[Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

Hi everyone Warwickshire County Council have released 3 sets of aerial imagery under OGL. You can find them here *http://wppgeog3/gs/Aerial_Photography/wms * . JOSM users just add to your imagery layers under preferences. I don't know how to add it to Po

[Talk-GB] Schools and OSM

Hi everyone I've just read in a magazine that GIS is now specified in the new geography curriculum from Key Stage 3 through to A levels, which means 3.5 milllion 11-18 year olds ned to learn about GIS. ESRI already have a Schools programme in place to take advantage of this. Is this an opportunit

Re: [Talk-GB] Magistrates and Crown Courts listings as open data – hack event coming…

Beware! All postcodes from the Royal maul postcode finder site are PAF-derived and are copyrighted so NOT suitable for use in OSM On 16 December 2013 20:26, Roger Calvert wrote: > It is also easy to find all addresses with a particular post code - the > Post Office has an on-line tool for this

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

that seems like the obvious place to look. > > David > > > On 02/12/2013 16:23, Andy Robinson wrote: > >> >> Brian, >> >> “Blog” link in the wiki left menu includes on the linked page the >> community blogs link. >> >> Or http://Blogs.OpenStreet

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

Where do I find community blogs now? On 2 December 2013 16:06, David Earl wrote: > Andy Robinson wrote: > >> But how do I get the box back now that I’ve closed it ;-) >> > > Both the links it provided are duplicated in the banner anyway (Learn More > == About and Start Mapping == Sign Up), it w

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

Thank you to whoever it was who listened to this thread and implemented a close function. It's much appreciated Regards Brian On 2 December 2013 15:19, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Andy Mabbett wrote: > > Perhaps we need an "Announce" mailing list (with follow-ups set to > > the 'talk' list)? >

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

;m just another user in corporate land. Regards Brian On 1 December 2013 19:41, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 01/12/13 19:14, Brian Prangle wrote: > > @Rob - I know you communicated this change and asked for feedback for >> which I'm grateful- I'm just pissed off that there

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

also need to be a way to bring it back. > > Regards, > Rob > > p.s. I have nothing to do this the redesign other than trying to > communicate it to you, so please don't shoot the messenger. > > > On 1 December 2013 18:45, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> +1 for a

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

+1 for a close button. That box just screams at me to be closed - my brain wants to see what's behind it! Not sure what communication went out about this notifying the community of the date of implementation - I certainly wasn't aware of anything. I saw lots of discussion about the design but the

[Talk-GB] Notes feature

It seems that some businesses are starting to use the notes feature to identify their location, thinking it's just like Googlemaps perhaps. I think we should encourage this by separating the notes function into 2 , adequately labelled, one for " place your business/event here" and one for "map impr

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice needed for maxweight turning restriction

why not just tag a node on the road where the sign is as maxweight? It's much simpler and reflects what's on the ground Regards Brian On 13 October 2013 12:28, ael wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:00:38PM +0100, Philip Barnes wrote: > > I came across an odd situation where a road is on way

Re: [Talk-GB] Relation for group of listed buildings

Andy The webpage you have quoted as a source is clearly marked as copyright-specifically the text and the map. It is better just to say source is English Heritage and then this is correct - referring to the open data they have published separately and which is a subset of the data omitting the tex

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] Possible pub meetup with the West Midlands crew in early October?

Hi Rob I'm still banking on there being a 3rd Oct regular meetup. I too can't make the 5th Regards Brian On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi Andy, > > == You may need to forward this to the Oxon list as I'm not subscribed == > > We hadn't forgotten that there were plan

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 mapping

Hi Peter I'm gradually adding listed buildings along the route in Warwickshire regards Brian On 21 August 2013 15:52, Peter Miller wrote: > > Just to highlight some mapping ITO have just released, which was developed > with CPRE showing the construction, landuse and operation impacts of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

In the West Midlands we have dozens of these which cater mainly for Asian weddings and celebrations where large extended families have to be catered for. Probably the same in most large urban areas. I generally just tag them as building=yes and with the name on the display board which usually says

Re: [Talk-GB] Three Choirs Way relation completed

Hi Steve Why not just leave the out-and-back ways as a spur? regards Brian On 2 June 2013 19:11, Steve Brook wrote: > I have now finished mapping the Three Choirs Way long distance footpath > between the three cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/b

Re: [Talk-GB] Usage of "lanes / turn restrictions" versus "multiple ways" when road is not divided

Well if a road is separated into lanes by a large area of paint which has a legal injunction not to enter, can that be regarded as barrier=paint? It passes the test of being physical - visible paint has been applied to the road and it passes the test of being a barrier by law. Regards Brian On

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

Just to take take the conversation into another orbit simultaneously, I'd like to clarify Tom's remarks about natural=wood and landuse=forest being interchangeable in the UK. I always tag landuse=forest where aerial imagery shows a regular pattern of tree spacing which is a good indicator of plant

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway bridge numbers

I'm already using bridge_ref= and also adding operator= when I remember Rgds Brian On 9 April 2013 15:17, Philip Barnes wrote: > Hi Andy > > Seems a good idea. I would suggest a new tag, such as bridge_ref. > > I have come across cases of canal bridge numbers using the ref tag, which > cause

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

Aidan I've had a look at your list and would say it's way under - you only have 3 B27 codes and I've completed addressing this whole postcode area - I've not got every one complete but I'm sure there's far more than the 3 you're showing, including the one for my own house which is missing! Similar

[Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 Birmingham

Hi everyone I'm composing a press release and want to compare this year's event with the previous conference in the UK - Manchester 2007. Can anyone who was there remember how many delegates there were? Has anyone got any group photos from then? Also any can any sysadmins give me an idea of compa

[Talk-GB] SotM 2013 Birmingham Bid

Hi everyone We've finally published a bid after several weeks work from the combined effort of mappers from mappa-mercia ( the collective name for mappers in the West Midlands). You can read it here on the Call f

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

Hi Aidan You might like to get a volunteer to check a pilot import that's limited within a manageable area - suggest a limited range of postcodes Regards Brian On 15 January 2013 11:32, Aidan McGinley wrote: > @Rob yes I had seen that. It is a great tool, but as you say it's > difficult to be

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

Hi Aidan If you were to do this then two things you should consider: 1. only tag closed ways where tag is building=xx AFAIK water and woods and gardendens etxc don't have postcodes 2. how to treat buildings where there is already a postcode and if correct/incorrect Regards Brian On 13 Ja

Re: [Talk-GB] European Walking Route E2 / Staffordshire Way / Viking Way

I've no idea who's behind the relation E2 even though the Heart of England Way which I walked the whole length and edited a lot of it is designated E2 from end to end - it was added to the relation after I'd completed my editing. I have seen an E2 marker post although I forgot to take a photo! Prob

[Talk-GB] CFV 2013

Hi everyone We've been busy here in the West Mids during November and worked with Birmingham Convention Bureau ( a local authority-sponsored service who do lots of leg work and admin for free) in searching, surveying and choosing a venue. We have a great venue at Aston Uni Business School at a com

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

On another track it would be good if ITOworld could add to their buildings section a postcode map showing red = no postcode, yellow=first section only e.g B27, and green= complete postcode e.g B27 7XP. This would help in identifying where to add postcodes Regards Brian On 31 October 2012 18:55,

Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data

Hi Chris Great work! I can now get cracking on adding complete postcodes to addresses. Regards Brian On 30 October 2012 19:24, Chris Hill wrote: > The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the > Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the postcode data from

Re: [Talk-GB] Odd edits around the A460 in the W Midlands

We in the West Mids are well aware of this user and have been monitoring and cleaning up after him for some time. He has never replied to any emails we have sent him, except very early on. He is very unusual and seems to be a Jekyll and Hyde character who has done some excellent work where he liv

[Talk-GB] SOTM 2013

Hi everyone At our previous pub meeting for mappa-mercia on October 4 we had a great discussion about how we'd like SOTM2013 to come to Birmingham - so we got a group of volunteers (well everyone at the meeting) and have come up with an outline case for Birmingham Bid - see http://wiki.openstree

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

How about making contact with the road experts at SABRE to answer some of these questions? I'm sure they'd have a pretty definitive view Regards Brian On 30 September 2012 22:43, Peter Miller wrote: > > > On 27 September 2012 17:42, Jason Cunningham wrote: > >> As I mentioned earlier on it was

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Data User Group asks "what data do you want"

I've asked for a csv file of all the listed buildings Regards Brian On 27 September 2012 22:24, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > Hi All, > > Just a quick heads up that the Open Data User Group (supported by UK > Government) as asking "what data do you want". If interested there are > details of the in

Re: [Talk-GB] Find My Nearest Cash Machine

A more intuitive system for free/charge would be traffic lights green/red Regards Brian On 21 August 2012 13:16, SomeoneElse wrote: > Philip Barnes wrote: > >> A different colour for the machines which charge would be useful, to >> allow these to be ignored. >> > They're in an ever-so-slightly

Re: [Talk-GB] Find My Nearest Cash Machine

Hi Andy Impressive! Shame about the data. Just done a quick look around Acocks Green - ATMs missing and some are up to 30m away from their actual location. I would estimate about 95% accuracy. Anyone else had a look? Regards Brian On 21 August 2012 11:30, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Birmingham's M

[Talk-GB] Bot redaction UK

Is there any reason why a slice of the Western Hebrides has been omitted from the redaction process for the UK? Based on evidence from http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.

[Talk-GB] Micronations

If you look at zoom level 3 for the UK you will see the "Kingdom of Ivania" rendered. A google search throws up http://micronations.wikia.com/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ivania which is a "vanity nation" consisting of someone's bedroom in Derbyshire. I can see a rash of these appearing. Are they appropriate to

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Tagging Guideline - wiki page proposals

On 28 April 2012 11:03, Richard Mann wrote: > I'd only use cycleway=track if there's a track on both sides, otherwise I > use cycleway:left=track or cycleway:right=track, as appropriate. > > I also add a highway=cycleway alongside, because some applications prefer > one method, some the other, and

[Talk-GB] Licence Change

Congratulations and many thanks to all those who worked so hard to effect the licence changeover - including all those who contributed to the mad rush to recover as much of the map as possible before the cutoff. One small point for the communications team- the link from the home page to "open lice

[Talk-GB] JOSM and OS StreetView tiles

Is anyone else having problems? All I can get now for several days is one tile from I think Northern Scotland repeated many times over. I can see OSSV tilers OK in P2 Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstre

Re: [Talk-GB] Staffordshire Way

Hi Andy I walked,surveyed and mapped the Heart of England Way and I've seen it added to E2. I didn't see a single waymarker for the E2 along its entire length. Since it's a complete relation I haven't noticed anything broken Regards Brian On 13 January 2012 20:08, SomeoneElse wrote: > Just fo

Re: [Talk-GB] The state of Bristol in OSM

Hi all I've been systematically clearing, together with Andy Robinson, Birmingham and the West Mids for a couple of weeks. We have one prolific local mapper who hasn't accepted which means a lot of work in the Black Country and Coventry. Biggest issues so far are the motorways, ways that are part

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

Hi Matt Peter is unlikely to accept the new CTs but has not yet declined. Blackadder has emailed him recently but not got a response. Peter was very active and has contributions all over the West Midlands from various mapping parties so it would be a shame to lose his contribution but I'm not opti

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

But it's common parlance to refer to real ale from the decades-long activities of CAMRA which was never called CAMRAB - this is splitting hairs On 27 November 2011 19:54, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 November 2011 19:46, Graham Jones wrote: > > On 27 November 2011 12:07, Craig > > Loftus wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Hi everyone If we include all off licences then we're going to have to include all pubs and bars and the map is going to get seriously crowded. Should we tag off-licences that sell real ale as realale=yes and if we extend this to specialist wine merchants and whisky shops then perhaps we should ha

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Hi everyone Whilst I originally envisaged this as a UK project, what Sven has brought up does suggest that it has a global perspective, but I doubt if Graham's time or server could cope with something that large. The wine industry is certainly global and Heineken( not real ale I know!) has 115 pla

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Hi everyone Just dome some armchair mapping in Hereford where the HP Bulmer site is a massive industrial complex so I don't think ciderhouse or press or mill is somehow appropriate so I've labelled it industrial=brewery for the meantime. Perhaps we should also have industrial=cider? The Bulmers s

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Sven - we do have a couple of wineries and vineyards in the UK! On 15 November 2011 14:34, Sven Geggus wrote: > Craig Loftus wrote: > > > Things tagged with microbrewery should be okay... assuming they > > respected the tags original definition, i.e., a pub with a brewery in > > it. > > When I

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Hi everyone Browsing around Burton to see why there are so many Coors Breweries in the tagquery page ( there are 3 sites tagged but only one rendering at the moment) I came across the National Brewery Centre tagged as a museum. As it has "Brewery" in its name I would have expected to see it in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Hi Graham Problem - I've entered a couple of microbreweries where your map selects the name of the pub rather than the name of the microbrewery located on the same site e.g http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/136989676 where I've tagged the pub with name= and the brewery with name_1= . Perha

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Graham fantastic work! I updated some breweries I'd previously edited to get them to comply with your tagging schema and they were on your map in minutes! Was going to say something about the icons but I see they're only temporary New set of objectives with some drinking attached to seek out area

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Hi everyone Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. If we can build on Graham's initial efforts I think we can get a great map and do some some interesting surveying with an incentive to get people out mapping! As a first pass on a tagging scheme can I suggest we follow the wiki page at http://

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

- > there seems to be a table missing from my database - not sure why, but will > fix later! > > Regards > > > Graham. > > On 30 October 2011 15:15, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> Having just been at the CAMRA Birmingham Beer Festival and se

[Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Hi everyone Having just been at the CAMRA Birmingham Beer Festival and seen the huge number of breweries from across the UK Got me thinking - is there any appetite for a project similar to the baseball project http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Big_baseball_project_2011 in getting all the brewer

Re: [Talk-GB] How to tag Police Memorial Trust (and similar) memorials

How should I tag the fact that a memorial was erected by the "Police Memorial Trust"? How about operator=Police Memorial Trust Regards Brian > > ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] 1:25,000 OOC OS maps - Update

Hi Andy I can donate some time depending on the date you choose Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK cities

Since city status is such an emotive subject in the UK and I believe there's some kind of competition to choose another couple of cities to be created this year, I think we should stick with the officially designate dlist Regards Brian On 17 October 2011 10:48, Ed Loach wrote: > I was watching

[Talk-GB] Maxspeed conundrum

The M1 between junctions 11 and 13 is a standard 70 mph NSL, but until spring 2013 it is a 50mph average speed camera regulated section during upgrade works. After Spring 2013 it will become maxspeed=signals. How to tag it? My preference would be for the 50mph average speed with a note that i

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

So the result of all the discussion about a proposal to develop and deploy a bot which failed to get near to a consensus, let alone agreement is to develop and deploy a bot. The discussion has ignored the basic problem of not having enough mappers on the ground collecting data - so we

[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

The Warwick additions are all names in the defunct Stoneleigh Agricultural Show site. Must get over there and do a survey to see what's happening to any redevelopment there - unless anyone else wants to volunteer! I'm firmly of the opinion that this is not work for a bot unless a tag is added su

[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

On 8 June 2011 07:58, Peter Miller wrote: > Following on swiftly from Musical Chairs OSM Analaysis is now also > running with the new OS Locator data. > > Warwickshire is the biggest gainer/looser with 33 new names; over half > of the districts have got at least one new road and there are now onl

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Contributor Terms vs OS OpenData Licence

Being cast as the most guilty party "threatening OSM" by having the greatest number of OS data edits and signing the CTs - I thought I'd contribute to make it clear where I stand. I'm absolutely with Peter Miller on this. I trust the OSMF implicitly to get it right which is why I signed the CTs. W

[Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK Variable speed limits

Hi everyone How do variable speed limits which are signalled via overhead gantries on motorways during congestion fit into your schema? I've just tagged sections of the M42 and M6 in the West Mids with maxspeed=variable and wouldn't want to see my work obliterated by some new ( and for these sect

[Talk-GB] Artwork featuring Birmingham GPS tracks

Hi everyone I met the two artists planning this work last night - it's a project at the MAC (http://www.macarts.co.uk/event/plan-b-a-day-in-the-life). Dan is an occasional contributor to and regular advocate of OpenStreetMap He has been collecting every journey he makes with a GPS since 2003

[Talk-GB] National Forest

How should we map the National Forest? It sits astride the A42 roughly near Ashby de la Zouch.It's big. It's not a forest (yet) and it's not a national park. But it's big in terms of local regeneration and tourism development Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] CodePoint Data and Royal Mail Delivery Offices

I've come across 2 of these when editing recently and both have their post codes redacted with solid red squares. Is this generally the case? If it is does anyone know why? I'm guessing that no-one can actually send post directly to these offices. it only gets sent there after a failure of delivery

Re: [Talk-GB] OS bot proposal

I couldn't agree more with Richard that there is no co-ordinated effort to build a true community of occasional mappers, encouraging those who are not and do not want to be hard-core map geeks, or to publicise what we are doing to attract more developers and mappers and co-operation from data prod

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Reminder West Mids OSM social tomorrow (Thur)

I'm afraid I can't make it - have fun! ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

Is anyone working on importing the boundaries from the shape file available from OS OpenData? Does it have ward level boundaries for major cities? ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Waterways Map (was invisible)

It would be good to have leisure=marina then Gas Street Basin (and others) in Birmingham would render On 20 January 2011 11:11, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 20/01/11 11:09, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote: > > > I went with canal + boat=no for the New River as it's man-made but > non-navigable. > > Well th

[Talk-GB] Gun Location Sensors

Hi everyone Here's a challenge and probably more of an ethical one than a physical one. The installation of these by west Midlands Police in Birmingham has caused a stir in the news. Should we attempt to map them? Despite their being installed in 31 US cities there's not a single picture of what

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2011 UK? Setting up a GB OSMF chapter?

I'm all for a UK SOTM conference as it would be great to meet up with folk who have been so far might only have been an electronic presence, to share best practice, get some hints and tips on techniques for map-making from the data for those of us who are less technically gifted (perhaps documentin

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in central London - can someone fix it?

Has anyone contacted her welcoming her as a new user to OSM and gently pointing out the consequences of her editing and where she can get help? It's probably a mistake. I had a new user the other week who didn't think that editing in Potlatch was in any way connected to anything other than what was

[Talk-GB] Long Distance Paths

Have we got to the stage of mapping these that it would be worth the effort in replicating a rendering similar to OpenCycleMap?. The wiki page on long distance paths seems to have a pretty comprehensive listing and you can get nice maps when you browse the relation for individual routes. It would b

[Talk-GB] Macmillan Way LDP

I've been walking the Warwickshire Centenary Way in stages, mapping as I go. This week I came across a section of the Macmillan Way on the Edgehill escarpment which the Centenary Way shares for a few Km. Wanting to add this section to the relation for the Macmillan way I went to the LDP wiki page

Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse in greater london

Doing a similar thing slowly in the West Midlands as we survey - stuff we do now as a local mapping community always includes landuse and some of us use landuse data recording as an excuse to go out and resurvey older work. Generally I Iike the effects that addition of landuse gives in urban area

[Talk-GB] M6 Toll Vandalism

The M6 has acquired a new nonsense M6 Toll added (from near the M1 junction to nowhere near Meriden) by a new user Alan 1988, whose fisrt edits these are #4625552 May 06, 2010 21:58 (none) -1.657,52.455,-1.575,52.465

Re: [Talk-GB] GB Chapter

We discussed this at our West Mids social meeting and thought it was a good idea - possibly the West Mids and London groups forming the nucleus to get this off the ground Rgds Brian On 24 April 2010 13:59, SteveC wrote: > don't think so > > On Apr 24, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Christopher Osborne wrote

[Talk-GB] OS StreetView accuracy: caution!

I've just completed a 25 mile stretch of the Centenary Way in Warwickshire and I'm editing now with the aid of OSSV. Generally it's accurate but I've found a track on the wrong side of river and the course of a stream crossing my GPX tracks from the footpath where the footpath clearly stays on one

Re: [Talk-GB] Looking for places to map?

Can't seem to find Birmingham in your drop down list of bondaries! regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Gritting Routes

Just to add to Andy's post: priority 3 routes are generally bus routes; going back over roads already surveyed in this exercise, armed with the data from Naptan cleared up a lot of no-name roads as well; we even organised an impromptu tutorial and editing session where two new mappers got going. R

[Talk-GB] Coastline and OS7

The OS7 coastline in N Scotland differs greatly from the exisiting PGS coastline. I've been loath to do any editing in case I upset something. Which is more accurate? Should I edit the coastline to OS7?( Not that I want to it seems a Herculean task) If I do how long does it take to render? I under

[Talk-GB] OS Free

The OS disccussion paper was published on 23 December and it proposes a wide ranging business and organisational change to the OS. In its section reviewing the market changes and pressure the OS are under it fails to mention OSM. Is this something we should address? There are 14 specific questions

[Talk-GB] Underground Pipelines

We have several oil terminals just to the E of Birmingham and wandering around the countryside I come across loads of pipeline markers. In places there are enough to join them up with man-made=pipeline ways. My problem is how to tag the direction of flow. The oil pipeline markers have the direction

Re: [Talk-GB] Active Traffic Management (ATM) / Managed Motorways / Variable Speed Limits (VSL)

I think a better tagging scheme would be: active_traffic_management = variable_speed _limit active_traffic_management = hard_shoulder_running active_traffic_ management= ramp_metering It keeps tthe tags taxonomically related and allows for other tags to be added as new schemes are devised or disc

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

I may be being a simpleton but can't we just disable write privileges for this user to the database? Then he can continue editing but it all has no effect ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

I'd support talk-dataquality ( or data protection, or data monitoring). I'm concerend about what might happen when this sort of thing starts occurring in the W Mids where I've spent many hours surveying and editing. I can contribute to the discussion about process - would be happy to participate in

[Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

Hi everyone Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or not. For two reasons: indication of a shelter is a representation of what's present on the ground and it's a pretty siginificant presence ( after all we tag and map sma

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

Hi Peter Could the flight try to cover the Long Marston rail depot about 3 miles south of Stratford? I mapped as much as could on a cycle ride that passed by the perimeter, and would like to complete it. Regards Brian 2009/9/8 Peter Miller > > Just to let you know that OpenStreetMap is hirin

[Talk-GB] Red Routes

Finally decided to map red routes after avoiding it for over a year (red routes are sprouting up rapidly in South Birmingham despite fierce oppostion from local traders - they're "no stopping" routes which are rigidly enforced). There's not much to guide me as a mapper following a quick search in

Re: [Talk-GB] Roundabout, ways and relationship policies

One more thing about roundabouts as if it isn't complex enough already: which street/road name do roundabouts get from all the roads entering them? I can never decide so I just don't add a name ( except where it is a major roundabout on a ring road for instance which tends to get and individual na

[Talk-GB] Roundabout, ways and relationship policies

Hi all I'm the guilty party who split up the roundabouts in question to put the bus route relation through it. What do we want correct roundabout junction tags or correct bus routes? I did it this way by splitting the roundabout because it's obviously a roundabout from it shape and relationships

[Talk-GB] Railway route relations

Richard - you'll have to explain all your acronyms Peter - I'm confused also about franchise operators and network rail as to what we show in a relation. Until we know better I will tag the physical infrastructure as Strategic Routes. Perhaps the best tagging for train routes is with the Franchis

[Talk-GB] GPS to stop working

Good coverage of the issue here (has a link to the original US Govt agency report|) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/21/gao_predicts_gps_failure/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Rendering places of worship in Mapnik

Some months ago I raised this issue in the Mapnik list and everyone agreed that rendering mosques (and other religions) with christian symbols didn't make sense and would be a trivial fix. Both Osmarender and now JOSM have this fixed. Green crescent and star seems to be the favourite image for mos

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