Re: [Talk-GB] Brewery tagging

2009-03-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/03/2009 11:21, Ed Loach wrote: one in Bury St Edmunds is tagged landuse=industrial (with a visitor centre attraction). That was me. It really is a factory, so I felt industrial was appropriate. No, I agree. I've seen the place and it is very industrial. But landuse to me seems more

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

2009-04-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/04/2009 12:42, Richard Mann wrote: *** I would like feedback/discussion on this particular point - whether urban made-up and rural unmade footpaths should be tagged distinctively *** Given we already have a separate tag for surface, I don't see the distinction. In highway engineering

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

2009-04-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/04/2009 14:11, Steve Hill wrote: However, mistake or not, we have what we have and making fundamental changes doesn't seem especially likely (I have in the past made suggestions regarding the fundamental data structure and have been met with nothing but sarcastic replies and put-downs

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/05/2009 16:28, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: I normally just use tertiary for roads which are not A/B but are significant through roads of some sort. +1 +1 also The C classification is just not available on the ground, and is in practice only of use to highway

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat Navs to stop working?

2009-05-21 Thread David Earl
New Scietists covered this more than a month ago, and has another article this week: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227085.700-ageing-satellites-put-gps-at-risk.html which references the original report on which this story has been based http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09325.pdf David On

[Talk-GB] Mapping Party: King's Lynn, Norfolk UK June 27th

2009-05-26 Thread David Earl
For those not subscribed to talk-gb-midanglia who may be interested: I'm organising a mapping party for King's Lynn, West Norfolk on June 27th. See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Norfolk/King's_Lynn_and_West_Norfolk/MappingParty2009-06 David

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK publicity challenge

2009-06-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/06/2009 11:42, Bob Kerr wrote: The maps are copyright free and can be used in their magazine Err... they aren't copyright free. David ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread David Earl
There is no right answer. If you tag things 40mph (which is what I do, like most of the other people who've replied) then you may well find that someone else goes round systematically changing them to km/h and puts in maxspeed:mph - that's what's happened to most of the ones I've done. I think

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread David Earl
On 04/06/2009 12:48, WessexMario wrote: Isn't all this already specified? The trouble is tag specifications count for very little in OSM, as people ignore them because they think they have a better way of doing it, or when they make a mistake, or just on a whim. They're conventions not

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans National Cycle Network Mileposts and Art

2009-06-08 Thread David Earl
On 08/06/2009 13:06, Ed Loach wrote: Jonathan asked: Do we have an existing tagging scheme for these? Yes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_National_Cycle_Network#Tagging_information That seems to be just mile posts. What about tagging the artwork? What

Re: [Talk-GB] Dartford Crossings

2009-06-12 Thread David Earl
http://realcycling.blogspot.com/2009/05/thames-crossings-21-and-32-dartford.html (and you can also see in the photos that the signs change colour as you approach the toll booths, where the motorway gives way to being a trunk road just to go through the tunnel). David On 12/06/2009 11:46, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Amenity Editing

2009-07-02 Thread David Earl
Jack Stringer wrote: As I have mentioned before I am interested in improving the data on Amenities such as Pubs, Fast Food places. Most of this data can be found openly on the companies own website so I doubt they will have issues with us including the data as they want to be found on the

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread David Earl
Tom Hughes wrote: On 14/07/09 18:21, Chris Fleming wrote: I find that the print in firefox works very well. The print stylesheet ensures that only the required parts of the page get printed. The only caveat, is that if I switch from portrait to landscape mode then the attribution is printed

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread David Earl
Tom Hughes wrote: That's entirely a browser thing though, so different browsers may not do exactly the same thing. Curiously, IE8 produces 3 (!) pages in landscape, but all map - the area you were seeing plus 1.5 pages worth to the south - BUT omits the attribution completely. David

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] Re: Municipal boundaries

2009-07-16 Thread David Earl
Chris Hill wrote: Since this is a Freedom of Information Act request, and they have refused to supply me the requested information I'll ask the Office of the Information Commissioner for a ruling. Not expecting much, but you never know. Even if they did or do supply it, doesn't mean you

Re: [Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-21 Thread David Earl
Dave Stubbs wrote: I really hope that this central working group doesn't get distracted by every clown in the world who messes with an area for a few hours after an evening in the pub! Most disappear quite happily without further interaction. The community can handle the

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

2009-07-22 Thread David Earl
Nicholas Barnes wrote: Please could somebody give me some ideas about what (if anything) is wrong with this whole roundabout/bus route/highway junction and what should be done to sort it all out. I was doing some bus routes for the first time recently too, and I think there's a fundamental

Re: [Talk-GB] St Neots and Louth

2009-08-03 Thread David Earl
Jack Stringer wrote: St Neots, are there any locals that can tell me the area they want GPSed as a priority? Users Hook and Laverock have been going great guns recently in St Neots and neighbouring Eynesbury and Eaton Ford. David ___ Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Liam123 alert!

2009-08-05 Thread David Earl
liam123 has been active again this morning - the first changeset for a while: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2043351 I have no idea whether this represents valid data or rubbish. It seems to be related to the high speed rail line through Kent. David

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 alert!

2009-08-05 Thread David Earl
David Earl wrote: David Earl wrote: liam123 has been active again this morning - the first changeset for a while: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2043351 I have no idea whether this represents valid data or rubbish. It seems to be related to the high speed rail line through

[Talk-GB] Liam123 again

2009-08-07 Thread David Earl
This time he's invented a fictitious railway line into Great Yarmouth This needs reverting: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2063848 added to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=GB_revert_request_log David ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] 3 more changesets from Liam123 for reversion

2009-08-07 Thread David Earl
Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:21 PM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Peter Miller wrote: 3 more changesets today from Liam123 for reversion. I have added them to the revert page and have copied this email the Andy.

Re: [Talk-GB] 3 more changesets from Liam123 for reversion

2009-08-07 Thread David Earl
Peter Miller wrote: Personally I see little justification for not removing every edit done by Liam123 until he talks to us or clearly starts to make good useful contributions that we can verify. Can I ask you to reconsider you decision and remove the changeset where he has made small

Re: [Talk-GB] Cambridge reversion needed

2009-08-10 Thread David Earl
David Earl wrote: I'll wrote to him/her. Doh, my typing. 'write', of course. I've also added a feed on their edits so I can keep an eye on them. Fortunately these were largely isolated nodes, and no one had touched them in the meantime. Ito OSM Mapper has reported no changes in Cambridge

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread David Earl
On 17/08/2009 13:28, Glenn Proctor wrote: Following on from this, am I correct in assuming that the only definitive source of mapping information about public rights of way is the OS? It seems ludicrous that *public* rights of way are effectively copyrighted in this manner. I suppose it's

[Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread David Earl
I put a proposal on the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Proposed_Chapters for a central England OSM local chapter. Peter disagrees with the (too small) scale of this and wants to discuss it here. I have no huge feelings about this. I just felt that we have

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/08/2009 12:42, Chris Hill wrote: What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. The main reason is one of the reasons behind the idea of local chapters in the first place - to give an official point of

Re: [Talk-GB] Uk Missing Major Roads.

2009-08-27 Thread David Earl
On 27/08/2009 10:31, Peter Childs wrote: I mean if you look at the A2 it looks and feels like a Motor Way (Hard Shoulder, Slipways, 70MPH) all the way till Wilmington it just happens that Tractors and Learners are aloud to use it (I would not advise it however). and cyclists (ditto) which

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 back again - can we check if this is vandalism?

2009-09-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/09/2009 14:53, Peter Miller wrote: Here he has added goods=yes to a railway line. Is this correct? http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4356960/history No: I just did a search for a journey on the national rail website and it gives me trains between the two stations either side, with

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 back again - can we check if this is vandalism?

2009-09-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/09/2009 14:53, Peter Miller wrote: This looks like messing with a street and yahoo photography shows it as going through a house. This appears to be straight forward vandalism http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/5215590 Yes, looking at the Yahoo images, I agree completely. I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 back again - can we check if this is vandalism?

2009-09-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/09/2009 18:18, David Earl wrote: I'm going to revert these two changesets now. 2359068 was OK, but the later one, 2359116 already has a conflict. David ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-GB] Just got this big apology from Gothy about the dodgy edit in Stratford

2009-09-13 Thread David Earl
I have now reverted this changeset - it went through cleanly and easily. BTW for reverts I do I'm using a different user id from my usual - GuardianAngel is me with a different hat on. I wonder whether you could contact him again Peter and find out what he did that led him to believe he wasn't

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123

2009-09-14 Thread David Earl
On 14/09/2009 22:30, Someoneelse wrote: I notice that liam123's been editing in SE London again tonight. Seems to consist of lots of oneway=yes changed to oneway=no, among others. Unfortunately, I can't use the revert script to rever this. Though the edits are all his, the same way appears

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123

2009-09-15 Thread David Earl
On 15/09/2009 00:59, Lennard wrote: David Earl wrote: Unfortunately, I can't use the revert script to rever this. Though the edits are all his, the same way appears twice in the same changeset and this seems to upset Frederick's script. I don't know whether it is a bug or not. He

[Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread David Earl
Two changesets: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2510163 reverted cleanly http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2510485 failed to revert 410 gone - I suspect there was a node/way changed in the second changeset that was also in the first. The automatic reversion is

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread David Earl
On 17/09/2009 14:09, Peter Miller wrote: Who would join a 'talk-counter_vandalism' list or support its creation? Yes. But can we call it something less judgemental: not all incorrect changes are vandalism, and people seeing their account names on such a list would be most depressing.

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread David Earl
On 17/09/2009 14:30, Peter Miller wrote: Possibly a different name would be clearer talk-Counter_vandalism_tools, but that is getting a bit long. Any other ideas or feedback? talk-reversion-tools? ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/09/2009 11:17, Lennard wrote: And about removal/deactivation/hiding of Potlatch's live editing mode: yes, please. We've had a case in Belgium as well, recently, of someone dicking about in live mode, apparently unaware of the destructive nature of their actions. +1 But I don't think

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Mapper

2009-09-18 Thread David Earl
Well done, and congratulations! I saw the feed come through earlier on this morning and have been working through reviewing the changes in my area. In my so far futile attempts to reload the namefinder index, I've found the same thing - the time to reload seems to be exponential with the size.

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/09/2009 12:13, Dave Stubbs wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Brian Prangle bpran...@googlemail.com wrote: I may be being a simpleton but can't we just disable write privileges for this user to the database? Then he can continue editing but it all has no effect If somebody

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123 facts

2009-09-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/09/2009 07:30, Frederik Ramm wrote: I have reverted the remaining edits so that, to my knowledge as per now, not as single object should be in the state last modified by liam123. Thank you very much for doing this. David ___ Talk-GB mailing

[Talk-GB] Vote for TalkTalk's OSM-using hero

2009-09-26 Thread David Earl
As those of you paying attention will know, CycleStreets (www.cyclestreets.net) is a routing and photo-map application for cyclists based on OSM data. It's primary developer is Simon Nuttall and he has been nominated for TalkTalk's digital hero award, which offers a much needed £5K to help

[Talk-GB] NAPTAN pay_scale_area

2009-09-27 Thread David Earl
I notice that we now have this area name = Cambridge public_transport = pay_scale_area ref = CAMBDGE source = naptan_import which looks like it delimits the area within which the Cambridge megarider bus tickets are valid (Pay scale area is not a term in public parlance). Problem is,

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey 7th series available

2009-10-07 Thread David Earl
NPE maps have always had major alignment problems which have seemed to me to be worse in the eastern side of the country. There's also a new problem, but I don't know whether it is in the JOSM WMS plugin, the tile server or what. Consider three JOSM screenshots:

[Talk-GB] Wisbech mapping party

2009-10-14 Thread David Earl
I'm planning a mapping party for the weekend of 14/15 November to map Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and environs. Anyone fancy a weekend in the Fens? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fenland/WisbechMappingParty2009-11 David ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Inaccurate Sea Boundary of England

2009-10-15 Thread David Earl
On 15/10/2009 11:02, Ed Avis wrote: Ed Loach e...@... writes: As only Sealand recognise Sealand and no UN member does (from the wiki article you quote), I can't see the claim that the sea boundary of England is wrong can be justified. Who would have expected an edit war in the English

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel area of London?

2009-11-10 Thread David Earl
it on, and take it off if they complain. Richard On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:22 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com mailto:da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 10/11/2009 13:21, Peter Miller wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, at 12:41, Ed Avis wrote: Are we legally permitted

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel area of London?

2009-11-10 Thread David Earl
On 10/11/2009 15:02, Richard Mann wrote: But simply reproducing their name or logo to represent them is just free advertising, and they'd be laughed out of court. Rubbish. It's their property and they can decide who uses it and where. They may well not have any objection, but if they did,

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel area of London?

2009-11-10 Thread David Earl
On 10/11/2009 19:35, Peter Miller wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, at 19:05, Tom Chance wrote: We get permission from TfL, or we seek costly legal advice. I agree that the cautious approach would be to ask. I was wondering if we could use the argument that it is in the background (as is a photo of

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel area of London?

2009-11-11 Thread David Earl
On 11/11/2009 10:39, Richard Mann wrote: I found this a useful summary of the UK copyright position: http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p09_fair_use That's about the general concept. This was the reason for my comment that our use on a street map would be akin to news reporting

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel areaof London?

2009-11-11 Thread David Earl
to show their store locations on the map were we to ask them, as essentially free advertising, and I do hope TfL might be able to take that position also. Many thanks, David Earl ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around theAngel areaof London?

2009-11-11 Thread David Earl
On 11/11/2009 12:40, Peter Miller wrote: I do also agree with Richard in that there are numerous possible map styles emphasising many different sorts of features in a lot of different languages Sure, but there are some that are so iconic they are the expectation. And as others said and

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel area of London?

2009-11-11 Thread David Earl
On 11/11/2009 12:44, Peter Childs wrote: OSM also has the advantage that you can render your map your self, If you want Yellow Primary Roads, London Transport Symbol for train stations etc etc then go ahead, If you infridge copy right on your own rendering its not in the OSM data so OSM can't

[Talk-GB] OSM mention on You and Yours

2009-12-07 Thread David Earl
There was an item on this lunchtime's You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 (a consumer magazine programme) about mapping, Ordnance Survey and satnav, which also mentioned OSM. It's 35:30 minutes in at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00p4l7x David

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-14 Thread David Earl
On 14/01/2010 18:27, Dave F. wrote: Andy, The taxpayers have already paid for it, many times over. I resent having to pay £7.50 for a map I've already financed to construct. As I've paid for it, I think it should be given to me free of charge. For a paper map, I think not. You've helped pay

Re: [Talk-GB] National Cycle Network - filling the gaps

2010-03-08 Thread David Earl
Does anyone know what happens to ncn11 south of Stansted Mountfitchet? I mapped it through to there a few months ago and then went back to take it further but couldn't find it on the ground. I'd assumed it followed the Lea valley maybe via Bishops Stortford and Harlow, but the signs just

Re: [Talk-GB] Questions about highway classification

2010-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2010 11:29, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I'm currently trying to form a sort of consensus as to the best way of defining the classes of highway in the US, and a bit of information about the UK would help. I know about the definitions used (trunk=primary route network, primary=A roads,

[Talk-GB] London Underground roundel

2010-03-25 Thread David Earl
might be able to take that position also. Many thanks, David Earl ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] London Underground roundel

2010-03-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/03/2010 13:36, Thomas Wood wrote: Wow, good work. I suppose this will start a flood of localisation requests for other metro systems, this will probably be a good thing - it'll force our mapnik localisation to be made better! (maybe I could target it as a GSoC project for myself...) As

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-05 Thread David Earl
I thought it was very interesting to look at the OS and OSM overlaid on each other on the WMS link someone posted. 1. I was very impressed with how really accurate OSM is compared to OS where I know it has been done systematically 2. I was disappointed to see how out of date the OS data is -

Re: [Talk-GB] tracing lakes with Potlatch

2010-04-06 Thread David Earl
On 06/04/2010 17:51, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: A lot of stuff nowadays is done from aerial imagery, but they can still drop back to traditional surveying methods if required. It was a strange coincidence that I met an OS surveyor, theodolite in hand, doing just that when I was

[Talk-GB] Launch of Mapping for Change social enterprise

2010-06-29 Thread David Earl
This reached me via a roundabout route about an event on Thursday late afternoon. Is anyone from OSM involved? Is anyone going? Is someone in the London area able to go? Looks light up our street, so to speak. http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk and in particular:

Re: [Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits

2010-11-01 Thread David Earl
On Monday, November 1, 2010, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 29/10/2010 22:22, thomas van der veen wrote: You might like to take note that nothing is implicit in OSM. There are no defaults as renderers or

Re: [Talk-GB] Street name disagreement - whose right or wrong?

2010-12-26 Thread David Earl
On Sunday, 26 December 2010, Richard r...@f2s.com wrote: My personal opinion is that Signed on the ground should always take precedence. +1 But you can always use alt_ name where there is another variant (or even completely different name). David

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread David Earl
On 21/01/2011 10:02, Kevin Peat wrote: So I should delete the various admin boundaries in the db then as they cannot be viewed on the ground? Well said. I absolutely agree admin boundaries have the same kind of status as postcodes. I think there is value in visualising postcodes, and while

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread David Earl
On 21/01/2011 10:10, Tom Hughes wrote: On 21/01/11 10:02, Kevin Peat wrote: So I should delete the various admin boundaries in the db then as they cannot be viewed on the ground? They may not be viewable on the ground, but they are real in the sense that somebody has defined them by

Re: [Talk-GB] Roadside cycle-lanes vs. off-road cycle-paths

2011-04-15 Thread David Earl
On 15/04/2011 19:50, David Earl wrote: there's various lane indications such as cycleway=lane ... PS if you want examples, Cambridge and the surrounding area is particularly dense with all the variations of these all over the place. David

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/06/2011 17:36, Ed Avis wrote: What stops more people using OSM? While I agree with your other points, even before you get to the data, I think the first reason is people don't know about it. And for most people, why would you not just use Google maps even if you did? David

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright issues of checking details on other websites

2011-07-05 Thread David Earl
On 05/07/2011 11:26, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Earl wrote: Even then, to infringe database copyright under UK law you would have to copy a substantial part of the database. Checking or obtaining a few names against such a list isn't database copyright infringement Oh, absolutely

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright issues of checking details on other websites

2011-07-05 Thread David Earl
On 05/07/2011 12:28, Nick Austin wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: To take a different example, the Royal Mail (still) claims database copyright over the PAF (postcode address file) database. Would crowd sourcing the address vs postcode data

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

2011-12-05 Thread David Earl
You may remember the announcement of the University of Cambridge's OpenStreetMap project back in July ( http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-July/012067.html ). I was appointed to the project from that and I have now written up a bit about what I'm doing on my OSM diary (

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

2011-12-07 Thread David Earl
On 06/12/2011 12:54, Stephen Gower wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 05:44:48PM +, David Earl wrote: I was appointed to the project from that [...] Congratulations! Thank you! and also published the tagging schema I'm working to ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cambridge

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread David Earl
On 10/01/2012 11:44, Peter Miller wrote: Is there no way in this case to formally 'claim' the IPR for this features on the basis that we have moved them and edited all the surrounding features? Exactly the question I raised on talk on Monday. I don't think you even need to have moved

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread David Earl
On 10/01/2012 13:46, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Michael Collinson wrote: +1 to Richard's suggestion odbl=clean Just a tiny little clarification - this isn't something I've dreamed up, it's a real live tag with 9,000 occurrences in the database already, and which is being used by status

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread David Earl
On 10/01/2012 14:53, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 01/10/12 15:37, Frederik Ramm wrote: Yes, the trouble is when Frederik pointed this out and referred to the page, it says it is for cases where the suspect edit has been wiped out, not simply verified from other sources. How can you change the

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread David Earl
On 10/01/2012 16:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Earl wrote: Why does pressing the keys make any difference whatsoever? The original contributor doesn't own the copyright in the name, only their contribution, and by marking it odbl clean I'm making an alternative contribution which asserts

Re: [Talk-GB] Misguided user kane123

2012-01-13 Thread David Earl
I bet you this is liam123 in a different guise. He's editing in the same area doing quite similar things. David On 13/01/2012 13:41, Andy Allan wrote: Anyone fancy dealing with http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kane123 ? All of their changesets so far are bogus, and need reverting. Cheers,

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 route is open data!

2012-01-23 Thread David Earl
On 23/01/2012 20:21, Jason Cunningham wrote: Good to see the data being released, But I don't believe this proposed route should yet be added to OSM. You'll regularly here the phrase map what's on the ground, but we all(?) accept upcoming changes to what's on the ground can be mapped, and

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-20 Thread David Earl
On 20/06/2012 14:57, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote: Merging this data I see that some ways that just lead to an NCN route (but are not actually part of the continuous route) are still marked with the ncn=yes;ncn_ref=xx tags for the route the lead to. What's the feeling on this? I'm a bit torn:

Re: [Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

2012-06-28 Thread David Earl
Might this be of help, if the info were included with the station. It seems to be official: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_railway_station_categories David On 28/06/2012 11:15, Jonathan Bennett wrote: tl;dr: Please tag your local station(s) with platforms=n where n2 I had a

Re: [Talk-GB] Building Numbers

2012-07-25 Thread David Earl
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Chris Hill wrote: On 25/07/12 22:16, Chris Baines wrote: I have been playing around with OSM on my university's campus [1], I have most of the buildings and their names on OSM, but not the numbers. My university are quite good with data, you can see the building

Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign

2012-10-31 Thread David Earl
On 31/10/2012 15:29, Andy Robinson wrote: Shaun McDonald [mailto:sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk] wrote: Sent: 31 October 2012 15:21 To: Matt Williams Cc: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign On 31 Oct 2012, at 14:49, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone famiiar with Hay-on-Wye?

2013-01-06 Thread David Earl
On 06/01/2013 14:02, SomeoneElse wrote: I recently deleted a doodle in Hay-on-Wye, but after doing so noticed that to there northwest there seem to be a cycle path and a footpath _very_ close together: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.073537lon=-3.130221zoom=18layers=M I guess that this

Re: [Talk-GB] Using UK postcode data to generate a heat map

2013-01-30 Thread David Earl
Do you know about openheatmap (http://www.openheatmap.com )? Basically you can supply spreadsheets of locations vs data and it will do the graphics for you. It doesn't know about postcodes, but if you have the means to get locations for postcodes you don't have to do any of the rest. David

Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign

2013-03-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/03/2013 14:04, David Fisher wrote: Hi Shaun, I take it you're referring to Ipswich? In which case, I can sort of see the logic. It's not one-way, it's no entry, so when the excepting conditions are satisfied it becomes two-way. In Croydon's case there's that no motor vehicles sign at

Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign

2013-03-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/03/2013 20:10, Simon Blake wrote: Could I ask the panel about http://goo.gl/maps/y9Zj3 ? If you look towards the road to the right (Parliament St, Gloucester), there are No Entry signs with no exceptions signed, but on the road it says Buses and taxis only. Equally, the sign under the

Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign

2013-03-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/03/2013 20:34, David Earl wrote: On 19/03/2013 20:10, Simon Blake wrote: Could I ask the panel about http://goo.gl/maps/y9Zj3 ? If you look towards the road to the right (Parliament St, Gloucester), there are No Entry signs with no exceptions signed, but on the road it says Buses

Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign

2013-03-20 Thread David Earl
On 20/03/2013 09:25, Brad Rogers wrote: Both those links are the same, and both seem to point (for me anyway) to the original except buses junction. It's not just you, Andy. I got the same result and thought it must be me. Sigh. I corrected them immediately afterwards.

Re: [Talk-GB] NCN 28?

2013-04-20 Thread David Earl
On 20/04/2013 13:58, Kevin Peat wrote: I am not that familiar with NCN signage. Why are the route numbers sometimes shown in brackets and sometimes not? Just as with ordinary road signs in the UK, the number in brackets means this is the way to route N rather than being route N itself.

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread David Earl
On 28/04/2013 09:49, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hi, I've noticed (through doing nominatim searches) that a small number of UK cities (i.e. Manchester and Leeds) do not appear to have a place=city node, only an administrative boundary. Is this deliberate? I've tried other large UK cities and all of

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread David Earl
On 28/04/2013 13:57, Dave F. wrote: General point: Please don't attach place tags onto other way/polygon objects. They often get deleted when the ways are unpicked then re-added. Indeed. And I would say don't try to use nodes or ways for multiple purposes at all. So putting a node at the

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread David Earl
On 28/04/2013 15:21, Andrew wrote: David Earl david@... writes: In general, it shouldn't be necessary to have a node and an area which represent the same thing. In this case the nodes and areas do not represent the same thing. The areas are the local government districts called Leeds

Re: [Talk-GB] Complaining about refs on roads again!

2013-05-01 Thread David Earl
On 01/05/2013 09:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: if someone comes with an alternative proposal for tagging those reference numbers on more minor roads (i.e. a specific key to use), which gains widespread support in the UK, I'd be happy to go along with that. According to

Re: [Talk-GB] Usage of lanes / turn restrictions versus multiple ways when road is not divided

2013-05-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/05/2013 12:56, Jason Cunningham wrote: UK legislation is fairly clear that Traffic Islands (with or without hatched markings before are after) are not considered to create two carriagways. We're not mapping legislation, but nethertheless I wouldnt create two carriageways for a traffic

Re: [Talk-GB] Usage of lanes / turn restrictions versus multiple ways when road is not divided

2013-05-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/05/2013 13:30, Oliver Jowett wrote: If there's a better way to represent this while keeping enough information to be able to route sensibly, how should it be done? You can set up turn restrictions with relations where necessary. But as John said, it doesn't do much for pedestrians (or

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread David Earl
Bournemouth (01202)[1] and before long Brighton and Hove (01273), Aberdeen (01224), Milton Keynes (01908), Bradford (01274) and Cambridge (01223) which are all running short of numbers[2], require or will require the 'area code' to be dialled as part of the number, even if you are inside the

Re: [Talk-GB] Using store locator as source

2013-09-16 Thread David Earl
On 16/09/2013 17:35, Adam Hoyle wrote: On 16 Sep 2013, at 16:14, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Err, no. That's not how the law works - either on copyright or on database rights. Lol, good point - perhaps I should ask if any of them can attribute a license to the locations on their

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice needed for maxweight turning restriction

2013-10-14 Thread David Earl
On 12/10/2013 21:00, Philip Barnes wrote: I came across an odd situation where a road is on way, except for cycles and vehicles over 13'3 high. Its a residential area of Shrewsbury which would be a useful rat run, hence the oneway. But to make it complicated, there is are industrial units, and a

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

2013-11-16 Thread David Earl
On 15/11/2013 20:15, Rob Nickerson wrote: (The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback) I very much like the fact it is responsive on small screens. Would it be possible to have a

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

2013-11-16 Thread David Earl
On 15/11/2013 20:15, Rob Nickerson wrote: (The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback) One other thing... notes are really helpful, and not immediately new though they were

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