Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Thusday meet

2011-10-31 Thread Andy Robinson
Should be able to make the Bull on Thursday. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Mike Duffy [mailto:mdbg02...@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: 31 October 2011 16:06 To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Thusday meet Is anyone up for the social

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-10-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 31 October 2011 23:31, Andrew Mackenzie a.macken...@bethere.co.uk wrote: There are some tagging questions: allotments are called community gardens in Europe and how should prospective growing spaces be tagged? I'm hopeful that MappaMercia people will be interested.  Maybe we could discuss

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-10-31 Thread Andy Robinson
Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] wrote Sent: 30 October 2011 20:43 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK Brian Prangle wrote: what do you call places where they make cider/perry? awesome I was going to suggest under pressure Cheers

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-31 Thread Barnett, Phillip
On the other hand, Cambridge University Press and Fowlers Modern English (my personal bible) prefer -ise, as does the entire British newspaper/mass media industry. Scientific and academic publications seem to prefer -ize. So I guess the question is whether OSM wants to aspire to 'academic'

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
Yes, I mourn the day when The Times abandoned -ize for -ise (a decade or so ago, I think)! Given that there are two alternative spellings in British English, one of which is the only spelling in American English, I think the spelling that is valid in both forms of the language (-iz-) should

[Talk-GB] Blog post: Why we need an open-source geocoding alternative to Google (discusses Nominatim)

2011-10-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
Someone better qualified than I might like to comment on the OSM section of: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2011/10/what-can-you-use-for-geocoding-instead-of-google-maps.html -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-10-31 Thread Dan Karran
On 29 October 2011 10:52, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Is anyone interested in heading down to Brighton for a mapping party before the end of the year? Place your name down here so that we can choose the best dates. http://doodle.com/xcyq94nknb2nsnw9 It looks like 19th

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-10-31 Thread Shaun McDonald
Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping party? On Mon, October 31, 2011 1:45 pm, Dan Karran wrote: Good point, that works better. On 31 October 2011 13:05, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: On Mon, October 31, 2011 11:52 am, Dan Karran wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-10-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping party? I might be interested depending on the type of mapping. Not so interested in addressing etc, but if it's road surveying/naming I'd be tempted. ATM can do any weekend except 12/13th. Nick