[Talk-GB] Fwd: Event reminder - ON LOCATION: Organizing and using geospatial information
FYI... -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- Forwarded message -- From: Bob Bater bba...@knowplexity.com Date: Mar 8, 2012 7:36 PM Subject: Event reminder - ON LOCATION: Organizing and using geospatial information To: dc-architect...@jiscmail.ac.uk Places are filling up fast for this afternoon event in London at the end of March. Don't miss out!* * *ISKO UK **and the BCS Location Information Specialist Group (LISG)* *Thursday 29th March (14.00-18.00)* *Wilkes Room - British Computer Society London Office* At this half-day event in Central London, we will hear from experts about the current geospatial information landscape and its challenges, some of the standards and frameworks that have been put into place to ensure interoperability and the potential for linking data. We will also hear how some users of GIS systems have applied them in their own organizations. The event is *free* to ISKO and BCS members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just *£40, payable in advance*. Registration opens at *1.45*, immediately following the ISKO UK AGM, and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m. The programme will be followed by a chance to network, with wine and nibbles. The topics and speakers are: - The landscape and challenges of geospatial information in 2012* - **Mike Sanderson**, 1Spatial* * *- INSPIRE and the work of UK Location - *Alex Coley**, Chair of the UK Location Programme Architecture Interoperability Board * - Linking geographic data for research - *Jo Walsh*, *EDINA* ** ** **- The development and application of GIS in health protection - *Matt Bull**, Health Protection Agency* ** **- Organising and using location data in the Environment Agency - *Stefan Carlyle**, Environment Agency** * * *- AddressBase – developing a unique national address gazetteer - *Carsten Rönsdorf and Nick Turner**,* *Ordnance Survey* You will find the full programme and booking details via the ISKO UK sitehttp://www.iskouk.org/events/location_march2012.htm. Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested. We hope to see you there. Apologies for cross-posting. ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Our UK emphasis is to build bridges between the research and practitioner communities, with the UK Chapter attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meetings. You can see past and future events at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm , most with MP3 recordings. BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, champions the global IT profession and the interests of individuals engaged in that profession for the benefit of all. Among its many specialist groups is the Location Information SG enabling BCS members to be well informed and understand the issues and best practices associated with geospatial technology, which is becoming increasingly visible to business and the public. ** ** ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go
MarkS wrote: The page has the latest counts (down to 1889 currently expected to be deleted). And now 1733 by Simon's latest tally. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Licence-change-one-month-to-go-tp5531132p5549953.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Bing Images
I've not seen this before on Bing Images but it was bound to happen sooner or later: http://binged.it/xjBXPn Nick. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Mapquest routing
On 8 March 2012 20:55, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: Its not an OSM problem, but anyone any idea why they have done it like this? I'll bet it's to do with the US. I think that in the US we are mapping freeways as either highway=motorway (for freeways that cross state lines, i.e. Interstates) or highway=trunk (for freeways that don't). So, translating it to the UK, the avoid freeways option becomes avoid motorways, but still disables both highway=motorway and highway=trunk. Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bing Images
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 10:29 +, Nick Austin wrote: I've not seen this before on Bing Images but it was bound to happen sooner or later: hmmm, what should we map that as? ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Bing imagery update? using photo's from late 2011?
I've just noticed an update to Bing imagery in the UK. Area I was looking at was Torbay, Devon. [link http://binged.it/yq8NYY]. The updates images are not available at full zoom for some reason, so by zooming all the way in you can see the previous images. Finding it hard to give a date to the images, but I think for Torbay they were taken in late summer 2011. I've spotted land changes in images for South London that indicate a recent imagery update there. Has this happened across the UK? Apologies is this info has already come up in the list. Jason ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bing Images
The node below it should be tagged as: under_flight_path=yes! From: h...@cantab.net To: nick.w.aus...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:33:30 + CC: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bing Images On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 10:29 +, Nick Austin wrote: I've not seen this before on Bing Images but it was bound to happen sooner or later: hmmm, what should we map that as? ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery update? using photo's from late 2011?
On 9 March 2012 14:22, Mike Valiant mike_vali...@hotmail.com wrote: On their website, if you select Bird's Eye view then the view stays the same to maximum resolution. If however you select Aerial view it uses images taken at a different time and then flips to the Bird's Eye view at the highest resolution. Not in London. Bizarrely, if you look at the Olympic Park in Bird's Eye view it is pre-demolition of the old industrial estates! http://binged.it/zs8itS The same appears to be the case across other parts of the capital. Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery update? using photo's from late 2011?
http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/ is the best method of checking imagery date Cheers Andy From: Jason Cunningham [mailto:jamicu...@googlemail.com] Sent: 09 March 2012 13:26 To: Talk GB Subject: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery update? using photo's from late 2011? I've just noticed an update to Bing imagery in the UK. Area I was looking at was Torbay, Devon. [link http://binged.it/yq8NYY ]. The updates images are not available at full zoom for some reason, so by zooming all the way in you can see the previous images. Finding it hard to give a date to the images, but I think for Torbay they were taken in late summer 2011. I've spotted land changes in images for South London that indicate a recent imagery update there. Has this happened across the UK? Apologies is this info has already come up in the list. Jason ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Mapquest routing
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:22 +, Andrew wrote: Andy Allan gravitystorm@... writes: I'll bet it's to do with the US. I think that in the US we are mapping freeways as either highway=motorway (for freeways that cross state lines, i.e. Interstates) or highway=trunk (for freeways that don't). So, translating it to the UK, the avoid freeways option becomes avoid motorways, but still disables both highway=motorway and highway=trunk. This is the same problem as Openmtbmap sending bicycles away from highway=trunk roads and is really an ambiguity in the tag. In the US and Germany it is used for less-than-motorway roads but in Britain, although some roads tagged that way are like that, it is very often more-than-primary. Thanks for that information Andy and Andrew. That probably explains the reasons, and having looked at areas of Canada and Germany I am familiar with I can see that the usage of road classification tags is really not what I was expecting. I have never driven in the US so cannot really compare anything. In Canada the freeways are motorways, but green trunk roads are very few and far between. The roads I would expect to be trunk are primary, red. Many roads I would consider tertiary are marked as secondary, I really would not consider many of them to be B roads. I cannot find any tertiary roads at all. In Germany, the less than motorway road I am familiar with (Blue sign with a car) between Freiburg and Hinterzarten is tagged as Trunk where it is a dual carriageway and primary on the single carriagway sections. If I had been mapping it I would have used the motorway tag, as it has motorway prohibitions. Thanks again Phil ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Beta test of cycling date merge-tool
On 24 January 2012 03:09, Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote: The Taunton Sedgemoor import data seems pretty messed up. Eg Mansuel Road, seems have picked out wrong points (over 5+ miles away) to generate crazily wrong geometry. Thanks Robert - I'll have a look at that and find out what's gone wrong. Other areas look OK. Great! I don't want to steal Andy's thunder, but I thought I'd check the progress and what good timing! . My reported geometry issues are solved. . Many more areas have been processed (~ 1/3 of DfT areas including my local area*) Updates (yesterday) are on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DfT_Cycling_Data_2011 But I thought a heads up on the GB mailing list would be useful too.* Portsmouth - however I may wait until after the license change before arm-chair mapping updates... ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Online Tools for Searching Changeset Comments?
Are there any online tools for Searching Changeset Comments? Preferably by area ala OWL, but perhaps also on a per user basis? I appreciate this is probably computationally intensive / large resources required. Be Seeing You - Rob. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
