Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Robert wrote: I've now had a reply from OS about this. They say: Previous such releases will not necessarily be included - only those that we are informed about in the future. If the dataset had already been notified to us, or we had approved

[Talk-GB] New OS Open Data products arriving end of March

2015-02-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
Sounds interesting. Here is an announcement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/britain-leads-the-way-as-ordnance-survey-helps-to-drive-economic-growth-and-digital-innovation-through-open-data Bit hard to tell until we see the data but the Gazetteer, the Open Water Network and the new

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 17 February 2015 at 23:57, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I could imagine that OGL-3 has imported OS ODL's clause on sublicensing that caused incompatibility with ODbL, which would make OGL-3 incompatible with ODbL.Do we have confirmation that this is not the case, i.e.

[Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, At long last the open data licence scene in the UK has now become a lot simpler as OS have ditched their OS OpenData Licence and replaced it with the standard OGL:

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project - Fix that Road Name

2015-02-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Following on from Brian's suggestion I have now added Notes to Rotherham and tweeted the local scout group. Will be interesting to see what happens :-) Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Open Addresses UK

2015-02-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
One of the topics from last nights social was Open Addresses UK: https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/ The question was- how accurate? In my quick straw poll I check 3 addresses and found that they are accurate to street level but not individual property. We wondered how they take a submitted

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social this Thursday

2015-02-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
I'll be there too. Hope to see a few more folks there as well :-) Rob On 3 February 2015 at 16:12, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I will be there this Thursday (hopefully not on my own). -- Matthijs On 3 February 2015 at 09:24, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote:

[Talk-GB] Fix the road name! Progress Report

2015-01-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Jo, Sorry to hear that you feel that way. The Fix The Road Name initiative comes from Mappa Mercia - an OpenStreetMap group in the West Midlands. It is the first of our quarterly projects that are designed to promote OSM and attempt to grow a bigger and better community in the UK (similar to

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

2015-01-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I've sketched out a blank template of upcoming Mappa Mercia events so that everyone knows the dates of our future meets. April's is on the day before Good Friday so we may want to consider moving that one closer to the date

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

2015-01-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
Missing link :-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Events On 19 January 2015 at 21:54, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I've sketched out a blank template of upcoming Mappa Mercia events so that everyone knows the dates of our future meets. April's

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

2015-01-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I've sketched out a blank template of upcoming Mappa Mercia events so that everyone knows the dates of our future meets. April's is on the day before Good Friday so we may want to consider moving that one closer to the date if it is apparent that attendance will be low. SUGGESTIONS:

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hanbury meeting

2015-01-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, So now that all the mapping is in I have updated my footpath map with paths completed. In total we mapped over 6 miles of previously unmapped paths: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/hanbury-footpaths_24885#14/52.8452/-1.7367 Given that the aim was to meet as a group, rather than

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

2015-01-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
The Mapillary team are working on integration with ScoutSigns Yay that's great news! To me this is as big as when Bing let us use their imagery. It'll be a great resource and shows that companies are confident enough in OSM to make it part of their day-to-day and to share back so freely :-) Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

2015-01-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Dave, Although I wasn't there so don't know for certain, I would expect that Henk's (the compère) comment was in reference to the previous talk about Canadian Postal addresses. These things get lost without the full context :-) Regards, Rob ___

[Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

2014-12-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi, This talk was given at SOTM 2014 and the video is now online: http://vimeo.com/album/3134207/video/115313286 Summary: Telenav are collecting photos of roadsigns and making them available to OSM via a JOSM plugin. Most coverage is in Germany but there is also a fair number in the UK. See the

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

2014-12-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
I didn't look very hard but I also haven't seen anything more recent. The video does say it's beta at this stage launching early 2015. It's still very impressive even now. I looked into image recognition a year ago so have a basic understanding of how complex the matter is. It's pretty amazing

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

2014-12-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I've finally found some time to catch up with this thread. :-) * Mapping event Sat 3rd Jan - yes I'll be there, and will map some footpaths. * Lifts - yes If you want a lift from the Warwick/Coventry area (or a train station that my route will take me past) then let me know. * I've also

Re: [Talk-GB] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

2014-12-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I've finally found some time to catch up with this thread. :-) * Mapping event Sat 3rd Jan - yes I'll be there, and will map some footpaths. * Lifts - yes If you want a lift from the Warwick/Coventry area (or a train station that my route will take me past) then let me know. * I've also

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

2014-12-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 29 December 2014 at 17:06, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for Rob for adding the missing footpaths http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/hanbury-footpaths_24885#14/52.8432/-1.7341 (although I've read his blog posts about using umap, seeing is believing). Obviously we can potentially

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
I would map to the first dropped kerb and join back to the road. I would leave what's there but add a link to the road (perhaps at the exit road of the station). Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Last week in OSM

2014-11-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi, This is a neat little tool that shows you the recent edits in OSM. Instead of just showing changeset boxes it shows the individual ways! http://tyrasd.github.io/latest-changes/#13/52.2782/-1.5759 Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hockley Flyover art

2014-10-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
I recognise that artist's work! He has a piece in Coventry too. I was pretty sure I'd mapped it and could just add the wikidata tags but turns out I was wrong. Anyway it's now mapped and includes wikidata tags and the English Heritage listed status tags:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

2014-10-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
Matthijs wrote: Dear all, I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains Thanks Matthijs and everyone else who has contributed since. I know that retail mapping is one of Matthijs' pet projects (he always picks up the retail areas

[Talk-GB] Not long left to stand for OSMF board

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi, Just to flag it up here: If you want to stand for election to the OSM Foundation board you don't have long to nominate yourself. http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM14/Election_to_Board As you know a lot of the work is picked up by the working groups rather than the board so there is

Re: [Talk-GB] Confused over access...

2014-10-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
As pointed out the access tags work as a hierarchy with more specific modes of transport overruling the less specific forms. There's a nice diagram on the German version of the access page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Access_hierarchy_simple2.png (Note that it only shows a small

[Talk-GB] Updates from National Library of Scotlad

2014-10-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, NLS have been a keen contributor to OpenStreetMap and continue to provide historic maps for use in both OpenStreetMap and OpenHistoricMap. Their most recent updates include 1:1,250 scale covering central London and Edinburgh (1940s-60s) which include house numbers, and 1:10,560 maps for

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] October social

2014-10-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
What's everyone's plans for food? Do we know if the place does food / there is somewhere nearby? If no then, not a problem, I'll just grab something before meeting. See you later Rob On 1 October 2014 09:48, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: A few suggestions: The new building on the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 24 September 2014 11:46, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Comments? Wow, that looks great. The light blue is tricky to see, but otherwise this looks fantastic :-) How long did it take you? I need to restart my attempt to add the Warwickshire data. Seeing this should keep me

[Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

2014-08-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I've see an increased use of block paving as a road surface on new housing developments. Example image: http://cms.esi.info/Media/productImages/38030_1338993270237_PF.jpg How are people tagging these? At first I wondered about the highway=living_street tag but the wiki page suggests

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] September mapping party

2014-08-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Yeah I was thinking the same when I drove to work this morning. Shouldnt make a habit of it though :-p I'll put a tweet out. On 22 Aug 2014 15:06, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: As two of us are only available on 28 August and not on 4 September, I have decided to go ahead

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] September mapping party

2014-08-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Matthijs, Who else can't make September 4th in Coventry? I don't mind moving the date but only if it's causing a lot of problems and we know that the new date will be more popular. Regards, Rob On 15 August 2014 22:10, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: Dear all, It turns

[Talk-GB] C roads again

2014-08-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
References beginning with three or more letters or containing a semicolon: Hi Andrew, Any with FP or RB in them are public rights of way. We've been mapping those to the prow_ref= tag. Best, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

2014-08-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
Some very good tips there RichardF. Don't be fooled by the siren voices of the wiki. What's in the database is valid because it's formed by consensus. To come to the defence of the wiki (yes, there's a lot wrong with it, but there are also some good people putting in a lot of effort), it's

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 12 August 2014 21:43, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 12/08/14 20:18, Rob Nickerson wrote: Example 2 6, The Hollies, Birmingham Road, Town, ... Hard to say without knowing what The Hollies is exactly, but this is probably a case that we don't have a good answer

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Shenstone done

2014-08-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
Nice one. I've added a few OSM Notes of things that caught my attention when checking with the geofabrik OSM Inspector tool. If you have time to stop by these, that would be great. Rob On 7 August 2014 22:12, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: I wrapped up the remaining main Shenstone

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] State of the Map 2013 Birmingham

2014-08-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Mary, That was almost a year ago - I'd be surprised if anyone remembers!! In any case why would you like to know? Rob On 10 Aug 2014 05:55, mooney.osm mooney@gmail.com wrote: I vaguely remember someone asking if there was a spare delegate badge. I think his name began with a G. Does

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

2014-08-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Just a few of my thoughts: 1. Bus routes Stuart wrote: I will need to think what to do when a bus turns off halfway along a road that is mapped as one line Here in Coventry we have all the bus routes mapped in OSM (splitting the road as necessary). Check out the render on the Transport layer:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

2014-07-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Looks like I'll tackle 3. I need something quick and easy as I don't think I'll have much time to map :-( Rob On 30 July 2014 21:29, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: I'll tackle 5 and 8 On 29 July 2014 11:00, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: On 29 July 2014 09:33,

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

2014-07-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
What happens if new contributors work out how to use the mapping tools but don't come across the import guidelines (or for that matter the community, mailing lists, etc)? I've just used JOSM to open a shapefile and attempt to upload it (I obviously didn't upload it). JOSM gave a warning message:

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

2014-07-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
If the answers are Yes/Yes/No, then is there a genuine problem? Like you, I personally wouldn't have imported this. My main rule is about maintainability. I'm yet to find a good tool for comparing the original import (be that from the original file or from OSM) to a new version provided by the

[Talk-GB] Change to event calendar: Midlands meet this Thursday, 31 July

2014-07-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, The Mappa Mercia group holds monthly meetings in the West Midlands on the first Thursday of every month. This month we will break the rule. Our next meeting is therefore this Thursday, 31st July in Shenstone, Staffordshire. Details at:

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Dan, We're using our Birmingham event as a way to target new contributors rather than the press. Given that we got something on local news and radio during SOTM, we'd probably struggle to get any more airtime so soon. As you say it has to be a photogenic event. I'm sure the London group could do

Re: [Talk-GB] London (Was: osm 10th birthday: press)

2014-07-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Great work with the press statement. Can the London group please decide on a venue and update the OSM wiki page. I want to send out some tweets to UK organisations to invite them to attend one of the UK events. It would look better if there was an agreed venue for London. Cheers, Rob p.s. I'm

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: OpenStreetMap 10th birthday Aug 9th

2014-07-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Brian, Thanks. If you pull a list of organisations together then I'll produce a list of local contributors. Given that google drive worked well for SOTM, I will share the list there and then people can just tick off who they've contacted. Rob On 23 July 2014 19:43, Brian Prangle

[Talk-GB] Celebrating OSM's 10th year in Birmingham (Saturday, 9th August)

2014-07-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, To celebrate OpenStreetMap's 10th anniversary, Mappa Mercia are hosting an event in Birmingham. Join us between 12noon-2pm (Saturday 9th August), at the wonderful Six Eight Kafé [1] on Temple Row - a 5 minute walk from Birmingham New Street railway station (map [2]). We will have cake and

Re: [Talk-GB] The Public Data Group/Companies House

2014-07-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Dave, Thanks for linking to the talk-gb list. There's some interesting stuff in there including news that the OS will add major paths to the OS OpenData Streetview map. The increased access to companies house and land registry price paid data will make more postcodes available under the Open

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aug 9th OSM 10th Birthday

2014-07-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
to find and and cental Regards Brian On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: I put out a tweet asking for suggested free venues and had a couple of responses: Six Eight Kafé on Temple Row (near the Cathedral in the city centre): http

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

2014-07-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Our mappa mercia page on the OSM wiki tells me that we have arranged our August monthly meet up to be a week early (due to the 10th birthday event on August 9th). It's listed as being Tamworth/Shenston. Do folks still want to run this event, and if yes where shall we meet? Rob p.s. I'm

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

2014-07-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
! Shenstone is quite small, but it has the advantage that we can map the entire village in one evening. Tamworth seems to be already quite well-mapped, are there any particular things we want to map there? -- Matthijs On 17 July 2014 21:24, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aug 9th OSM 10th Birthday

2014-07-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
I put out a tweet asking for suggested free venues and had a couple of responses: Six Eight Kafé on Temple Row (near the Cathedral in the city centre): http://www.sixeightkafe.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/SixEightKafe/status/489113935363469312 The Anchor in Digbeth

Re: [Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

2014-07-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
changing the national tags to conform to the OSM norm? Rob On 11 July 2014 21:35, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: listed_status=local_grade_B; heritage=6; heritage_operator=Birmingham_CIty_Council. See tagwatch for other examples On 9 July 2014 22:08, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

[Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

2014-07-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, The wiki page on listed_status does not mention locally listed buildings. How do you currently tag these in your area? A quick google suggests that Birmingham CC use a grading system (Grade A to Grade C), whereas in Coventry it is just on the list (that is, there is no grading).

Re: [Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

2014-07-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
, but it is an attempt to define a way of tagging listed buildings (etc.) on a more global basis. Jerry On 9 July 2014 21:48, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, The wiki page on listed_status does not mention locally listed buildings. How do you currently tag these in your

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi John, The negativity, or least lack of enthusiasm, is partly due to the complexity of the issue. We'd love to have Highways Agency data as open data but if the data is based upon Ordnance Survey data this becomes a quite tricky. Normally you would have the data holder apply for a Exemption

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
not render, for example I drove through Uttoxeter with osmand running and the proposed highways make the map pretty confusing. Phik (trigpoint ) On Sat Jul 05 2014 17:47:39 GMT+0100 (BST), Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi John, The negativity, or least lack of enthusiasm, is partly due

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 5 July 2014 19:20, John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com wrote: snip I'll let them them know about the copyright situation (which I was fully aware from day one was a concern) and there is no real interest from the OSM community for establishing this. John, Please don't tell the Highways

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

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Archer wrote: I understood your further post in this manner: you want to take the Wikipedia link and add with a script or bot the associated Wikidata-ID. This would add the Wikidata ID Q3038 to both OSM objects place=island and boundary=administrative of Heligoland because both objects in OSM

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

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens, and St Nicolas's Gift Shop all near each other. Which one should the wikipedia page St Nicolas's Church match? Great to see support for the idea. I think it's been a bit of a complex one that hasn't been grasped

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

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
-established and supported by many applications, and support some cases that aren't supported by the wikidata tag. 2014-06-17 19:06 GMT-03:00 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens

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

2014-06-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
I don't suppose one way or the other, that's why I was asking how you proposed to measure it. Tom How do we measure the success of any tag in OSM? Some thoughts: - Other users start to contribute using the same tag - Our data consumers start making use of the tag - The tag is given

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

2014-06-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
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 attach wikidata tags to churches then: * A type I

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

2014-06-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
...@compton.nu wrote: On 08/06/14 21:28, Rob Nickerson wrote: 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 attach wikidata tags to churches then: * A type I error would

Re: [Talk-GB] Update: Deploying our own version of NYPL Building Inspector

2014-06-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
into the OpenHistoricalMap repo https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/building-inspector as I think that's the best place for it (not sure why I didn't do that at first, tbh) cheers, Tim On 1 June 2014 18:25, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, An update on progress deploying our own

[Talk-GB] OSM session at Wikimania 2014

2014-06-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, Looks great. Don't forget that we have a wiki as part of OpenStreetMap. There are some really simple tasks that Wikimedia folk could help us with. For example setting up a bot to fix our ridiculous number of double redirects: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:DoubleRedirects

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Warwickshire aerial

2014-06-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Brian, cc: talk-gb-westmidlands The error message JOSM is giving on Warwickshire Aerial imagery is: Image couldn't be fetched:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tysoe Mapping Party May 31st

2014-05-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
What time? I'm in but need to pop out around 2-3pm Rob On 23 May 2014 17:08, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone Can I have an indication of who's coming to this event on May 31st? The WI are laying on lunch. We have the Village Hall with wifi and Mike Sanderson(local

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
end up with a gap between terrace buildings. Help from the GIS community would be great. See the bug details at https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer/issues/19 Regards, Rob On 21 May 2014 22:41, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Good work Tim. It seems we have a lot of people

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
:57, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for you help Tim, The NYPL code is here: https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector/ I'm assuming it's rails as that's mentioned in some of the code commits, but I don't know any more than that. Best, Rob p.s. The code

[Talk-GB] Postcodes

2014-05-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
I personally put postcodes on buildings as in my two most common use cases (getting something delivered to my house, and using my GPS to get somewhere) I have become accustomed to being asked for a house number after supplying a postcode. I guess that tagging the street works (although you may

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
in Ireland and the UK. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/fireinsurancemaps.html I've reached out via Twitter and via email to the Library asking for a couple of maps for a pilot area to look at. Cheers, Tim On 16 May 2014 19:57, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
May 2014 21:08, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steven, Thanks for the offer of help. Yesterday I managed to get the NYPL vectorizer working (this is the tool that has a first stab at creating vectors from the map). I did this on a small screenshot of NLS's London maps. I've

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
version of OSM for a local personal project, when I looked a few weeks ago Open Historical Map was down and was never very usable before that. It sounds like from the WIKI things maybe starting to happen, date slider planned, etc. regards, Steven On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
by their level of funding. This should not be a problem as we can self host the website. On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: The OS National Grid 1:2500 series includes addresses but is only just coming out of copyright. I have access to a slippy map with a few sheets

Re: [Talk-GB] HampshireCC aerial imagery and height data

2014-05-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Colour IR:- http://faffy.openstreetmap.org/hampshire-fcir/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg Height:- http://faffy.openstreetmap.org/hampshire-height/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg Cheers Andy *From:* SK53 [mailto:sk53@gmail.com] *Sent:* 09 May 2014 09:38 *To:* Rob Nickerson *Cc:* Talk-GB *Subject:* Re: [Talk

[Talk-GB] HampshireCC aerial imagery and height data

2014-05-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Hampshire County Council have now put their 2013 aerial imagery (plus height data and near infrared data) up online under the Open Gov Licence: http://protohub.net/hampshire-publishes-aerial-photography-as-opendata-finally/ From a earlier article it seems like this is capture at 12.5cm

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-07 Thread Rob Nickerson
to be out-of-bounds Jerry On 6 May 2014 22:17, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Correction: I don't mean OS Country series (that seems to be older and probably now out of copyright). What I really mean is OS National Grid 1:2500 series, which can be seen at: http

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
Correction: I don't mean OS Country series (that seems to be older and probably now out of copyright). What I really mean is OS National Grid 1:2500 series, which can be seen at: http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/historical/ Rob On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
trying the Building Inspector with this dataset. I wonder if there's anyone from the NLS on list? On 1 May 2014 19:11, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, all Open. It's great. In terms of how we could use it here in the UK, the best data I can think of is the OS Town

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Stourbridge

2014-04-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
I'm going to try my best to pop over. I've not decided whether I'm going to come straight from work and fit some mapping in before, or whether I'll pop along later (it's been a busy couple of weeks). Any suggestions of areas that need some attention? On 30 April 2014 20:37, Brian Prangle

[Talk-GB] Mapping party - Tysoe near Banbury

2014-04-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, We have two meeting in May in the Midlands region. The first is our regular first Thursday of the month social (that's this Thursday,1st May) at Stourbridge. The second is a mapping day on Saturday 31st May in Tysoe. We were invited to Tysoe, a rural parish situated between

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: OpenData policy

2014-04-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Brian, So they are saying that the Crown Copyright statement applied to an earlier version and they acknowledge that they can remove it if they want now that they have switched to using OS OpenData. But... they want to wait until the proper consultation period and when their data quality will

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Demo Notes App

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I thought I'd have a go at creating an app! As I wasn't able to make it over to Birmingham on Thursday I used the time to get Version 1 up and running. It's very basic (showing OSM notes when given a set of coordinates and radius) but it has all the components that you would need to

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bad PMSA tags

2014-04-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
No worries. Glad that I could help. I also spotted that there are some PMSA:ref tags that you may also want to change: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=pmsa Rob On 3 April 2014 00:05, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 2 April 2014 23:46, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

[Talk-GB] Resolving OSM tags to URLs

2014-04-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
-- Andy Mabbett wrote: -- I gave the requested talk yesterday. During preparatory discussions, it turned out that, while hosted by IBM, the audience was a W3C working group, Data on the web best practice. As such, the interest was no so much trees or gas pipes, but the use of URIs (particularly

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] FSFE award article on OpenStreetMap's main blog

2014-03-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
Enjoy! And thanks to Jonathan Bennett. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/03/26/document-freedom-day/ ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] 10th Anniversary Party

2014-03-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
I say we should aim to meet up with some of the other local groups. I've cc'd Jerry as he's doing a good job of announcing upcoming Nottingham meets at the moment. August 9th is a Saturday so we can make the most of the day (rather than trying to squeeze travel and the meeting into an evening).

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] 20mph zones in Birmingham to be rolled out

2014-03-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
Confused. Are the maps suggesting that any road within the area that is not otherwise coloured will become 20 mph? Of interest those maps are Ordnance Survey's StreetView product, which is one of the products that is available under OS OpenData licence and we can use it in OpenStreetMap. This

[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap receives Document Freedom Day Award 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Wednesday is Document Freedom Day 2014 - and this year the work of all OpenStreetMap contributors was recognised by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) my means of the Document Freedom Day Award 2014. The award was presented on Saturday in Birmingham, England at an event attended by

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Guest bloggers and twits

2014-03-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Now that the dust has settled after the relaunch of mappa-mercia.org we'd now like to invite you to join us as a guest blogger and/or twitterer. Writing a blog post on mappa-mercia.org is very simple as the editor gives you all the buttons you are used to in MS Word/other word

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Free Software Foundation Europe Award Presentation

2014-03-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
considering coming? To remind you the award is being presented at around 5pm by the Free Software Foundation Europe herehttp://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.47849/-1.88967at the Warehouse Café Regards Brian (forwarded to list by myself, RobJN) On 17 March 2014 18:32, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

[Talk-GB] Fwd: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Free Software Foundation Europe Award Presentation

2014-03-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
See Forwarded message. This included the talk-gb address in the To field, but doesn't seem to have come through, so I've reposted it. It will be great to see you all there this Saturday. Rob -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org Date: 17 March 2014

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] March meetings

2014-03-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
When is Saturdays meeting? Are we going for The Crown as Ian suggested? Rob p.s Sunset is at 6:14 on Saturday. On 10 March 2014 20:52, Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org wrote: I'll map the area South of the Cathedral On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Matthijs Melissen

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tysoe Parish Council

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
I can help too. Rob On 4 Mar 2014 11:27, Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org wrote: Hi everyone I've had an approach from a guy called Mike Sanderson who wants to collaborate with us as the local folk have to produce a Parish Neighbourhood Plan and want some basic training and a mapping party.

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Street tagging Problem

2014-02-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
If you don't care for tagging lanes, then I would go for: oneway = yes oneway:psv = no This is from the oneway section of: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access Full conditional restrictions are explained at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conditional_restrictions Rob On 18 February

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Street tagging Problem

2014-02-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
, in effect PSV can go in both directions, it's everyone else who can't? http://bigfatfrog67.me On 22/02/2014 19:03, Rob Nickerson wrote: If you don't care for tagging lanes, then I would go for: oneway = yes oneway:psv = no ... ___ Talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] OOC 1:25k OS mapping

2014-02-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, That looks great - really sharp. I'll add it to my layers in JOSM and see how it differs from the NLS layer. I think it will be interesting to see how the 1:25k maps evolved over time as towns expanded. Rob On 20 February 2014 17:44, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: As an

Re: [Talk-GB] Closure of NPTG-Viewer

2014-02-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
FINAL CALL: Last chance to use the NPTG-Viewer before it disappears for good. Regards, Rob On 16 February 2014 15:38, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: All, In the next few days we will be moving the mappa-merica.org domain on to our new Wordpress based site (blog post

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Closure of NPTG-Viewer

2014-02-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
All, In the next few days we will be moving the mappa-merica.org domain on to our new Wordpress based site (blog post to follow). Part of this switch will involve the switching off of the NPTG-Viewer - a tool to compare place information in OpenStreetMap with localities in the National Public

[Talk-GB] Closure of NPTG-Viewer

2014-02-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
All, In the next few days we will be moving the mappa-merica.org domain on to our new Wordpress based site (blog post to follow). Part of this switch will involve the switching off of the NPTG-Viewer - a tool to compare place information in OpenStreetMap with localities in the National Public

Re: [Talk-GB] Glasgow Open OS Data for Open Street Map

2014-02-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Tim, All, Despite what it says on http://data.glasgow.gov.uk/ this is NOT available under an OpenData licence. It is a developers license and would not allow use in OpenStreetMap: https://twitter.com/openglasgow/status/431063964437344256 I am starting to get very annoyed about how local

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