Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Morley
Mike Harris wrote: Thanks to those who responded to this thread. Advice gratefully received. There seems to be a clear majority preference for option (b) - the more detailed approach that avoids superimposing boundaries of areas (and their nodes) on an adjacent way (and its nodes). I fully

Re: [Talk-transit] pay_scale_area

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Morley
Christoph Böhme wrote: In my opinion the name tag is used as a general purpose tag in OSM for names of all sorts of things. So, it appeared quite natural to use it for recording the names of the plus bus zones as well. From the other tags renderers can easily guess what type of object the name

Re: [Talk-transit] NAPTAN Import: Plus-bus Zones

2009-08-09 Thread Chris Morley
Roger Slevin wrote: The PlusBus zone data comes from PlusBus – so please don’t try to change it. If you think it is wrong, then let me know and I will ask PlusBus to review the information. The Wrexham and Ruabon PlusBus zone has been imported without any reference to Wrexham (the more

Re: [Talk-GB] Roundabout, ways and relationship policies

2009-07-24 Thread Chris Morley
Jack Stringer wrote: Why do we cut them up for the bus routes? Wouldn't it be easier to build a navagation app at does the calculation using all the stops as waypoints. The resulting calculated route might not actually match the route the bus really takes. You might argue that it doesn't

Re: [Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

2008-12-23 Thread Chris Morley
Peter Miller wrote: The UK Department for Transport, together with Traveline, is offering to make available the bulk of the data from their NaPTAN and NPTG data sets to the OpenStreetMap project. Well done Peter Miller, this is very welcome and illustrates the importance of OSM having

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

2008-12-23 Thread Chris Morley
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: It is with great pleasure, and not just a little excitement, that I can announce that the mappers in Birmingham having set the task of completing the whole of the city by Christmas have achieved just that. Well done, a triumph for effort and

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mapnik not displaying

2008-09-26 Thread Chris Morley
Jon Burgess wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:28 +0100, Chris Morley wrote: Can somebody help to find out what has gone wrong with my system? (Windows XP, ZoneAlarm Firewall). With Firefox 3 (which is generally working as expected) the Mapnik tiles at http://www.openstreetmap.org don't

[OSM-talk] OSM Mapnik not displaying

2008-09-25 Thread Chris Morley
Can somebody help to find out what has gone wrong with my system? (Windows XP, ZoneAlarm Firewall). With Firefox 3 (which is generally working as expected) the Mapnik tiles at http://www.openstreetmap.org don't display - just the logo and ...more OSM coming soon (yuk). Osmarender, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-24 Thread Chris Morley
Karl Newman wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Rory McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gervase Markham wrote: What's current tagging best practice with things which are to the left or the right of a way (e.g. bus stops)? A nearly-approved proposal for a

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Developers requested to help providecompleteness tools

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Morley
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Verification is a whole new ballgame. I think throughout this discussion there is tendency to get hung up on the word complete, which has been used as a shorthand but is being interpreted differently. In everyday use it has an implication of perfection

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Developers requested to help provide completeness tools

2008-05-12 Thread Chris Morley
David Earl wrote: Here is what I was going to do: 1. use a set of ways like coastline (i.e. with an on the right rule, because they'd be too long as one way), to define areas of completeness. By definition, coastline would form one boundary. 2. Render these plus coastline to a new set

[OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-12 Thread Chris Morley
David Earl wrote: I've said before and I'll say again: we need a way of asserting this area is complete (for one or more definitions of completeness). Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: The only way that we are going to individually or collectively state the completeness of a specific