Its tompople again. He's tracing from Streetview or 1:25k adding mostly
streams and other water features etc. I've just had to fix a few of the
pools/lakes around there that have been broken. He needs to be checking with
BING as well and ideally not mess with anything that's already present.
While going into the city on the train last evening I spotted that Albert
street and parts of the roads that connect to it (Fox Street, Grosvenor
Street, Bartholomew Stree) have been closed off while the do redevelopment
work I guess in the two plots of land straddling Albert Street. I didn't get
Awesome work Brian,
What's with the one-way invisible Burnt Tree Island though ;-)
For those that wish to inspect:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.44476lon=-1.93657zoom=16layers=M
and
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.513407lon=-2.06317zoom=18layers=M
Cheers
Andy
-Original
Not the 1st Oct for me as it's the Cycle Show at the NEC. 8th would be my
preference though could also do the 15th. I don't recommend beyond that as
we hit the school half term on the 22nd.
Cheers
Andy
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From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 August
-Original Message-
From: Paul Williams [mailto:pjwde...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 08 August 2011 11:47 AM
To: talk...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Routing and other problems west of Uttoxeter
I've found that there is still a big problem with unconnected roads in the
area west
I'm guessing that mostly he's been adding bits of the Black Country Urban
Forest (though its hardly a forest!)
http://www.dudley.gov.uk/environment-planning/countryside/trees/black-countr
y-urban-forest-millennium-program/
See you later. Not sure what I'll be mapping yet, but I'm sure I can find
Reminder that our next OSM midlands social is on Thur August 4th. This time
at The Black Eagle, a fantastic old fashioned pub on Factory Road in
Smethwick. Some of us will be doing a spot of mapping in the area before
about 8pm.
Details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia
The pub is
You mean Harborne I hope Mike ;-)
Cheers
Andy
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From: Mike Duffy [mailto:mdbg02...@blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: 05 July 2011 11:10 PM
To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Thursday meet
Anyone going to Halesowen on Thursday evening?
Folks, we don't have a location planned for the next social on June 2nd.
Anyone wish to suggest somewhere?
Cheers
Andy
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Richard Fairhurst pointed out this website today. They have a launch which
may be of interest to folks:
http://distinctlyblackcountry.org.uk/launch/
Cheers
Andy
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Reminder that the next midlands social (including micro map for those that
wish) is this Thursday in Tamworth.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Social_Meet_Up
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com]
Sent: 08 April
West Mids mappers...
If you haven't logged into your OSM account or done any editing recently you
may be unaware of the forthcoming proposed licence change for OSM. A major
part of that process is to sign up to new contributor terms.
If you have not logged into OSM recently could you please do
Reminder that the next midlands social is this Thursday 3rd March from
7:00pm at The Bull, Price Street, Birmingham
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Social_Meet_Up
Cheers
Andy
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Doing some Brum searches with nominatim has revealed that we have some
issues with place= conflicts. We have a mixture of suburb, town, village and
hamlet nodes in Birmingham and the West Mids generally and sometimes this
leads to unexpected results, like roads in Sutton Coldfield being in Castle
I've added a few more OS 1:25k OOC maps in the north of our region, Stafford
specifically:
http://ooc.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=15lat=52.80764lon=-2.11929layers=000B0
The low zoom tiles will catch up at some point.
To use this layer when editing see:
Welcome Phil, look forward to meeting you.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Philip John [mailto:p...@philipjohn.co.uk]
Sent: 14 February 2011 2:46 PM
To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hello! I'm Phil.
Hi :)
I've just joined - I'm Phil from
Chaps, might not be able to make it in now. Have gone down with a bug so
will have to see how I am later on.
If I don't see you hope you have a fun evening.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com]
Sent: 03 February 2011 9:26 AM
To: Andy Robinson
Chris,
Welcome :-)
No experience with a logger of that type personally but as long as you get a
logged point every 1 second then it's as good as anything else we use.
Having said that there isn't quite so much need for GPS logging anymore due
to the availability of BING aerial imagery for
-Original Message-
From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com]
Sent: 17 January 2011 6:26 PM
To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Postcodes
If anyone needs a postcode extract for their area (from OS CodePoint) then
let me have the bbox of the area you
Few pointers for you:
1. Make sure the tracklog is set for time and recording at 1sec interval
2. In Setup, select Map and then change the screen to the Map Setup -
tracks page. Set the Track Points value to 10001. This will make sure you
can see the full 3 hours ish of 1 sec points on the
The next Mappa-Mercia social evening will be on Thursday July 1st in
Bedworth to the north of Coventry. Mapping till 8pm and then in a local pub
(venue to be confirmed. The Bedworth cake and signup table is on the wiki
page [1]
Hopefully we might see some of the other Coventry folks there? Peter
Replying to myself here. Northampton would be another location option. Its
on the London Midland line which has some cheap fares. It's also a very very
unloved town.
Cheers
Andy
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From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 26 April
Brian,
click click
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bus_Routes_in_West_Midlands/Route_Refs
Cheers
Andy
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Brian Prangle
Sent:
Nick Black [mailto:nickbla...@gmail.com] wrote:
Sent: 26 April 2010 6:45 PM
To: Emilie Laffray
Cc: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists); talk-gb OSM List (E-mail); talk-gb-
westmidla...@openstreetmap.org; Richard Fairhurst
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] GB Chapter
I would be super keen on Charlbury
Awesome.
Can this be broadcast to talk-gb yet?
Cheers
Andy
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Mackenzie
Sent: 19 April 2010 12:35 PM
To: Christoph Böhme
Cc:
been invite only and that ensures that something gets done.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Christoph Böhme [mailto:christ...@b3e.net]
Sent: 19 April 2010 4:11 PM
To: Andrew Mackenzie
Cc: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists); talk-gb-
westmidla...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb
Brian,
Mine are done.
It was a great day, one of the best I have had in a long while, which
suggests I should get away from Walsall mapping a bit more ;-)
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
going to be a fantastic day out. I
might even be tempted to ride down for afternoon tea by the Severn at
Bewdley before the day is out :-)
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 12 April 2010 10:20 PM
To: Talk-gb
. Some
real ale would be bonus.
If you want to bag a slice of cake now then drop your name onto the wiki.
Suggest we leave at least slice 10 for Gavin unless he shouts for other
areas.
Cheers
Andy
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From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com
Martin - CycleStreets wrote:
I agree in an ideal world, ground-surveys done from first principles will
be preferable. But the fact is that there remain areas of the country that
routing. Wolverhampton and Newcastle for instance are places which we
certainly would love to see become usable for
...@bethere.co.uk]
Sent: 31 March 2010 5:54 PM
To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Open Postal Addresses
Even so, parts of Sutton Coldfield have good coverage ;-)
Andrew
On 31 Mar 2010, at 17:45, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists
Hi Mary,
Great you will be coming along to Kidderminster. Happy to take you over.
I'll need to take my car because of the bike (room for more on the roof too,
that's bikes of course not people! ;-) )
You popping along to the social on Thursday?
Cheers
Andy
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From:
Oh, I also noted we seem to have rather a lot of tertiary roads in Hampton.
Old Station Road doesn't look to be tertiary for me.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 29 March 2010 9:49 AM
To: 'Brian Prangle'; 'Ed
Ed Loach [mailto:e...@loach.me.uk] wrote:
Sent: 29 March 2010 9:58 AM
To: 'Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)'; 'Brian Prangle'
Cc: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: RE: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] M42, J6
Andy wrote:
It's an odd configuration. The A45 goes over the
M42
It is indeed
Cheers
Andy
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Gavin Clark
Sent: 04 March 2010 5:26 PM
To: talk-gb-westmidlands OSM
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Thursday Social
Is
Mappa Mercia team is organising a mapping party in Kidderminster on Saturday
17th April to support new OSM user there. Add your name to the wiki if you
will be coming. More details to follow.
http://is.gd/9GHqU
Cheers
Andy
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Welcome Gavin,
Kiderminster is pretty much a blank canvas at the moment and I don't think
it has any existing mappers other than those who have passed through and
added the main thoroughfares. It's a place we could help get kick stared and
give you a little support, and focus for what time you
A reminder that you are very welcome to join the OSM social evening in
Birmingham next Thursday, 4th March. Venue is the City Tavern, Bishopsgate
Street, off Broad Street, Birmingham (near Five Ways). We meet from 7pm,
normally in the back room.
The pub does curry and a pint for under a fiver
-Original Message-
From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 18 February 2010 2:08 PM
To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org; t...@mappa-mercia.org
Subject: BBC Midlands today - Gritting routes
Yay, the BBC have picked up on the gritting routes. Their science
Great work Brian and all.
I increased the size of permissible mail to this list to 100KB as this post
was caught by the 40KB limit. There are some (some diehard mailing list
aficionados) who disapprove of attachments being sent to mailing lists.
Unless I receive complaints I shall let any that
Russ wrote:
Sent: 26 January 2010 9:54 PM
To: Peter Millar
Cc: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] City centre buildings
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 13:45 -0800, Peter Millar wrote:
I think Delete it and replace it with the building shape would be the
right
In looking at the other areas of the West Mids its clear that the priority
basis is applied differently for different regions/councils. For instance in
Brum most general bus routes are in Priority 3 whereas Wolverhampton states
that bus routes are in Priority 1. As we add stuff we may find that
Looking great. I popped out at lunchtime and picked up some of the grit bins
in Sutton Coldfield. The places to look at pretty obvious; at the top,
bottom or middle of hills that are not on a gritting route and outside
schools that are not on a gritting route.
Cheers
Andy
-Original
Some contradiction for some sections between wards. Where its different
priorities in adjacent wards. It will probably emerge logically once we have
it all set and then we can post a query to BCC to clarify what's actually
what.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From:
You might do another update later today if you have a moment. Ive already
added a lot more over lunch and a bit more to go before I stop.
At this rate we should be done by later this evening ;-)
Great work everyone. Lets keep the momentum going
Cheers
Andy
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From:
mappers to participate in updating
the map?
Andrew
On 14 Jan 2010, at 17:31, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
That would be the plan. It's still fresh in everyone's minds right now so
I
suspect the newspapers would pick up on it if we got it done in the next
few
days and thats a real
Brian Prangle wrote:
Sent: 14 January 2010 6:06 PM
To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham
Looks like Christoph will be doing lots of re-rendering! As a by product
I've discovered that lots of the primary/trunk roads which were
Ed,
btw, the Wolverhampton N/W 1:25k sheet is now out of copyright. I'll get
that uploaded soon.
Cheers
Andy
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Ed Loach
Sent: 04 January 2010
A reminder that the first meeting of the New Year for the midlands OSMers is
this Thursday evening from 7pm at the City Tavern in Birmingham.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia
For those who have not been before, normally half a dozen folks turn up each
month. It would be great to
Happy New Year folks. Lets hope 2010 is as great a year for OSM in the
midlands as they have been to date.
See you all on the 7th.
Cheers
Andy
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Stafford, Dalton and Lawrence residence towers (each 20 stories) on the
Aston uni campus are being demolished next year. A tour is being organised
to visit them in Feb before they are felled. I'll try and go as I spent my
first year in Stafford and my final year in Lawrence. It's a pity that the
Cool :-)
And RichardF tells me that the A46/M40 new junction layout is due to open
today.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 14 December 2009 2:56 PM
To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Cc: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Yes, I'll be there and I think Brian is too.
For latest and greatest on meet-ups its usually a good idea to check on
mappa-mercia page of the wiki.
See you Thursday.
Cheers
Andy
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
Cheers Christoph,
Andy
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Böhme
Sent: 23 November 2009 1:19 PM
To: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics
Cc:
A roundup of plans for this weekend in Wolverhampton.
I will be at LUGRadio [1] live all day Saturday. Speaking about OSM at 3pm
but plan to do some mapping during the morning as a method of producing an
informal map of the venue. If you want to help me/meet up give me a call and
I'll come out.
Year to be scanned and uploaded. Not long to wait
now though.
Cheers
Andy
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From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 20 October 2009 8:28 AM
To: 'Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)'; talk-gb-
westmidla...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: RE
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Christoph Böhme [mailto:christ...@b3e.net]
Sent: 18 October 2009 10:24 AM
To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Lug Radio Live - How about a mapping
party??
Hi,
have any plans been
). We
still need sheets for Coventry for instance. I'll sponsor the sheet to the
NE of Birmingham that has Sutton on it.
Cheers
Andy
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From: Christoph Böhme [mailto:christ...@b3e.net]
Sent: 18 October 2009 10:22 AM
To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Cc: talk-gb
on ebay for much less (with 2027 in the set to collect its too much at £8
a sheet) but if anyone wants to sponsor a sheet I'll check what the current
retail price is.
Cheers
Andy
Christoph
Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote:
Some of you may know that I am
Sounds an interesting possibility, though it is a bit further out (I guess
Five Ways station is the closest or a longer walk from New Street). What
we've noted from experience is that it's important also that the place isnt
too noisy, otherwise it's too difficult to get a discussion going beyond
Lug radio Live is fast approaching, running on Sat 24th October.
This would seem a logical date to do a mapping party. While the lug folks
listen to lug stuff we can feed out and map, returning to spread the word at
lunchtime etc.
I'm due to talk about OSM at 15:00, not clear yet if they will
Looking great. halls of residence next? ;-)
Cheers
Andy
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Eike Ritter
Sent: 12 September 2009 9:32 PM
To: Ciarán Mooney
Cc:
A reminder for folks in the Midlands. Next Midlands User Group social and
micro map will be in the beautiful micro city of Lichfield this Thursday
evening from 7:00pm.
7pm meet at The Bowling Green pub, Friary Rd roundabout, Lichfield, before
heading out and about for some mapping. Meet back at
I'm not available unfortunately.
Cheers
Andy
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From: Ciarán Mooney [mailto:general.moo...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 23 June 2009 1:26 PM
To: talk; talk-gb-westmidlands; talk-gb; shaun; Andy Robinson (blackadder-
lists)
Subject: UKUUG - Summer 2009 - Birmingham
Hi,
UKUUG
Works for me.
Cheers
Andy
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Böhme
Sent: 10 May 2009 11:43 AM
To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands]
Christoph Boehme [mailto:christ...@b3e.net] wrote:
Sent: 30 April 2009 11:39 AM
To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly social and some micro mapping
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
7-8 mapping
WORKSFORME
7-8 mapping then into the pub?
I note you didnt colour the cemetery, nobody at home there?
Cheers
Andy
PS. Brian is away next week so we need to work extra hard.
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From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
And I've just done the same for all 50ish stops in Sutton Coldfield Locality
over lunch. I'll drop the results in as soon as the edits done but I am
generally concurring with Brians observations. What was most interesting is
that about 20% of the stops in the locality have no physical bust stop on
I've already started correcting data like this. I too have noted that some
stops are not correctly positioned in relation to the road they are on.
Where we only have a single trace along a road they could be correct but the
ones I looked at last night where we have plenty of traces (main road)
Roger Slevin [mailto:ro...@slevin.plus.com] wrote:
Sent: 31 March 2009 10:16 PM
To: 'Peter Miller'; 'Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)'
Cc: talk-tran...@openstreetmap.org; Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org;
'Brian Prangle'
Subject: RE: [Talk-transit] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Naptan alignment
Using http://sautter.com/map I did a comparison of the precisely positioned
stops I mapped this morning in the Aldridge area. Assuming Google has the
locations the same as the NaPTAN data then I would say about one in 5 NaPTAN
stops has something wrong with the location. Mostly a stop is displaced
Have created a blog for the OSM Mappa Mercia folks.
http://mappa-mercia.blogspot.com/
First post is the new printed maps of Birmibngham and Solihull I just
received.
enjoy
Cheers
Andy
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Reminder that the next Birmingham Social evening is this Thursday 2nd April
at the Queens Arms, Newhall St, Birmingham. From 7pm.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.4836mlon=-1.9064zoom=17
We will have our new Birmingham and Solihull map on show
http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/
See you there,
Thanks to the good folks at UK Department for Transport and Traveline, the
NaPTAN data import (principally of Bus stops) has started. Birmingham is
being used as an initial trial to check out any issues before the main bulk
of the upload takes place.
Thanks go to Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) for
Gareth,
Yes we do! :-) great to have you here.
You may have joined the list just after the announcement re the Black
Country mapping party on 4/5 April. See the list archive and the wiki page
for the event:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/Black_Country
Cheers
Andy
The next Cloudmade sponsored mapping party will be in the heart of the Black
Country hosted at The Public in West Bromwich on April 4/5.
This party will be the main kick-off event in our attempt to map the
remaining 284 segments of the cake for the wider Black Country area by
Christmas this year.
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