[Talk-GB] OS Landform Panorama files

2011-10-27 Thread Tom Chance 
Hello there,

I've been experimenting with Maperitive to make walking maps,
http://tom.acrewoods.net/2011/10/26/making-open-data-maps-the-almost-easy-way

I had some trouble getting the OS Land-form Panorama files into the correct
format, but managed to get the right files off a subscriber-only train
enthusiast web site. The files Nick put up, linked from here, didn't play
with Maperitive and are divided up into smaller tiles:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Creating_a_panorama_with_OS_OpenData

I've now put the SRTM1 files that Maperitive can use up here, if somebody
would like to give them a more permanent home be my guest:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24981_GB-N51-N49.rar
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24983_GB-N52.rar
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24984_GB-N54-N53.rar
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24985_GB-N56-N55.rar
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24986_GB-N60-N57.rar

Regards,
Tom

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Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-27 Thread Graham Jones 
I knew it was debatable - should have kept quiet!

from my phone

On 27 Oct 2011 13:30, "Steve Doerr"  wrote:

On 27/10/2011 10:57, Graham Jones wrote:
>I always think of Civilization being an American spell...
Oh, that old chestnut! No, not at all. For verbs in -ize/-ise (and hence
derived nouns in -ization/-isation), -z- has long been the preferred
spelling for such scholarly British publishers as the Oxford University
Press - including in the great Oxford English Dictionary (published from
1888 onwards).

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Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-27 Thread Steve Doerr 

On 27/10/2011 10:57, Graham Jones wrote:
>I always think of Civilization being an American spelling

Oh, that old chestnut! No, not at all. For verbs in -ize/-ise (and hence 
derived nouns in -ization/-isation), -z- has long been the preferred 
spelling for such scholarly British publishers as the Oxford University 
Press - including in the great Oxford English Dictionary (published from 
1888 onwards).


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Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-10-27 Thread Gervase Markham 
On 04/07/11 13:53, Michael Collinson wrote:
> At the moment, this excludes Code-Point Open, (postcode) data since they
> are awaiting a response from Royal Mail who have rights in that dataset.

I just dropped in to find out why I still can't search for most full UK
postcodes using Nominatim, and if there was anything I can do to help.
Do I take it that this is the reason? :-|

Gerv



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Re: [Talk-GB] "Freemap-VMD" : OpenData plus OSM footpaths

2011-10-27 Thread Borbus 
On 23/10/11 12:06, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Did an initial experiment with this a while back but now I've
> extended the area of coverage to include much of England and all of
> Wales.

Looks good, although I think the VMD layer is too transparent; I
struggle to see where RoWs join up to roads as the road seems to
disappear at that point.

Have you tried adding barrier=fence/wall/hedge to it?  I know they're
not on the OS Landrangers, but they are very useful when they are there.
 Maybe they only work at 1:25k, though.

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Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-27 Thread Graham Jones 
>
>
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.**org/keys/historic%**3Acivilization#values
>
> It doesn't have a specific count for the UK but it does have a "map" tag
> (which seems to indicate very few isolated uses in the UK).
>
> Thank you! - I managed to find them, but hoped to do a bit more searching
on my own database in case someone else had started a scheme that I could
not find documented.

As yet another aside, I thought the convention in OSM was to use English,
but I always think of Civilization being an American spelling...I will
definitely need to make a tool to add these tags or I will mis-spell it a
lot!

Regards


Graham.

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Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-27 Thread Graham Jones 
I have been pondering this issue myself and have thought using a
> combination of historic:era (Mesolithic | Neolithic | Bronze | Iron |
> Roman | Saxon | Norman | Middle Ages | ...) for objects with era based
> timing and/or more date specific where appropriate.


I have had a first go at putting together a scheme on a wiki page (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Historic_Britain), along with
a 'todo' list of things that will need to happen for this to take off (in
particular I think we will need some tools to make it easy to add extra
information).

I would welcome thoughts on the proposed tagging scheme, because in doing it
I realised how shaky some of my knowledge of UK history is.

Another area that has been murdering grey-matter is change of function,
> for example a Saxon Monastery, built say 6th Century, swallowed by
> Glastonbury Abbey 11th Century, became a Manor in the dissolution
> then a hospital/convalescence home for WW1, Military headquarters in
> WW2, a hotel in the 1960s and now luxury apartments.
>
> I think if this is the case we should use multiple values for the
civilization/period/era tags, with a suitable separator (comma would do me),
then we can just select for any tag containing 'roman' and put it in the
roman map.

>
> I would definitely be interested in such a map, I would even be happy
> to contribute my time to it's development
>
> Excellent! - Please feel free to have a go at the wiki page I have started
- once we are heading to convergence on what should be done, we can go
through the todo list to see who would like to do what!

Regards


Graham.

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