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This was discussed in a thread here a number of years ago. There is a lot of
upland heath on the moor:
http://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/wildlife-and-heritage/habita
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Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote:
Case in point (green dots on OS Explorer, sort of track on NPE, nothing
in OS Streetview, perfectly good track for 4x4s (maybe even cars -
memory is fuzzy now) mountain bikes).
Something I've mapped (Potlatch2 claims AndyS has modified it - but
then
assume that being one of the first few
relations I ever did, I had copied it from another relation and edited it.
What's the safest way to proceed with this - delete the relation
entirely and create a new one from my notes?
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around the entire
property (re-using the boundary hedges and fences) and labelled that as
the Doctor's Surgery.
Alternatively, what about using the relation type=site, which seems to
be widespread (133 848 instances, according to taginfo)?
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Interesting, although Privacy-conscious Apple fanbois seems like it might
be a very small market and why do the media often call the project
OpenStreetMaps, where does that come from?
Kevin
On 3 May 2013 10:19, david da...@avoncliff.com wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2013/05/02
before. I seem to remember most of
the data was okay to use in OSM. Search the list archive to confirm.
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and not updated. :(
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.81021lon=-2.60709zoom=16layers=M
What's with the feet, I thought 'ele' was supposed to be in metres?
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Hi Jason,
On 24 April 2013 11:55, Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com wrote:
I think the problem is back
Is it not just a browser caching issue? Looks okay to me in Firefox and
Chromium and I took a look at the way in josm and couldn't see anything
wrong.
Kevin
/2006/1381.png/status
If none of this makes a difference to your problem then let people know as
there may be something else that needs to be investigated.
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suicide stories to emerge.
It will be interesting to see if they get enough contributors to even sort
out the mess that gmaps poi's are in let alone to add buildings, etc.
Outside of a few urban centres I don't see it myself.
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the work has been held up a bit due to the poor weather of late.
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Replying to my own post,
On 9 April 2013 10:44, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote:
I assume the open section they are talking about on their website is the
new path and bridge around the back of Newton Abbot racecourse which I have
ridden a couple of times and does I think have some NCN signage
think TV would ever be expected to attribute things which
appear fairly incidentally and if anything they should have credited
netweather rather than OSM.
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not service = Columba Terrace
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I used a perl script to reformat the data beforehand so I could just
copy and paste the tag values in josm as it takes way too long to do
it manually for hundreds of prows.
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are they exactly?
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that as everyone has a satnav we
don't need to bother with road signs at all.
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Highway=track is better for typical bridleways, green lanes, etc that only
a tractor or 4x4 could use.
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On 28 Feb 2013 23:08, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
...looks excellent as a get away from it all destination...
Bring some good boots as it's pretty muddy after 6 months of rain.
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Dartmoor is often described as upland heath which I suppose is basically
what moorland is.
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reconciliation) to encourage people to add more postcodes.
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and to
clean-up any problems that do occur.
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threatening a ban for adding a name to a
road?
IMHO, individual contributors shouldn't be threatening others with bans
under any circumstances, this is what the OSMF is for.
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it and
they certainly don't own it.
If I read in the local paper that the Blockbusters down the road has
closed down I am perfectly free to use that information to remove it from
OSM. It is just ridiculous FUD to say otherwise.
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doesn't appear to render.
The sea is rendered as white with just a thick blue line for the
coastline. I guess that is a feature?
Hope this is useful.
regards,
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and track related features but if it ever stops raining down here I will
definitely test your app some more.
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. Is
it right that the county boundaries now go some way up the rivers? In
the case of the River Dart all the way up to Dittisham. Just seems
counterintuitive (+ also looks crap).
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So it seems, although the OS at least manages to limit the ugliness
factor. I wonder if there is some historical reason for it? Next time
I use the ferry I'll ask the guy to make sure he stays in Devon :]
Kevin
On 30 January 2013 11:37, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote:
That's how
Hi Barry,
On 24 Jan 2013 11:38, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
Please can you confirm that the routes are now better...
The Devon kml data looks spot on now.
thanks,
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On 23 Jan 2013 23:22, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Kevin Peat wrote:
The Converted kml file for Devon on this page:
http://www.rowmaps.com/kmls/DN/
Great, thanks. Each path has a name, e.g.:
DN Seaton Footpath 2
It would help if you gave
to reflect in osm.
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On 24 Jan 2013 11:38, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
Please can you confirm that the routes are now better...
Thanks for that. I'll check it out and let you know (will probably be
tomorrow now).
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On 23 Jan 2013 18:58, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Thanks for that. Any thoughts on whether they should be specifically tagged
in OSM?
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tracks with mostly gravel or
broken concrete surfaces, currently tagged as highway=track which seems
appropriate given the surface.
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On 23 Jan 2013 21:42, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
Which kml file are you referring to?
Please give me a URL so that I can download the kml and check...
The Converted kml file for Devon on this page:
http://www.rowmaps.com/kmls/DN/
Kevin
.
Couldn't disagree more. Editing complexity is an urban problem. Even with
farming landuse added rural editing has got to be an order of magnitude
easier than editing a dense city centre.
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better for those locations.
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have.
I also just checked a couple of sections of the SW Coastal Path near
me and the accuracy of the path in the dataset is pretty poor compared
to what we already have which is disappointing.
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in the future when their areas are
complete for roads, buildings, etc.
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was in the planning stage for more than 25
years before work started and having proposed routes in OSM for such long
periods wouldn't benefit anyone.
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if shown at all should be further down the list.
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not to
return things that could never have a postcode.
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if Potlatch has something similar.
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a more modern chipset. The interface hasn't improved much,
if at all. I preferred the cycling of pages on the older models to the
back button used on the new ones. My hcx bike mount had an irritating
rattle which the new one doesn't have so I guess that is an improvement.
Kevin
Haven't been to Donington for a couple of years but the only recent
change to the track itself that I am aware of is them moving the final
chicane back a few metres as shown in this image.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Donington_as_of_2010.svg
Kevin
On 8 May 2012 14:29, SomeoneElse li
. We'll have to try and get those
surfer dudes up on the north coast to go out mapping when there are no
waves.
Kevin
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problems with the map data and problems with the
skobbler app itself.
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bugs with no descriptions or vague bug types.
Despite that I have picked up a couple of missing turn restrictions and some
missing speed limits in my area so I think it has value even if you have to
search for it.
Kevin
On 29 March 2011 18:40, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Despite
but the third one has no signed limit. I assume the limit for that
roundabout is 60mph?
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He added these tags to some dual carriageway in my area that already had
speed limit tags. I was just going to delete them as they seem pointless.
Anyone know otherwise?
Kevin
On 13 Mar 2011 12:28, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Hi
You've probably seen the numerous edits by chriscf
the stream, the stream is
piped or just disappears for a bit (as often happens in wetland areas) is
hard to know without a survey.
Kevin
On 9 February 2011 18:42, Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com wrote:
OS VectorMap District is an excellent source of data for features like
streams
,
bug reporting api could also be offered to developers so they don't end up
building their own versions of MapDust.
Kevin
On 4 February 2011 01:14, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, we are getting some of the most comprehensive on the ground
verification and improvement reports
they need to be
street level complete) and then cultivate feedback from satnav/smartphone
users to add some richness to the data. Hopefully some of those people would
join the OSM community along the way.
Kevin
On 4 February 2011 12:15, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Can't we
I don't think this data serves any useful purpose. The polygon for my area
cut right across the middle of arbitrary areas so I deleted it a long time
ago. I've never had any feedback on that so assume no-one was using it.
Kevin
On 2 February 2011 10:40, Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil
allow an instant improvement in
navigation for many users who are used to tapping a postcode into their
satnavs?
Kevin
On 20 January 2011 18:17, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
Now that people are tracing buildings from Bing etc addressing is getting
more widespread, but one awkward area
So I should delete the various admin boundaries in the db then as they
cannot be viewed on the ground?
That's great for Nominatim but what if I want to find a postcode on my
Garmin?
Kevin
On 21 January 2011 09:58, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Because postcode centroids are not real
that data
to be added by local people. In the meantime it would be nice to be able to
make a postcode search.
Kevin
On 21 January 2011 10:03, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
I can’t speak for Chris, but I don’t see any point in just adding the
centroids to the map as any satnav application
Chris,
I'll go with the flow on this, there isn't much point adding stuff to the db
where there isn't a consensus. My postcode area is TQ so if you could add
this to the layer that would be great, it would be useful for tagging
buildings anyway.
Kevin
On 21 January 2011 11:46, Chris Hill o
I was working on this very area this morning - now (I think) much improved.
I went with canal + boat=no for the New River as it's man-made but
non-navigable.
Kevin
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Richard,
I think in my part of the SW the large majority of highway=unclassified
would be =1 car a minute average so just from a tagging perspective it
would be a lot easier just tagging those few that are busier.
Kevin
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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO -
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To: Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
On 4 November 2010 14:23, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
for their infallability. Where I
am the council mapping can be accessed via their website but all the data is
OS based so doesn't add anything to the sources we already have. I have also
noticed name differences between the OS Streetview and Locator products. All
part of the fun.
Kevin
It gets updated most days but from my observation is a day or two behind in
picking up changes.
Kevin
On 5 November 2010 15:03, Nikolay Metchev nikolaymetc...@gmail.com wrote:
I have only recently found the oscompare website as a result of
joining this mailing list.
http
to the imports done to
date?
Kevin
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We're importing the location of bus stops from NaPTAN, can we also load
to add the correct tags for whatever you have extracted.
Kevin
On 30 September 2010 01:01, m902 m902@gmail.com wrote:
I tried using OGR2OSM on one of the 10kmX10km squares of
NaturalFeature_Line data, but it crashes with a KeyError.
I can reproject it and examine it with QGIS, so the data
Not a great solution but for those I used the OS tiles as a background in
JOSM and cut and pasted just the streams between layers, joining the
segments where needed. Worked okay for me just doing my local area.
Kevin
On 30 September 2010 10:18, m902 m902@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, I tried
Yes, that was exactly the same for me so local knowledge is definitely
required.
Kevin
On 14 September 2010 21:44, Richard Mann
richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote:
At least one of the ones round here is the home/workshop of a roving
bike mechanic, so treat the data with care
It feels like the system developed by Martin for the cycle shops data could be
used to manage this too.
Kev
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To: Ed
On 8 September 2010 10:07, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote:
Until the issue of whether the OS datasets can be used under the new
license/CT is resolved it seems a bit pointless doing anything like this
whatever the merits might
(woods,
streams, rivers, coastline, etc.) and it is a crucial issue for me.
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and time in things then they'll not bother next time. Sure, it's
not perfect but it's an awful lot more than we'd have if Robert hadn't invested
his time and effort in it. As invited by him, spend some time improving it
rather than pulling it to pieces.
Kevin
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amounts of fixup
being required and I can't imagine many people being interested in doing
that. So for me at least whatever license we change to must be OS
compatible.
Kevin
On 21 July 2010 22:57, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have tidied up my OS Opendata Map
I think barrier=gate is more for open/closing gates across a highway (like a
farm gate for instance) whereas barrier=cycle_barrier is for the typical
offset barrier you see on paths/cycleways. Also tagging the barrier node as
bicycle=yes|true might help the routing.
Kevin
On 20 July 2010 18:11
so I tag the crossroads node, but it
seems that place=locality is trendy so people are doing that instead by
putting a node near the junction.
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for this, very helpful. I just followed this through and converted
data for some woods near me and it all worked okay apart from your ogr2ogr
command line has the output and input files around the wrong way (gdal
1.7.2).
Kevin
On 11 May 2010 18:28, Chris Hill o
)
would discourage people who really want to get involved but it would stop
random kids from signing up and immediately screwing up months of other
people's efforts.
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that have already been mapped to see if what you get is
usable.
regards,
Kevin
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.comwrote:
Well as we are on the subject of people being mentors.
I have just done my first bit of mapping today. After I finished work
I went
Just an idea, practical doesn't come into it ;-
But if we've always done it that way wins out every time then the maps
we produce probably aren't going to be as useful as they could be.
Kevin
Tom Hughes wrote:
Kevin Peat wrote:
Richard Mann wrote:
As a general principle, I think
time for
mapping
:-) )
I wasn't sure a mapping party would be ideal as what's most needed is
mapping over a large area (i.e. driving), but it's certainly a
possibility.
On 4 Feb 2008, at 09:24, Kevin Peat wrote:
I've very recently started to map my own area, Torbay in South Devon
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