[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Balsall Common armchair mapping cake

2012-11-04 Thread Matt Williams
Hi all, As discussed at the last meetup (http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2012/11/november-pub-meeting.html) a few of us are thinking of doing a little armchair (followed by a survey?) mapping of Balsall Common, particularly focusing on buildings. I see that Brian has already started a bit and I've

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Balsall Common armchair mapping cake

2012-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Matt Great tool! Looks like it will be useful. Let's see how it goes and maybe do a cake with this tool for Balti Triangle? Regards Brian On 4 November 2012 17:26, Matt Williams m...@milliams.com wrote: Hi all, As discussed at the last meetup

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-11-04 Thread Colin Smale
WARNING: CHECK YOUR BOUNDARIES! Longbow4u has been causing other problems with these edits as well. In Kent the boundaries of Ashford and Shepway districts have been emptied of ways. The addition of wikipedia links is continuing apace, sometimes in English, sometimes in German. This

Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-04 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 30 October 2012 19:24, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the postcode data from it and created a tile overlay which can help find a postcode for a building in GB,

Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Robert, The odd statement on ONS's website seems to be more related to the Northern Ireland part of the dataset. If you see the full statement on the licenses page then it states clearly that the data is available under OGL (see below). The same statement is also made in the download file

Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
Rob Nickerson wrote: On a related note, we now have the support of the Open Data User Group (ODUG), who have issued a paper calling for the release of address data as open data. As you may or may not recall, ODUG reports in to the Cabinet Office and is responsible for identify public sector