Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Thanks Andy. For the allotments open data project http://www.slideshare.net/Flygirltwo/growing-back-to-the-future-ogdcamp-farida-vis the immediate priority is just to make sure all allotments are on the map. I'm pretty confident about Birmingham. Manchester has an incomplete listing and the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Ed So the search returns *named* allotments? That would explain why we could not find all the Manchester allotments on OSM although locations are published by the council. But fixable. Thanks. Andrew On 1 Nov 2011, at 10:08, Ed Loach wrote: It does look an interesting project. I did

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-11-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 31 Oct 2011, at 19:25, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping party? might be interested depending on the type of mapping. Not so interested in addressing etc, but if it's road surveying/naming I'd be tempted. ATM can do any

[Talk-GB] Tagging references to web-enabled databases (war memorials others)

2011-11-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
As I've just mentioned in another thread, the UK National Inventory of War Memorials http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/, based at the Imperial War Museum, is creating a comprehensive archive of all war memorials in the United Kingdom. They have records for over 60,000 of the estimated 100,000 war memorials

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging references to web-enabled databases (war memorials others)

2011-11-01 Thread Tom Chance
On 1 November 2011 15:44, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: As I've just mentioned in another thread, the UK National Inventory of War Memorials http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/, based at the Imperial War Museum, is creating a comprehensive archive of all war memorials in the United

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging references to web-enabled databases (war memorials others)

2011-11-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: Generally speaking, is it best to use the full URL; UKNIWM_URL = http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.2049 or the unique ID part: UKNIWM_ID = 2049 Generally we have taken the approach that such data should not be included in OSM; we are not a mashup centre for