Re: [Talk-GB] RFC: Solar panel mapping in the UK

2019-04-10 Thread Dan S
Hi all, Thanks for the comments on solar panel mapping. (Plenty of mapping happening already: thousands of UK solar panels added to the database in the past month.) A few small responses: SOLAR FARMS: I'll defer to Russ's tagging advice about solar farms: power=plant polygon (or sometimes

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar data

2019-04-10 Thread Russ Garrett
Hey Rob, On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 22:30, Rob Nickerson wrote: > As the image (linked to below) from a WPD public webinar shows it is not easy > to map separate solar sites based in a single location. No way to tell which > panels belong to which site from aerial imagery alone. Hah! That's a

[Talk-GB] Solar data

2019-04-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Been watching the thread on Solar. A couple of comments. 1 Boundaries. As the image (linked to below) from a WPD public webinar shows it is not easy to map separate solar sites based in a single location. No way to tell which panels belong to which site from aerial imagery alone.

[Talk-GB] (no subject)

2019-04-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
I see that Geospatial Commission's innovation project winners have been announced https://www.gov.uk/government/news/funding-awarded-to-innovative-data-projects (scroll to the bottom for the list) OSMUK were assisting one of the bidding consortiums, but they unfortunately didn't get through. I

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Wiki UK pages

2019-04-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
Possibly. People don't use category pages that often, but when they do it is for a high-level overview or they are hunting for something. Better to have fewer categories with more things in each than a deep, sparse tree. So, Events in the United Kingdom is probably a useful category as there are

[Talk-GB] OSM Wiki UK pages

2019-04-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
Hi all, For my sins, and for being in OSMUK, I volunteered to review the UK pages on OSMWiki. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom Here are my conclusions: 1. It being a wiki, it takes care to not tread on other peoples' toes.. I may have mildly perturbed a few people

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] A34 cycle route

2019-04-10 Thread Andy Robinson
Excellent, Cheers Brian. Andy From: Brian Prangle [mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org] Sent: 09 April 2019 22:04 To: Andy Robinson Cc: OSM Group WM Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] A34 cycle route All in hand I have surveyed most of it and added it as an untagged way I'll tag it