Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Average speed camera zones

2013-10-01 Thread Aidan McGinley
It would appear this data is subject to some form of licence that means it is not really public domain. The OSM guidelines are clear about how to deal with this. Approach the owner of the data and get permission to use the data under OSM terms. If there's any doubts after that contact the

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread Aidan McGinley
or public_transport=platform and a new, single node should be railway=station for the entire station? Think i am starting to understand how it should be done :-) BR James On 8 March 2013 21:35, Aidan McGinley aidmcgin+openstreet...@gmail.com wrote: James, Seems like a bit of a mess alright. Take

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-08 Thread Aidan McGinley
James, Seems like a bit of a mess alright. Take a look at the approved proposal for public transport which should be the standard to work towards I would think - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport I attempted to apply this to Kew Gardens station a while back (

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-03-05 Thread Aidan McGinley
March 2013 17:24, Aidan McGinley aidmcgin+openstreet...@gmail.comwrote: * How accurate is the data already in OSM? Interesting question Rob, as of today there's approximately 200,000 ways or nodes tagged with postcodes in OSM, this is made up of about 29,000 unique postcodes. Those numbers

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-03-01 Thread Aidan McGinley
* How accurate is the data already in OSM? Interesting question Rob, as of today there's approximately 200,000 ways or nodes tagged with postcodes in OSM, this is made up of about 29,000 unique postcodes. Those numbers are not 100% accurate as my bounding box for getting the data overlaps a bit

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-28 Thread Aidan McGinley
with these then obviously the import will have to be shelved. On 28 February 2013 09:51, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 February 2013 09:03, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 February 2013 22:08, Aidan McGinley aidmcgin+openstreet...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-28 Thread Aidan McGinley
February 2013 16:14, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/02/2013 12:27, Aidan McGinley wrote: 12 of these buildings only have the first part of the postcode. All of these partially match what is output by the script, for example way 5042255 is tagged in OSM as SW15

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Aidan McGinley
Thanks for the feedback Andy, I'll tackle each point below, @Kevin hopefully #3 should address your concerns about accuracy 1) The source data appears to be heavily overprocessed. This only applies to data other than the postcode centroids, such as the Census Output Areas and other

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Aidan McGinley
That's right Ed, if a building already has a postcode I won't be changing it. I'm actually outputting them separately and using them for some quality assurance. I'd be interested to know the two postcodes you are referring to just to check how they look in the source data. On 27 February 2013

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Aidan McGinley
checking, I'm happy to generate data for their local area, and the script will also be available for people to run themselves once I have the current kinks ironed out. Aidan On 27 February 2013 14:53, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: Aidan, On 27 February 2013 11:12, Aidan McGinley ... I've only

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-26 Thread Aidan McGinley
is the one identified by the script [2] http://paste.ubuntu.com/5568754/ - In the final version I'll be splitting these output files into sets containing 1000 ways each. On 21 January 2013 16:13, Aidan McGinley aidmcgin+openstreet...@gmail.comwrote: @Brian - Yes I need to formulate how to QA

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Cork Schedule of Local Roads

2013-02-18 Thread Aidan McGinley
at 04:54:09PM +, Aidan McGinley wrote: Received the Schedule of local roads for Cork this week from Cork County Council. Great! Is there anywhere in particular I can upload it to? It's 10 PDFs total size 40MB, none are small enough to upload directly to openstreetmap wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-01-21 Thread Aidan McGinley
@Brian - Yes I need to formulate how to QA this. I'd like to automate the QA as much as possible but having some elements done manually is obviously beneficial and the more people that can cast their eye over it the better. Any volunteers please do let me know, and also if anyone has any ideas

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-01-15 Thread Aidan McGinley
@Rob yes I had seen that. It is a great tool, but as you say it's difficult to be absolutely sure that what you get back is accurate To summarise what I'll be looking at doing Filter the following from the ONS Postcode data: - Postcodes which have a date of termination set - Postcodes whose

[Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-01-13 Thread Aidan McGinley
Been toying with some ideas for how to use the ONS Postcode data[1]. One idea that I have been exploring is to check if the value for the centre of the postcode is inside a closed way, and if so then tag that way with the appropriate addr:postcode. I mocked up a script to check this using the

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-01-13 Thread Aidan McGinley
. That in combination with limiting to closed ways with building=* seems like it would result in an accurate import? On 13 January 2013 18:38, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: On 13/01/13 15:21, Aidan McGinley wrote: Been toying with some ideas for how to use the ONS Postcode data[1]. One

[Talk-GB] Multiple postcodes with the same location?

2013-01-09 Thread Aidan McGinley
I've been looking at the data in the ONS Postcode data and have noticed that some postcodes all have the same centroid location. As an example the post codes AB101BH, AB101DU, AB101EP and AB101GS all map to the building mapped by this way: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39467039 I was

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Aidan McGinley
motor_vehicl http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehiclee=no should suffice I would have thought? On 10 December 2012 13:36, cotswolds mapper osmcotswo...@gmail.com wrote: There are lots of roads where I map which have Unfit for motors signs (blue/white advisory) but are normal