Re: [OSM-talk] Very Happy - Looking forward

2012-07-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I've often thought of the idea of a Footpath editor which could be used in the field to automatically add footpaths/bridleways to OSM. It should be possible to do, though it would rely on connecting to the live API in the field to both read and write data, to avoid duplication. As it would be

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Party - Manchester

2012-07-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I might be interested depending on the date - missing SOTM for the first time this year, not because of the distance (I quite fancy seeing Japan) but because it's difficult to get a lot of time of work in September. Would be good to have some sort of big OSM meetup locally (as in Western

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Insurance for Mapping Party

2012-07-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
It is a bit frightening that this sort of thing is required for a mapping party! Why is the, to my mind, utterly common-sense do it at your own risk, if you have an accident it's YOUR responsibility, not ours attitude so alien to the world today? In other words you shouldn't need insurance,

Re: [OSM-talk] Icons

2012-06-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Locally we have splash-pads where young children can run in and out of a spray of water.  Very useful in hot weather but not something I'd expect to see in the UK for example Sorry - just had to comment on this :-) June 2012 is not typical of UK summers! Typical of UK autumns perhaps though.

Re: [Talk-GB] How to work with Government Open Data (e.g. Boundaries, Rights of Way)

2012-06-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
What I wouldn't personally like is a mess where the Hampshire ROW line *and* the line on the ground are *both* in OSM. This would make the data messy and confusing to work with. In cases like this maybe the ROW has, to all intents and purposes, shifted and the Hampshire data is out-of-date.

[Talk-GB] Working with the HCC rights of way data

2012-06-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As promised I've put together a summary blog post on how I produced OpenHants (simple site overlying the Hampshire rights-of-way data on a kothic-js based OSM map), this can be found at: http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress/?p=247 Nick ___

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Specific Cases of Governments Using OSM

2012-06-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
This is not HCC doing something with OSM - this is HCC releasing their rights-of-way data under an open licence. The link provided is my own mash-up of OSM and HCC data. Nick -Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: - To: Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com From: Gregory

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenHants - doing something with the Hants CC data in the meantime

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Rob, Sorry for the late reply on this. Basically how it works is: - the shapefile was converted to Postgres SQL using shp2pgsql; - the data was imported into a PostGIS database; - some custom code (actually same underlying code as Freemap) was written to fetch data as GeoJSON from the

[OSM-legal-talk] Response from Hampshire County Council

2012-06-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Re: the Hampshire ROW data - this is the response I got from the person I am in contact with. In answer to the queries below, the data is free to use as is the OS open data on their website. The data was originally captured against the 10k raster data, meaning it carried OS

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-GB] Response from Hampshire County Council

2012-06-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Gregory, The quotes are used to quote the email. So the 'so in summary...' bit is mine and the 'so in short' is theirs. Nick -Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: - To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk From: Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com Date: 11/06/2012 02

[Talk-GB] Response from Hampshire County Council

2012-06-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Re: the Hampshire ROW data - this is the response I got from the person I am in contact with. In answer to the queries below, the data is free to use as is the OS open data on their website. The data was originally captured against the 10k raster data, meaning it carried OS

Re: [Talk-GB] Response from Hampshire County Council

2012-06-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Gregory, The quotes are used to quote the email. So the 'so in summary...' bit is mine and the 'so in short' is theirs. Nick -Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: - To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk From: Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com Date: 11/06/2012 02

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Follow up : Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence

2012-06-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Rob, (and all) I've emailed the Hants CC guy once - he was away so the email bounced. I've emailed him again tonight. Nick -Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: - To: talk...@openstreetmap.org, nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk, legal-talk@openstreetmap.org From: Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] Follow up : Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence

2012-06-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Rob, (and all) I've emailed the Hants CC guy once - he was away so the email bounced. I've emailed him again tonight. Nick -Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: - To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org, nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk, legal-t...@openstreetmap.org From: Rob

[Talk-GB] OpenHants - doing something with the Hants CC data in the meantime

2012-06-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, While waiting for the decision as to whether we should use the Hants CC data, I've started work on a small side-project OpenHants which overlays the Hants CC footpath data as a separate layer on top of a kothic-js rendered OSM map (basically same server side code as for Freemap). Footpaths

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English?

2012-06-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Looking at other locales (e.g. fr, de) it's interesting how few English place names have local names in other languages compared to the other way round (or at least have been tagged as such in OSM) - only London seems to have local names - whereas many towns in Germany and Italy (less so

Re: [Talk-GB] Unclassified Country Road (UCR)

2012-06-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
(UCRs) While we're on this topic actually, I notice that West Sussex has started signing these Public Way. Not public byway, or public bridleway, but just plain public way - you can tell them because formerly there was no waymarking at all. Nick

[Talk-GB] Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence

2012-05-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Some good news! As from yesterday, Hampshire County Council have released their Rights of Way data under the OS OpenData licence. Details here: http://www3.hants.gov.uk/communications/mediacentre/mediareleases.htm?newsid=534104 Slippy map, and downloadable raw data (shp or kml

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence

2012-05-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hence, unfortunately, I don't think we can use the Hampshire data (going forward under ODbL) unless we get explicit permission from the copyright holders. For the maps, this would presumably mean both the council and OS. It's a real pain that OS felt it necessary to fork the Open Government

Re: [Talk-GB] PRoW Ref codes (WAS:Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence)

2012-05-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I guess the thing to do is just use the most common reference. I am aware of several schemes: Hampshire uses parish plus number e.g. Tichborne Footpath 5, West Sussex uses a county-wide, 3 or 4 digit number (e.g. 1263, 2005) and I've also seen XXX/YY (in Wrexham borough, Wales) and very

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Whatever. I've certainly seen footpaths classified as roads in commercial online maps for instance. This is a very one sided argument and assumes that commercial online maps are accurate. It also completely neglects the fact that you can use OSM data without a fee andf without someone telling

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Sorry but I do have to say this. In an area (UK outside of Scotland) where sadly, you're not free to roam where you like, access rights are *absolutely vital detail* for walkers and other users of the countryside and indicating them explicitly where known, either via designation, or

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
People map to the level of detail they're comfortable with, and that's a strength not a weakness. Legal designations, access rights and surface type are pointless detail to a new mapper. Sorry but I do have to say this. In an area (UK outside of Scotland) where sadly, you're not free to roam

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Tagging Guideline - wiki page proposals

2012-05-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
P.S. Please don't yawn in your emails, it's rude. Seconded. There's no need for this sort of disrespectful rudeness and sarcasm on this list. Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On 02/05/12 16:41, Nick Whitelegg wrote: One project goal might be to consolidate the various scattered information on the wiki describing how to map RoWs in the first place. Come up with *one* consensus approach. We seem to be settling on designation=* + highway={foot,cycle,bridle}way

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
One project goal might be to consolidate the various scattered information on the wiki describing how to map RoWs in the first place. Come up with *one* consensus approach. We seem to be settling on designation=* + highway={foot,cycle,bridle}way, by the looks of it (full disclosure; it's the

Re: [Talk-GB] Permissive paths and uncrecorded rights of way

2012-04-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I have used suspected=orpa for one or two of these in Hampshire. By doing this you're not stating it's a right of way, but on the other hand you are adding additional information which means it's *more likely to be* a right of way than a random path through private land used as an informal

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of Way Tagging [Was Hampshire Vandalization - No Bere Forest?]

2012-04-22 Thread Nick Whitelegg
We probably shouldn't be using ORPA in OSM as this is an OS-specific term, that AFAIK only exists on their maps. I'm not so sure. In Hampshire in particular there are large numbers of tracks which obviously have public access (e.g. footpaths end on them, evidence of frequent foot/horse use)

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Vandalization - No Bere Forest?

2012-04-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I'm up for it. Finding enough to sustain a mapping party might be difficult (South Hants is more or less road and footpath complete) but we could make it a social. Anyone else interested? Andy Yes, I'd be interested. Robert - I'm aware of you via 'robbieonsea' edits (usually in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Vandalization - No Bere Forest?

2012-04-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
It is a bit early though, they're normally late April/Early May. I have seen a few this year though. I guess the warm March and cold, wet April must confuse a fair few things, though it seems a good one for blossom. The colder weather seems to have put a brake on the over-advanced development

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Vandalization - No Bere Forest?

2012-04-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Maybe we should organize an East Hampshire OSM people (maybe for a pub walk / or mapping party ) get together some time this summer - it would be great to meet AndyS, NickW and any other like minded individuals. I'm up for it. Finding enough to sustain a mapping party might be difficult

[Talk-GB] Anyone else had GPS problems today?

2012-04-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Had some quite extraordinary problems trying to get a GPS signal this afternoon in the Fisherstreet area, on the Surrey/W Sussex border a few miles SE of Haslemere. Between around 1300 and 1400 BST I could get no signal whatsoever. I lost the signal in a wooded area around 1255 BST and then

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Vandalization - No Bere Forest?

2012-03-29 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Andy's aware of it. Could be zealotry or an honest mistake by an inexperienced mapper... that or someone's used it as a nuclear test site :-) Nick -Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote: - To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org From: Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com Date: 29/03/2012

[Talk-GB] Remapping ways without nodes (was: Re: Remapping update)

2012-03-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On 23 March 2012 12:58, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Incidentally, is just knowing the footpaths evidence enough to tag with odbl=clean? Or is there the risk that the footpath was created with iffy sources? While we're on this topic, could I urge all of those working

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping ways without nodes (was: Re: Remapping update)

2012-03-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
While we're on this topic, could I urge all of those working on Andy Street's area to remap all constituent nodes of a way, rather than just the way itself, I've come across at least 3 users who have re-constructed ways but left Andy's nodes intact. I'd have thought that remapping the ways

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I ask as I am intending to do some remapping of Andy Street's paths in the Bishops Waltham/Meon Valley area and wondering whether I have to actually walk the paths again or just tag with odbl=clean You don't have to walk the path if you can map it using other techniques, such as GPS traces,

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Incidentally, is just knowing the footpaths evidence enough to tag with odbl=clean? Or is there the risk that the footpath was created with iffy sources? I ask as I am intending to do some remapping of Andy Street's paths in the Bishops Waltham/Meon Valley area and wondering whether I have to

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I'm trying to do footpaths as and when, but it'll be a slow process as I've got quite a lot of other things on my plate at the moment. I've done a few round Bishops Waltham and the Meon Valley, and may well do more this weekend, but I'd welcome any other contributions as there is no way I am

[Talk-GB] New, kothic-js version of Freemap

2012-03-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As from yesterday (March 18th) the default version of Freemap (www.free-map.org.uk; UK OSM-based countryside mapping site) has become the kothic-js based 0.6. As well as client-side rendering using kothic-js, the new version features * Ability to add annotations to the map (as before)

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

2012-03-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I tried the route we went on holiday as a family in the 80s... Fernhurst, W Sussex, to Münstertal in Germany. Impressively fast. The route was much as I remember as far as Reims... but then, rather than routing you along the A4 autoroute to Strasbourg and then down the German autobahn (forget

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
+1 I don't have a problem with people surveying us for research purposes, even if they do not contribute to the project. What harm does it do? Obviously surveying us for marketing purposes is rather more iffy, and any survey made for that purpose should be clearly warned as such. Nick

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Feedback requested ... OSM Poland data

2012-03-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
sp far has been based on 6-month old mapping trips from last summer/autumn) rather than copying tags from  the old CC-SA. Nick -Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: - To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org From: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk Date: 09/03/2012 11:50AM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] What happens on April 1?

2012-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
As for the data consumers, Australia does have one great advantage: you're an island (albeit a big one!). That makes it perfectly possible for data consumers to use pre-1st April Australia data and post-1st April for the rest of the world - probably three lines of Osmosis or so, and a slightly

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

2012-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Yes, it is OSM.  Look at the layout of the footpaths on that green/open area in the Portsmouth example. I actually remember surveying that as part of the Portsmouth mapping party a couple of years ago... There are other footpaths on that green area which I didn't get time to do. And they're

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] What happens on April 1?

2012-03-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I agree. Another reason not to is that the looming deadline is actually motivating people to stop waiting for CT-undecideds to respond and do remapping - I know it's motivating me and other people I've talked to. Take away the deadline and you demotivate remappers, while also putting off the

[Talk-GB] Anyone up for a Hampshire footpaths remapping after the clocks go on?

2012-03-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, As I've said before there is quite a major problem with Hampshire rights of way post-licence-change, due to the fact that very large numbers of footpaths in mid-Hampshire were contributed by a declining former mapper, Andy Street, and they will be deleted. Since this is my

Re: [Talk-GB] United Kingdom Tagging Guidelines on the OSM wiki: due for an update?

2012-02-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I think both have their advantages - I like the idea of a good signposted rights of way network, but I intensely dislike the Anglo-American attitude towards private property compared to say Scotland or Germany (naming two countries I've walked in where they seem to be more easy-going) On the

[OSM-legal-talk] Remapping using GPX traces?

2012-02-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As I've indicated already, in my local area - Hampshire - there are very large numbers of footpaths contributed by a former mapper who has declined the CTs and so obviously I'm concerned about the impact of April 1st. Remapping these on the ground is going to be a huge job and something

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM presets for rights of way in England and Wales

2012-02-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
3. Re-marking countryside source=npe stuff traced by people (normally back in OSM history before highway=path was invented). Because OS New Popular Edition maps were made before rights of way were codified, it's impossible to tell if a dotted line on the old map is a bridleway or a footpath - or

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM presets for rights of way in England and Wales

2012-02-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
--- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines#JOSM_presets_now_available Comments on these presets and how they might be improved are welcome! I may have not been reading this list thoroughly but I did not realise that highway=path is a vexed issue. I have

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM presets for rights of way in England and Wales

2012-02-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
This is a somewhat contentious issue, but all I can say is that this is precisely what I do and several others. Remember to also use the designation tag to specify the rights, public_footpath / public_bridleway / byway_open_to_all_traffic etc. highway is generally taken to indicate the physical

Re: [OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-01-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
since a few weeks, we had the idea for a global action, that we'd like to announce today: www.nightofthelivingmaps.org At Thursday, the 07.02.2012 we stay awake a whole night long, to trace aerial imagery for the areas, that where we currently lack a lot of informations: the countryside.

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi Mike and Graham, We should not assume that contributors' acceptance of the new licence means that they are particularly in favour of it - they may have just accepted because it was easier than getting involved in the argument, and did not see it as doing any harm.  From a personal

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary keys and values, machine readable vs. humans

2012-01-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Actually this is probably a perfect example of the sort of stuff that SHOULD be available as secondary layers? Like the contour information on freemap would be nice as a selectable layer. Incidentally it is already available as a vector layer (GeoJSON or own-format XML) as it happens, e.g.

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary keys and values, machine readable vs. humans

2012-01-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Just to add: this is OS LandForm PANORAMA contour data so any use needs to be credited to them. Nick -Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent wrote: - To: talk@openstreetmap.org From: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent Date: 25/01/2012 01:29PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary keys and values, machine

Re: [OSM-talk] geojson

2012-01-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Do you mean a geojson overlay on a mapnik map, i.e. markers? I think openlayers has a geojson layer: Leaflet certainly does. There's some material on the Leaflet site on creating a geojson layer. You might also want to look at http://www.free-map.org.uk/course/ewt/webmapping2.xhtml Nick

Re: [OSM-talk] geojson

2012-01-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
; see examples on the webmapping2.xhtml page). A 'drag end' event is captured; this then then sends an AJAX request to a GeoJSON server. Again see the Leaflet site for explanation of how it works. Nick -Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: - To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk

[OSM-talk] Mixing OSM and FOSM data

2012-01-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Have sent this both here and to the fosm mailing list. Anyway, to summarise I don't care about the licence and am fully intending to continue contributing to OSM after the licence change. However I am concerned about severe loss of footpath data in my area and consequently I'm looking to

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-10 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I'd just like to add that one of the top contributors down as declined is actually undecided due to Ordnance Survey OpenData compatibility concerns, not sure why he's down as declined, whether that was a mistake on his part. I've emailed him to get him to decide one way or the other, but as I

[Talk-GB] Reminder: Llangollen Mapping from Monday

2011-12-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Just a reminder that I will be in the Llangollen area, North Wales, from Monday 2nd Jan (11.30am) until late afternoon Thursday 5th if anyone fancies any new year mapping / walking to work off Christmas over-eating :-) Please sign up on the wiki page

[Talk-GB] kothic-js demo with LandForm Panorama contours on Freemap

2011-12-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Over Christmas I've been knocking together a demo which uses kothic-js client side rendering for Freemap, incorporating LandForm PANORAMA contours. You can see it at http://www.free-map.org.uk/0.6/; full details on the blog post at http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress/?p=221. It's best

[Talk-GB] Llangollen Mapping -North Wales - January 2nd-5th

2011-12-22 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, I've mentioned this before, but have actually booked some accommodation now so it's definitely happening. I'm staying in the Llangollen area of North Wales for a few days in the new year, from Monday January 2 to Thursday January 5, aiming to do some walking and mapping. It's a hilly and

[Talk-GB] LandForm Panorama + VectorMap District tiles available from dev server

2011-12-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
As I posted a month or two ago I have prepared some tiles containing Vector Map District raster tiles overlaid with LandForm Panorama contours. For the past two months or so they have been available as a slippy map on Freemap (http://www.free-map.org.uk/vmd/). However, they are taking a huge

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM render for mobile

2011-12-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
One option would be to develop a separate app, of course: the osmdroid library for Android is fairly easy to use if you know Java. Nick -Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: - To: andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com From: Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org Date: 16/12/2011 04:05PM

Re: [OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions

2011-12-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Doesn't make any difference to the CTs, but I've noticed but I'm not the first named author of a few ways which I'm 99.99% sure that I created: the ways with the ID 2232-2235. I still remember the surveying/editing session in which I created the ways. These were very early ways (spring 2006)

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire 2012 - map the county's footpaths

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
(I'm also keen BTW to deal with a possible licencing issue here. A long-standing contributor has mapped many footpaths in Hampshire already but has not signed up to the CTs. Naturally I'm keen not to see all his hard work lost, and TBH, while I'm licence-neutral, I've got better things

Re: [Talk-GB] Retour de l'autoroute britannique

2011-12-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Yes indeed. Just looked at Fernhurst, W Sussex for instance. The place is absolutely crawling with non-existent roads. Seems anything tagged with highway=track in OSM would qualify as a road in that... Nick -Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: - To: talk-gb OSM List

[Talk-GB] Hampshire 2012 - map the county's footpaths

2011-12-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, 2012 could be the year in which we complete, or almost complete, all the rights of way in some English counties. One likely target is my local county - Hampshire. OSM road coverage of many parts of the UK is virtually complete in many areas, but footpaths are still lagging

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-dev] speeding up loading an OSM dump into PostGIS?

2011-12-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
. Seriously tempted to give it a play. Nick -Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: - To: d...@openstreetmap.org From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net Date: 01/12/2011 01:42PM Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] speeding up loading an OSM dump into PostGIS? Nick Whitelegg wrote: It's certainly

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

2011-11-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
It worked well.  It planned a route to the bus terminal in Seoul, which generally matched the route the bus actually took (naturally, I had no influence over the route the driver took).  The moving map is quite mesmerising and all drawn from OSM vector data in real time. Incidentally do any of

[Talk-GB] Anyone interested in participating in a distributed Freemap?

2011-11-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Thought I'd email this as I have some thoughts as to how Freemap (free-map.org.uk; countryside-orientated mapping for UK users) could operate without excessive demands on a single server. Basically, I'm wondering if anyone has unused server space/bandwidth allowances who might

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone interested in participating in a distributed Freemap?

2011-11-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
to donate money of course. Nick -Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: - To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk From: Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk Date: 24/11/2011 03:01PM Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone interested in participating

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Overpass API: new big server, IPv6

2011-11-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Side issue re. Overpass API How might it compare with the osm2pgsql route (in performance, and memory usage for the import process) for running a local API for a fairly small area, and with limited data, e.g. highways and wood/water feature polygons in the UK? I have rather limited memory

Re: [OSM-talk] Portugal proposal for the SOTM 2012

2011-11-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
If SOTM could be later in July, that would be super duper awesome for people who want to attend both. One issue with this for UK people at least is that excessive fares could be charged for travel due to the Olympics. Apparently Eurostar are only charging premium fares between mid July and

[Talk-GB] New Year outdoor mapping idea - Llangollen, North Wales

2011-11-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, I have a week I can take off immediately after new year, so was wondering whether anyone would be interested in a countryside-orientated mapping party then. I know it's not the ideal time of year for outdoor events, but I thought starting the new year with a mapping party

[Talk-GB] Downloading OOC tiles from an app

2011-11-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Not sure who maintains the out-of-copyright stuff, but I thought I'd best ask this in the light of recent discussions. I am developing an Android app OpenTrail - which amongst other things shows tiles from Freemap (my own) plus out-of-copyright tiles from ooc.openstreetmap.org. I have

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-10-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping party? I might be interested depending on the type of mapping. Not so interested in addressing etc, but if it's road surveying/naming I'd be tempted. ATM can do any weekend except 12/13th. Nick

[Talk-GB] [Semi-OT] affordable hosting for own tileserver?

2011-10-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Thought it would be a good time to ask about this as the whole topic of running your own OSM tileserver has come up a lot lately. Am wanting to develop Freemap (coubtryside-orientated OSM site) and its mobile client, OpenTrail, further but the thing that's always holding me back, and forcing

[Talk-GB] Freemap-VMD : OpenData plus OSM footpaths

2011-10-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Did an initial experiment with this a while back but now I've extended the area of coverage to include much of England and all of Wales. Anyway, Freemap-VMD (working title) is a combination of VectorMap District raster tiles, LandForm PANORAMA contours and rights of way and permissive

Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap-VMD : OpenData plus OSM footpaths

2011-10-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Did an initial experiment with this a while back but now I've extended the area of coverage to include much of England and all of Wales. [snip] Oops - forgot the URL! http://www.free-map.org.uk/vmd/ Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

2011-10-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Mick, See my reply to you about this. Nick -Mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: - To: talk@openstreetmap.org talk@openstreetmap.org From: Mick bare...@tpg.com.au Date: 20/10/2011 04:49AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:28 -0400

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

2011-10-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Frederik Ramm wrote: I've downloaded all of UK from nick.dev.openstreetmap.org and extracted the bit I want, its a bit old (28 Oct 2009) but mayhap I can update it without massive downloads. I've got most of the area current to last week. It's your decision entirely of course but I utterly

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

2011-10-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Mick, On 10/20/11 08:22, Mick wrote: I've downloaded all of UK from nick.dev.openstreetmap.org and extracted the bit I want, its a bit old (28 Oct 2009) but mayhap I can update it without massive downloads. I've got most of the area current to last week. It's your decision

Re: [Talk-GB] The daily Greater London

2011-10-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
-Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: - Hi,     just a quick note that (because some people were asking) I've now added a daily Greater London .osm.pbf/.shp.zip to http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/great_britain/england/ This includes, somewhat incorrectly I guess, the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap

2011-10-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Please bear in mind that, even if we wanted to offer free tiles to every commercial app in the world, our hosts would not permit us to do so. Nor is it OSM's role to give OpenMaps a competitive advantage by providing it with a free server when (for example) the OffMaps developers offer similar

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF to provide commercial tile service? [WAS: something else]

2011-10-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would: - reduce services available to the community - hurt the community by competing against it Why do I think that having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is such a bad idea? Hi Richard, yes I can see there are some issues

[Talk-GB] Tiled osm2pgsql import?

2011-10-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Related to the ongoing discussion on talk, and given the large memory requirements of osm2pgsql imports, has anyone published a tiled import script, where the import area is broken into say degree tiles, and each tile imported as a separate osm2pgsql job? If not, I'm inclined to do one myself

Re: [Talk-GB] Tiled osm2pgsql import?

2011-10-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
- Related to the ongoing discussion on talk, and given the large memory requirements of osm2pgsql imports, has anyone published a tiled import script, where the import area is broken into say degree tiles, and each tile imported as a separate osm2pgsql job? If not, I'm inclined to do one

[Talk-GB] Dunsfold/Chiddingfold Footpaths Party, Surrey, Sat 22nd Oct

2011-10-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, There will be a footpaths orientated mapping party in the Dunsfold and Chiddingfold area, S Surrey, on Saturday October 22nd. Surrey is mostly complete - even footpaths - but there is still a big gap in this area. Details here:

[Talk-GB] Footpaths mapping party: Dunsfold area, Surrey

2011-09-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Partly following on from the recent Shere mapping party, I'd like to hold a footpaths mapping party in the Dunsfold area of Surrey sometime in the next month, before the evenings get too dark. I'm extending to the first weekend in November but after that it really will be

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey Hills Mapping Party, Sunday September 25th

2011-09-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi 80n, Sorry I'm missing this - but I just arrived back from Colorado yesterday and have had a family occasion too, so consequently a bit tired! Would be good to know of any missing footpaths still in that area though after today - am looking for an excuse to do some in-fill Surrey footpath

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I would go so far as to say, don't delete *anything* until legally you absolutely have to. There are a number of non-CT-accepting contributors in my area, for instance, and I don't think the map should be interfered with unless it's absolutely necessary. Remember that by doing so, the quality

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monarch's way distributed mapping party Saturday October 8th

2011-08-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Could this be distributed to other parts of the UK I wonder? The Monarch's Way passes near me, we could probably do something down south too. Nick -SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: - To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org From: SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk Date:

Re: [Talk-GB] To delete or not to delete, that is the question...

2011-08-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
From: Steve Dobson st...@dobbo.org To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sat, 20 August, 2011 16:44:45 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] To delete or not to delete, that is the question... Nick On 20/08/11 14:52, Phil Endecott wrote: Nick Whitelegg wrote: Around Easter

Re: [Talk-GB] To delete or not to delete, that is the question...

2011-08-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
[snip] Someone suggested the definitive map, maybe I'll see if the relevant council (it's not my local one) has an online map and verify it with that. As it happens, the problem seems to have gone away. Since I originally surveyed the track, the designation tag has been removed by an

[Talk-GB] To delete or not to delete, that is the question...

2011-08-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Had an experience yesterday which raises an interesting legal question. Around Easter 2010, IIRC, I surveyed what appeared to be a footpath in good faith: the footpath sign appeared to point down a gravel track across a field. Yesterday, as part of another mapping expedition, I followed said

Re: [Talk-GB] To delete or not to delete, that is the question...

2011-08-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
To: Nick Whitelegg nick_whitel...@yahoo.co.uk From: Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu Date: 20/08/2011 11:23AM Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org, legal-t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] To delete or not to delete, that is the question... On 20/08/11 11:11, Nick Whitelegg wrote: This does

Re: [OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

2011-08-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Interesting site! Would agree that a zoom would be nice. Not sure where my edits in the eastern central USA, Taiwan and western Africa have come from (nickw), as I've not visited any of these places - I'm guessing these were from early experiments with the API back in the day. Nick

Re: [OSM-talk] Can I say yes to the ODbL if I can't account for 100% of my data?

2011-06-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Yes surely that is the situation - use the source tag when using something other than gps. I have accepted the ToC, TBH I really don't give a monkeys either way though have something of a preference for PD as it keeps life simpler, and I believe the small minority of OS OpenData I have

Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse polygons created by TimSC: delete them?

2011-06-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I don't normally get involved in licencing stuff, but I disagree with unnecessary data destruction. While I have accepted the CTs, and to be honest don't care one way or the other about ODBL, CC, etc I would urge most strongly that this is *not* done. Tim is a decent guy and has

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