[Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-02-01 Thread jc...@mail.com
On 01/02/2020 12:08, David Woolley wrote: > That was certainly the context in which I came across them, in this > case, Warrenby Halt, on the, then British Steel iron works at Redcar, > which has now been mothballed, after only a short life. > That one was actually on private land. It used to be

[Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-01-31 Thread jc...@mail.com
On 01/02/2020 00:05, Martin Wynne wrote: > The traditional distinction was that Halts were unstaffed. Interesting - I didn't know this, but there's so many of these today that it shouldn't be the only determining factor. On 31/01/2020 23:49, Dave F wrote: > Over the past few months I've been

[Talk-GB] Update bus stop names

2020-01-18 Thread jc...@mail.com
On 18 January 2020 at 1340, Cj Malone wrote: > Although now I have another issue, which data source should be preferred. Whichever is the most up-to-date in your area. NaPTAN data has a ModificationDateTime field which shows when it was last updated. The SV data doesn't have such info so you'd

Re: [Talk-GB] Miniature railway or minimum gauge?

2019-05-20 Thread jc...@mail.com
On 18/05/2019 18:03, Mark Goodge wrote: > Other 15" railways in the UK (eg, the Evesham Vale Light Railway) are > mostly tagged as railway=narrow_gauge. How do you come to this conclusion? Using the list of 15" railways on Wikipedia, (including the retagged Rhiw Valley) on OSM in the UK are

Re: [Talk-GB] Checking UK Towns

2019-01-30 Thread jc...@mail.com
On 30/01/2019 15:08, Gregory Marler wrote: > In a lot of cases the towns nicely relate to parish wards (admin_level=10). I understood admin_level=10 was for whole parishes, not parish wards. Surely parish wards should be boundary=political just like district and county electoral

[Talk-GB] OSM on BBC4's 'Magic Numbers'

2018-10-12 Thread jc...@mail.com
OpenStreetMap was credited at the end of episode one from the documentary series 'Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths' shown on BBC4 on Wednesday - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bn6wtp The map was only on screen for a few seconds near the end of the programme but was

Re: [Talk-GB] Some leisure=track not rendering

2018-08-30 Thread jc...@mail.com
://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues] Cheers DaveF On 28/08/2018 18:48, jc...@mail.com wrote: > Has there been a recent change to the standard rendering for leisure=track? A > racecourse and a cycle track near me mapped as closed ways are no longer > showing. However another nea

[Talk-GB] Some leisure=track not rendering

2018-08-28 Thread jc...@mail.com
Has there been a recent change to the standard rendering for leisure=track? A racecourse and a cycle track near me mapped as closed ways are no longer showing. However another nearby track mapped as a multipolygon is unaffected. Jez C ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail trialling 'parcel' post boxes

2018-08-14 Thread jc...@mail.com
An interesting development but these are NOT new postboxes. For the trial Royal Mail are simply repurposing existing meter-type boxes as illustrated in Leicester Mercury, and adding a Saturday collection. I've found this document from the union:

[Talk-GB] 1m resolution LIDAR data for whole of England by mid-2020

2017-12-31 Thread jc...@mail.com
"Currently 40% of England is either not surveyed, has been surveyed at 2m (meaning it’s not as good quality) or the data is more than 10 years old." See https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2017/12/30/uncovering-englands-landscape-by-2020/ ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission

2017-11-23 Thread jc...@mail.com
Ed Parkes has a more pessimistic take on the money: https://medium.com/@edtparkes/well-need-more-than-20m-a-year-to-get-free-maps-specifically-politicians-willing-to-share-e27e86c356ba On a related topic, remember there was £5m in March 2016 Budget to explore options for open addresses and

[Talk-GB] National Park extensions

2016-08-17 Thread jc...@mail.com
I know there has been some caution against using Natural England data directly in OSM, so I wasn't surprised that the boundaries weren't immediately updated when the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks were expanded from 1st August. [1] However since coming back from holiday, I