[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wolverhampton this weekend - LUGRadio Live and OGGCamp

2009-10-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
A roundup of plans for this weekend in Wolverhampton. I will be at LUGRadio [1] live all day Saturday. Speaking about OSM at 3pm but plan to do some mapping during the morning as a method of producing an informal map of the venue. If you want to help me/meet up give me a call and I'll come out.

[Talk-GB] maposmatic - update

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Miller
Ok, so after looking a bit more carefully and reading their blog[1] it says that they are working on the performance issues associated with running a global service. Regards, Peter [1] http://news.maposmatic.org/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] maposmatic for the UK?

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/23 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com I was at a meeting with our county council yesterday evening to discuss 'strategic cycle routes' in my town for inclusion in the official cycling strategy which will be applicable for the next decade. It was a very good and useful meeting,

Re: [Talk-GB] maposmatic - update

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/23 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com Ok, so after looking a bit more carefully and reading their blog[1] it says that they are working on the performance issues associated with running a global service. Regards, Peter [1] http://news.maposmatic.org/

Re: [Talk-GB] maposmatic for the UK?

2009-10-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: At a future meeting I would love to be able to recommend that they print an OpenStreetMap. I'm working on a web service that will create a PDF map on demand, given a MapCSS stylesheet (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapCSS) and a bounding box. It's only in its very

[Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Following on from the unintentional rights-of-way coverage map generated by zooming out from the OSM/First Edition mashup that I mentioned the other day, I've now done a script to generate a real one. It's available at http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/stats/statsmap.php

Re: [Talk-GB] maposmatic for the UK?

2009-10-23 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/10/23 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com I was at a meeting with our county council yesterday evening to discuss 'strategic cycle routes' in my town for inclusion in the official cycling strategy which will be applicable for the next decade. It was a very good and useful meeting,

Re: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Sent: 23 October 2009 10:43 AM To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map Hello everyone, Following on from the unintentional rights-of-way coverage map generated by zooming out from the OSM/First Edition mashup that I mentioned the

[Talk-GB] Funny with Mapnik?

2009-10-23 Thread Ian Caldwell
I put a few roads in last night and when I checked them this morning they were missing from the level 14,15,16 in Maplink. I then added a turning circle I had missed. About 1/2 hour ago they were missing from levels 14-18. They are all there in Osmarender. location is

Re: [Talk-GB] Funny with Mapnik?

2009-10-23 Thread Shaun McDonald
It is probably due to a fresh planet import. http://matt.sandbox.cloudmade.com is currently up to date. Shaun On 23 Oct 2009, at 15:21, Ian Caldwell wrote: I put a few roads in last night and when I checked them this morning they were missing from the level 14,15,16 in Maplink. I then added

Re: [Talk-GB] Funny with Mapnik?

2009-10-23 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:21 +0100, Ian Caldwell wrote: I put a few roads in last night and when I checked them this morning they were missing from the level 14,15,16 in Maplink. I then added a turning circle I had missed. About 1/2 hour ago they were missing from levels 14-18. They are all

Re: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Andy, Couple of comments on that. Quite a lot of PROW within the urban sprawl. These being ways that have had to be adjusted and realigned when housing development extended, but at least were maintained as a route. True, though perhaps these aren't so important to show as most people

Re: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
It's a bit more sophisticated than that; see the URL for what I consider a right of way. Note that I tried a version with highway=footway,foot=yes added in, and got the same sort of pattern. Nick In fact, it's possible to add highway=footway, foot=yes to the definition of a right of way by

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 37, Issue 24

2009-10-23 Thread osmlists
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:33:31 +0100, Peter Miller wrote: [snip] At a future meeting I would love to be able to recommend that they print an OpenStreetMap. Unfortunately, MapOSMatic, which is the only service that I am aware of that allows one to create big town maps only works within

Re: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread OJ W
just wondering: are any of the highway=footpath tags still in OSM database? I always used to use those for legal rights-of-way footpaths with a footpath sign until it became OSM-standard that highway=footway should be used for all paths regardless of legal status.