[Talk-GB] Farmland colour change

2018-09-22 Thread Martin Wynne
landuse=farmland just changed colour in front of my eyes on the standard OSM map: https://openstreetmap.org It's a big improvement. The previous pinky colour made vast areas of the UK look like a desert. The pale green colour is a much better representation for cultivated land. It also makes i

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

2018-09-22 Thread Martin Wynne
Great. Let them consider themselves so. It has little to do with OSM & nothing to do with this specific subject. OSM mappers spend many hours of their free time adding stuff to OSM because it interests them and in the hope that others may find it useful. Simply because they enjoy doing it as a

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

2018-09-22 Thread Dave F
On 20/09/2018 18:37, Adam Snape wrote: Hi, If these boundaries were purely of historical interest I doubt that you'd find many experienced contributors arguing for their inclusion in OSM. The argument is that these areas retain a continued cultural geographic relevance. No, they don't. They

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #426 2018-09-11-2018-09-17

2018-09-22 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 426, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/10733/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages