Have you tried joining your local Freecycle http://www.freecycle.org/
group and asking if anyone has a camera? If you mention OSM that
spreads the word to a wider audience too.
Cheers, Chris
Ed Loach wrote:
I'd like a cheap digital camera to use when I'm out noting things for mapping
It does, but it has the 'Powered by Google' on the map, it has a Google terms
of use on it and it will not zoom out. This is not good: use OSM's lovely map,
but credit Google with it!
cheers, Chris
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To: Talk GB
Peter Miller wrote:
On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:20, matthew-...@newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:14:53PM +, Peter Miller wrote:
This list is called 'talk-GB' but in the description it is described
as General discussion for UK users
I would like to announce that the fine city of Kingston Upon Hull (Hull
to its friends and 'Ull to its locals) has all its public roads and many
of its amenities completed. Almost all of the city was mapped by Jean
and me by driving or walking around it. We have taken about 10,000
photos (my
Ed Loach wrote:
I thought that club was called I moved house to map more.
[I'm sure someone will come up with a better name.]
I discovered Harlow had high res Yahoo imagery and have started
tracing houses?
(Hint)
Ed
I wish there was better imagery for this area, though drawing
A friend of mine has received a planning application with some strange
coordinates in it. The location is described by the local council as: 504165
433891. He asked me about it and it doesn't make sense to me. I estimate the
OSGB ref as TA 030322 and the lon/lat as: -0.443913, 53.77588.
Brian Quinion wrote:
Should we investigate buying aerial photography for some of these un-loved
places which would allow us the capture the base road structure and
land-usage prior to any actual visit and speed things up a lot? The
photography that Mikel and eye have been sorting out for Gaza
Peter Miller wrote:
A nice friendly person in the GIS business has just pointed this site
out to me. They described it as a 'free' national grid vector layers
and it certainly looks as though one can download shape files for gas
pipes, electricity lines and the like. I am not sure what
Ron Wellsted wrote:
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Chris Hill wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
A nice friendly person in the GIS business has just pointed this site
out to me. They described it as a 'free' national grid vector layers
and it certainly looks as though
I emailed him a few days ago
about loading OSM maps into his Garmin and to be careful about
trusting roads on maps along parts of the east coast because of
erosion. Haven't heard from him.
Cheers, Chris
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
So how do we get some more publicity for OSM in the UK?
I tag what I see. I see 30
which implies 30mph, so I tag 30mph. The units differentiate it from
km/h. Another mapper in this area (East Yorkshire) has tagged
some in km/h with 2dp. Ulf then went over all of these and stripped
the decimals off. As I encounter them I change them to imperial
:45:55 +0100
From: Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts
To: Talk GB talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Message-ID: 4a3f8b13.20...@yahoo.co.uk
I'm interested the relations of the boundaries for counties. I notice
that some counties (and recently English Regions
Not sure if this is the
problem, but part of the boundary relation does not follow a
boundary=administrative way, it follows a road. This is just west of
Vernham Dean [1].
The boundary also follows the river Enbourne again without a way tagged
boundary=administrative [2].
[1]
The last time you brought
this up it was pointed out that web sites have copyright on them and
this is a problem for your plans. Just because you don't like it
doesn't mean you can ignore it. Using copyright data without
permission IS A SHOW-STOPPER.
Please don't continue to ignore the
In case you haven't seen it
there is an addressing system which has thought this through [1] and
seems to be used as the de facto standard. My personal experience is
that it is a slow and tedious process which I haven't even finished for
the village where I live but don't mention this to
[long-winded local info follows]
I asked my local county for information on where the county ends at the
coast and in the Humber estuary, using the FoI act. Their answer is
interesting.
Firstly, the county ends at the mean high water mark of the North sea.
This is extended to the low water
Should we ask Crown Estates for all the details rather than bothering
some 100 local authorities?
Good idea. I've emailed the Crown Estates - let's see what detail they
will supply.
Cheers, Chris
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I have had a reply from a chap at the Crown Estates to my FOI request
about coastal boundaries. He confirms that coastal council boundaries
are at the mean low water mark. Some councils lease some of the
foreshore from Crown Estates, some from other landlords and some
councils own the land
If you use your browser's
print option you get a full page (on landscape) map of the current zoom
area. What else would you like to see?
Cheers, Chris
Daniel Glassey wrote:
I don't think I expressed myself clearly in the lazyosm session.[1] I
would like to see a simple 'Print' button or
Peter Miller wrote:
On 15 Jul 2009, at 15:50, Chris Hill wrote:
I asked the boundary commission
recently for boundary data, though I didn't ask for it in the English
rather than geographic form. their answer was that they define the
boundaries but the OS draw them on behalf
I asked the Boundary Committee for boundary data and, as you might
guess, they say they don't hold any boundary data of their own. All of
their data is held by OS, so as usual we have the Crown Copyright
argument. They also say that all their published information is subject
to Crown
David Earl wrote:
Chris Hill wrote:
Since this is a Freedom of Information Act request, and they have
refused to supply me the requested information I'll ask the Office of
the Information Commissioner for a ruling. Not expecting much, but
you never know.
Even if they did or do supply
Peter Reed wrote:
Of the authorities I have managed to measure,
the following
all show more road mapped than the DfT believes exists:
Having mapped every road in Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull since today is a
Sunday), some are fairly new and may not appear on the DfT figures.
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Interestingly I joined this list a while ago because I had got my
hands on some admin boundary data for England and wanted to know if it
was any good (the answer was no). I then forgot to unsubscribe. I'm
still planning to extend the Geofabrik excerpts to cover all
Why is this 'great'? What is
the point of boundary=ceremonial? If you change a
boundary=administrative to boundary=ceremonial what does this do except
break existing renders and tools? If you *add* boundary=ceremonial
then this is available for those who want it and leave the existing
Peter Reed wrote:
Interesting point from Paul (southglos) about
slip roads. Ive
just worked the numbers slightly differently and he seems to be right.
Adding up the total length of motorways in
England according
to DfT it comes to 6,021km.
My total from OSM for England =
I suggest you talk to them -
it's a good idea for both parties.
Cheers, Chris
Jason Cunningham wrote:
Has there been any contact in the past with ramblers
groups to help mapping of footpaths in the countryside? We arrange
mapping parties but often that involves preaching to converted.
I
Glenn Proctor wrote:
Following on from this, am I correct in assuming that the only
definitive source of mapping information about public rights of way is
the OS? It seems ludicrous that *public* rights of way are effectively
copyrighted in this manner. I suppose it's analagous to the issue
I have researched boundaries
of the English counties and unitary authorities. it seems that
generally they follow the mean low water mark. Some of the land
is owned by the council, some by private owners but often by the Crown
Estates and leased to the council. By using the low water mark the
What is the point of local
chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues,
currency issues or time zone issues.
Cheers, Chris
David Earl wrote:
I put a proposal on the wiki page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Proposed_Chapters
for a central
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language
conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues.
Cheers, Chris
One need would be to organise and coordinate local mapping. For instance,
in my area
water
mark.
Bogus Zaba wrote:
I
have had confirmation from the Local Government Boundary Commission for
Wales who agree with the view below from Chris Hill. They say :
"...in general the seaward extent of a local authority is the low water
mark as defined by Ordnance Survey. The exce
Peter Miller wrote:
On 22 Aug 2009, at 12:03, Chris Hill wrote:
Well I'm pleased that they agree
with me, but I'm not the oracle! This is another source quoting the
same general information. Do the Scottish and Northern Irish
counties generally extend to the low water mark
Peter Miller wrote:
On 23 Aug 2009, at 15:50, Chris Hill wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
On 22 Aug 2009, at 12:03, Chris Hill wrote:
Well I'm pleased that they agree
with me, but I'm not the oracle! This is another source quoting
Peter Childs wrote:
2009/8/26 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com:
On 26 Aug 2009, at 10:08, Chris Hill wrote:
The orange (maybe brownish) roads can be secondary, tertiary or
unclassified. I've compared the NPE roads to some roads that I know well
and they cover what I would
In many towns and cities in the UK there are small ways behind rows of
houses. In my part of the world (Yorkshire) we know them as a tenfoot
(they are traditionally 10 feet wide).
I have not mapped many - they often seem private to the houses, but
today I did follow a couple. I wonder how
I used to hold a pilot's licence and I did some work photographing
archaeological sites. Photos taken pointing sideways are much harder to
work with than photos pointing straight down. Any kind of rectification
adds unwanted artifacts. I used to make high bank angle turns (60' bank
angle)
Avon seem to be
taken at an angle-how do people find them for mapping from?
2009/9/14 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net mailto:o...@raggedred.net
I used to hold a pilot's licence and I did some work
photographing archaeological sites. Photos taken pointing
Ciarán Mooney wrote:
Hi,
Also I've spoken to Draco in the past, and his website does not sync
with OSM. He has tried to get help with a mass import but the
discussion was rat-holed due to supposed problem deriving data from
Royal Mails postbox list.
Matt Williams wrote:
2009/9/18 Matt Williams li...@milliams.com:
2009/9/18 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net:
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:44, John McKerrell wrote:
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote:
A random selection of vertical(ish) photos:
113-124 (all of
Peter Miller wrote:
On 3 Oct 2009, at 13:37, Jason Cunningham wrote:
Ordnance Survey and their aerial mapping feature (7min) in last weeks
episode of Countryfile (BBC1). It comes across as a long advert for
the Ordnance Survey and I wish the BBC had been impartial.
Agreed. I suggest
Chris Andrew wrote:
Hi, all.
I was just thinking about the 'Keep Right' website that shows mapping
errors on OSM and also, the ability to highlight roads that do not
have names.
Having this information available to us, do we have the capability to
run a report/ script against this data,
Ed Loach wrote:
As has been
mentioned before, the process of hunting down an elusive
postbox often has
the benefit of some other missing feature getting mapped as
well, just
because you happen to be in the neighbourhood.
I'd agree with that (and can also think of two adjacent
Peter Miller wrote:
Can I suggest that we 'inform' them of out intentions to use the logo
unless we are told 'no' together and a sample of what it would look
like and our interpretation of copyright law. We should avoid 'asking'
them as such and then needing a positive 'yes' from them.
I
Peter Miller wrote:
At a rough count we have now have NaPTAN imported for about 1/3 of GB
(41 imported, 7 requesting an import and 90 that have not requested
one).[1] We have no authorities where someone as blocked an import any
more - one person did request a 'wait and see' on the
Peter Miller wrote:
I was wondering if 'type approval' for powered hang-gliders allows for
bolt-on vertical cameras. Thinking about it I am going to worry a bit
more about hang glider pilots dropping phones and cameras etc next
time they are wandering about overhead!
A powered
Colin Smale wrote:
Would it be OK to derive tagging in this way? Should we get explicit
permission from KCC first? Anyone got any experience with this, or
example emails for this kind of request?
I'd certainly ask permission first. The document will be copyright even
if it doesn't bear
Steve Hill wrote:
Since the out of copyright 1:25K maps appeared, there has been rather a
lot of tracing going on. On the whole, I think the availability of this
data is good. However, I have noticed that around the Gower peninsula,
quite a few nonexistent roads, etc. have appeared and
Ed Loach wrote:
I use Potlatch where you get a warning. is there not a similar
procedure
in JOSM?
I think there is an issue with JOSM where if you download the
relation, then download the ways that make that relation, it isn't
aware of other relations those ways are in. That means if
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Steve Chilton wrote:
two nodes with waterway=lock_gate at either end of a way tagged
waterway=canal;lock=yes
and
single node with waterway=lock OR lock=yes (with lock-gates not
mapped)
These are definitely sensible. (I have a preference for the
Christoph Böhme wrote:
I found the time (or rather an easier solution to the problem): NOVAM
now uses the XAPI servers to retrieve the bus stop data. So, it should
be up-to-date again and hopefully in the future as well :-)
Good news, I have missed it.
Cheers, Chris
Tim François wrote:
So the solution is to just leave it blank?
Maybe the soution is to encourage people to treat OSM as an outdoor
sport, gathering GPS tracks and LOTS of extra data that no one else's
maps have, rather than an armchair hobby copying other people's maps.
Cheers, Chris
P.S.
Ed Loach wrote:
I know there are people out there with time on their hands, just itching to
find more uses for OSM. We've bus route maps, cycling route maps, and even in
the West Midlands a gritting routes map. Today I stumbled across the fact
that driving test routes are on the DSA website
Tom Hughes wrote:
On 19/04/10 17:18, Chris Hill wrote:
Each boundary needs to share nodes with adjacent ones. County and
district boundaries will also need to share nodes, so the process of
loading them individually might be quite tedious, and would involve
dealing with any existing
To the list too :)
Tom Hughes wrote:
On 19/04/10 17:18, Chris Hill wrote:
Each boundary needs to share nodes with adjacent ones. County and
district boundaries will also need to share nodes, so the process of
loading them individually might be quite tedious, and would involve
dealing
John Robert Peterson wrote:
There is also the quite high level question of what is the correct
position for these boundaries: if a boundary follows a river, and the
river has changed course by a few meters since this boundary was
established, does the boundary move with it, or does it stay
Tim François wrote:
I've noticed that sometimes there are discrepancies even between OS
data. For example, there is a VAN DIEMENS LANE here in Bath. Here are
three sources of names:
OSM name: VAN DIEMENS LANE
OS StreetView name: VAN DIEMENS LANE
OS Locator name: VAN DIEMEN'S LANE
So the
I've just opened the VectorMap District from OS for my local area. I
loaded the Road-Line and was dismayed to see substantial developments in
the area build over the last 10 years were missing. I then loaded the
Settlement_Area and the new developments appeared with the spaces for
the roads.
Seventy 7 wrote:
Can someone tell us what's happening with the latest release of OS data
please? When streetview came out there were quite a few emails about tiles
being rendered for tracing etc but this time it's all been very quiet!
I presume someone somewhere is doing the vector data,
the
renderers to show them in a lighter colour until someone checks it and
takes the 'verified=no' tag off? This could alleviate the concerns
that people had that users will not survey an area if it looks
complete on the map?
Regards
Graham.
On 2 May 2010 13:14, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net
James Rutter wrote:
...been tidying up the Surrey Heath district boundary now that we can
do what we want with Boundaryline. Anyone got any advice for ward
boundaries...can't find much at all on the wiki? What's the
admin_level for ward or has it not been defined yet? What's the deal
with
Graeme Wilford wrote:
The combination of high-res aerial imagery and OS StreetView data is
very powerful indeed.
For the sake of walkers and cyclists, I'd encourage others to tackle
Surrey's waterways. The road network is fairly sane but the (typically
NPE-derived) water network makes a
, it would be helpful if
someone else could provide some help with using Python for the 99%
that think its a snake.
Cheers,
Jason
On 11 May 2010 16:53, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net
mailto:o...@raggedred.net wrote:
I've written up the way I have used OS shapefiles in the wiki
http
ogr2ogr command line has the output and input files around
the wrong way (gdal 1.7.2).
Kevin
On 11 May 2010 18:28, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net
mailto:o...@raggedred.net wrote:
Tim Francois wrote:
Chris
Any chance of providing some command snippets for using gdal's
Mike Harris wrote:
Richard - good thought - I hadn't thought about using a designation
tag without a highway tag to avoid the rendering - it might solve my
problem of unwalkable public rights of way in forests around here.
Contact your local council. They have a legal duty to enforce
I believe the StreetView tiles are offset south(ish) by a few metres in
East Yorkshire too. Reprojected shape files line up well with surveyed
data. I have traced a few buildings from StreetView but I've stopped
until I had worked out what was wrong. Now given other people's comments
I do
Peter Miller wrote:
We have created a map layer for Potlatch showing OS Locator names
which are not in the nearby OSM data in a nice visual way.
Details in our blog post of the subject.
http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/os-locator-validation-mapping-for-uk.html
To access the tiles
Peter Miller wrote:
On 1 Jun 2010, at 15:39, Chris Hill wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
We have created a map layer for Potlatch showing OS Locator names
which are not in the nearby OSM data in a nice visual way.
Details in our blog post of the subject.
http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2010/05
Andy Allan wrote:
I believe we need to track these false positives. If Ipswich is any
guide, and there is about a dozen errors per town, then there is going
to come a point where we are all repeatedly examining the same false
positives trying to track down the remaining few actual mistakes in
Phil Endecott wrote:
A challenge that I hope you can help me with is finding the right rules
to convert from OSM tag combinations to OS-lookalike path rendering
styles, i.e. footpath, bridleway, byway, permissive path, permissive
bridleway, long-distance path, path, track. There are also
Greg Auger wrote:
For instance this McDonald's was moved to a completely different
location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/345112185/history
Other ways have removed tags:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/22800339/history
It seems to me we should revert all of mem0709's
I have found ITO World's layer of name anomalies rather useful, but I
could only see it in an editor, so I put together a comparison page,
using the techniques from the sautter.com transparent map.
http://oscompare.raggedred.net
The slider (top right) alters the transparency of the layer. I've
I have found ITO World's layer of name anomalies rather useful, but I
could only see it in an editor, so I put together a comparison page,
using the techniques from the sautter.com transparent map.
http://oscompare.raggedred.net
The slider (top right) alters the transparency of the layer. I've
Ed Avis wrote:
Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@... writes:
I can easily understand that apostrophes and the name bypass are annoying,
however I think there is an opportunity here.
For example, bypass or by-pass. This highlights an inconstancy in the OS
data,
which will be useful
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
I have found ITO World's layer of name anomalies rather useful, but I
could only see it in an editor, so I put together a comparison page,
using the techniques from the sautter.com transparent map.
Iain Simpson wrote:
I've just started with OSM in Stafford (52.81, -2.13) and am starting
by surveying my local suburb - nearly blank on the map.
Yesterday I was walking down a nearby lane with my GPS - by a private
residential caravan park - when the owner(?) came out and asked,
quite
The alternative way of looking at the comparison Musical Chairs displays
is to look at the ITO layer over a standard Mapnik or OSMARender layer.
ITO only show the OSL comparisons that do not match OSM, so all of
things Musical Chairs shows as green boxes are not shown. If this is
what you
Graham Jones wrote:
Hi All,
I see that someone has been busy importing Power Lines from OS
OpenData in my part of the world
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.6341lon=-1.2238zoom=14layers=M.
I wondered how it was done, and if they were thinking of doing
woodlands too, because we have lots
Graham Jones wrote:
Thanks Chris,
The wiki page gives nice instructions on how to convert the shapefile
content into OSM format, but it is the next stage I am wondering about
- how do you get that into OSM without risking messing something up.
The scripts create a file intended to load into
Shane Reynolds wrote:
Hi,
I am the developer who works on a number of products including OSM
Analysis for ITO.
I am slightly confused about making the OS Locator box a dashed box if
the not:name tag is present. When we do the processing if any street
is found with the not:name tag matching
David Groom wrote:
- Original Message - From: Shane Reynolds shane...@gmail.com
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] The last 2%
Hi,
I am the developer who works on a number of products including OSM
Analysis
for ITO.
I am
David Groom wrote:
- Original Message - From: Shane Reynolds shane...@gmail.com
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] The last 2%
Hi,
I am the developer who works on a number of products including OSM
Analysis
for ITO.
I am
Steve Doerr wrote:
*From:* Ed Loach mailto:e...@loach.me.uk
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:46 PM
*To:* 'Steve Doerr' mailto:steve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk ;
talk-gb@openstreetmap.org mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
*Subject:* RE: [Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts county boundary wrong...is there
Craig Loftus wrote:
Which is more accurate: the OS Streetview data that shows MHW (spring, I
assume) or the PGS data?
I haven't used it for coast lines, but doesn't OS Vector District
include the high water mark? This would be the most 'accurate',
although not necessarily the most
Ed Avis wrote:
Kevin Peat ke...@... writes:
http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=15lat=50.72407lon=-3.52609layers=B0TF
Three-quarters of the differences reported here are in the presence or absence
of a single apostrophe. This masks the more important discrepancies and makes
the report
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Ed Avis wrote:
Sure (if you accept that the street sign put up by the council is
more authoritative than the Ordnance Survey's database, which
actually I doubt).
A quick glance at the local OS map shows me a street name that anyone in the
town would know was
A new national Address list is to be created for England Wales.
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/newsroom/1786564
I suggest we lobby the Minister (Eric Pickles) and the Office of Fair
Trading to get the list released under the Government's new Open Data
licence. Maybe Sir Tim B-L would
On 03/12/10 12:22, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 03/12/10 12:11, Chris Hill wrote:
A new national Address list is to be created for England Wales.
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/newsroom/1786564
I suggest we lobby the Minister (Eric Pickles) and the Office of Fair
Trading to get the list
On 20/01/11 11:18, Brian Prangle wrote:
Is anyone working on importing the boundaries from the shape file
available from OS OpenData? Does it have ward level boundaries for
major cities?
I have imported parish boundaries and the county boundary in my local
area. It is hard work because they
Now that people are tracing buildings from Bing etc addressing is
getting more widespread, but one awkward area is postcodes. The Open
data that OS released last year included the Code Point Open dataset
which has the location of postcode centroids. These can help with adding
postcodes to
On 20/01/11 23:09, Richard Bullock wrote:
Please do not just add the centroid to the map. I don't see the value of
that. I am interested in the experience people gain from using this
data, for example to add postcodes to an address such as addr:postcode.
I've added a few addr:postcode to my
On 21/01/11 09:51, Kevin Peat wrote:
Hello Chris,
I was wondering why you don't see any value in just adding the
postcode centroids to the map?
There are probably 25000+ buildings in my area so it isn't feasible
for me to add them all and their addresses in less than a lifetime
whereas
On 21/01/11 12:18, Kevin Peat wrote:
Chris,
I'll go with the flow on this, there isn't much point adding stuff to
the db where there isn't a consensus. My postcode area is TQ so if you
could add this to the layer that would be great, it would be useful
for tagging buildings anyway.
Kevin
On 03/02/11 11:04, Peter Miller wrote:
Fyi, ITO will soon have to give the OS £13,500 for another's years use
of their ITN dataset and then additional usage and printing fees
during the year. As such I really want to get to the point where we
can say 'no thanks'!
As I suspected, the real
On 15/02/11 16:42, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM wrote:
I did do a little experiment some time ago (but you do need postcodes
assigned to buildings):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sk53_osm/5333098864
I was going to write up some more but Chris Hill
http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2011/01/using-gb
On 24/02/11 13:14, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM wrote:
Recently, I have noticed a number of MapDust bugs which contain a
postcode sector and, apparently, a range of housenumbers (e.g.,
Southdale Dr 40-98, NG4 1, GB for
http://www.mapdust.com/detail/142061). There is no postcode or address
at Blackadder's Society of Cartographers talk on Why OSM won't be
bulk importing OS OpenData and am aware of the work Chris Hill has done on admin
boundaries etc.
Obviously also aware of the ITO work with OS Locator and what people have done
with that.
There was work on importing detailed water features
On 16/03/11 19:51, Matt Williams wrote:
Greetings all,
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5
queries a day limit without an account) [1] but based entirely on data
in the OSM database. You can
I have just discovered that a new version of the OpenData CodePoint was
released in February, so I have updated the layer for looking up
postcodes in the editors.
I have decided to force the layers to display from zoom 16 onwards which
is one zoom higher than before. If that causes anyone a
is
not to be undertaken lightly. IIRC about 10% is wrong. The best data are for
Hullwhere Chris Hill surveyed the lot. I have done only about 20% of
Nottingham's NaPTAN stops and have a similar error rate. Unfortunately
processing NaPTAN alongside primary surveying just didnt prove viable, but
there are plenty
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