Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator November 2016

2017-02-06 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 06 February 2017 20:27:16 Robert Scott wrote: > Hey all, > > Does anyone have a copy of OS OpenData Locator's November 2015 release still > kicking around anywhere? Ok, I acknowledge I said 2016 in the subject, but 2015 in the body. I mean of course 20

[Talk-GB] OS Locator November 2016

2017-02-06 Thread Robert Scott
Hey all, Does anyone have a copy of OS OpenData Locator's November 2015 release still kicking around anywhere? robert. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] New OS Locator (201411) out, Musical Chairs updated new RSS feeds

2014-11-15 Thread Robert Scott
Hello all, (You'll all know the basic form of these emails by now and be expecting it) It's November, the new OS Locator release is out and I've updated Musical Chairs[1] with it. Interesting changes should be particularly visible in the recent relevant updates view[2] for the next week or so

[Talk-br] That Shouldn't Be Possible™ coverage extended to Brazil

2014-05-11 Thread Robert Scott
Hello Brazil, My GPS trace analyzer, That Shouldn't Be Possible™ has recently extended its reach beyond the british isles benelux to cover Brazil too. Its purpose? To accept a GPS trace of a drive/cycle you've gone for, analyze the journey against the routable OSM database and, if

Re: [Talk-br] That Shouldn't Be Possible™ coverage extended to Brazil

2014-05-11 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 11 May 2014, Fernando Trebien wrote: That's very cool, Richard! Does the UI support internationalization? We could translate it into Portuguese for you, this should get more people to use it here. I'd love to say yes, but the whole UI is a bit up in the air at the moment, and i18n

[Talk-GB] New OS Locator (201405) out, Musical Chairs updated

2014-05-11 Thread Robert Scott
Hello everybody, (You'll all know the basic form of these emails by now and be expecting it) It's May, the new OS Locator release is out and I've updated Musical Chairs[1] with it. Interesting changes should be particularly visible in the recent relevant updates view[2] for the next week or

Re: [Talk-GB] Urban Data Hack, London, Feb 15th/16th

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 12 February 2014, Dan S wrote: (Is it appropriate to post this kind of thing on talk-gb ? I'm not associated with the event, but just wondering if this kind of thing is interest to this list.) I would say absolutely. robert. ___

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] That Shouldn't Be Possible™ coverage extended to South Africa

2013-12-24 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 24 December 2013, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: Hi Robert, That looks really cool. We recently got a very generous ongoing data donation from a tracking company that is providing us with anonymised tracking data for all vehicles they provide tracking for. I think a combination of the

[Talk-is] That Shouldn't Be Possible™ coverage extended to Iceland

2013-12-22 Thread Robert Scott
Hello Iceland, My GPS trace analyzer, That Shouldn't Be Possible™ has recently extended its reach beyond the british isles benelux to cover Iceland too. Its purpose? To accept a GPS trace of a drive/cycle you've gone for, analyze the journey against the routable OSM database and, if

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] That Shouldn't Be Possible™ coverage extended to South Africa

2013-12-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 22 December 2013, Robert Scott wrote: Hello Iceland, Damn it. robert. ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-03 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 02 December 2013, Christoph Hormann wrote: TopOSM: http://toposm.ahlzen.com/ (various examples on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TopOSM) OpenSeaMap: http://map.openseamap.org/?zoom=14lat=56.04136lon=12.63945layers=BFTFFFTFFFT0 OSM2World:

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 02 December 2013, Lester Caine wrote: I'm just happy with emphasis where it is shouting out in my head Why am I not surprised that Lester hears voices in his head when composing emails? robert. ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [OSRM-talk] Zlevels and Restrictions

2013-11-29 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 28 November 2013, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi, I'm read over the documentation again and I am confused by the Graph representation wiki page. I have a correctly noded graph in pgRouting. By this I mean that all intersections have a node(s) at them and there are no unnoded

[OSM-talk-nl] That Shouldn't Be Possible™ coverage extended to Benelux

2013-11-21 Thread Robert Scott
Goedenavond. (there - that should mask my linguistic failures enough for me to fall back into english now) My GPS trace analyzer, That Shouldn't Be Possible™ has recently extended its reach beyond the british isles to cover benelux too. Its purpose? To accept a GPS trace of a drive/cycle

[Talk-GB] New OS Locator (201311) out, Musical Chairs updated

2013-11-04 Thread Robert Scott
Hello everybody, (You all know the basic form of these emails by now) It's November already, the new OS Locator release is out (even though yet again the OS website still says[0] it's only offering the May release) and I've updated Musical Chairs[1] with it. Interesting changes should be

Re: [Talk-GB] New OSM Leaflets now available

2013-10-16 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 16 October 2013, Andy Allan wrote: Hi all, I've sat down and created an updated version of the OpenStreetMap Promotional Leaflets YES Many thanks Andy - you've taken a big item off my personal todo list. Shall I make a papier mache globe out of my old ones? robert.

Re: [Talk-GB] ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries

2013-10-14 Thread Robert Scott
Dragging this back up... On Thursday 10 October 2013, cquest wrote: ... It's still possible to see my slightly aborted attempt at adding ONS codes to relations a few years ago - this was made more difficult by the ONS deciding to change their coding scheme (to something equally

Re: [Talk-GB] NPE data

2013-10-06 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 06 October 2013, Paul Churchley wrote: I have come across some data tagged as source=npe. I know what the NPE maps are but my question is a bit of a newbies one... why is NPE data mapped on OSM if it is so old? For a while it was the best we had. But that was some time ago. (2008?)

Re: [Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland 2013 - 6 days away

2013-10-05 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 05 October 2013, Bob Kerr wrote: Counting down to State of the map Scotland 2013 wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2013 Please send out messages to your social media of choice Booked my megabus gold tickets last night. What are numbers looking like so

Re: [Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland 2013 - 6 days away

2013-10-05 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 05 October 2013, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 5 Oct 2013, at 14:13, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Saturday 05 October 2013, Bob Kerr wrote: Counting down to State of the map Scotland 2013 wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2013 Please

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap font

2013-07-09 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, sabas88 wrote: Hello list, are there some style/brand guidelines for the creation of OSM materials? Particularly I was asked about which font could be used to write OpenStreetMap, and the only text I found was the one in the old banner (

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-14 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 14 May 2013, Dave F. wrote: Using the end user's inconvenience to strong arm/embarrass the likes of Mozilla into making changes is not the way to design software. This should have been sorted out in Beta, or, as it appears to be a well known problem - Alpha. We would be alpha

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-14 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 14 May 2013, Tom Hughes wrote: On 14/05/13 13:14, Kevin Peat wrote: I would imagine that most OSMers would have (at least) Firefox and Chrome/Chromium installed. If iD doesn't work so well on Firefox yet then why not put up a dialog at the start of a session on Firefox

Re: [Talk-GB] Soft launch of That Shouldn't Be Possible prototype

2013-05-06 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 05 May 2013, Robert Scott wrote: ... (I hope whoever submitted this doesn't mind me doing this, but it makes a good example and I thought seeing as the trace had to have been public anyway...) For those remaining baffled and to expand on my point of the possible uses

[Talk-GB] Soft launch of That Shouldn't Be Possible prototype

2013-05-05 Thread Robert Scott
Hello talk-gb, As some of you might know, I've been working on a gps trace analyzer I call That Shouldn't Be Possible. Its purpose? To accept a gps trace of a drive/cycle you've gone for, analyze the journey against the routable OSM database and, if appropriate, say That Shouldn't Be

[Talk-GB] New OS Locator (201305) out, Musical Chairs updated

2013-05-04 Thread Robert Scott
Hi all, Just in time for your May day bank holidays, which I'm sure you're all going to be spending mapping, the new OS Locator release is out and I've updated Musical Chairs[1] with it. (Is it really 6 months since I wrote one of these emails?) Interesting changes should be particularly

Re: [Talk-GB] Review of Skobbler

2013-05-03 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 03 May 2013, Kevin Peat wrote: Interesting, although Privacy-conscious Apple fanbois seems like it might be a very small market and why do the media often call the project OpenStreetMaps, where does that come from? Google Maps Bing Maps Don't think there's anything strange about

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 21 February 2013, Jason Remillard wrote: - an overhead image layer + mapnik style. We could reproduce the work that MapBox did collecting existing images. I don't think you will have much success with the licensing here. Aerial imagery rights go for muchos $$$. I think you're

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 21 February 2013, Joseph Reeves wrote: MapBox? http://mapbox.com/blog/open-aerial/ If you look at the phases table at the bottom of http://mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-satellite/ From what I can tell, only Phase 1 is going to be open. So I don't know if that will be good enough for

Re: [Talk-GB] Pronunciation of place names

2013-01-10 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 10 January 2013, John Sturdy wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: My friend Terence Eden has some interesting comments on documenting the pronunciation of place names, in this blog post: Can we solve the problem of how to do

[Talk-GB] OS Locator 201211 out, musical chairs updated

2012-11-06 Thread Robert Scott
Hi all, Normal announcement. Ordnance Survey have again managed to release a new version of OS Locator whilst still listing it as the old version on their site. Be assured, what you will be served with is the November 2012 OS Locator. This release looks to have 7609 new entries and 5077

Re: [OSM-talk] Shoud OSM Help move to Stackexchange community?

2012-09-10 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 10 September 2012, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote: This move makes some sense to me. Yes, let's take our existing, fully-working and independent system - and more importantly its valuable archive - and put it in the hands of (and at the whim of) a commercial entity desperately trying

Re: [OSM-talk] horrible job in gjilan,kosovo

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Mike Dupont wrote: Richard, your insults, personal attacks and negative comments that I have had to endure in the past are now continuing now. I wonder why people tolerate it. I think Richard has been very restrained in the face of the nonsense certain people like

Re: [OSM-talk] Neocartography

2012-08-13 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 13 August 2012, Robert Scott wrote: On Monday 13 August 2012, Steve Chilton wrote: Full (and fascinating) programme for ICA Neocartography session at UCL 5 Sept now available: http://neocartography.icaci.org/ It would be good to see some more OSMers there. Sign up (for free

Re: [Talk-GB] Strange Routing Error

2012-07-15 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 15 July 2012, Tom Chance wrote: On 15 July 2012 10:46, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: I am trying to fix a routing problem, that I found whilst investigating an error was reported in mapdust. [...] I am assuming it is more than a problem with OSRM. Otherwise I guess

[Talk-GB] New OS Locator (201205) out, Musical Chairs updated

2012-06-29 Thread Robert Scott
Ahoy there all, Though the OS website still says the latest OS Locator is 20 (I've notified them), 201205 is actually out. I've updated OS Locator Musical Chairs[1] to use it. Interesting changes should be particularly visible in the recent relevant updates view[2] for the next week or so

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM : It's a shame !!!

2012-05-29 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 29 May 2012, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: I did not give you permission to share a private conversation on the list. That is also about copyrights, Davie. Public interest defence trumps this. Next! robert. ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Addresses for blocks of flats

2012-05-03 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 03 May 2012, Tom Chance wrote: On 3 May 2012 14:59, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote: I've done addr:flats=1-18 before which I saw was in use: 14:57 osmbot-test Derick: Tag addr:flats has 1468 values and appears 5220 times in the planet. 14:58 osmbot-test Derick:

Re: [OSM-talk] Group relation proposal

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 22 March 2012, LM_1 wrote: I have created a new proposal for group relation (type). It is intended to reduce tagging duplication and make it easier to map dense public transport areas by grouping ways that are used by multiple transport lines (not having to add the same group to

Re: [OSM-talk] Associated Press article: Crowds create Wikipedia-style maps of the world

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 22 March 2012, Spod OSM wrote: http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/crowds-create-wikipedia-style-maps-of-the-world?utm_campaign=jt_newsletterutm_medium=emailutm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-03-22_AM Wow - Waze - there's a blast from the past. robert.

Re: [OSM-talk] 23 ideas for osm and its forks

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 13 January 2012, mick wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:00:17 +0100 Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello world, I have written down all my ideas so far on an ideascale i setup http://fosm.ideascale.com/ here you have 23 new ideas for #osm,

Re: [Talk-GB] Project Drake - mapping the University of Cambridge

2011-12-09 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 09 December 2011, Ed Avis wrote: David Earl david@... writes: I'm not overly wedded to name=Clare College (University of Cambridge) and the like. Indeed, for the University rendering I will be removing these suffixes automatically because the context and colours will make it

Re: [OSM-talk] Friends

2011-12-02 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 02 December 2011, Janko Mihelić wrote: I would like the system to suggest friends, based on a number of indicators. Something like edits on the same place or edits power lines (bus routes, forests) like you or edits ways you drawn earlier or just started with openstreetmap near you,

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixed: Major problem with the map

2011-11-25 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 25 November 2011, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: Thanks. Clearing the cache 'back to the beginning of time' fixed it for me. --OSM user ceyockey Yes - there's been a major update to the OpenStreetMap site in the last few days and it may require a shift-reload for up to date

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator 201111 released, musical chairs updated to use it

2011-11-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Ed Avis wrote: Robert Scott lists@... writes: Does the comparison look at not:name tags? It will (it will mark them in pink), but only when the osl entry has actually been matched to that not:name-tagged osm way. Makes sense. But do you know why it didn't

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator 201111 released, musical chairs updated to use it

2011-11-21 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 21 November 2011, Ed Avis wrote: Great. Does the comparison look at not:name tags? For example object 4268860 is tagged to say that the OS Locator name is wrong, but is flagged in the check http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?

[Talk-GB] OS Locator 201111 released, musical chairs updated to use it

2011-11-13 Thread Robert Scott
Hello everybody, The new OS Locator is out. I've just updated musical chairs. Same drill - for the next few days, the new entries will show up in the recent relevant updates view until they get covered up by the normal noise of real edits. http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs

Re: [OSM-talk] Will OSM tiles be CC-0 soon?

2011-10-26 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 26 October 2011, Erik Johansson wrote: Hi I want to talk about the tiles, since they have always been a very important part of these project, ever since we got white-lines-on-landsat[1]. When we are ODBL pure, the tiles produced by OSMF servers can have any license with

Re: [OSM-talk] Will OSM tiles be CC-0 soon?

2011-10-26 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 26 October 2011, Erik Johansson wrote: the tiles produced by OSMF servers can have any license with attribution Hold on, I'm a bit confused here - CC-0 does not require attribution AFAICT. robert. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 09 September 2011, Anthony wrote: Is it just me Yes. or does the thread Roundabouts and routing (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060082.html) reflect a dysfunctional community? No. robert. ___ talk

[Talk-GB] OS Locator Musical Chairs now deals with the welsh, more or less

2011-08-26 Thread Robert Scott
Hello all, I've made a few updates to the matching algorithm in musical chairs [1]. First of all, it now checks the fields name, name:en, name:cy, name:gd and alt_name for the best match. Along with the normalization of accented characters, this now allows it to cope with wales a lot better

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. robert. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I'm told there is at least 500 changesets

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I find this ironic, if not out right amusing, OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: On 24 June 2011 01:02, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: Nearly all of the data was generated by OpenStreetMap contributors under the OpenStreetMap flag, so I think the attribution should be mostly to OpenStreetMap. For starters you

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: @Eugene Please do not extend the discussion with incompatible examples. My example fits exactly the description of what is called forking: Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: More importantly, if fosm is so much more legitimate and important than OpenStreetMap, why are you still over here taking a dump on our list? You're the one making a big song and dance about things. I wouldn't say I'm making a song and dance

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-13 Thread Robert Scott
Hi, Should have replied to this earlier but it got filed into the wrong folder. On Friday 10 June 2011, Chris Jones wrote: I've taken a look at a few towns in mid/south Wales using musical chairs. It seems that many of the listed 'no matches' are because the OS Locator data lists the Welsh

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-08 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 08 June 2011, Steve Doerr wrote: I wonder if the good folks at ITO could devise a way to analyse the not:name tags in the database and see whether any of them are now redundant? In other words, are the OS correcting any of the mistakes we appear to have identified? I don't

[Talk-GB] Musical Chairs updated with new OS Locator

2011-06-07 Thread Robert Scott
Hello all, OS have released the May 2011 Locator database. I've updated musical chairs [1] to use this new database. Also excitingly I've noticed they now define the supplemental fields that come with each entry - so they are no longer just labelled u0-7 in my app (unknown0-7). So you know

Re: [OSM-talk] Extracting a BBOX from an osm change file

2011-03-12 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 11 March 2011, Rodolphe Quiedeville wrote: Hi, With osmosis-0.38 it's possible to extract data contains in a bbox from ans osm data file. But it appears that it's not work for an osm change file. I want to know if changes files from planet.openstreetmap.org/hourly-replicate/ are

Re: [Talk-GB] tagging for average speed cameras

2011-03-04 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 04 March 2011, Peter Miller wrote: Any thoughts about how should we tag highways equipped with average speed camera enforcement? Do you think that it is sufficient to just add 'highway=speed_camera' to the way in question?

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM and The Big Society

2011-03-02 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 02 March 2011, davespod wrote: The Cabinet Office's Office for Civil Society has just published a report citing international examples of The Big Society. Case study number 1 is OpenStreetMap: http://www.arnaudriegert.com/wp-content/uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 17 December 2010, Stefan de Konink wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Andrew Harvey wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: Come on, this is non-sense. If someone accepted the CT and imports the data, it should be enough. I disagree, if

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Opendata recent releases

2010-11-27 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 25 November 2010, Bunny wrote: The latest release of OS Streetview® is now available 1/11/10 The November release of OS LocatorTM is now available 16/11/10 The November release of Code-Point Open is now available 18/11/10 See: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Opendata recent releases

2010-11-25 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 25 November 2010, Bunny wrote: The latest release of OS Streetview® is now available 1/11/10 The November release of OS LocatorTM is now available 16/11/10 The November release of Code-Point Open is now available 18/11/10 See: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/

Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 20 September 2010, Tom Chance wrote: Since the tool doesn't allow us to tick off red markers where allotments definitely don't exist, please add any major disagreements to the list. If you've checked out a whole borough, mark it as complete. That way we will know when we've finished!

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator data update

2010-09-19 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 19 September 2010, Ed Avis wrote: Robert Scott li...@... writes: musical chairs[1] is now using the updated, May 2010 release of OS OpenData Locator. [1] http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs Great! I think Peter Miller said that the people at ITO were going

[Talk-GB] OS Locator data update

2010-09-18 Thread Robert Scott
Like all cool people I spent my saturday evening merging streetname databases. This means that musical chairs[1] is now using the updated, May 2010 release of OS OpenData Locator. (The previous release was called OS_Locator2009_2.txt which I assumed to mean second half of 2009, so this is

Re: [Talk-GB] Datastore musical allotments

2010-09-15 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Will Abson wrote: Great tool! I've checked out my local area (Ealing) and there's a few disagreements marked for several allotments which are listed as 'Private Site' in the GLA data. Effectively there is no name present in the data for those sites, so perhaps

Re: [Talk-GB] Datastore musical allotments

2010-09-13 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 13 September 2010, Ed Avis wrote: Neat! But how should the name of an allotment be tagged? In the data set they are often called after a street, as 'Seymour Road'. But in OSM it seems a bit daft to tag name=Seymour Road for any object that isn't the road itself. 'Seymour Road

[Talk-GB] Datastore musical allotments

2010-09-11 Thread Robert Scott
Hi, After a request from Tom Chance I've created a strange little fork of musical chairs based on the allotment point data released by the London datastore ( http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/allotment-locations ). The algorithm isn't really designed for this sort of matching ( it's

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's prepare to Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0 continuation

2010-08-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 22 August 2010, Felix Hartmann wrote: This means we have to find a new domain, new servers, and get the usernames/passwords copied so people can login to the CCBYSA 2.0 fork without new registration. How about you start with your own mailing lists? robert.

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's prepare to Fork OSM to a CC BYSA 2.0 continuation

2010-08-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 22 August 2010, Jenny Campbell wrote: everyone else's concerns You are trying to make it sound like there are a huge number of people that agree with you. Perhaps you genuinely believe that. If so I think you are tremendously mistaken. It is a very vocal minority. There have been

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 21 August 2010, SteveC wrote: The problem with a remote app is that connectivity will really, really suck while you're out wandering around with an ipad. You'll be hopping cell towers, going on to broken wifi networks and half the time things will be very slow or timeout. It

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ben Last wrote: Or HTML5, which is a viable option on the iPad. The bigger issue might be with some of the hardwired limits on the size of all images used (our guys working on the iPad testing of the NearMap site have been coming up against this). Cheers With

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-09 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 09 August 2010, Tim François wrote: ...which is why I suggested letting users have the *option* to turn them off as I recognise that some find the information useful (including the developer, as mentioned last week). It just bogs down my little netbook quite a bit, the poor thing.

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-08 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 08 August 2010, Dave F. wrote: It redraws all the different colour circles on the map (supposedly searching the database each time) list specific data on the right for the circle that was under the double click - pointless if you just want to zoom in. Oh! Yes - this is

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-05 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dave F. wrote: Would it be possible to turn these circles off at lower zoom levels? Personally I like to double click on the map to zoom in at these levels as it centres the city I'm interested in so I can then use the bar to zoom accurately to the specific

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dave F. wrote: What's the different between the circles rectangles? Is it just to do with the zoom factor? When there are more than n (currently 1024) results in an area, it shows only the first n results. You can choose which n these are (random sample, most

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Tim Francois wrote: My question still stands about the fact that there are LOADS of roads with the same name in OSL and OSM but are being flagged by a bright green rectangle. Why is this? In many cultures, green is considered a sign of good, OK, or everything's

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, you wrote: Out of curiosity, why is it important to show _all_ OSL entries? Is there a way to not show the ones where OSL==OSM? Well, it's certainly important for me to be able to see potential matching problems. An OSL street's match is influenced by its

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, a_snail wrote: Also, with regards to the green boxes that show near matches, any chance you could say why it's a near match i.e. is it the spelling of the road name, classification, or possibly the location of the road. The nearness metric of the match is purely

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Graham Jones wrote: I have the same problem using Google Chrome on Ubuntu Linux. Works ok with Firefox though. Graham. On 4 August 2010 20:08, Ian Caldwell ian1caldwell+...@googlemail.comian1caldwell%2b...@googlemail.com wrote: Is just me or does

[Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Scott
Hello everybody, I'm sure you all feel you've heard enough about my recent activities by now, but I do quite like the latest things I've added to musical chairs. There are now multiple view modes for high zoom levels - determining which entries the db will prioritize when there are too many

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - handling already-tagged fixmes

2010-07-14 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 14 July 2010, Ed Avis wrote: Thanks for getting the OS Locator tiles updating again. Could I make a feature request? Often when OS and OSM disagree I will tag this in the OSM database with a note such as FIXME=Check name - OSM has Marefield Gardens, OS has Maresfield

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - handling already-tagged fixmes

2010-07-14 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 14 July 2010, Sam Larsen wrote: With all this talk of changing street names, can i just remind you to make sure that if you are changing street names that there are no addresses liked to that street. I have added many addresses linked to streets using Karlsruhe schema

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO

2010-07-13 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 13 July 2010, Peter Miller wrote: We took a look and there was indeed a problem with it refusing to use the recent planet data! We have fixed it and everything should be working fine again now. Thanks for reporting it. The delay in responding was caused both by journey back

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 01 July 2010, lulu-...@gmx.de wrote: There is a possibility to have captchas with audio output. Yes, and strangely enough the admins, not being idiots, did consider this beforehand. Unfortunately there is an issue with our current version of mediawiki and recaptcha. In the

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenLayers interface to OS Locator Musical Chairs

2010-06-27 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 26 June 2010, Peter Miller wrote: A few suggestions: 1) Can you provide a quick link from your slippery browser to an view of the same area using the main OSM browser for quick editing? 2) Can you provide a 'Potlach edit', 'JOSM edit' link and OSM Way history link if you

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison fro m ITO -apostrophes

2010-06-15 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 15 June 2010, Ed Avis wrote: Perhaps a Levenshtein distance between OS and OSM street names could be computed: find all the OSM names in the bounding box, pick the one with the closest Levenshtein distance, and then colour the rectangle accordingly, with less saturated colours

Re: [Talk-GB] gt;- Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO

2010-06-03 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 03 June 2010, Peter Miller wrote: It's great to hear other people saying they would like to help the OS get there mapping better - I posed the question on one of the OSM lists a few years ago and got an overwhelming 'no' and 'over my dead body'. I could guess about why the

Re: [Talk-GB] - Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO

2010-06-02 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 02 June 2010, Jerry Clough - OSM wrote: I for one would miss a publicly-deployed version. The matching of strings really makes a difference between your data and the ITO one: 1. in well-mapped areas one finds a few places which either have not been surveyed or require a

Re: [Talk-GB] - Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO

2010-06-01 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 01 June 2010, Peter Miller wrote: We did have a similar discussion in-house at the design stage. We could of course implement this and the data would then be locked away into our systems and be hard for others to access and use for other purposes unless we do further work to

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO

2010-05-31 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 31 May 2010, Peter Miller wrote: We have created a map layer for Potlatch showing OS Locator names which are not in the nearby OSM data in a nice visual way. Details in our blog post of the subject. http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/os-locator-validation-mapping-for-uk.html

Re: [Talk-GB] Offsets between OS and OSM data (was Building with mapseg)

2010-05-30 Thread Robert Scott
Funny this subject should come up. Working with the OS Locator data, I'm finding the bounding boxes to be constantly about 50m to the east. In the south, they're also about 30m south. In scotland they're about 10m north. I'm using the srid transform 27700 - 4326. What am I doing wrong?

Re: [OSM-talk] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Maarten Deen wrote: Can someone explain to me why an ATM would need a GPS in order to dispense cash? Or why Wall Street needs it to trade? These things are stationary. Ok, maybe stock traders can use it to see where shipments of the companies the trade in are, but

[Talk-GB] OSL Musical Chairs code up.

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Scott
Hi again all, I've given the comparison script a bit of a tidy and put the code up so you can all play with it to your hearts content. http://humanleg.org.uk/code/oslmusicalchairs#code robert. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator / OSM correspondence list generation

2010-05-14 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 14 May 2010, Tim François wrote: For something that can be imported to editors, why not generate a GPX file? JOSM loads these natively. Or am I missing something...? I suppose it's not really the file format that's the issue - it's more about the mechanism inside the editor to deal

[Talk-GB] OS Locator / OSM correspondence list generation

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Scott
Hi all, I've been running some countrywide comparisons of the recently released OS Locator against the streets in OSM, using fuzzy string matching and the supplied bounding boxes to attempt to match each street in each dataset to one in the other. It's worked pretty well for most areas I

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