Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-04 Thread Dave F
On 03/01/2017 22:16, David Woolley wrote: Actually, it only needs a vague concept. Some technology businesses don't actually develop the product until they already have a customer for it! (That's not even new; I learned it from a company I worked for about 25 years ago.) Didn't they all

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/04/2017 10:52 AM, Andy Robinson wrote: > I'm voting for the statue. Can I have a Robinson Tower too? Yes but this will limit your options for statue design to essentially https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6959831/jbareham_160818_1191_0102.0.jpg ... Bye Frederik --

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Thread David Woolley
On 03/01/17 19:15, Dave F wrote: Indeed. A business needs something to sell before you can go scouting for customers. Actually, it only needs a vague concept. Some technology businesses don't actually develop the product until they already have a customer for it! (That's not even new; I

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > If anyone is holding off from doing something just because the OSM UK > company is "coming", please don't. For one, you can make a great start > before OSM UK, but also there is no guarantee that OSM UK will work > on your specific idea. The main issue is that there are

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Richard, The delay has been long to date (over a year I believe), but things should move much quicker now. We could get something in for late February/March if we act quickly. As an aside, doing something tangible doesn't rely on the OSM UK company. As noted it has taken over a year to get to

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > No, the first steps are to get people signed up as members (more > shortly when I have had a chance to speak with Gregory) and then > to host a first meeting. I see your point and it's great that so much work has gone into pre-thinking the incorporation and such like...

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
No, the first steps are to get people signed up as members (more shortly when I have had a chance to speak with Gregory) and then to host a first meeting. The intention is that we can discuss ideas of what to do at that meeting. I'm sure that there will be a wide range of ideas, many of which

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-01 Thread Steve Doerr
Great. Thanks. Obviously the first priority is to get a UK-friendly slippy map up on the front page: blue motorways, green trunks, clear differentiation between A, B, C, and other roads, postcode and OSGR lookups, etc. Steve Sent from my iPhone > On 1 Jan 2017, at 13:38, Rob Nickerson

[Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Basic template site now online: osmuk.org Best regards, *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
> On 1 Jul 2016, at 16:38, Dennis Bauszus wrote: > > I have setup a wordpress site. > > http://osmuk.org/ > > Please drop me a mail if you want to become an editor and start posting or an > administrator and help with the general layout. I can

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Andrew Hain
Christian Ledermann writes: > > I'd also like to see an aggregator like http://planetpython.org/ or > http://planet.plone.org/ > to have a central place where all UK OSM related blogs are consolidated > which could be integrated in the main website (see

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Dave F
Hi To check, are editors able to create OSM slippy maps on this account? I believe there's a certain type of WP account that doesn't allow it. Cheers Dave F. On 01/07/2016 16:38, Dennis Bauszus wrote: I have setup a wordpress site. http://osmuk.org/ Please drop me a mail if you want to

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Dennis Bauszus
K organisation/community? Harry From: Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> To: dbaus...@gmail.com; Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2016, 18:50 Subject: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site Hi Dennis, Don't worry about hosting issues

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
OSM UK organisation/community? >> >> Harry >> >> From: Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> >> To: dbaus...@gmail.com; Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> >> Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2016, 18:50 >> Subject: [Tal

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
> From: Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> > To: dbaus...@gmail.com; Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> > Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2016, 18:50 > Subject: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site > > > > Hi Dennis, > > Don't worry about hostin

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Harry Wood
treetmap.org> Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2016, 18:50 Subject: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site Hi Dennis, Don't worry about hosting issues when comparing the options. The group should probably get its own hosting anyway. The Mappa Mercia one is super easy to use and that's coming from somebody who is n

[Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-06-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Dennis, Don't worry about hosting issues when comparing the options. The group should probably get its own hosting anyway. The Mappa Mercia one is super easy to use and that's coming from somebody who is not techy at all. To set up the wordpress account all that was needed was to sign in to