Re: [Talk-GB] Anybody in the Dunstable/Luton area?

2020-03-22 Thread Stuart Reynolds via Talk-GB
irm if it has a 3-digit/CRS code? On 22/03/2020 15:05, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Hi Dave, I maintain the electronic timetable and stops data for Central Bedfordshire, which includes Dunstable. According to my data, that road (and the associated bus stop) are used by Arriva services F70 and F77 b

Re: [Talk-GB] Anybody in the Dunstable/Luton area?

2020-03-22 Thread Stuart Reynolds
busway. So yes, it is incorrect in OSM. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and anglia On 22 Mar 2020, at 14:17, Dave F via Talk-GB mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>> wrote: Hi If you're in the Dunstable/Luton area would you be able to clarify if this way is used a

Re: [Talk-GB] Update bus stop names

2020-01-19 Thread Stuart Reynolds
On 19 Jan 2020, at 06:54, jc...@mail.com wrote: IoW bus stops seem to be branded which I think is rather unusual, so does the bus operator pay for updating them? That might be a clue to which is more recent. It varies from authority to authority (no reason to make it eas

Re: [Talk-GB] Update bus stop names

2020-01-18 Thread Stuart Reynolds
than where there is a multi-operator environment, but we need to make data sets and names align which was the whole point of standardisation from way back in 2003/4 (wish) when this was first introduced. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and anglia On 18 Jan 2020, at 13:40, Cj

Re: [Talk-GB] Update bus stop names

2020-01-18 Thread Stuart Reynolds
agree that in many places the data in OSM is way out of date and desperately needs updating. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and anglia On 18 Jan 2020, at 11:18, Cj Malone via Talk-GB mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>> wrote: Hello, I've recently found an open da

Re: [Talk-GB] Laura Ashley - looking for tagging consensus

2019-12-20 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi, I may be wrong, but I believe that there were some home (furniture) shops that didn’t sell clothing, and some years ago my family would reliably buy wallpaper from Laura Ashley which had the traditional Laura Ashley design on it. So that would seem to back up the “interior_decoration” tag.

Re: [Talk-GB] What is a Department Store

2019-12-19 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi Phil, In my opinion, where you pay for it is irrelevant. It is a store with multiple departments, and as such is a department store. You mentioned Debenhams as an example of a department store - it still exists, of course, and it is still a department store, but you can pay at any till. On

Re: [Talk-GB] Fixing shop=yes, now it no longer renders on the default OSM map

2019-09-02 Thread Stuart Reynolds
n’t a standardised approach, by any stretch of the imagination. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and anglia On 2 Sep 2019, at 14:20, Jez Nicholson mailto:jez.nichol...@gmail.com>> wrote: Whilst we are on the subject of shops (I hope this isn't dragging the discussion too far o

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data [Thread 2]

2019-07-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
. For example, Stuart Close / opp -> “opp Stuart Close", whereas the suffix ones are not e.g. Bus Station / Bay 8 -> "Bus Station (Bay 8)” Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and anglia On 5 Jul 2019, at 13:40, Andy Townsend mailto:ajt1...@gmail.com>> wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data [Thread 2]

2019-07-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
bus stations. The name Derby Bus Station (actually just "Bus Station” in the locality of Derby) applies equally to all 29 bays in the bus station. “Bay 1” through “Bay 29” are the indicators. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and a

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data [Thread 2]

2019-07-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
then they can be deleted. But not otherwise. You may come across some of these (or you may not). Hope that helps. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and anglia On 5 Jul 2019, at 10:57, Silent Spike mailto:silentspike...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 10:52 AM Stua

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data [Thread 2]

2019-07-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
://nextbuses.mobi/WebView/BusStopSearch/BusStopSearchResults/soadjdaw Both the SMS and Nexbuses services are still active, and not planned to be turned off any time soon. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and anglia On 5 Jul 2019, at 10:27, Gareth L mailto:o...@live.co.uk>> wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data

2019-07-01 Thread Stuart Reynolds
public domain, by the way). There is a similar Bill going through Holyrood at present, but I don’t know precisely what powers it will contain or what dates it will mandate. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east and anglia On 1 Jul 2019, at 16:02, Silent Spike mailto:sil

Re: [Talk-GB] sidewalks

2019-06-03 Thread Stuart Reynolds
On 3 Jun 2019, at 09:15, Stuart Reynolds mailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote: As Jerry says, from a routing perspective having lots of separate footpaths doesn’t help when you can just walk across the road at any given point. Boulevard-type roads with central grassed are

Re: [Talk-GB] Removal of redundant NaPTAN data

2019-04-04 Thread Stuart Reynolds
like OSM simply because of its lack of permanence. At best, it will be an aligned data set IMHO. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 4 Apr 2019, at 10:37, Andy Townsend mailto:ajt1...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 04/04/2019 09:38, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyon

[Talk-GB] Tagging one way at certain times of day

2019-01-17 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi All, My attention has been drawn (by a local authority colleague) to a street in Tunbridge Wells, Grosvenor Road (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/35929327). This is a bi-directional road that has timed restrictions heading north between 9am and 8pm, with buses allowed to head north up it a

Re: [Talk-GB] What was the outcome of the discussion about C class roads with ref tags?

2018-09-24 Thread Stuart Reynolds
[Side question, albeit not totally off-topic] Out of curiosity, I understand what a C road is, conceptually, but what might an “MC” designation mean? E.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/426675505 Regards, Stuart On 24 Sep 2018, at 09:30, Paul Berry mailto:pmberry2...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

2018-09-20 Thread Stuart Reynolds
I’m all for debate and coming to a consensus, but my message counter has got to 108 mails in this thread, and I have to say that from where I am sitting it’s all becoming rather tedious. The same arguments (albeit polite) are being rehashed, nothing new is being said, and no-one is showing any s

Re: [Talk-GB] Wickham Market, Suffolk

2018-09-07 Thread Stuart Reynolds
My two pennyworth, FWIW… The problem here is that it is very subjective. If you have a lot of small villages around a much larger place, the temptation may be to call that your local town - and this may be a reason why Wickham Market is called a town. Here in Southend-on-sea, we have around 270

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

2018-08-10 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi I’ve watched this from afar, but thought that I would add my two pennyworth, as a more casual mapper. Historic county boundaries have some merit (in a very general sense), but where do you draw the line? As it happens, I was discussing where, exactly, Middlesex was with my son only yesterda

Re: [Talk-GB] Local names of bits of trunk roads

2018-06-25 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 25 Jun 2018, at 16:38, Adam Snape mailto:adam.c.sn...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, If this is to be mapped shouldn't it be as a historic feature rather than a (current) road route? By the way I tend to use loc_name f

Re: [Talk-GB] Local names of bits of trunk roads

2018-06-25 Thread Stuart Reynolds
, is it, since it applies from London to Scotland? Stuart On 25 Jun 2018, at 14:27, Dave F mailto:davefoxfa...@btinternet.com>> wrote: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#loc_name DaveF On 25/06/2018 14:13, Stuart Reynolds wrote: local road

[Talk-GB] Local names of bits of trunk roads

2018-06-25 Thread Stuart Reynolds
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Re: [Talk-GB] Wildly inaccurate postcode

2018-01-25 Thread Stuart Reynolds
egards, Stuart On 25 Jan 2018, at 13:44, Mark Goodge mailto:m...@good-stuff.co.uk>> wrote: On 25/01/2018 11:48, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Who do we need to speak to at FreeThePostcode to get it fixed? Does anyone have any contacts? FreeThePostcode is obsolete, and has been ever since p

[Talk-GB] Langley Green, Birmingham assistance please

2018-01-25 Thread Stuart Reynolds
wise!) with my proposal so that I can do it? Something needs to be done, though, because otherwise the path (and the postcode, with a centroid in the houses) isn’t accessible via a (walking) routing engine. Many thanks. Regards, Stuart Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east &

[Talk-GB] Wildly inaccurate postcode

2018-01-25 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi. If you search for B68 8RH on OSM (https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=B68%208RH#map=18/52.48861/-2.00776), you get two options. The first is from NPEMap/FreeThePostcode where the result returned is “B68 8**”. This is located at Six Ways on the A34 in the centre of Birmingham. The ot

Re: [Talk-GB] British National Grid coordinates in JOSM

2017-10-30 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi Bob (and anyone else who’s done this), I’ve reset the projection, and can now see the coordinates in OSGR. Yay! But does anyone know how I can jump to a set of coordinates? If I click the coordinate boxes, the menu that comes up still insists on Lat/Lon. Thanks Stuart On 22 Oct 2017, at 10

Re: [Talk-GB] British National Grid coordinates in JOSM

2017-10-22 Thread Stuart Reynolds
I imagine so. When working in PostGIS, coordinates are Lon/Lat so that it maps into an (x,y) format. Since JOSM displays Lat/Lon this rather sounds like the reverse in order to preserve the presentation format. Agree it's confusing though. Although thanks for the tip - will now go and set mine

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Stuart Reynolds
The Post Office is quite happy to invent places and create addresses that don’t reflect the reality on the ground. For example, Shoeburyness is actually South Shoebury (the CofE church is still called St Andrews South Shoebury) but the PO insisted (in the dim and distant past) of calling it Sho

Re: [Talk-GB] Multiple coincident boundary nodes. Data quality issue ?

2017-08-23 Thread Stuart Reynolds
d) the "GB multipolygon" There are of course many possible definitions of the boundary of GB. Coastline? (Local) government jurisdiction? Territorial waters? EEZ? AFAIK this polygon in OSM is based on the coastline, but I might be wrong... --colin On 2017-08-23 10:22, Stuart Reynol

Re: [Talk-GB] Multiple coincident boundary nodes. Data quality issue ?

2017-08-23 Thread Stuart Reynolds
draw a north south line across the Thames Estuary, which irritates me for other reasons because it is a) artificial and b) frequently rendered, but it is better than a blanket assumption that the boundary must follow the high water mark. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east &a

[Talk-GB] An old chestnut - looking for clarity for road names beginning "St ..."

2017-07-17 Thread Stuart Reynolds
, and hence Ireland and a bit of Belgium) tells me that there are 10,324 ways which are named “Saint *” which potentially need changing if we agree that “St *” is correct. By contrast there are 26,559 ways that are named “St *”, and a further 7,252 that are named “St. *”. Regards, Stuart

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Stuart Reynolds
egards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 10 Jul 2017, at 17:20, Ed Loach mailto:edlo...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ew. Bus route relations are a real time consuming pain to maintain. It is possible to get both the Naptan data and the Traveline data under OGL https://dat

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Stuart Reynolds
omething with it, presentationally, for e.g. side by side comparisons with OSM if I do provide it? Many thanks Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 10 Jul 2017, at 13:48, Paul Berry mailto:pmberry2...@gmail.com>> wrote: You have a volunteer in me. Do you want t

Re: [Talk-GB] Museums in Berwick-upon-Tweed

2017-05-28 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Use DEFRA’s “Magic” map, which allows you to stick coordinates in in a wide variety of formats, and more importantly provides tools for seeing where a place is in a wide variety of different referencing systems. You can find it here: http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx Specifically, enteri

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-london] New OSM London Meetup - Invite

2017-05-09 Thread Stuart Reynolds
“big bang” from the NaPTAN data even if you later on wish to refine the entrances by survey. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 9 May 2017, at 07:14, Andrew Hain mailto:andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote: Does it include stations belonging to Ne

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-london] New OSM London Meetup - Invite

2017-05-08 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi All, For reference, virtually all of the entrances are contained within the London NaPTAN data (https://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan) which is the data that begins with the prefix 4900. The tube entrances all begin 4909ZZLU followed by a three letter code for the station plus a digit to distin

Re: [Talk-GB] Legally permitted vs inadvisable

2017-03-08 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hmm. Had forgotten that I had asked that. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 8 Mar 2017, at 11:34, Dan S mailto:danstowell+...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi foot=no would definitely be inappropriate! It would mean not permitted. This is basically the s

[Talk-GB] Legally permitted vs inadvisable

2017-03-08 Thread Stuart Reynolds
footpath across a break in the crash barriers - but we don’t have that on OSM, and I’m not about to add it in. http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/26237116#map=18/51.21188/1.16626 Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia ___ Tal

[Talk-GB] Church Towers and Steeples

2017-02-10 Thread Stuart Reynolds
could have church:tower= yes | no church:steeple= yes | no (which could assume the steeple on top of the tower, if both present) followed by the tower:tag=value sets as appropriate. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 10 Feb 2017, at 10:53, Dan S mailto:dansto

[Talk-GB] Church architecture tagging

2017-02-10 Thread Stuart Reynolds
steeples to be added, nor to have (for example) the height of tower, numbers of steps, flagpoles, bells, etc added (which could be useful). Am I right, or have I missed something? If right, do we need to agree a tagging scheme that would allow us to enter that info? Many thanks Regards, Stuart

Re: [Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the west mids

2017-02-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
gt; wrote: On 3 February 2017 at 19:29, Stuart Reynolds mailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote: Also, there is often some confusion about what name goes into which fields - people will insist on compounding names, for example, because that's what their consuming system wan

Re: [Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the west mids

2017-02-03 Thread Stuart Reynolds
read the data properly. But that’s too much to go into here, and if reviewing the names is in scope then I would be happy to offer to help. One of my other “hats" is as the Public Transport Data Standards Advisor / Expert for DfT, which includes advising on NAPTAN. Regards, Stuart Reynold

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Projects: further suggestions

2016-12-19 Thread Stuart Reynolds
I like the rail and bus station mapping. Even where information on National Rail Stations Made Easy exists, it is often out of date and is also not a 'data set' in the way we understand data. Take a look at Victoria Underground station in OSM to see what can be achieved with levels and all the

Re: [Talk-GB] GB Coastline - PGS vs OS

2016-12-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
and Google have a much more realistic “tide in” representation of the coastline! Shoeburyness in Essex is a lot better, but you can clearly see the admin boundaries at the edge of the sandbanks way out into the sea. Regards, Stuart Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & an

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping dangerous - but valid - routes

2016-12-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi Dave Don’t disagree - just wanted to see what the community thought. Are you Traveline? Yes, sorry - just took out my normal footer for some reason. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 5 Dec 2016, at 16:31, Dave F mailto:davefoxfa...@btinternet.com>>

[Talk-GB] Mapping dangerous - but valid - routes

2016-12-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Greetings At Stirling Corner, on the A1 in Barnet, there is a cycle way (hence also available for pedestrians) that goes around the outside of the roundabout (http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/78315291). A cursory glance at satellite mapping shows it to be well defined, and marked. But it will a

Re: [Talk-GB] access:psv

2016-10-14 Thread Stuart Reynolds
That was my understanding, yes. PSV is a wider-ranging mode than just bus. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 14 Oct 2016, at 16:43, Colin Smale mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>> wrote: Isn't bus just a hyponym of PSV anyway? PSV also includes t

Re: [Talk-GB] access:psv

2016-10-14 Thread Stuart Reynolds
ted by different people, and decided at that point to await any decision from this discussion before approaching individual users as I didn’t know how many there were. But if, as you say, kevjs1982 is responsible for the majority then I will approach him. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline

Re: [Talk-GB] access:psv

2016-10-14 Thread Stuart Reynolds
suggest that because it seemed wrong to me What’s the view? Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 14 Oct 2016, at 07:40, Stuart Reynolds mailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote: Hi Rob, I didn't manage to find that part of the Wiki! So thanks for br

Re: [Talk-GB] access:psv

2016-10-13 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi Rob, I didn't manage to find that part of the Wiki! So thanks for bringing it to my attention. I will take a look later. Regards Stuart Sent from my iPhone On 13 Oct 2016, at 23:34, Rob Nickerson mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>> wrote: Stuart, Putting "access:" in front of psv is a doc

Re: [Talk-GB] access:psv

2016-10-13 Thread Stuart Reynolds
according to a different thread today. And the whole purpose of me asking was, anyway, to find out if people had a real need to tag in this unusual way before I changed it, rather than to be told that if you found me doing it, you’d insist [my italics] on it being reverted. Regards, Stuart Reynolds

Re: [Talk-GB] access:psv

2016-10-13 Thread Stuart Reynolds
there, as it is to some extent the tagging bible, and it is quite clear that it should be psv=*. That and the fact that there are only 275 worldwide rather suggests that it is not an accepted tagging scheme. Regards, Stuart Stuart Reynolds for traveline south

[Talk-GB] access:psv

2016-10-13 Thread Stuart Reynolds
violent objections or wonders what I am up to. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] OSM and William Booth's Poor Map

2016-10-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
, defaults to using OSM as the background mapping layer, which sits behind the Booth Map. No idea where they are serving the tiles from, but it looks nice! http://phone.booth.lse.ac.uk if you want to check it out. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & an

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging redevelopment and closed roads

2016-09-20 Thread Stuart Reynolds
be retained when the development has finished. Thanks. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 20 Sep 2016, at 15:06, m...@chrisfleming.org<mailto:m...@chrisfleming.org> wrote: On 20/09/16 at 11:28am, Donald wrote: If a building or road is removed, and n

[Talk-GB] Tagging redevelopment and closed roads

2016-09-19 Thread Stuart Reynolds
stops - but what is the right way? Tagging the roads as access=no is simple enough, with a note, because I’m not sure (yet) of the end status. But is there a preferred way, and what about the car parks and the old bus station? How should that be dealt with. Many thanks Regards, Stuart Reynolds for

Re: [Talk-GB] Nottingham QMC Tram Station

2016-09-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Great, thanks. Stuart On 5 Sep 2016, at 20:31, SK53 mailto:sk53@gmail.com>> wrote: I'll have a quick look in the morning & adjust the mapping accordingly (it's under 10 minutes walk away). Cheers, Jerry On 5 September 2016 at 17:24, Stuart

[Talk-GB] Nottingham QMC Tram Station

2016-09-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
building=lift and highway=elevator, and two entrance nodes. This seems strange to me. Yes, it is in accordance with the wiki, but the elevator goes up and down, not round in a square, so it feels counter-intuitive to have a highway as an elevator (instead of as a node). Many thanks Regards, Stuart

[Talk-GB] Any mappers fancy visiting Luton Airport?

2016-07-14 Thread Stuart Reynolds
have access to is mapping, so OSM is out of date! Does anyone heading out that way feel like surveying? Many thanks. Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org h

[Talk-GB] How to mark something as closed

2016-07-01 Thread Stuart Reynolds
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[Talk-GB] Leicester Haymarket new road layout

2016-04-28 Thread Stuart Reynolds
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[Talk-GB] OSGR & OSM

2016-04-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Is there a site or tool somewhere where I can click on a point on an OSM tile and get back the OSGR? I want the quality of OSM, but need OSGR unfortunately. Thanks Stuart ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.

Re: [Talk-GB] Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

2016-03-29 Thread Stuart Reynolds
There are two huge advantages to OSM, even just looking at the UK. The first is timeliness. OSM is almost always faster with new features than OS (although accepting you also need a friendly local mapper). Just as a case in point, we were looking at Wickhurst Green, near Horsham, only this morni

[Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

2016-03-24 Thread Stuart Reynolds
suspect that it is the tip of an iceberg. Can I propose that someone who is more knowledgeable than me does a mechanical edit within the UK to correct “Cemetary” to “Cemetery”? Regards, Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia ___ Tal

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

2016-03-14 Thread Stuart Reynolds
there are defined access points and possibly central “information” points that could be considered “main entrances” or the focal point of the area. Regards, Stuart -------- Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 13 Mar 2016, at 17:31,

Re: [Talk-GB] Pubs as areas: should be map the property or the building?

2016-03-14 Thread Stuart Reynolds
The one pub that I plotted, I added when I was doing a couple of nearby schools and noticed that it was missing. I used exactly the same principle as for the schools - an outer “amenity=pub” polygon and an inner “building=pub” for the actual building. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/389684953

Re: [Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

2016-02-18 Thread Stuart Reynolds
I would stick with school. In Southend we have a number of primary schools with nursery units, called "XYZ Primary School & Nursery". Those would clearly be schools, and it makes no sense to have an artificial separation for others. Regards Stuart Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Feb 2016, at 21:1

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
regarded Hamlet/Village/Town as being population-based designators. Regards, Stuart Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 12 Feb 2016, at 13:15, Colin Smale mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>> wrote: According to Wikipedia, it is country

Re: [Talk-GB] Size of download into JOSM

2016-02-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 12 Feb 2016, at 10:35, SK53 mailto:sk53@gmail.com>> wrote: It's a limitation in the API (quarter of a degree or 50k nodes IIRC), so Southend has crept over that limit. There are a nu

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
hanks. Stuart ---- Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia m: +44 7788 106165 skype: stuartjreynolds > On 12 Feb 2016, at 09:51, Stuart Reynolds > wrote: > > +1 for school=shared_site, or perhaps (to keep it within the amenity tag) > amenity=campus or something li

[Talk-GB] Size of download into JOSM

2016-02-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
r9329) it is telling me that it is a bad request and that the area is too large. It’s a pain if I want to work on multiple schools to have to download bits of the town. Thanks. Stuart Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia m: +44 7788 106165 s

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia m: +44 7788 106165 skype: stuartjreynolds > On 12 Feb 2016, at 09:11, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) > wrote: > > A couple of areas where I think we could improve on our tagging to > help data users: >

Re: [Talk-GB] The Park, Nottingham

2016-01-28 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi Jerry, Many thanks for that view. I’m quite happy to add foot=permissive instead of doing my proposed changes - looking for better solutions was why I asked! Regards, Stuart Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 28 Jan 2016, at 1

[Talk-GB] The Park, Nottingham

2016-01-28 Thread Stuart Reynolds
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Re: [Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

2016-01-26 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi Dudley, Why? If an organisation wants to be a member, why shouldn’t it have a say in how OSM UK is run, including being nominated for and electing members to committees. I’m quite comfortable with requiring an individual to be nominated, which we can consider not allowing to be delegated, a

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering of layers

2016-01-21 Thread Stuart Reynolds
ut it really is a bridge at Reading. At Gatwick it is a whole building over the tracks. So, to me, Reading looks like it has been mapped for the renderer, rather than representing what is physically on the ground. Regards Stuart Stuart Reynolds for traveline

[Talk-GB] Rendering of layers

2016-01-21 Thread Stuart Reynolds
them? See http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.15634/-0.16124 Thanks Stuart ---- Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstree

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Multiple Schools on one site

2016-01-17 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 17 Jan 2016, at 13:46, Colin Spiller mailto:co...@thespillers.org.uk>> wrote: Here in West Yorkshire, I have a newly-rebuilt Beckfoot School, sharing the site and facilities with Hazelbeck Special School. As far as I k

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools project - update

2016-01-13 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia > On 13 Jan 2016, at 15:28, Dave F. wrote: > > Hi > > Is there a similar national database for nurseries, or would that be > controlled by individual local authorities? > > Further comments in-line >

Re: [Talk-GB] Assistance fixing wonky bits of London?

2016-01-13 Thread Stuart Reynolds
OK, thanks - I’ve just changed the names of the stop, stop_position and relation to Waterloo Road, then. The TfL stop data has longer names, but this is what is written on the bus stop flags. Regards, Stuart Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east

[Talk-GB] Assistance fixing wonky bits of London?

2016-01-13 Thread Stuart Reynolds
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Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-08 Thread Stuart Reynolds
I wouldn’t like to say that it is definitive, because I haven't added playgrounds, parking or recreation facilities, but try http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/36439931 or http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/49655265#map=18/51.55355/0.69659 both of which relate to Southend High School for Boys

Re: [Talk-GB] More questions on Schools project

2016-01-08 Thread Stuart Reynolds
? Should I also name it? The schools are Hamstel Junior School and Hamstel Infants School, together known as Hamstel Schools (which is what the single node currently has in OSM). Cheers Stuart On 8 Jan 2016, at 15:21, Stuart Reynolds mailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote: …a

Re: [Talk-GB] More questions on Schools project

2016-01-08 Thread Stuart Reynolds
…and two schools, one site? Cheers Stuart On 8 Jan 2016, at 13:27, SK53 mailto:sk53@gmail.com>> wrote: On 8 January 2016 at 12:22, Stuart Reynolds mailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote: Hi All, I have some questions about naming, and also the content of Eduba

[Talk-GB] More questions on Schools project

2016-01-08 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi All, I have some questions about naming, and also the content of Edubase. In Southend (SS postcode area) there are some schools which have “alternative” names by which they are more commonly known. One example is Leigh, where the school is always known locally as “Leigh North Street”. So sho

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-08 Thread Stuart Reynolds
update it to match on the edubase tags in the first instance. Regards, Stuart On 8 Jan 2016, at 07:21, Stuart Reynolds mailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote: Brilliant, thanks. As per Rob's email of yesterday, should we also add ref:seedcode for Scotland? Cheers Stuart On

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-07 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Brilliant, thanks. As per Rob's email of yesterday, should we also add ref:seedcode for Scotland? Cheers Stuart > On 7 Jan 2016, at 23:01, Andy Mabbett wrote: > >> On 7 January 2016 at 20:48, Brian Prangle wrote: >> >> If no-one objects to ref:edubase can someone add it to the wiki? We sh

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-07 Thread Stuart Reynolds
hard-surfaced school playgrounds. Clearly, using the existing leisure=playground is a poor idea as it changes the meaning of existing mapped objects; and also many primary schools will have a proper playground too. Jerry On 6 January 2016 at 12:42, Stuart Reynolds mailto:stu...@travelinesout

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-06 Thread Stuart Reynolds
17:03, Stuart Reynolds wrote: * draw and tag the boundary polygon with a minimum of o amenity=school o name=* o ref=* * add entrances o at least one entrance=main o barrier=gate where appropriate - I would have thought most schools will have gates o others ent

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-06 Thread Stuart Reynolds
. e.g. postbox numbers Regards, Jez On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 at 17:05 Stuart Reynolds mailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote: I’m thinking that while we are reviewing the schools, it would be a good idea to add the Edubase reference into a Ref tag for each school boundary polygon, to

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
I’m thinking that while we are reviewing the schools, it would be a good idea to add the Edubase reference into a Ref tag for each school boundary polygon, to make it easier to track in future. Is that reference stable enough? If we think that it is a good idea, perhaps we could make it part of a

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project: Map of changesets

2016-01-04 Thread Stuart Reynolds
can access in JOSM does. So it is of necessity approximate (and completely ignores the fact that it is on stilts as it was built on a flood plain) - but at least it is there. Cheers Stuart Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 4 Jan 2016

Re: [Talk-GB] Updating maps

2016-01-04 Thread Stuart Reynolds
ic has similar policies. But to know what they are, you would have to ask them. Regards, Stuart ---- Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 4 Jan 2016, at 10:35, Adrian Berendt mailto:adrian.beren...@gmail.com>> wrote: I made a change to o

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

2015-11-01 Thread Stuart Reynolds
I don't like it for the simple reason that I think it will fail to win over new Uk users. There are plenty of people who just want to use default tiles to show a location on - sports pitch, scout hall, whatever - and those people will inevitably go to Google. Sure, we understand the differences

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Romantic London' - reusing Horwood's 1790's map

2015-10-27 Thread Stuart Reynolds
For those of you interested in old maps generally, you may already be aware of the site http://www.mapco.net/ which has a wide selection of freely-viewable historical maps of London and other places. They are only images, and they are not digitised, however they are very useful for finding old p

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A "UK/GB OpenStreetMap group"?

2015-07-13 Thread Stuart Reynolds
…and what does “support the development of OSM tools and apps” mean in this context? Support in the sense that we think its great and will promote / aid / assist, or support in the sense that we hand over a sum of money towards development? And in that case, where does it come from? The membersh

Re: [Talk-GB] Data Model for Address

2015-05-29 Thread Stuart Reynolds
FWIW, Google and Bing don’t understand it either! Friends of ours have an address of the format: 1 Cherry Cottages Lime Avenue Cranleigh (not a real address, although the town is real enough!) Bing gave me the equivalent of 1 Lime Avenue, which was at least in the right town, while Google gave

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

2015-05-22 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Without wanting to get into specific tags, or indeed into specific renderers, let’s step back and see if what we have got is what we want? The answer is probably no, IMHO. Take Newnham College (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.19959/0.10973&layers=H) which I know fairly well. It is one s

[Talk-GB] Can anyone help with mapping in Stanford-le-Hope?

2015-04-22 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Greetings, Is there a friendly mapper out there local to Stanford-le-Hope who wouldn’t mind surveying the new Sorrell’s Rounabout junction at The Manorway / Corringham Road? OSM at present has only part of the change and Google has slightly more (the top third of the new roundabout), but still

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