Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Cambridgeshire Guided Bus

2009-11-09 Thread Donald Allwright
There are signs for the destinations, and distances. I honestly can't recall if there were bike symbols on them - there may well have been. I clearly remember that the sign had a picture of a walker, a cyclist and a horse rider on it when I was at the Swavesey station. However when I went

Re: [Talk-GB] Fix My Street

2009-01-16 Thread Donald Allwright
Just thought I'd mention a very useful UK based website. FixMyStreet.com is a project run by the MySociety people. I mention it because we are the one riding around all the time, and we will be bound to notice mistakes like incorrect street names etc, or even the less mundane pot holes. To

Re: [Talk-GB] Free National Grid Vector Layers for gas and electricity?

2009-03-16 Thread Donald Allwright
Also, I suspect that selling maps is a nice little earner for people such as the land registry, so licensing them all as CC-BY-SA isn't in their interest (as much as it may be in the tax payer's interest). And that, I believe, is the crux of the problem. The people who get to decide have a

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Donald Allwright
if a bot can do it then there's no reason the data consumers can't do it too without the bot. If you don't have a good reason to change something just leave it be. Or alternatively, why not just run the bot on the copy of the data at the input to the renderer*, rather than on the database

Re: [Talk-GB] Roundabout, ways and relationship policies

2009-07-23 Thread Donald Allwright
I'm just trying to think what makes a roundabout a roundabout instead of just a one-way system. So far I've come up with: 1. It is one way in the appropriate direction (clockwise in the UK) 2. All the roads leave/join the outside of the loop (*) 3. It generally isn't very built-up in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Roundabout, ways and relationship policies

2009-07-23 Thread Donald Allwright
How about this one: http://osm.org/go/0EFYMXaIH-- which fulfills all of the above 5 criteria, but just has a 'short-cut' across one side. In this case, each 'junction' on the roundabout is controlled by traffic lights and has between 2 and 5 lanes. I have to navigate it frequently and

Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-08-11 Thread Donald Allwright
The area figures are obviously including the wet bits. Bristol is half water: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7019663.stm This article mentions Denny Island - which was absent from OSM. I've now added it from the NPE map, although I don't know whether its location has changed with