Captcha's are pure evil, I can never work the swines out and usually need
to get someone to help, or more usually I just abandon what I was doing :-(
One thing I've seen elsewhere which might be a half-suitable compromise is
to only prompt when a url is included, most genuine users won't then be
, is
this really any good? type warnings/cooling off period to try and get rid
of some over-eagerness in getting extra detail in!)*
Kev.
On 14 March 2013 08:23, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote:
On 13 Mar 2013 19:37, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote:
I think some of that may well be me, I've
I think some of that may well be me, I've been slowly but surly fixing it,
but is compounded by the road network being a complete mess in many places,
the difficulty in getting GPS lock to get something to align Bing too, and
being 200km from my home town! The western half of Ashton and southern
Does this set include BT (northern Ireland) , postcodes like nspd open did?
If so that is one way it's better than code point open
On Oct 31, 2012 11:45 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote:
Can we get this data into Nominatim?
Why? What would it give
I've only bothered on really long term ones , the most glaring example
being in preston where it was in place for 24 months at least; our where
the road will reopen on a new alignment - e.g. A46 Newark to Widmerpool
On Jul 12, 2012 2:23 PM, cotswolds mapper osmcotswo...@gmail.com wrote:
How long
I've noticed a stack of stations showing up on the map recently labelled
VillageName Station which just seams wrong and to have them show up on
the default rendering seams even more wrong.
They are tagged railway=station; disused=yes
e.g.
Widmerpool Station http://osm.org/go/eu8kWOCCe--
Plumtree
Done - I now remember where I first saw them jumping out at me!
On 6 July 2012 21:49, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 July 2012 21:43, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote:
I've noticed a stack of stations showing up on the map recently labelled
VillageName Station which just
Sorry Richard for spamming you - one day I'll remember this replies to the
person rather than the group by default - argh!
On 20 June 2012 15:11, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com
wrote:
The people who collected the data tell me that the cycle lane widths were
recorded in 3
One thing I have noticed with the data is that in a number of places the
DfT data claims there is an LCN on a major road which I know has no LCN
signage (except the odd crossing) - e.g. London Road - or claims that both
the main carriageway AND the adjacent cycleway (well footpath with some
wobbly
Comments below.
On 17 June 2012 12:44, Martin - CycleStreets
list-osm-talk...@cyclestreets.net wrote:
As previously announced [1], we've been working with Andy Allan and the
DfT's contractors to open up the cycling data that the DfT have collected
(via manual surveys on bikes) over recent
oh, and the other suggestion - it would be handy if I could hide all
existing OSM data which doesn't have highway=* - nearly added the DFT to
fences about half a dozen times already!
Kev
On 17 June 2012 15:05, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote:
Comments below.
On 17 June 2012 12:44
I wonder how much of that is down to us seaming needing to change every
cities name when in English but foreigners being happy using the English
spelling (especially the Latin alphabet countries)?
Just from the top of my head we have
Munich - München
Cologne - Köln
The Hague - Den Hagg
Ghent -
A while ago I remember someone linking to a neat tool which took a pile of
GPX traces and generated an image with them on it (one persons from over a
period of time) - I was wondering if anyone could remember what it's called?
IIRC it generated a png image with purple lines on a black background
I've picked up a few main roads where I have GPS traces and have used bing
to add lane counts and crossings in to - i.e. I have only changed where I
have knowledge and am leaving something better behind. That being said I am
currently bug killing on keep right so that when it gets nicer I can see
Looks neat, easy to find all the fix me bugs,
impressively it even works on my x10i, a feat beyond most new apps!
On Dec 16, 2011 9:58 AM, eMerzh merz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone ;
has i wanted to learn a bit how android works, i've started an
application to help my favorite community :)
The Google maps app, via a labs add on, allows you to download offline
vector maps! Okay they are only 10sq mi each and you are limited to 10 of
them but its still possible.
Kev
On Dec 15, 2011 3:39 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote:
Tobias Knerr writes:
For people who are primarily
I've done a bulk of the Nottingham one (especially in the South and East)
and have generally followed the following rules (which others in the area
appear to have followed too)
1. If it's got NCN numbers it's NCN - From the last sign I continue it
until the next junction (e.g. NCN 15 is only
Preston bus (used?) to operate on a hail and ride basis - i.e. it would
stop anywhere on the estates to pick people up and set them down - in
reality this became a few set places (i.e. where the footpath was paved up
to the road edge rather than having a grass verge) but still rather handy
Just had a quick look at the Nottingham one - seams to be an even bigger
work of fiction than the local cycle maps produced by the council (unless
council publications override public footpath signs) - one jumping out
straight away is the A60 trunk road (from the BBC Island through to West
Thanks for telling us how to toggle the various layers - quite neat (the
visible but not click-able even more handy!)
The rest of this message may appear to be a bit negative, but it's not
supposed to be - hopefully it's constructive feedback!
What would be useful is for there to be a way of
Commo fixme in the East midlands at least is
Fixme:stub for future suvey
Typically a path or bridleway where the end has been surveyed but the route
not traversed. often these hasn't been placed to accuratly either (i.e.
Someone spotted it when passing without gps) so incomplete isn't accurate
Some C roads are signed http://www.cbrd.co.uk/photo/c-roads/ (this topic
sounds familiar!) which are arguably useful to sign, although I will admit
unsigned ones are a bit useless!
Kev
On 11 August 2011 11:56, Paul Williams pjwde...@googlemail.com wrote:
This morning, darren39 has fixed the
Fixed some of the A50 ones - surprised at how well Bing matches my GPS
traces in that area (alas my knowlege of Stoke-on-Trent extends to the A34,
A50 and A500 from passing through)!
Are all the roads parallel to the A50 really trunk links or are they of a
lower standard?
Kev.
On 8 August 2011
on the a46 dualling I have been putting the reduced limits in, but here the
road is on a new alignment so its for the rest of the life of the road
(until is becomes part of ncn route 48 anyway!) .
Shame there's no way AFAIK of tagging fixme:2013-05-01=roadworks due to
finish, resurvey
If we are using pronunciations as a guide shall I go and rename Southwell
as Suval and Leicester as Lesta?
On Wednesday, 27 July 2011, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 July 2011 04:04, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 July 2011 10:40, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
So it's an a is it - google mail on Android shows a square!
On 26 Jul 2011 15:54, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I think it is actually written St Albans as stated above.
Indeed. In British English orthography, Saint in place and streetnames is
always
From today's Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/07/government-transparency-data-releases
The transport data looks like it might have some use for OSM and related
projects
- Data on *current and future roadworks* on the Strategic Road Network to
be published from
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:51, Graham Stewart gra...@dalmuti.net wrote:
Great shame. So - recruit some more mappers. Write better tools to help
the people who show up nearby on your user page, yet who haven't edited
yet.
You've got me there.
Of the 30 nearby people on my user page, 20
Looking at the cyclemap to see if I had made all the changes I thought I had
I noticed the very prominent Knightshayes text on the map
http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=13lat=52.92356lon=-1.12127layers=B0
This is a new housing development which when I added it to the map was still
under
Some C (and U) roads are signed apparently - see
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/c-roads/
(And not all A roads are signed on the ground either)
Kev
On 18 May 2011 11:05, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
I note an increasing number of roads tagged with ref=Cnumber:
...@madasafish.com wrote:
On 02/04/2011 09:08, Kev js1982 wrote:
Cycling to work this week I have come across a more direct way to town,
but also a road which I ...
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8ll=52.940734,-1.140834spn=0.003246,0.009645t=hz=17layer=ccbll=52.940734,-1.140834panoid
I think the roundabout symbol is where the user raised the bug - MapDust
seams a rather apt name in my experience though - Dust doesn't serve any
useful purpose (in reality) and neither does mapdust's bugs.
Kev
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 15:13, Paul n...@pointdee.co.uk wrote:
I know this isn't
How often are the tiles updated? It would be really useful if the analysis
map showed what date the tiles are from (well the data they are using) as I
have put a number of changes in and while the statistics have changed the
tiles remain the same, I'm guessing it's every few days?
However it's a
Are the scripts which were used to generate the tiles from the StreetView
data files available anywhere?
I am trying to work out how to generate the Streetview tiles myself and am
struggling to understand everything (falling at the first hurdle at present
unfortunately
Kev.
The Grantham canal round here varies in quality from
Being in a pipe under the road for a big stretch
Looking like a normal canal but with all the locks missing/ damaged
Drained of water and full of weeds
Looking like a normal canal but full of algee and other stagnet strenches
Oh, and most
Quite a lot of car parks and other roads have one way arrows visible on the
bing imagry, often the position of speedlimits are available too, although
this might just be a uk only tendancy. Certainly helps in completing places
I have visited without a gps and pen/paper. Then again I have only
Just listened to this weeks podcast entitled Maps and tracking - Part One
which was talking about how mapping and cartography have changed in recent
years which I found to be quite interesting and also gave OSM a little
mention too
Broadcast on Australia's ABC Radio National on Thursday September
With regards to the fee how would you tag the majority of uk
supermarkets where the trolleys accept both £1 and €1 coins? This
seams to be pretty standard on all trolleys introduced since approx
1998.
On 4/26/10, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 26 April 2010 11:45, Adrien Pavie
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote:
I am currently trying to create a series of shapefiles from postcodes
(using OS Open Geo Data) using the code from Random Junk (
http://random.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodes/#) running on Ubuntu 9.10
but I can't get
In the uk km 0 is often on a road that was never built!
The km markers on the m6 start counting at the london end of the m1 so
it isn't always the same road that the end is on
On 10/23/09, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/23 mle i...@dynoyo.plus.com:
Hi Folks -
on a recent
In the uk they do - visible on the driver location signs - seams to be
a bit random as to which road gets them though - at the a50/a500
junction the latter gets all of them iirc
Can't remember seeing them at the later a500/m6 junction though or the
m6/m65 one
On 9/25/09, Cartinus
Or even a single operator - during Nottingham City Transports
transition to a fully low floor operation the old buses were cascaded
down too other routes which shared the same stops,
And what about Preston bus station where they had to lower the kerbs
to allow low floor buses to access it ;-)
On
On a similar line how would you tag the zones in Nottingham city centre?
These are aimed at navigation (basically if you are heading for
somewhere in the victoria zone follow the red square with queen
victoria in it for a suitable car park)
These zones don't match with the suburbs (lace market
Round here (south Nottingham, uk) black on white, with post codes and
council name in red.
In the city itself most are black on white, with some old ones white on black.
On 8/20/09, Łukasz Jernaś deej...@srem.org wrote:
Poland, Greater Poland :
White on blue and black on white. It can be
Streets certainly get postcoded differently on opposite sides of the
street - one just has to look at the street name signs (as used by
Rushcliffe BC) to see that.
Also it's certainly possible where one street has multiple postcodes
that the splits happen in different places on different sides of
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote:
* there may (or may not) be an area set aside for dancing, e.g. with a
DJ
Thats a nightclub.
It's not though - many places have dance floors but they aren't often used
- A night club is somewhere you go to dance, a bar is
As a follow up to my earlier emails regarding this.
I have finally got it working with thanks to Matt Amos (and everyone else
who has replied).
Basically there appear to be bugs* in Mapnik preventing it converting from
Google projection to 27700 on the fly, coupled with some misunderstanding
of
, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote:
That makes sense, sounds like I might be missing the projection in
postgis.
Is there any documentation showing how to test the projections, and install
them in Postgis if needed?
Postgres/postgis are outside my usual experience so I'm not too sure where
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this (I can't find a better one).
I am trying to generate some tiles to generate a set of tiles to cover the
British Isles in the OSGB Projection (epsg:27700)
The files I have use an quite possibly unique naming schema (we are
intending to use them as a
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