Re: [Talk-GB] Find My Nearest Cash Machine

2012-08-21 Thread Philip Barnes
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:33 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi Andy Impressive! Shame about the data. Just done a quick look around Acocks Green - ATMs missing and some are up to 30m away from their actual location. I would estimate about 95% accuracy. Anyone else had a look? Too small an

Re: [Talk-GB] Footway to Sidewalk?

2012-08-21 Thread Philip Barnes
Which forum thread? Phil -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 21/08/2012 14:32 Tom Chance wrote: On 21 August 2012 13:29, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Also, mass-retagging I frown upon. Why was this even done?! Agreed. Frederick has already applied a block. Out of interest, which part of

Re: [Talk-GB] On Countryside paths

2012-08-21 Thread Philip Barnes
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 20:37 +0100, Borbus wrote: On 21/08/12 19:11, Adam Hoyle wrote: Speaking of the which, anyone have any idea when the designation tag will be rendered on the main OSM renderer (or even in Potlatch which would do me in the short term). The mapnik layer on osm.org is

Re: [Talk-GB] Potential Vandalism - AGAIN

2012-08-19 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 10:00 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I am wondering who it is and why. THOU SHALT NOT REVERT confirms he/she/it knows what they are doing. Agreed. This one is called THE GENERAL SHALL NOT REVERT THEE http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12777187

Re: [Talk-GB] Potential Vandalism - AGAIN

2012-08-18 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 20:37 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote: +1 for blocking Have contacted islandtoerag about silly edits in Southampton, no response. Time to block this destructive yob. Nick +1 to blocking He currently appears to be destroying the Long Island Expressway in New York.

Re: [Talk-GB] Potential Vandalism - AGAIN

2012-08-18 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 23:16 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote: On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 20:37 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote: +1 for blocking Have contacted islandtoerag about silly edits in Southampton, no response. Time to block this destructive yob. Nick +1 to blocking He currently

[Talk-GB] Strange Routing Error

2012-07-15 Thread Philip Barnes
I am trying to fix a routing problem, that I found whilst investigating an error was reported in mapdust. It is a strange one and has me totally baffled, so hoping someone here can help. A simple U-Turn around a roundabout, adds a detour along Llangollen Road, to then use Tower Hill to turn

Re: [Talk-GB] Temporary road closures

2012-07-12 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:46 +0100, J.Woollacott wrote: The challenge is to remember to remove the restriction at the end of the event. Always add a note as well explaining what's in place so somebody else understands and doesn't 'fix it' Jason W (UniEagle) Would it not be better to

Re: [OSM-talk] Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes

2012-07-11 Thread Philip Barnes
OSRM is mostly awesome. Map changes are reflected within a very short period after an edit, however routing updates can be much slower. It would be great if it was possible to find out the date of the OSM data being used by the router. I did some corrections to roundabouts on the A41, I will

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens Doorstep Greens

2012-07-04 Thread Philip Barnes
Don't know if I did it right, but I mapped Wem millennium garden using leisure =park, designation =Wem millennium garden. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/147994711. Phil -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 04/07/2012 12:42 Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi All, I am looking for suggestions on how

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-06-30 Thread Philip Barnes
I had spotted some of these, same mapper, near Whitchurch, and must admit it has concerned me as previously it had shown on the map as a tracked. It is still visible on the ground, but now not visible on the map. This seems wrong to me, my feeling it should be reverted. Was going to contract the

Re: [Talk-GB] PRoW Ref tagging when ROW is also a road

2012-06-19 Thread Philip Barnes
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 14:33 +0100, Gregory wrote: On 19 June 2012 14:13, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Gregory wrote: On 19 June 2012 14:07, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I use admin:ref for refs that are

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMapWidget

2012-06-18 Thread Philip Barnes
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 00:04 +0200, Aleksandra Milanovic wrote: Hey guys, Give me an opinion on my GSoC project: http://sandra-milanovic.github.com/OpenStreetMapWidget/ (it's a work in progress and not all of the functionalities are implemented yet) All the best, Sandra point(s). Hi

[OSM-talk] In Germany errors on mapdust

2012-06-18 Thread Philip Barnes
I regularly see errors posted on mapdust similar to this, I have put in a UK destination in Shrewsbury but the map appears to be in Germany. I have been closing these as they are nothing to do with OSM, but anyone have any idea why they occur, and why is it always Germany? I am seeing them in

Re: [Talk-GB] OT: Is Bristol the UK's only cross-border city?

2012-06-13 Thread Philip Barnes
The built up area of Chester straddles the England-Wales border and the football ground is right on the border. The pitch being in Wales and some of the car park and offices in England. Phil -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 13/06/2012 13:13 Colin Smale wrote: Not directly OSM-related but I

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging maxwidth Except for access

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 20:49 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: Tagging it as maxwidth=6'6 and ignoring the qualification is IMHO a good starting point on the grounds that routers tend to ignore all sorts of restrictions in the initial and final bits of the route anyway. I hope they never ignore this

[OSM-talk] Old versions of OSM?

2012-05-30 Thread Philip Barnes
Is it possible to view an older rendering of OSM, such as how an area was mapped earlier this year/last year. Thanks Phil (trig222) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] TTTracklog and TomTom core 9.4

2012-05-20 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 14:47 +0200, Alberto Nogaro wrote: -Original Message- From: Alberto Nogaro [mailto:bartosom...@yahoo.it] Sent: domenica 20 maggio 2012 14:23 To: 'Philip Barnes' Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] TTTracklog and TomTom core 9.4 -Original Message- From: Philip

[OSM-talk] TTTracklog and TomTom core 9.4

2012-05-19 Thread Philip Barnes
Since updating my TomTom Go 720 to Navcore version 9.4 TTTracklog no longer works and I could really use some new GPS traces for OSM mapping. Google doesn't help, beyond confirming I am not the only one. Has anyone any pointers to getting it working, or to an alternative GPS data logger so that I

Re: [Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread Philip Barnes
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 13:42 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Appetite, yes, but you can also easily chase people away if your system detects too many things where people don't think it's a bug at all, so some tuning might be necessary. One of the weaknesses of most of the existing systems (with

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way - Image vote

2012-05-12 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 10:00 +0100, Robert Norris wrote: I've added my 2 penneth. Maybe we should gather more samples of signs - e.g. to show differing Councils styles (and then hopefully agreed tagging) to give better guidelines. I've have a look my photos but I think I tend to delete

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way - Image vote

2012-05-12 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 18:22 +0100, Ed Loach wrote: Further to my earlier answer, Essex arrows tend to have the CC crest on the arrow itself, and public footpath (or whatever) around the top of the circle (if the arrow is pointing straight up). So I might change my answer if there is *just* a

Re: [Talk-GB] Micronations

2012-05-10 Thread Philip Barnes
Really not, and doesn't have the comedy ring of being his parents basement. Can't find it, I guess its somewhere in Buxton? Phil Sent from my Nokia N9 On 10/05/2012 8:23 Brian Prangle wrote: If you look at zoom level 3 for the UK you will see the Kingdom of Ivania rendered. A google search

Re: [OSM-talk] 3 months of OSM

2012-04-30 Thread Philip Barnes
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 21:07 +0200, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 04/30/2012 08:50 PM, Douglas Musaazi wrote: The German contributor could have his/her information liked by the German Electricity board High-voltage lines are not just for electricity buffs: they are also highly visible

Re: [Talk-GB] Using UK v GB for uk speed limit tags

2012-04-27 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 15:38 +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: Good question. I had a quick look on google and found the following website: http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/speed-limits-how-they-are-set One particular quote is of interest: Although national speed limits can be set for Northern

Re: [Talk-GB] Problematical rural edits across England

2012-04-27 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:25 +0100, Andy Street wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 02:12 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: I've been in contact with the mapper concerned about these problems several times over the past month, trying to be friendly and helpful, as would only be fair to a new mapper.

Re: [OSM-talk] handheld gps unit

2012-04-23 Thread Philip Barnes
I can imagine it could be annoying if you are stopped in a tunnel and it switches off and later logs are then lost. Phil On 23/04/2012 6:37 Martijn van Exel wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: [..] The Columbus V-900 is $89. Charges via USB,

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-21 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 17:28 +, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: It would be _super_ good if we had some tool that would flag and notify some advanced active mapper in a given area of any changesets that delete more than 2 features. .. I'd be totally up for checking any and all changesets in

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

2012-04-16 Thread Philip Barnes
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 14:26 +0200, Claudius wrote: Am 16.04.2012 11:36, Andrew Errington: On Mon, April 16, 2012 16:54, Maarten Deen wrote: snip Wouldn't it be an idea to tag the name in the characterset of the country and have the renderer decide whether or not to render a name:en tag

[OSM-talk] Mapdust

2012-04-06 Thread Philip Barnes
Anyone else try to fix bugs off there? I have tried as I want to improve OSM. I am increasingly finding it a waste of time, too many bugs are labelled 'other' and just don't have enough info to work out what the problem is. In these cases I usually close them, and work on the ones that are

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapdust

2012-04-06 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 10:40 -0400, Mike N wrote: Not totally useless, and quality of reports varies, but they have identified some routing problems for me. I also find most of the 'other' class reports to be unusable without an explanation from the reporter. Occasionally you can spot

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapdust

2012-04-06 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 12:20 -0400, Mike N wrote: On 4/6/2012 11:13 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: Have spotted one problem, not got a clue if its what was reported, where the route was going onto a roundabout, rather than using the bypass lane. Have changed the bypass to 'Trunk link' from

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapdust

2012-04-06 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 10:48 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Apr 6, 2012 7:25 AM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: Anyone else try to fix bugs off there? I have tried as I want to improve OSM. I do regularly in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Oregon and Washington areas. I am

Re: [OSM-talk] Global consistency of the map (trunk etc.)

2012-04-06 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 20:16 +0200, Jan Kučera wrote: Hi guys, I guess we need to standardize some things accross the whole globe... for instance the usage of trunk tag... somewhere (like UK) it is single-carriage and elsewhere dual-carriage, one lane vs. multiple lanes. current approach

Re: [OSM-talk] Komuna e Malishevës, Serbia ?

2012-04-03 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 09:43 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: RB wrote: It has nothing to do with taking side or whatever, but I am just saying that is is a complicated situation and that our map should try to reflect it. Actually I think something is broken with 'Location' ... Apparently

Re: [OSM-talk] Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes

2012-03-17 Thread Philip Barnes
It does not work for me, just says timed out and if I enter say Inverness into one of the boxes and hit show nothing happens. I can see your routes by clicking the links however. The Inverness to Athens route does seem a bit bizarre. Not what I would have expected. Crossing the Pennines on the

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapquest routing

2012-03-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:22 +, Andrew wrote: Andy Allan gravitystorm@... writes: I'll bet it's to do with the US. I think that in the US we are mapping freeways as either highway=motorway (for freeways that cross state lines, i.e. Interstates) or highway=trunk (for freeways

[Talk-GB] Mapquest routing

2012-03-08 Thread Philip Barnes
I have just been having a play with open.mapquest. It looks really good, and would love to see it used more. I did come up with one strange, but hopefully easyly fixed, problem. I have put in a route from Markfield, Leicestershire to Wem, Shropshire. Initially it all looks good, it uses the M6

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-03-02 Thread Philip Barnes
I have found some interesting stuff whilst playing with routing on http://open.mapquest.org (which uses OSM). Have found that it cannot route to Shrewsbury. Have found that the town waypoint has been put in the middle of a retail area, with pedestrianised streets around. Am guessing it is

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-02 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 14:35 +, Richard Fairhurst wrote: We change to the new licence in just under a month's time, so it's a good time to look at the current state of the UK. What's likely not to be carried through to the new database? The good news is that the UK is in a very healthy

[OSM-talk] Mapping disused railway lines

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Barnes
I have been exploring my 'new' local area recently, and GPS surveying many roads that had been traced from NPE mapping and bore little resemblance to what is on the ground. But that is the easy stuff. My problem is that where one of these roads crosses the path of the disused Wellington to Market

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping disused railway lines

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 12:45 +, Craig Wallace wrote: On 26/02/2012 11:57, Philip Barnes wrote: My problem is that where one of these roads crosses the path of the disused Wellington to Market Drayton railway, there is a stone bridge over the road with a height restriction. For a working

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping disused railway lines

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 13:51 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am 26. Februar 2012 12:57 schrieb Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk: My problem is that where one of these roads crosses the path of the disused Wellington to Market Drayton railway, there is a stone bridge over the road

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim and language tags

2012-02-17 Thread Philip Barnes
There needs to be a means of using at least 2 languages, and possibly a means to know which areas use which language. In Wales, you can usually tell whether you are in a Welsh speaking area by the order of Araf and Slow painted onto the road. Afaf on top, it Welsh. Slow on top then its English

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Finding untagged dead-ends

2012-02-15 Thread Philip Barnes
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 17:39 +, John Sturdy wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I don't really see the value of a generic noexit=yes tag - it can and should be inferred from the network. But finding dead ends can be valuable for tagging the

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-13 Thread Philip Barnes
I have started to remap the major roads that will disappear around the area I live in, Shropshire. It will be embarrassing for the community if holes appear in the M54 and the A5 on April 1st. The mappers, who are undecided, seemed to have a burst of mapping in the early days but seem to have

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-06 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 19:45 +0100, Michael Collinson wrote: Hi everyone, We ask OSM mappers to check their local mapping areas, try and contact anyone who has not decided about re-licensing I have been considering a few well worded posts to other mailing lists such as Linux User Groups and

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