[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Grit map featured in local gov social media case study

2012-03-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
Our work on the grit map is featured in: http://static.bdo.uk.com/assets/documents/2012/03/BDO_Local_Government_Team_-_Updating_your_status_social_media_report.pdf (where I'm credited in a footnote as co-founder of MappaMercia; that's not a claim I made). -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

Re: [Talk-GB] London 2012 tourch relay route

2012-03-19 Thread Tom Hughes
On 19/03/12 08:02, Andy Robinson wrote: You may have seen from news this morning that the torch relay route for the 2012 Olympics has been published. PDF's on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17358291 IMO this the type of data that OSM was made for. I couldn't disagree more...

Re: [Talk-GB] London 2012 tourch relay route

2012-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Robinson wrote: You may have seen from news this morning that the torch relay route for the 2012 Olympics has been published. PDF's on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17358291 IMO this the type of data that OSM was made for. I couldn't disagree more...

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Collinson
I've been invading Lancashire from Yorkshire and have got as far as Rochdale. I concur with Brian's methodology. My theory is that, at this point, concentrated holes in the centre of towns and cities are not a bad thing, they may encourage new or less active mappers to go out and map their

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread John Sturdy
I started to work on Hampshire, but got the following request from a decliner: I was wondering if you would mind refraining from 're-mapping' my contributions for the time being? I'm still in discussions with the OSMF regarding re-licensing some of my contributions which come from a 3rd party

[Talk-GB] New, kothic-js version of Freemap

2012-03-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As from yesterday (March 18th) the default version of Freemap (www.free-map.org.uk; UK OSM-based countryside mapping site) has become the kothic-js based 0.6. As well as client-side rendering using kothic-js, the new version features * Ability to add annotations to the map (as before)

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Collinson
On 19/03/2012 13:40, John Sturdy wrote: I started to work on Hampshire, but got the following request from a decliner: I was wondering if you would mind refraining from 're-mapping' my contributions for the time being? I'm still in discussions with the OSMF regarding re-licensing some of

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: On 19/03/2012 13:40, John Sturdy wrote: I think the time's getting close enough that I'll resume that work anyway. This is almost certainly a person I had an amicable phone conversation with a week last Monday who is still concerned that OS open data somehow is

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread Stephen Colebourne
Hi all, I've just managed to track down a contributor ScottDay in Caterham and he has just accepted the license which should greatly help that area. I've also done a fair bit of fixing/enhancing myself in a few places (centred around the areas I know - Wimbledon, Horsham and Seaford), although I

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread MarkS
On 19/03/2012 12:40, John Sturdy wrote: I started to work on Hampshire, but got the following request from a decliner: I was wondering if you would mind refraining from 're-mapping' my contributions for the time being? I'm still in discussions with the OSMF regarding re-licensing some of my

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread Robert Norris
Michael Collinson wrote: On 19/03/2012 13:40, John Sturdy wrote: I think the time's getting close enough that I'll resume that work anyway. This is almost certainly a person I had an amicable phone conversation with a week last Monday who is still concerned that OS open data