Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] October social

2014-10-03 Thread Andy Robinson
This was the video Barry was trying to run last night. I’m sure Brian will appreciate the photography. Awesome http://youtu.be/xQ_IQS3VKjA Cheers Andy From: Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 October 2014 10:45 To: 'Rob Nickerson' Cc: 'Matthijs Melissen';

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed King Edward VII pub gone

2014-10-03 Thread Andy Robinson
Brian, One of the Brum's grade C listed buildings has been demolished. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/240484948 Cheers Andy ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

2014-10-03 Thread David Woolley
On 02/10/14 09:30, Ed Loach wrote: It has been over a year now since I first mentioned http://www.loach.me.uk/osm/LloydsTSB/ here, and there are still lots of branches that haven't been remapped, so I thought I'd mention it again. The basic problem you have is that there are a lot more

Re: [Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

2014-10-03 Thread Andy Robinson
Use of the Notes feature is good for this sort of thing. If someone flags a known change, even if it's just one unit in a retail centre, it’s a good prompt for a local mapper to going around and update all the unit changes. I agree with you that retail change is rapid and even 2 to 3 months is

Re: [Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

2014-10-03 Thread David Woolley
On 03/10/14 12:29, Andy Robinson wrote: Use of the Notes feature is good for this sort of thing. Notes can also create maintenance problems as businesses requesting vanity entries never generate a note when they go away. Not mapping such notes results in the map getting cluttered with such

[Talk-GB] Updates from National Library of Scotlad

2014-10-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, NLS have been a keen contributor to OpenStreetMap and continue to provide historic maps for use in both OpenStreetMap and OpenHistoricMap. Their most recent updates include 1:1,250 scale covering central London and Edinburgh (1940s-60s) which include house numbers, and 1:10,560 maps for

Re: [Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

2014-10-03 Thread Dave F.
On 03/10/2014 09:40, David Woolley wrote: The basic problem you have is that there are a lot more people interested in first time mapping of high streets than there are those interested in maintaining them. I agree about the rapid turnover of high streets, but in this case I think it's due

[Talk-GB] Vandalism in London

2014-10-03 Thread Antje (OpenStreetMap)
Suddenly I came back to the map just to find that my new bus relations are damaged by some vandal. I’m not rebuilding it. I give up. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in London

2014-10-03 Thread Dave F.
I sympathise Antje, I'm frustrated by vandals in my area (who really should know better, given the length of time they've been active). Post the links for your edits so we can have a look. Cheers Dave F. On 04/10/2014 01:22, Antje (OpenStreetMap) wrote: Suddenly I came back to the map just

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in London

2014-10-03 Thread Antje (OpenStreetMap)
Here is the list of London bus routes for starters: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bus_routes_in_London The ones that I dramatically improved are the new-style route_master relations, which are: 3, 4, 8-11, 18, 19, 21, 24, 30, 38, 43, 49, 57, 73, 76, 100, 144, 148, 192, 205, 277, 341, 390,