[Talk-gb-midanglia] NaPTAN import - add your area to the list and get loads of bus stops!

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Miller
the import on the NaPTAN page [2] or on talk- transit[3]. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Request_for_Import [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN [3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit Regards, Peter Miller

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Funding for aerial photography

2009-04-03 Thread Peter Miller
I have created a wiki page for appeals for money for aerial photography and added a basic FAQ to it. Is still very raw but I think it is valuable to have one page to support all the funding appeals wherever they are for in the world and provide answers to the basic questions. Feel free

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] NOVAM Viewer

2009-09-14 Thread Peter Miller
On 14 Sep 2009, at 18:02, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Sent: 10 September 2009 3:29 PM To: Christoph Böhme Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] NOVAM Viewer On 9 Sep 2009, at 22:06, Christoph Böhme wrote: Hi

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Photography

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Miller
he could help us out or offer us some advice. Regards, Peter Regards Brian 2009/9/15 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com On 15 Sep 2009, at 09:06, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyone With all the talk-traffic on GB it's probably time we gave some thought on how to progress our

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] NOVAM Viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Miller
will do a 'tidy up' review of NaPTAN when it is done. Thanks, Peter Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com schrieb: On 9 Sep 2009, at 22:06, Christoph Böhme wrote: Hi! Ciarán Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com schrieb: I am trying to merge some bus stops on Penns Lane, Sutton

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Announcement re new 'moderation' email list to develop effective responses to vandalism and mistakes

2009-09-28 Thread Peter Miller
A new 'moderation' email list[1] has been created to help develop effective responses to vandalism and mistakes. To avoid spam subscriber's the first posts will be moderated so don't expect them to appear immediately. Subsequent posts will not be moderated. [1]

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hosting services for satellite imagery

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 Dec 2009, at 17:25, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyone In order to maximise our funds for satellite imagery I'm going to ask all the Unis in our region if they'd like to host the images for us. Please have a look at the following text which is a first draft of the email I'm going to

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] Re: Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 Dec 2008, at 09:13, Steve Hill wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote: I have been working on adding wiki pages for every County and Unitary Authority in the UK (there are 140 in total) so that we have a consistent place to add this sort of information. There were articles

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Miller
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 http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo I think GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Miller
On 15 Dec 2008, at 21:00, Chris Hill wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 16 Dec 2008, at 10:08, Steve Hill wrote: Peter Miller wrote: We all know about the OS licencing issues and so do councils! There is a real bun-fight between the OS Google and councils over licencing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps Ok

[Talk-GB] Yet another rail network map

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 17 Dec 2008, at 22:03, Steve Chilton wrote: Bizarely, the day Kaerest released his openrailmap I had rendered a UK rail network map - purely for visualisation and checking purposes, but have only just had time to upload it to the server. It is at:

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet another rail network map

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 18 Dec 2008, at 11:12, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 18 Dec 2008, at 10:52, Peter Miller wrote: Could these maps render the 'lanes' tag, around which there seems to be an emerging consensus for showing the number of tracks, typically 1 for single track working, 2 and the 4. The rendering

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet another rail network map

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Miller
-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Peter Miller Sent: 18 December 2008 10:52 AM To: Steve Chilton Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Yet another rail network map On 17 Dec 2008, at 22:03, Steve Chilton wrote: Bizarely, the day

[Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

2008-12-23 Thread Peter Miller
which we should respond to positively. I (Peter Miller/PeterIto) will make the introduction and will be happy to be on the team but am not offering to do the bulk of the technical work. This work is supported in this work by 'IdeasInTransit' which is a five year research project funded by the UK

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-thenorth] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 10 Feb 2009, at 20:07, Chris Hill wrote: 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

[Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Miller
We are planning to give the UK administrative wiki pages a bit of a spring clean which are all a bit random, not very well linked and contain quite a lot of duplicated content and some very out-of-date content. The plan is as follows: Firstly we will create wiki pages for the English and

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 Mar 2009, at 12:12, David Earl wrote: On 09/03/2009 12:04, Peter Miller wrote: We are planning to give the UK administrative wiki pages a bit of a spring clean which are all a bit random, not very well linked and contain quite a lot of duplicated content and some very out

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 Mar 2009, at 13:06, Ed Loach wrote: r. I think therefore that the towns listed on each district page are probably more correct than those in the template (though some places are perhaps open to debate). Since then I've tended to concentrate on the district page where I live. The Essex

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 Mar 2009, at 15:36, Ed Loach wrote: There is plenty left to do, but I hope people are happy with what we have being doing so far. Would it make more sense for http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England to redirect to WikiProject_England now instead of WikiProject_United_Kingdom?

[Talk-GB] Spring cleaning the England bit of the Wiki

2009-03-14 Thread Peter Miller
to the 'Wales' or 'Scotland' category. Regards, Peter Miller ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Boundaries page and replication of boundary relation links

2009-03-14 Thread Peter Miller
Firstly, I have copied the table from the boundaries page showing the hierarchy of administration in Wales to the Wales page and merged it with the content in the Unitaries table which helps the uniformity of the UK pages. Secondly we seem to now be in a position where we are maintaining a

Re: [Talk-GB] Question regarding mapping inaccuracies.

2009-05-29 Thread Peter Miller
On 29 May 2009, at 15:42, Shaun McDonald wrote: I'm wondering if someone will be able to implement an efficient version of the snooker ball visualisation on http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2009/03/26/thats-a-really-odd-route/ That's very useful. Is it possible for anyone to view that

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

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Miller
I have been looking at the coverage of maxspeed limit data for highways in the UK and we seem to have a right mix of styles. Here is the data for bug chunk of England while avoiding including anything from France or Ireland (which would include km/hour figure). We current have over

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

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Miller
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:48, WessexMario wrote: Isn't all this already specified? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed If your country uses kilometers tag the value without unit! If your country still uses miles tag the value and append mph OR convert to the EXACT kilometers per

[Talk-GB] UK-ST LEONARDS-ON SEA: CYCLE DATA COLLECTION MANAGEMENT CONTRACT

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Miller
The DfT have just published a contract out for the collection and management of cycle data for St Leonards on Sea Lot 1. Cycle data collection. Undertaking cycle surveys to extend the Ordnance Survey Integrated Transport Network to include information about existing cycling infrastructure

Re: [Talk-GB] UK-ST LEONARDS-ON SEA: CYCLE DATA COLLECTION MANAGEMENT CONTRACT

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Miller
, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: The DfT have just published a contract out for the collection and management of cycle data for St Leonards on Sea Lot 1. Cycle data collection. Undertaking cycle surveys to extend the Ordnance Survey Integrated Transport

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

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Miller
On 4 Jun 2009, at 17:11, WessexMario wrote: Robert Naylor wrote: On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:13:28 +0100, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: I also came across someone tagging maxpeed=NSL yesterday. If it gives someone happiness, fine, but I don't really think it should be

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

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:06, Peter Childs wrote: 2009/6/4 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: Makes sense. Another log... What about trains? Network Rail use mph, so I would suggest we do the same. Do they? I've seen quite a few Rail Signs that seam to be in km/h. Not being a train

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

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:35, Peter Miller wrote: On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:06, Peter Childs wrote: And also I think the railway lines in london need relations for each line. Currently the names of lines are encoded in the ways which just doesn't work. One ends up with ways named as 'Circle

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

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Fyi, Joss (who works for ITO) is in the process of preparing a new OSM railway wiki page in his user area which lists lines and gives relations where they are available. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki

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

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Miller
, 5 Jun 2009, Peter Miller wrote: I am certainly not proposing separate ways for separate lines. I think there should either be one way for a bunch of parallel tracks or alternatively one way per track if people are getting nerdy (surely not!). Tracing individual tracks might make sense if people

Re: [Talk-GB] Authorities, boundaries and admin-levels

2009-06-11 Thread Peter Miller
On 11 Jun 2009, at 07:49, Abigail Brady wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: *UK *England/Wales/Scotland *English regions (North East, East of England etc) *Ceremonial counties/unitaries *Districts *Parishes/Wards etc (but lets deal

[Talk-GB] Vandalism in Kent/London area

2009-06-11 Thread Peter Miller
I have found a number of damaged road and rail links done by this user who registered on June 2nd and has done a number of edits since then: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/liam123 I removed a spurious railway line in London yesterday and also corrected the position of a roundabout. I

[Talk-GB] Tank=yes?

2009-06-12 Thread Peter Miller
I guess that when one sees a warning sign for 'Tanks turning' on a UK road one should tag it as 'tank=yes'! http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/3619361478/ The joy of extensible tagging systems. Regards, Peter ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Authorities, boundaries and admin-levels

2009-06-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Jun 2009, at 09:30, Peter Childs wrote: 2009/6/11 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk: And here is the current OSM guidance:- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level In order to tie in with NUTS and with guidance for other countries within OSM we might want to do the

Re: [Talk-GB] Authorities, boundaries and admin-levels

2009-06-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Jun 2009, at 18:41, Peter Childs wrote: 2009/6/13 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: Whats the simplest way of adding a boundary? I notice that Medway does not have one, I know ruthley where it should be, but have no idea of how to go about adding the relevant relation/way

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] Counties and coasts

2009-06-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 22 Jun 2009, at 14:45, Chris Hill wrote: I'm interested the relations of the boundaries for counties. I notice that some counties (and recently English Regions) include the way for the coastline (natural=coastline), and some coastal counties do not. I think that coastal counties would

Re: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts

2009-06-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 22 Jun 2009, at 15:14, Matthew Westcott wrote: On 22 Jun 2009, at 14:45, Chris Hill wrote: I understand that councils are responsible for the beach so the county could be said to extend beyond what we currently mark as the coastline. Does anyone know where council boundaries actually

Re: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts

2009-06-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 22 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Peter Childs wrote: 2009/6/22 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk: The Essex one I traced from the dotted line on NPE. I'm not sure about 12 miles for county boundaries - I don't think Essex would want to have to maintain it's own navy to repel Suffolk encroachers for

Re: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts

2009-06-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 23 Jun 2009, at 13:08, Chris Hill wrote: Having looked at this and other counties elsewhere, the coastline in some places is clearly a poor choice for the county and regional boundary. Off the Northumberland coast the Farne islands and the very substantial Holy Island are apparently in

[Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Railway route relations

2009-07-01 Thread Peter Miller
--- Cross posted from Talk West Midlands On 1 Jul 2009, at 19:39, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyone I've added a railway relation for the West Coast Mainline as it runs thoruh New Street - so far I've got as far from Rugby Junction to Sandwell Dudley station. I've named it as

[Talk-GB] UK Boundaries progressing really well, however why is Hampshire, England not rendering?

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Miller
There is loads of work going on around the country on the boundaries project which is great to see. Here are a list of all the main administrative boundaries (for England and Wales) and the status of those boundaries. Scotland is a blank canvas if anyone feels motivated to do the work:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Boundaries progressing really well, however why is Hampshire, England not rendering?

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Jul 2009, at 13:29, Ed Loach wrote: However, Hampshire (England) is not rendering. I have looked at the data with various tools and can't see what is wrong. The best tool for finding errors in boundaries is this one, but it fails for Hamphire for some reason:-

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Boundaries progressing really well, however why is Hampshire, England not rendering?

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:27, Ed Loach wrote: Ed: I notice you have tweeked the 'non-simple' way today. Do you think it is now simple? If not do you want to try and sort it. I checked the way quite a bit. It shares most of its nodes with a section of a beach area, but that shouldn't be an

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] Re: The DfT Cycle journey planner

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Miller
from government has been from the Scottish Government's Sustainable Transport section http://www.cyclestreets.net/about/ Possibly they can provide more information. I will forward the thread to them. Regards, Peter Richard On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil

Re: [Talk-GB] The DfT Cycle journey planner

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Miller
funding from the Cycle Demonstration Towns project for our journey planner Regards, Peter Richard On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: I notice that councils across England are being encouraged to contribute to the cost of collecting data

[Talk-GB] boundary for Wales?

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Miller
So.. where is the coastal boundary of Wales? Is it at the high-water mark, or somewhere further out. Any ideas? In order to get something on the map I have created a complete boundary for Wales using high-water mark and included islands as exclaves. Happy for evidence that I am wrong and

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] Re: boundary for Wales?

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Miller
. Regards, Peter Cheers, Chris Peter Miller wrote: So.. where is the coastal boundary of Wales? Is it at the high-water mark, or somewhere further out. Any ideas? In order to get something on the map I have created a complete boundary for Wales using high-water mark and included islands

[Talk-GB] RRe: The DfT Cycle journey planner / CycleStreets

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Miller
On 14 Jul 2009, at 20:04, Martin - CycleStreets wrote: Nice to meet you all at SOTM! Peter Miller wrote: OSM coverage of cycle demonstration towns is pretty good already and it would be truly weird for the Cambridgeshire County Council to pay for someone to survey Cambridge

Re: [Talk-GB] Municipal boundaries

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Miller
On 15 Jul 2009, at 14:13, Abigail Brady wrote: This is certainly worth pursuing. Unfortunately, the real problem comes in rural areas where, for example, boundaries are defined to be the paths of things like hedges that aren't there any more, previous courses of rivers, etc. There are

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] Re: Municipal boundaries

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Miller
/Boundary_Committee_for_England Regards, Peter Miller Councils may indeed have the English written versions - it would be worth asking them I have had more success with the Crown estates who were very helpful, but once again their GIS system is based on licenced OS data and therefore

Re: [Talk-GB] Municipal boundaries

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 16 Jul 2009, at 11:31, Chris Hill wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

2009-07-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 Jul 2009, at 11:54, Chris Hill wrote: 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

[Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Miller
I am proposing that we get all Liam123's edits removed from OSM. My reasoning is firstly many of his edits are clearly just plain wrong and are certainly breaking previously good maps. Secondly that he has failed to respond to a polite message asking him for an explanation. Thirdly, given

Re: [Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Miller
On 21 Jul 2009, at 10:05, Alice Kaerast wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:00:25 +0100 (BST) Steve Hill st...@nexusuk.org wrote: If there is a user who (by general consensus) is making nonsense edits and is continuing to do so after having been

[Talk-GB] Protecting the work - Probation?

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Miller
On 21 Jul 2009, at 13:17, Nick Allen wrote: Hi, One persons edits have created much talk as we are all worried about damage to the work that has been put into the project, and rightly so. When I started editing over a year ago I was worried (rightly on occasion) that I was damaging rather

[Talk-GB] New wiki page for GB reversion requests

2009-07-22 Thread Peter Miller
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 suitable interface between mappers and the people who do the actual reversion

Re: [Talk-GB] New wiki page for GB reversion requests

2009-07-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 22 Jul 2009, at 13:29, Andy Allan wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-GB] New wiki page for GB reversion requests

2009-07-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:18, Andy Allan wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Peter Millerpeter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Without going through every edit in the changeset it will be hard to determine. If we do have to go through every changeset then we might as well revert them by

Re: [Talk-GB] New wiki page for GB reversion requests

2009-07-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:18, Andy Allan wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Peter Millerpeter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Without going through every edit in the changeset it will be hard to determine. If we do have to go through every changeset then we might as well revert them by

Re: [Talk-GB] New wiki page for GB reversion requests

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 24 Jul 2009, at 00:48, Mark Williams wrote: Peter Miller wrote: On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:18, Andy Allan wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Peter Millerpeter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: snip So for the future, if there's another changeset that needs sorting out, please consider

[Talk-GB] How are we doing admin boundaries and what does nnnnnn ba r j stand for ?

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Miller
On 27 Jul 2009, at 17:25, Bogus Zaba wrote: Sorry if this contains some really stupid questions, but i have poked around the mailing list and the wiki and not been able to answer them for myself. 1. Given that we are not allowed to use official OS data (many threads on this topic), how is

Re: [Talk-GB] How are we doing admin boundaries and what does nnnnnn ba r j stand for ?

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Miller
On 27 Jul 2009, at 21:03, Bogus Zaba wrote: Peter Miller wrote: On 27 Jul 2009, at 17:25, Bogus Zaba wrote: snip for me anyway. There seem to be problems with r and j at present for at least some boundaries. Boundaries are created using ways and relations. You can read about them

[Talk-GB] UK Boundaries - update

2009-07-28 Thread Peter Miller
Progress on English boundaries has been amazing recently. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_England . Wales and Scotland seem to need champions and are not so far advanced for some reason. What is really good is that we now have people using them for useful purposes (see Peter

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Boundaries - update

2009-07-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 28 Jul 2009, at 13:33, Chris Hill wrote: 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

[Talk-GB] NaPTAN import - add your area to the list and get loads of bus stops!

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Miller
the import on the NaPTAN page [2] or on talk- transit[3]. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Request_for_Import [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN [3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit Regards, Peter Miller

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 alert!

2009-08-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 Aug 2009, at 12:30, David Earl wrote: David Earl wrote: David Earl wrote: liam123 has been active again this morning - the first changeset for a while: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2043351 I have no idea whether this represents valid data or rubbish. It seems

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 alert!

2009-08-05 Thread Peter Miller
On 5 Aug 2009, at 14:28, Andy Allan wrote: 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

[Talk-GB] 3 more changesets from Liam123 for reversion

2009-08-06 Thread Peter Miller
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 I will send him another message, not that this seems to help really. Thanks Andy, Regards, Peter

[Talk-GB] counter-vandalism tools

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Miller
This is an interesting category of tools and resources available for maintaining Wikipedia against vandalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_counter-vandalism_tools Regards, Peter ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] 3 more changesets from Liam123 for reversion

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 Aug 2009, at 13:32, Andy Allan wrote: 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

[Talk-GB] Peer verification (was: Liam123 again)

2009-08-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 8 Aug 2009, at 11:11, Simon Ward wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:11:02PM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: To my mind, nobody ought to be able to edit live map data unless: 1 - They have uploaded n tracks, 2 - They have had m edits approved by a moderator 3 - They are vouched for by somebody

[Talk-GB] Progress on estimating coverage

2009-08-10 Thread Peter Miller
. One small suggestion - you might like to use a 'thermal' colour range; currently I am not able to guess which colour is associated with the highest coverage and the lowest etc. Feel free to use colours used by OSM Mapper in the 'thermal' range if that is useful. Regards, Peter Miller

[Talk-GB] Wales Boundaries (Wrexham Denbighshire)

2009-08-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 10 Aug 2009, at 23:09, Bogus Zaba wrote: I have been working on these two relations. Wrexham is finished and the entries on the WikiProject Wales are complete, because somebody already put them there - I just fixed the relation (137981) and some of its members. It is great that you

Re: [Talk-GB] Wales Boundaries (Wrexham Denbighshire)

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Miller
On 11 Aug 2009, at 07:43, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 11 Aug 2009, at 06:41, Peter Miller wrote: On 10 Aug 2009, at 23:09, Bogus Zaba wrote: With Denbighshire however I made a new relation (192442) and am slowly adding various ways that will make up this boundary. Not sure however

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 18 Aug 2009, at 14:08, Nick Whitelegg wrote: My main comment was that the proposal didn't 'sit' well with the government regional structures. I do have to make the comment though that the government regional structures are rather arbitrary and do not reflect real cultural regions.

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] Re: NAPTAN update?

2009-08-20 Thread Peter Miller
On 20 Aug 2009, at 13:21, Thomas Wood wrote: 2009/8/17 Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com: I'll start the imports tomorrow. I think it'd be wise to spread them around the country so one group of people aren't entirely swamped with several counties. As such, I'll start with Hull,

Re: [Talk-GB] District Boundaries - N Wales

2009-08-23 Thread Peter Miller
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 too? Drawing from the NPE maps

Re: [Talk-GB] District Boundaries - N Wales

2009-08-23 Thread Peter Miller
On 23 Aug 2009, at 15:52, Bogus Zaba 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 the same general information. Do the Scottish and Northern Irish counties

Re: [Talk-GB] District Boundaries - N Wales

2009-08-23 Thread Peter Miller
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 the same general information. Do the Scottish and Northern Irish counties

Re: [Talk-GB] Uk Missing Major Roads.

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Miller
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 say are secondary, tertiary or unclassified. Secondary have reference numbers.

Re: [Talk-GB] NAPTAN update?

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Miller
On 20 Aug 2009, at 13:21, Thomas Wood wrote: 2009/8/17 Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com: I'll start the imports tomorrow. I think it'd be wise to spread them around the country so one group of people aren't entirely swamped with several counties. As such, I'll start with Hull,

Re: [Talk-GB] NAPTAN update?

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Miller
On 26 Aug 2009, at 18:46, Mark Williams wrote: Thomas Wood wrote: [] Regarding remaining counties, Essex is definitely a priority, we may as well just upload the remaining counties as and when we can. (Which'll probably be when the new dev server is up with a sane python environment)

Re: [Talk-GB] Uk Missing Major Roads.

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Miller
On 27 Aug 2009, at 11:12, Tom Hughes wrote: On 27/08/09 11:05, Tom Hughes wrote: In fact I can't find any map which shows either the tunnel or the approach roads as the A102(M) - they all shown as the A102 for the whole length from the junction with the A12/A13 to the north to the

[Talk-GB] New Digital Master Map for Great Britian: Confidential Advice to Ministers, 2009 (and a bit of a rant)

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Miller
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Import#Rights_to_NaPTAN_data Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Is there an operating railway line to the east of Sleaford?

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Miller
/Village]searchp=ids.srf [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough-Lincoln_Line Regards, Peter Miller ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Is there an operating railway line to the east ofSleaford?

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 28 Aug 2009, at 12:12, Peter Childs wrote: 2009/8/28 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: 2009/8/28 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: Anyone fancy a bit of detective work on a railway line? Question: Is there an operating railway line to the east of Sleaford in Linclonshire and how many

[Talk-GB] Sleaford Avoiding Line

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 28 Aug 2009, at 15:41, Richard Fairhurst wrote: To confirm: double track, southbound freight-only, northbound out-of- use (there's track there but it's overgrown). I found a message from aforementioned train driver on some Usenet archive somewhere: Very useful thanks. So I guess I

Re: [Talk-GB] Sleaford Avoiding Line

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 28 Aug 2009, at 16:11, Matt Williams wrote: 2009/8/28 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: On 28 Aug 2009, at 15:41, Richard Fairhurst wrote: To confirm: double track, southbound freight-only, northbound out- of- use (there's track there but it's overgrown). I found a message from

Re: [Talk-GB] Tenfoot

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 28 Aug 2009, at 20:15, Matt Williams wrote: 2009/8/28 Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk: 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

[Talk-GB] Liam123 back again - can we check if this is vandalism?

2009-09-03 Thread Peter Miller
Liam123 is back, however some of his edits moving bus stops might be reasonable. This might be ok (moving bus stop to side of road) http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/469765466 Here he has added goods=yes to a railway line. Is this correct?

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 back again - can we check if this is vandalism?

2009-09-03 Thread Peter Miller
On 3 Sep 2009, at 23:15, Mark Williams wrote: David Earl wrote: On 03/09/2009 14:53, Peter Miller wrote: This looks like messing with a street and yahoo photography shows it as going through a house. This appears to be straight forward vandalism http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way

[Talk-GB] Stratford-upon-Avon mapping party 2? Anyone fancy going flying?

2009-09-04 Thread Peter Miller
a reasonable chance of good weather on at least one of those days. Should we offer this as a little way of saying thank you to someone who has done a lot of work for OSM to date? If so, the who??? Suggestions please. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] More NaPTAN Counties Uploaded - Bristol and Cheshire East

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 Sep 2009, at 00:00, Frankie Roberto wrote: Thomas wrote: I'm following the Be Bold motto, and am now uploading the remaining NaPTAN counties that have been requested. I'll probably do two or three at a time, following the list alphabetically, possibly trying to avoid importing counties

[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-08 Thread Peter Miller
Just to let you know that OpenStreetMap is hiring a plane and will be taking aerial photography of Stratford-upon-Avon on this Thursday 10th September at 3pm as long as the weather holds good. Is this a first for the project?? It is of course a bit of an experiment as none of us are

Re: [Talk-GB] More NaPTAN Counties Uploaded - Bristol and Cheshire East

2009-09-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 10 Sep 2009, at 21:00, Mark Williams wrote: Peter Miller wrote: On 7 Sep 2009, at 00:00, Frankie Roberto wrote: Thomas wrote: I'm following the Be Bold motto, and am now uploading the remaining NaPTAN counties that have been requested. I'll probably do two or three at a time

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
I did note there was a call for help with rectifying. Are there any plans yet for how this will be done and where the eventual outcome will be hosted? 2009/9/13 Dan Karran d...@karran.net: 2009/9/11 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: JR is preparing the images at the moment and will start

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Sep 2009, at 22:05, Frankie Roberto wrote: 2009/9/13 John Robert Peterson jrp@gmail.com I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr would be able ot hold all 10GB of data, it would be an almost imposable ot access format. The photos look great

[Talk-GB] A new Flickr group for old out-of-copyright OS Maps

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
I was lent 65 first-edition 1:500 OS maps of Ipswich dating back to 1882 a couple of days ago which I have now photographed and uploaded to Flickr. I was surprised to find that there was no Flickr group of out-of-copyright OS maps so I created it. The rules I have created says that all

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