Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-17 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/11/2020 22:34, Jez Nicholson wrote: From my change request discussion it appears that the UPRN appeared on the road as part of a test of Robert's Mathmos matching. The USRN and the UPRN tags showed the same number, I believe. The UPRN tag has now been removed leaving only the USRN, but

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
On 31/10/2020 08:04, Martin Wynne wrote: The NLS historic 25" georeferenced map first looks on the server for tiles from the County Series maps. If that returns a 404 Not Found error (presumably because the sheet wasn't available when the rest were scanned), it then looks on the server for

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

2020-08-15 Thread Steve Doerr
On 13/08/2020 13:06, SK53 wrote: This location on Robert's site shows several UPRNs on streets: * 10009154384 on Averton Square That's a link to openstreetmap.org, not to something called 'Robert's site'. -- Steve -- This

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-27 Thread Steve Doerr
Could they perhaps be 5.5 to distinguish them from regions? Steve From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] I favour admin level 5 too. On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 23:52, Colin Smale mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> > wrote: The LAs of which the CAs are composed are sometimes

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

2020-07-11 Thread Steve Doerr
On 10/07/2020 11:27, Mark Goodge wrote: So, it seems that Fairfield [Road] isn't known to either OS or Google. It is shown (in abbreviated form) on streetmap.co.uk, but at that zoom level, in London, that's based on the Bartholomew A-Z maps rather than OS. For what it's worth, I also found

Re: [Talk-GB] "secret" site

2020-06-30 Thread Steve Doerr
On 29/06/2020 22:56, Colin Smale wrote: It was completed in 1964 as the GPO Tower. The GPO became the Post Office in 1969, at which time the tower was also renamed. I stand corrected - partially. It seems to have been referred to in pariament as the Post Office Tower as early as 1963:

Re: [Talk-GB] "secret" site

2020-06-29 Thread Steve Doerr
On 29/06/2020 08:20, Ken Kilfedder wrote: The GPO Tower (AKA Telecom Tower AKA BT Tower) only started to appear in public maps in 1984 I don't remember it ever being called the GPO Tower. It was always the Post Office Tower. -- Steve -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone in South-West London?

2020-03-30 Thread Steve Doerr
Is this relevant/ https://ecoworldlondon.com/places-to-live/current/verdo-kew-bridge Steve On 30/03/2020 18:58, Andy Townsend wrote: I've sent another "message to be read before continuing to edit" https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/3592 . It'd be good if everyone could have a

Re: [Talk-GB] Map with AI comes to the UK

2020-01-11 Thread Steve Doerr
On 11/01/2020 12:41, Rob Nickerson wrote: In JOSM add it using: wmts:https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/robjn/ck59jksa71nym1co31kr8mulb/wmts?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoicm9iam4iLCJhIjoid0dYNkY1QSJ9.A-0lzQOawGYICYPfURsjDA And in iD Editor add it using:

[Talk-GB] Neighbourhood/LSOA Names

2019-11-15 Thread Steve Doerr
Does anyone recognize this? A few months ago, I remember visiting a website that was looking to crowdsource meaningful names for neighbourhoods. I think it was based on Census Output Areas, probably at the LSOA level. It had a map showing the boundaries of the areas, and they had preloaded

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way vs. tracks

2019-10-03 Thread Steve Doerr
On 29/09/2019 21:58, Edward Bainton wrote: > running from 511,025.344 298,855.444 Meters to 510,856.672 298,723.814 Meters > > I don't recognise that coordinate system: is it any help for OSM? It's a millimetre-precision version of the Ordnance Survey grid reference. For conversion, see e.g.

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of Argos stores

2019-03-11 Thread Steve Doerr
On 10/03/2019 15:15, David Woolley wrote: Concessions aren't limited to Argos and have existed for decades, at least, in department stores. Note that Argos is now a subsidiary of Sainsbury's. Wikipedia even states that 'Sainsbury's intend to close most if not all separate Argos shops and

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible Unattributed Map on Labrokes Website

2019-02-07 Thread Steve Doerr
On 07/02/2019 17:59, talk...@manet-computer.co.uk wrote: Not sure if this is the right place to ask but is there anyone who can look at https://thegrid.ladbrokes.com/en/shoplocator to see if they are using OpenStreetmap data without proper attribution? Looks like they are. Housenumber

[Talk-GB] Facebook Map Query - Thames rendered as Thanames

2018-10-25 Thread Steve Doerr
A user on the Facebook group 'UK Places Editors' has commented on the fact that some maps on Facebook pages in the vicinity of Putney Bridge (London) show the River Thames as 'Thanames'. See, for example, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Putney-Bridge/103150243057869 A bit of browser debugging

Re: [Talk-GB] What was the outcome of the discussion about C class roads with ref tags?

2018-09-24 Thread Steve Doerr
The same thing, by the looks of it: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Buckinghamshire_Council#Classified_Unnumbered_.28Class_III.29_and_Unclassified_Roads Steve On 24/09/2018 09:34, Stuart Reynolds wrote: [Side question, albeit not totally off-topic] Out of curiosity, I

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

2018-09-19 Thread Steve Doerr
On 19/09/2018 16:04, Andrew Black wrote: There is a very big difference - ceremonial counties exist now and so are in scope for OSM.  As you say here are differences between them and admin counties when unitary authorties are involved  - traditional counties are an attempt to recreate the

Re: [Talk-GB] un-named roads in UK

2018-08-31 Thread Steve Doerr
On 30/08/2018 22:26, Mark Goodge wrote: It was incredibly confusing to visitors, as the hamlet was nowhere near the post town. So we inserted "near [parish name]" as the second line, when giving the address. Off-topic, but the Royal Mail have long discouraged the use of 'Near', but they do

Re: [Talk-GB] un-named roads in UK

2018-08-31 Thread Steve Doerr
On 30/08/2018 17:40, Ed Loach wrote: I missed the start of this thread as I was away, but there are some unnamed roads in England with houses on that just have a postal address in the format house name, hamlet name, parish name, postal town or at least there is the one where I commented on

Re: [Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - mapper required

2018-07-14 Thread Steve Doerr
Do they not have any architects' drawings they could share? Steve On 14/07/2018 12:11, talk...@manet-computer.co.uk wrote: Is this something that could be done over a series of evenings and a couple of afternoons or is it a larger task? Bing has some images, not sure how old they are.

Re: [Talk-GB] Nottingham Cottage, Kensington

2018-05-23 Thread Steve Doerr
On 22/05/2018 19:22, Andy Mabbett wrote: Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace, is in the news as the new home of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Prince Harry & Meghan Markle). Not particularly new, as I believe they've lived there since their engagement. It doesn't seem

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

2018-05-04 Thread Steve Doerr
On 04/05/2018 12:52, Lester Caine wrote: it's not helped when postoffice.co.uk don't list the independent post offices in there search results! According to them Broadway does not have a post office ;) It comes up for me at Russell Square, Back Lane, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7AP. I

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-01-29 Thread Steve Doerr
On 29/01/2018 11:36, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Ah, I see that tagging would create a lot of false positives in my tool and make it much less useful! My understanding is that addr:postcode should be used only as part of an address. So if you want to put a postcode on a street (or part

Re: [Talk-GB] Hull road renamed after rugby league star - BBC News

2018-01-27 Thread Steve Doerr
On 27/01/2018 13:21, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 27 January 2018 at 09:51, Colin Spiller wrote: I see malcolmh has already renamed it. Cool, but my question was "Does anyone have the coordinates, or the ID of the way, please?" To which the answer, I think it's safe to

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

2017-11-03 Thread Steve Doerr
On 03/11/2017 10:59, Ilya Zverev wrote: 3 нояб. 2017 г., в 13:21, Andy Townsend написал(а): Last time you proposed this it took only a few seconds to identify problems with the data. It's the same this time - at least some of the changes that your map suggests you're

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Steve Doerr
On 19/10/2017 12:42, Dave F wrote: Where did you get that address? Their website shows it as: Spring River, Talbot Lane, Ebbsfleet, DA10 1AZ I got the address from a till receipt the first time I ate there, and also checked the Royal Mail site. Which bit is Talbot Lane; it's not tagged.

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-18 Thread Steve Doerr
On 10/10/2017 19:07, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: It doesn't seem to have been mentioned here yet, but this quarter's UK mapping project is to improve addresses and postcodes: https://osmuk.org/uncategorized/jump-in-to-our-quarterly-mapping-project/ It would be useful to have some

Re: [Talk-GB] "an extraordinary quirk in the UK address system"

2017-09-13 Thread Steve Doerr
On 13/09/2017 11:29, SK53 wrote: Unfortunately reading the comments I noticed a remark about a No. 441A and I realised my interpolation must have had an error. On checking I found that I'd placed the known address one house over. This means that continuing the interpolation means that the

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the Historic Boundaries of Wales: Commotes and Cantrefs

2017-05-20 Thread Steve Doerr
histo...@openstreetmap.org might also be interested in this. On 19/05/2017 17:39, Andy Mabbett wrote: [cross-posted] FYI: https://rcahmw.gov.uk/mapping-the-historic-boundaries-of-wales-commotes-and-cantrefs/ "The Royal Commission [on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales] has

Re: [Talk-GB] Legible London signs - tagging suggestions

2017-01-10 Thread Steve Doerr
On 10/01/2017 07:54, Robert Skedgell wrote: ref=legible_london I don't understand the rationale for this as a 'ref'. Refs are normally unique identifiers for a particular object (unique within a particular domain, that is). Thus each sign would have a different ref, if there were

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-01 Thread Steve Doerr
Great. Thanks. Obviously the first priority is to get a UK-friendly slippy map up on the front page: blue motorways, green trunks, clear differentiation between A, B, C, and other roads, postcode and OSGR lookups, etc. Steve Sent from my iPhone > On 1 Jan 2017, at 13:38, Rob Nickerson

Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

2016-11-22 Thread Steve Doerr
There's a cupcake business locally which I suspect is a home business (as the streets in that area are only residential AFAIK). I haven't actually been there to check it out. Steve On 22/11/2016 15:54, Dave F wrote: I think they're misusing 'private' where they mean 'personal' I've only

Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

2016-11-22 Thread Steve Doerr
On 22/11/2016 15:22, Dave F wrote: Are you now suggesting the electoral roll should be hidden? Please don't assume duplicating freely available data in OSM makes it 'personal' or somehow tainted. It is possible to be 'ex-directory' in relation to the electoral register. -- Steve --- This

Re: [Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

2016-11-13 Thread Steve Doerr
On 13/11/2016 10:49, Dave F wrote: Could you clarify how the 'distant matches' are calculated? I'm confused by a couple of the errors it's thrown up: http://gregrs.dev.openstreetmap.org/fhrs/district-270.html 'Sam Wellers', 'Longvernal Primary School' (at the very bottom). Their fhrs:ids

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

2016-11-10 Thread Steve Doerr
On 09/11/2016 07:36, Greg wrote: I’ve now implemented Steve’s request for more clickable links in the overview map for each district at . In addition to opening the web page for each FHRS establishment, you can now open the OSM page for each relevant

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

2016-10-18 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/10/2016 21:47, Greg wrote: I think the most useful link would probably be one that loads the OSM node/way in JOSM using the remote control function in the same way that the suggested matches map links do. Obviously you’d have to put the address details into JOSM manually, but you could

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

2016-10-16 Thread Steve Doerr
Thanks for providing this tool, Greg. I've found it very useful so far for adding address information based on the possible matches identified on the second map, where most of the dots have a link both to OSM and to the FHRS entry. However, I've now reached the stage where I need to look more

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging redevelopment and closed roads

2016-09-20 Thread Steve Doerr
On 20/09/2016 10:38, Derick Rethans wrote: If the items no longer function as how they are described, and not will come back, I would delete them right away. I disagree. Any feature in the landscape should remain mapped until it has actually disappeared. In the mean time, the 'disused:'

Re: [Talk-GB] Rare postboxes no longer so rare?

2016-09-03 Thread Steve Doerr
On 03/09/2016 00:23, Rob Nickerson wrote: I thought these postboxes were supposed to be really rare. Seems like loads have been added this year: There are supposed to be about 130 of them(*), of which OSM has 140. (*) http://inamidst.com/topic/edwardboxes Steve --- This email has been

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016

2016-04-01 Thread Steve Doerr
On 01/04/2016 11:51, Ed Loach wrote: With noon rapidly approaching I'll withdraw my earlier suggestion regarding deleting sadly-lacking-in-information buildings as part of a future project. LOL. Brilliant! Took me in. -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-27 Thread Steve Doerr
Looks like there is some open data available including 2012 districts (I think these are the 'super councils' referred to):

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Wales data

2016-01-19 Thread Steve Doerr
On 19/01/2016 15:55, Bogus Zaba wrote: On 19/01/16 14:58, Lester Caine wrote: http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/edubasealldata20160119.csv 36Mb, and a little slow downloading, but has all the data and seems to be updated regularly even if it still has old website url's and other content ;)

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

2016-01-17 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/01/2016 12:55, Lester Caine wrote: On 17/01/16 11:08, Edward Betts wrote: This is the list of Wikidata tags that I actually plan to add: https://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/west_midlands/matches_2016-01-16.txt Please remove the School list from this. We are currently adding the edubase

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E in Potlatch & iD

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Doerr
On 30/12/2015 18:31, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 18:26, Steve Doerr wrote: On 30/12/2015 18:09, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 17:04, Steve Doerr wrote: On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: They changed the URL for that layer recently when they merged the separate England+Wales

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E in Potlatch & iD

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Doerr
On 30/12/2015 18:09, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 17:04, Steve Doerr wrote: On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: They changed the URL for that layer recently when they merged the separate England+Wales and Scotland layers for the 2nd edition 6 inch maps into one layer. I've updated

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO World - OSM OS Locator Analysis

2015-12-10 Thread Steve Doerr
I think the URL may have changed. Try http://product.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main Steve On 10/12/2015 22:34, Robert Neil wrote: ITOWorld OSM / OS Locator missing street analysis has been off for a couple of weeks with page not found. Anyone know what is happening with it?

Re: [Talk-GB] traffic calming

2015-11-22 Thread Steve Doerr
On 22/11/2015 19:37, Chris Hill wrote: Mechanical edits need to be discussed. He then indicated that he would discuss the tags on tagging@ - indeed he suggested leaving his edit and discussing it on tagging@. I wanted also to make it clear that tagging@ is not the best place to discuss

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-10-30 Thread Steve Doerr
Lester, In the short term, would substituting http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/ solve your rendering problems? Steve On 31/10/2015 02:09, Lester Caine wrote: OK ... what do we need to do to get a working UK map again? Bing and Google are almost useless, and the new indistinguishable rendering

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Romantic London' - reusing Horwood's 1790's map

2015-10-27 Thread Steve Doerr
motco.com is very good as well, specifically http://motco.com/map/ Steve On 27/10/2015 14:41, Stuart Reynolds wrote: For those of you interested in old maps generally, you may already be aware of the site http://www.mapco.net/ which has a wide selection of freely-viewable historical maps of

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in EW in Potlatch iD

2015-08-26 Thread Steve Doerr
On 26/08/2015 21:58, Tom Hughes wrote: On 26/08/15 21:35, Steve Doerr wrote: Anyone know if there's a tms address for the imagery set shown here: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=8lat=51.6206lon=-0.1766layers=176 ? Oohh... That's new... Yes, there is but as they are county series maps

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in EW in Potlatch iD

2015-08-26 Thread Steve Doerr
On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/01/15 17:05, Steve Doerr wrote: I'm sure I've used the National Library of Scotland's set of 6-inch OS maps for England and Wales (1888-1913) as a background layer in Potlatch 2 before now, but at the moment I can't seem to get it to work. I've also

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Open Names

2015-06-03 Thread Steve Doerr
On 03/06/2015 18:57, Chris Hill wrote: You can use the tiles in JOSM and P2 using the url below[2] [2] http://www.raggedred.net/tiles/opennames/{z}/{x}/{y}.png For Potlatch 2, I think it needs to be http://www.raggedred.net/tiles/opennames/$z/$x/$y.png.

Re: [Talk-GB] Issue with Changeset

2015-05-15 Thread Steve Doerr
Look here instead: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#17/50.0553/-5.6555num=4mt0=mapnikmt1=google-mapmt2=bing-mapmt3=nokia-map Steve On 15/05/2015 10:44, Paul Sladen wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2015, Jason Woollacott wrote: Looks like there has been an issue with changeset 30821940 Which seems to have

Re: [Talk-GB] What was the outcome of the discussion about C class roads with ref tags?

2015-05-04 Thread Steve Doerr
I once saw some friends on Facebook discussing the state of a road local to them in Dorset, and they referred to it by its C number throughout. Personally, I quite like the fact that our map has C numbers on where other maps don't. What I don't like, though, is seeing U numbers for

Re: [Talk-GB] Road-name oddity in Bath

2015-05-04 Thread Steve Doerr
See also the Comments section here: http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/8203-Victoria-Bridge-passageway-close-weeks/story-23347562-detail/story.html#comments Steve On 04/05/2015 00:37, Dave F. wrote: Hi Andy While what was there before certainly wasn't correct I don't believe Nick Austin's

Re: [Talk-GB] Road Names Quarterly Project

2015-02-18 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/02/2015 23:05, Paul Bivand wrote: A small story about this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31117763/history Laurie Gray Avenue, Bluebell Hill, Kent, used to have a street sign saying Laurie Gray. Various council documentation and OS locator referred to the 'Avenue' form. After two

Re: [Talk-GB] Disclaimer

2015-01-28 Thread Steve Doerr
On 28/01/2015 01:13, Neil Matthews wrote: [snip] I guess we might need to be a little careful: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/one-spelling-error-costs-companies-house-up-to-9-million-after-being-sued-for-ruining-business-10007372.html -- Steve --- This email has been checked

Re: [Talk-GB] Allegedly named motorways

2014-11-18 Thread Steve Doerr
On 18/11/2014 23:06, SomeoneElse wrote: There's a similar issue a bit further out, the Slough-Maidenhead By-Pass: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/81517663 http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?osl_id=18177 Again that sounds like a description; I've never seen that sign on

[Talk-GB] NLS Historical Maps

2014-11-13 Thread Steve Doerr
I know we have access to some of the National Library of Scotland's historical map layers, e.g. OS one-inch and 1:25000. What about this layer: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=6layers=171 ? -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS Historical Maps

2014-11-13 Thread Steve Doerr
the town plan layer in Edinburgh and the detailed plans for old bits of town are really lovely. Cheers Chris On Thu Nov 13 2014 at 1:37:45 PM Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com mailto:doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: I know we have access to some of the National Library of Scotland's

[Talk-GB] ooc.openstreetmap.org

2014-11-06 Thread Steve Doerr
It occurs to me that this is perhaps more relevant to Talk-GB than to Talk. Steve Forwarded Message Subject:ooc.openstreetmap.org Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 01:09:45 + From: Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com To: t...@openstreetmap.org Has this service

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Steve Doerr
On 01/11/2014 09:15, Ed Loach wrote: On 1 November 2014 01:06, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Brantano (UK) Limited shops are all branded 'Brantano Footwear' that is their shop 'Logo' The logo is the symbol at the top, the shop name is Brantano

Re: [Talk-GB] addressing (was addr:place)

2014-10-27 Thread Steve Doerr
On 27/10/2014 09:24, Andy Robinson wrote: Are the postal towns not the town that is represented by the first part of the postcode? So CW for Crewe for instance. No: a postcode alpha prefix will typically cover several post towns. My parents live in Swaffham in Norfolk but Royal Mail have

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

2014-10-24 Thread Steve Doerr
On 24/10/2014 15:13, Dan S wrote: Co-operative - not clear to me why you choose to drop The from this one, since it's included in the branding? You choose to keep it for The Co-operative Food. +1: see http://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/ -- Steve --- This email is free from viruses and

Re: [Talk-GB] LEZ get this completed?

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Doerr
On 15/10/2014 09:53, Philip Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 09:17 +0100, Antje (OpenStreetMap) wrote: I live in London, so I could figure out a small part of the boundary based on the fact that it doesn’t go outside London for obvious reasons, and on the basis of a number of past surveys

Re: [Talk-GB] Solarium vs. Sunbed Salon vs. Tanning Salon

2014-07-16 Thread Steve Doerr
I agree, but of the three I'd plump for 'tanning salon'. Steve On 16/07/2014 19:09, SK53 wrote: I think all are acceptable. FWIW I've always followed Harry Wood's dictum and lumped these in as shop=beauty (aka Beauty Salon) possibly with a sub-tag beauty=tanning. But given the paucity of

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM in Linux Format magazine

2014-01-17 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/01/2014 08:17, Bob Kerr wrote: Also in the Guardian an article http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/14/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap See also Adam Smith Institute reaction here:

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-17 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/01/2014 18:18, John Aldridge wrote: 'Regular' post office branches (as currently run by Post Office Ltd) are the only things which should be tagged 'amentity=post_office'. The 'operator=*' tag is not required for these (and perhaps better omitted, since the name of the company keeps

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-16 Thread Steve Doerr
On 16/01/2014 10:03, John Aldridge wrote: Heh... that definition excludes 'regular' (Post Office Ltd) post offices, though! If you try to send a letter at one of those, they tell you to put it in the (Royal Mail) post box outside. Not if you ask for proof of posting. -- Steve

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-17 Thread Steve Doerr
On the contrary, I use openstreetmap.org all the time. Whenever I encounter a place I'm unfamiliar with, I look it up on openstreetmap.org. I almost never look at renderings of OSM data through another web-site. In Facebook postings and emails, where I want to link to a map it's invariably to

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap Birthday meet in London

2013-08-09 Thread Steve Doerr
Great idea! Can you remind us nearer the time? Steve On 09/08/2013 15:33, Grant Slater wrote: Hi Talk-GB, There is an OpenStreetMap birthday meet in London tomorrow (Saturday)... all are welcome. All the juicy details are here:

Re: [Talk-GB] Gaping hole in New Forest District

2013-06-07 Thread Steve Doerr
On 07/06/2013 09:52, Colin Smale wrote: Since February the New Forest District admin boundary relation [1] has been sporting an exclave in the form of Ironshill Lodge [2]. I couldn't find anything on the internet about this, only about the various Inclosures in that area but nothing to

[Talk-GB] Govt Consultation Uses OSM Mapping

2013-05-21 Thread Steve Doerr
I see that today's announcement of a government consultation on the options for a new Lower Thames Crossing (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/options-for-a-new-lower-thames-crossing) makes use of OSM mapping (duly attributed) for the base map showing the various options under

Re: [Talk-GB] New OS Locator (201305) out, Musical Chairs updated

2013-05-08 Thread Steve Doerr
On 04/05/2013 21:44, Robert Scott wrote: Just in time for your May day bank holidays, which I'm sure you're all going to be spending mapping, the new OS Locator release is out and I've updated Musical Chairs[1] with it. Thanks, Robert, for this excellent resource (though I admit I've mostly

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] Fwd: Aerial Photographs

2013-04-05 Thread Steve Doerr
. I'm expecting them to be mostly boxed sets and the coverage mainly focussed on northern England. Useful to know about your Bodelian experience. Cheers Andy *From:*Mikel Maron [mailto:mikel_ma...@yahoo.com] *Sent:* 05 April 2013 16:20 *To:* Steve Doerr; histo...@openstreetmap.org; Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Doerr
On 28/02/2013 12:27, Aidan McGinley wrote: 12 of these buildings only have the first part of the postcode. All of these partially match what is output by the script, for example way 5042255 is tagged in OSM as SW15 and the script identifies it as SW15B2U. Hopefully that's a typo for

Re: [Talk-GB] Fw: Fowey estuary coastline problem

2013-01-30 Thread Steve Doerr
That's how it appears on OS maps, e.g. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=286849Y=54821A=YZ=115 Steve On 30/01/2013 10:46, Jason Woollacott wrote: Hi Kevin, Agreed, it looks wrong... The data came from the OS Boundary Line data, which I took from the gpx trace from Colin's site,

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
Can we get this data into Nominatim? Steve On 31/10/2012 11:07, Andy Robinson wrote: We are back on for postcode interpretation and addition to buildings again. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [mailto:o...@raggedred.net] Sent: 30 October 2012 19:25 To: Talk GB

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Is that in there? -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
On 31/10/2012 11:54, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:51, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Is that in there? I believe

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Steve Doerr
Thornton Heath was always part of Croydon parish, so you can't look at old maps for a parish boundary. It may correspond to a ward or wards within the London Borough of Croydon, if you can find a source for ward boundaries which is unencumbered by copyright

Re: [Talk-GB] Sur de Edimburgo ?

2012-08-29 Thread Steve Doerr
Probably corresponds to what's shown as 'South Side' on recent OS maps? http://magic.defra.gov.uk/website/magic/opener.htm?startTopic=maggbxygridref=325848,672919startScale=4000 Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southside,_Edinburgh#Southside Steve

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone in Sidcup/Bexley?

2012-08-10 Thread Steve Doerr
Is there any reason we shouldn't just take OS StreetView's word for it and remap accordingly? Steve On 08/08/2012 22:19, Colin Smale wrote: It looks like the A222 (Hurst Road?) has fallen victim to the bot between Bexley and Sidcup. It has been summarily relegated to an anonymous

Re: [Talk-GB] UK redacted

2012-07-17 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/07/2012 08:40, Richard Fairhurst wrote: London's finally complete: http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php But Paris has errors. (I know, off topic.) -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Redaction progress

2012-07-13 Thread Steve Doerr
Interesting. I see that a number of redaction edits have been made in northern France, so maybe the mappers in those areas should be made aware. Steve On 12/07/2012 17:36, Richard Fairhurst wrote: After a couple of delays earlier today caused by technical issues (with the setup, not with

[Talk-GB] Big Brother House

2012-01-17 Thread Steve Doerr
Does anyone know whether http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/85205885 is the current Big Brother House? If so, the name should be changed. -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Sat-nav problems tackled at government summit

2012-01-05 Thread Steve Doerr
'The problems caused when lorry and car drivers are misdirected by out-of-date directions from their sat-navs are to be tackled at a government summit.[...]' www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16434183 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] London Gateway (Port)

2011-12-24 Thread Steve Doerr
Indeed. That's why I flagged it up. I was hoping some local mappers read TALK-GB. Steve On 24/12/2011 14:25, Gregory wrote: OpenStreetMap is a wiki. On 18 December 2011 09:43, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com mailto:doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: What I meant was 'doesn't appear

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Doerr
On 15/11/2011 12:32, Richard Fairhurst wrote: A cider house is a pub that predominantly serves cider, not a producer. The /Oxford English Dictionary/ got it wrong then: *cider-house* /n./ a building in which cider is made. -- Steve ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Doerr
On 15/11/2011 22:48, Sven Geggus wrote: Huh, there actually _are_ wineries in the UK? Sven Not merely wineries, but vineyards too:

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-05 Thread Steve Doerr
On 05/11/2011 15:05, Craig Loftus wrote: For cider and perry I think the building is usually called a mill? OED defines 'cider-mill' as 'a mill in which apples are crushed for making cider', but also has 'cider-house' = 'a building in which cider is made'. -- Steve

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
be preferred. Steve -Original Message- From: Barnett, Phillip Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 10:00 AM To: 'Steve Doerr' ; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: RE: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features On the other hand, Cambridge University Press and Fowlers Modern English (my personal

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-27 Thread Steve Doerr
On 27/10/2011 10:57, Graham Jones wrote: I always think of Civilization being an American spelling Oh, that old chestnut! No, not at all. For verbs in -ize/-ise (and hence derived nouns in -ization/-isation), -z- has long been the preferred spelling for such scholarly British publishers as

Re: [Talk-GB] UK cities

2011-10-17 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/10/2011 14:44, Ed Avis wrote: AFAIK, every city has a defined boundary, even if nowadays it is no longer marked by a city wall. For 'town' this is not so, and you could not take a strict approach there. It may be possible in many cases if you take a historical approach. Some time in

Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Doerr
On 29/06/2011 17:55, Peter Miller wrote: I have also been very impressed with the initial results from the visual comparison of OSM and OS Vector map district as well. We seem to have an much to help the OS improve their data as the other way round! I'd still like to see if the OS show any

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO OSM Analysis not updating?

2011-06-21 Thread Steve Doerr
At the moment I can't get into ITO OSM Analysis at all. If I enter the URL http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main?showMinor=true it is immediately replaced by http://www.itoworld.com/main. I've tried both in Firefox and IE. Steve On 21/06/2011 12:31, Shane Reynolds wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2.2

2011-06-20 Thread Steve Doerr
On 19/06/2011 18:12, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 2.2 is live. Thanks, Richard. Unfortunately I found Potlatch extremely unstable when I was using it last night - in fact I wondered if a new version might have gone live. I think the main symptom was the

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Steve Doerr
On 09/06/2011 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: Indeed, here is a map showing verified/surveyed+souce:name in dark red, source:name without verified/surveyed in orange and any instances of verified/surveyed without source:name as blue (there aren't any at present!)

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Doerr
On 08/06/2011 07:58, Peter Miller wrote: Following on swiftly from Musical Chairs OSM Analaysis is now also running with the new OS Locator data. Warwickshire is the biggest gainer/looser with 33 new names; over half of the districts have got at least one new road and there are now only 8

Re: [Talk-GB] Are you coming to London on Sunday?

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Doerr
On 07/06/2011 19:18, Steve Coast wrote: or saturday night http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Board_Meeting_June_2011 Would be awesome to see you there Strange that the pub and restaurant chosen are not even in OSM! -- Steve ___

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Vector Map District

2011-06-01 Thread Steve Doerr
On 01/06/2011 21:26, David Fitzhugh wrote: While browsing in the area of Fakenham, Norfolk, UK, I came across some entries with the source = OS Vector Map District ( look at the woodland). As I had not heard of this before I tried to look it up on the web and could not make sense of the OS

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