I would hope that whoever might fix the bugs in the rendering
stylesheet would start with those rather than discard all of them and
start with a new bug list on github.
That is step 3 on the roadmap described on the openstreetmap-carto repo:
I have been using prow:ref, just because I came across it in the mailing
lists. I have not added many (~60 prows) and I don't mind converting those
over to prow_ref if that is the consensus.
My preference would be for prow:ref, as the colon is the 'standard' way to
define namespaces, and I am not
However, there are also instances of highway=no, where roads have been
realigned or ripped up, should these also be removed from the database?
I think highway=no is typically used as a temporary tag to try to stop
remote mappers from adding something from a source that is not up to
date. In
For those interested in use of OSM data, in the latest Lewis [1] at
~55 min they show a 'fictionalised' OSM map of Oxford (the
Jericho/Walton Manor area). It definitely uses OSM data but with lots
of modifications to include features from the episode, and to remove
inconvenience things like
Tim,
I have customers with 1000+ trucks around the country between them who are
extremely interested in the precise location of the torch route for exactly
this reason. Are you saying that their potential use of OSM is in some way
invalid?
The rejection of the torch route was not because it
This one is at least twice as good.
http://binged.it/GPumvM
Craig
On 9 March 2012 14:26, Mike Valiant mike_vali...@hotmail.com wrote:
The node below it should be tagged as: under_flight_path=yes!
From: h...@cantab.net
To: nick.w.aus...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:33:30 +
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*and where those contributions have since been superceded or washed
out by subsequent changes*
I think people understand this is important, but the wording is so
vague and examples of appropriate usage given on the list vary wildly.
The example you gave still allows for IP to be present in the
I've been working down the list in ID order (though you can sort the
columns if you want)
And some. I ordered by type and randomly clicked on a dozen and
haven't found one you haven't already squashed.
I have better luck finding things using badmap.
Craig
On 23 March 2012 08:51,
I just tried 2 options with my default editor set to remote. The
default edit URL [1] from browse/way/32795934 does work, but throws an
error:
Editing failed - make sure JOSM or Merkaartor is loaded and the
remote control option is enabled
A simplified version of the URL that would be useful in
Incidentally, is just knowing the footpaths evidence enough to tag with
odbl=clean? Or is there the risk that the footpath was created with iffy
sources?
As I read it, if the nodes along the way are clean then by marking the
way odbl clean you're just checking the properties are clean... so if
(in Potlatch, I don't know JOSM)
In JOSM you select the lake outline and the island outline and press
Ctrl+Alt+A (or Tools -- Create multipolygon).
I seem to recall something about getting the inner and outer paths running
in the correct direction?
I've heard rumours that that was once the
Not sure how widespread the update is, but certainly the Bing Imagery
covering the Isle of Wight has recently been updated to imagery taken within
the last few months.
There is new imagery (within ~6 months) in the North Yorkshire area.
Specifically I've seen new imagery just south of
So what does that mean re the OS saying the council copyrights the data,
and the councils say the OS copyrights the data situation?
Well I think it means that when the councils say the OS copyrights
the data that you can show them a little piece of paper that says
otherwise. What would be
As part of Osborne's statement yesterday a document titled Further
Detail on Open Data Measures in the Autumn Statement 2011 was
released.
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Further_detail_on_Open_Data_measures_in_the_Autumn_Statement_2011.pdf
Of specific interest to OSM are
aren't tied in a traditional sense? My
feeling is to just use operator=* and brewery=* as it is unrealistic
represent it in more detail?
Craig
On 27 November 2011 11:05, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 18 November 2011 12:39, Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com
wrote
:07, Craig
Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote:
Nobody disagreed. There haven't been any other suggestions, or the
objections I expected to the use of real_beer.
Go on then, I'll disagree - why do we need a new key called real_beer
(currently 1 use in the database) when
Any thoughts? I don't know how the naptan data was imported to know if this
is a common problem or not?
It isn't a problem as such. The following tag naptan:BusStopType=CUS
means that it is a customary stop, i.e., somewhere that the driver
will pull over but it isn't necessarily marked on the
It is a bit of an abuse of the tag, but makes sense to me, so how
about brewery=no?
I think this is backwards. There is nothing wrong with naming
something a brewery but it not being one. The marker should be applied
to the tagQuery list, similar to Keepright. You could then write more
Also I haven't checked off licences - not sure what to search for?
There has been a little discussion on the talk page about this. I
think Andy is mainly interested in specialist shops (shop=alcohol) and
noting whether they sell real ale, either draught or bottled. As a
first punt I suggested
to the tag just not being there), eg
operator=independent (?)
Adam
On 14 Nov 2011, at 18:41, Craig Loftus wrote:
On 14 November 2011 14:58, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
I just wondered whether when mapping breweries whether we are using
name for the name of the brewery and operator
sorry for entering the discussion this late, but I have just been pointed here
right now because I do not usually follow talk-gb.
I do however think, that this stuff should not be UK only :)
I can't speak for the original poster, but I think it was perceived as
a UK completeness type project,
When I announced Open Brewpub Map last year some people on the German
Mailinglist also started talking about how to tag ordinary breweries (there
are a lot of them in Germany). This is exactly what your proposal now
defines.
Would you give a summary of what suggestions emerged? Or perhaps
Brian Prangle wrote:
Perhaps we should also have industrial=cider?
It exists. The table of values on the wiki page is supposed to apply
to both craft and industrial keys.
Richard Fairhurst wrote
(not quite fair - they do own Knights who make some decent enough, though
perhaps slightly
There is:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:industrial%3Dauto_wrecker
and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project/Oil_and_Gas_Infrastructur
e
which use the industrial key already and so far I can't find any
pages using industry key (apart from the brewery page).
I think that is a
On 14 November 2011 14:58, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
I just wondered whether when mapping breweries whether we are using
name for the name of the brewery and operator for the company that
brews there. For smaller companies they may not have named their
brewery, so name might do for the
Who happen to be the kind of people to invent new colon-delineated key
namespaces and find them easy to use, as it happens.
I almost feel guilty for bring them up, but only almost because it has
been illuminating. In mentioning them, apart from trying to be as open
as possible, I was also
If someone puts up a wiki page with the proposed tagging scheme, I will set
up a renderer for it.
Okay. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Breweries
I've tried to distil the suggestions from the whole thread copying the
structure of Graham's Historic Britain project.
On 4 November 2011 22:10, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
On 04/11/2011 10:49, Craig Loftus wrote:
Using that as a basis we could tag
building=distillery
building=brewery
building=cider_press
building=perry_press
How would you tag multi use buildings?
For cider and perry I think
Using that as a basis we could tag
building=distillery
building=brewery
building=cider_press
building=perry_press
(that should remove any spurious entries like Brewery Apartments if we
just do a search on names)
Working within existing key definitions, I'm not sure this solves that
Looks like there's only partial coverage in Oxford as well...
http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk/maps/cycle-parking-heat-map/?zoom=13lat=51.75754lon=-1.2523layers=BT
Really? I would have said it was pretty comprehensively mapped in
Oxford. The heat-map shows nicely where all the shopping areas
PS I wonder whether the stands at Oxford Brookes Uni don’t have any capacity
tags. They don’t glow anywhere near as much on the map.
You're right about the Brookes stands. I've just applied for a job
there, so those might see some attention soon *fingers crossed*
Craig
On 23 September 2011
than one hundredth of a percent of the release?
Regards,
Craig
On 19 September 2011 10:48, Peter J Stoner stone...@mytraveline.info wrote:
In message CAK5An89pm9i_BOnCkF39wz0+THwdp6+njGN83MaEv3DXioWrgw@mail.g
mail.com
Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote:
I came across
I came across a stop that has been added since the import, so I found
the stop data in the NaPTAN release on data.gov.uk, parsed it with
naptan2osm and added.
Specifically: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1436667392
I just thought I'd best check that there are not objections to using
A search shows up 2 proposals that might also be of interest, although
they both seem a little insane to me.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/access_restrictions_1.5
(RFC start: 2011-04-26)
I randomly came across the following routing errors with openrouteservice.org:
http://craigloftus.net/tmp/routing.png
I saw the first problem with the roundabout and when trying other
variations I spotted the 2nd at the bottom.
I can't see anything in the data that would result in such
I've quickly put together a simple tool to search Nominatim for place
names and return the corresponding OS Grid reference.
http://craigloftus.net/os_grid/
If anyone interested or bored could try and break it, or suggest
features, that would be grand. One feature I plan to implement is
return
Right... I'm perhaps half done, depending on how badly I've cocked up
the first half.
Richard can you give the following URLs a go?
http://craigloftus.vmd.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/TA/TA_Airport.shp
the file you want to use.
I'll probably be able to sort out the listings and a search tool tomorrow.
Cheers,
Craig
On 14 June 2011 17:39, Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote:
Right... I'm perhaps half done, depending on how badly I've cocked up
the first half.
Richard can you
On Jun 13, 2011 8:32 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote:
I may be showing my ignorance, but isn't S3 a virtual server that you can
run code on etc?
I thought that all this needs is a web (or does it have to be ftp) server?
Not quite. S3 is a web storage 'solution'. It can't run
Steps (a) to (e) require someone
with FTP space and bandwidth to
spare
Roughly how much bandwidth do you think would make a worth while
contribution?
I'm happy to donate what ever I have remaining on my current package and
upgrade within reason (with ITOs help or not).
Craig
On 12 June 2011 20:53, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Steps (a) to (e) require someone with FTP space and
bandwidth to spare and I don't have either, or I'd have done it by now.
Can you give a rough estimate for how much bandwidth would make a
worthwhile contribution?
I'm happy
For those curious as to what these maps look like, here's one I photographed
last week:
http://www.systemeD.net/temp/onward_travel_falmouth.jpg
(4.6Mb file)
Thanks, I was curious. I was tempted to stroll to the station at lunch
to find my local one, but it is raining now :(
The rather
I was just filling a gap between segments in the Cumbria Way and
happened to notice there are still bridges in the Lakes with access=no
tags from the November 2009 floods. I checked a few of the ones around
Keswick and found council and newspaper reports stating that they had
reopened, one as far
Its quite visible in the JOSM plugin, under the address tab.
Craig
On 24 February 2011 13:58, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM
sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On 24/02/2011 13:42, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 24/02/2011 13:14, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM wrote:
Recently, I have noticed a number of MapDust
On 16 February 2011 16:33, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
In the last few minutes; yes, thanks - I'd used boundary:fence instead
of barrier:fence - doh!
There is a slight problem under mapnik with this use of barrier=*
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3395
At the moment its
Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
What I don't see is any way to indicate that the information added could
benefit from a ground-survey. NaPTAN imports include the tag
NaPTAN:verified=no. Should we not have something similar for data
taken straight from OS Open data, regardless
Ralph Smyth wrote:
In terms of existing traffic count data, the problem is that
generally (and indeed as is the
case in Oxfordshire) it tends to
be available only for A and B
roads rather than many
unclassified (and C) roads.
I suspected the same but I hope (I haven't had chance to check)
, 2011 at 01:58:43PM +, Craig Loftus wrote:
I like the idea. And although I like the simplicity, I think it might be
worth somehow taking account for seasonable variability. There a number
of
Agreed. In Cornwall, for example, roads that are very quiet for most of
the year become insanely
I like the idea. And although I like the simplicity, I think it might be
worth somehow taking account for seasonable variability. There a number of
quiet roads in the Lakes etc. atm that I wouldn't want to walk down in the
summer. Perhaps the simplest approach would be using traffic:note to say
I don't really want to raise the issue again but I found the new map
of ODBL coverage (http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/)
interesting as it literally highlights the effect the new license and
terms will have on map coverage in the UK.
The town I currently map in, Oxford, would be wiped
elsewhere.
I'm afraid you misread Mapper J, he has no particular interest in copyright
matters, but doesn't want to see his tag-fiddling, whatever its perceived value,
go to waste.
Cheers,
Craig
On 16 November 2010 13:41, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Craig Loftus wrote
Does anyone have advice about how to tag a fruiterer's warehouse/yard?
A fruiterer being a supplier of fruit and vegetables to shops and
restaurants.
shop=* doesn't seem quite right for somewhere supplying only to the
trade, and probably mostly being a distribution point for deliveries.
I've
Which is more accurate: the OS Streetview data that shows MHW (spring, I
assume) or the PGS data?
I haven't used it for coast lines, but doesn't OS Vector District
include the high water mark? This would be the most 'accurate',
although not necessarily the most 'correct' source? Certainly
Perhaps OS would be good enough to edit the appropriate way to remove
the not:name tag? It would seem like the 'least they could do' in
return for having the error pointed out to them.
One of the few benefits I hope to see from the Tories Big Society
cuts will be some kind of closer relationship
OSM has the apostrophe after being surveyed to check (thanks Craig!).
Although I did make the correction and a number of other; this
instance wasn't based on a ground survey, I just decide it made sense.
The track runs passed a cemetery which indicates that it is is
holiness himself that owns
were originally talking about St-as-in-Saint!
Tim
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permission to trace and use a map 'owned' by the
University of Bath but it transpires they don't have the right to
grant that permission...
If someone can reply with a map mods. email address that I can chase
up with that would be appreciated.
Sorry
Craig Loftus
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