Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Elan Aqueduct - visible features not rendering

2011-11-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 November 2011 16:06, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Andy Mabbett [mailto:a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk] wrote: Sent: 17 November 2011 13:22 To: talk-gb-westmidlands Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Elan Aqueduct - visible features not rendering Visible parts of the Elan Aqueduct,

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-24 Thread Andy Allan
On 24 November 2011 00:17, Peter J Stoner stone...@mytraveline.info wrote: I am surprised if you say that in OSM a Custom and Practice (CUS) stop would not be coded as highway=bus_stop, as in public transport terms it is recognised as the location of a bus stop, even though there is not a

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Hill
Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Also, in my opinion, unmarked bus stops are a daft concept to begin with, seemingly dreamed up to make life harder than it needs to be! +1 Why would you have a stop without a sign as a deliberate strategy? It completely defies the idea of bus stops

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-24 Thread Kev js1982
Preston bus (used?) to operate on a hail and ride basis - i.e. it would stop anywhere on the estates to pick people up and set them down - in reality this became a few set places (i.e. where the footpath was paved up to the road edge rather than having a grass verge) but still rather handy

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Chance
I used to occasionally use a bus service in the London Borough of Sutton that did the same thing. Tom On 24 November 2011 10:27, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote: Preston bus (used?) to operate on a hail and ride basis - i.e. it would stop anywhere on the estates to pick people up and

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Hill
Hail ride can be a great idea both on a housing estate and in some rural areas. A CUS stop is not really like this. A CUS stop is a single place that a bus will stop, sometimes in an isolated place, sometimes near another stop, but without a sign to say so. I have surveyed a couple of

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-24 Thread Peter J Stoner
In message CAMNOZYHkg3Tdrd0hyqD975trri2tjbVfNpUNb42wLWqzsbhwXA@mail.g mail.com you wrote: Preston bus (used?) to operate on a hail and ride basis - i.e. it would stop anywhere on the estates to pick people up and set them down - in reality this became a few set places (i.e. where the footpath

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-24 Thread Barnett, Phillip
It's so they can close an unprofitable bus route due to 'lack of usage by customers' :-) PHILLIP BARNETT SERVER MANAGER 200 GRAY'S INN ROAD LONDON WC1X 8XZ UNITED KINGDOM T +44 (0)20 7430 4474 F E phillip.barn...@itn.co.uk WWW.ITN.CO.UK Please consider the environment. Do you really need to

[Talk-GB] Anyone interested in participating in a distributed Freemap?

2011-11-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Thought I'd email this as I have some thoughts as to how Freemap (free-map.org.uk; countryside-orientated mapping for UK users) could operate without excessive demands on a single server. Basically, I'm wondering if anyone has unused server space/bandwidth allowances who might

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone interested in participating in a distributed Freemap?

2011-11-24 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 24 November 2011 14:00, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: The requirements of the other servers would be: * standard OSM postgis DB installed * osmosis and osm2pgsql installed * shell access for cron job updates * postgres DB to store height data, as per the relevant OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone interested in participating in a distributed Freemap?

2011-11-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Just something along the lines of my Bytemark VM would be probably enough, I think that's 512MB memory. Not sure about the other specs. Obviously excessive memory demands are unreasonable for a not for profit project, the end-user will just have to live with what they get... unless they want