Re: [Talk-GB] An old chestnut - looking for clarity for road names beginning "St ..."

2017-07-18 Thread Pierre Riteau
If you want to be exhaustive, you can add another spelling variant as alt_name: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:alt_name For something as minor as St vs St., if there is no clear winner for a specific street, maybe match style of other streets around? On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, at 18:32, Colin

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way in Oxfordshire and Hampshire

2017-06-27 Thread Pierre Riteau
Hi Robert, Thanks a lot for adding Oxfordshire to your comparison tool! However it reports much lower mapping coverage than I expected. It appears to be due to a mismatch of prow_ref format. I know that at least in and around Oxford, most paths have been mapped with a prow_ref based on the

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project - postboxes

2015-04-13 Thread Pierre Riteau
I have followed this proposal too. Example for a Franked mail only post box: mail:meter = yes mail:stamped = no On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, at 03:19 PM, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: On 13 April 2015 at 12:22, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Came across 2 postboxes today, side-by-side,

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Projects Update

2015-04-04 Thread Pierre Riteau
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, at 11:22 AM, Robert Norris wrote: My 2p: If surveying postboxes, is to also record the postbox type (mostly lamp, pillar or wall) and the Royal Cypher. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=post_box I second that. I use the following keys when surveying post

Re: [Talk-GB] Great British Public Toilet Map

2014-11-20 Thread Pierre Riteau
Since GBPTM allows to contribute new toilet entries, I asked on Twitter how they could be added back to OpenStreetMap without creating duplicates. The answer is that they will provide an API to extract contributions and they perform deduplication using 25m clusters:

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

2014-08-04 Thread Pierre Riteau
These are generally called permissive paths. On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, at 02:55 AM, john whelan wrote: Whilst I think of it there are some footpaths and roads in the UK which are open to the public on 364 days a year but closed one day a year to prevent them from becoming a public right of way.

Re: [Talk-GB] Confirmation of Rights of Way tags

2014-02-06 Thread Pierre Riteau
Some information about permissive paths: - [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_way_in_England_and_Wales#Pe rmissive_path - [2]http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/publicrightsofwayadvice_tc m6-13878.pdf (end of page 2) Apparently in some places they can be marked with a white

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

2014-02-04 Thread Pierre Riteau
I am in Oxfordshire where we have permission to use the definitive statement under OGL (but not the map). I have used the key prow_ref to add the council reference number for several paths and tagged them with designation=public_footpath (or public_bridleway if it's a bridleway) . See

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-23 Thread Pierre Riteau
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, at 06:18 PM, John Aldridge wrote: In addition, it would be really nice if someone could start the process of getting the default renderer updated to display the two new tags amenity=post_depot, and amenity=parcel_depot does anyone know how to go about getting

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-16 Thread Pierre Riteau
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, at 05:59 PM, John Aldridge wrote: On 15/01/2014 17:49, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: On 15 January 2014 16:03, John Aldridge j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk wrote: If I believed there was a snowflake in hell's chance of getting amenity=post_depot objects displayed on the

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-16 Thread Pierre Riteau
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, at 10:03 AM, John Aldridge wrote: On 16/01/2014 09:34, Pierre Riteau wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, at 05:59 PM, John Aldridge wrote: On 15/01/2014 17:49, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: On 15 January 2014 16:03, John Aldridge j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk wrote: If I