Re: [Talk-GB] Southwest UK mapping party

It was me that's been doing lots of tracing in the Southwest. I was just trying to lay a framework of the roads to help with surveying others from. I often find it easier to survey areas bounded my a number of major roads in one go. It gave me something to do whilst the weather was rubbish and I

Re: [Talk-GB] A26

Should be a bit tidier now; I've fixed the classes there. Some of what was marked as the A26 is actually the A228. Looking at NPE it's even marked as such on there, so I'm not sure where the erroneous A26 came from. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford hi-res on Yahoo

Part of Nottingham also appears to have been added to the coverage. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst Sent: 9 January 2008 15:22 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Oxford hi-res on Yahoo Socks on IRC has

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford hi-res on Yahoo

PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ Phillips Sent: 10 January 2008 12:17 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford hi-res on Yahoo On Thu, January 10, 2008 12:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:24:09 - From: Gregory Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Part

Re: [Talk-GB] London to Brighton Bike Ride - registration

Don't worry! I took a trace last year: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Gregory%20Williams/traces/27079 Gregory -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Jaggard Sent: 29 February 2008 15:19 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Talk-GB] London to Brighton Bike Ride - registration

PROTECTED] Sent: 29 February 2008 19:48 To: Gregory Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: RE: [Talk-GB] London to Brighton Bike Ride - registration Gregory Williams wrote: Sent: 29 February 2008 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk

Re: [Talk-GB] reprojected NPE

I've just taken a look at the Canterbury tile. It looks good, although I'd observe that there is a noticeable horizontal shift in places. Look at Stone Street, for example (That's the B2068 Roman Road south of Canterbury for non-locals on the list.). Was it our email conversation the other day

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk-gb- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Williams Sent: 30 September 2008 15:56 To: Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists); talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only -Original Message

Re: [Talk-GB] Request for UK address lists for postcode extraction

One source I am exploring is planning application listings produced by the local authority. Which is I think were you had headed? I'm not sure of the legal situation with planning data, but if things seem fine with that then you might be interested to know that the PlanningAlerts project have

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

-Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy Robinson (blackadder- lists) Sent: 23 December 2008 09:37 To: t...@openstreetmap.org; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org; talk-gb- westmidla...@openstreetmap.org Subject:

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans long-distance routes

-Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst Sent: 5 January 2009 10:48 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Sustrans long-distance routes As of this weekend we have our first

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Party this month?

-Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Nick Whitelegg Sent: 12 January 2009 12:47 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Mapping Party this month? Hello everyone, Was there talk of another

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating postboxes - any photos around?

-Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of LeedsTracker Sent: 14 January 2009 01:38 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org; talk-gb-theno...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Locating postboxes - any photos around?

Re: [Talk-GB] Trying to upload postbox

-Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: 21 January 2009 20:43 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Trying to upload postbox Folks, I've recently tried to add a postbox to the OSM.

Re: [Talk-GB] Possibly using highway=path for country footpaths

-Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of David Earl Sent: 3 April 2009 13:02 To: Richard Mann Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Possibly using highway=path for country footpaths Well,

[Talk-GB] Three Corner Cycle Ride (and OSM mapping)

All, I just thought I'd let you all know about the charity cycle ride that I'll be doing this summer in aid of the British Heart Foundation and all of the associated mapping I'm planning to do for OSM as a result of it. This Sunday I'm setting off from Canterbury to go via Dover, Land's End,

Re: [Talk-GB] Postboxes Payphones

It's potentially better, but still wrong though. For a start I've come across several cases of two postboxes with different refs that are located side-by-side. It's a bit of a lottery whether it'll tie up the correct ref here. Also, I've seen several instances of bad data in the Dracos set, e.g. a

Re: [Talk-GB] Kent County Council Highways Gazetteer

[Snip] A couple of questions about C-roads... Is there a consensus about how these should be treated? Given that they are not a 'public-facing' classification (never appear on road signs or on any map you would buy from W. H. Smith's), I'm not sure we want the standard renderings

Re: [Talk-GB] National Cycle Network - filling the gaps

I should point out that I've still got some of my data from last summer's trip to be entered. This includes bits of NCR1, RCR30 in East Anglia, and NCR13. However, I've been very busy lately hence not really managing to get the data entered particularly fast. There could be quite a bit more to do

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath numbering

I wouldn't take PRoW refs from any source unless I was completely confident that it's compatible with OSM's license. It sounds like your Chiltern Society map is an annotated OS map, therefore unsuitable. Unfortunately I think it depends upon where you live as to how well the refs are put up on

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath numbering

-Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Nick Whitelegg Sent: 17 March 2010 10:22 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath numbering I wouldn?t take PRoW refs from any source unless I

Re: [Talk-GB] Post code map updated with a Code-Point Open layer

The Kent / Essex thing is simply an artefact of deriving the areas from known points. The boundaries shown are in effect we know based upon the surrounding points that the boundary is approximately here. I must say that I'm surprised at how well bits of OpenStreetMap's CT and Code-Point Open's CT

Re: [Talk-GB] A quick question for the cyclists

Don't worry. There are a number of three-digit national routes appearing now. That doesn't mean that there are at least 246 national routes. It's just that the numbers have a little significance in the scheme of things, like they do with road numbers. So, in short, it's NCN. -Original

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of OS OpenData in OSM

That looks much better now. It's certainly interesting to see that whole counties, like Norfolk, appear to be sourced from OS OpenData. I know that that isn't true, but I guess it's a just a side-effect of the last edit to existing ways adding a source / source:name tag referencing OS, like adding

Re: [Talk-GB] Location of 27,000 street lights in one council area

I wonder whether it may have been these ones in Norfolk: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4631482 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4631508 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4631551 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4631742

Re: [Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits

I've also found the maxspeed colouring on the graphview JOSM plugin useful for visualising maxspeed data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Graphview Cheers, Gregory -Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org]

Re: [Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits

Looks great. I think an OpenLayers Permalink anchor would make it even better. -Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy Street Sent: 1 November 2010 16:39 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta

Peter, A great service. It'll certainly help me with keeping track of where extra details still need to be mapped. I've noticed these small issues: - Ferry routes appear to be highlighted in red on the Water layer, but this doesn't match anything in the key.

Re: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta

applied either. Cheers, Gregory From: Gregory Williams [mailto:gregory.willi...@purplegeodesoftware.co.uk] Sent: 18 March 2011 15:15 To: 'Peter Miller'; 'Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org' Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta Peter, A great service. It'll certainly help me

Re: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta

OK, ignore that. It's been pointed out to me that the wiki says tertiary upwards. From: Gregory Williams [mailto:gregory.willi...@purplegeodesoftware.co.uk] Sent: 18 March 2011 15:29 To: 'Peter Miller'; 'Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org' Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta Peter

Re: [Talk-GB] User Stats over 400 000

-Original Message- From: Sam Vekemans [mailto:acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 May 2011 09:32 To: Bob Kerr Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] User Stats over 400 000 Is anyone taking a stap-shot, of month-over-month comparison of this data? Thanks, Sam

Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

if they would have data relating to on-street-parking restrictions? Steve On 23/05/2011 14:53, Gregory Williams wrote: Not strictly an OSM thing, but I'd also like to see traffic count data released by KCC too. Gregory From: Gregory Williams [mailto:gregory.willi

Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

to find the most wanted and to provide some justification (i.e. public demand) for us requesting the data. Btw, I found the parish data I was looking for in OS OpenData, so no need to pester the council for that. TimSC [1] http://www.hackney.gov.uk/licensing.htm On 23/05/11 16:10, Gregory

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

-Original Message- From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] Sent: 2 June 2011 00:56 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK When looking at a bit of the A1: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/34158443 I happened to notice

[Talk-GB] Portsmouth cycle paths and routes

I'm primarily a cyclist and interested in ensuring that our cycle coverage is great. Whilst looking at the Bing! aerial imagery in Portsmouth recently I spotted some cycleways and cycle lanes which we don't have in our map. They looked like they were in fairly established areas of the city so I

Re: [Talk-GB] Portsmouth cycle paths and routes

know whether the 20mph blanket extended over to Gosport as well, which is pretty much absent of any maxspeed tagging. From: Richard Mann [mailto:richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 September 2011 10:47 To: Gregory Williams Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Portsmouth

Re: [Talk-GB] Portsmouth cycle paths and routes

anywhere near as much on the map. From: Richard Mann [mailto:richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 September 2011 10:52 To: Gregory Williams Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Portsmouth cycle paths and routes Looks like there's only partial coverage in Oxford

[Talk-GB] England Cycling data feedback

I've managed to complete a substantial portion of the merging of the England Cycling data for the areas that I've put my name down for (Ashford, Canterbury, and Swale), so I thought I'd provide some feedback on what I've seen. Once I'm merged with these I hope to do parts of some of the other

[Talk-GB] New section of Regional Cycle Route 90 near Brighton to map

According to this Highways Agency article there's a new section of Regional Cycle Route 90 waiting to be mapped: http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=424913 Are there any mappers in or near Brighton that fancy going out and adding it to our coverage? I

Re: [Talk-GB] Temporary road closures

I usually add an item on OpenStreetBugs or a fixme tag to make sure that there's something reminding us that we need to eventually revert the change. If the duration of the temporary closure is clear then I also include in the note the date that it's likely to need to be reverted, to avoid

Re: [Talk-GB] Temporary road closures

Some routing services, such as CycleStreets, update quite a bit more frequently. Usually every day or two. So I think it's useful to make the changes to benefit them so long as you've made reasonable effort to make it clear that it'll need to be undone at some point. Gregory -Original

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

From: petermille...@gmail.com [mailto:petermille...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Miller Sent: 20 September 2012 17:23 To: Gregory Williams Cc: Chris Hill; Talk GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes On 20 September 2012 16:59, Gregory Williams greg...@gregorywilliams.me.uk wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

Richard, It looks good and useful. On the OSM side of things it looks like you've missed handling cycleway=opposite_lane, since a place where I had that in the data wasn't being rendered. I have since changed this to be cycleway:right=opposite_lane though to be more accurate. Cheers,

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

I've seen contraflow cycle lanes on the left and the right side of the road in the UK, so thought I ought to just clarify the tagging - better to be explicit rather than ambiguous. From: Shaun McDonald [mailto:sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk] Sent: 09 October 2012 17:35 To: Gregory Williams Cc

Re: [Talk-GB] Sittingbourne

Chris, I fully agree with these points. I've done a reasonable amount of mapping in Sittingbourne, but my mapping tends to be centred around highways rather than landuse or buildings. I have updated some similar tagging to what you describe on schools in the past such that the buildings are

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

motor_vehicle=no says that motor vehicles aren't legally allowed along the road. That's not the case as Aidan has pointed out that these are the blue-backed advisory signs. If going with the commonly-used tags then I think that, whilst it's still technically not right, motor_vehicle=destination

Re: [Talk-GB] Guidance for adding PRoW to OSM: prow_ref=

-Original Message- From: Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) [mailto:robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 January 2013 11:23 To: talk-gb Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Guidance for adding PRoW to OSM: prow_ref= On 31 December 2012 16:38, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: Not that

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

One feature that I've found that I now use quite frequently to help with the problems associated with increasingly detailed mapping is the Filter panel in JOSM. Now that, for example, there's lots of landuse, buildings, and highways all in fairly close proximity I have filters to pick out, for

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway bridge numbers

Yes, this is what I do. In fact the example which Chris picked out was done by me a few years ago when I cycled through the area. I’ve tagged quite a few bridges like this in Kent. You’ll also notice that I’ve included the operator, operator’s phone number, bridge name, etc. on the relation too

Re: [Talk-GB] Changeset #36985172 revert request - Deal area, Kent

Colin On 2016-02-04 17:50, Gregory Williams wrote: I did the original mapping of Deal, so I'll take a look later, when I can get to a PC. Gregory Sent from my FairPhoneOn 4 Feb 2016 16:13, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: On 04/02/2016 15:49, Colin Smale wrote: Actually, t

Re: [Talk-GB] Changeset #36985172 revert request - Deal area, Kent

I did the original mapping of Deal, so I'll take a look later, when I can get to a PC. Gregory Sent from my FairPhoneOn 4 Feb 2016 16:13, Andy Townsend wrote: > > On 04/02/2016 15:49, Colin Smale wrote: >> >> Actually, this user has done a lot more damage, in many other

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcode Error Reports

I think that most of the reduction was due to me going through the obvious formatting issues last weekend. I used an import from the Geofabrik GB extract into an osm2pgsql database looking at the addr:postcode and postal_code tags. The database enabled me to easily get the appropriate OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Documenting prow_ref formats (Was: MapthePaths & Lancashire)

I think it's Non-Civil Parish. Sent from Mailspring (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/1531978742.local-ca768658-9c97-v1.2.2-96fb3...@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgetmailspring.com%2F=VGFsay1HQkBvcGVuc3RyZWV0bWFwLm9yZw%3D%3D), the best free email app for work On Jul 19 2018, at

Re: [Talk-GB] Tools to support solar panel mapping?

arge number (17k+), finding hotspots in a big county is very useful. * From a QA viewpoint a count of location=roof or generator:location=roof might be useful as well. All the FIT installs are likely to be of this type. Jerry On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 19:41, Gregory Williams mailto:greg...@g

Re: [Talk-GB] Tools to support solar panel mapping?

mapped. Regards, Jerry On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 at 21:20, Gregory Williams mailto:greg...@gregorywilliams.me.uk>> wrote: All, I've also been working on a comparison tool for OSM solar mapping, as compared with the FiT register. I've just placed an initial version here: http://osm.gregorywilliams

Re: [Talk-GB] Tools to support solar panel mapping?

All, I've also been working on a comparison tool for OSM solar mapping, as compared with the FiT register. I've just placed an initial version here:

Re: [Talk-GB] Tools to support solar panel mapping?

I note that the FiT register data does have the LLSOA for each entry. So I think that could be used as a means of measuring completeness in a more granular manner than local authority or the first half of the postcode. The OSM data can also be determined per LLSOA. Both the number of

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar panels quarterly project progress

Last night I updated my solar mapping comparison tool to include coverage of Scotland. Unfortunately it had only covered England and Wales up until now because my comparison with the FiT register data was performed at the LSOA level. For Scotland, the comparison is being performed just at the

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar panels 150k up

rth and > Vale Royal. > gurglypipe continues to spread out beyond Lancaster into South Lakes > to the N & Ribbledale and to the S > brianboru continues to pick up a significant number of installations > across Herefordshire & the Welsh Valleys as part of general mapping > wo

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar tagging app

Thanks Russ! I was only thinking of a similar idea just the other day. I've already gone through probably a couple of hundred installations. Perhaps a future extensions could allow: - A "Are you sure that's a PV system?" option -- I've seen perhaps a couple where I'm not sure whether it's

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar tagging app

I've now got round to updating the code on my solar comparison site to cater for these different ways of tagging the orientation. It considers these tags in this order: - generator:orientation=* - direction=* - tilted=no Regular users of the site may have noticed that I also recently added

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar Power mapping update Q2 2020

Thanks Jerry, and thanks to everyone that's continued to contribute more coverage. The next quarter's update to the FiT register should be published in the next few days. So I hope to find time to update the site to use that soon. I continue to be amazed at the steady progress in the coverage.

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar tagging app

On Sun, 2020-11-08 at 15:17 +, Jeremy Harris wrote: > On 19/10/2020 20:14, Gregory Williams wrote: > > I've now got round to updating the code on my solar comparison site > Suggestion for further improvement: When a building is identifiable > associated with a set of generat