[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Severn Way finished!

2012-01-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Now mapped from the source to Bristol. Thanks to everyone who did part of it and especially Steve Brook and Ed Loach for filling the gap near Bewdley. cheers Richard ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] Possible pub meetup with the West Midlands crew in early October?

2013-07-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 08/07/2013 17:45, Andy Robinson wrote: No schedule but I'd expect it to be a bit of an ad-hoc mapping party before adjourning to the pub but if something more substantial gets organised that's cool. We certainly would need: 1. A cake Banbury Cake! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbury_cake

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] Tysoe Mapping Party

2014-04-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 04/04/2014 11:42, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyone Just had confirmation from Mike Sanderson of Tysoe Parish Council that May 31st is the preferred date for their Mapping Party (refreshments provided!) and publicity will be going out in the Parish Magazine shortly. So book the date. Tysoe is

Re: [Talk-GB] Southwest UK mapping party

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJW wrote: I'm also penciling-in a week of Devon/North Cornwall exploration in the weekend of 31 August - 3rd September Worth alerting Mike tracing NPE maps Calder? He's local: http://www.guillemotdesign.org/ cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] Who was mapping Dulwich park? (also make all edits public!)

2007-07-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: I've just noticed someone doing very rapid and cool work around Dulwich Park, which is cool! It would be good to co-ordinate a bit. Since it was done in Potlach there are also bits that need cleaning up, which I'm happy to do in JOSM, but I don't want to step on anyone's

Re: [Talk-GB] Who was mapping Dulwich park? (also make alledits public!)

2007-07-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: Here's the area, just have a look in JOSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.44551183981207lon=-0.077243376360124zoom=15 Problems I've found include: 1. Adding ways to existing nodes often doesn't work, resulting in two nodes right next to each other. See, for example,

[Talk-GB] NCN Land's End to John O'Groats

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
At the start of September, Simon Berry is cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats entirely on the National Cycle Network. He will be taking a GPS and has kindly agreed that OSM can use the tracklogs. This should be an excellent boost for our NCN coverage. More at http://www.gpscycle.com/ .

Re: [Talk-GB] Hindhead Tunnel

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Bennett wrote: Does someone want to own up to mapping the northern Hindhead Tunnel approach? You can find out who mapped a section through the API: http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/way/4945067/history My first thought was that it must have been added by our resident tunnel

Re: [Talk-GB] Hindhead Tunnel

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: The second edit was mine (i.e. I added the note) - so why hasn't my username showed up? Have you made your edits public? cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] dangerous cycling lanes (was Re: A new highwaytagging scheme - thinking about)

2007-08-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(moved to talk-gb) Andy Allan wrote: I haven't tackled the concept of not-signed-but-nice-anyway routes - so far I've been concentrating on routes signed by external agencies How do you (or anyone else) think I should tag the National Byway? (http://www.nationalbyway.org) I'd really like

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] dangerous cycling lanes (was Re: A new highwaytagging scheme - thinking about)

2007-09-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: OK, much as I'm loath to propose new tags from past experience on the list, here's some suggestions. [...] Let me know which option you pick, and I'll get it into this week's map. Thanks for the ideas. I've remembered how much I hate tagging discussions now. Anyway. I've

[Talk-GB] Fwd: [CARTO-SoC] RE: WORK OPPORTUNITY - GPS CYCLE ROUTE SURVEYING

2007-09-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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 Guides (see www.cyclecityguides.co.uk for moreinfo) to get

[Talk-GB] A roads - a new project for the winter months

2007-11-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
The nights are closing in and the weather's getting lousy... cycle mapping after work isn't such an appealing option right now. So here's a mapping project where you can survey with the heater on. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_A_Roads The aim is to

Re: [Talk-GB] A roads - a new project for the winter months

2007-11-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: The nights are closing in and the weather's getting lousy... Is it? :-) It is when you live part of the week on a boat and you only have a little diesel stove to keep you warm! cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ (Justec) wrote: Just want to clarify something - if a road is partially mapped, should it be listed, with a note of which part is not mapped? Yes, please do. Kudos to the mapper who saw an A road on the list and went and mapped it yesterday (you know who you are :) ). cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Unsurfaced road and Byway?

2007-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(moved back to talk from talk-gb) Nick Whitelegg wrote: TBH I'd prefer highway=unsurfaced kept in - I use it extensively. Even better though - and this is my own high horse :-) - we really need to sort out highway for non-roads which at the moment is a mixture of physical characteristics

[Talk-GB] Oxford hi-res on Yahoo

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Socks on IRC has just spotted Oxford has gone hi-res. Any other additions? cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Worcester

2008-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, I fancy going to map Worcester on Saturday 23rd Feb. Anyone else up for it? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Worcester http://www.openstreetmap.org/? lat=52.1895lon=-2.2237zoom=13layers=B0FT (lovely place, one of Britain's smaller cities, mainline trains from London and

Re: [Talk-GB] Summer Wales Party / Isle of Wight Redux... Was: Re: Worcester

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stephen Coast wrote: I'd rather not try to herd cats on the list in terms of dates, but ideas for locations appreciated. http://giscussions.blogspot.com/2007/03/intellect.html Anyone can map the UK, apparently there are 10 companies currently mapping London (I know one, how many can you

Re: [Talk-GB] Greetings and hello GARMIN users - OpenMapSource anyone ?

2008-02-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike Paley wrote: I see 'openstreetmap' already exists using 'funny' GPX files. For a couple of years now I've been thinking about 'OpenMapSource' - Garmin's MapSource type mapping but 'open' and created by Garmin users - or at least those who can create and handle GDB files. Being

[Talk-GB] NPE coverage

2008-03-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I've uploaded NPE tiles at zoom level 14 for the whole of Wales and the Marches, plus two areas requested individually (Birmingham and the Chilterns). You can trace from them in Potlatch by making sure you're at zoom 14 (hover over the 'Edit' tab and check the URL if you're not sure),

Re: [Talk-GB] NPE coverage

2008-03-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shaun McDonald wrote: Why not do this for other layers, like Yahoo too? Yes, there's a wider issue here and it's one I'm (not alone in) considering at the moment. Potlatch will before too long automatically add a tag showing what background layer was in effect when you committed an edit.

Re: [Talk-GB] reprojected NPE

2008-04-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim Sheerman-Chase wrote: It may be worth reassembling the NPE map (from tiles or backup) and retiling, it but it would be a big job! (The potlatch blog mentioned anchor points and improving alignments...) I'm plotting anchor points on 5km x 5km squares which is working pretty well. You

[Talk-GB] Idiot in area of Kielder Water

2008-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.4258lon=-2.6179zoom=12 ...if anyone feels like reverting/deleting some, erm, creative editing by a user called Applewatch. Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Idiot in area of Kielder Water

2008-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: The username is Applewach not Applewatch. By the look of it he/she/it uses both. Presumably the username Arsehole was already taken. cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Idiot in area of Kielder Water

2008-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: The user in question is a new user, so I imagine this was an accident rather than a deliberate attempt to annoy you Richard... Damn, and there goes my conspiracy theory. I was convinced that it was a deliberate attempt to ruin the area which I spent a week cycling

Re: [Talk-GB] Idiot in area of Kielder Water

2008-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: Easy there Richard. Heh, sorry, maybe I should smilify my e-mails a bit more. I'm not really cross or vituperative, just in a fairly, erm, sour mood this morning. :) ;) :p :o8---- cut out and attach as deemed appropriate cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] London Calling

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Thomas Wood wrote: Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this really cool, unambiguously out-of-copyright map of London with street names. [...] There's also one linked from [[London]], thats already been scanned and tile-ified. Indeed, that's a scan of one of my maps too

[Talk-GB] Fwd: [CARTO-SoC] 'Mapping London' - Royal Geographical Society

2008-05-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:43:15 BST From: David McNeill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CARTO-SoC] 'Mapping London' - Royal Geographical Society To: Multiple recipients of list CARTO-SOC [EMAIL

[Talk-GB] Cycling between capitals

2008-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Just a quick note to observe that you can now use the OSM cycle map to travel between the three capitals of Great Britain, give or take a very few 100-yard lacunae: - London-Edinburgh via NCN4 (-Reading), NCN5 (-Lichfield), NCN54 (-Derby), NCN68 (-near Berwick), NCN1 - London-Cardiff via

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone in Bedford for some cycling? (was: Cycling between capitals)

2008-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: Was that a hint that some bedford people need to start cycling towards Bletchley? :) Well, if you're volunteering... easy train transport back too, I guess! p.s. where does the other missing bit go approximately? From Sandy is it north to Huntingdon? Yes, I think so. cheers

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford meetup

2008-05-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Chadwick (list subscriptions) wrote: Never been there myself, but if it has space... I must do some research on this, and try to pick somewhere with free WiFi. Didn't someone on IRC mention another pub on the river that was supposed to be quite decent (for cider at least)? That would

[Talk-GB] NPE layer in Potlatch

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Just to alert those who may not have seen it elsewhere - Potlatch now has rectified NPE coverage (on zoom level 14) for the whole of the Midlands, East Anglia and Wales, plus Cornwall and the Lakes. cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] NPE layer in Potlatch

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Chilton wrote: Thanks very much for that, excellent. Is there any particular reason why there is a strip across the top end of the Lakes not included? Sheet lines? If it's a grey/black horizontal or vertical area between two sheets, then it's probably an artefact of doing the sheets

Re: [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim Dobson wrote: Perhaps the people who are nearish the top of OSM, and I feel sheepish that I don't really know who I'm talking about, might like to put out a pressrelease or press statement about how OSM is helping put *real* maps back on the internet and allow cool mashups etc. I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7586789.stm We're also in the Daily Mail (eek)[1]: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1050408/Is-satnav-turning-dunces-map-reading.html cheers Richard [1] for our overseas readers, this is possibly the most reactionary

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering problem (Osmarender layer)

2008-09-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nicholas Barnes wrote: Am I being overly pedantic, or is there a /proper/ way of doing this? A roundabout from which motorway slip-roads lead off is not a motorway. The only exception is if there are no other roads there, i.e. it's motorway-to-motorway only. Otherwise, yes, it takes the

Re: [Talk-GB] Out-of-copyright background in Potlatch.

2008-10-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Austin wrote: Potlatch appears to sometimes show he wrong the map tile when I select the out-of-copyright map as background. For example looking to the North West of Wick St. Lawrence: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=51.3916lon=-2.9228zoom=14 there is a misplaced tile from nearby

Re: [Talk-GB] Exporting sustrans routes as GPX? (was: Sustrans long-distance routes)

2009-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: Has anyone done an exporter to convert one of those NCN routes (relations) to a GPX route that you can put on cheap GPS units for anyone wishing to cycle a route without having to trust the signage? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Relations_to_GPX writes it out to a

[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2009-04-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
The Treasury published its review of Ordnance Survey yesterday. It's a real damp squib. As has been endlessly debated many times before, there's a lot of stuff OSM can survey itself - well, most stuff, really - but the real killer is things like boundary data, which is very difficult or

[Talk-GB] OSM UK publicity challenge

2009-06-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
So how do we get some more publicity for OSM in the UK? Here's one idea: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/may/24/cycle-holiday-britain-mike-carter Do you have any tips for Mike about great campsites or interesting BBs along the coast? Or perhaps you'd like to ride alongside him for a

Re: [Talk-GB] St Kilda

2009-07-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: Anyone fancy a mapping trip... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8175119.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland http://osm.org/go/e4atZrr1- The inlaws are going there in a few weeks (armed with binoculars - it's fantastic for

Re: [Talk-GB] waterway=construction

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
James Davis wrote: Whilst the actual junction has been completed, as far as I'm able to tell the new route is very much 'proposed' and subject to planning, and no firm route or timescale have been agreed on. I'm not sure that this makes the sort of feature that should be included yet. Are

[Talk-GB] Sleaford Avoiding Line

2009-08-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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: On Nov 7, 8:47=A0pm, allan tracy wrote: According to Gensheet, ECML rail services are

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Childs wrote: Is it a good idea to remove the Live Change Feature in Potlatch for everyone. I'm thinking this is the cause for a lot of our problems. I can't see why anyone would want it any more anyway. Its a dangerous feature without a purpose. *shrugs* You've already made

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

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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 format: http://tiles.mytileserver.org/directory/!/!/!.png where !, !, ! are

[Talk-GB] RR8

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Could someone in the Nottinghamshire area, or other area being edited by RR8, tell me if his/her changes are still revert-worthy vandalism or has he/she progressed to useful changes? cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] OS 7th Series offset

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I get a much better alignment for that area with the re-rectified NPE tiles from TimSC's space at http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~timsc/wms2/map.php? Yes, indeed, vastly better (and the images are clearer too, and the tiles braking up problem isn't there). Even if I pan several tens of

Re: [Talk-GB] maposmatic for the UK?

2009-10-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: At a future meeting I would love to be able to recommend that they print an OpenStreetMap. I'm working on a web service that will create a PDF map on demand, given a MapCSS stylesheet (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapCSS) and a bounding box. It's only in its very

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel area of London?

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I would certainly be interesting to see what they say. The problem they will have is that we are asking them to release it CCBYSA which would negate all their rights to it in future - as such I think they will say 'no'. It's a really interesting question - well, it is

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel area of London?

2009-11-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote: Why do we have to try and get multiple logos rendered on Mapnik, rather than anyone who wants to use different renderings in a specific area rendering their own? They have access to the data after all. Indeed. We shouldn't even be thinking of adding the LU roundel to the

Re: [Talk-GB] latest garmin cyclemap img

2009-12-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrew wrote: The site where I downloaded my last one is not available. Where is the most up to date source of the garmin gmapsupp.img with contours available? I used to have it on my dev.osm.org account, but the dev server changed over and I haven't had chance to generate and upload a new

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet another trunk road query - A495

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1478776 (note the end of a green sign)

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet another trunk road query - A495

2010-01-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
brenda cameron wrote: Having confirmed that the A495 is correctly tagged as 'trunk' I propose adding another tag, 'bicycle=yes'. The reason involves openmtbmap and perhaps other bicycle oriented maps. It currently blocks all trunk roads to autorouting, while allowing primary roads. The

[Talk-GB] Garmin cycle map download available again

2010-01-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
It's at http://richard.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/gmapsupp.img and it's a 271Mb file (including contours, etc. etc.). Freshly updated from the latest Geofabrik planet excerpt. How to install: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download Technical details:

Re: [Talk-GB] [talk-gb] OS Free

2010-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I haven't had chance to write my own response yet but am hoping to do so this week. It mostly looks promising and I'm delighted to see the suggested vector releases. However IMO OS _shouldn't_ release 1:25k and 1:50k colour rasters - better known as Explorer and Landranger respectively.

[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, As threatened I've finished a response to the Ordnance Survey consultation: http://www.systemeD.net/documents/os_consultation.pdf For those without the appetite to read five pages of PDF, the summary is: - Good news generally - Releasing 1:25k and 1:50k rasters is not necessary and

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: I've had a quick look through your document in the limited time I've got. The availability of raster cartography is not a barrier to innovation. Could you expand on what you mean by that? Do you mean the availability now, or after the consultation? Availability now. People

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: Basically you're shamelessly protecting your own pretty small industry What, magazine publishing? :p Looking forward to your, and others', response to DCLG. cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response (again)

2010-01-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I wouldn't for a moment expect everyone to agree on the 1:25k and 1:50k stuff. That's ok, you have the right to be wrong grins, ducks and runs But, more seriously, I would draw your attention away from that and to the point about the Ordnance Survey's aerial imagery: - OS has good aerial

Re: [Talk-GB] rendering locks

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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 latter on the UK canal system.) I

Re: [Talk-GB] Pronouncing numbers of UK roads

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: ['oh' versus 'zero'] I agree that it's kind of wrong, but it is what is generally used in road numbers, probably because it saves a syllable. And because it can't be mistaken for 'seven'. A few local ones: A3400 = A three four-hundred A6003 = A six double-oh three

Re: [Talk-GB] Pronouncing numbers of UK roads

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 05/03/2010 17:17, Tom Hughes wrote: On 05/03/10 16:54, Richard Fairhurst wrote: A3400 = A three four-hundred I would probably say thirty four hundred for that. It's an interesting question (well, ish). The three four hundred is the most useful road from round these parts up towards

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

2010-03-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gregory wrote: On 8 March 2010 02:23, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: - *To complete the C2C*: Forest section near Keswick - the one gap in our coverage of the NCN's most popular route! The end of the mapped route is marked on the ground by some blood and ambulance track marks

Re: [Talk-GB] National Cycle Network - filling the gaps - NCN54

2010-03-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: Another North Midlands one that could do with checking is NCN54: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=37545 OSM has the northern section of it marked as going all the way up the High Peak Trail to meet the Tissington Trail and NCN68 as well as turning left down

[Talk-GB] NCN 4 relation broken again

2010-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[posted to both talk-gb and josm-dev] I'm a bit exasperated to see that the relation for National Cycle Network route 4 has been broken _yet_ again: http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/2204 http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/2204/720 NCN 4 does of course

[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-03-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
For those who don't live on Twitter: The UK Government has just announced its decision on freeing Ordnance Survey data. Full document is at http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1528263.pdf Quick summary of what'll be released: - medium-resolution vector data (Meridian2),

[Talk-GB] Meridian2 for beginners

2010-04-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
For anyone wanting to hack the OS data released today, I've posted a very brief tutorial on extracting data from Meridian2 with Perl: http://www.systemeD.net/blog/?p=182 cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
We're generating StreetView tiles at the moment and some people have already been tracing. :) Small hiccup in the generation process meant that we've just had to restart (there were a couple of blank areas appearing at 'sheet' boundaries) but it's going well. OS have also just announced what

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView Tiles now available

2010-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Chris Browet wrote: I'm not too sure the reprojection from EPSG:27700 (OSGB36) to EPSG:900913 (Google) went perfect. If you're tracing from _any_ source without first aligning it with a trustworthy ground reference (typically an average of existing GPS tracks), You're Doing It Wrong.

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Chadwick wrote: I've had a degree of success with http://search.cpan.org/~toby/Geo-Coordinates-OSGB-2.04/ - I've used these packages in the past for rectification of OOC OS stuff and conversion of many-figure OS grid refs with a good degree of success. Chris knows this already

Re: [Talk-GB] GB Chapter

2010-04-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Robinson wrote: Might be cool to set up a Saturday mapping party and social combined somewhere easy to reach and needing some mapping between London and Birmingham. We could thrash out the bones of a UK chapter and see who's interested in working on it over a beer or two. Anyone want to

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway cycle route

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Dixon wrote: Apart from standardising the tagging, this would also add the Byway to opencyclemap. In the absence of dissent, I'll update as suggested so shout now if you disagree! As someone who's mapped lots of both the National Byway and the NCN - disagree very very strongly. The

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway cycle route

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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 'cycling being 1 activity, but not designated for that 1 activity' mountain biking /

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway cycle route

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 08/05/2010 13:43, Andy Allan wrote: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net wrote: Really, the National Byway is a fourth category: a leisure/touring route. There are lots of these in OSM at the moment, but generally tagged as LCN (for example, the Four

[Talk-GB] Another 66 relations bite the dust

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Someone seems to have decided to answer the question about how should we tag the National Byway by deleting it. :( In http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4653538 , a vast number of relations have been deleted - 66 or so. Among these are a bunch of cycle routes - the National Byway

Re: [Talk-GB] skobbler OSM bug backchannel

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Marcus Thielking wrote: It would be much appreciated if some of you could have a look at www.skobbler.co.uk/osmbugs and tell us what should be changed Couple of thoughts: It would be good if you were to open up your 'getbugs' API. Editors could then talk directly to this. If you were to

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-05-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: My understanding is that the current terms from OS are incompatible with ODbL (in particular the part that allows produced works to be released to the public domain). This is a canard and I wish it would stop coming up. ODbL does _not_ say that Produced Works

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-05-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: My reading of 4.3 is that you would have to tell people that the image was derived from OSM and that the OSM database is available under ODbL. To comply with ODbL for data obtained from OSM, you have to at least provide attribution to OSM. That does not

Re: [Talk-GB] skobbler OSM bug backchannel

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Philipp Kandal wrote: We have added the highlight=1 to the URL: http://beta.skobbler.de/osmbugs/detail/sko-26462 OSM Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=51.6178lon=-0.7115zoom=17highlight=1 Brilliant. I'll add something to Potlatch to cope with that later this week. cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Project of the week - trace a village off of OSSV?

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I note that the OS data is CCBY not CCBYSA which may be relevant to the issue, I don't know. I have also noted that the government clearly wants the data to be used and is unlikely to sue, however the Foundation have stated that they will remove all data that is derived

[Talk-GB] NCN numbering

2010-06-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Apologies for thread breakage - the otherwise excellent Nabble has fallen over. All white-on-red numbered routes are National Routes and should be tagged with ncn_ref (or the relation equivalent). This includes all the new three-figure routes. White-on-blue are Regional Routes. These are being

Re: [Talk-GB] NCN numbering

2010-06-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 30 Jun 2010, at 19:47, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: And just to confuse matters, Oxford has it's own local numbering (1-9 on blue backgrounds). Yep. Several places have local networks (we tag them with lcn_ref) and it is *really* confusing when they use blue

Re: [Talk-GB] Local walking routes

2010-08-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Ellams wrote: With one exception, the routes themselves are not signed/marked (though they follow waymarked paths). Don't tag them unless they're waymarked, _unless_ either they're proposed to be waymarked (in which case you could do so with a state=proposed tag on the relation), or

Re: [Talk-GB] Why I'm not currently using OS Opendat as a source WAS The last 2%

2010-08-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Phillip Barnett wrote: Potlatch is still offering Opendata as a layer, with no warning as to the potential problem vis a vis existing contributions. Shouldn't we be dropping this rather quickly? I like the we there - much better than the usual Richard. Really looking forward to the patch to

Re: [Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts county boundary wrong...is there adefinitive source?

2010-09-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Doerr wrote: No problem: once the bulk import has been done, a bulk delete of any boundaries not derived from OS Opendata is done, so there is no potential for conflict/duplication. Er, no. If people want a carbon copy of OS OpenData, the OS download site is that way. Unlike OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata the new license/CT

2010-09-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: I'm trying to understand the new license Contributor Terms and how they stand when compared specifically with OS OpenData. I'm after *facts* about the re-license as they're worded at the moment. Blimey, can't imagine that catching on. Trying to be as dispassionate as

[Talk-GB] Distinguishing between RCN and LCN

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, There seems to be a bit of confusion on which cycle routes are tagged as RCN (Regional) and which as LCN (Local). I think, at first, the idea was that the three tags would correspond to the three types of numbered routes in the UK: NCN for the National Cycle Network (white

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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 wrong (Crawborough Road, should

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: I do this already to some extent but the only problem is that the comments are linked to the path's OSM ID. Obviously if the path is split, or deleted and redrawn, the OSM ID then becomes invalidated so it's tricky to ensure that comments remain associated with the

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 50, Issue 8

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike Harris wrote: But bear in mind that a search on highway=footway would perhaps miss most bridleways and byways that are often also public rights of way. Like I said, You'd obviously need to be slightly 'fuzzy' about it. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] ODBL Coverage

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Craig Loftus wrote: I wasn't suggesting that Oxford was mapped using OpenData licensed content. I was actually using the visualisation with the understanding that there was a strong OSM community in Oxford and that the visualisation might therefore be used as a proxy measure of those who

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 'sticking' in Bristol

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: It appears that it could be the volume of entities as when I pan in to the centre from more rural areas it's fine until it reach densely tagged areas. If I pan quick enough it's fine until the screen has displayed the vast majority of ways. Could one of you post a permalink to

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 'sticking' in Bristol

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim Francois wrote: I case you haven't received one privately yet: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2lat=51.46925lon=-2.60749zoom=17 Brilliant - thank you (and Dave) for that. There's some particular data there which is causing P2 to throw an error. When I open it in Flash

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 'sticking' in Bristol

2010-12-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: Hmm.. FYI as the problem seems to occur over most of Bristol I should tell you I've been adding the residential areas to a multi-polygon (Relation 1277566) Their number complexity (inner outer areas) have grown considerably; maybe by too much. Having had a brief look at it I

Re: [Talk-GB] OS have switched to Open Government License today...

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: But (unless I've missed something) that doesn't deal with the issue that the CTs reserve the right to switch the data to (amongst other things) a non-attribution licence at a future date. Attribution is guaranteed by the Contributor Terms (section 4), which continue

Re: [Talk-GB] OS have switched to Open Government License today...

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: Ah. So maybe I did miss something. Are those now the CTs I'm agreeing to if I click the magic button? I believe (I'm not on LWG) that the intention is to give them one more tidying-up review and then make them live behind the magic button. I don't think they're there yet.

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Chris Moss wrote: Shouldn't maps allow you to concentrate on whatever you're interested in? Can someone please explain to me how or if this can be done with openstreetmap? It can certainly be done if you're prepared to put the effort in. Bear in mind that OSM isn't really an end user map

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Chris Saunter wrote: 2) Browser based viewer using javascript - this could be a hybrid bitmap/vector renderer that annotates bitmap tiles FWIW Potlatch 2's renderer, Halcyon, is fully stylable (using MapCSS) and also exists as a stand-alone SWF applet that you can simply drop into any

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Robinson wrote: Richard, have you got (or know of) an example of this which is up and running and accessible somewhere? There's an old old version at http://www.geowiki.com/halcyon/ . I'll try and put a new version up this weekend. cheers Richard

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