Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg via talk
Even still, the location of major substations (e.g the 400-132kv type) isn't really a secret. I could reel off quite a few in the UK without even looking at a map. Nick From: john whelan Sent: 19 January 2023 17:38 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: OpenStreetMap talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg via talk
I thought the whole point of OSM was to map the ground truth? Power lines are there, and they are an important navigational aid when out walking or hiking. And besides, just about every commercial mapping provider that I've used shows them. The OS does, as do maps that I've seen in a range of

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths downtime

2020-12-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
Hello everyone, I have updated mapthepaths.org.uk's DNS record to point to a different server. When this is done I will need to obtain a new HTTPS certificate. It's possible that interruptions may occur over the next 24 hours or so but once updated it will be up without further interuption.

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application -- -& server

2020-12-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
which I am prepared to meet in the short term, I will also give accounts to trusted members of the community on request to work on the project should they wish. Nick From: OSMUK Sent: 13 December 2020 18:36 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Cc: Nick Whitelegg

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
Hello Martin/Nick, Perhaps the combination of highway, surface and designation will cover many of these use-cases? e.g. a service road that looks like a track but is a service road, and has bridleway rights, could be tagged as: highway=service; surface=unpaved; designation=public_bridleway

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
ure that I am not being attributed to posts I didn't make. Thanks, Nick From: Peter Neale Sent: 13 December 2020 10:44 To: Nick Whitelegg ; Edward Bainton Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track IMHO, if it leads on to an

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths downtime next weekend Dec 19/20

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
Hello everyone, A warning that the MapThePaths site (www.mapthepaths.org.uk) and also perhaps Freemap will be unavailable next weekend, Dec 19/20, and possibly into the early part of next week. The reason is that I am updating the OSM data on the server next weekend. I have decided to create

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
>Getting back to this case, this is the farm drive. Beyond the >cattle-grid the public bridleway continues left through the farm >buildings, and the surface deteriorates to the usual farm mud: >https://85a.uk/noverton_farm_1280x800.jpg Apologies for going off topic, but I knew that name

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application -- -& server

2020-12-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
Hello Seán, Thanks for that, sounds a great idea! Would be a great addition to any UK countryside map once you have opened your API. Nick From: Seán Lynch Sent: 11 December 2020 21:03 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: Andy Townsend ; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application -- -& server

2020-12-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
necessary to develop an interactive POI map. We'd also of course need people with strong web design and UX skills - alas, mine are not so great! As for other points - things like https cert renewal seem easy with Let's Encrypt; have been using that succesfully for a while now. Nick Nick Whitel

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application -- -& server

2020-12-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
e required operations and security? Tony Shield - TonyS999 On 04/12/2020 15:40, Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB wrote: Hi, Just floating an idea for a possible OSMUK site, namely an OSMUK 'semi-official' web application for walkers and hikers. This could provide similar functionality to sit

[OSM-talk] Advanced warning: temporary shutdown of OpenTrailView and Hikar, weekend of Dec 19/20

2020-12-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg via talk
Hello everyone, For those of you who might use https://opentrailview.org or https://hikar.org, or the Hikar app, I'm posting an advanced warning that these sites will be unavailable on the weekend of December 19/20. This is because I am updating the underlying database of Europe OSM data,

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway across field

2020-12-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
This reminds me a bit of this location, also in Wiltshire: https://www.mapthepaths.org.uk/?lat=51.06209564615185=-2.0421791551466137=3=0 Note the orange diagonal line. That is the line of a bridleway according to the Wiltshire ROW data as sourced on rowmaps.com (so not necessarily the

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
)? Thanks, Nick From: Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB Sent: 04 December 2020 15:40 To: Talk-GB Subject: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application Hi, Just floating an idea for a possible OSMUK site, namely an OSMUK 'semi-official' web application for walkers

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
I - adopted by all councils for problem reporting would be a great thing to have. Nick From: David Woolley Sent: 04 December 2020 16:49 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application On 04/12/2020 16:38, Nick Whitelegg

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
From: Jon Pennycook Sent: 04 December 2020 15:51 To: Nick Whitelegg Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application For reporting problems, maybe FixMyStreet might be interested - see https://osm.fixmystreet.com/ They have sold a product to some councils to allow

[Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
Hi, Just floating an idea for a possible OSMUK site, namely an OSMUK 'semi-official' web application for walkers and hikers. This could provide similar functionality to sites such as the Ramblers' Pathwatch (https://www.ramblers.org.uk/advice/pathwatch-report-path-features-and-problems.aspx)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Removal of 'unsuitable' content from an OSM-related site

2020-12-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
ote: > Hi, > > On 02.12.20 09:49, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > As I said I am paying for this out of my own money and do not want the > > storage space to be used for purposes other than panos of walking trails. > > I think you have already done *much* more than can be expected of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Removal of 'unsuitable' content from an OSM-related site

2020-12-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Martn, I believe I 'probably' don't have any obligation, but I am just being cautious as we do appear to live in a very litigious world and I just want to be safe. It's a case of whether there is some automatic 'implied rights' for users when there are no terms of service. I don't have any

[OSM-legal-talk] Removal of 'unsuitable' content from an OSM-related site

2020-12-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Apologies - this is not directly related to OpenStreetMap itself but is related to a site of mine which uses OpenStreetMap data so I thought I'd post my question here to get opinions. I have been developing a site OpenTrailView (https://opentrailview.org) to collect 360 panoramas

Re: [OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories)

2020-10-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
be great to get some feedback on these 'edge cases', whether they look reasonably 'safe' to release permanently, on the balance of probability. Thanks, Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 10 October 2020 21:38 To: Christian Quest ; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories)

2020-10-10 Thread Nick Whitelegg
blurring tools I used blurred all the faces but they didn't blur the child who was partly looking away (with the face not visible) Christian - thanks once again for this! e.g. see https://opentrailview.org/?id=9928 Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 07 October 2020 17

Re: [OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories)

2020-10-10 Thread Nick Whitelegg
..sorry, the photo ID in that URL is incorrect, should be 9728, not 9928. Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 10 October 2020 21:37 To: Christian Quest ; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories) ... to follow

Re: [OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories)

2020-10-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
: [OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories) Le 06/10/2020 à 22:41, Nick Whitelegg a écrit : Hi, Apologies if this is only tangentially OSM related, but I thought I'd ask here to try and get some expert advice. As you may know, Mapillary has been bought by Facebook and there has been

Re: [OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories)

2020-10-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
anks, Nick ____ From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 06 October 2020 21:41 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Face and license blurring (GDPR territories) Hi, Apologies if this is only tangentially OSM related, but I thought I'd ask here to try and get some expert advice. As you may know,

[OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories)

2020-10-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Apologies if this is only tangentially OSM related, but I thought I'd ask here to try and get some expert advice. As you may know, Mapillary has been bought by Facebook and there has been interest in developing, or at least starting to develop/actively researching the possibility of, some

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging an abandoned path?

2020-09-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Thanks for the replies, will probably go with something like overgrown=yes. The path concerned has not been closed - it looks like a forestry track which was formerly used by vehicles but hasn't for many years. However, unlike many of the paths in the same area it doesn't appear to be popular

[OSM-talk] Tagging an abandoned path?

2020-09-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Wondering if there was a consensus on tagging an abandoned, no longer very usable path (e.g. a path which has become overgrown or is unclear and prone to flooding in wetter periods). Something like "path=abandoned"? There's a case like that near where I am in which a path was mapped in the

Re: [OSM-talk] "Limitations on mapping private information" - wiki page

2020-09-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Yes - that's absolutely fine! Just wanted to clarify it here so that the wording could be altered (I'm quite happy to do this myself). Thanks, Nick From: Mateusz Konieczny via talk Sent: 16 September 2020 11:01 Cc: osm Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] "Limitations on

Re: [OSM-talk] "Limitations on mapping private information" - wiki page

2020-09-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg via talk
I would understand 'semi-public garden' to be, for example, a garden where you pay an admission fee to enter, or one which is closed at night. Like Martin, I would expect these to be completely acceptable to map. I think the intention is to deter people from mapping _fully private_ gardens

Re: [Talk-GB] New Forest Panorama Mapping Party - September 13th 11.00

2020-08-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Sorry, got Dave's email wrong - damn typo! dgreenw...@trekview.org Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 23 August 2020 13:43 To: Talk-GB Subject: New Forest Panorama Mapping Party - September 13th 11.00 Hello everyone, Some of you are aware of this, but we

[Talk-GB] New Forest Panorama Mapping Party - September 13th 11.00

2020-08-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Some of you are aware of this, but we (David Greenwood of TrekView and myself) are organising a Panorama Mapping Party on September 13th (Sunday) 11.00 meeting at Ashurst New Forest station (hourly trains from Waterloo assuming no engineering work or other disruption). This

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Re a "UK walking style" there is Freemap, my own (long-standing) project, which has gone through a number of ups and downs (mostly due to hosting difficulties and lack of time to work on it) but has had a number of style improvements this year due to having more time than expected to work on

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths on Wimbledon Common

2020-07-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
there is no explicit 'This is a permissive path' notice. Certain paths are closed from time to time, usually due to forestry operations. Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 11 July 2020 10:11 To: Talk GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Paths on Wimbledon Common I would probably add

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths on Wimbledon Common

2020-07-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I would probably add to the definition of permissive, paths in the countryside, or on common-land or similar edge-of-town areas with public access, which are not rights of way but which nonetheless are in common use and do not have any 'Private' or 'Keep out' signs; it seems apparent in this

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-29 Thread Nick Whitelegg
sets for later use. Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 29 June 2020 10:03 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary Something else which might be of interest to contributors to this thread, from

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-29 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Something else which might be of interest to contributors to this thread, from the software side of things: For OpenTrailView I am collaborating with the TrekView project (trekview.org) which aims to make it easy for people to take 360 panoramas of all walking trails, and other off-road

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Just another thought on this (and it is just a thought) but reflects my current thinking on OpenTrailView but could also apply to an open source StreetView-lie app: Start small, cover a relatively small area (a historic town or national park including the footways?) - maybe a group of people

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Whitelegg Cc: OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary Hi Nick, On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:47:01AM +, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > (Disclaimer: I am the developer of said project) > > You can login using your OSM account. The issue is that on

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Sent: 19 June 2020 15:06 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary Am 19.06.2020 um 13:47 schrieb Nick Whitelegg: (Disclaimer: I am the developer of said project) One of the key functionalities required for such a project

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
to Mapillary and others, then I'm quite happy to take street panoramas. Nick From: Martin Koppenhoefer Sent: 19 June 2020 12:56 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary sent from

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
(Disclaimer: I am the developer of said project) Those of you looking for 100% FOSS software and who are focused on 360 degree photography of off-road routes (walking trails and so on) might want to consider OpenTrailView (https://opentrailview.org). Do bear in mind that it is in the early

Re: [Talk-GB] Updated MapThePaths app - with tagged GPS traces

2020-05-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
) crosses the access area boundary. Clicking outside the access area shows the reference. Inside the access area does not. If you close the OSM footpaths layer, the click then works. Thanks, Roger On 23/05/2020 12:28, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hello everyone, To follow up an email of just over a week

[Talk-GB] Updated MapThePaths app - with tagged GPS traces

2020-05-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
, to alert experienced users of any new traces in their area. I have also added a new option to turn off the 'snap map to current GPS location' feature, allowing users to pan the map around. Any further thoughts, please let me know. Thanks, Nick Nick Whitelegg Senior Lecturer in Computing

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
ectly in the MapThePaths web app. (I am possibly thinking of adding way creation into the MapThePaths web app anyway, time depending)." Nick ____ From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 13 May 2020 18:08 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
s web app. (I am possibly thinking of adding way creation into the MapThePaths web app anyway, time depending)." Nick ____ From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 13 May 2020 18:08 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcom

[Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Just to continue with the theme of rights of way mapping, I've been noticing that there are still large tracts of England and Wales away from the 'honeypot' areas with little or now ROW mapping at all meaning there's still quite a big job to be done. As you may remember I have been

[Talk-GB] City centre landuse tagging

2020-05-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Meant to include this in my other post, but...I'm noticing that several cities in the UK (Bristol, Bath and Chester are good examples) don't seem to tag the city centre area with an appropriate landuse tag (presumably retail, commercial or residential). This is something I've missed over

[Talk-GB] New, hopefully improved Freemap

2020-05-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As you may now I was strongly considering closing down my Freemap (OSM site focusing on rights of way in England and Wales) site after years without having the time to update it. However I did get one or two requests to keep it going, and I have found that with the situation of the last

Re: [Talk-GB] prow_ref format for Dorset Public Rights of Way

2020-04-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Based on this, my preference would be to standardise on the "SE4/22" >style format for the prow_ref in Dorset, and convert any other >instances found to this. What does everyone else think? I'll invite >Nick Whitelegg (who developed the "map the paths" site) and

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths editing bug - fixed

2020-04-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
: could it also add the source:prow_ref with the appropriate data source? regards, Martyn On 07/04/2020 11:16, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hi, I've just discovered that MapThePaths had a problem with editing which only came to light just now, but it will have been present ever since I moved it to another

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths editing bug - fixed

2020-04-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, I've just discovered that MapThePaths had a problem with editing which only came to light just now, but it will have been present ever since I moved it to another server several weeks ago. Essentially, a different configuration on the new server was producing (sensible) warning messages

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Freemap' - partial reprieve

2020-03-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
From: Martin Wynne Sent: 23 March 2020 14:18 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] 'Freemap' - partial reprieve On 23/03/2020 13:57, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > You can access it via > > http:///www.mapthepaths.org.uk/freemap Hi Nick, the extra / makes

[Talk-GB] 'Freemap' - partial reprieve

2020-03-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Although my long-standing, albeit not-updated-in-ages Freemap site (www.free-map.org.uk) is closing down at the end of the month, Freemap is having a partial reprieve as a mode on MapThePaths. You can access it via http:///www.mapthepaths.org.uk/freemap On reflection, even

[OSM-talk] 3D OSM with terrain

2020-03-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As part of investigating the possibility of developing a web-based version of Hikar, I've developed a simple (and with several flaws!) proof-of-concept 3D OSM application which overlays OSM highways on Terrarium DEM data using A-Frame (aframe.io). It is only simple, for instance it

[OSM-talk] Hikar and OpenTrailView - new development blog

2020-03-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, For those interested in my projects Hikar (hikar.org; augmented reality for paths using OSM) and OpenTrailView (opentrailview.org; off-road 'StreetView' like application for countryside users) I have now started a new development blog. If you're interested in these projects,

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths: possible interrupted service this week

2020-02-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
... sorry for all the emails: but further update - it's now up, but running HTTP not HTTPS (as it used to). Hopefully HTTPS will be enabled very soon. Thanks, Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 12 February 2020 09:59 To: Talk-GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths: possible interrupted service this week

2020-02-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
the certificate from being installed. Apologies for the ongoing downtime, hopefully this will be resolved in the next day or so. Thanks, Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 10 February 2020 11:21 To: Talk-GB Subject: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths: possible interrupted

[Talk-GB] Freemap (free-map.org.uk) - potential shutdown

2020-02-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As part of rationalising my server space and hosted projects, I am proposing shutting down my (very old) England and Wales footpath mapping site Freemap (free-map.org.uk). This is basically because I no longer have the time to maintain and improve it and obviously incurs storage space and

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths: possible interrupted service this week

2020-02-10 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Just a heads-up: I am transferring MapThePaths to the same server I use to run my other projects, Hikar and OpenTrailView, this week. This means that there may be interruption or unavailability in service, starting today. Thanks, Nick

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

2020-02-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Nicholson Sent: 08 February 2020 11:39 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: osm-talk ; Talk-GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Panorama Mapping Party with TrekView - May 23 - Ashurst, New Forest, UK Nice hookup with Trek Viewdoes this warrant adding to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events

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

2020-02-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Nicholson Sent: 08 February 2020 11:39 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: osm-talk ; Talk-GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Panorama Mapping Party with TrekView - May 23 - Ashurst, New Forest, UK Nice hookup with Trek Viewdoes this warrant adding to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events

[OSM-talk] Panorama Mapping Party with TrekView - May 23 - Ashurst, New Forest, UK

2020-02-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, As some of you may know I am developing OpenTrailView (https://opentrailview.org), a pure 100% FOSS StreetView-like application for off-road routes such as hiking trails which uses OpenStreetMap data to auto-connect the panoramas together. Recently I've been working with Trek

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

2020-02-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, As some of you may know I am developing OpenTrailView (https://opentrailview.org), a pure 100% FOSS StreetView-like application for off-road routes such as hiking trails which uses OpenStreetMap data to auto-connect the panoramas together. Recently I've been working with Trek

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths - now with way-splitting functionality

2020-01-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Would like to announce an update to MapThePaths (mapthepaths.org.uk) - a site which allows OSM contributors to compare council rights of way data with the RoW data in OSM, and in doing so, allows users to discover which paths need designation tags or even need mapping from

Re: [Talk-GB] Which paths are shown on this OS 'Standard' render

2019-12-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
This reminds me of the old First Series maps last published around 1958-ish. Looking at an area I'm very familiar with: it does not show public rights of way; it merely seems to show paths which are physically present on the ground. Some of these are rights of way, and some are not. Nick

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way layer - raster and vector tiles

2019-11-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Rob, Glad you're finding MTP useful! Incidentally the way-split functionality has been on the MapThePaths 'todo' list for quite some time. I will try and get round to it as soon as I can - probably the Christmas break now. Nick From: Rob Nickerson

Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project On 30/09/2019 18:25, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > I made a start on this about a year ago, here's a quck mock-up showing > council data in colours and OSM paths shown in white as a 'tippex' > effect. This allows the ident

[Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-09-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Was just thinking whether it would be worth us (as in OSM UK) resurrecting the 'missing paths for 2026' project? A quick reminder - we have until 2026 to record historical rights of way which have fallen out of use in recent times, and the combination of OSM, council data and historical

[OSM-talk] Hikar update - campsites,, hostels and mountain huts

2019-09-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Thanks to everyone who attended my talk on Hikar (OSM augmented reality Android app for hikers, https://hikar.org) at SOTM! Just a quick heads up on some small changes (version 0.3.1), partly as a result of feedback at SOTM. The virtual signposts on the app now show campsites, alpine huts,

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates

2019-09-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
To update: users can now view their own uploaded panoramas even if they haven't been approved yet. Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 01 September 2019 10:32:20 To: Stefan Baebler Cc: osm-talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates Hello Stefan

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates

2019-09-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Stefan, Thanks for the that. ll be a very quick job to show photos to authors without approval, so will do that very soon - today or tomorrow. Nick From: Stefan Baebler Sent: 30 August 2019 23:27:48 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: Simon Polster ; osm-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates

2019-08-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
2019 07:46:23 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: Simon Polster ; osm-talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates Thanks, the uploading works now! However, I cannot see my uploaded photospheres anywhere on the site, not even while being logged in, logging in again Neither on the map nor

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates

2019-08-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Stefan, Have increased limit to 15 MB now - let me know if you still have problems. Still not mobile friendly just yet - will do this when I have the time. Thanks, Nick From: Stefan Baebler Sent: 25 August 2019 22:33:38 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: Simon

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates

2019-08-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
visible in the little overview map (or if that's too difficult to implement at least link the rotation of the panorama with the overview map so that they always share the same geographic direction). Cheers Simon Am 06/08/2019 um 16:58 schrieb Nick Whitelegg: > > Hi, > > > To fo

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates

2019-08-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
(and StreetView) like arrows superimposed on the ground, but this isn't implemented just yet. Nick From: Dave F Sent: 06 August 2019 16:18:46 To: osm-talk Cc: Nick Whitelegg Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates Hi I find it slightly irritating the next

[OSM-talk] OpenTrailView - updates

2019-08-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, To follow up my post of a couple of months ago, I have made a few updates to OpenTrailView, a StreetView-like application which allows users to upload 360 panoramas which will then be automatically linked using underlying OSM ways, allowing users to navigate from panorama to panorama.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-06-10 Thread Nick Whitelegg
OK - this is now done. Panoramas will be licensed under CC-BY 4.0 and users are required to agree to their panoramas being used as source material for OSM on signup. Thanks, Nick From: Kathleen Lu Sent: 04 June 2019 17:15:01 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-06-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Sent: 03 June 2019 18:03:50 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: Martin Koppenhoefer; Milo van der Linden; OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers So to confirm what you want... If someone wanted to use the panos in a video, stitched together with photos

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-06-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Sent: 01 June 2019 08:25 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: Kathleen Lu; Milo van der Linden; OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers sent from a phone On 31. May 2019, at 22:13, Nick Whitelegg mailto:nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk>> wrote: Hello Ka

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-06-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
e was showing but didn't on the others. Thanks, Nick From: Andrew Harvey Sent: 01 June 2019 04:58:35 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: osm-talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers A neat thing you can do is infill the base

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-05-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
with the license change. Nick From: Kathleen Lu Sent: 31 May 2019 19:31:52 To: Milo van der Linden Cc: Nick Whitelegg; OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers Looks neat, Nick! I will say that given that OSM is under

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-05-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
causes it to happen) if you click on a camera icon when in map mode it doesn't load the panorama. Most of the time it's fine though. Nick From: Milo van der Linden Sent: 31 May 2019 17:20:57 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: osm-talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailVi

[OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-05-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Some of you are probably aware that way back in 2010 I started developing OpenTrailView , which aims to be a StreetView-like web application but focusing on off-road routes such as hiking trails, with crowd-sourced panoramas. Recently, due to the increasing availability of 360 cameras

[OSM-talk] Hikar (OSM AR for walkers) - now fixed and available again

2019-04-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Apologies for the non-availability of my OSM augmented reality app Hikar (announced on March 29th) from Google Play over the weekend. Unfortunately I left some test code in the last release which prevented GPS locations being processed. As I was on holiday with no access to a

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths - updates and app

2019-04-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, With spring here and the footpath mapping season underway, I thought I'd give a quick update on MapThePaths (www.mapthepaths.org.uk). Firstly, in response to an earlier request, I have added a facility to customise the colours of the different types of right of way.

[OSM-talk] Hikar - OSM augmented reality for walkers - now covering whole Europe, with virtual signposts

2019-03-29 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Just a quick announcement that I have just released the latest version (0.2.0) of "Hikar", my augmented reality app for walkers and hikers showing footpaths and signposts on the camera feed. Main changes are that it now covers the whole of Europe (thanks to affordable hosting by

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

2019-03-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I would urge the use of 'foot=yes' or 'foot=permissive' for paths which are _not_ rights of way but _do_ have public access (implicitly or explicitly) rather than simply 'highway=footway' or 'highway=path'. There needs to be a way to distinguish between non-rights-of-way which definitely have

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths - update

2019-02-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
.. DNS issue now fixed, now back up. Do please note there may be further temporary interruptions this week. Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 18 February 2019 15:29:57 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths - update Hello everyone

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths - update

2019-02-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, To follow from my previous message: MapThePaths is being transferred to another server (the Freemap server) this week. While this is done there may be DNS issues meaning it can't be accessed via mapthepaths.org.uk. In the meantime please use the IP address:

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM augmented reality project - affordable hosting recommendations or Overpass?

2019-02-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg
. Thank,s Nick From: Roland Olbricht Sent: 05 February 2019 16:59:48 To: Nick Whitelegg; d...@openstreetmap.org; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM augmented reality project - affordable hosting recommendations or Overpass? Hi

[Talk-GB] OSM augmented reality project - affordable hosting recommendations or Overpass?

2019-02-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, This weekend at FOSDEM I gave a talk on "Hikar", my augmented reality project for walkers/hikers making use of OSM data to show trails and virtual signposts on the device. (see http://www.free-map.org.uk/common/hikar.html for info and screenshots). At the moment however it only works in

Re: [Talk-GB] Lees Footpath mapping: results

2019-01-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Not related to the mapping party... but have just found a bug in MapThePaths which prevented the permalink feature working correctly, so the link in Jerry's message didn't take you to the right area. I've fixed this now, so the link should take you to the area Jerry's talking about.

Re: [Talk-GB] Guildford Blackwell Farm redevelopment

2018-11-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Not been in Guildford area for a while but I do note that there is a Blackwell Farm railway station showing. AFAIK no new railway stations have been built on this route (Guildford-Reading line). Wikipedia (not necessarily accurate) suggests it's merely a proposal at this stage. I do have

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data

2018-11-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
pplication with filtered OSM data On 2018-11-11 7:53 AM, Nick Whitelegg wrote: After thinking about this, I realised that I don't really want to update _all_ the data that often. The only thing I need to update on a weekly basis is the footpaths (I'm not so bothered if say the roads, or the pubs

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data

2018-11-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data On 2018-11-08 6:34 AM, Nick Whitelegg wrote: At the moment I download full planet extracts about every 6 months. However, due to the limitations of my server, I filter out (with osmosis) a lot of stuff I

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data

2018-11-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
... append mode! From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 11 November 2018 15:53:18 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data Thanks for all the replies. After thinking about this, I realised that I don't really

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data

2018-11-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
8 16:16:48 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: osm-talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data Hi Nick, osm2pgsql is tolerant to features absent in database. You can in theory even start with empty set of tables and just insert new diff data. Usually people also clip mi

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data

2018-11-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
... sorry, when I say "full planet extracts" I mean only England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland (all) and Greece - not the entire planet. Thanks, Nick ____ From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 08 November 2018 14:34:17 To: osm-talk Subject: osm2pgsql diff a

[OSM-talk] osm2pgsql diff application with filtered OSM data

2018-11-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Looking towards overhauling the import system I use for my Freemap site (free-map.org.uk) which is itself going to go through an overhaul in the near future by moving to Tangram and hopefully applying hill shading. At the moment I download full planet extracts about every 6 months.

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