Re: [Talk-GB] An NTC Training Centre

2020-12-18 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thanks Tony. I've gone with that. On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:11 AM Tony Shield wrote: > I have used amenity=community_centre for my local Sea Cadet centre, > On 18/12/2020 10:25, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > I just noticed "T. S. Zealous" https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18

[Talk-GB] An NTC Training Centre

2020-12-18 Thread Jez Nicholson
I just noticed "T. S. Zealous" https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/181524096 which peaked my interest. Turns out it is a Nautical Training Corps (NTC) centre http://www.ntc.org.uk/zealous/ Any hints on how to tag that? building=civic? There must be precedent for Scout huts and the like...

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of historic 'stink pipes'

2020-12-18 Thread Jez Nicholson
Nice one Ed. Great to get a local civic society interested too. Can't comment on the tag, but you could also suggest to them: a) an Overpass Turbo query they could use to generate a map, take a screenshot, and display on their web site for free (with appropriate attribution), b) add the photos to

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar panels on Alvares House in Homerton

2020-12-08 Thread Jez Nicholson
As an aside, I do see on RightMove that the thing that looks like a swimming pool isn'tit is a children's play area. You could check the planning permission maybe? On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:09 PM Mat Attlee wrote: > In surveying and adding Alvares House in Homerton in London, I noticed >

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-28 Thread Jez Nicholson
eally only two options in the OSM data, and photos on the wiki > page also make it clear which is which: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:recycling_type > > Examples in Aberdeen - centre: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/116883204 > and container: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-27 Thread Jez Nicholson
I could go with a site relation but you can't physically carry out other activities between the constituent objects (unlike a wind farm). I will try with 'centre' and including 'Recycling Point' in the name. On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, 08:58 Dan S, wrote: > Op do 26 nov. 2020 om 19:21 schreef

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-26 Thread Jez Nicholson
quot;="point"? It seems like the UK term for it. On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 4:25 PM Jeremy Harris wrote: > On 26/11/2020 11:16, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > Am I missing something, or is there no concept of a Recycling Point in > OSM? > > Have you seen/used anything else? &g

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-26 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 1:22 PM Dan S wrote: > Hi Jez > > Is this not it? > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Drecycling > > Op do 26 nov. 2020 om 13:08 schreef Jez Nicholson >: > >> I'm planning some work with Household Waste Recycling Centres and >> Rec

[Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-26 Thread Jez Nicholson
I'm planning some work with Household Waste Recycling Centres and Recycling Points during the Code The City OSM hack weekend this Sat/Sun (which you are very welcome to join https://codethecity.org/what-we-do/hack-weekends/code-the-city-21-put-your-city-on-the-map/ in any capacity you like) A

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-18 Thread Jez Nicholson
Good stuff. We are all learning here. And the raw data is deliberably obfuscated. Some of the UPRNs near road junctions are mysterious. They could be old IDs for objects since removed. Do we have a full list of what objects could be included? My personal opinion is that UPRNs never apply to a

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
>From my change request discussion it appears that the UPRN appeared on the road as part of a test of Robert's Mathmos matching. On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, 16:15 Mark Goodge, wrote: > > > On 17/11/2020 15:41, Robert Skedgell wrote: > > > Roads can have more than one USRN. I've come across some

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
Whilst i'm here, am I correct that a UPRN can *only* be on a single thing? So anything in https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=ref%3AGB%3Auprn#values more than once is an error? ...or can a road have a USRN *and* a UPRN? On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:48 PM Jez Nicholson wrote: > W

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
v 17, 2020 at 1:00 PM Mark Goodge wrote: > > > On 17/11/2020 11:34, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > Following the fine efforts of a number of people to get ref:GB:uprn > > through the tag proposal process I have created > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref:GB:uprn >

[Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
Following the fine efforts of a number of people to get ref:GB:uprn through the tag proposal process I have created https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref:GB:uprn Please add information to it, or discussions. USRN to follow - Jez ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Lorries can't limbo

2020-11-13 Thread Jez Nicholson
Added to the Quarterly Project list https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:UK_Quarterly_Project#Bridge_Heights On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:56 PM Neil Matthews < ndmatth...@ndmatthews.plus.com> wrote: > >

[Talk-GB] Geo Hack Weekend 28-29 Nov

2020-11-12 Thread Jez Nicholson
In a couple of weeks time the Code The City group from Aberdeen are holding an online hack weekend with particular focus on OpenStreetMap https://codethecity.org/what-we-do/hack-weekends/code-the-city-21-put-your-city-on-the-map/ It's an old-fashioned, low-pressure, friendly, do-what-you-like

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-11-02 Thread Jez Nicholson
I'm open to alternatives for dispute regulation. I fear that Wales *is* a location where feelings run high. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_exonyms including the Welsh-English argument in the Talk. On Sat, 31 Oct 2020, 19:52 Andy Townsend, wrote: > On 31/10/2020 18:19,

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-31 Thread Jez Nicholson
I like it. + "in the event of dispute... the default language is English."? .although I'm not sure how to define dispute'. On Sat, 31 Oct 2020, 11:07 Ben Proctor, wrote: > Thanks Chris (and everyone else) for your very helpful contributions. > > I've tried to synthesise the discussion on

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread Jez Nicholson
How many holes in Blackburn, Lancashire? On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, 18:36 Martin Wynne, wrote: > p.s. I've now discovered an overlay slider top-right which makes a bit > more sense. > > The slider is almost invisible over the map in Firefox. > > Martin. > >

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK's first tile layer

2020-10-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
Nice one. I've been wanting to do this for ages. Re: file size. Can JOSM and iD display Mapbox .pbf vector tiles? These would be smaller. On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, 00:22 Rob Nickerson, wrote: > Hi all, > > Just in time for the AGM, I have just published OSM UK's first tile layer. > No don't get too

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a building that's two connected separate buildings

2020-10-12 Thread Jez Nicholson
Ah yes, a bit like when a hospital or school has a 'corridor room' (for lack of a better term) joining two separate buildings. I'd go for three joined buildings myself. And that newer building has been extended a bit more hasn't it? That part I would merge with the existing building. On Mon, Oct

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-12 Thread Jez Nicholson
Just being Devil's Advocatea) how do you decide on-the-ground what the name by which the place is widely known in Wales is? i.e. is it on signage, etc.? b) could it start an edit war if someone with strong views decided to use one particular language for every 'name' attribute? c) are there

Re: [Talk-GB] Q4 2020 Quarterly Project: Defibrillators

2020-10-12 Thread Jez Nicholson
That's excellent news. I've been attending Missing Maps for the past few months and had been hoping that we could organise some crossover activity. Defibrillators is a clear public health benefit and should appeal to Missing Mappers. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:50 AM Derry Hamilton wrote: > A

Re: [Talk-GB] Q4 2020 Quarterly Project: Defibrillators

2020-10-12 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thanks Robert, I added a precis of your comments onto https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q4_Project:_Defibrillators My first question about https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Ddefibrillator tagging.my nearby defib is

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar tagging app

2020-10-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
Nice job Russ. Have/can you add a paragraph to the OSMWiki Renewable Energy in the United Kingdom page please (or the solar-specific page?). - Jez On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, 17:46 Russ Garrett, wrote: > Thanks! We've got about 1000 agreed module counts now, which I'm now > working on batching up and

Re: [Talk-GB] Blocked / overgrown / inaccessible footpaths and bridleways

2020-09-29 Thread Jez Nicholson
My first thought was barrier=yes or some other form of barrier=* to tell routers. Another tag might be https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:obstacle On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:52 PM Andy Townsend wrote: > Hello, > > How do people normally map things like "I know there is a public > footpath

Re: [Talk-GB] Listed status / scheduled monument

2020-09-27 Thread Jez Nicholson
I believe that the Listed Buildings refs are fairly old. The whole thing might warrant a revisit, and perhaps a Quarterly Project? I would be happy for a new-style ref:GB:he (or similar) and an automated edit. After discussion obviously. On Sat, 26 Sep 2020, 20:57 Dave Dunford, wrote: > The

Re: [Talk-GB] Bude-Light in Trafalgar Square

2020-08-22 Thread Jez Nicholson
Niche, but interesting. A nice break from tagging list discussions. On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, 18:58 Andy Mabbett, wrote: > Update: there are four; they have been identified and mapped; and > details added to the Wikipedia article I mentioned. > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 12:22, Andy Mabbett > wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Proposal: Import EV charging point data

2020-08-18 Thread Jez Nicholson
Hi Steven, Nice work getting hold of SourceLondon, and for getting it on the wiki. It is possible that the initial data from SourceLondon is licence tainted as they manually created the points by using Google Maps. This would block a straight import, but might allow for a conflation exercise.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK Instagram ideas

2020-08-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
-a-day. I haven't considered replicating somewhere 'open' yet. Insta has a big reach, but I see that Pixelfed is a similar concept. On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 2:42 PM Robert Skedgell wrote: > On 09/08/2020 14:31, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > I've been posting to the OSMUK > >

[Talk-GB] OSMUK Instagram ideas

2020-08-09 Thread Jez Nicholson
I've been posting to the OSMUK Instagram https://www.instagram.com/openstreetmapuk/ account recently. We are currently focusing on potential new mappers, so i'm thinking quirky and topical. So, a) Do you know of an interesting looking feature in the UK? b) Do you know of something topical (and

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-08-02 Thread Jez Nicholson
My initial thought was also "conspiracy!". Licence problem is more likely, or perhaps they were concerned that someone might poll the URL with every available UPRN. On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, 11:38 Nick, wrote: > I have no problem with licencing but the UPRN and related data is > managed by Authority

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-22 Thread Jez Nicholson
Collating and conflating is one thing, but we really need to encourage custom data apps like https://www.zap-map.com/ to use OSM as an active database which they feed back to. This will only happen when private companies realise that long term value is not in the data itself (because other people

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-21 Thread Jez Nicholson
My Council has introduced 200+ lamp post mounted charging points https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Fm7L8nOL8/ Would you give that its own node? or as part of Tag:highway=street_lamp? On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:13 PM Dave F via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > On 21/07/2020 12:10, Chris

Re: [Talk-GB] Local Wildlife Sites

2020-07-20 Thread Jez Nicholson
. They may be a synonym for SINCS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_of_Nature_Conservation_Interest On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:03 PM Chris Hill wrote: > > On 20/07/2020 15:52, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with > > https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/lo

[Talk-GB] Local Wildlife Sites

2020-07-20 Thread Jez Nicholson
Does anyone have any experience with https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/local-wildlife-sites ? I've had an inquiry about including Brighton & Hove LWSes on OSM. - Jez ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] the first OSMUK microgrant

2020-07-16 Thread Jez Nicholson
You may be aware that OSMUK launched a microgrant scheme The first awardee, Alex at Bexhill-OSM, has received a grant part-funding the purchase of a camera for street level photography. Alex's dedication building https://bexhill-osm.org.uk/ is no secret. This combined with being able to

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-15 Thread Jez Nicholson
Whilst we are on USRNs (and UPRNs), I have updated https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_OpenData to include them. The whole discussion on how they join up could merit a wiki section or page of its own...somewhere to collect together all the snippets of information.just a gentle

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping of Dover Harbour Board

2020-07-14 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thanks Frederik, Looking on the positive side, it's nice to know that people out there want our maps. Regards, Jez On Mon, 13 Jul 2020, 20:56 Frederik Ramm, wrote: > Hi, > > the DWG has received the following message: > > > Hi, > > > > A bit of feedback. > > The openstreet map

Re: [Talk-GB] Colouring London?

2020-07-12 Thread Jez Nicholson
Fairly well known. When it launched last year I had thought that the use of OS MasterMap buildings had blown the openness of the generated data, but they claim on the site that it doesn't. On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 10:14 AM Neil Matthews < ndmatth...@ndmatthews.plus.com> wrote: > Is

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
Sorry, i mean 'findmyaddress'. Also, from this Twitter thread https://twitter.com/jnicho02/status/1279821108783579139?s=20 I note that some streets have a UPRN. Existing services filter them out. On Mon, 6 Jul 2020, 12:29 Jez Nicholson, wrote: > Do you mean that you looked up the U

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
Do you mean that you looked up the UPRN on findmystreet and it's supposedly in a different location to the latlon in the file? On Mon, 6 Jul 2020, 12:26 Nick, wrote: > So I have just started with my crude system and already found one UPRN > that looks as if it is in the wrong location (wrong

Re: [Talk-GB] Maps on BBC Radio 4

2020-07-05 Thread Jez Nicholson
I've talked before about OSMUK having a role as an industry 'lobby group', ie being the business-accessible face of OSM in the UKmaybe we should be pushing this further with the media and with government? On Sun, 5 Jul 2020, 11:52 BD, wrote: > Hi all, > > BBC Radio 4 > Seriously…

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-04 Thread Jez Nicholson
>From Wikidata, https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8399 if you query the UK Flood service with the UPRN you can see more detail on the property On Sat, 4 Jul 2020, 08:52 Stephen Colebourne, wrote: > I'm not convinced this data should be pulled into OSM. It would add a lot > of clutter that

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN & USRN Tagging

2020-07-03 Thread Jez Nicholson
I believe that the French have been using the country namespace in ref codes recently and, although I was initially doubtful, I now see the value in not claiming a reference code for the entire world. Some examples in

Re: [Talk-GB] positioning of shop nodes as entrances

2020-07-01 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thanks for all the responses. It sounds like we all think in a similar way re: shop nodes/areas. Perhaps the style of "entrances as shop nodes" comes from another region? My biggest fear is that the mapper is using a main street in Brighton as a testbed. On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:50 PM Ken

[Talk-GB] positioning of shop nodes as entrances

2020-06-30 Thread Jez Nicholson
I notice that a number of my local shop's POI nodes have been relocated as entrances, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2648378395 rather than them being a node within the building outline. Personally, I don't like tagging the whole building as 'amenity=cafe' as it is only the downstairs of

Re: [Talk-GB] Land Registry INSPIRE data - 1 July OGL release

2020-06-27 Thread Jez Nicholson
There is also a wiki pages about https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Property_extents_in_the_United_Kingdom and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_OpenData that need updating. On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 12:41 PM Rob Nickerson wrote: > Sounds like a good idea. Do you (or anyone

Re: [Talk-GB] Documenting tagging practice for place nodes in London

2020-06-24 Thread Jez Nicholson
I take it that these names are used by Nominatim to assist with search. I know it's another form of tagging-for-the-renderer, but do you know how/whether changes affect it? On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:31 PM Russ Garrett wrote: > Hi folks, > > By way of lockdown procrastination, I started looking

[Talk-GB] SoTM 2020 Online Lightning Talks

2020-06-18 Thread Jez Nicholson
With this year's State of the Map conference going online there is more opportunity to get involved than usual. One thing is the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/registration_lightning_talks Lightning Talks. Anyone can submit a 5-min video and 15 will be featured in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Q2 2020 Quarterly project GP Surgeries and health sites

2020-05-27 Thread Jez Nicholson
I'm sort of pleased that the ENS has at least listened to the UK mappers, who used both pharmacy and chemist, and not imposed their own views. Just as a supermarket can have a pharmacy in it, Boots chemist stores have a separate pharmacy counter. So could/should they have their own node? This

Re: [Talk-GB] Road closures/changes during Covid19

2020-05-25 Thread Jez Nicholson
Good idea. I know that https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/165405326 in Brighton has been temporarily closed (in reality and in OSM). On Sun, 24 May 2020, 15:46 Tony OSM, wrote: > Hi > > Yes a very good idea. > > I'm in North West England - the main driver in this area is Manchester. I > have

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar panels 150k up

2020-05-16 Thread Jez Nicholson
"100%, 100%!!!" On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:47 PM Jez Nicholson wrote: > Of approximately 300 ground-mounted solar farms (field(s) full of solar > panels generating >=1MW) in the UK we have around 12 remaining to > locatewhich, quite frankly, is astounding. I am getting

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging showgrounds

2020-05-13 Thread Jez Nicholson
By all means create a UK-specific page to document discussions, show differences to the rest of the world, and/or state how we do things round these parts. The naming convention is "[Primary subject] in the United Kingdom", as in "Showgrounds in the United Kingdom". On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:30

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar panels 150k up

2020-05-12 Thread Jez Nicholson
Of approximately 300 ground-mounted solar farms (field(s) full of solar panels generating >=1MW) in the UK we have around 12 remaining to locatewhich, quite frankly, is astounding. I am getting ready to run around my study shouting, "100%, 100%!!!" as soon as I get a few more hours to complete

Re: [Talk-GB] Can anyone reverse this changeset please?

2020-04-27 Thread Jez Nicholson
A big thank you form me to everyone who sorted this out :) On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:19 AM Andy Townsend wrote: > On 27/04/2020 11:09, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote: > > I THINK I have done it. > > It took a bit of fiddling to separate some shared points, but then I was > able to cut the

Re: [Talk-GB] Can anyone reverse this changeset please?

2020-04-27 Thread Jez Nicholson
one go – rather than deleting > point by point. > > > > Cheers. > > > > *From:* Peter Neale via Talk-GB > *Sent:* Monday, April 27, 2020 10:43 AM > *To:* Talk-GB ; Jez Nicholson < > jez.nichol...@gmail.com> > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Can anyone reverse this

[Talk-GB] Can anyone reverse this changeset please?

2020-04-27 Thread Jez Nicholson
A new user has created a new way in Brighton to indicate the Hollingbury residential error https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/785162533 They freely admit their error but are unable to remove it, as am I. Would anyone be able to assist please? I only have anecdotal evidence (like this one) but it

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMF microgrants

2020-04-26 Thread Jez Nicholson
Not entirely serious/thought through, but i'd like to but an electric bike, cover it with OSM branding, and camera kit for making Mapillary/OpenStreetCam video. The bike then gets taken round various cities in the UK as a focal point for increasing the public's knowledge and contribution to OSM in

[Talk-GB] Parking Eagle using OSM...and looking to hire Co-Founders

2020-04-22 Thread Jez Nicholson
In between presenting a talk about OSMUK at the Move 2020 conference back in February (oh, remember those days when you could gather in a room with other people!) our Brian Prangle made a few contacts. One of them was Parking Eagle. https://www.parkingeagle.com/ helps you to plan a route for an

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 Phase 1 Construction NTP

2020-04-21 Thread Jez Nicholson
g way off but I agree it’s an >> opportunity to stay ahead of the completion. >> >> >> >> A question for the whole list. How do folks feel about changing the Phase >> 1 route from rail=proposed to rail=construction. Perhaps it’s a bit >> premature but then perhaps not.

[Talk-GB] Electric Vehicle charging points that are part of a lamppost

2020-04-20 Thread Jez Nicholson
I've noticed that Brighton & Hove City Council are rolling out some natty EV charging points that are attached to lampposts.them being wired in already. Looks like this https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Fm7L8nOL8 Anyway, how would you tag it? Is it a node for a street highway=street_lamp and an

[Talk-GB] postboxes

2020-04-19 Thread Jez Nicholson
I've been using Robert's Postbox tracker to plan dog walks around the street of Brighton (as the parks are too full of people!) Quite surprising how many are missing in my area. I had assumed that they'd been done ages ago. Maybe check yours, or point new mappers at them as a nice starter

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 Phase 1 Construction NTP

2020-04-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
but I agree it’s an > opportunity to stay ahead of the completion. > > > > A question for the whole list. How do folks feel about changing the Phase > 1 route from rail=proposed to rail=construction. Perhaps it’s a bit > premature but then perhaps not. > > > >

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 Phase 1 Construction NTP

2020-04-16 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thanks Andy, this is opportunity for OSM to be *the* best source of HS2 rails data. On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, 17:48 Andy Robinson, wrote: > Government issued Notice to Procced for Phase 1 today, which means the > main contracts construction between London and Birmingham will start > imminently so

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
I don't think they meant 'replace an address with addr:uprn', just enhance it. On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, 21:37 Lester Caine, wrote: > On 09/04/2020 20:58, nd...@redhazel.co.uk wrote: > > If uprn is supposed to denote an address, why not simply use addr:uprn? > There is no intention that UPRN will

Re: [Talk-GB] Q2 2020 Quarterly project GP Surgeries and health sites

2020-04-09 Thread Jez Nicholson
That's a great idea. I'll get the OSMUK machine rolling. On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, 17:27 Andy Mabbett, wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 22:55, Gareth L wrote: > > > The UK quarterly project for Q2 2020 has been selected as GP > > Surgeries and health sites. > > Good to know; thank you. > > Do we

Re: [Talk-GB] Q2 2020 Quarterly project GP Surgeries and health sites

2020-04-09 Thread Jez Nicholson
I've added Jerry's comments to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q2_Project:_GP_Surgeries_and_Healthsites#Potential_sources_and_tools which is there for all of you to edit and add to. On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:09 PM SK53 wrote: > Robert Whittaker has a Pharmacy QA

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-02 Thread Jez Nicholson
please tell me that does not mean that rather than releasing geodata with lat-lon, street address, etc., UK Govt will use a proprietary id instead? and to turn this id into something usable I have to licence an OS product. On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 4:10 PM Andy Mabbett wrote: > "Unique Property

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding Leeds Bins to OpenStreetMaps

2020-03-26 Thread Jez Nicholson
I've seen requests (from the French) for refs to be country namespaced, e.g. ref:UK:leedscc:id or ref:UK:leedscc:bin:id Seems like overkill to start with, but then it does prevent duplication. Is the LLC id a number used for bins only, or for all types of asset? On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:37 AM

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone in South-West London?

2020-03-25 Thread Jez Nicholson
Heh, none of the references on the Wikipedia page link to anything mentioning that it exists. I call bullsh/t On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:34 PM Andrew Hain wrote: > I wonder if Tfondie who created the Wikipedia page may be the same person. > > -- > Andrew > > -- >

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding Leeds Bins to OpenStreetMaps

2020-03-25 Thread Jez Nicholson
Hi Patrick, Shame LCC aren't 'dogfooding', ie using their own data, as it does encourage people to take it seriously. I guess that your regular diffs will spot discrepancies. I've had problems in the past with benches being removed (in real life and on OSM) then reappearing because it was just

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Suggestion - drink_water:refill

2020-03-14 Thread Jez Nicholson
It will be interesting to hear about Refill UK's policy on Open Data. Perhaps they believe that their business model is inoperable if the data is open? I believe that they are a figurehead project from Ordnance Survey's Geovation scheme. I hope that they haven't tainted their data. On Fri, 13

[Talk-GB] Dept for Transport seeking NaPTAN/OSM knowledge

2020-03-05 Thread Jez Nicholson
My friend Giuseppe Sollazzo @puntofisso Head of Data @transportgovuk is requesting help from the NaPTAN knowledgable... "Are you someone who 1. works in a Local Authority and is responsible for #NaPTAN 2. is a volunteer who adds data from NaPTAN into @openstreetmap 3. works for any mapping

Re: [Talk-GB] Private and restricted access post boxes

2020-03-01 Thread Jez Nicholson
I'm inclined to think that it is the areas that are restricted and not the postboxes, and hence map them as normal. I've had a similar issue with clothes recycling boxes on school premises. On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, 15:56 Dan Glover, wrote: > So it’s March, the sun is shining here and it’s time to

[Talk-GB] Cheers Drive, Bristol

2020-02-15 Thread Jez Nicholson
Just been reading about the naming of a new road in Bristol "Cheers Drive" which is apparently a local way to thank a bus/taxi driver https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-51501412 Thing that caught my eye was the reference to Google Maps having it on already which made me wonder how,

[Talk-GB] Disaster Ninja Mapping Activity layer

2020-02-13 Thread Jez Nicholson
Just found this The Disaster Ninja tool is used for humanitarian mapping activities...they've just added a Mapping Activity layer and it has data for the whole world, so you can look at who maps in the UK at

[Talk-GB] "One million solar panels! If only we knew where they were..."

2020-02-11 Thread Jez Nicholson
Nice to see Dan Stilwell and Jack Kelly writing about the solar panels project on https://climatechangenews.com/2020/02/12/one-million-solar-panels-knew/ also an honourary mention for Russ Garrett and Open Infrastructure Map. ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] "British Islands" (was "OSMUK-in-a-box")

2020-02-08 Thread Jez Nicholson
om/osmlab/osm-community-index/issues/333 On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:32 AM Andy Townsend wrote: > On 07/02/2020 10:55, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > Personally, I interpret the coverage of Talk-GB and OSMUK to be the > > same, i.e. Northern Ireland is officially under OSMUK, but for > &

Re: [Talk-GB] Panorama Mapping Party with TrekView - May 23 - Ashurst, New Forest, UK

2020-02-08 Thread Jez Nicholson
Nice hookup with Trek Viewdoes this warrant adding to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events as a mapping party? I always like seeing UK events on there. On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 5:37 PM Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As some of you may know I am developing

Re: [Talk-GB] "British Islands" (was "OSMUK-in-a-box")

2020-02-07 Thread Jez Nicholson
Personally, I interpret the coverage of Talk-GB and OSMUK to be the same, i.e. Northern Ireland is officially under OSMUK, but for practical reasons mappers may want to interact with OSMIEand the same for Talk-GB + Talk-IE. This could make the situation of gb geojson simpler. Do you know

Re: [Talk-GB] "OSMUK-in-a-box"

2020-02-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
Feb 2020, 15:32 Brian Prangle, wrote: > Looks like you've got yourself a show and tell session at the OSMUK AGM > Jez! > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 12:31, Jez Nicholson > wrote: > >> I come from a database background, and when a question isn't easily >> answered with Ta

Re: [Talk-GB] "OSMUK-in-a-box"

2020-02-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
get it >> live. >> >> Cheers >> >> TonyS999 >> On 06/02/2020 12:29, Jez Nicholson wrote: >> >> I come from a database background, and when a question isn't easily >> answered with Taginfo or Overpass Turbo I jump to my trusty local postgres >&g

[Talk-GB] "OSMUK-in-a-box"

2020-02-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
I come from a database background, and when a question isn't easily answered with Taginfo or Overpass Turbo I jump to my trusty local postgres database of UK data. I have a script that downloads the British Isles from Geofabrik, loads it with osm2pgsql, adds some useful indexes, and then removes

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
Nice work Jerry. I've touted Universities as a Quarterly Project as I believe that a number of them use and contribute to OSM...and those that don't, should. Maybe it can gain traction for next quarter...OSMUK could be used as a means to introduce ourselves officially to any university that

Re: [Talk-GB] 2 OSMUK presentations done in the first 2 weeks of 2020

2020-01-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thanks for the kind feedback :) Trying to move on from 'what is OSM' to '...and why should you care?'. Intention is to encourage new mappers and reactivate lapsed ones. On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, 10:54 Philip Barnes, wrote: > On Friday, 17 January 2020, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > Just

[Talk-GB] 2 OSMUK presentations done in the first 2 weeks of 2020

2020-01-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
Just FYI, I've started off 2020 with a bang by doing 2 OSMUK presentations in the first 2 weeks. Firstly to #geomob in London about the FHRS Project + OSMUK progress. Secondly to the Shrewsbury Geospatial Forum as an intro to OSM and its relevance to them. The next outing is probably Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] Laura Ashley - looking for tagging consensus

2019-12-20 Thread Jez Nicholson
ou can necessarily generalise without a survey of each > store - although I agree that clothing is probably the most likely for most > cases these days. Not that I’ve been in one for quite some time! > > Regards, > Stuart > > On 20 Dec 2019, at 07:25, Jez Nicholson wrote: > &

Re: [Talk-GB] Laura Ashley - looking for tagging consensus

2019-12-19 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thanks for consulting. Even if you don't get a huge response (like with The Range) it is good to get wider opinion. With The Range I simply didn't know so had no response. A short poll in my household (myself + my wife) concluded: "Laura Ashley is a clothing store that happens to also sell

Re: [Talk-GB] Disused or empty apartments prior to demolition

2019-12-17 Thread Jez Nicholson
Change it to building=yes + disused:building=apartments ?...it's still a building, but the original use is now disused? - Jez On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, 14:51 Gareth L, wrote: > There are some tower blocks near me which have been emptied of residents > ahead of eventual demolition of the buildings.

[Talk-GB] incoming Talent Directory enquiry

2019-12-08 Thread Jez Nicholson
OSMUK been contacted by a company that want some high volume web mapping work done. For those of you who don't know about the Talent Directory, when this happens someone from the OSMUK Board chats to them on email to help them firm up their requirements, and to decide whether it could/should be a

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO! World Tools

2019-11-28 Thread Jez Nicholson
As Jerry says, the key feature was that it compared OS road names to OSM and highlighted the differences. The Microsoft Open Data Team recently analysed streets-with-no-name-but-lots-of-houses which threw up positive hits, and some potentially false positives of new housing estates which do not

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM-UK misunderstands the British Isles

2019-11-13 Thread Jez Nicholson
Hi Dave, There was a long and detailed discussion about where is covered by OSMUK. The result was United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland + British Crown Dependencies, which includes the Isle of Man. I believe that this is also what many people in the OSM community tend to mean when

Re: [Talk-GB] Name Suggestion Index

2019-11-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
gt; iD suggests this as an "upgrade" the next time someone is making an edit in > or around one of them. Some of their shops offer a cafe/restaurant service > as well, which should be suggested as a second tier of tags. > > Yours chocolatey, > *Paul* > > On Wed, 6 Nov 201

Re: [Talk-GB] Name Suggestion Index

2019-11-06 Thread Jez Nicholson
OSM lists) < > robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 08:24, Jez Nicholson > wrote: > >> I was wondering how iD (and Vespucci) decides what to offer as brands > when I create a new feature, or when it suggests something like "Ib

[Talk-GB] Name Suggestion Index

2019-11-05 Thread Jez Nicholson
Continuing my poking around to see what causes what I was wondering how iD (and Vespucci) decides what to offer as brands when I create a new feature, or when it suggests something like "Ibis looks like a brand with incomplete tags". The answer is the

[Talk-GB] OSM Community Index

2019-11-04 Thread Jez Nicholson
I noticed that after editing something in iD that it gives you a number of suggestions as to how you might join in with the community. Got me to wondering where that information came from. Well, it is in the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Community_Index (I just created this wiki page

Re: [Talk-GB] Zebra crossings being lost in iD - how to respond

2019-10-25 Thread Jez Nicholson
+1 for a bot edit are you suggesting to just add crossing_ref=zebra, or to convert crossing=zebra into highway=crossing + crossing=uncontrolled too? On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 8:23 AM Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > > 24 Oct 2019, 22:48 by rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: > > Hi all, > > *Before I start

[Talk-GB] Solar unpopular opinions thread on Twitter

2019-10-14 Thread Jez Nicholson
Interesting thread for mappers with an interest in solar (last quarterly project) https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1183398352148484097.html ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] accurate GPS

2019-10-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
*Ahem* no offence to Simon, obviouslyhe's just trying to check out a manufacturer's claims and opening a can of worms in the process. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 5:18 PM Dave F via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > On 09/10/2019 23:12, Warin wrote: > > > > I'd think to get that level

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