Re: [Talk-GB] When is a B road still a B road?

2008-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Martin
In the US the old Route 66 is marked with little historical signs. You can drive basically the same route as Route 66 by driving on other highways, it's just not officially Route 66 anymore. Are you talking about roads you can drive or roads which are gone? On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Mike

Re: [Talk-GB] London Calling

2008-05-04 Thread 80n
Sometimes I think it would be more useful for those people that do Yahoo tracing to concentrate on parks, lakes and buildings. At least then we'd be more motivated to go out and survey these areas on the ground. And how do you tag a road that definitely does not have a name? name=no seems wrong

Re: [Talk-GB] mapping props

2008-05-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 4 May 2008, at 14:59, Matthew Gates wrote: I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I get some pretty odd looks while out mapping - especially in residential areas where there are a lot of elderly people. They watch me cycling up to the end of their quiet cul-de-sac's and

Re: [Talk-GB] mapping props

2008-05-04 Thread Matthew Gates
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Shaun wrote: You might also be interested in printed OSM hi-vis vests that Graham Smith is going to do: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-May/025909.html on the main talk list. Exactly the sort of think I was thinking about. I shall contact Graham -

Re: [Talk-GB] mapping props

2008-05-04 Thread SteveC
Yes I;ve found high-vis vests very useful. Beyond that, I sometimes pretend to be confused or play with camera/GPS which makes people feel a bit better, or say hello and say I'm mapping. I think it's a special case in this country though where an outsider is automatically going to rape and

Re: [Talk-GB] mapping props

2008-05-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
You might be interested in this podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/04/show_notes_taking_photographs.shtml It is something that is starting to get media attention. Shaun On 4 May 2008, at 15:29, SteveC wrote: Yes I;ve found high-vis vests very useful. Beyond that, I sometimes