[Talk-GB] Ramblers Scotland - Mapping Scotland's "lost" paths

I've just recently become aware of this project where they're finding "lost" paths, although all the examples they've given so far have been mapped on OSM for ages, there is also a great quote from there head: "OSM has been a vital resource for this project & there is no doubt it has the most

Re: [Talk-GB] Great North Trail MTB Route

On 12/07/20 at 02:17pm, Andy Townsend wrote: On 12/07/2020 12:32, Adam Snape wrote: My main concern here is about whether we should be mapping unmarked routes at all and especially whether it is okay to import them without discussion or the explicit permission of the copyright

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding missing roads using Facebook detections

I've spotted some edits using this, such as: https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=82807938=true After a ropey start, in general I've been quite impressed by Amazon's edits, but this one looks quite ropey, the service road drawn in is very ropey and it looks like you've missed the connection

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

On 08/03/20 at 08:22pm, Andy Townsend wrote: On 08/03/2020 19:57, Andrew Hain wrote: Is there a resource I can point anyone who puts C numbers in the ref tag of roads at? Possibly the best place is previous discussions on this list, or links from there? It's perhaps also

Re: [Talk-GB] New Entertainment venue - what tags?

On 29/12/19 at 10:40am, Tony OSM wrote: Hi In Chorley a new entertainment business has opened - https://www.escapeentertainmentvenue.co.uk/ It's primary offering is TenPin bowling, Gator Adventure golf (a form of indoor golf) and a bar & restaurant. What is the best way to tag? One

Re: [Talk-GB] multiple GB lists

On 04/04/19 at 10:12am, Jez Nicholson wrote: Demonstrating my ignorance, I did not know until recently that there are other GB lists, shown here with their last used date: talk-gb-london/ 2019-03-14 14:35 talk-gb-midanglia/ 2016-06-17 15:15 talk-gb-oxoncotswolds/ 2018-11-21 18:43

Re: [Talk-GB] account disabled due to bounces

Yup same here. Although I had assumed that it was because I forward my mail to gmail. Cheers Chris On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 09:16 Dan S wrote: > It happened to me too today, FWIW. > > Best > Dan > > Op ma 14 jan. 2019 om 09:10 schreef Jez Nicholson >: > > > > I get the occasional email from

Re: [Talk-GB] Queensferry Crossing

I am just checking over it now. On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, 10:30 Tom Hughes wrote: > On 30/08/17 10:26, Tom Hughes wrote: > > > As best I can tell from wikipedia the new bridge is the M90 and under > > motorway conditions with the old bridge presumably expected to carry > >

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

Also meant to add to my last email. Has anyone been in touch with tintin2873? Cheers Chris On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 23:15 wrote: > On 10/05/16 at 08:59pm, Eric Grosso wrote: > > I removed the NCN names associated to the roads/paths in Edinburgh (at > > least until the City

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Board of directors

Yes great notes. Unfortunately the calls are just when I doing "bedtime" so I've not been able to make any. In practical terms a variable size board allows a bit a flexibility to size the board according to how many people are available. I do think it's useful to have an even odd sized board. But

Re: [Talk-GB] New mapper causing problems

Hi Neil, I had spotted him and have sent him a message and a changeset comment.http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/31024226 Actually looks like his edits are getting worse. I'm on a flight in 4 hours, but should be back home tomorrow. Cheers Chris On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 00:01, Neil McManus

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS Historical Maps

I don't think there is any reason not to use any of the NLS's out of copyright images. and it's listed as one of the layers available on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Scotland I've been using the town plan layer in Edinburgh and the detailed plans for old bits

[Talk-GB] Introducing talk-scotland mailing list.

After the topic has come up several times I'm pleased to announce the creation of the talk-scotland mailing list. We have a lot going on, and current topics seem to be around planning of events such as the upcoming mapping parties general chat around various specific local bits Anyway, come

Re: [Talk-GB] A9 West of Perth - Vandalism - robbief14 again.

Having a look, I had fixed up some of his stuff around there. Cheers Chris On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:16:16PM +, Alasdair McKinnon wrote: Hi, First post so excuse me if my etiquette is wrong and Hi to all. I've spotted that the A9 West of Perth is wrongly designated as the

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 08:32:25PM +, Donald Noble wrote: Hi All, The user robbief14 [1] has changed sections of the M90 around the New Forth Road Bridge which are still currently under construction to live motorway. They had also deleted all of the tags for the current road bridge. I

Re: [Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:28:36PM +0100, Dan Karran wrote: Handy tool, thanks. It might be good to limit it to items tagged amenity=bank and amenity=atm though, as I've spotted some Lloyds pharmacies showing up here in southeast London as well as the banks. Although, at the moment it also

Re: [Talk-GB] Wish LIst for Mapnik Stylesheet (overmapping of private features)

On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 02:45:51PM +0100, OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: Is there a mechanism for getting requests onto the wish list for the Open Street Map Mapnk style sheets? The particular issue is that now that people can trace quite small features, some areas are getting overloaded with

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:59:28AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, it has been proposed to make the newly released iD v1.1 the default editor on openstreetmap.org, meaning that if someone doesn't explicitly chose an editor they will open iD instead of Potlatch. I say go for it, from all

Re: [OSM-talk] GSoC 2012 - Regarding CycleStreets Projects

From the sounds of this tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/cyclestreets/status/183262141237833728 It looks like Cyclestreets are very close to opening up their source code. Cheers Chris On 23/03/12 07:50, Graham Jones wrote: Pryanka, If you have not heard from the author of cyclestreets, it

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 route

I do have a contact who I know is working on HS1, I could ask him if he knows of any sources of this data for HS2? Cheers Chris On Tue Jan 10 11:14:08 2012, Andy Robinson wrote: Latest HS2 announcement today means that there will be a lot of discussion about the route (generally and

Re: [OSM-talk] twitter handling

On 08/09/2011 00:20, SteveC wrote: There are a bunch of people asking things on twitter about OSM that we miss. Or people saying nice things that we should be retweeting. I'm looking for a solution. Mozilla has this: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/army-of-awesome and I'm in touch with them

Re: [OSM-talk] twitter handling

AM, Chris Fleming wrote: On 08/09/2011 00:20, SteveC wrote: There are a bunch of people asking things on twitter about OSM that we miss. Or people saying nice things that we should be retweeting. I'm looking for a solution. Mozilla has this: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/army-of-awesome

Re: [Talk-GB] Are you coming to London on Sunday?

On 07/06/11 19:18, Steve Coast wrote: or saturday night http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Board_Meeting_June_2011 Would be awesome to see you there Steve With a little bit more notice I would have been able to make it down :( :( Cheers Chris

Re: [OSM-talk] April fools that should have been

On 02/04/11 16:46, Steve Coast wrote: * HOT announce zombie apocalypse response team There is already an Zombie Reports Ushahidi instance http://www.zombiereports.com/ which does use OSM. Cheers Chris -- e: m...@chrisfleming.org w: www.chrisfleming.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] UK, Cardiff and Edinburgh, change capital=yes to capital=4

On 04/02/2011 13:48, Nick Whitelegg wrote: RTFM! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level Wales/Scotland/England are 4, regions are 5 To be quite honest I really, really don't care that much at all: but, by word of explanation I was only suggesting what I *thought would be sensible*

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is this click through agreement compatible with OSM?

On 09/12/2010 22:16, Gregory Arenius wrote: The city of San Francisco has made a bunch of geo data available. I plan on importing the address nodes so that we can have door to door routing for San Francisco and for geocoding purposes. I just want to see if the click through is compatible.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Bing - Terms of Use

On 01/12/10 08:52, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Andrew Harvey wrote: Just to clarify is this http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html the document which contains the license grant? No; the document is the one embedded in the OpenGeoData posting

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

On 15/10/10 12:30, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: No, I cannot create the nice map. It doesn't belong in MY skill set. Fair enough. If you don't have the skills or the computers or the money to create a nice map, then you have to talk someone else into creating a nice map

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Bike Shop dataset obtained: please merge in locations in your area

Quick question on this what are poeple doing with this data in cases where a shop is showing correctly in the list and is on the ground but isn't really a bike shop? The example I found is TISO: http://shaunmcdonald.dev.openstreetmap.org/bike-shop-locator/shop/2549 Which is an outdoor shop,

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of OS OpenData in OSM

On 22/07/10 16:25, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Ed Avis wrote: As an aside, I think the 'source' tag is a bit misconceived; it would make much more sense to tag source on the changeset, not on each object it touches. Only if you solely use one source per changeset. I'll typically use at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

On 17/07/10 10:00, 80n wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Chris Fleming m...@chrisfleming.org mailto:m...@chrisfleming.org wrote: Although the intent of ODBl is to provide the protections we thought we were getting with CC-BY-SA; if we were to go to something *completely

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

On 17/07/10 20:40, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Michael Barabanov wrote: A poll could be something like: Would you find a it acceptable if OSMF relicensed the whole dataset to ODBL without any data loss. It should really be Would you find it acceptable if OSMF relicensed the whole dataset to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

On 16/07/10 14:03, TimSC wrote: James Livingston wrote: / Although, as Simon Ward said Everyone has a say on whether their contributions can be licensed under the new license., I am uncomfortable with the ODbL process and I resent not being polled before the license change was decided. OSMF

Re: [Talk-GB] [Edinburgh] Road Names

Cool I've hooked up a script to do a comparison with the street names in OSM and have put the results up at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah4ejhysSkMOdDktM0Jyb3Z5TGFQTjZkOHJ4RHlnVGchl=en Overall on the first pass we match about 75% of the road names, although there are lots of 'Z'

Re: [Talk-GB] Glasgow Meetup Tuesday 17th November 2009 at 7:30pm

On 10/11/09 12:10, Bob Kerr wrote: Hi All, Just a reminder we will be having a pub meetup next Tuesday in Glasgow Please see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Glasgow#Social_Events I'm going to be in Atlanta that week so won't be able to make it. :( Cheers Chris

Re: [Talk-GB] Virgin Train Traces

On 29/09/09 10:52, Richard Mann wrote: A quick look at oepnvkarte indicates we have all of Virgin's operating routes already. Maybe some of the traces aren't great, but I think some tracing off NPE ought to fix that, surely? While positional info is probably in the trains (though I don't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

On 28/09/09 14:29, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: is the one project where kosovo is ahead of serbia. We have now 6-8 GPS devices on the ground and a motivated team. we are using yahoosat and training mappers. We are importing GNS features and other things. I dont know about the GMM

Re: [Talk-GB] Edinburgh Meetups: Glasgow Central Scotland

On 26/08/09 16:29, Callum Noble wrote: Hi Bob, Sounds like a good idea. I organized a meetup in Glasgow back in Feb '08. There were a few Edinburgh people came through but in the end there weren't as many people came as had posted to the list or on the wiki (there were only 4 of us in the

Re: [Talk-transit] JOSM Plugin

It's amazing that they seem to make the data so hard to get at, given that the objective is to get people to use public transport. Are they really generating serious revenues from this data? Cheers Chris On 24/08/09 21:45, Peter Miller wrote: On 24 Aug 2009, at 20:18, Péter Connell wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

On 15/07/09 19:36, Nicholas Barnes wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Page splits will be entirely dependent on the size of your browser window Unless the 'print' link generated a PDF, of course! Except this is overkill in most cases when you just want a quick print out. As a user if I

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

On 14/07/09 12:07, OJ W wrote: In firefox, the 'view image' - 'print preview' commands on a static map works very well -- the map image is scaled by firefox to fit whatever paper you are using. Of course, the resolution of the image doesn't necessarily match that of your printer...

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

On 18/05/09 11:06, Andy Allan wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm expecting to organise another 6 parties through the rest of this year so people's preference for locations please shout up again. Scotland! I

[OSM-talk] Reverting Changes....

In just spotted a pile of changes that someone made that seem to have done more harm than good: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1008885 What's the current thinking on un-doing changes; is it worth contacting the person involved, Checking if anything useful was done? or should we

Re: [OSM-talk] People's Map

On 09/04/09 10:15, Mike Harris wrote: Thanks - rather what I had thought but it was new to me. A quick comparison of areas I know well shows OSM streets ahead (if you'll pardon the weak pun) ... I also found that it was difficult to actually do much with their data for free other than link to

Re: [OSM-talk] People's Map

On 09/04/09 10:15, Mike Harris wrote: Thanks - rather what I had thought but it was new to me. A quick comparison of areas I know well shows OSM streets ahead (if you'll pardon the weak pun) ... I also found that it was difficult to actually do much with their data for free other than link to

Re: [Talk-GB] Possibly using highway=path for country footpaths

On 03/04/09 13:43, Gregory Williams wrote: -Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of David Earl Sent: 3 April 2009 13:02 To: Richard Mann Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Possibly using

Re: [OSM-talk] [SOTM] Train ticket: couldn't ask a small favour?

Dermot McNally wrote: Hmm. Fair suggestion. Details now on the transport page. I'll be departing between 16:00 and 18:00 on Friday evening from Blanchardstown. Car will take 3 passengers, or a fourth at a squeeze. Departure from Limerick will be on Sunday evening, but I have ambitions to take a

Re: [Talk-GB] Edinburgh/Glasgow meetup

Shaun McDonald wrote: On 12 Feb 2008, at 23:49, Chris Fleming wrote: I was think of going for beers, in order to scheme and talk about mapping :) How would the 28 March, suit people? I would like at least one micro mapping party to be done by then! You don't know what I'm shoving up

Re: [Talk-GB] Edinburgh/Glasgow meetup

I was think of going for beers, in order to scheme and talk about mapping :) How would the 28 March, suit people? Cheers Chris On Feb 12, 2008 11:46 PM, Callum Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: On 8 Feb 2008, at 17:09, Chris Fleming wrote: [...] Anyone in Edinburgh

Re: [Talk-GB] Scouts Mapping in Central Scotland

Callum Noble wrote: Hi All, I was speaking to someone involved with the Scout Network in Scotland, which is an organisation for ex-Scouts aged 18-25. He suggests a joint mapping weekend/party somewhere in Central Scotland between the Scouts and some OSM contributers. With some of us to

Re: [Talk-GB] How do I tag this cyckeway?

Dave Stubbs wrote: On 16/08/07, *Rik van der Helm* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own suggestion is: whateverkey=road/track/path/trail (4m/4m/2m/1m) cycle=yes;foot=yes network=ncn;byway;burnswalk;kmtrail; network_ref=ncn7 and if

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridges (Edinburgh)

Minty wrote: I've noticed many bridges around Edinburgh appear to be done using three seperate Ways See George IV Bridge, and also Castle Terrace if you pan to the left a little. http://tinyurl.com/298f7t * way_before_bridge * way_for_bridge * way_after_bridge all three have highway

Re: [Talk-GB] Edinburgh

Daniel Glassey wrote: Hi, I can't remember who has been doing Edinburgh but there is a talk about OSM at Debconf[1], the Debian conference. afair it is on 18th June. Sometime during the week following that it would be great if a group of us could help with mapping. For the folks there in