Hi,
Does anyone know if the limits on download size have changed recently? I’ve
been working on the schools project by downloading “Southend on Sea” via a
place search and then choosing “boundary” from the list of 2 - that gives me
the whole Borough in one go. But today (having upgraded to
A few additional features that I've added to my tools at
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/ recently:
* On the maps on postcode area pages e.g.
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/progress/IP/ , matches via ref:*
tags are now distinguished from matches based on proximity. The former
are
On 11/02/16 21:32, Michael Booth wrote:
> So my question is, how are we defining villages, towns and cities? Only
> by population, or do we also take into account their generally accepted
> status (whilst trying to be consistent across the country)?
Population is only a rough indicator ... as you
Like you I would certainly expect Kirkcaldy & Dunfermerline as place=towns.
They were elevated to this status only in the past 2 months, after having
been towns on OSM since 2007. I'll restore them to that status.
Unfortunately the rules for places described on the wiki are poorly
conceived and
Hi Richard,
Are you still having issues? That map appears to be okay now, last
rectified 3 days ago and was able to rectify it just now. I've a
screenshot here:
http://imgur.com/bOjMnWq http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/261#Preview_tab
Find me on IRC as chippy sometime if you are still
On 12 February 2016 at 09:51, Stuart Reynolds
wrote:
> As a side issue, does your tool currently ignore disused:amenity=* tags? If
> not, can it please. Thanks.
The tool only fetches amenity=school and amenity=college objects, so
disused:amenity=* (and other
Hi Michael,
Going the other way, what's the cutoff between a hamlet and a village?
Population 50? 100? I'd say that with these categories there's some
fuzziness so go with what feels right. On the ground experience over
armchair mapping wins out here I think (as it does for most things OSM).
More
According to Wikipedia, it is country-dependent. As it is an English
word, we should only discuss about its meaning in an English-speaking
context. There is no such thing as a hamlet in Germany for example; they
have different words with different semantics, which may or may not map
onto English
It's a limitation in the API (quarter of a degree or 50k nodes IIRC), so
Southend has crept over that limit.
There are a number of options:
- Perform multiple downloads & then keep a Southend file locally. You
can then request that it be updated before editing (I do this for a couple
of
Thanks. I discovered that I *can* actually get the whole Borough, if I dispense
with about a mile and a half of sea to the south. As there aren’t many schools
down the pier, I thought I could probably live with that :)
Will take your advice and save locally / update.
Cheers
Stuart
On 11 February 2016 at 21:32, Michael Booth wrote:
> So my question is, how are we defining villages, towns and cities? Only by
> population, or do we also take into account their generally accepted status
> (whilst trying to be consistent across the country)?
In England
On 12/02/16 11:51, Ian Caldwell wrote:
On 11 February 2016 at 21:32, Michael Booth > wrote:
So my question is, how are we defining villages, towns and cities?
Only by population, or do we also take into account their generally
accepted
yep, seems to be working now! I'll get cracking.
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On 12/02/2016 13:15, Colin Smale wrote:
According to Wikipedia, ...
... I wouldn't assume that what wikipedia says has any particular
relevance with respect to how something is mapped in OSM. The language
used in the English wikipedia is a mix of American and English (and
other) usages,
Leigh-on-sea has a Town Council. And the residents of Leigh (myself included)
like to give it an identity that is distinct from Southend-on-sea, which
historically it was. But in practice you would be hard pushed to claim that
Leigh was a separate town. Administratively, it has been part of the
On 12/02/16 11:51, Ian Caldwell wrote:
On 11 February 2016 at 21:32, Michael Booth > wrote:
So my question is, how are we defining villages, towns and cities?
Only by population, or do we also take into account their
generally accepted
On Fri Feb 12 13:52:13 2016 GMT, Andy Townsend wrote:
>
> which makes it clear why using the "legal city definition" might not
> make sense in OSM _across the board_. It might in some places (it's
> essentially what the Irish do, I believe), but I'd argue it doesn't here
> because of e.g.
On 12 February 2016 at 13:15, Colin Smale wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, it is country-dependent. As it is an English word,
> we should only discuss about its meaning in an English-speaking context.
> There is no such thing as a hamlet in Germany for example; they have
>
Hi all,
In Northern Ireland we have a government body called the Northern Ireland
Statistics and Research Agency, who work with the census data to determine the
size and definition of a settlement - http://www.nisra.gov.uk/
Do you not have the same in the rest of the UK?
Usually when they
Can I mention the City of Brighton and Hove? The city status is held by
the unitary authority (Brighton and Hove City Council). Neither Brighton
nor Hove is a city.
//colin
On 2016-02-12 15:23, Chris Hill wrote:
> On 12/02/16 11:51, Ian Caldwell wrote:
>
>> On 11 February 2016 at 21:32,
We are never going to get worldwide consensus on this, so let's stop trying.
Just focusing on the UK situation, as has been mentioned many times before,
there are multiple definitions of these terms, all equally correct within their
own contexts. there is the legal definition, the people's
A couple of areas where I think we could improve on our tagging to
help data users:
* I think it would be useful if we had a machine-readable way to tag
an amenity=school area that is actually a site shared between two or
more individual schools. In this case, while the area will probably be
On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 14:53 +, Philip Barnes wrote:
>
On Fri Feb 12 13:52:13 2016 GMT, Andy Townsend wrote:
I'd be interested to see the history of St David's. The current
node
http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=3712052604
was only created in August 2015; I wonder what it was
On 12/02/16 10:51, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> That said, it's on my To Do list to look at doing a fuzzy name
> comparison -- probably by deleting common words / phrases (School,
> Academy, CofE, Voluntary Controlled, and, &, etc) from both strings
> and then seeing if what's left is
On 12-Feb-16 20:22, Lester Caine wrote:
On 12/02/16 19:34, John Aldridge wrote:
On 12-Feb-16 17:31, Lester Caine wrote:
I adopted the standard of official_name=xxx where the edubase listing
differs from the signage or other local 'format'...
I'm not objecting, but why did you feel you wanted
On 12/02/16 19:34, John Aldridge wrote:
> On 12-Feb-16 17:31, Lester Caine wrote:
>> I adopted the standard of official_name=xxx where the edubase listing
>> differs from the signage or other local 'format'...
>
> I'm not objecting, but why did you feel you wanted to clone information
> from
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