[Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

Hi everyone As promised - here's a discussion on the issue Jerry proposed a number of scenarios which we discussed: 1. *Full powers*. Standard boilerplate text. Easy to do. Downside is that removing powers may require alterations to AoA, and furthermore restricting Directors' power

[Talk-GB] UK chapter

Hi everyone Last night's concall made some good progress: there are no minutes (Greg we missed you!), but here is a summary of decisions and contentions 1. Name to appear on incorporation documents will be OpenStreetMap United Kingdom Community Interest Company. No doubt in everyday use this will

Re: [Talk-GB] phone boxes used for other purposes

Well as we have a healthcare QP running which seems not to have generated a community focuslike we did with schools and there's some interest in defibs - why not get cracking on this for the rest of the QP? regards Brian On 19 April 2016 at 12:21, Paul Berry wrote: > On the subject of defibril

Re: [Talk-GB] Remove tag "priority" from railways

Hi Roland If it's only one line affected it looks like it's the work of one user. Have you tried contacting him/her? Otherwise I have no objections to your proposed mechanical edit Regards Brian On 21 April 2016 at 08:36, Roland Olbricht wrote: > Dear all, > > we (corporation Mentz) would lik

[Talk-GB] UK chapter next concall POSTPONED ONE DAY

Hi everyone WAS cheduled for Wed 20 April at 8pm NOW Thurs 21 April at 8 pm Details as usual 0800 2290900 password 33224 See you there! It would be good if we could finalise the Articles of Association at this concall. Please add comments for the AoA here

[Talk-GB] OSM UK chapter next concall

Hi everyone Scheduled for Wed 20 April at 8pm Details as usual 0800 2290900 password 33224 See you there! It would be good if we could finalise the Articles of Association at this concall. Please add comments for the AoA here

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016

completeness, and also make > it harder without zooming in to work out which areas still need a proper > survey. > > > > If the project proves successful we could extend it to farmland areas > where hedges and fences haven’t been added to break up the area. > > > > Ed >

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016

Hi everyone It seems from the discussion on this topic that you would like a subject similar to schools for which monitoring tools can be built relatively quickly; will improve the map for the greatest number of potential users; and now we might have some better weather, something that needs some

Re: [Talk-GB] Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

and make sure that on-the-ground changes get into OSM much faster than anyone else - ideally on the day of the change ;-) Brian On 26 March 2016 at 12:06, Andrew Hain wrote: > John Aldridge writes: > > > > By ensuring that OSM data is of higher quality, or contains useful > > information still

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

Echoing Jerry's previous plea - please comment on the Google docs AoA- there has been a fresh definition of OpenStreetMap there for several days Regards Brian On 22 March 2016 at 21:32, Tim Waters wrote: > Frederik is correct in saying that OpenStreetMap Project does not > appear in the OSMF A

[Talk-GB] UK chapter

Hi everyone Anyone wishing to be listed as a founder member on the incorporation documents to be registered at Companies House please send your full name and address to "osmuk at nomoregrapes.com" . In case anyone wonders whose address this is: it's Gregory Marler's I guess legally that entitles

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter: Who will be the "we"?

Dave At its narrowest - the members who pay the subscription At its widest - anyone who produces or uses OSM data in the UK Regards Brian On 21 March 2016 at 00:40, Dave F wrote: > Hi all > > OK, this a genuine, non rhetorical, non cynical question. > > I've loosely been following the discuss

[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

Hi everyone Following the extraordinary success of the Schools project we need to decide how to proceed with the next quarter's project. There is a view we shoud rollover the project for another quarter so as to approach completion. I favour rolling it into an ongoing UK national project (simil

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Hi Edward I would import only after an invitation by a mapper or mappers in the relevant county, and only after they've checked where your data has more than one match and indicated which of the multiple matches is the appropriate one A wiki table showing the progress of each county would be use

[Talk-GB] UK Chapter next concall

Hi everyone Let's go for Thurday 17March at 8pm. Same details as before- I'll post a reminder of phone number and entry code the day before Agenda: 1.Articles of Association- this should take the bulk of the meeting- Jerry and I will have a draft ready for you a couple of days beforehand. Most o

[Talk-GB] (no subject)

Hi everyone I'll be scheduling a concall shortly where we can progress the Articles of Association and also hopefully finalise the objectives and name of the chapter. Membership options: the following is offered as a summary of what we might do: 1.Standard membership £5 per year Pros: affordable

[Talk-GB] Ignore previous email - not complete

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[Talk-GB] UK Chapter update

Hi everyone I'll be scheduling a concall shortly where we can progress the Articles of Association and also hopefully finalise the objectives and name of the chapter. Membership options: the following is offered as a summary of what we might do: 1.Standard membership £5 per year Pros: affordable

Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school - Status report

Hi Lester There is a tagging schema for indoor mapping and there's Open Level Up for viewing The url shows an example mappamercia is working on - not yet finished I hasten to add Not perfect

Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school

Hi Rob et al I'm currently adding schools in LE postcode Regards Brian On 1 March 2016 at 18:08, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > As a reminder there is an online mapathon to map schools this evening. > Please help if you have some time :-) > > http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2016/02/welcome-to

[Talk-GB] Tuesday March 1st is Night School

Hi everyone Let's try an experiment for the OSM UK Quarterly Project on Schools: on the evening of Tuesday March 1st let's all try and edit some schools and see how many people we can get editing and how many schools we can add. Start when you like and finish when you like and map where you you li

Re: [Talk-GB] UK group: Community Interest Company

Hi Rob I've already contacted Frederik alerting him to the potential benefits of CIC to the OSMF and he's replied that they'll investigate it. Regards Brian On 17 February 2016 at 22:57, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > One of the outstanding actions for the UK group is should we set up as

Re: [Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

I'd prefer that these are classed as schools as that's what they're called. Rgds Brian On 17 February 2016 at 19:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just done another update to the official data in my Schools tool > at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/sc

[Talk-GB] Redraft of objectives for OSMUK

Hi everyone 3rd draft following this week's concall 1.To increase the quality and quantity of data about the UK in OpenStreetMap. 2.To increase the size, skills, toolsets and cohesion of the OpenStreetMap community of data contributors and editors in the UK. 2.To promote and facilitate the use

Re: [Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

Thanks for the offer Frederick. I'm sure we'll take you up on it. We'll collate a list of questions and nominate someone in the UK to be the sole point of contact Regards Brian On 27 January 2016 at 10:02, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/27/16 10:02, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > Does anyone k

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

AL10 boundaries came from the OSM Ireland Project on Townlands rgds Brian On 26 January 2016 at 17:38, Colin Smale wrote: > What is missing, is AL8 - used for "Districts" in the UK. Counties used to > exist in NI but they are now defunct as administrative entities. The > boundaries seem to be (

[Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

Hi everyone Don't forget this is scheduled for 8pm Wed this week 27 January 0800 22 90 900 Pass code 33224 We'll pick up on Rob's summary email i.e objectives;legal stucture; constitution If we can I'd like to start discussing: Name (not what it will be - but a mechanism for choosing one) Mem

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

DY almost complete so you need to pick another area. TF needs some attention rgds Brian On 24 Jan 2016 14:36, "Lester Caine" wrote: > On 24/01/16 13:09, Lester Caine wrote: > > That just leave 4 more objects to check :) > > OK most of the 'red dot' items were out of area, but I've tidied them up

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering of layers

Hi Stuart The rendered layering of platforms just doesn't happen. Caused me a lot of grief with Birmingham New Street - so I switched to using levels and using Adrien Pavie's OpenLevelUp which allows you to zoom up and down through building floors. Here's what New St looks like

Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

I don't think we should worry about getting a standard for this. I think our main task is to extend the data and clean it up as far as we can. Then we can use the name anomalies to try and get the relevant community (i.e the schools themselves) to add the correct name - which will be the one THEY p

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - New edit tracker tool

Thanks from me too Harry. It would be a nice gesture to include a filter for Belgium as they've just started a schools QP. Like Rob I'm amazed at how this QP has taken off compared to previous efforts Regards Brian On 17 January 2016 at 20:35, Harry Wood wrote: > I made a new tracker tool for

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

If no-one objects to ref:edubase can someone add it to the wiki? We should probably also add some other stuff that's come up just in case there are folk who are not on this mailing list who want to discover what the consensus is in the UK for mapping schools. Also I'm finding that frequently I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] "UKOSM" Aims draft 2

H iDudley If we increase the number of mappers we should autimatically increase the amount of data. Also if we facilitate the release of OpenData that should do likewise. Improving the quality of the data : toolsets and cohesion? Don't want to make this too wordy: I thought about putting in some

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

; On 2 January 2016 at 12:51, Brian Prangle wrote: > > Happy New Year! (and Happy New Mapping Year!) The first Quarterly Project > > for 2016 is now under way and is Schools. There are really two strands to > > this project. > > > > The first is to remotely (armchai)r

[Talk-GB] UKOSM or OSMUK or OSMGB proposed aims

Hi everyone I've tried to summarise what we discussed on our initial concall and what Rob's survey revealed into a high-level and short set of aims. It's an initial draft and open for comment before our next concall (TBA before end of Jan). I've included for comparison the aims from those countri

[Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

Happy New Year! (and Happy New Mapping Year!) The first Quarterly Project for 2016 is now under way and is Schools. There are really two strands to this project. The first is to remotely (armchai)r map and get an increase in coverage of the number of schools The latest government data is for Janu

Re: [Talk-GB] First UK/GB OpenStreetMap group meeting - 17th December at 8pm

Hi everyone Calls from a mobile, the number is 0330 336 2206, and the passcode 33224. Calls will cost the same as a call to an 01 or 02 landline. Calls from a landline, the number is 0800 22 90 900 (same passcode) which will be free Regards Brian On 16 December 2015 at 22:10, Harry Wood wrote

[Talk-GB] Nature Reserves project

Hi everyone I've come up against a couple of problems and would like some guidance: 1.Nature reserves with one name that are made up of several other nature reserves, often with their own name. How to represent these without a mess of names rendering? Is there a relation to fit this situation? 2

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats

Hi Adam Thanks for your efforts here. This is a big step foward for us. Is there any chance you could extend this backwards in time to Oct 1st when we started this quarterly project? I think there's something called attic data in overpass Regards Brian On 6 November 2015 at 20:45, Adam Hoyle

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats

Hi Jo We've trained BCC staff in JOSM and OSM tagging generally and the specific traffic monitoring schema we've devised. To date there are 346 traffic monitors added to the road network in Birmingham ( and a few in Solihull - I've got the bug!). Next task is to extend the tagging into the SCOOT ne

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

Hi Dan and Jerry I've faced similar problems where the park and the nature reserve share the same polygon. It may be a kludge but I copy the original polygon, change the tag to nature_reserve and then manoevre the copied and re-tagged polygon on top of the original. Regards Brian On 1 November

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

as a source for Natura 2000 status? Also isn't the tag leisure=nature_reserve? Regards Brian On 26 October 2015 at 12:23, tshrub wrote: > Hey Brian, > > Brian Prangle schrieb: > >> Do we need to tag Natura 2000 SACs and SPAs? I've looked at the >> protected_ar

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

I've looked at Jerry's umap ( great resource Jerry - can you update it at the end of Oct so we can see progress with fewer blue and red dots?) and the Natural England OpenData source and there seems to be a significant amount of data inaccuracy in my local area: Solihull Council lists 21 LNRs but t

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Richard Phillips

Will My sincere condolences to you and your family on your loss, and also from fellow mappers in the West Midlands. Our loss is nowhere near as great as yours, but a loss nonetheless. Evesham is a beacon area on how to map with OSM and represents many hours of dedicated effort. It's certainy som

[Talk-GB] Last quarterly project for 2015

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Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

rm outlines and tracks might be a bit ragged as I concentrated on getting the lifts and escalators aligned with the concourse above) Regards brian On 27 September 2015 at 11:18, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > On 25 September 2015 at 14:56, Brian Prangle wrote: > > Does anyone know whet

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

Thanks for all your unput. It seems Andy's suggestion is the best: to align the platforms with the elevator/stairs/escalator positions in the concourse plan. I'l use that approach once I'm sure the concourse is aligned as best as I can get it. Re-aligning the platforms will take some time and will

[Talk-GB] New St station platforms

Does anyone know whether the alignment of the platforms under the concourse is based on anything other than pure guesswork? The alignment at either end where they can be seen in Bing doesn't look right either. I'm trying to get the concourse layout to match the platforms for lifts and escalators an

[Talk-GB] New St station platform alignments

Does anyone know whether the alignment of the platforms under the concourse is based on anything other than pure guesswork? The alignment at either end where they can be seen in Bing doesn't look right either. I'm trying to get the concourse layout to match the platforms for lifts and escalators an

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

I've put in the internal outlines for the concourse and populated a few units. Thanks for the suggestion Marc I'll take a look. Richard - I now like the bridge idea for layer 1 Grand Central Mall. Should the entrances be rendered? Regards Brian On 24 September 2015 at 19:53, SK53 wrote: > Y

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

I'm not sure that tagging the internal footways as bridges quite reflects what's on the ground so I think we should just tag the layer Rgds Brian On 24 September 2015 at 16:52, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Richard Mann wrote: > > > Had a look round. The main upper-level (ie Gran

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

All sounds great to me. So the platforms/lines will be layer-1; the station concourse layer 0; Grand Central mall layer 1; short stay car park layer 2. Problem: there are a couple of retail outlets each side of Southside entrance which should be layer 0 to match the street, but layer -1 to refer t

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

n the 3D > mapping forum > http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=548662#p548662. > > It's all fairly standard bboard software: I think OSM user name works. > > Jerry > > On 21 September 2015 at 13:34, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> Thanks Jerry >>

[Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

Hi everyone I've blogged about this and the complexities involved with this multi-level and multi-purpose building. It would be good if we can plan how to map this sensibly and co-ordinate effort in an agreed way and not just have a free-for-all accretion of POI

[Talk-GB] Urban Traffic Control Management

Hi everyone At mappamercia we're collaborating with Birmingham City Council to map their urban traffic control management systems (e.g linking together traffic signals; traffic sensor positions; and lanes being monitored.) Once we've got the data tagged suitably and we've added the data to a pilo

Re: [Talk-GB] 10th Anniversary Rutland Mapping Party?

I'm up for this Brian On 22 August 2015 at 13:23, SK53 wrote: > I'm just back from my annual trip to the Rutland Bird Fair. > > Each time I'm struck by the fact that Rutland still needs a lot of ground > survey work for OSM. Oakham for instance has a prodigious number of new > houses, the PRoW

[Talk-GB] JOSM paint style for naptan bus stops

Hi This stopped working a couple of days ago. The domain name osmalba.org which hosts the paintstyle has expired. Anyone know what's going on? Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tal

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

Seeing as the survey put technical stuff like a new render low on the priority list ( it got one of the lowest "strongly agree" scores) lets refocus on the community stuff that the survey indicated should be more of a priority. A new UK render should be a separate task and discussion in my opinion

[Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

It's time to move on from delivery-related things ( from looking at Robert Whitaker's graphs it looks like we made a difference onpostboxes but we'll need Robert to do some more rigorous analysis). Personallly I'd like to think we can keep up some

[Talk-GB] Possible collaboration with Amey

Hi everyone I got the following request from Rick Robinson (formerly of IBM who spoke at SotM 2013 and who is now IT Director, Smart Data and Technology for Amey and who is a keen supporter of OSM). It would be good to respond positively. *"I met recently with Amey’s account who perform work on t

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project "All things delivery-related" - an update

It's now May and the project is a month old and with two months to go, it's time for an update. Robert Whittaker has an excellent site monitoring OSM data on postboxes in the UK. Here you can see progress (even a league table of who's contributing). From

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project - postboxes

Came across 2 postboxes today, side-by-side, one with "1st Class" and one with "2nd class". Two wall-mounted box refs so not 2 apertures on the same pillar. I couldn't see anything in the wiki on how to treat these so I tagged them postbox:restriction= 1st class mail only and 2nd class mail only

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Projects Update

obert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 April 2015 at 10:42, Brian Prangle wrote: > > So, on to our next project: all things delivery-related > > > > This could be Royal Mail postboxes (still loads to do); Royal Mail > delivery >

Re: [Talk-GB] Canal & River Trust maps

Couldn't agree more with Jerry's post which shows a pragmatic and real world view (also Richard F's elsewhere). To me what this highlights is the need for a more organised and diplomatic approach to promoting OSM in the UK. Also the need for a whole host of internal housekeeping tasks. Regrds Bri

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Projects Update

New month, new quarter, new project. Our first attempt at a quarterly project has just finished, where fixing road names was the target. I'm sure there was an uplift in the rate of clearing these up and a big thank you to everyone who took part, but we don't have any formal metrics (perhaps ITOwor

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK Qarterly Project: Fix that Road name!

erick Rethans wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> >> On 13 January 2015 at 15:26, Brian Prangle wrote: >>> >>> Coventry still has 38 names to go and has proved a perennial >>>> challenge to us - none of the regulars at ou

Re: [Talk-GB] Proposed import of approximately 6 bicycle repair tool stands in the UK

If there's ony 6 of these things in the UK then it's hardly worth an import (I am in the minority here in not objecting to imports as long as they're discussed first - it's not as if all user-generated data in OSM is perfect!). I'd go along with a Notes approach Regards Brian On 4 March 2015 at

[Talk-GB] Road Names Quarterly Project

RobJN has added a bunch of Notes for Rotherham where we already have had a mapper step forward to try to resolve some of them, and Rob's tweeted the local Scouts. I've added a bunch of Notes for Liverpool (feel free to tweet anyone relevant - I'm not a twitter user) Let's see if our little campa

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project - Fix tha Road Name

At our monthly mappa-mercia pub meeting we were chatting about new ways of encouraging participation in the current quarterly project to fix street names. It seems that there are people who both contribute Notes and comment on them who might not be on talk lists nor be aware of the OS Locator dat

[Talk-GB] Fix the road name! Progress Report

Thanks to ITOworld for fixing the problem with OSM Analysis - we now have some data to workon Well done to the folk in: City of Leicester, Bradford, Darlington, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool, Shetland Islands, Sheffield, Berwick upon Tweed, Rutland and Guildford You are our leaders in our fi

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK Qarterly Project: Fix that Road name!

Hi Andy Jonathan from spiffymaps has volunteered to start mapping these - let's leave it to him until he shouts for help Regards Brian On 14 January 2015 at 11:09, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > On 13 January 2015 at 15:26, Bri

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK Qarterly Project: Fix that Road name!

urvey there in the next week Regards Brian On 13 January 2015 at 21:46, Pmailkeey . wrote: > I'm not sure what a "Qarterly" Project is but... > > On 13 January 2015 at 15:26, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> We're two weeks in to this experiment and it would be good

[Talk-GB] OSM UK Qarterly Project: Fix that Road name!

We're two weeks in to this experiment and it would be good to hear any feedback. In the West Midlands since we started this project in this quarter we've completed Wolverhampton Walsall and Sandwell. Wolverhampton was done by contacting a user on the ground to check a road name, which they did. Du

[Talk-GB] Another candidate for a mechanical edit?

How many TA Centres and Territorial Army Centres still remain to be tagged as Army Reserve Centres? Surely this is a no-brainer? I'm not sure when this change took place but it has to be a couple of years ago. Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk

[Talk-GB] New Year -New idea - OSM UK Quarterly projects

Happy New Year everyone. At a recent pub meeting mappa-mercia mappers felt that UK OSM contributors are all busy on their own specific projects and apart from the occasional discussion on the talk-gb mailing list don't really get together as a community. Compare that to the Irish community wher

Re: [Talk-GB] Hanbury Meeting

Jerry et al - great meeting even though I wimped out of the wet morning! Definitely we should repeat it and the NMA sounds a great venue rgds Brian On 3 January 2015 at 20:00, SK53 wrote: > Just to say thank you to everyone who came for a very damp day in the > countryside. > > I hope that we

Re: [Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

Hooray for Andy Allan - some commonsense! On 18 December 2014 at 13:36, Andy Allan wrote: > > On 18 December 2014 at 11:30, SK53 wrote: > > I personally feel the current discussion is now thrashing. > > I personally feel that the opposition to Matthijs' work is becoming > farcical. After setting

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-3 Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

We're boiling the ocean here.Matthij's proposal as it now stands is not controversial and is merely a typo cleanup. I'm amazed at his patience. On 18 December 2014 at 13:59, Chris Fleming wrote: > > I really struggled to see how this mechanical edit can do any harm. I > certainly don't see people

[Talk-GB] Wikis are not tablets of stone as suggested by the suburbs debate: a proposal

Hi everyone Why not have a large advisory at the head of every wiki page which links to the following content? The content of a wiki page is: 1. as close to authoritative as possible but NOT AUTHORITATIVE 2. for guidance only: it is NOT MANDATORY 3. reflects only the collective opinion of th

Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

I'll defend Birmingham because I live here and I've contribruted to the data and I've discussed its structure with other mappers. It works for us. If we're not happy with it we'll change it ourselves. If anyone else is not happy with it ask us and we might just agree with you (or not) and do the ne

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

At last! A grain of ground truth. Map what you can see +1 to that On 4 November 2014 22:17, Chris Hill wrote: > On 04/11/14 22:04, Colin Smale wrote: > >> >> Hang on a minute... the name tag should contain the most common name, or, >> as the wiki puts it, the "common default name." There are ot

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC Mechanical edit: shop=betting to shop=bookmaker for selected names

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[Talk-GB] Thankful Villages

Hi everyone This being the season for commemorating the centenary of the First World War I thought we might add the Thankful Villages ( aka Blessed Villages) to our map. Thankful Villages have no memorial to the war dead since everyone of their service personnel returned home ( not necessarily unh

Re: [Talk-GB] Courier Delivery Points

eutsche Post special case, so I guess that is the way to go: even if it's > a bit clunky. > > There are certainly Amazon lockers in my local Co-operative which are > presumably somewhat similar. > > Jerry > > > On 6 August 2014 19:52, Brian Prangle wrote: > >>

Re: [Talk-GB] Courier Delivery Points

/Packstationen > > Jerry > > > On 31 July 2014 10:19, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> I'm seeing with increasing frequency secure delivery points with multiple >> boxes branded with various courier company logo

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

Pavlo If your ukrainian naming convention will be of use to your fellow ukrainians (e.g encouraging them to learn about our cities or visit them) then please go ahead and good luck! This can only be a good thing in my opinion. Having an extra language tag on my home city doesn't matter to me - I w

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

Just to remind folk, the West Mids volunteered as a pilot area for the original NapTAN import. We asked that the nodes were NOT tagged as highway=bus-stop as we wanted to survey them before they got rendered. We still haven't got round them all! And given the accuracy we're glad we asked for the "s

Re: [Talk-GB] Courier Delivery Points

an On 31 July 2014 14:13, SK53 wrote: > Closest I'm aware of is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Packstationen > > Jerry > > > On 31 July 2014 10:19, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> I'm seeing with increasing frequency secure delivery points with multiple >>

[Talk-GB] Courier Delivery Points

I'm seeing with increasing frequency secure delivery points with multiple boxes branded with various courier company logos. Is there an agreed way to tag these? regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap

Re: [Talk-GB] New mapper has imported all Nottingham street lights

The source is opendata from Nottingham and the data refers to a physical entity- so why revert it except to enforce a point of etiquett? The criterion of usefulness is not valid. I thought the whole point of entering data is that someone somewhere will find a use for it - you might not see its usef

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

Who's going to draw up the target list of press platforms to send this to and more importantly discover the correct contact? Regards Brian On 27 July 2014 23:20, Dan S wrote: > Grant, > > Yes! Thanks for starting this. I've taken the liberty of being very > bold. I've changed the tone to how

[Talk-GB] Tysoe Mapping PartyMay 31st

Hi everyone We've been organising this for some time and have invited mappers from the Midlands and Oxford- if there's anyone else would like to come along to Tysoe and sample the natural delights of Edge Hill where Oxfordshire meets Warwicksh

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

Brian We've traced almost four hundred thousand bdgs in the West Mids from bing imagery, our own aerial imagery and latterly for SE Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry from Warwicks CC aerial imagery. Mostly the work of OSMers who are retired and have the time and patience to do this. We've also wor

[Talk-GB] Not all Notes are Equal

The Notes feature available on the OSM home page is a great way to encourage non-mappers to add comments and point our errors and omissions (it's also a great method for mappers too!) BUT now all the extant OpenStreetBugs Notes have migrated over , some of which are YEARS old, it's all gettin

[Talk-GB] Document Freedom Award Saturday 22nd March

Hi everyone As if coming to Birmingham for an OSM event wasn't enough to tempt you here; we have the Flat Pack Film Festivval on at the moment: details of Saturday's calendar of events here http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/events/date/?day=22-03-2014 Is anyone outside of the local crowd conside

Re: [Talk-GB] W3C Invitation

olicy. But I'm > not an expert on the underlying OSM data model and API. If anyone wanted to > chip in thoughts on stable URIs I'm all ears. > > Tom > > > On 4 March 2014 08:33, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> We have an invitation fr

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery

Try anywhere across Wolverhampton through Willenhall to Walsall - as you zoom through to level 19 you'll briefly see a nice sharp clear image which then reverts spontaneously to a less clear image with a huge shadow which furhter obscures detail. Regards Brian On 3 March 2014 18:42, Will Philli

[Talk-GB] W3C Invitation

Hi everyone We have an invitation from IBM to present at this meeting- suggested topic is below. Anyone up for this - either with the topic suggested or with a suitable alternative? Regards Brian A few weeks ago, we had a use case webinar with the CIO of the City of Palo Alto who told us about

Re: [Talk-GB] Metropolitan counties and other boundaries

Hi The West Midlands is administered as a unit for fire police and public transport rather than individually by the 7 constituent LAs. I don't know where that places it, but use the information as you see fit Regards Brian On 20 February 2014 11:34, Colin Smale wrote: > Hi, > > In the last

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

release a server link that would just provide access to the Aerial Imagery. > Need to wait for Brian to clarify with Jonathan. > > Cheers > Andy > > -Original Message- > From: Grant Slater [mailto:openstreet...@firefishy.com] > Sent: 14 January 2014 11:24 > To: Bria

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