Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

On 17/11/2020 22:34, Jez Nicholson wrote: From my change request discussion it appears that the UPRN appeared on the road as part of a test of Robert's Mathmos matching. The USRN and the UPRN tags showed the same number, I believe. The UPRN tag has now been removed leaving only the USRN, but

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

On 31/10/2020 08:04, Martin Wynne wrote: The NLS historic 25" georeferenced map first looks on the server for tiles from the County Series maps. If that returns a 404 Not Found error (presumably because the sheet wasn't available when the rest were scanned), it then looks on the server for

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

On 13/08/2020 13:06, SK53 wrote: This location on Robert's site shows several UPRNs on streets: * 10009154384 on Averton Square That's a link to openstreetmap.org, not to something called 'Robert's site'. -- Steve -- This

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

Could they perhaps be 5.5 to distinguish them from regions? Steve From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] I favour admin level 5 too. On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 23:52, Colin Smale mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> > wrote: The LAs of which the CAs are composed are sometimes

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

On 10/07/2020 11:27, Mark Goodge wrote: So, it seems that Fairfield [Road] isn't known to either OS or Google. It is shown (in abbreviated form) on streetmap.co.uk, but at that zoom level, in London, that's based on the Bartholomew A-Z maps rather than OS. For what it's worth, I also found

Re: [Talk-GB] "secret" site

On 29/06/2020 22:56, Colin Smale wrote: It was completed in 1964 as the GPO Tower. The GPO became the Post Office in 1969, at which time the tower was also renamed. I stand corrected - partially. It seems to have been referred to in pariament as the Post Office Tower as early as 1963:

Re: [Talk-GB] "secret" site

On 29/06/2020 08:20, Ken Kilfedder wrote: The GPO Tower (AKA Telecom Tower AKA BT Tower) only started to appear in public maps in 1984 I don't remember it ever being called the GPO Tower. It was always the Post Office Tower. -- Steve -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit - remove tracking parameters

On 13/05/2020 17:21, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: May 13, 2020, 17:31 by doerr.step...@gmail.com:  Will you limit individual changesets to fairly small geographical units? max changeset size in degrees (latitude): 0.3 max changeset size in degrees (longitude): 0.3 That's about

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit - remove tracking parameters

On 13/05/2020 12:40, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: Proposed bot edit would remove links where all used parameters are tracking users and may be removed. Sounds good. Will you limit individual changesets to fairly small geographical units? -- Steve -- This email has been checked for

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

Is this relevant/ https://ecoworldlondon.com/places-to-live/current/verdo-kew-bridge Steve On 30/03/2020 18:58, Andy Townsend wrote: I've sent another "message to be read before continuing to edit" https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/3592 . It'd be good if everyone could have a

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline update

On 19/02/2020 12:14, Christoph Hormann wrote: I am therfore reluctant to newly review the document in detail because it seems a waste of effort. Don't bother then. No one will miss it. -- Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

On 15/02/2020 17:35, Tomek wrote: - for continents, oceans, poles, and seas bordering any state, I will completely remove this marker. Don't do that. The golden rule should be: never remove another mapper's contribution unless it's incontrovertibly wrong. Steve

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

Please post in English if you want people to understand what you are trying to say. Otherwise, feel free to talk to yourself in Esperanto. Steve On 11/01/2020 22:12, Tomek wrote: EO W dniu 20-01-07 o 08:27, Mateusz Konieczny pisze: Yes, but using it for a pragmatic reasons for an

Re: [Talk-GB] Map with AI comes to the UK

On 11/01/2020 12:41, Rob Nickerson wrote: In JOSM add it using: wmts:https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/robjn/ck59jksa71nym1co31kr8mulb/wmts?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoicm9iam4iLCJhIjoid0dYNkY1QSJ9.A-0lzQOawGYICYPfURsjDA And in iD Editor add it using:

Re: [OSM-talk] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych ? names of international objects

This will take some research, but... Many of these names will be translations or transliterations of one particular name first attested in one particular language. So, 'Black Sea' is likely to be a translation of some name in a different language and which has subsequently been translated

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal process Wikipage - Adding note about the use of seperators for values

On 04/12/2019 18:42, Yves wrote: The semicolon is one information out of many, I'm not sure we should add this in the already long 'proposal process' page. Note that there is a slightly cryptic reference in

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

On 19/11/2019 15:03, marc marc wrote: -- those using the latin script are therefore probably false since the presence of a single word is probably enough to detect the error. is it better to delete them ? or some languages may have only one word for "Metropolitan France" ? Judging by

[Talk-GB] Neighbourhood/LSOA Names

Does anyone recognize this? A few months ago, I remember visiting a website that was looking to crowdsource meaningful names for neighbourhoods. I think it was based on Census Output Areas, probably at the LSOA level. It had a map showing the boundaries of the areas, and they had preloaded

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way vs. tracks

On 29/09/2019 21:58, Edward Bainton wrote: > running from 511,025.344 298,855.444 Meters to 510,856.672 298,723.814 Meters > > I don't recognise that coordinate system: is it any help for OSM? It's a millimetre-precision version of the Ordnance Survey grid reference. For conversion, see e.g.

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT and the OSMF

On 26/03/2019 18:24, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: In some countries (Mali for example), HOT is by far the institution with the most notoriety related to Openstreetmap - and it is often the only one. There, Openstreetmap appears to be a humanitarian mapping project under supervision and

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API turned off due to Upload Filter thread

On 21/03/2019 05:21, Roland Olbricht wrote: the Overpass API shows only an informative result today. This will last until about 20:00 UTC. Could this be affecting nrenner.github.io/achavi, does anybody know? -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of Argos stores

On 10/03/2019 15:15, David Woolley wrote: Concessions aren't limited to Argos and have existed for decades, at least, in department stores. Note that Argos is now a subsidiary of Sainsbury's. Wikipedia even states that 'Sainsbury's intend to close most if not all separate Argos shops and

Re: [OSM-talk] WhoDidIt Feeds

On 09/02/2019 12:39, Steve Doerr wrote: None of my WhoDidIt RSS feeds seem to have updated since 18/01/2019. The main one is http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/scripts/rss.php?bbox=0.184967,51.325448,0.618584,51.453992 Feeds have now resumed. -- Steve --- This email has been

[OSM-talk] WhoDidIt Feeds

None of my WhoDidIt RSS feeds seem to have updated since 18/01/2019. The main one is http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/scripts/rss.php?bbox=0.184967,51.325448,0.618584,51.453992 Has this service been discontinued or is there a known problem? -- Steve --- This email has been

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible Unattributed Map on Labrokes Website

On 07/02/2019 17:59, talk...@manet-computer.co.uk wrote: Not sure if this is the right place to ask but is there anyone who can look at https://thegrid.ladbrokes.com/en/shoplocator to see if they are using OpenStreetmap data without proper attribution? Looks like they are. Housenumber

[OSM-talk] Renaming Macedonia

Is there a plan? -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Ground truth for non-physical objects

On 17/12/2018 09:41, Colin Smale wrote: One other thing: in the UK the boundaries of the area and the local authority running that area are two different things. A local authority can run a combination of adjacent admin areas; some admin areas are defined in law without there being a local

[Talk-GB] Facebook Map Query - Thames rendered as Thanames

A user on the Facebook group 'UK Places Editors' has commented on the fact that some maps on Facebook pages in the vicinity of Putney Bridge (London) show the River Thames as 'Thanames'. See, for example, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Putney-Bridge/103150243057869 A bit of browser debugging

Re: [Talk-GB] What was the outcome of the discussion about C class roads with ref tags?

The same thing, by the looks of it: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Buckinghamshire_Council#Classified_Unnumbered_.28Class_III.29_and_Unclassified_Roads Steve On 24/09/2018 09:34, Stuart Reynolds wrote: [Side question, albeit not totally off-topic] Out of curiosity, I

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

On 19/09/2018 16:04, Andrew Black wrote: There is a very big difference - ceremonial counties exist now and so are in scope for OSM.  As you say here are differences between them and admin counties when unitary authorties are involved  - traditional counties are an attempt to recreate the

Re: [Talk-GB] un-named roads in UK

On 30/08/2018 22:26, Mark Goodge wrote: It was incredibly confusing to visitors, as the hamlet was nowhere near the post town. So we inserted "near [parish name]" as the second line, when giving the address. Off-topic, but the Royal Mail have long discouraged the use of 'Near', but they do

Re: [Talk-GB] un-named roads in UK

On 30/08/2018 17:40, Ed Loach wrote: I missed the start of this thread as I was away, but there are some unnamed roads in England with houses on that just have a postal address in the format house name, hamlet name, parish name, postal town or at least there is the one where I commented on

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

On 10/08/2018 21:41, Blake Girardot wrote: But while I do not like the w3w solution, if they wanted to support OSMF to improve w3w support in osm core and the ecosystem of tools I would be all for giving it the exact same trial if the community agreed. But generally, I think plus codes are

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing systems (Was: Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM)

On 03/08/2018 09:22, oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch wrote: I just tried to create the 3-words address for a building in Odessa, Ukraine. The system suggested "dressings.cookies.brothers". It would be close to impossible to transmit these three words over the telephone to a local taxi dispatcher.

Re: [Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - mapper required

Do they not have any architects' drawings they could share? Steve On 14/07/2018 12:11, talk...@manet-computer.co.uk wrote: Is this something that could be done over a series of evenings and a couple of afternoons or is it a larger task? Bing has some images, not sure how old they are.

Re: [Talk-GB] Nottingham Cottage, Kensington

On 22/05/2018 19:22, Andy Mabbett wrote: Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace, is in the news as the new home of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Prince Harry & Meghan Markle). Not particularly new, as I believe they've lived there since their engagement. It doesn't seem

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 04/05/2018 12:52, Lester Caine wrote: it's not helped when postoffice.co.uk don't list the independent post offices in there search results! According to them Broadway does not have a post office ;) It comes up for me at Russell Square, Back Lane, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7AP. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Donation from the Pineapple Fund

On 05/03/2018 12:39, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:21 PM, Dave F > wrote: was it converted into hard currency? all of the donated bitcoins should have already been converted to British pounds:

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

On 29/01/2018 11:36, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Ah, I see that tagging would create a lot of false positives in my tool and make it much less useful! My understanding is that addr:postcode should be used only as part of an address. So if you want to put a postcode on a street (or part

Re: [Talk-GB] Hull road renamed after rugby league star - BBC News

On 27/01/2018 13:21, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 27 January 2018 at 09:51, Colin Spiller wrote: I see malcolmh has already renamed it. Cool, but my question was "Does anyone have the coordinates, or the ID of the way, please?" To which the answer, I think it's safe to

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

From the change log: 'remove addr:unit field for gb, ie, si, tr'. I wonder why (re gb). Unit is quite a common element in UK addresses, isn't it? Steve Sent from my iPhone > I hope everyone takes a look at the changelog. > ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

On 17/11/2017 22:04, Frederik Ramm wrote: many papers had misunderstood their journalistic impartiality as having to give both sides of an argument equal coverage Oh really?!! Well at least we now know where you stand, in case you ever put yourself forward as a candidate for the OSMF board.

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

On 17/11/2017 20:50, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: One important aspect was missing in the announcement. The tool's new name is a tiny part of a much bigger set of community suggested and requested changes. Fully ignoring functionality changes that many community members suggested is biased.

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

On 17/11/2017 08:20, weeklyteam wrote: Yuri Astrakhanre-started the discussion on the Talk mailing list about the tool to do mechanical edits (it is now called/Sophox/). Yuri is perceived by many as unreasonable as before

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

On 03/11/2017 10:59, Ilya Zverev wrote: 3 нояб. 2017 г., в 13:21, Andy Townsend написал(а): Last time you proposed this it took only a few seconds to identify problems with the data. It's the same this time - at least some of the changes that your map suggests you're

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

On 24/10/2017 18:07, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Tomas Straupis > wrote: 2017-10-24 15:56 GMT+03:00 Ryszard Mikke wrote: > Why, in this case is it better to have Wikipedia links in OSM point to

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

On 19/10/2017 12:42, Dave F wrote: Where did you get that address? Their website shows it as: Spring River, Talbot Lane, Ebbsfleet, DA10 1AZ I got the address from a till receipt the first time I ate there, and also checked the Royal Mail site. Which bit is Talbot Lane; it's not tagged.

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

On 10/10/2017 19:07, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: It doesn't seem to have been mentioned here yet, but this quarter's UK mapping project is to improve addresses and postcodes: https://osmuk.org/uncategorized/jump-in-to-our-quarterly-mapping-project/ It would be useful to have some

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] New OSM Quick-Fix service

Way to go! This looks like just the kind of productivity tool OSM is crying out for. Great idea, Yuri. Steve From: Yuri Astrakhan [mailto:yuriastrak...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 October 2017 22:25 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools ; OpenStreetMap

Re: [Talk-GB] "an extraordinary quirk in the UK address system"

On 13/09/2017 11:29, SK53 wrote: Unfortunately reading the comments I noticed a remark about a No. 441A and I realised my interpolation must have had an error. On checking I found that I'd placed the known address one house over. This means that continuing the interpolation means that the

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the Historic Boundaries of Wales: Commotes and Cantrefs

histo...@openstreetmap.org might also be interested in this. On 19/05/2017 17:39, Andy Mabbett wrote: [cross-posted] FYI: https://rcahmw.gov.uk/mapping-the-historic-boundaries-of-wales-commotes-and-cantrefs/ "The Royal Commission [on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales] has

Re: [Talk-GB] Legible London signs - tagging suggestions

On 10/01/2017 07:54, Robert Skedgell wrote: ref=legible_london I don't understand the rationale for this as a 'ref'. Refs are normally unique identifiers for a particular object (unique within a particular domain, that is). Thus each sign would have a different ref, if there were

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #337 27/12/2016-02/01/2017

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/8535, actually. On 05/01/2017 11:58, weeklyteam wrote: The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 337, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8514/

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

Great. Thanks. Obviously the first priority is to get a UK-friendly slippy map up on the front page: blue motorways, green trunks, clear differentiation between A, B, C, and other roads, postcode and OSGR lookups, etc. Steve Sent from my iPhone > On 1 Jan 2017, at 13:38, Rob Nickerson

Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

There's a cupcake business locally which I suspect is a home business (as the streets in that area are only residential AFAIK). I haven't actually been there to check it out. Steve On 22/11/2016 15:54, Dave F wrote: I think they're misusing 'private' where they mean 'personal' I've only

Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

On 22/11/2016 15:22, Dave F wrote: Are you now suggesting the electoral roll should be hidden? Please don't assume duplicating freely available data in OSM makes it 'personal' or somehow tainted. It is possible to be 'ex-directory' in relation to the electoral register. -- Steve --- This

Re: [Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

On 13/11/2016 10:49, Dave F wrote: Could you clarify how the 'distant matches' are calculated? I'm confused by a couple of the errors it's thrown up: http://gregrs.dev.openstreetmap.org/fhrs/district-270.html 'Sam Wellers', 'Longvernal Primary School' (at the very bottom). Their fhrs:ids

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

On 09/11/2016 07:36, Greg wrote: I’ve now implemented Steve’s request for more clickable links in the overview map for each district at . In addition to opening the web page for each FHRS establishment, you can now open the OSM page for each relevant

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

On 17/10/2016 21:47, Greg wrote: I think the most useful link would probably be one that loads the OSM node/way in JOSM using the remote control function in the same way that the suggested matches map links do. Obviously you’d have to put the address details into JOSM manually, but you could

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

Thanks for providing this tool, Greg. I've found it very useful so far for adding address information based on the possible matches identified on the second map, where most of the dots have a link both to OSM and to the FHRS entry. However, I've now reached the stage where I need to look more

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging redevelopment and closed roads

On 20/09/2016 10:38, Derick Rethans wrote: If the items no longer function as how they are described, and not will come back, I would delete them right away. I disagree. Any feature in the landscape should remain mapped until it has actually disappeared. In the mean time, the 'disused:'

Re: [Talk-GB] Rare postboxes no longer so rare?

On 03/09/2016 00:23, Rob Nickerson wrote: I thought these postboxes were supposed to be really rare. Seems like loads have been added this year: There are supposed to be about 130 of them(*), of which OSM has 140. (*) http://inamidst.com/topic/edwardboxes Steve --- This email has been

Re: [OSM-talk] Convert Note to Node

a node in the same location. Note support has not made it into iD yet. Toby On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Steve Doerr <doerr.step...@gmail.com> wrote: Has anyone built a utility to convert a note into a node? Alternatively, is there a way to display the longitude and latitude of a note in th

[OSM-talk] Convert Note to Node

Has anyone built a utility to convert a note into a node? Alternatively, is there a way to display the longitude and latitude of a note in the same way as you can for a node? -- Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On 12/07/2016 00:23, Dave F wrote: This system [...] doesn't work in the real world. It's apparently used in Mongolia as of this month. So the proof of the pudding . . . -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

Just came across this story: http://qz.com/705273/mongolia-is-changing-all-its-addresses-to-three-word-phrases/ -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016

On 01/04/2016 11:51, Ed Loach wrote: With noon rapidly approaching I'll withdraw my earlier suggestion regarding deleting sadly-lacking-in-information buildings as part of a future project. LOL. Brilliant! Took me in. -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus

Re: [OSM-talk] license changes

Thanks for revealing this. No idea how you knew about it when nobody else did, but it's good, even vital, that you've brought it out into the open. Whoever you are. I must admit, I don't really understand what it's about, but it's clearly important. -- Steve On 14/02/2016 00:24, Steve

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

Looks like there is some open data available including 2012 districts (I think these are the 'super councils' referred to):

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Wales data

On 19/01/2016 15:55, Bogus Zaba wrote: On 19/01/16 14:58, Lester Caine wrote: http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/edubasealldata20160119.csv 36Mb, and a little slow downloading, but has all the data and seems to be updated regularly even if it still has old website url's and other content ;)

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

On 17/01/2016 12:55, Lester Caine wrote: On 17/01/16 11:08, Edward Betts wrote: This is the list of Wikidata tags that I actually plan to add: https://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/west_midlands/matches_2016-01-16.txt Please remove the School list from this. We are currently adding the edubase

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing Background Layers

On 08/01/2016 22:34, Simon Poole wrote: Am 08.01.2016 um 23:25 schrieb tony wroblewski: Silly question, why would you trace from Mapnik, since it's OSM anyway? There are many reasons why you might want to use a non-imagery background (or overlay which essentially all have gone too), for

[OSM-talk] Missing Background Layers

When editing in Potlatch 2, the list of background layers seems rather short. In particular, Mapnik (the default style) is not on the list. Bug? Or change of policy? -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[OSM-talk] Belgium/Netherlands Boundary Change

Just read this article about a territory-swap between The Netherlands and Belgium: http://actualite24.info/post/316916 I wonder if this has taken effect yet? It's not reflected in OSM currently. I think I'll leave it for the local communities to action. -- Steve --- This email has been

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E in Potlatch & iD

On 30/12/2015 18:31, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 18:26, Steve Doerr wrote: On 30/12/2015 18:09, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 17:04, Steve Doerr wrote: On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: They changed the URL for that layer recently when they merged the separate England+Wales

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E in Potlatch & iD

On 30/12/2015 18:09, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 17:04, Steve Doerr wrote: On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: They changed the URL for that layer recently when they merged the separate England+Wales and Scotland layers for the 2nd edition 6 inch maps into one layer. I've updated

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch down?

On 16/12/2015 13:43, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Is it just me or is the OSM's built-in potlatch editor not currently working? It loads and the editing functions all seem to work fine, but every time I press save on the "Save Changes" dialog box, I get an the message "Error creating

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch down?

On 16/12/2015 15:57, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Is it just me or is the OSM's built-in potlatch editor not currently working? Should be fixed now. TomH identified that a Passenger upgrade caused requests to break, though exactly why isn't yet clear...

[OSM-talk] Changeset Revert Request

I spotted this on the Malaysia forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=566307 . Here's the extent of the damage: https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=35942702 . Can anyone assist? -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO World - OSM OS Locator Analysis

I think the URL may have changed. Try http://product.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main Steve On 10/12/2015 22:34, Robert Neil wrote: ITOWorld OSM / OS Locator missing street analysis has been off for a couple of weeks with page not found. Anyone know what is happening with it?

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

I've read articles about it a few times, and for fun I sometimes post my w3w location on Facebook. But I don't know if it's achieved much traction. One maps site that I use from time to time, www.streetmap.co.uk, includes w3w addresses for searching and on its 'convert co-ordinates' screen,

Re: [Talk-GB] traffic calming

On 22/11/2015 19:37, Chris Hill wrote: Mechanical edits need to be discussed. He then indicated that he would discuss the tags on tagging@ - indeed he suggested leaving his edit and discussing it on tagging@. I wanted also to make it clear that tagging@ is not the best place to discuss

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

Lester, In the short term, would substituting http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/ solve your rendering problems? Steve On 31/10/2015 02:09, Lester Caine wrote: OK ... what do we need to do to get a working UK map again? Bing and Google are almost useless, and the new indistinguishable rendering

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Romantic London' - reusing Horwood's 1790's map

motco.com is very good as well, specifically http://motco.com/map/ Steve On 27/10/2015 14:41, Stuart Reynolds wrote: For those of you interested in old maps generally, you may already be aware of the site http://www.mapco.net/ which has a wide selection of freely-viewable historical maps of

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in EW in Potlatch iD

On 26/08/2015 21:58, Tom Hughes wrote: On 26/08/15 21:35, Steve Doerr wrote: Anyone know if there's a tms address for the imagery set shown here: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=8lat=51.6206lon=-0.1766layers=176 ? Oohh... That's new... Yes, there is but as they are county series maps

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in EW in Potlatch iD

On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/01/15 17:05, Steve Doerr wrote: I'm sure I've used the National Library of Scotland's set of 6-inch OS maps for England and Wales (1888-1913) as a background layer in Potlatch 2 before now, but at the moment I can't seem to get it to work. I've also

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging concert / music hall

On 20/07/2015 18:39, Peter vd Kamp wrote: Music hall is used for buildings where you can listen to e.g. rock concerts or new, promising bands (e.g. Heineken Music Hall (HMH), Ziggo Dome (ZD), both in Amsterdam). The term 'music hall' in British English denotes a very different thing. In

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Open Names

On 03/06/2015 18:57, Chris Hill wrote: You can use the tiles in JOSM and P2 using the url below[2] [2] http://www.raggedred.net/tiles/opennames/{z}/{x}/{y}.png For Potlatch 2, I think it needs to be http://www.raggedred.net/tiles/opennames/$z/$x/$y.png.

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On 28/05/2015 10:30, Komяpa wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/286131994 - Slough, GB. Pronounced /ˈslaʊ/, which corresponds to russian Слау. Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough links to russian https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83. That translation was added

Re: [Talk-GB] Issue with Changeset

Look here instead: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#17/50.0553/-5.6555num=4mt0=mapnikmt1=google-mapmt2=bing-mapmt3=nokia-map Steve On 15/05/2015 10:44, Paul Sladen wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2015, Jason Woollacott wrote: Looks like there has been an issue with changeset 30821940 Which seems to have

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap newbie - help/guidance to convert OSM XML data to .gpx

On 06/05/2015 14:27, Ángel de Vicente wrote: sorry, let's see if I can explain myself better. The attachment in my previous mail is what I got from the page https://mapmatching.3scale.net/ They seem to have their own forum (https://mapmatching.3scale.net/forum). You might do better to ask

Re: [Talk-GB] What was the outcome of the discussion about C class roads with ref tags?

I once saw some friends on Facebook discussing the state of a road local to them in Dorset, and they referred to it by its C number throughout. Personally, I quite like the fact that our map has C numbers on where other maps don't. What I don't like, though, is seeing U numbers for

Re: [Talk-GB] Road-name oddity in Bath

See also the Comments section here: http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/8203-Victoria-Bridge-passageway-close-weeks/story-23347562-detail/story.html#comments Steve On 04/05/2015 00:37, Dave F. wrote: Hi Andy While what was there before certainly wasn't correct I don't believe Nick Austin's

Re: [OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

On 28/04/2015 13:23, Lester Caine wrote: Reading the objections on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/through_route and to be honest, the example used is simply wrong. How about this one: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/21745867? Contrary to rational expectations, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

On 26/04/2015 12:35, Rob Nickerson wrote: In the UK (particularly in rural areas) it is common to find a road that turns 90 degrees to the left or right without a junction (that is the road just continues and white lines mark it as such). Meanwhile another road may come in from the other side

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

, Steve Doerr wrote: On 26/04/2015 12:35, Rob Nickerson wrote: In the UK (particularly in rural areas) it is common to find a road that turns 90 degrees to the left or right without a junction (that is the road just continues and white lines mark it as such). Meanwhile another road may come

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

On 26/02/2015 18:25, Paul Johnson wrote: Now that we have an anointed notes system, how about an automated move to notes, with the owner of the note being the person who originated the FIXME? Personally I'd rather keep any FIXMEs on the objects that they relate to. -- Steve --- This email

Re: [Talk-GB] Road Names Quarterly Project

On 17/02/2015 23:05, Paul Bivand wrote: A small story about this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31117763/history Laurie Gray Avenue, Bluebell Hill, Kent, used to have a street sign saying Laurie Gray. Various council documentation and OS locator referred to the 'Avenue' form. After two

Re: [Talk-GB] Disclaimer

On 28/01/2015 01:13, Neil Matthews wrote: [snip] I guess we might need to be a little careful: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/one-spelling-error-costs-companies-house-up-to-9-million-after-being-sued-for-ruining-business-10007372.html -- Steve --- This email has been checked

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset messaging Notes feature question

On 31/12/2014 21:17, Dave F. wrote: On 31/12/2014 16:16, Tom Hughes wrote: Is there a way to remove notes from the map once loaded? Re-clicking the icon, Closing the left hand pane or even refreshing (f5) makes no difference. It's kind of annoying. Just turn off the notes layer. Nope;

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