Re: [Talk-GB] How to mark something as closed

2016-07-01 Thread Warin
a) If you delete it from the data base ... then it is possible for someone else to reenter it into the data base ... b) do something else... yes! leave it in the data base so if someone else comes along and wants to enter something there .. they can see what has been there in the past.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
> On 1 Jul 2016, at 16:38, Dennis Bauszus wrote: > > I have setup a wordpress site. > > http://osmuk.org/ > > Please drop me a mail if you want to become an editor and start posting or an > administrator and help with the general layout. I can

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

2016-07-01 Thread Adam Hoyle
My tuppence: I've not used it, but loomio looks great. If we decide to go with it I'm happy to install it somewhere (do we have OSMUK hosting), but if all we need is the simple version then $190 per year for their hosted version seems good value (and means one less thing to maintain) -

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Andrew Hain
Christian Ledermann writes: > > I'd also like to see an aggregator like http://planetpython.org/ or > http://planet.plone.org/ > to have a central place where all UK OSM related blogs are consolidated > which could be integrated in the main website (see

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Dave F
Hi To check, are editors able to create OSM slippy maps on this account? I believe there's a certain type of WP account that doesn't allow it. Cheers Dave F. On 01/07/2016 16:38, Dennis Bauszus wrote: I have setup a wordpress site. http://osmuk.org/ Please drop me a mail if you want to

Re: [Talk-GB] How to mark something as closed

2016-07-01 Thread Dan S
Hi You're talking about the leisure=recreation_ground? Change it to "disused:leisure=recreation_ground" http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused: Best Dan 2016-07-01 15:27 GMT+01:00 Lester Caine : > On 01/07/16 15:15, Stuart Reynolds wrote: >> Action Park, near

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Dennis Bauszus
On 01/07/2016 13:27, Christian Ledermann wrote: I'd also like to see an aggregator like http://planetpython.org/ or http://planet.plone.org/ to have a central place where all UK OSM related blogs are consolidated which could be integrated in the main website (see http://iwlearn.net/news) As an

Re: [Talk-GB] How to mark something as closed

2016-07-01 Thread Lester Caine
On 01/07/16 15:15, Stuart Reynolds wrote: > Action Park, near Basildon > (https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=16/51.5851/0.5568) has been closed > since May 2015 as it contravened Green Belt planning regulations. > > Should I a) just delete it, or b) do something else with it to mark it as

Re: [Talk-GB] User defamation

2016-07-01 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Sorted offlist following DWG intervention Regards Brian On 1 July 2016 at 13:27, Brian Prangle wrote: > Hi everyone > > Use pmailkeey has taken to provocatively commenting on all his changesets > throughout the UK, regardless of whether I've edited or not: >

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
I'd also like to see an aggregator like http://planetpython.org/ or http://planet.plone.org/ to have a central place where all UK OSM related blogs are consolidated which could be integrated in the main website (see http://iwlearn.net/news) As an aside I've been developing websites (most of them

[Talk-GB] User defamation

2016-07-01 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Use pmailkeey has taken to provocatively commenting on all his changesets throughout the UK, regardless of whether I've edited or not: Improving map or correcting deliberate damage by brianboru I have a low opinion of this mapper, and have had several conversations with him all of

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
It very much depends what the focus of the website is and how it is going to be used. From a sysadmins point of view i am weary about wordpress (or joomla, drupal) because it requires constant vigilance to install the latest version and patches, which are quite frequent so the initial setup time

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

2016-07-01 Thread Jez Nicholson
I spent a couple of hours on data.gov.uk this morning. I was optimistic, having been to the #openDEFRA launch event in London this week where they announced 11000 open datasets. I had trouble finding anything of use :( although, user error is always possible On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 10:43 Christian

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Harry Wood
I'm interested in helping out with an OSM UK website. I have a few ideas. Actually the thing I'm most interested in is what you're touching on here. I'm keen to avoid a situation where we have a website festering unmaintained, or even just having niggling things wrong with it, and no way for

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC: Semi Automatic Import of schools

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
A new version is available for review at http://schools.mapthe.uk/ As I have heard no major objections from the community I will go ahead and move this to the imports mailing list. On 9 June 2016 at 20:50, Christian Ledermann wrote: > OK I rolled out the new

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
also there is https://openslides.org/ although I think this is probably overkill. On 1 July 2016 at 11:02, Christian Ledermann wrote: > Have you considered/evaluated https://www.discourse.org/ ? > I have used it (plone community, OKFN) and am quite fond of it > The

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
Have you considered/evaluated https://www.discourse.org/ ? I have used it (plone community, OKFN) and am quite fond of it The email integration is very nice, you can get email push notifications and respond to discussions via email. I have not used loomio yet so I do not know how they compare On

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
the best data I found is at http://cap-payments.defra.gov.uk/download.aspx but it only contains the postcode prefix :-( On 30 June 2016 at 19:45, Brian Prangle wrote: > > This resource from DEFRA shows 102,836 "holdings" in 2013. The Excel > spreadsheet lists them by local