Re: [Talk-GB] Import UK postcode data?

2019-10-02 Thread Russ Phillips via Talk-GB
mp; use. I think it was Harry, one of the main people >answering queries who produced it. > >Regards > >Nick >my phone is responsible for any spelling mistakes! > >On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 17:12 Russ Phillips via Talk-GB, < >talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > >&

Re: [Talk-GB] Import UK postcode data?

2019-10-02 Thread Russ Phillips via Talk-GB
overlay I have produced which you can use in editors as an overlay: https://codepoint.raggedred.net/  I will update it again shortly. You can also derive postcodes from other open data sources such as FHRS data. -- cheers Chris Hill (chillly) On 02/10/2019 13:43, Russ Phillips via Talk-GB wr

Re: [Talk-GB] Import UK postcode data?

2019-10-02 Thread Russ Phillips via Talk-GB
ved as they were added IIRC before Mike Collinson's discussions with OSGB about OS Open Data. On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 13:44, Russ Phillips via Talk-GB mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>> wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it would be feasible and advisable to import the

[Talk-GB] Import UK postcode data?

2019-10-02 Thread Russ Phillips via Talk-GB
s should be discussed on the imports@ list and the appropriate local communities, hence this email. Russ Phillips ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Bottle Kilns

2018-04-09 Thread Russ Phillips
> > From: Mark Goodge > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:48:18 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bottle Kilns > > > On 06/04/2018 18:58, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> Hi Russ >> >> If any are listed buildings it would be good to tag them >> >> heritage=2 >> heritage_o

Re: [Talk-GB] Bottle Kilns

2018-04-05 Thread Russ Phillips
Forgot to add: Elsewhere, someone suggested using kiln=bottle_kiln and building=industrial instead of building=bottle_kiln. Any thoughts? Russ On 6 April 2018 at 07:38, Russ Phillips wrote: > Right, I'm now thinking I'll tag as: > > building=bottle_kiln > kiln=pottery &

Re: [Talk-GB] Bottle Kilns

2018-04-05 Thread Russ Phillips
Right, I'm now thinking I'll tag as: building=bottle_kiln kiln=pottery disused:man_made=kiln former_product=pottery historic=kiln and add tourism=museum where appropriate. Ideally I'd have the building as a way. Then the kiln as a node with the product. This allows the building to remain 'intact

[Talk-GB] Bottle Kilns

2018-04-05 Thread Russ Phillips
Hi, I'm intending to map the bottle kilns in Stoke on Trent. For those that don't know, they're an important part of the area's industrial heritage (there were several thousand of them at the height of the pottery industry). There are 47 now, and just under half are currently mapped. Based on fee

Re: [Talk-GB] A newbie question - 'What are you doing ?'

2010-07-17 Thread Russ Phillips
On 16 July 2010 20:47, Ciarán Mooney wrote: > It has, the wiki has a flyer that can be  printed and folded into a > nice, "here you go" size. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Flyer I'm pretty sure I have some printed out leaflets. Remind me before the next LUG meeting & I'll bring them alon

[Talk-GB] Can I post about an iPhone OSM app

2010-07-02 Thread Russ Phillips
On 30 June 2010 20:38, Chris S wrote: > Greetings, > > I am working on an offline OSM browser for the iPhone/iPad.  Do people > think it would it be acceptable to post details to this list if/when > it is on the App Store?  I thought I should ask before posting... I don't have any great objection

[Talk-GB] Fwd: UK Mapping Priorities

2010-06-24 Thread Russ Phillips
On 24 June 2010 12:41, Andy Allan wrote: > 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

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Project of the week - trace a village off of OSSV?

2010-06-09 Thread Russ Phillips
On 7 June 2010 15:52, Peter Miller wrote: > Are the license working group or the foundation researching this for us? They are now. I took the time to e-mail the Licence Working Group about this. Part of the initial response was: "However, we'll individually read the documents during this week a

Re: [Talk-GB] skobbler OSM bug backchannel

2010-05-14 Thread Russ Phillips
On 14 May 2010 13:53, Marcus Thielking wrote: > It would be much appreciated if some of you could have a look at > www.skobbler.co.uk/osmbugs and > tell us what should be changed in order to make it more accessible for you. I'd like to be able to subscribe to an area and get an e-mail whenever

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView

2010-05-05 Thread Russ Phillips
Damn. Intended to send this to the list earlier. On 5 May 2010 12:29, Russ Phillips wrote: > On 5 May 2010 12:06, Tim Francois wrote: >> Oh, really? I've just changed a few from "Saint" to "St." based on road >> signs. Personally, I'm not bothered ei

Re: [Talk-GB] Matching OS Locator with OSM data

2010-04-28 Thread Russ Phillips
On 27 April 2010 22:21, Tim François wrote: > Anyway, let me know if you find this useful, or if someone has a more > advanced script and I'm just wasting time here! I haven't had a chance to really investigate these scripts yet, but they're on my to-do list. I suspect they'll be very useful

[Talk-GB] Workington Bridges

2010-04-21 Thread Russ Phillips
After the November floods, the map of Workington [1] in Cumbria was updated very quickly to show the state of the bridges, and the location of the temporary road bridge that was to be built. I've just read on the BBC news site [2] that the temporary bridge is to open today, at 10:30. Can a local pl

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Error now detects source=OS_OpenData

2010-04-08 Thread Russ Phillips
On 8 April 2010 09:01, Tim François wrote: > > Great site! > > I have bug report though. I've done a bit of tracing from the OS SteetView in > conjunction with some GPX traces > I have. Using the site, I download a GPX file of the area but a load of the > waypoint tags have empty lat/lon attribu

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Error now detects source=OS_OpenData

2010-04-08 Thread Russ Phillips
On 8 April 2010 09:30, Dan Karran wrote: > Hi Russ, > > Nice idea for the site. Just wondering, do you also check for > description tags that have fixme in them? I often add that in when I'm > mapping with the Mapzen POI editor as it doesn't allow custom tag keys > like fixme to be used. I don't

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Error now detects source=OS_OpenData

2010-04-08 Thread Russ Phillips
On 8 April 2010 09:01, Tim François wrote: > > Great site! > > I have bug report though. I've done a bit of tracing from the OS SteetView in > conjunction with some GPX traces I have. Using the site, I download a GPX > file of the area but a load of the waypoint tags have empty lat/lon > attrib

[Talk-GB] OSM Error now detects source=OS_OpenData

2010-04-07 Thread Russ Phillips
During all the discussion about OS OpenData, it was suggested that anything derived from OS data should be surveyed on the ground at a later date, since on-the-ground surveying is the preferred method of gathering data. With that in mind, I've added OS OpenData source tags to OSM Error [1]. For th

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-04-06 Thread Russ Phillips
On 6 April 2010 12:46, TimSC wrote: > > Hi again, > > Thanks for the feedback on building traces. The consensus seems to be > for a JOSM plugin while others saying all surveying should be done on > the ground. Personally, I'd be happy to see a JOSM plugin similar to the Lakewalker plugin: http://

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-02 Thread Russ Phillips
On 1 April 2010 09:39, Richard Bullock wrote: >>As Andy says, I say we start with getting boundary data fixed up from >>Boundary Line and then look at Vector Map District in a month's time and >>decide what the next step is > > I agree with this; especially as boundary data is hard to come by any

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-01 Thread Russ Phillips
And again, I sent this to Richard instead of Talk-GB On 1 April 2010 09:44, Russ Phillips wrote: > On 1 April 2010 09:25, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >> Gregory wrote: >>> Without restrictions? Does that mean no attribution, it sounds like PD. >>> Or does it mean the

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-01 Thread Russ Phillips
Damn. Just realised I sent this to Richard, and not Talk-GB On 1 April 2010 09:33, Russ Phillips wrote: > On 1 April 2010 09:25, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >> Gregory wrote: >>> Without restrictions? Does that mean no attribution, it sounds like PD. >>> Or does it me

Re: [Talk-GB] Garmin maps no larger than 24MB

2009-12-30 Thread Russ Phillips
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:42 +, Glenn Proctor wrote: > Hi Russ > > I have a little Perl script that will create GPSMAPSUPP.IMG files > (suitable for a Garmin GPS) from arbitrary combinations of OSM tiles > and contours. Hi Glenn, That sounds perfect. I'll talk to my father-in-law about exactl

Re: [Talk-GB] Garmin maps no larger than 24MB

2009-12-30 Thread Russ Phillips
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:44 +, Glenn Proctor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> All the UK maps with contours are far too big to fit. Does anyone know > >> of anywhere that I can get maps of regions, that would be small enough > >> to fit? > > > > What's the pro

[Talk-GB] Garmin maps no larger than 24MB

2009-12-30 Thread Russ Phillips
My father-in-law has a Garmin eTrex Legend C, and we'd like to put some OSM maps on it for use when walking up hills in Scotland and the Lake District. As he's a hillwalker, contours are important, but it only has 24MB of storage. All the UK maps with contours are far too big to fit. Does anyone k

Re: [Talk-GB] latest garmin cyclemap img

2009-12-21 Thread Russ Phillips
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM, andrew wrote: > The site where I downloaded my last one is not available. Where is the most > up to date source of the garmin gmapsupp.img with contours available? I don't know if they're the most up to date or not, but are the maps here any use? http://openmtbma

[Talk-GB] OSM Error (was Re: NaPTAN import status - update and question)

2009-11-18 Thread Russ Phillips
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Peter Miller wrote: > Thinking about it, one could get OSM to produce a list of things to check > for any particular trip - First one would produce a GPX for the trip and > then a 'job-creator' would identify streets without names, villages without > letter boxes,

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Russ Phillips
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:49 PM, John Robert Peterson wrote: > I'm pretty sure I heard from somewhere that the "post code" associated with > the post box is actually a post code assosiated with the collection office, > and that a house next to it can have a totally different post code. That seems

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Russ Phillips
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Peter Miller wrote: > 'talk-moderation' is short, and makes it clear that it covers all > aspects of both the technology and the associated social side of > managing contributions. Some people may think it is the place to > complain about every bad edit, but we ca

[Talk-GB] Healthware & OSM-Atlas

2009-09-04 Thread Russ Phillips
Hi, I've been working on a couple of OSM-Related things, on-and-off, for a while, and I'm happy to announce that I've just released version 1.0 of both. Healthware [1] is a web site that uses the API & XAPI to find pharmacies (and, later, will also find hospitals). It's designed to run on any siz

Re: [Talk-GB] Old data in XAPI

2009-08-07 Thread Russ Phillips
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, 80n<80n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try [amenity=pharmacy] instead of [*=pharmacy] > > The index for the second form is no longer being maintained.  There were > relatively few queries of this form and the overhead was substantial. Ah, that worked. Excellent, thanks :-)

[Talk-GB] Old data in XAPI

2009-08-07 Thread Russ Phillips
I've been looking at getting pharmacy and hospital information out of OSM. According to the XAPI wiki page [1], "The data is normally no more than about 10 minutes behind the main database.", but at the moment it doesn't have various edits that I've done recently. If I get all the pharmacies from t

Re: [Talk-GB] Postal Area/District maps

2009-07-03 Thread Russ Phillips
2009/7/3 Mike : > Folks, > > Does anyone know of any maps marking UK postal areas/districts?  I seem > to recall picutre of the day on OSM having a map of postal areas but I > can't seem to find it. > > Any ideas where I can see the postal boundies? You're probably thinking of: http://dev.openstre

Re: [Talk-GB] Hello All

2009-06-25 Thread Russ Phillips
2009/6/24 Jack Stringer : > > I would also like to get involved in adding address data for already > added amenities to in turn improve the postcode database. If you're interested in improving free postcode information, then these two web sites will probably also be of interest to you: http://www

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat Navs to stop working?

2009-05-21 Thread Russ Phillips
Thanks to everyone for the responses. At least now I have some idea of what the issue is. Russ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Sat Navs to stop working?

2009-05-21 Thread Russ Phillips
Yesterday, on Radio 2's drive time show, someone mentioned that sat navs would stop working next year. My wife heard it as she was driving home, but there were no details. We can't work out what they were talking about. The Listen Again page is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kg9fr I can

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Russ Phillips
2009/5/18 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) : > > Stoke needs work but a party will probably happen there in July, watch the > wiki for that. I live in Stoke-on-Trent, but don't have a great deal of time to spend mapping, so I'd love to see a mapping party there. I don't know whether or not I'll be

Re: [Talk-GB] How to add roundabouts?

2009-01-28 Thread Russ Phillips
> 2009/1/28 Chris Andrew : >> Hi, all. >> >> New to the list. Just wondering, some roads near me have big >> roundabouts that aren't mapped, they are just seen as converging >> roads. I see that a tag exists to mark roundabouts (OSM Wiki), but I >> can't see how to apply it using the standard edi

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet another rail network map

2008-12-18 Thread Russ Phillips
2008/12/18 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) : > > But where a footpath or other > feature makes use of the original feature then I would definitely add a tag > that explains the features former use, that's useful data. I hadn't thought of it before, but that sounds like a good idea. There are a lo

Re: [Talk-GB] Automatically make street atlas?

2008-07-16 Thread Russ Phillips
Quoting "David Groom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As a starting point you might look at > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PDF_atlas Thanks, I'll take a proper look later. I'm not sure if it'll do quite what I want. If I knew Perl I might be able to adapt it, but I've never managed to get

[Talk-GB] Automatically make street atlas?

2008-07-12 Thread Russ Phillips
Hi people, I'd like to make some street atlases using OSM data. Has anyone created a script/program to do this automatically? If not, I might have a go at writing something myself, but I thought I'd see if anyone else has done it first. Basically, I'd like to feed it a .osm file, and have i

Re: [Talk-GB] Nottingham progress?

2008-07-05 Thread Russ Phillips
Quoting "Andy Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Russ Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Could anyone here give me an idea of progress in Nottingham? I had a >> quick look recently and it appeared that all the roads are in place,

[Talk-GB] Nottingham progress?

2008-07-03 Thread Russ Phillips
Could anyone here give me an idea of progress in Nottingham? I had a quick look recently and it appeared that all the roads are in place, but some (many?) don't have names. I have some friends in Nottingham, so it'd be good to be able to tell them that OSM has mapped their home town. I might

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Phillips
Quoting "Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A simple card with the web address and the OSM logo would be perfect, I'm > always needing the same but haven't got around to doing any. I'd add my name > and an email address too so that the person can make contact again. > > Has a

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Phillips
Quoting "Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Please don't be put of by any apparent negativity in this respect. We can > collectively make a difference if we all keep nipping at Sustrans heals, and > I'm sure that a few Rangers and Sustrans staff would become OSMers if we can

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Phillips
Quoting "Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So, my belief is that in realty recruiting sustrans people to our cause is > unlikely to be very fruitful. Look instead for people with time on their > hands, those still in education, bored professionals like me ;-) and the > retire

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans

2008-06-23 Thread Russ Phillips
> From: "Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans > > A quiet revolution, with OSM showing how we might be better than what they > have now seems to be the best approach and Andy's version of our data is one > of the ways to prove that. And as Andy s

[Talk-GB] Sustrans

2008-06-23 Thread Russ Phillips
Hi list, On Saturday, the wife & I went to have a look at a local (Stoke on Trent) "fun day", and got talking to the guy at the Sustrans stand, largely because I started looking at his maps. I'm not a cyclist, so I don't know a great deal about Sustrans, but I get the impression that there

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 19, Issue 7

2008-04-11 Thread Russ Phillips
> From: Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] reprojected NPE > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; > format="flowed" > > Incidentally, while we're talking NPE, I've added

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford hi-res on Yahoo

2008-01-10 Thread Russ Phillips
On Thu, January 10, 2008 2:19 pm, Gregory Williams wrote: > http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband/#mvt=s&lat=52.949414&lon=-1.178971&mag=4 > > PS, I also discovered several other new areas of coverage last night. > See: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo%21_Aerial_Imagery/Coverage Excelle

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford hi-res on Yahoo

2008-01-10 Thread Russ Phillips
On Thu, January 10, 2008 12:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:24:09 - > From: "Gregory Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Part of Nottingham also appears to have been added to the coverage. :-) That's good news. Do you have a URL or lat/lon? Russ ___