Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

B, 2, etc for shops) but `addr:block` seems to be for a very different use case (grid iron city blocks - Fifteenth and...). The simple `name` or `addr:housename` tag kind of fits the hierarchy, so KISS? Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wou

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

lass bottles (skip with holes, but as you say can be more specialised for clothes, shoes, etc.): https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6538028486 * amenity=recycling * recycling_type=container Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

d the missing building I'm about to add...) Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick ___ Talk-GB maili

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

to quick to add USRN tags as they first became available? As several of you appear to have additional sources to validate USRN, could you offer any suggestions to alter these specific highway=residential please? James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England

Re: [Talk-GB] Lorries can't limbo

way lane tagging is used to model the A1 further north (turn:lanes=through|through|right), as it's not human readable on most renders (#include ). James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK's first tile layer

...) - you can only average all data. Thanks for your interesting work - I remember tales from Registers of Scotland of an OS baseline survey error that 'moved' the East coast by many meters proving 'You Are Here' is hard to quantify! James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

er, not every roundabout on the map). Save your effort for more complex junctions where software understandably needs a helping hand with real-world oddities. Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

rather than two plus the road. James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstr

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

of 'High Street'. I still added U*RN tags to my local area - like a 21st century alt_name tag! :-) James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James

Re: [Talk-GB] What is a Department Store

nal commercial carrying... TTFN, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstree

Re: [Talk-GB] barrier=kerb on highways may be blocking OSRM (Car) routing

ng"] : https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/P5YJames Brilliant - there is a rash of barrier=kerb in North Tyneside (Cullercoates and Whitley Bay), which rather explains the original routing issues. Time to fire up JOSM... Thanks, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, Engl

Re: [Talk-GB] What is farmland?

cle survey, and different imagery providers whilst accepting it's not going to be as canonical as a housing estate! TTFN, James James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James

[Talk-GB] barrier=kerb on highways may be blocking OSRM (Car) routing

tag, or is familiar with the inner workings of OSRM or similar engines please? Thanks, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick

Re: [Talk-GB] GPS devices

ier than the M+/RS+, but a proper "survey spec" receiver. -- Cheers, James Harrison signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Tagging farmland in the UK

And no, I wasn't avoiding natural = fell as it doesn't render in Mapnik; there was a lot of existing heath sketched in before I started, so it seemed best to continue! Thanks for any advice you can offer (and happy mapping...), https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick James -- James

[Talk-GB] Mapping Shropshire's rights of way

Hi all, Thanks for all the replies and advice. My general take-away from this is that council data should be used to guide a ground-survey effort with a GPS. I wasn't aware that so much red tape existed around licensing, and that the data isn't always a true reflection in the field.

[Talk-GB] Mapping Shropshire's rights of way

Hi all, I'd like to make Geocaching in my county (Shropshire) more accessible to those who do not have OS maps, or simply want the convenience of navigating from a mobile device. This relies on OpenStreetMap having comprehensive mapping of the county's Rights of Way - at the moment, it does

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

ifferent capture locations, what would produce the most useful images for map editing? Cheers, James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Historic England designation data

Hi, This may be old news. Historic England have made their designation data available as shapefile downloads. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/data-downloads/ The following datasets are available. * Listed

[Talk-GB] Proposal to do some mapping in North Lancashire

to reach people I would use talk-gb. On 13/05/16 10:50, Roger James wrote: Hi, I am proposing to do some mapping in a couple of parishes in North Lancashire. These are "Slyne-with-Hest" and "Nether Kellet". I plan to use the latest OS OpenMap Local dataset to pr

[Talk-gb-thenorth] Proposal to do some mapping in North Lancashire

Hi, I am proposing to do some mapping in a couple of parishes in North Lancashire. These are "Slyne-with-Hest" and "Nether Kellet". I plan to use the latest OS OpenMap Local dataset to provide basic building boundaries where none previously exist. I will be using OSTN02 data to do the

Re: [Talk-GB] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/15 13:31, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 04/11/2015 12:54, James Tait wrote: >> ... I stumbled upon a changeset[1] that highlighted questions >> I already had about the tagging of roads in Mickleover. > > I'd tend to agree th

Re: [Talk-GB] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

uld be a trunk road, and the A516 might be primary. JT [0] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/26773899 [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25091307 - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrd

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

The signs dont seem to be very up-to-date. The newest ones I can see are from October. Is this the same for everyone? ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

:-) ) the platforms individually marked ( as platforms ) and the stops as railway:halt ( Kilburn High Road looks similarly done and good) Thanks for everybody's advice comment so far! James On 9 March 2013 14:30, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote: On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, James Churchman wrote

[Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

, the distribution looks like this: 0 times : e.g. London Bridge, this is only a Way there is no Node for either the Rail or Tube 1 single time : this is the rarest case and as far as I can see the correct case Borough, Farringdon, St James' Park, Westminister and a few others are the few single tagged

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

direction tracks as railway=station which i feel should both be changed to be railway=stop or public_transport=platform and a new, single node should be railway=station for the entire station? Think i am starting to understand how it should be done :-) BR James On 8 March 2013 21:35, Aidan McGinley

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Public Sector Mapping Agreement

that interested in mapping the legal route of the right of way, or are we more interested in the utility of knowing that a track on the ground is considered to follow a right of way and that you can ride your horse/cart/motorbike/bicycle down there without being hassled? James

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder updates - postal addresses, house maps and error maps

YO31 0XN and streets around there. It doesn't appear to show up in the error page though or in the search. Can support for relation:street be easily added? Cheers James [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:street ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk

[Talk-GB] Mapnik rendering of of aeroway=taxiway

circular ways were intended to be just that and not areas. Had quite a few local airfields get rendered as greyblobs because their perimeter taxi ways :( James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

or anything. I've a similar situation in my area. There are some disused roads that are visible on the ground if you know where to look, but others have been completely erased from the ground but still exist in the Locator data. James ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging open and closed parts of a campus

constituents and tagged the appropriate ones as access=private. There are also fences at the boundaries of the private areas so I've added barrier=fence to the same areas. I suspect that this will also give more distinct rendering of the site. Thanks, James

[Talk-GB] Tagging open and closed parts of a campus

of the boundaries between the open and closed parts of the site - what's the best way to map these areas so that it's obvious which parts are closed, and yet the Campus is still present as a whole? James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging open and closed parts of a campus

is on the ground. I do have a pretty good idea of where the boundary runs though, which is why I was hoping to come up with something for the area. James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Project of the week - trace a village off of OSSV?, (Kai Krueger)

At risk of being a fly in the ointment, judging by the largely favourable responses to this idea, I for one would like to register myself as -1. Rant Please don't map an area if you are not familiar with it. I have done some armchair mapping, but only where I am familiar with the area, and

Re: [Talk-GB] Offsets between OS and OSM data (was Building with mapseg)

with the original prj files. I just tried in my area (york) with the modified prj file pointed to by Chris Hill and the difference is only around 30cm. The discrepancy between streetview tiles, vectormap and osm can be seen in this merkaartor screenshot: http://albanarts.com/~james/osm/pics

[Talk-GB] Ward Boundaries

seeing...does this mean linework is 'handed' and if so how do we know which way round the lines aredoes a tag like left:ward=Chobham do anything...will it render?? James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey

in the accuracy and the image would not have been acceptedand don't forget that we're checking the image accurace to 1:1250 scale Ordnance Survey Mastermap. My polite suggestion would be that OSM data alignment is the issue, not the postition of the air survey. James

Re: [Talk-GB] Opportunity for OSM to give a talk at University of Edinburgh

I see someone has put there name down at this event for giving a talk - I am prepared to contribute something too, if you would like soe support, James Stewart Dr James Stewart Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation University of Edinburgh http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk http

Re: [Talk-GB] tracing lakes with Potlatch

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:37:58 +0100 From: Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net Subject: [Talk-GB] tracing lakes with Potlatch To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Message-ID: 1270557478.9949.39.ca...@whg21-laptop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear All, I've been keen for a while to

Re: [Talk-GB] Grauniad top 100 websites

, borrow that tag-line? Wouldn't that require a long discussion on licensing conditions with the Grauniad? (insert smiley of choice ...) -- David James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Virgin Train Traces (Richard Mann)

richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: A quick look at oepnvkarte indicates we have all of Virgin's operating routes already. Maybe some of the traces aren't great, but I think some tracing off NPE ought to fix that, surely? While positional info is probably in the trains (though I

Re: [Talk-GB] Map of Trace data, was: Re: Stitching Aerial Photographs (John Robert Peterson)

traces). if there is a way to reveal the ID, please let me know. Thanks, Phil James OJ W wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Phil James peerja...@googlemail.com wrote: John Robert Peterson wrote: Do we have anything that will draw map tiles of the trace data? (I'd like this for another

[Talk-GB] Map of Trace data, was: Re: Stitching Aerial Photographs (John Robert Peterson)

for rural areas, and whilst it is possible to view the traces (if any) in potlatch, it's a long winded way of finding out what still needs surveying. Phil James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes on whois records?

and (C) exceeding query rate or volume limits. The data is provided on an 'as-is' basis and may lag behind the register. Access may be withdrawn or restricted at any time. Regards, James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] waterway=construction

, but probably a little too much to have proposed and not yet confirmed cuts included. The whole area around the Jubilee junction is confusing enough to map as it is, quarrying has resulted in lakes, paths and tracks that I've never seen present on any other map. James

[Talk-GB] waterway=construction

ignoring for now that the proposed cut is confusingly tagged tunnel=yes,disused=yes). James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

a project titled 'Discovering Lost Ways' that recently wound down having failed to record even a single lost right of way. A new working group is considering what to do next... http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/enjoying/places/rightsofway/swgrow/default.aspx HTH, James

Re: [Talk-GB] Deriving data from aerial imagery

to know. I guess the next question is - what's the best application for doing this? Regards, James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding unofficial cycle routes

, take the first left, after five hundred meters you come to... Regards, James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 33, Issue 24

is - I've used this principle to map some of the 'new' (!974, FGS!) North Yorks/ Cumbria boundary, using the old district boundaries - might not be perfect, but if someone knows different... Phil James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

Thanks for the replies, I had an interesting conversation with Muki at UCL on our interests in the technology studies aspects of OSM. Sorry for including the whole digest, i wrote the mail from my small phone, hard to tell what was going on! James On 14 Dec 2008, at 6:40, Peter Miller wrote

[Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

I am down from Edinburgh university and wondered if any academics at ucl working on osm might have time to meet about work on project. I do mapping, but am interested in doing research on osm. Regards James stewart - Message from talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org - Send Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

I am down from Edinburgh university and wondered if any academics at ucl working on osm might have time to meet about work on project. I do mapping, but am interested in doing research on osm. Regards James stewart - Message from talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org - Send Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

I guess one way to break up UK mapping data monoploy is for other owners of important GI to release it, such as local authorities, http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/global/2008/august/52.htm James Stewart On 29 Aug 2008, at 12:31, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

[Talk-GB] Natural:Cave

://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Cave Warm Regards, James Olney (WebJames) -- Tel: 00447809457487 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.happyjames.co.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http