Re: [Talk-GB] Closed software supplier ESRI creates OSM vector tile basemap

2018-07-10 Thread Paul Norman
On 2018-07-10 2:00 PM, Mark Goodge wrote: ESRI's free maps can be accessed as server-side tiles. See Leaflet-providers for some examples: https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/ I'm not sure of the licence restrictions which apply to them, or any rate limits. But, from a

Re: [Talk-GB] Closed software supplier ESRI creates OSM vector tile basemap

2018-07-10 Thread Paul Norman
On 2018-07-10 12:30 PM, Mark Goodge wrote: I think it's a positive. One of the biggest issues with large-scale use of OSM is that OSM's own tile server isn't suited for high-volume use, but most of the alternative tile servers are rate-limited and require payment for larger volumes. If

Re: [Talk-GB] Petrol stations again

2018-03-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 3/8/2018 1:28 PM, SK53 wrote: Remarks about individual items to be added which I have examined (mainly, I thin, for Ilya's benefit): Were the 8 errors from the full set of 400, or a subsample of them? ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

2017-11-03 Thread Paul Norman
On 11/3/2017 10:51 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote: Philip, the shell.co.uk website gives the same opening hours for the Branting Hill station as the source dataset. Basically, everything in the dataset is the same, except for locations, which have been improved by the Navads team. What percentage of

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham Tree Import

2017-05-09 Thread Paul Norman
On 4/27/2017 12:26 PM, Brian Prangle wrote: Apart from some posts about the problems with email notifications of changeset discussions, there has been nothing to indicate where I take this import. I guess that's because the initative is really down to me. I've annotated Harry's Import wiki

[Talk-GB] Local chapter application by OpenStreetMap United Kingdom

2017-04-16 Thread Paul Norman
. More information on local chapters can be found at http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/FAQ Paul Norman OpenStreetMap Foundation Name & Registered Office: Openstreetmap Foundation 132 Maney Hill Road Sutton Coldfield B72 1JU United Kingdom A company limited by guarantee, regist

Re: [Talk-GB] Technical Help

2016-11-02 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/28/2016 5:28 AM, Brian Prangle wrote: There's a small amount of seed funding and we need to size a server and storage that will serve OSM tiles for the West Midlands (Geofabrik's download is 37MB for an osm.pbf file). We would need a production server with an initial guesstimate hit

Re: [Talk-GB] Users tagging Farmyard as place=farm (Was Summer quarterly project)

2016-09-14 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/14/2016 7:37 AM, Dave F wrote: From the examples posted it's clear the recent rise is due to the iD editor's presets. There have been mentions of OSM Carto and iD presets causing an increase in place=farm usage. Support for place=farm was added to the default style on osm.org back in

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-05 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/5/2016 5:59 AM, Andy Allan wrote: Our mapping conventions are based on our mappers, not consumers. As you say, it's easy for the consumers to handle both situations, but it's harder for mappers to deal with multipolygons-with-one-outer than just a basic closed way. Speaking as a data

Re: [Talk-GB] UKOSM - technical aspects

2016-01-10 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/10/2016 1:47 PM, Harry Wood wrote: For an OSMUK website you mean? I have a few ideas about that, and would like to be involved. Certainly I'd like to see something done in an openly editable way so it's not too much of a centralised "request changes from the chief" situation. Code in

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/17/2015 3:25 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: I'm surprised if this is just England and Wales as I would have thought some other country has some way of documenting paths in a legal context and as such this may be relevant for other countries I'm not aware of any countries which quite have the

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/16/2015 1:57 PM, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: Until I provided a counter-example there, the only example on https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/747 was of a well-mapped central European city. If there is evaluation of the results in both rural and urban settings in

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

2015-08-07 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/6/2015 2:07 PM, Antje wrote: Forking the map style with stronger British road colours and then getting that forked road style onto the main site once the default style goes “international”. After all, we didn’t call it “open” for nothing! I'd approach this with caution, for two reasons

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-05 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/5/2014 12:06 AM, Pavlo Dudka wrote: It seems that the only place not allowed for adding name:** is UK. That's why I started this discussion here. Should we discuss it internationaly? There is a general understanding that name:xx is for the name in the language xx, not a translation of

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

2014-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
if no further action by the mapper. I've contacted the user. As the import didn't meet some of the basic consultation/documentation requirements and appears to be cleanly revertable, I've started a revert. Paul Norman For the Data Working Group ___ Talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-06-08 1:28 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: What would you consider a demonstration of success exactly? Tom Tom, Measuring the success of a bot can be done in the same way that the success is measured in a statistical model; Type I and Type II errors. So for example, if the test is to

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Hobbyist OSM Data Server?

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Norman
From: Nick Whitelegg [mailto:nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 4:59 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Hobbyist OSM Data Server? So I'm wondering whether we could, if enough people raise contributions, have an OSM read only, hobbyist server which could be used to host

Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD

2013-11-08 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 3:03 PM To: 'SomeoneElse'; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD It's worth pointing out that iD doesn't actually have an imagery list. It inherits its from the editor

Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD

2013-11-02 Thread Paul Norman
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 4:44 AM To: Paul Norman; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD Paul Norman wrote: It's worth pointing out that iD doesn't actually have an imagery list

Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD

2013-10-30 Thread Paul Norman
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD Rob Nickerson wrote: 2). iD is a general purpose editor. It can be used for OpenHistoricalMap too. Indeed - perhaps I should have been clearer that I'm talking about the

[Talk-GB] iD en_GB localization

2013-10-23 Thread Paul Norman
Unlike the OSM website, the default language for the iD editor is en_US. Because there are differences between en_US and en_GB, I've had an en_GB translation added, but translators are needed to fill it out. Instructions for translating iD are at