Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 bid

2012-10-09 Thread Andy Robinson
Awesome, cheers Stuart Andy -Original Message- From: stuart lester [mailto:stules...@gmail.com] Sent: 09 October 2012 09:46 To: OSM Group WM Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 bid Hi all, This is great. Would love to help out. Once I've finished organising a stag do

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 bid

2012-10-09 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 08/10/12 19:29, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi Andy Are you intending that we bypass the existing wiki page and gaining consensus from the UK community? Or do the two in parallel? I can see that gaining consensus would be messy and time consuming unless we force the pace but I think one country

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] mapping conundrum

2012-10-09 Thread Andy Robinson
Ed Loach spotted that a 1993 planning application [4] for 11 Rockingham Gardens included the conversion of old outbuildings into a granny annex but this appears only to apply to about half of the building (the north and eastern portion at the back of number 11). The remaining part to the west and

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] mapping conundrum

2012-10-09 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Andy Looks like you've got yourself a problem! I agree with Matt about the canoes. Some views from bing suggest the garden path joins up with one at 25 or 27 Rockingham Gardens. As it unusually sits close to no 11/15's boundary, perhaps its a granny flat for no 11/15? It seems to have taken

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] mapping conundrum

2012-10-09 Thread Philip Barnes
You can check house prices online, have any in that area changed hands for a disproportionately high price? http://www.nethouseprices.com/ Is the railway line still open to passengers, I can see that the stations have closed, but a ride in a train along there may be of interest. Phil On Tue,

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] mapping conundrum

2012-10-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 23:36 +0100, Big Fat Frog wrote: This is very puzzling. On a separate but connected note, if the Google imagery had shown a clear entrance/drive/path or whatever, I presume that would have to be left out of the DB due to copyright? Also, does our allowed use of Bing

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] mapping conundrum

2012-10-09 Thread Big Fat Frog
Just had a thought, looking at OS Streetview, is this part of the old disused station? Seems a bit far away but OS seem adamant? On 09/10/2012 16:52, Andy Robinson wrote: A little mapping conundrum for you folks. This building with the ? in the centre of the map [1] appears to be a house,

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] mapping conundrum

2012-10-09 Thread rob . j . nickerson
Also looking at the historic maps there looks like there's been building there for quite some time. Midland Road seems to have continued along by the railway line and up to the end of this properties garden. Rob On , Big Fat Frog bigfatfro...@gmail.com wrote: Just had a thought, looking

[Talk-GB] Mapping party this Saturday - Cranleigh, Surrey

2012-10-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, I can now confirm a venue and time for the footpaths mapping party in the Cranleigh area this Saturday. TheĀ  meeting place will be Cromwell Coffee House, on the high street at 9.30 to 9.45 am. I don't know what this place is like but it had a couple of fairly decent reviews on the

Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre

2012-10-09 Thread Alex Barth
I just created a task for Saint Helens on the rebuild tasking manager: http://rebuild.poole.ch/job/42 There's good imagery, should be a quick job to do the most important fixes remotely. On Oct 8, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 10/08/2012 12:41 PM,

[Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

2012-10-09 Thread Richard Mann
As you may recall, DfT has made available a lot of cycle facility data. This was processed and snapped to OSM geometry, and has been available for some months for importing (subject to local review) using the Snapshot tool. Further details here:

[Talk-GB] SOTM 2013

2012-10-09 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone At our previous pub meeting for mappa-mercia on October 4 we had a great discussion about how we'd like SOTM2013 to come to Birmingham - so we got a group of volunteers (well everyone at the meeting) and have come up with an outline case for Birmingham Bid - see

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes (quality)

2012-10-09 Thread Andy Robinson
On a related point. I came across some OSM additions in my patch (Sutton Coldfield) which appear to come from the dft data. Specifically the estimated width value which was hopelessly wrong for every element I checked. It's easy to measure features with the measurement tool in JOSM so I think

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

2012-10-09 Thread Gregory Williams
Richard, It looks good and useful. On the OSM side of things it looks like you've missed handling cycleway=opposite_lane, since a place where I had that in the data wasn't being rendered. I have since changed this to be cycleway:right=opposite_lane though to be more accurate. Cheers,

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

2012-10-09 Thread Shaun McDonald
Gregory, I thought that cycleway=opposite_lane was the equivalent of cycleway:right=lane. And if it was a lane only on the left then it would be cycleway:left=lane. Shaun On 9 Oct 2012, at 17:28, Gregory Williams greg...@gregorywilliams.me.uk wrote: Richard, It looks good and useful. On

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

2012-10-09 Thread Andy Allan
On 9 October 2012 17:34, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Gregory, I thought that cycleway=opposite_lane was the equivalent of cycleway:right=lane. no - opposite_lane is useful in a one-way road to indicate cyclists can go both ways. There's nothing in cycleway:right=lane to

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

2012-10-09 Thread Gregory Williams
I've seen contraflow cycle lanes on the left and the right side of the road in the UK, so thought I ought to just clarify the tagging - better to be explicit rather than ambiguous. From: Shaun McDonald [mailto:sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk] Sent: 09 October 2012 17:35 To: Gregory Williams Cc:

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

2012-10-09 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 9 Oct 2012, at 17:47, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 October 2012 17:34, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Gregory, I thought that cycleway=opposite_lane was the equivalent of cycleway:right=lane. no - opposite_lane is useful in a one-way road to indicate

Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes (quality)

2012-10-09 Thread Dave F.
On 09/10/2012 17:02, Andy Robinson wrote: On a related point... I came across some OSM additions in my patch (Sutton Coldfield) which appear to come from the dft data. Specifically the estimated width value which was hopelessly wrong for every element I checked. It's easy to measure

[Talk-GB] Stiles (and gates) on roads

2012-10-09 Thread Philip Barnes
I have recently found a fairly common problem with stiles and pedestrian gates where footpaths join roads. Often a stile, or gate tagged for access on foot only, is used at the junction with a road. Routers then assume the road is for foot only and route around. I am not finding any users are