[Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

2009-08-17 Thread Tom Chance
Hi, I set about correcting a few dozen post code entries in NPE for south east London, but the postcodes map doesn't seem to be updating: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/postcodes/?zoom=13lat=51.48557lon=-0.07888layers=B00T0F0F Have the hopefully weekly updates stopped? Any plans to

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread Godfrey Bartlett
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hello Godfrey, Sorry I should have made another point: If it's a path which you know is a right of way via an Ordnance Survey map, but cannot verify that on the ground, again you must use foot=permissive even if that's not true. This is because you can't verify the

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

2009-08-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tom Chancet...@acrewoods.net wrote: Hi, I set about correcting a few dozen post code entries in NPE for south east London, but the postcodes map doesn't seem to be updating:

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

2009-08-17 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, Seen this map before, very cool. Do you use the postcode=* or add:postcode=* to pull out the areas? Ciarán ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread David Earl
On 17/08/2009 13:28, Glenn Proctor wrote: Following on from this, am I correct in assuming that the only definitive source of mapping information about public rights of way is the OS? It seems ludicrous that *public* rights of way are effectively copyrighted in this manner. I suppose it's

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread Ed Loach
but one can then do that on the ground. Any many people are already mapping the footpaths (etc) on the ground. Each weekend my wife and I try and find time to go for a walk somewhere nearby which adds at least one public footpath to OSM based on GPX trace. And if people do add paths using NPE

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Hill
Glenn Proctor wrote: Following on from this, am I correct in assuming that the only definitive source of mapping information about public rights of way is the OS? It seems ludicrous that *public* rights of way are effectively copyrighted in this manner. I suppose it's analagous to the issue

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

2009-08-17 Thread Tom Chance
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:53:52 +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote: Currently got an issue compiling mapnik on my dev box that generates them.. some conflict with latest ubuntu... probably easy to fix just haven't got round to it. I do /plan/ to fix it... I just don't know when it'll happen :-) Aha,

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Following on from this, am I correct in assuming that the only definitive source of mapping information about public rights of way is the OS? It seems ludicrous that *public* rights of way are effectively copyrighted in this manner. I suppose it's analagous to the issue with council boundaries.

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread James Davis
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Someone probably needs to sort this out with a council. Maybe I'll get round to doing it with mine at some stage. I contacted my local council with a freedom of information request - asking if I could obtain vector information of particular rights of way from them. After

[Talk-GB] Mountain Biking

2009-08-17 Thread Tim B
Hi everyone. I am fairly new to OSM, but have been blown away with how great the project is. I have managed to find the following site http://openmtbmap.org/ that gives OSM maps a link to gps units and mountain bike routes in the UK. I have managed to add some minor documentation on this

[Talk-GB] District Boundaries - N Wales

2009-08-17 Thread Bogus Zaba
I have completed the following relations for Unitary Authority Boundaries and put them in the Wales Wiki : Wrexham (137981), Flintshire (198566) and Denbighshire (192442). Now some inevitable questions: 1. How should Flintshire and Denbighshire be completed out at sea? On the Wales Wiki it

Re: [Talk-GB] Mountain Biking

2009-08-17 Thread Ed Loach
Tim wrote: Anyone else out there using a Nokia 95 8GB to update maps for OSM, and/or using the openmtb project? I am ideally looking for a howto on how edit OSM and upload routes using an N95 :) I'm not, but a quick search for Nokia N95 on the OSM wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] District Boundaries - N Wales

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Hill
I have researched boundaries of the English counties and unitary authorities. it seems that generally they follow the mean low water mark. Some of the land is owned by the council, some by private owners but often by the Crown Estates and leased to the council. By using the low water mark the