[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Off-Topic: Question on Historic Road Layout near Whiteheath, Advice

2011-01-31 Thread movyk
Dear All, I have been trying to find an answer to this for some months, and wondered if anyone here could help or point me in the right direction: A road - this might be the A4034 - built around 40 years ago, looks like it was supposed to go to to Blackheath but it only goes to Whiteheath: there

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Off-Topic: Question on Historic Road Layout near Whiteheath, Advice

2011-01-31 Thread Ed Loach
Monika asked: A road - this might be the A4034 - built around 40 years ago, looks like it was supposed to go to to Blackheath but it only goes to Whiteheath: there are four lanes from Oldbury, then only two lanes, but the traffic island had been built, it looks like then the building works

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Off-Topic: Question on Historic Road Layout near Whiteheath, Advice

2011-01-31 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Monika I remember surveying this road - the A4034 does go all the way from Oldbury to Blackheath and is very busy. Where precisely is your traffic island? Hekp on the road construction and timelines will probably be got from Sandwell Council's Highways dept Regards Brian On 31 January 2011

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Off-Topic: Question on Historic Road Layout near Whiteheath, Advice

2011-01-31 Thread movyk
Thanks, will do that! Best, Monika Hi Monika I remember surveying this road - the A4034 does go all the way from Oldbury to Blackheath and is very busy. Where precisely is your traffic island? Hekp on the road construction and timelines will probably be got from Sandwell Council's

Re: [Talk-GB] Boundaries for Forestry Commission land

2011-01-31 Thread Andy Allan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Black andrewdbl...@googlemail.com wrote: On 29 January 2011 17:40, Steve Chilton s.l.chil...@mdx.ac.uk wrote: Not open, but available at magic.defra.co.uk: http://magic.defra.gov.uk/datadoc/metadata.asp?dataset=24

[Talk-GB] Tags for waterways

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Moss
I'm just trying to understand the tagging scheme and have a few questions. 1. The UK waterways project page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Waterways says the tagging scheme is Key:waterways . But there are other tags which could helpfully be listed there,

Re: [Talk-GB] Tags for waterways

2011-01-31 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 31/01/2011 21:54, Chris Moss wrote: 2. That page says issues include is it navigable by powered craft? but I can't find the relevant tag. Key:boat only relates to access as far as I can see, not to the type of boat. This could be canoe, rowing boat, powered boat, ship, ... Is this important?