Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-27 Thread Graham Jones
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.**org/keys/historic%**3Acivilization#valueshttp://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/historic%3Acivilization#values It doesn't have a specific count for the UK but it does have a map tag (which seems to indicate very few isolated uses in the UK). Thank you! - I

Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap-VMD : OpenData plus OSM footpaths

2011-10-27 Thread Borbus
On 23/10/11 12:06, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Did an initial experiment with this a while back but now I've extended the area of coverage to include much of England and all of Wales. Looks good, although I think the VMD layer is too transparent; I struggle to see where RoWs join up to roads as the

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-10-27 Thread Gervase Markham
On 04/07/11 13:53, Michael Collinson wrote: At the moment, this excludes Code-Point Open, (postcode) data since they are awaiting a response from Royal Mail who have rights in that dataset. I just dropped in to find out why I still can't search for most full UK postcodes using Nominatim, and if

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] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-27 Thread Graham Jones
I knew it was debatable - should have kept quiet! from my phone On 27 Oct 2011 13:30, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/10/2011 10:57, Graham Jones wrote: I always think of Civilization being an American spell... Oh, that old chestnut! No, not at all. For verbs in -ize/-ise

[Talk-GB] OS Landform Panorama files

2011-10-27 Thread Tom Chance
Hello there, I've been experimenting with Maperitive to make walking maps, http://tom.acrewoods.net/2011/10/26/making-open-data-maps-the-almost-easy-way I had some trouble getting the OS Land-form Panorama files into the correct format, but managed to get the right files off a subscriber-only