[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Balsall Common armchair mapping cake
Hi all, As discussed at the last meetup (http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2012/11/november-pub-meeting.html) a few of us are thinking of doing a little armchair (followed by a survey?) mapping of Balsall Common, particularly focusing on buildings. I see that Brian has already started a bit and I've been doing a little today. To make sure that we don't have more than one person doing the same area of the town, I thought I'd put together a cake using MapCraft. You can view the cake at http://mapcraft.nanodesu.ru/pie/164 and you can reserve (and mark as in-progress/done) the various slices if you log in with your OSM account. I haven't really used MapCraft before but I know the Londoners use it for their mapping parties so we should see how it goes. Matt ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Balsall Common armchair mapping cake
Hi Matt Great tool! Looks like it will be useful. Let's see how it goes and maybe do a cake with this tool for Balti Triangle? Regards Brian On 4 November 2012 17:26, Matt Williams m...@milliams.com wrote: Hi all, As discussed at the last meetup (http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2012/11/november-pub-meeting.html) a few of us are thinking of doing a little armchair (followed by a survey?) mapping of Balsall Common, particularly focusing on buildings. I see that Brian has already started a bit and I've been doing a little today. To make sure that we don't have more than one person doing the same area of the town, I thought I'd put together a cake using MapCraft. You can view the cake at http://mapcraft.nanodesu.ru/pie/164 and you can reserve (and mark as in-progress/done) the various slices if you log in with your OSM account. I haven't really used MapCraft before but I know the Londoners use it for their mapping parties so we should see how it goes. Matt ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!
WARNING: CHECK YOUR BOUNDARIES! Longbow4u has been causing other problems with these edits as well. In Kent the boundaries of Ashford and Shepway districts have been emptied of ways. The addition of wikipedia links is continuing apace, sometimes in English, sometimes in German. This changeset seems particularly problematic: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13577241 I have sent him/her a message requesting them to repair the damage to these boundary relations and have suggested rolling back that whole changeset might be a good place to start. Colin On 21/10/2012 17:08, Robert Norris wrote: Seeing these edits: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Longbow4u/edits http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13577963 to add a tags such as wikipedia = de:Portsmouth One can't help but wonder what the point of such tags are (an indeed website), as any intelligent web search based on the name of the object (and +wikipedia) and maybe UK or the county will usually takes to one the web site (or wikipedia) of that item and probably in the right language too... (even if I often tag POIs with websites myself...) This sort of automatic search linking would be much web 2.0, than the pile of URL related values in the DB. 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 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data
On 30 October 2012 19:24, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the postcode data from it and created a tile overlay which can help find a postcode for a building in GB, excluding Northern Ireland. More info is at http://onspd.raggedred.net including using the tiles layers in Potlatch 2 JOSM. [1] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/products/postcode-directories/-nspp-/index.html [2] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ While [1] says ONS Intellectual Property in the postcode products is supplied under Open Government Licence terms that only refers to ONS's IP rights, and doesn't say anything about anyone else's IP rights... If we follow the licenses link to [3] we find why there is this strange wording: Postcode products: The ONS postcode directories are subject to the Open Government Licence, and Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence. So it's not correct to say that the data has been released under the Open Government License. Unfortunately, it looks like we're back to the same problem we had with CodePoint Open: The ONS dataset presumably contains IP from Royal Mail under the OS OpenData License. When LWG enquired a while ago, the answer came back that we weren't allowed to use CodePoint Open under the OS OpenData License, because we hadn't got permission from Royal Mail. I don't see that this new dataset is going to be any different. But if you think there's a case to be made for being able to use it this time, I think you'll need to run it by LWG first and get their approval. Sorry to have to throw a spanner in the works here, Robert. [3] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/beginner-s-guide/licences/index.html -- Robert Whittaker ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data
Hi Robert, The odd statement on ONS's website seems to be more related to the Northern Ireland part of the dataset. If you see the full statement on the licenses page then it states clearly that the data is available under OGL (see below). The same statement is also made in the download file itself. On a related note, we now have the support of the Open Data User Group (ODUG), who have issued a paper calling for the release of address data as open data. As you may or may not recall, ODUG reports in to the Cabinet Office and is responsible for identify public sector datasets that should be made openly available. Regards Rob == Quoted text below == *Copyright and reproduction* © Crown copyright 2012 You may re-use this information (not including logos or Northern Ireland data) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. However, the following attribution statement must be acknowledged or displayed on any product using ONS data: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012 Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2012 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data
Rob Nickerson wrote: On a related note, we now have the support of the Open Data User Group (ODUG), who have issued a paper calling for the release of address data as open data. As you may or may not recall, ODUG reports in to the Cabinet Office and is responsible for identify public sector datasets that should be made openly available. I haven't had a reply to my own request re the NSG and NLPG stuff, but presumably there were a substantial number of requests for the same data! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
