[Talk-GB] Fw: [OSM-talk] Travel Discounts to SotM 2011

2011-02-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
the fares start creeping up anyway. At the moment full fares with United seem to be just over £500 so if the reduction was as much as 20% this could bring it down to around £400. Nick -Forwarded by Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent on 08/02/2011 01:54PM - To: t...@openstreetmap.org t

[Talk-GB] OS OpenData contours

2011-02-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Am interested in using the OS OpenData contour set for an augmented reality app for walkers (extension of the OpenTrailView idea). What I have in mind is to load them into a database and implement a lookup facility where the elevation at a particular lat/lon can be obtained by querying the

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData contours

2011-02-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Phil, Am interested in using the OS OpenData contour set for an augmented reality app for walkers (extension of the OpenTrailView idea). What I have in mind is to load them into a database and implement a lookup facility where the elevation at a particular lat/lon can be obtained

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData contours

2011-02-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I am very interested in this data. I can host it if that's useful to people (assuming the traffic doesn't become crazy!). That would be very useful, thanks. Depending on the data size I may be able to host some of it too. Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing

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

2011-02-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I think automatically importing the OS data for areas where OSM currently has little to no coverage - or coverage merely traced from Yahoo imagery - is a great idea.  Many people don't want bots to trample on their 'patch' which they have carefully surveyed, which is fine. Any bot would have to

[Talk-GB] Tile based OSM data server

2011-01-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, ISTR someone on talk-gb mentioning the desirability of a tile based OSM data server about a week or so ago, where you can query based on standard x,y,z tiles. I said I would dig it out and it is available under OSM SVN at http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/free-map.org.uk/ws/trsvr.php It

[Talk-GB] Freemap and OpenTrailView moved to own SVN repository

2011-01-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As from today Freemap (UK OSM walkers' maps), OpenTrailView (StreetView-like connected panoramas for hiking trails), and the demo WebGL OSM viewer have been moved from the main OSM subversion repository to Freemap's own repository. You can check out the source code at

[Talk-GB] Freemap (UK OSM walking map) updates

2011-01-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Have made a few updates to Freemap (www.free-map.org.uk) recently.  Here's a summary: * You can once again add annotations  (anything which might be of interest to walkers, such as interesting views, path directions, points of historical interest, problems or anything else) to the map;

[Talk-GB] OpenTrailView update: now with walkthroughs and links with OSM data

2011-01-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Would like to announce an update to OpenTrailView (OTV; now at http://www.opentrailview.org/), which I introduced at Girona last year and which aims to collect linked 360 degree panoramas of walking / hiking routes a la Google StreetView. A longer post will appear in due course on the

Re: [Talk-GB] WebGL

2011-01-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Bob, I developed a prototype a little over a year ago, at http://www.free-map.org.uk/3d/. It overlaid OSM data on NASA SRTM height data to produce a 3D scene. However due to changes in the WebGL spec it is currently non functional. I have not had time to update it as I have been

Re: [Talk-GB] WebGL

2011-01-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
-gb@openstreetmap.org From: David Paleino da...@debian.org Date: 20/01/2011 11:36AM Cc: t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] WebGL On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:18:56 +, Nick Whitelegg wrote: [..] The code however is open source so can be installed on any server. Where is the code hosted

Re: [Talk-GB] Update to OSM Analysis

2011-01-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
ITO are pleased to offer out updated version of OSM Analysis with a thematic overview page allowing us to see how we are getting on in different parts of the county. To get the top prize 95% of the roads represented in OS Locator need to be in OSM and there are 17 districts which achieve that

Re: [Talk-GB] WebGL

2011-01-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I developed a prototype a little over a year ago, at http://www.free-map.org.uk/3d/. It overlaid OSM data on NASA SRTM height data to produce a 3D scene. However due to changes in the WebGL spec it is currently non functional. I have not had time to update it as I have been concentrating on

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I think that a static (periodically refreshed) 'binary tile' architecture where the OSM DB is boiled down into tiles designed for the single purpose of being rendered quickly is the way to go. Ideally a map viewer can then call upon both the standard bitmap tiles and the vector tiles and combine

Re: [Talk-GB] Stupid tags (was: natural=tree)

2010-11-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
What a stupid thing to do (and denotation is a stupid word to use too). Thanks, that gave me a good laugh. I think we can add denotation=cluster to the tagging hall of shame alongside smoothness=very_horrible. Any others? Not sure, but an anagram of denotation would be an appropriate thing

[Talk-GB] Surrey meetup confirmed

2010-11-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, After discussion the Surrey pub meet is happening, on Wed 8th Dec 8pm at the Sovereigns pub, Woking, close to the railway station: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.31516lon=-0.55989zoom=17layers=M http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/81/810/Sovereigns/Woking Nick

Re: [Talk-GB] Time for another Surrey meetup?

2010-11-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
How about Thursday Dec 9th then? If not, the 1st, 2nd or 8th? Nick -80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: - To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk From: 80n 80n...@gmail.com Date: 15/11/2010 02:40PM Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Time for another Surrey meetup

[Talk-GB] New Freemap!

2010-11-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, The OSM for walkers site Freemap now has a new home on the Swansea University Computer Society tile server... thanks to Chris Jones for the offer of space! The site is still very basic at the moment, basically a slippy map and nothing else - though I'm aiming to add extra features when

[Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I think some discussion of this has come up before (some time ago) but how many people are tagging footpaths with their council reference numbers? Reason I ask is that I'm in the process of overhauling Freemap and one thing I'd like to do is allow people to tag footpaths with (perhaps

Re: [Talk-GB] Volunteers wanted to lead mapping party with MapAction, Swindon, Nov 20/21

2010-10-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi Tim, I could be potentially interested in this, as long as the following are satisfied: 1. Will there be GPS units provided? 2. Can I get there by public transport / be picked up from Swindon station? 3. Presumably I don't need any specialist knowledge, i.e the only knowledge needed is

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

2010-10-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
-talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org wrote: - To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org From: SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk Sent by: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org Date: 24/10/2010 11:37PM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2011 UK? Setting up a GB OSMF chapter? On 24/10/2010 18:15, Gregory

[Talk-GB] Footpaths mapping party (Midhurst, W sussex) this Saturday, time and venue confirmed

2010-10-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Just a quick update on the Midhurst area footpaths mapping party: it is now almost certain to go ahead, meet at the Old Town Hall Coffee House, Market Square, Midhurst, W Sussex map (12 miles north of Chichester on the A286) at 9.45am this Saturday 16th. From the internet it looks like this

[Talk-GB] Provisional footpaths mapping party - Midhurst area, West Sussex - UPDATE

2010-09-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, (Andy - are you interested in this BTW?) A quick update on the provisional footpaths party for the Midhurst area, West Sussex. This party aims to introduce people to the subtleties of footpath mapping, fill a few gaps in a generally well-mapped area, and enjoy some nice

[Talk-GB] Provisional footpaths mapping party - Midhurst area, West Sussex

2010-09-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Further to a previous email about this I'm proposing to hold a footpaths mapping party in the Midhurst area of West Sussex on the weekend of October 9/10 - probably the Saturday only at this stage. The idea will be to meet in Midhurst town, and will help fill in some gaps in

Re: [Talk-GB] Long Distance Paths

2010-08-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I don't think there is anyone rendering it explicitly at the moment, however, it would be trivial for someone to take the OpenCycleMap code and apply a similar style to an OpenWalkMap. Having said that, there are a number of people who are experimenting with different map displays, so there is

[Talk-GB] Anyone up for a final Surrey/Hants mapping event before the winter?

2010-08-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Was thinking it might be an idea to have a final Surrey/Hants mapping event before it starts getting too dark and horrible - i.e. no later than late October. Was thinking of somewhere where we could fill in some countryside mapping and maybe some town POI mapping for those who

[Talk-GB] OS LandForm Panorama (contour data) parsing tools?

2010-08-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, I'm interested (depending on how much work is involved - as I'm focusing on OpenTrailView at the moment), as I belive one or two others have done, in overlaying OS Landform Panorama contours and OSM footpaths on VectorMap District data. To save effort, are there any open source scripts

Re: [Talk-GB] A quick question for the cyclists

2010-06-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi Andy, You were in the same place as me this weekend more or less!!! I recognise that. I walked from Andover to Winchester on Sunday afternoon and walked a small section of this cycle track near the Mayfly at Fullerton. You weren't in the area then? I'd just suggest ncn_ref=246. I think,

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Mapping Priorities

2010-06-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I just had a look at the UK Mapping Priorities page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Mapping_Priorities and I noticed that Darlington has gone from unmapped to awesome over the last few months. Who wants to step up and take credit for such immense progress on what was the UK's highest

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and footways

2010-06-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
(when to use footway or path) I use footway for surfaced paths and path for unsurfaced, unmaintained mud paths, typically in the country. I don't think there's a right answer to this though! For actual legal rights of way, many believe that the

Re: [Talk-GB] Comparing OS data

2010-06-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I have found ITO World's layer of name anomalies rather useful, but I could only see it in an editor, so I put together a comparison page, using the techniques from the sautter.com transparent map. Interesting. Note there are several small streets in my

Re: [Talk-GB] Worrying Edits in Southampton

2010-06-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Greg, Yes, there are a large number of POIs not in the correct place. Whether these are a genuine mistake or some idiot trying to be funny I don't know, but I think they should be reverted. I think a sysadmin needs to do that. Nick From: Greg Auger

Re: [Talk-GB] Worrying Edits in Southampton

2010-06-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Nick Whitelegg nick_whitel...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Greg, Yes, there are a large number of POIs not in the correct place. Whether these are a genuine mistake or some idiot trying to be funny I don't know, but I think they should be reverted. I think a sysadmin

[Talk-GB] Scotland countryside mapping

2010-06-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, For the first time since OSM came into being I've just now visited low(ish)land Scotland, i.e. Dumfries and Galloway and wondered what Scottish mappers typically do about these situations. Firstly, while (I believe) you can walk just about anywhere in Scotland, except during

[Talk-GB] Reminder: Andover mapping party this weekend

2010-05-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, A reminder on behalf of Andy Street that there is a mapping party this weekend (both days) at Andover, Hampshire. A bit of background (from the wiki page): The county of Hampshire is increasingly well mapped in OpenStreetMap with good coverage of a number of towns and cities

Re: [Talk-GB] Definitive Ways - tagging? (was Re: Talk-GB Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19)

2010-05-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
If you've got reasonable non-copyright evidence that there's a PROW across the field, use designation=public_footpath. If there's a path that people seem to use, use the highway=path tag (or some other highway tag if you prefer), and maybe a surface tag. You can have a OSM way with just a

[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey talk tomorrow

2010-05-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, In case of interest here: There is a British Computer Society talk given by a couple of guys from the Ordnance Survey on OpenSpace and the release of free data at my work place tomorrow. It's at Room HC029, Southampton Solent University, 6pm for 6.30pm. Nick

[Talk-GB] Fw: Definitive Paths Map Source

2010-05-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Apparently OS regards the PRoW data as containing IP belonging to the local authorities (who maintain the definitive maps), and so were unable to release them as part of OpenData. There is an agreement that allows OS to include PRoW data in their Explorer and Landranger Maps. Sorry, meant to send

Re: [Talk-GB] GB Chapter

2010-04-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Might be cool to set up a Saturday mapping party and social combined somewhere easy to reach and needing some mapping between London and Birmingham. We could thrash out the bones of a UK chapter and see who's interested in working on it over a beer or two. Anyone want to look and suggest a

Re: [Talk-GB] Workington Bridges

2010-04-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
We had a discussion about this point during the Kidderminster mapping party on Saturday. Our decision (relating to the Black Country in our case) was that we would use OS OpenData StreetView, especially in partly mapped areas, but we would record some info on the wiki for each area covered so

[Talk-GB] Reminder: Three Counties Mapping party (Haslemere, Surrey) this Saturday

2010-04-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Just a reminder that the Three Counties mapping party is taking place this Saturday 17th April at Haslemere, Surrey meeting 9.30am in the Costa Coffee on Haslemere High Street. Background: Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire is increasingly well mapped in OpenStreetMap with good

[Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Despite being disappointed at the lack of public right of way/field boundary info in the OS releases, I have to admit that VectorMap District does *look* very nice, kind of like Landranger minus contours and footpaths. So I'm wondering, would it be possible to create maps which combine the

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Does that mean there's nothing at all for countryside users in the OS data being released? Or does Meridian have it? Sorry to follow up my own post - it would appear not. A real shame about the lack of countryside data in this free OS dataset. The Meridian data doesn't really contain anything

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi Andy, I'm not sure the OS has reliable footpath data for the countryside anyway. Last time I chatted with the OS about this they were interested in whether OSM could work with them to update rural ROW footpaths because they don't survey them anymore. Really? - that's interesting. Do you

[Talk-GB] Three Counties (Surrey, W Sussex, Hants) Mapping Party Sat April 17th - date confirmed

2010-03-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
To follow on from my earlier email, I'd like to now confirm the date of the Three Counties mini mapping party (Haslemere, Surrey) as Saturday April 17th. Aim will be to complete a number of the villages and small towns in the Haslemere area. Details on the wiki at

[Talk-GB] Three Counties (Surrey/W Sussex/Hants) mini-mapping party Saturday April 17th

2010-03-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Would like to propose a mini mapping party for Sat April 17th to cover the Surrey/W Sussex/Hampshire borderlands. This area is generally well mapped but there are a number of missing streets in several of the villages / small towns in the area - e.g. Hindhead, Midhurst, Witley,

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath numbering

2010-03-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I wouldn?t take PRoW refs from any source unless I was completely confident that it?s compatible with OSM?s license Sorry, meant to raise this point in my last reply. Would any source also include footpath signs with the number on? This is common practice on the Isle of Wight, and I myself

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Oxted, Reminder: Maidstone 27th March

2010-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Anyone want to arrange something an April? hint hint ;-) Yes, I can still do but due to likely work pressure it will now have to be April 10/11 or 17/18 - I'm probably going to have to work until about 1pm-2pm on the weekend of 24/25 and May 1/2/3. I'll see how Haslemere's doing and if it

Re: [Talk-GB] Kent County Council Highways Gazetteer

2010-03-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
No idea whether c-class road references are nationally unique. It seems both plausible and implausible at the same time. The C-numbers seem to low (1000) for them to be national. You'd probably end up with 6-figure C roads if they were nationally numbered... Also Kent isn't in region 3 for

Re: [Talk-GB] Two dozen mapping parties

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
The residential areas and suburbs of *any* town aren't places you'd normally go unless you had to, but we do to map them. Mapping Berry Hill or Ladybrook wouldn't be any different to mapping a suburb in any other town in the UK. To be fair it can be quite pleasant mapping the nicer residential

Re: [Talk-GB] Two dozen mapping parties

2010-02-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi Andy, Had a couple in mind, firstly a mini-party for Haslemere (surrey) which is partly complete but not totally. I could also do Andover from the priority list as it's quite local to me. Thirdly I'd like to do a larger-scale countryside event in the summer down here in the south somewhere,

Re: [Talk-GB] Bracknell Forest - vandalism?

2010-01-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Not sure whether this is vandalism or just a bit of 'fun' (I suspect the latter). I would go through and just remove all the names but I don't have sufficient local knowledge to determine which are genuine (I know The Devil's Highway is right, and I'm pretty sure that Poo Alley is wrong, but

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey meet-up?

2009-11-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Does anyone from Surrey (and Hants, Sussex or Berks) fancy a social in Guildford during the first week in December? I'm thinking of Wednesday 2nd or Thursday 3rd. Yes, definitely. Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Reminder: Fareham mapping party tomorrow 10.00am

2009-10-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, A reminder that the Fareham mapping party takes place tomorrow meeting Fareham station 10am. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Fareham_Mapping_Party for more details. The weather's maybe a bit iffy in the morning, but hopefully will clear by 12.00 giving a few

Re: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage

2009-10-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Andy, Couple of comments on that. Quite a lot of PROW within the urban sprawl. These being ways that have had to be adjusted and realigned when housing development extended, but at least were maintained as a route. True, though perhaps these aren't so important to show as most people

[Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Following on from the unintentional rights-of-way coverage map generated by zooming out from the OSM/First Edition mashup that I mentioned the other day, I've now done a script to generate a real one. It's available at http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/stats/statsmap.php

Re: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Andy, Couple of comments on that. Quite a lot of PROW within the urban sprawl. These being ways that have had to be adjusted and realigned when housing development extended, but at least were maintained as a route. True, though perhaps these aren't so important to show as most people

Re: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
It's a bit more sophisticated than that; see the URL for what I consider a right of way. Note that I tried a version with highway=footway,foot=yes added in, and got the same sort of pattern. Nick In fact, it's possible to add highway=footway, foot=yes to the definition of a right of way by

[Talk-GB] Fareham Mapping Party Nov 1st now on wiki

2009-10-22 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Brief details of the Fareham mapping event are now available on the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Fareham_Mapping_Party Fareham is one of the few south Hampshire towns with a relatively small number of street names, so come along and finish the job! There

[Talk-GB] UK rights of way coverage map

2009-10-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
An unintended consequence of the First Edition/OSM mashup (see earlier post) is that I have an image of rights of way coverage of the UK in OSM. See http://www.free-map.org.uk/images/tiles2/firsted/5/15/10.png Clearly shows we need more countryside mappers in the east, southwest and Wales!

[Talk-GB] Fareham mini-mapping party Sun Nov 1st

2009-10-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, After a long hiatus in mapping parties in the south of England, I'd like to announce one on Sunday November 1st in Fareham, Hants, near Portsmouth. This is being partly run as an OSM taster session with the local branch of the British Computer Society, though experienced OSMers

Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap Mobile (mobile map application): version 3 now available

2009-10-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
TBH I thought I had announced this in June but a quick search of the mailing lists suggest I didn't, must have been too distracted with organising my holiday. Anyway, an updated version (3) of Freemap Mobile, a Java ME based mobile mapping application orientated towards countryside users is

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
We seem unable to contact Liam123 via normal channels. This means we have to think of other ways of contacting members who continually put mistakes into the dataset. Is it not possible to put a flag on his account, so when he logs in he is told what he has been doing and asked to explain himself?

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
My main comment was that the proposal didn't 'sit' well with the government regional structures. I do have to make the comment though that the government regional structures are rather arbitrary and do not reflect real cultural regions. Where I am in Southampton, I'm supposedly in the same

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. Cheers, Chris One need would be to organise and coordinate local mapping. For instance, in my area (the Solent area or central southern England for want of a better

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Also, the definitive map/statement is not even definitive! The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 set a cut off date of 2026 for all rights of way to be recorded on definitive statements or be lost, Going off the OSM subject, but: would presence on an NPE map as a black dashed line but

[Talk-GB] Fw: English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk 18/08/2009 17:08 To Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk cc talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter Nick Whitelegg wrote: What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Following on from this, am I correct in assuming that the only definitive source of mapping information about public rights of way is the OS? It seems ludicrous that *public* rights of way are effectively copyrighted in this manner. I suppose it's analagous to the issue with council boundaries.

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
So hopefully you can see where I'm going with this. I want to represent ways with a legitimate ?foot=yes? tag. In the absence of signposts, in practice the guide for UK walkers is the OS map, but if I walk a route which I believe follows the OS map for the purposes of a GPS trace, is this not

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
And just a quick reminder that the NPE edition map is available as on overlay in both JOSM and Potlatch editors David Caution is needed here though. I have an NPE map of the local area which I sometimes use to locate possible rights of way in an area with which I am unfamiliar. In about 80%

Re: [Talk-GB] UK-specific tagging for rural feature names?

2009-06-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Mike, Just catching up on my talk-GB email and was looking at Nick's nice new free-map. Ilkley Moor is on, so it is clearly Ideologically Sound. :-) Thanks Nick. The Yorkshire moors look very empty though. There is a whole wealth of detail that can be added from NPE and local

Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap (OSM for walkers) - increased coverage

2009-06-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Quick update on Freemap - a countryside orientated OSM renderer covering England and Wales Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent 09/06/2009 13:42 To talk-gb@openstreetmap.org cc Subject Freemap (OSM for walkers) - increased coverage Hello everyone, Quick update on Freemap - a countryside

Re: [Talk-GB] Isle of Wight 2

2009-06-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
SteveC st...@asklater.com Sent by: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org 30/05/2009 15:53 To Talk GB talk-gb@openstreetmap.org, Talk Openstreetmap t...@openstreetmap.org cc Subject [Talk-GB] Isle of Wight 2 How about a weekend again and rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight? This time

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Andy, I'm expecting to organise another 6 parties through the rest of this year so people's preference for locations please shout up again. From that list: Poole (as it's localish to me), and ideally over the summer (ie June/July/Aug) (but not between July 11-26) as that part of the

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Tom Hughes wrote: I normally just use tertiary for roads which are not A/B but are significant through roads of some sort. +1 My criterion is normally that a tertiary road is a rural road too busy to comfortably walk along. Most use of tertiary I've seen corresponds to this, though there

[Talk-GB] designation and designated tags - support in renderers?

2009-04-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, I'm planning to do a wholesale conversion of all my surveyed footpaths, bridleways etc to use the designation (designation=public_footpath, designation=public_bridleway etc) or designated (foot=designated, horse=designated) etc, and at the same time convert all my

[Talk-GB] Footpath tagging again: example rendering on Freemap

2009-04-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, The rendering on the Freemap site (www.free-map.org.uk) which aims to produce UK countryside maps from OSM data has altered in the light of recent discussions on footpath tagging. There are now two layers on the rendering. The lower layer shows dashed black lines to indicate

Re: [Talk-GB] Possibly using highway=path for country footpaths

2009-04-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I see no reason for paths to be tagged differently just because they are in an urban or rural setting, but then I find highway=footway intensely irritating! Why footway exists but a tag for public footpaths doesn't is frankly beyond me. It kind of does, the designation tag has been mentioned on

[Talk-GB] REMINDER: South Hants Mapping Party this weekend

2009-03-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, A reminder that the South Hampshire mapping party is happening this weekend (14th/15th), details at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/South_Hampshire_Mapping_Party_09 South Hampshire is currently one of the best-mapped areas outside London in the UK, and in particular

[Talk-GB] South Hampshire mapping party March 14/15

2009-02-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Details of the upcoming South Hampshire mapping party on March 14/15 are now available on the wiki at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_Hampshire_Mapping_Party_09 Aim of the weekend will be to fill in as many street names as possible in the Portsmouth, Havant and

[Talk-GB] Mapping Party this month?

2009-01-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Was there talk of another mapping party this month somewhere in the southwest on the 24/25th? If it's daytrippable from Southampton I should be able to make it. Was Yeovil an idea? BTW also look out for a south Hampshire name collecting party in March, details to follow. Nick

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping parties - Dec/Jan/Feb

2008-11-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
can i put in a good word for reading? i don't live there any more and i don't know anyone in LUGs there. but there is a university with a cybernetics course, so there should be plenty of geeks. Kevin Warwick roaming the streets with an army of GPS-chip-implanted cyborgs? Eek! (yep, I'd

[Talk-GB] Hampshire pub meet next week confirmed

2008-11-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, I would like to confirm a Hampshire area pub meet for next Thursday (27th) at the Crown Inn, Highfield, Southampton at 8pm. Please come along if you have been involved in, or are interested in, mapping Hampshire. With Hampshire rapidly becoming mapped, the meet will also be

[Talk-GB] Hampshire pub/planning meeting

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Based on recent activity it looks like Hampshire is beginning to rival Surrey in terms of completeness. To this end I thought it would be about time for a Hampshire social/planning meeting. How does the Crown, Southampton on the evening of Thursday Nov 27th 8pm sound? Let me

[Talk-GB] Wales weekend - will have to cancel - anyone want my place?

2008-08-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Sorry about this but looks like I'll have to cancel the Wales weekend. I'm going on holiday to Spain (Murcia area) in early September and due to difficulties getting time off work etc, the only time the others can do is the week of the 6th-13th. I may be able to get up to Wales

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey meet up?

2008-07-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I'm no longer in the UK so I won't make it. I have 3G -- we can Skype you in from wherever you happen to be. I can forward some people who might not follow this list if you want. Please do... Not a Surrey person (but residing in the next door county at least) but I might be interested

[Talk-GB] Sorry... Freemap - temporarily down

2008-06-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Sorry - Freemap is temporarily down today. This is because the latest planet import failed, due to generation of the planet.osm taking longer than normal, meaning the cron job due to take place Thursday 3am to generate a UK planet file failed. Unfortunately I can't access the

[Talk-GB] Sorting out UK countryside mapping tagging....

2008-04-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Would be good to get some sort of consensus on UK countryside mapping, particularly with respect to the need to show both the official status of paths and their surface / condition / width. I've started up a wiki page at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/UK_Countryside_mapping with one

[Talk-GB] Southwest Surrey Mapping party wiki page and reminder

2008-04-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Have updated the wiki page on the Southwest Surrey mapping party happening on April 19/20, including a 'cake' showing the areas to cover and a provisional schedule. For the moment I have suggested the Caffe Nero in Godalming as a meeting place, however if I hear of any free

[Talk-GB] UK outdoors mapping event - week of June 23rd

2008-04-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, (cross posted to talk in case anyone from abroad fancies a holiday over here) Following on from last year's successful Lake District mapping week I'd like to float the idea of a follow up this year - I now have a definite week in the early summer when I know I'll be free

[Talk-GB] UK rights of way specific info added to Trail page

2008-03-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Have added specific info about UK rights of way to the Trail page; I believe this matches what common practice is. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Trail Please let me know if there's anything wildly inaccurate there. Thanks, Nick

[Talk-GB] Things you learn from OSM...

2008-03-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
... the existence of a permissive footpath a mere three miles away from where you've lived for most of the last 18 years! And that's something I've learnt as someone who's into walking You won't get that on any non OSM maps Nick ___ Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Solent area pub meet

2008-02-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, It's been a while since the last Solent area pub meet, so it's about time for another one :-) I'm fairly free in March so can do more or less anytime but would like to initially suggest the evening of Tuesday March 11th, 8pm at the Crown, Highfield, Southampton. Please let me

[Talk-GB] Freemap back up (was: Re: Freemap down)

2008-02-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Monday 04 Feb 2008 12:37, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Apologies to the rest of the list, but I can't find any other way to contact Nick Whitelegg to let him know that free-map.org.uk appears to be down - I get a Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.free-map.org.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Mappers in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset

2008-02-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Sounds like you might consider arranging a mapping party. I bet there would be plenty of takers for a trip to Cornwall on a warm weekend Or even Dorset and Somerset (more accessible hence more time for mapping :-) ) Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] North Surrey Pub Meet

2008-01-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
There are only a handful of towns left to map in Surrey (Farnham, Camberley, Caterham, Woking being the main ones) so one subject for discussion will be how to get the county finished. Won't be there tomorrow night as it's a bit out of my area - but one point to remember is that the southwest

Re: [Talk-GB] UK planet

2008-01-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Nick - if you read this could you re-try the script please? Steve - to confirm, Tom Hughes said it was due to the bzip process taking longer. I'll re-schedule for on a Thursday morning. I can't ssh into the dev server at the moment (box in for repairs) so it'll be tomorrow at the earliest

[Talk-GB] Lake District mapping event II

2008-01-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Following a weekend I spent up there with the family just now (too wet, windy and icy to do high level walks sadly, but I mapped some valley footpaths meaning the Langdale area is pretty complete now) I'd like to propose another summer outdoors mapping event, returning to the

Re: [Talk-GB] Lake District mapping event II

2008-01-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Forgot to say - wiki page is at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Lake_District_II - sign up if possibly interested. Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Freemap - now using standard tiling system with wider range of zoom levels

2008-01-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Freemap (www.free-map.org.uk) is now using the standard Google tiling system making it fully compatible with other OSM renderers. It also now has a wider range of zoom levels - from 0 right down to 17, and starts with a map of the whole UK making it easier to locate any part

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