[Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Miller
We are planning to give the UK administrative wiki pages a bit of a spring clean which are all a bit random, not very well linked and contain quite a lot of duplicated content and some very out-of-date content. The plan is as follows: Firstly we will create wiki pages for the English and

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 12:04, Peter Miller wrote: We are planning to give the UK administrative wiki pages a bit of a spring clean which are all a bit random, not very well linked and contain quite a lot of duplicated content and some very out-of-date content. Quite a lot of the Cambs/West

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 Mar 2009, at 12:12, David Earl wrote: On 09/03/2009 12:04, Peter Miller wrote: We are planning to give the UK administrative wiki pages a bit of a spring clean which are all a bit random, not very well linked and contain quite a lot of duplicated content and some very out-of-

[Talk-GB] REMINDER: South Hants Mapping Party this weekend

2009-03-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, A reminder that the South Hampshire mapping party is happening this weekend (14th/15th), details at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/South_Hampshire_Mapping_Party_09 South Hampshire is currently one of the best-mapped areas outside London in the UK, and in particular

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Ed Loach
David replied to Peter: Quite a lot of the Cambs/West Suffolk stuff is organised by District at the moment (though I perhaps mistakenly conflated Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire, and e.g. the East Cambs page is actually named Ely). District is a bit more manageable a unit than County

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 Mar 2009, at 13:06, Ed Loach wrote: r. I think therefore that the towns listed on each district page are probably more correct than those in the template (though some places are perhaps open to debate). Since then I've tended to concentrate on the district page where I live. The Essex

[Talk-GB] Motorcycle parking

2009-03-09 Thread LeedsTracker
Hello all, Is there a tag (or combination) for motorcycle parking? Something like this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Motorcycle-parking.jpg We have amenity=bicycle_parking and of course amenity=parking but not sure how to tag these. For now I have gone for amenity=parking,

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Ed Loach
There is plenty left to do, but I hope people are happy with what we have being doing so far. Would it make more sense for http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England to redirect to WikiProject_England now instead of WikiProject_United_Kingdom? If so then it can be easily updated at this link:

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 Mar 2009, at 15:36, Ed Loach wrote: There is plenty left to do, but I hope people are happy with what we have being doing so far. Would it make more sense for http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England to redirect to WikiProject_England now instead of WikiProject_United_Kingdom?

Re: [Talk-GB] Markers on OSM with text

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Childs
2009/3/9 Mike m...@csits.net: Folks, I'm trying to use a slippy OSM map on a webpage with various markers.  I want each marker numbering from one to whatever.  I have read the guide here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openlayers_POI_layer_example which explains how to add a text box