Re: [Talk-GB] SotM: Call for session proposals and Scholarship fund

As a quick follow up - today we approved the ticketing system for SotM so expect that to go online shortly. Just waiting a blog post to be prepared. This took a tad longer than hoped because we opted to switch away from EventBrite and move ticketing in house to OSMF's backend. The time committed

[Talk-GB] SotM: Call for session proposals and Scholarship fund

Hi all, (cross-post to the lists I am member of) I'm delighted to report that the planning for State of the Map 2016 is going well. We have now opened the call for session proposals (presentations). You have until Saturday 21st May to submit your idea. Please see:

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] SotM: Call for session proposals and Scholarship fund

Hi all, (cross-post to the lists I am member of) I'm delighted to report that the planning for State of the Map 2016 is going well. We have now opened the call for session proposals (presentations). You have until Saturday 21st May to submit your idea. Please see:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Capter Community Interest Statement Form CIC36

Thanks Brian, The CIC form makes the vision much clearer (unlike the AoA which is always going to be a legalise-esque dull document). It's a good reminder of why we are doing this :-) The first activity listed touches on "provid[ing] a mechanism for developing as a community rather than as

Re: [Talk-GB] Crediting OSM (was Birdtrack using OSM maps)

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:39:31PM +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > I noticed recently that it was using OpenStreetMap data; at my > instigation, it now also prominently credits OSM. I noticed that my local library was using OSM but with no accreditation. When I looked (as I recall, on the wiki)

[Talk-GB] Birdtrack using OSM maps

[NB: Cross-posted] Birdtrack: http://app.bto.org/birdtrack/portal.jsp is an online citizen science website, operated by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) on behalf of a partnership of the BTO, the RSPB, BirdWatch Ireland, the Scottish Ornithologists' Club and the Welsh Ornithological

[Talk-GB] UK Capter Community Interest Statement Form CIC36

Hi everyone Links to draft documents as promised (copying from the Word template to Googledocs screws up the formatting and I don't have the patience to try and sort it out) Main Form Continuation Sheet

Re: [Talk-GB] Overpass query help - roads within a ward

Thanks Neil, I think I'll just have to go with that solution and then delete the ways I don't want. Tom web: http://tomchance.org twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_chance facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TomChanceGP On 23 April 2016 at 16:42, Neil Pilgrim wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

Rob Nickerson wrote: > The poll we did last year (?) suggested that the OpenStreetMap UK > community want to be involved in decision making. My suggestion is > that, if this is the culture we want to breed then the Articles should > reflect this. I'm the chairman of a community-owned

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

On 23 April 2016 at 16:10, Rob Nickerson wrote: > To breed a culture of Member-led organisation (with Directors as figure > heads) I suggest: > > Directors have all the power > Members can direct the Directors to take/refrain from taking action via a > ORDINARY

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Incorrect 'suburb' in 'reverse nominatim' search

(top-posting because it probably does make sense to keep the whole of the previous email together at the end) I suspect that this might be partly related to this enhancement request: https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues/231 The tl;dr of that is "nominatim works much better with areas