On 25/05/2011 23:21, Colin Smale wrote:
Have you tried West Kent PCT?
I'm not sure now, but I think I did.
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On 25/05/2011 22:54, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 25/05/2011 22:47, TimSC wrote:
On 25/05/11 22:41, Steve Doerr wrote:
I preferred the old version where you didn't have to know about PCTs
and the like :-(
Steve
You mean you can't find the PCT you want? That's a good point. I
wanted to split
I preferred the old version where you didn't have to know about PCTs and
the like :-(
Steve
On 25/05/2011 22:19, TimSC wrote:
Well,
I adapted my code to spit the data into areas and to handle the whole
of the UK. I noticed that about 90% of the entries claim to be within
1m of the
On 25/05/2011 22:47, TimSC wrote:
On 25/05/11 22:41, Steve Doerr wrote:
I preferred the old version where you didn't have to know about PCTs
and the like :-(
Steve
You mean you can't find the PCT you want? That's a good point. I
wanted to split the data set by county
I wonder if they would have data relating to on-street-parking restrictions?
Steve
On 23/05/2011 14:53, Gregory Williams wrote:
Not strictly an OSM thing, but I'd also like to see traffic count data
released by KCC too.
Gregory
*From:*Gregory Williams
On 18/05/2011 11:13, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
As an aside, C roads are really eccentrically designated, at least if
their osm tagging is correct.
e.g.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.9256lon=-1.3605zoom=14layers=M
Re. the C351 WTF?
It's not really 'the' C351, as there will be
On 18/05/2011 11:03, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
I note an increasing number of roads tagged with ref=Cnumber:
http://osm.org/go/euF7qf93-
http://osm.org/go/eu6CM0IS-
etc.
Leaving aside for now the question of sourcing, I feel a little uneasy
about these being rendered on the map.
On 18/05/2011 13:51, Ed Avis wrote:
Do you mean that names have been entered where none existed before -
or do you
mean changing already-mapped names to agree with OS?
In the case of Paine(')s Lane, it seems to have been changed from
name=Paines Lane
source:name=street signs
to
On 18/04/2011 18:50, Thomas Davie wrote:
Because it will show the genuine trend – at the moment, a quick glance
at the graph would suggest that the no vote is expanding at the same
rate, and at the same level as the yes vote. I agree that we can't
clearly show that they're not at the same
I'm finding I can't do anything at openstreetmap.org, not even visit the
home page, without accepting or declining the contributor terms. I
assume that this is because I'm logged in - hopefully a non-member just
wanting to view the map would not have this difficulty. I can't even log
out -
On 14/04/2011 08:21, Peter Miller wrote:
On 12 April 2011 15:39, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com
mailto:doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/04/2011 15:16, Ed Avis wrote:
However, one flaw is that the speed limit sign is not for
'dual carriageway
limit
On 14/04/2011 11:06, Peter Miller wrote:
On 14 April 2011 09:59, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com
mailto:doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/04/2011 08:21, Peter Miller wrote:
On 12 April 2011 15:39, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com
mailto:doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote
On 14/04/2011 18:30, davespod wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Davespod/Speed-Limits
This needs a bit more work, as some of the column headings could probably be
better (and there might even be some mistakes in the speed limits, as I was
in a rush!)
Yes, there's no such word as
On 12/04/2011 11:47, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
As to where I am:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=11.414703lon=76.692275zoom=18layers=M
I see you have a place near you named 'JSS Naturapathy and Yoga
Hospital'. The usual word is 'naturopathy': 'naturapathy' sounds like
something quite
On 12/04/2011 12:37, Maarten Deen wrote:
15 jears ago
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On 11/04/2011 23:39, SomeoneElse wrote:
Great - someone has now changed a bunch of maxspeed=national locally
to me to to maxspeed=60 mph. Next I guess someone will come along
and add
source:maxspeed=i_was_sat_in_my_armchair_and_it_seemed_like_a_good_idea
or similar?
We've lost the
Is this working? I just noticed that, for Meopham in Kent, I can view
the 1:25k OS map as a background in Potlatch 1, but nothing displays in
Potlatch 2.
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On 12/04/2011 15:08, Andy Allan wrote:
I've just created the patch to fix this, and if anyone notices any
more mistakes (or omissions) in
http://git.openstreetmap.org/potlatch2.git/blob/HEAD:/resources/imagery.xml
then let us know, either by trac tickets or on the potlatch-dev list.
Many
On 12/04/2011 15:16, Ed Avis wrote:
Peter Millerpeter.miller@... writes:
Are people happy with:
GB:motorway (which implies 70 mph at present and possibly 80 mph in the future)
GB:dual_carriageway (which implies 70 mph at present)
GB:single_carriageway (which implies 60 mph at present)
I
On 12/04/2011 15:15, Bob Kerr wrote:
A bit of cash maybe?
http://opendatachallenge.org/
Headline sponsor: Google!
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On 09/04/2011 08:15, Peter Miller wrote:
maxspeed:type=GB:dual_carriageway (or GB:motorway, GB:rural, GB:urban)
I don't like the urban/rural dichotomy for the UK as it doesn't
correspond to anything in the legislation here - unless you believe that
street-lighting is a specifically urban
On 07/04/2011 12:45, jynus wrote:
Catastro is the official land register for Spain.
I must admit I thought we were already allowed to use it. I've added a
few street-names in Spain on the basis of the Catastro mapping.
If anyone can get their WMS server working in Potlatch, that would be
On 07/04/2011 15:21, jynus wrote:
2011/4/7 Steve Doerrdoerr.step...@gmail.com:
On 07/04/2011 12:45, jynus wrote:
Catastro is the official land register for Spain.
I must admit I thought we were already allowed to use it. I've added a few
street-names in Spain on the basis of the Catastro
On 07/04/2011 16:22, jynus wrote:
I suppose not. Also, currently this is very WIP. According to official
documents only Spanish citizens will be able to download or
redistribute
LOL. So much for the single European market!
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On 07/04/2011 22:53, David Murn wrote:
Apparently there are 66k pubs but only 400 gyms tagged in OSM.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/Proposals
Sounds about the right ratio to me (hic!).
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On 06/04/2011 16:26, Peter Miller wrote:
On 6 April 2011 16:19, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com
mailto:richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd put the number for cars (ie 70mph for a dual carriageway), and the
source if it's not the number that's on the sign.
On 24/03/2011 08:23, Andrew Harvey wrote:
...and many prospective contributors are being shunned away because a
new contributor doesn't have the same privileges as existing
contributors. i.e. existing contributors can use non-CT compatible
data, but new users cannot. Nor is there any way for a
I'm still waiting for an official request for users to sign up to the
new terms. Have I missed one?
Steve
On 23/03/2011 09:21, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
The LWG has posted draft minutes on the OSMF wiki.
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_109hj8txbg3
I hope there are no errors in these
How do you tag these? I confess I don't really know what they are.
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On 21/03/2011 17:04, Matt Williams wrote:
On 21 March 2011 17:53, Derick Rethanso...@derickrethans.nl wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Ed Loach wrote:
Steve wrote:
How do you tag these? I confess I don't really know what they are.
I'd be tempted to make up a tag, or maybe use designation= as I
On 20/03/2011 15:06, Matt Williams wrote:
[snip]
Keep up the good work!
Possible bug: I just tried searching for my own address (42c Mulberry
Road) and it returned no results, but if I search for my postcode (DA11
8PP) it returns '42c Mulberry Road'.
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On 20/03/2011 21:34, Matt Williams wrote:
On 20 March 2011 21:08, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com wrote:
'Postcode W9 is badly formed' - many streets are tagged with just the first
part of the postcode (the outbound code). This is signed on the ground, and
is useful to disambiguate street names,
Thanks. Looks good. Any chance of a Pubs overlay? :-)
I've noticed that schools around here are shown in red even though they
have a name tag, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24005356.
Steve
On 18/03/2011 14:12, Peter Miller wrote:
ITO are pleased to announce a set of new
On 14/03/2011 20:34, Phil Endecott wrote:
The correct translation for pas in that context is step - i.e.
that is what you should write if translating a proper name. Example:
the Hillary Step on Everest.
In Britain there are various places known informally or semi-formally
as the bad
On 11/03/2011 13:39, Dave F. wrote:
IMO the *vast* majority of problems that came from bulk importing
arose due to the incompetence of the importers, *not* the value of the
data.
If the imports are done in reasonably sizes chunks then *checked*
afterwards they bring value to the OSM
On 11/03/2011 16:55, Ed Loach wrote:
Steve wrote:
I sort of have a
feeling Code-Point Open would be useful, but I can't immediately
say
why.
Can I point you at a couple of prior posts to this list?
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-January/010652
.html
(announcing a way of
On 11/03/2011 21:33, Chris Hill wrote:
Steve,
I created the codepoint overlay. Do you want me to add the DA and ME
postcode areas?
I only added the areas that people ask for to keep the load down.
Hi, Chris! Yes, I'd love you to, but that only obscures the point I was
originally making,
On 04/03/2011 23:14, Dave F. wrote:
The name of the company is McDonalds
What's your evidence for that? The contact page on their web site gives
the company name as McDonald's Corporation.
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On 03/03/2011 02:19, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
On 28 February 2011 21:40, Steve Doerrsteve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
On 28/02/2011 16:55, Ed Avis wrote:
If the name is still in Arabic, but Arabic written with the Latin
alphabet,
then name:ar@Latin would be correct.
Did you just make that
On 03/03/2011 12:38, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2011/3/3 Jean-Marc Liotierj...@liotier.org:
Anyone else in favor of name:ar@latin for the romanized version of
the local
Arabic name ?
+1
with the caveat that name@latin is probably just as important if not
more so (renderers can more easily
On 03/03/2011 17:16, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM wrote:
I must completely agree with Tom on this. (When has OSM cared about 3NF?).
This may be completely off the wall, but what about creating a relation
for each species and adding the individual trees to the appropriate
relation? The name
On 01/03/2011 00:31, John-Michael Wiley wrote:
Unfortunately the data is coming to me from a tool I do not control. I
simply will be importing the data and allowing someone to associate
the data provided with areas and nodes on the map. Most of the data
will be for the US, but there is no
On 01/03/2011 11:06, Jochen Topf wrote:
There is a key addr:full (see description
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr) for this kind of thing.
True, I didn't notice that. However, it's not quite the right thing as
this user has some address elements separated out, it's just (as I
On 28/02/2011 10:33, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote:
It would not solve the problem for all tools, of course. For example,
MapOSMatic of Tripoli apparently uses the name field. So my
recommendation, given the feedback received so far, would still be to
use Latin + Arabic in
On 28/02/2011 16:55, Ed Avis wrote:
Jean-Marc Liotierjmat liotier.org writes:
By the way, for latin script names, should we use int_name, name:en or
both ?
If the name is still in Arabic, but Arabic written with the Latin alphabet,
then name:ar@Latin would be correct.
Did you just make
On 13/02/2011 23:36, Oscar Orbe wrote:
now you finally have somethin g to do in your spare time.you can legally
use this WMS service:
http://www.idee.es/wms/pnoa/pnoa?
with the tags:
source=PNOA
source:date=2009
Can anyone tell me how to configure that in Potlatch 2?
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On 24/02/2011 13:14, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM wrote:
Recently, I have noticed a number of MapDust bugs which contain a
postcode sector and, apparently, a range of housenumbers (e.g.,
Southdale Dr 40-98, NG4 1, GB for http://www.mapdust.com/detail/142061).
Where are you seeing that? For me,
On 08/02/2011 16:46, Tom Chance wrote:
There is a road in Southwark with two incorrect names listed against it:
Correct: Gibbons Rents
Major error: Gibbons Rent
Minor error: Gibbon's Rent
Strange. Back in 1875, they mapped it as Gibbon's Rents:
On 03/02/2011 14:41, Peter Miller wrote:
On 3 February 2011 14:32, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com
mailto:nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Peter, I know the ITO locator layer only shows missing names and
that you're not just checking name=* (if the OS has a different
name
On 25/01/2011 22:02, Joe Richards wrote:
The problem is my consumer GPSes (a Garmin GPSMap 60Csx and an HTC Magic
running Android) thought that the equator was about 30-40m away from
where a 'military GPS' had supposedly measured it and where these
equatorial tricks were being performed.
On 10/01/2011 19:47, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 10/01/11 19:00, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
American usage would be to refer to that as a road, just not a very
high-quality road. I take it that, in Britain, there are certain
minimum standards for being called a road?
Nothing official, but it would
On 30/12/2010 22:50, Diego Woitasen wrote:
Yes, we'll map the restrictions. I reviewed the local law and
sometimes you can turn left so we must tag the restriction on every
case.
Does it have to be every intersection, or could you tag a default on the
way or relation and then tag the
On 30/12/2010 22:09, Craig Wallace wrote:
I'm not involved in Nominatim, but some comments anyway:
You can go to this page and search for a place:
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/
In the results, click the little link for Details, which will give
more details of how Nominatim figured out the
On 17/12/2010 23:12, David Murn wrote:
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 08:06 -0500, Antony Pegg wrote:
Very very proud to announce that we have launched the US
http://open.MapQuest.com site
Just out of interest, why did you choose to extract only the continental
united states out of the entire
On 16/11/2010 12:29, Craig Loftus wrote:
I don't really want to raise the issue again but I found the new map
of ODBL coverage (http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/)
interesting as it literally highlights the effect the new license and
terms will have on map coverage in the UK.
That's
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote in message
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2010/10/8 Gorm E. Johnsen osml...@gorm.cc:
Any objections to removing highway=incline and highway=incline_steep from
Map Features and adding them to depreciated?
I think OS OpenData has a boundary data set. It would seem to be a prime
candidate for a bulk import.
Steve
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To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts
From: Ed Loach
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:46 PM
To: 'Steve Doerr' ; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: RE: [Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts county boundary wrong...is there
adefinitive source?
Steve wrote:
I think OS OpenData has a boundary data set. It would seem to
be a prime
From: Steve Doerr steve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 3:08 PM
Looking forward to testing this, but having some problems with the
prerequisites. I've installed this 'Python' thing (version 2.6) and the
shapely library, but the NumPy install is failing with a message 'Python
Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote in message
news:201005221952.30724.roland.olbri...@gmx.de...
- railway=halt is at least in Europe already frequently used with a
different
meaning: station designates stations where trains can begin or
terminate.
halt means (usually smaller)
From: Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
Perhaps the ABC http://www.abcounties.co.uk/ would be able to supply
traditional
county boundaries in a form suitable for importing or tracing.
Their home page has a link to http://www.county-borders.co.uk/, which
mentions a couple of file formats
On 13/04/2010 11:20, Andrew Errington wrote:
Having said that, I have just compared my changes with Google aerials, Google
Maps, and another two mapping providers. They are all different, but mine is
a little high, so I am going to choose the next lowest contour.
If the place is in the UK,
From: Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk
That's great! I can stop reading about Harris operators. I totally agree
about orthogonal snapping.
Orthogonal snapping would be useful more generally - do any of the editors
have this feature for manually drawn buildings etc.?
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John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net wrote in message
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I, for one, would love to see OSM maps on my Tom Tom to avoid issues like
http://yfrog.com/0r1p1j
That's avoidable (a second time, at least) by using the map correction
dialogue in
I'd prefer to see boundaries handled by an automated (and nationwide) import
process, as the OS data is likely to be at least as good as contributors' own
efforts and usually much better AND they are committed to maintaining it going
forward. Which seems a good opportunity to mention that those
Would replacing the hyphen by %2D cure the problem?
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On Monday 29 March 2010, Tom
I've come across an OS 1:25000 sheet TQ66 (Meopham, Kent) with a
revision date of 1955. I don't have the expertise to upload it myself to
OSM, so I am looking for someone to volunteer to do so and I will send
them the map. Fortunately or unfortunately, someone (maybe my father)
has
On 17/03/2010 09:12, Peter Childs wrote:
Fun more work, That will be a fun couple of days work adding routes
for every South Eastern Train, and then I'll have to get on to the
Medway buses too.
Nice map shame about the lack of data guess we'll just have to add it.
Presumably we can't crib
On 24/02/2010 00:02, SteveC wrote:
UserVoice is a neat feedback-as-a-service website which lets anyone put a
feedback tab on their site and collect user views on what should be
fixed/added.
Sounds useful. I haven't seen such a feedback tab on the OpenStreetMap
site though - is there
On 03/01/2010 11:36, Colin Smale wrote:
While searching the internet for arbitration in a case where local
wisdom appeared to conflict with OSM data I came across the Kent County
Council Highways Gazetteer. It contains a complete list of roads in
Kent, including their reference, road number,
On 02/03/2010 21:19, Lennard wrote:
Why do we need a superfluous type=boundary + boundary=administrative
when type=multipolygon + boundary=administrative works exactly the same?
And what's the difference between boundary=administrative,
boundary=political, and boundary=civil? (Sorry,
On 23/02/2010 20:17, SteveC wrote:
[snip]
What's uservoice? What's trac? What's PL1?
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On 23/02/2010 21:54, Roy Wallace wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
The only harm is if there is no way as well, or if people start joing
roads to nature strips and making it a complete PITA to edit them
independently of each other in future.
On 23/02/2010 14:18, Peter Reed wrote:
We start with a list of about 1,600 UK settlements, and a figure for the
population that lives there. Baring a few errors and omissions, the
settlements are the same ones that Cyclestreets uses for local areas -
http://www.cyclestreets.net/area/
We
On 23/02/2010 15:02, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
Steve Doerr wrote:
OK. How can we help in supplying better boundary information? For
instance, in the Medway Towns (Kent): Strood, Rochester, Chatham, and
Gillingham are overlapping horribly. It should be possible to map
On 23/02/2010 20:51, Ed Loach wrote:
Can I just add that it is also best to document the relation numbers
of boundaries somewhere fairly obvious on the wiki, to try and
prevent duplicate relations appearing for the same boundary.
So for example, all the Essex districts have their relations
On 23/02/2010 16:23, Peter Reed wrote:
I haven't tried to collect parish boundaries yet, but it's an obvious
step forward.
I'm not sure I'm necessarily thinking rigidly in terms of parishes. What
we're actually trying to replicate is the area for which your population
statistics are
On 23/02/2010 23:15, Ed Loach wrote:
If they were
correctly tagged then:
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/relation[boundary=administ
rative][bbox=-74.8,17.4,-68.18,20.31]
would get all the relations tagged boundary=administrative in the
quoted bbox (Hispaniola, which gets
Roy Wallace wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:10 PM, James Stewart j.k.stew...@ed.ac.uk wrote:
and micro maps of destinations such as airports and shopping malls
I think this is quite important, and can be one of the strengths of
OSM. e.g. Plenty of POI's waiting to be mapped here:
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