Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone near Bury?

2012-05-15 Thread Gregory
Check the map first? Reading the descriptions, I think it could be this bridge (although the last edit was December 2010, money has been available for the bridge since 2007). http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.60095lon=-2.30171zoom=15layers=C Mapping in the area could be a lot better, so I

[Talk-GB] Wiki pages

2012-05-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Thanks for the feedback regarding the UK wiki pages. Below is a summary of updates to the OSM wiki so far: A. United Kingdom wiki page: Designed as a central hub to efforts in the UK. I have added links to the main groups that meet up on a regular schedule. Please let me know if you run

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Adam, Adding designation=public_footpath would be worthwhile (as long as the paths are signposted as such), however as noted with the Classic vs Alternative debate there is no need to change highway=footway. Regards, Rob p.s. Check out my previous email about the wiki pages and let me know

[Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to station nodes in the UK, seemingly made by people outside the UK and using Wikipedia as a source. I've reverted these (well, actually, at the time of writing the revert is running!). If the users would like to discuss the

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I wrote: SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to station nodes in the UK Someone else (not SomeoneElse... hell this is confusing) has pointed me, off-list, to this: http://mapbox.com/blog/improved-british-rail-icons/ which obviously looks cool. I guess this is

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Wallace
On 15/05/2012 20:16, Richard Fairhurst wrote: SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to station nodes in the UK, seemingly made by people outside the UK and using Wikipedia as a source. I've reverted these (well, actually, at the time of writing the revert is running!).

[Talk-GB] Cycling, the law and traffic signs

2012-05-15 Thread rob . j . nickerson
Hi, On the UK tagging guidelines consultation page [1] both Andrew C and Richard M pointed out that the blue sign with a bicycle on it [2] does _not_ imply foot=no. As I had copied this tag over from the original guidelines page I would like to seek advice before removing the foot=no

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycling, the law and traffic signs

2012-05-15 Thread Jason Cunningham
On 15 May 2012 23:32, rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: As I am not a regular cyclist I must admit that I don't pay much attention to these signs. So my question is do Local Authorities use the cycle and foot signs (segregated or otherwise) and reserve the cycle sign for cases where traffic

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-15 Thread AJ Ashton
Hi Richard everyone, This started off simply as an effort to improve our display London Underground stations using existing OSM data, but was scope-creeped into much more and apparently we messed up. We've found that the lack of familiar London Underground and National Rail icons is a