[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Interconnect Birmingham Mapping Project

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Following last night's meeting I sent off the following FOI request this morning: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/birmingham_interconnect_mapping/new Let's see what happens! Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Time to put Kings Heath Village Square on the Map

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Dear Councillors This new major development in the civic landscape deserves to be represented on maps of Kings Heath to show yourself as a community to the world. Help is at hand - local volunteers from OpenStreetMap took *2-3 days* to have this major change to Birmingham's cityscape surveyed

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments project

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Anyone who wants to update their local allotments please feel free to do so using the example of the allotment here http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.45061lon=-1.842371zoom=18layers=M tagged as follows with data from the attached Excel spreadsheet. name= ward= operator= Birmingham

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Time to put Yardley on the map!

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.46371lon=-1.81328zoom=17layers=MDear Councillors The new major development in the highways landscape at Church Road to accommodate the New Tesco supermarket deserves to be represented on maps of Yardley to show yourself as an up-to-date community to the

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. If we can build on Graham's initial efforts I think we can get a great map and do some some interesting surveying with an incentive to get people out mapping! As a first pass on a tagging scheme can I suggest we follow the wiki page at

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-04 Thread SomeoneElse
Brian Prangle wrote: How to distinguish real ale from industrial mass market breweries? Put something descriptive in real_ale= perhaps? ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-04 Thread Ed Loach
It might be a bit over the top, but for pubs that make the CAMRA Good Beer Guide (or for some branches their local guide) lots of details have to be collected. See for example the key on this example page: http://www.tendringcamra.org.uk/pubdetails.html?uid=10856 (there is an iframe or something

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-04 Thread Craig Loftus
Using that as a basis we could tag building=distillery building=brewery building=cider_press building=perry_press (that should remove any spurious entries like Brewery Apartments if we just do a search on names) Working within existing key definitions, I'm not sure this solves that

[Talk-GB] New Year outdoor mapping idea - Llangollen, North Wales

2011-11-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, I have a week I can take off immediately after new year, so was wondering whether anyone would be interested in a countryside-orientated mapping party then. I know it's not the ideal time of year for outdoor events, but I thought starting the new year with a mapping party

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-04 Thread Dave F.
On 04/11/2011 10:49, Craig Loftus wrote: Using that as a basis we could tag building=distillery building=brewery building=cider_press building=perry_press How would you tag multi use buildings? ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org