Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

[Alison Smith]

Hi 
Sorry to miss the social meet last night hoping to be at next one.

I think it was at local gov camp recently someone mentioned that Royal Mail 
were documenting not only every post box but also the location of letterboxes 
on every house ...

With scraperwiki could link that to what postoffices have disabled access 
http://pola.directenquiries.com/defaultPOL.aspx although it is questionable 
about how accurate it is as saying for example the Birmingham branch says it 
has wheelchair access doesn't account for the gradient outsides such as the 
main one in Birmingham.
Birmingham Branch
1 Pinfold Street
Birmingham
B2 4AA

It says parking within 50 meters but no mention of uphill gradient that you 
then have to go up to top of Pinfold Street and round down Hill Street 
negociating a steep hill to get the wheelchair accessible entrance  in 
ironically named Hill Street (Pinfold Street has steep flight of steps into 
building)
cheers,
Alison

On 3 Aug 2012, at 11:37, Andy Robinson wrote:

What licence is the data under?
 
Cheers
Andy
 
From: Stuart Harrison [mailto:pezho...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 03 August 2012 11:26
To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

 
Hi all,
 
Good to see those who came to the social in Coleshill last night. As I 
mentioned, I've got the locations of all the postboxes and post offices in the 
UK (taken from this FOI request) in Scraperwiki here:
 
https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/uk_postboxes/
 
(Ignore what it says about the error, all the data is there). If you're not 
familiar with Scraperwiki, you can query the data and get it back in a variety 
of formats by clicking 'Explore with API'. It's basically SQL, so if you know 
what you're doing with SQL, then you should be good.
 
If anyone wants any pointers, let me know. Will be interested to see what 
people do with it!
 
Cheers
 
Stuart
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Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre Bus Interchange

[Alison Smith]

Birmingham council put a 2 page spread in the metro which showed the stops that 
all buses start from in the city centre
http://www.connectedcity.org.uk/

I'll look in recycling to see if I can find the insert the put in the metro 
paper.

It lists the number of bus and location of the bus stop (code that is).

Might help?
best wishes
Alison

On 17 Jul 2012, at 15:42, Brian Prangle wrote:

Hi everyone:

This Sunday 22 July all the bus routes and bus stops change in Birmingham to 
allow Corporation St to become free of buses prior to work on the Metro 
extension. This follows months of roadworks and temporary closures. Judging by 
the state of work today I shall be surprised if everything is ready.

 All the bus stops are changing name and there are lots of new ones being 
erected. Moor Street Queensway has already been dual directioned ( changed 
already in OSM). Some streets will have there one way direction changed and 
some will become pedestrianised. I've got a list and map of all the changes 
from a Centro exhibition bus so I can get the bus stops entered. I'm proposing 
to delete all previous naptan info where a bus stop has disappeared or moved. 
Bus route relations I shall leave to the experts, just deleting them from 
Corporation Street, Bull Street and any other obvious streets( except for the 
route I use regularly -  the 37). Anyone want to help? It will good PR if we 
can get the changes done within a day

Regards

Brian
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