Re: [Talk-GB] How to mark a Manor House on the map?

2009-09-13 Thread Chris Andrew
Excellent. Thanks for the advice, all. job done. Chris. 2009/9/12 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com: On 12/09/2009 11:21, Chris Andrew wrote: Hi, all. This morning, I mapped a Manor House here in Wiltshire.  I have added the perimeter to OSM, and marked it as a boundary.  I just

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Dan Karran
2009/9/11 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: JR is preparing the images at the moment and will start loading them up onto Flickr soon and we can then figure out what we can do with them. For anyone interested in the photos, it looks like they're going up at

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread John Robert Peterson
As for plans for how -- I sent an email to the OAM list for advice, and haven't gotten a reply. As for hosting, that's even more of a mystery. I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr would be able ot hold all 10GB of data, it would be an almost imposable ot

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Sep 2009, at 16:03, John Robert Peterson wrote: As for plans for how -- I sent an email to the OAM list for advice, and haven't gotten a reply. As for hosting, that's even more of a mystery. I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr would be able ot

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Hi, yes was about to suggest map warper (warper.geothings.net) it can handle oblique photos, given enough control points (which you'd need for a desktop equivalent) However, the server it's running on is crappy and shared and stingy on processes that need some power, so I've had to restrict it so

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread John Robert Peterson
@tim waters -- can I assume from the content of you email that you either wrote, or at least understand the code and maths running on warper? If so, if you have time, could you please take a look at the technology implemented in Panorama Tools / Hugin (I'd be happy to help you with it as a user

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Sep 2009, at 22:05, Frankie Roberto wrote: 2009/9/13 John Robert Peterson jrp@gmail.com I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr would be able ot hold all 10GB of data, it would be an almost imposable ot access format. The photos look great

Re: [Talk-GB] Just got this big apology from Gothy about the dodgy edit in Stratford

2009-09-13 Thread Lennard
Peter Miller wrote: So... the message is that the undo feature may be used by people to take out their own mistakes which is something we haven't discussed until now. It's at times also the only course of action, since dirty reverts are very tricky and the revert scripts plainly refuse

[Talk-GB] A new Flickr group for old out-of-copyright OS Maps

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
I was lent 65 first-edition 1:500 OS maps of Ipswich dating back to 1882 a couple of days ago which I have now photographed and uploaded to Flickr. I was surprised to find that there was no Flickr group of out-of-copyright OS maps so I created it. The rules I have created says that all

Re: [Talk-GB] A new Flickr group for old out-of-copyright OS Maps

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Sep 2009, at 22:41, Thomas Wood wrote: These maps are already rectified of course, it's usually good to convert the OS coordinates to Lat/Lons and then set the grid corners as reference points. But my photographs of the maps will have introduced some tilt and other distortions, so it

Re: [Talk-GB] A new Flickr group for old out-of-copyright OS Maps

2009-09-13 Thread Thomas Wood
2009/9/13 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: On 13 Sep 2009, at 22:41, Thomas Wood wrote: These maps are already rectified of course, it's usually good to convert the OS coordinates to Lat/Lons and then set the grid corners as reference points. But my photographs of the maps will have

Re: [Talk-GB] A new Flickr group for old out-of-copyright OS Maps

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Sep 2009, at 22:55, Thomas Wood wrote: 2009/9/13 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: On 13 Sep 2009, at 22:41, Thomas Wood wrote: These maps are already rectified of course, it's usually good to convert the OS coordinates to Lat/Lons and then set the grid corners as reference

Re: [Talk-GB] Just got this big apology from Gothy about the dodgy edit in Stratford

2009-09-13 Thread David Earl
I have now reverted this changeset - it went through cleanly and easily. BTW for reverts I do I'm using a different user id from my usual - GuardianAngel is me with a different hat on. I wonder whether you could contact him again Peter and find out what he did that led him to believe he wasn't