrewdbl...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 29 January 2011 17:40, Steve Chilton s.l.chil...@mdx.ac.uk wrote:
Not open, but available at magic.defra.co.uk:
http://magic.defra.gov.uk/datadoc/metadata.asp?dataset=24
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
ITO have been offering a service to compare osm road names with os locator
road names for a while now[1] which has encouraged a lot of activity - and
has even led to Andy to obsession.[2] I have also suffered from a
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
This started over Xmas I decided to experimented using Potlatch 2, OS Open
Data and Bing aerial to map a completely unmapped town (Lakenheath) to OSM
as far as I could without visting the place. It worked very well
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Laurence Penney l...@lorp.org wrote:
Even if Mapnik doesn't like semicolons,
Urggh, *I* don't like semi-colons, and I'd suggest that any
solutions involving them are simply workarounds!
Cheers,
Andy
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Talk-GB
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote:
I have put some thoughts on what this system would look like on my OSM user
page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Grahamjones#Speciality_Maps).
My question is whether many people would find this useful? Or
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM
sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
, along with excessive noise,
Just for interest's sake, I'll point out that the MapDust API now
exposes an is default description flag, allowing them to be filtered
out if they don't contain personalised
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Andrew andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
The great strength of OSM is that it can be a platform for many (and hopefully
more to come) applications written by people all round the world.
Country-specific tagging guidelines make it more difficult to share
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Phil Endecott
spam_from_os...@chezphil.org wrote:
One issue that I would like to look at at some point is how to heal the
contours.
Why not generate contours from the DTM using e.g. gdal_contour? Or are
the contours at a significantly different precision from
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
It is great to do a ground survey and then use OS Locator to check for
mistakes,
but it would be equally possible to populate names from OS Locator and then do
a ground survey to check for mistakes.
Rhhhttt - that's
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Steve Chilton s.l.chil...@mdx.ac.uk wrote:
I have been asked by editor of the Cartographic Journal to write a short
piece on the effect of the release of OS OpenData on the OpenStreetMap
project, and I am just trying to gather my thoughts, and make sure I
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Steve Doerr
steve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Field boundaries can be traced from Bing? A lot of work though.
Depends on how many mappers we have ;-) When we find out how to treble
the number of people mapping in the UK, most of our
external-dataset-needs would
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Steve Doerr
steve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
On 11/03/2011 13:39, Dave F. wrote:
IMO the *vast* majority of problems that came from bulk importing arose
due to the incompetence of the importers, *not* the value of the data.
If the imports are done in
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
I really don't understand why you keep arguing against the sequence of
a) send some mappers out then b) use OS as a check for the minority of
mistakes. Doing it your way leads to vast areas with names filled out
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