Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

[Andy G Wood]

On Friday, 24 July 2020 14:41:08 BST Mark Goodge wrote:
> On 24/07/2020 13:20, Martin Wynne wrote:
> >   > but most people I know aren't aware of OSM.
> >
> > I've been trying to persuade country-walking groups to use OSM. There is
> > a lot of useful stuff there not shown on OS Explorer -- stiles, kissing
> > gates, benches, bus stops, all pubs, cafes, etc. It's a lot more
> > up-to-date, and if they find anything missing they can add it themselves
> > for the benefit of others.
> >
> > Most of them go back to OS Explorer when they find UK public rights of
> > way are not shown in different colours on the OSM standard map.
>
> Yes; this is an issue specifically for map users on foot. With roads,
> the question of legality is much less of an issue - almost all roads of
> any significance are public highways, and those that are not are usually
> clearly marked as such. But with footpaths and farm tracks in open
> countryside, there is often no obvious visual distinction, and yet the
> legality is a critical factor to users. This is an area in which OS maps
> are much more useful to walkers.

Not convinced that this is a significant web rendering issue.  For me, saving
battery by not being on-line all the time is a major driver when hiking.
Swapping to OsmAnd gives all the benefits of OSM maps and many path/footpath
rendering options.

Andy.



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Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Stickers

[Andy G Wood]

On Monday, 3 February 2020 12:26:08 GMT Tony OSM wrote:
[...]
> Would it be possible to create stickers containing QR code for UK or
> locations such a AGM in Leeds?

Generate your own with qrencode [1] ... for URL also see attached.

Andy.

[1] https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode
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Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging ad hoc parking places?

[Andy G Wood]

On Friday, 31 January 2020 11:41:41 GMT Martin Wynne wrote:
> On 31/01/2020 11:13, ael wrote:
> > OK. I agree that parking=layby is much better.
> 
> Thanks for the comments.
> But the places I was asking about can't really be called laybys, or car
> parks. Somewhere that a car could be left for a few hours out of
> anyone's way on an otherwise long narrow lane:
>   https://goo.gl/maps/nSTAbnE4nYXTBAz59
> It would be very helpful for country walkers to be able to locate such
> places from a map in advance of a visit. But how to tag them?

If a car is left for any length of time then it is parked ;-)
For me the most logical is amenity=parking as a node.

Andy.




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Re: [Talk-GB] Reference numbers for UK admin areas?

[Andy G Wood]

Great work Roland.
I am beginning to understand what an amazing tool Overpass is.

Andy.

On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:17:31 GMT Roland Olbricht wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm at the moment writing a documentation for the Overpass API.
> > The challenge was to get Overpass to return grit bins in /this /Sutton,
> > and not in all places called Sutton.
> Coincidentially, I just have translated a section about that type of
> question:
> https://dev.overpass-api.de/overpass-doc/en/full_data/area.html#per_tag
> I'm grateful for the oppurtunity to place this appetizer.
> Please feel free to ask any questions. The audience of this
> documentation are average mappers, thus all feedback can help to expand
> or clarify sections that are incomprehensible.
> As this is work in progress, I'm sorry that not yet all cross references
> within the documentation work, usually because the referenced content is
> not yet translated.
> I'm confident to have it complete before the end of the year. I will
> make an annoucement when the documentation is referentially complete and
> again when it is content complete.
> 
> Best regards,
> Roland




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Re: [Talk-GB] Ground truth v legal truth

[Andy G Wood]

On Friday, 19 July 2019 13:30:48 BST Martin Wynne wrote:
> On 19/07/2019 12:55, David Woolley wrote:
> ...
> 
> > (As a variation on the last point, one of my pet hates, these days, is
> > how few houses now have house numbers in the UK.  It make it difficult
> > to give accurate locations for fly tips
> 
> Have you seen: https://what3words.com/
[...]

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I think you can guess the rest!

Andy.






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Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

[Andy G Wood]

On Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:22:58 GMT Mark Goodge wrote:
> On 12/12/2018 23:11, ael wrote:
> > This is perhaps slightly off topic, but this habit of some of sharing
> > nodes causes me many problems. When I am updating roads and other
> > features from fairly accurate gps surveys, I often find the I have all
> > these tangled boundaries about which I know little. It is a huge pain
> > to duplicate nodes to separate ways before I can adjust just the feature
> > that I have surveyed. I confess that my patience often runs out, and I
> > just drag the other stuff along with my updates, thinking that the
> > mappers who shared the nodes in the first place get what they deserve
> > 
> > :-).
> 
> I agree. [...]

I also wholeheartedly agree.
However I think this problem is not helped by the fact that the iD editor, by 
default, will snap to nearest points.  You may be able to change this (?), but 
I have kept with the defaults, so this will be a "feature" that many mappers 
just go with as the accepted norm.

Andy.




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Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Andy G Wood]

Hi Robert,

> There's still a lot to do though. In particular, there are around 3800
> branches in the official list that are not currently mapped in OSM,
> and around 1000 amenity=post_office objects that correspond to
> branches that are probably now closed. How may of these can we survey
> and fix in the next two months?

I know one of the unmapped post offices is still "open" in my village
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/branch/110053
however, it is basically a mobile van that turns up on the village green for 
some hours a few days a week.  How can this be mapped?

Andy.




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Re: [Talk-GB] Petrol stations again

[Andy G Wood]

On Friday, 9 March 2018 09:38:04 GMT Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> On 8 March 2018 at 21:28, SK53  wrote:
> > You may not be aware of a new planned import of petrol stations by Ilya.
> > 
> > The dataset is downloadable, but is large to deal with even in QGIS, and
> > the direct website link at the time of writing is unusable by me. I
> > therefore thought it was useful to create a umap with only those stations
> > which are to
> > be added (a little under 400) and deleted (only 3):
> Many thanks for
> http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fuel-stations-import_203895

Other examples of likely unnecessary additions include:

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fuel-stations-import_203895#18/52.39835/0.27310
http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fuel-stations-import_203895#18/52.94924/-0.67782
http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fuel-stations-import_203895#18/53.76804/-0.32583
http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fuel-stations-import_203895#17/53.66426/-1.44617

Andy.


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