Hello all,
At work we could do with a map of areas we cover (bits of west and
north Yorkshire). I am thinking of something like a translucent colour
overlay over a base streetmap.
It would have maybe 6 different colours for different areas, and a few
pins to mark specific locations.
I can see
You can see result at http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~steve8/yahoo.html
Thanks for doing this. I knew their coverage wasn't great but
surprised at just how sparse.
Interesting that St Helens should be on list and also within Y! coverage
but it looks to me that someone has done a lot of work
2009/3/19 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com:
After reading about the Lithuanian problems I really wonder how Google
map maker handles copyright violations, do they really care if someone
copies the street names from a local map maker, can they? Then again
not many Street names are mapped on
2009/3/19 Tal tal@gmail.com:
Every time I change something in my local neighborhood, I have to wait
an unknown period of time before it appears in the Osmarender layer.
This is quite annoying.
Just a reminder of:
http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/up-to-date/
It's for the Mapnik layer, I
2009/3/18 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk:
Does anyone have suggestions on how best to tag breweries if you only have a
node and not a building= area? I've looked through the wiki and the creating
a proposal page mentions:
you want a tag for a 'brewery' - consider searching for 'beer',
Hello all,
Is there a tag (or combination) for motorcycle parking? Something like this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Motorcycle-parking.jpg
We have amenity=bicycle_parking and of course amenity=parking but not
sure how to tag these.
For now I have gone for amenity=parking,
2009/2/27 LeedsTracker leedstrac...@gmail.com:
2009/2/25 Jonas Krückel (John07) o...@jonas-krueckel.de:
If this instruction is good enough, i can put it on the wiki page. A
icon for this preset would be nice, ideas?
Did it:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_Palestine_Gaza
Thank you everyone for the pointers - I knew it must be possible
somehow. Doesn't look like keyboard shortcuts can be assigned but I
can live with that.
If this instruction is good enough, i can put it on the wiki page. A
icon for this preset would be nice, ideas?
I have made one here that
2009/2/25 Jonas Krückel (John07) o...@jonas-krueckel.de:
If this instruction is good enough, i can put it on the wiki page. A
icon for this preset would be nice, ideas?
Did it:
2009/2/25 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com:
To be clear, If anyone is adding data to Gaza then they should be using the
new 2 meter resolution post-conflict data that we purchased from Digital
Globe recently.
Sorry, I meant the new imagery of course. I've been doing bits around
2009/2/24 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org:
On Monday 23 February 2009 19:52:37 LeedsTracker wrote:
E.g. I take a photo of a level crossing, locate in in Google Maps,
upload and tag it in WikiMedia Commons - no problem it seems.
Is this different from using the same method to adjust
2009/2/24 Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk:
2009/2/24 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org:
On Monday 23 February 2009 19:52:37 LeedsTracker wrote:
E.g. I take a photo of a level crossing, locate in in Google Maps,
upload and tag it in WikiMedia Commons - no problem it seems
2009/2/24 Donald Allwright donald_allwri...@yahoo.com:
Please don't use Google Maps when doing OSM. It's just not worth the
risk.
I understand that this is a safe and wise rule, but as Wikimedia
Commons' site suggests (and Nic's reply, commenting on talk-legal
discussions), there may be a fair
Hello all,
Sorry to open this up again, but...
I just uploaded my first pic to http://commons.wikimedia.org It gives
the option to add a geo location for where you took the photo from.
This page gives many methods for doing that, including locating on
Google Maps or Google Earth:
2009/2/10 Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk:
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?
Please, please NO!
Mapping
2009/2/6 80n 80n...@gmail.com:
I'm totally amazed by the scale of and speed of response to this funding
drive. It's great that so many people feel the project is worth
contributing to.
Too right, I thought people were quick off the mark last night at
~10%, I check now and it's 70% already!
Does OSM have a way of using GiftAid for UK tax payers?
I note the Project Gaza people were looking into it:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine_Gaza
I don't know the ins and outs, just wondering.
cheers,
LT
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Hello all
How should covered reservoirs be tagged?
I noticed man_made=reservoir_covered is in the JOSM presets and map
features, though a page doesn't exist for it.
I see here:
http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Great_britain/En/tags.html
that 47 examples exist in GB.
I found no discussion of this
Hello all,
It would seem useful to be able to export calibrated maps from OSM,
perhaps via the export tab. This would make it quick and easy for
someone to actually use OSM in their device and software of choice.
A calibration file could be downloaded together with image files
(JPEG, PNG),
2009/1/22 Christopher Schmidt crschm...@metacarta.com:
http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/up-to-date/
Just tried it on a few places I updated last night, very smooth!
In mapnik, some bits rendered slightly differently in style (e.g. base
background colour differs). Some names (e.g. of buildings or
2009/1/22 Christopher Schmidt crschm...@metacarta.com:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:23:56PM +, LeedsTracker wrote:
2009/1/22 Christopher Schmidt crschm...@metacarta.com:
In mapnik, some bits rendered slightly differently in style (e.g. base
background colour differs).
This is intentional
2009/1/21 Kærast kaer...@newscloud.com:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:45:22 +
andrew heggie l...@sylva.icuklive.co.uk wrote:
Is it possible to derive a vector layer of UK's rail network and
would I be allowed to use it to produce reports for my work? If so
how because it will save me a lot of
2009/1/21 Chris Andrew cjhand...@gmail.com:
With the OSM community growing by the day, this problem can only get
bigger. Does anyone know whether anyone has consider using a
distributed client [1] such as BOINC [2] to do the _number crunching_?
The osmarender layers are done with a similar
2009/1/19 Ciaran Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com:
Whilst trying to find post box references in my area, I found quite a
few post boxes that are no longer being used. They are still there,
and I doubt they will be removed any time soon. However they are
no-longer an amenity, as no post
2009/1/19 Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com:
2009/1/19 LeedsTracker leedstrac...@gmail.com:
2009/1/19 Ciaran Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com:
Whilst trying to find post box references in my area, I found quite a
few post boxes that are no longer being used. They are still
2009/1/19 Simone Cortesi sim...@cortesi.com:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that the french Minister of the Economy, and
its department DGFiP in charge of the french cadastre and its
vectorization has accepted our request to access
2009/1/17 Martijn van Exel mve...@gmail.com:
In NL, we have a breed of shops, represented by a small number of
chains (Blokker, Marskramer, may be one or two more) that 'specialise'
in all kinds of general household necessities, ranging from bin liners
to ironing boards and from cutlery to
2009/1/14 Andy Robinson ajrli...@googlemail.com:
[snip]
and one or
two that for some reason don't show up on Matthews site despite being in the
OSM db.
I wonder if that is because they are not in the postcode area you
think they are.
This doesn't apply if you have collected the postbox ref
2009/1/13 Erik Johansson e...@kth.se:
If it's a bird_hide then tag it as such, if a wildlife_hide the tag it
as such, they can coexists. Now I would like to go PETA on you and
suggest leisure=arson for the hunting hides.. :-)
Related: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=13739
2009/1/14 Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com:
(I'm not saying that the rest of this thread should be poems, but I think it
would help)
Sir Tim came along to say hi
Some people were not clear on why
His aim: conservation
But vituperation
Makes some folks just want to say bye
Apologies for cross-posting, and sorry if you already knew about this.
I searched talk-gb via Google and found nothing, and this was new to
me until a few days ago.
A nifty project that uses OSM to locate postboxes:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/
If Royal Mail won't provide a
Hello all,
I would like to propose a new tag for a bird hide:
leisure=bird_hide
(the building=* key is for areas rather than nodes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_hide sums it up as:
a shelter, often camouflaged, that is used to observe wildlife,
especially birds, at close quarters.
which
Hello all,
I would like to propose a new tag for a bingo hall
leisure=bingo_hall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo_(UK)
In the UK the game's popularity has recently surged, with new halls being built.
I would think of this as a node or area to show the building.
I drafted an icon:
2009/1/12 Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com:
On 1/12/09, LeedsTracker leedstrac...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to propose a new tag for a bird hide:
leisure=bird_hide
Let me play devils advocate here and wonder if bird hide overlaps with
this proposal:
http
2009/1/9 Sarah Manley sa...@cloudmade.com:
Does anyone know the correct way to tag business such as HR block
(this is a US company that does your taxes)? What about other similar
businesses such at lawyers office, accountants, etc?
I currently tag such businesses as:
landuse=commercial
This is great news, well done to all involved. Even with some
restrictions, makes a nice change from the ongoing Ordnance Survey
arguments.
Does this mean I can stop photographing bus stop signs around Leeds
(and receiving pitying glances from folk waiting for their bus)?
cheers,
LT
Hello all,
I was out mapping on foot around town and found my bluetooth GPS was
getting poor reception in my coat pockets.
It was cold out, so I stuck the GPS on top of my head and pulled my
woolly hat over it.
Anyone looking closely might have seen a few flashing LEDs on my
bonce, but a price
Hello all,
I usually name bridges with name=x but this often interrupts a highway's name.
It would make sense to me to have bridge:name=x since we have already
have bridge=yes
I see this was discussed over a year ago on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:bridge
I would like to get a
2008/10/11 Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 11 Oct 2008, at 18:20, graham wrote:
Hi,
I want to start adding bus lanes and cycle lanes. Lots of them only
run
on one side of the road. I'm not clear from the wiki how to do this;
is
there a good reference page I've missed? Or a clear
2008/10/1 Jonathan Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ian Dees wrote:
It might be interesting to start a draw your campus competition
similar to the one that Google did for its Sketchup application, but on
OSM. What d'ya think?
I think we should actually ask the marketing departments of the
Hello all,
I have some stretches of road near me that have cycle lanes only one
one side of the road (i.e. in one direction)
How should I tag this? This page doesn't describe anything that quite fits:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:cycleway
It seems over the top to split the way
Hello all,
I have mapped a car park which has a road all round it (is part of the
car park and defines its boundaries), and several parking aisles
crossing it.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.811653lon=-1.626954zoom=18layers=B000FFF
The boundary road is marked
highway=service
/
SoC conference 2008:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/
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