[Talk-GB] Another UPRN/ oddity

2020-07-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
Here's a good one... I know the street at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.54633=-1.91892#map=19/52.54633/-1.91892 which is a side-loop off the Queslett Road dual carriageway (and, indeed is the original alignment of Queslett Road, before the dual carriageway was built), as being

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-22 Thread Dave Love
On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 10:18 +0100, Tony OSM wrote: > For a building or similar I presently use > > HE_ref=1072653 > heritage=2 > heritage:operator= Historic England > historic= heritage > listed_status=Grade II > name= War Memorial Gateway to Astley Park > barrier=gate > start_date= mid C19 >

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-22 Thread Dave Love
On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 11:29 +0100, Nick wrote: > Dear all > > I have been mapping a few properties using Bing maps with local > knowledge supplemented by some physical measuring (tape measure or > simply pacing). I now want to ramp up my mapping but the challenge > especially in rural areas is

[Talk-GB] And the USRN tag proposal page

2020-07-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
As promised, here is the second tag proposal page - this time for the USRN (Street). https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ref:GB:usrn As before, any comments welcome, especially those that would prevent us moving to the voting stage. P.S. Does anyone know if we need to

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-22 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB
OSM building data was already used in Poland for flood preparation analysis. It was used to supplement official building dataset, that was of much higher detail and accuracy, but also outdated (updated every N years) and was not including illegally constructed buildings and buildlings not

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-22 Thread Nick
Hi Mateusz Many thanks for your comments. It would also be good to hear from others, particularly around the question of the purpose of mapping. I was thinking that my purpose was to provide other people (OSM mappers and the general public) with the information that meets their needs. The

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-22 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 23:12, Nick wrote: > Could the data be included in https://osm.mathmos.net/survey/ ? I had a quick look at the National Charge Point Registry data a while ago. I got as far as plotting a map showing both the OSM charge points and those from the Registry:

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-22 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB
Jul 20, 2020, 12:29 by n...@foresters.org: > Dear all > > I have been mapping a few properties using Bing maps with local knowledge > supplemented by some physical measuring (tape measure or simply pacing). I > now want to ramp up my mapping but the challenge especially in rural areas is >

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-22 Thread Tony OSM
I have compared some of the data in my locale against several I have mapped. The NCR data does not indicate - I think - the number of chargepoints at a location - my Local Asda has 4 but only one entry in NCR. Others are missing and some recent ones (in the last year) included. One at my

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-22 Thread Jez Nicholson
Collating and conflating is one thing, but we really need to encourage custom data apps like https://www.zap-map.com/ to use OSM as an active database which they feed back to. This will only happen when private companies realise that long term value is not in the data itself (because other people