Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Import Progress

2017-03-20 Thread Andy Townsend
On 20/03/2017 12:34, Rob Nickerson wrote: Let's step back, allow for this data to be completed (else it will be in a worse case) and find a sensible way forward for the guidelines when we have time to think with a fresh mind. Thanks Rob. Looking forward from here, would it be possible to

Re: [Talk-GB] Legally permitted vs inadvisable

2017-03-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/03/2017 12:40, Dave F wrote: On in Firefox & IE 10 the 'Control' button on your site displays the controls repeatedly one under the other. The 'Off' button removes only the last added. Wouldn't it be better if the 'Control' was an on/off toggle? It would - it's just waiting for the

Re: [Talk-GB] Legally permitted vs inadvisable

2017-03-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/03/2017 06:05, Dudley Ibbett wrote: ... I’m not aware of any online map that displays sidewalks. It would certainly be useful if there was one. Well, https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15=53.02012=-1.73005 does on unclassified, tertiary and secondary. It doesn't on

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-13 Thread Andy Townsend
On 13/02/2017 18:19, Marco Boeringa wrote: But I will leave this to all you now to decide. Just for info, I'm currently going backwards through the relevant changesets by the same user* in north Notts in areas that I'm (very) familiar with and am fixing or removing "obviously wrong

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-08 Thread Andy Townsend
On 08/02/2017 21:46, Brian Prangle wrote: Might we tackle this task under the general heading either of "landuse fixes" or "uplands" as our next quarterly project? I thought that was going to be to survey all those "Pokemon parks" :) Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-08 Thread Andy Townsend
On 08/02/2017 20:46, Marco Boeringa wrote: - Sam888, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/413378224 - Glucosamine: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/405845733 - Dyserth: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/388818928 There may be more... All of these "users" are prolific, leave almost no

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-08 Thread Andy Townsend
On 08/02/2017 10:49, Brian Prangle wrote: It would be great in my opinion if we moved on as a community and actually decided to act on our discussions. Well I fixed the northern boundary of the Merthyr "Heath" where it overlapped with stuff that I was mapping a couple of months ago :)

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath Open Data is not always accurate.

2017-02-06 Thread Andy Townsend
On 06/02/2017 11:18, Colin Smale wrote: On 2017-02-06 09:57, Dave F wrote: On 05/02/2017 11:33, Colin Smale wrote: Any paths that no longer follow the official route (as per the DM/DS) should not be tagged as PROW and probably as access=permissive unless they go across otherwise public

Re: [Talk-GB] any cyclists familiar with Calder Aire link

2017-02-02 Thread Andy Townsend
On 28/01/2017 15:03, David Groom wrote: There seems a lot of duplication in these two route relations: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2171660 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1573805 Both are titled "Calder Aire link" One is route=foot, another route=mtb. Presumably that is

Re: [Talk-GB] Named landuse polygons

2017-01-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/01/2017 21:52, Warin wrote: In Australia .. place=farm is appropriate. The next farm may be 250 miles away, as such it usually has facilities for seasonal workers (say 20 people), machinery maintenance, air strip, ... etc. They are substantial places that are important in a mapping and

Re: [Talk-GB] Reversing the flow of a one-way street

2017-01-13 Thread Andy Townsend
On 13/01/2017 22:36, Mark Goodge wrote: There is a one-way street (to be more precise, a service road) in my town centre which has the wrong direction of flow on OSM. I can't see any obvious way of changing that - the "oneway" tag merely has a value of "yes", and there's no direction attribute

Re: [Talk-GB] Monitoring OSM changes (was Re: natural=heath)

2017-01-10 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/01/2017 14:38, Adrian McEwen wrote: On 09/01/17 12:50, Andy Townsend wrote: More seriously, edits are public, and feeds such as Pascal Neis's, Whodidit and OsmCha allow monitoring of changes in an area, so if you see something that "looks wrong" please do investigate a

Re: [Talk-GB] beetroot or beet

2017-01-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 10/01/17 01:20, David Groom wrote: ... Tag info shows 579 ways tagged with crop = beet, of these 572 are in northern Italy added by 3 users, so its probably quite easy to ask what exactly they meant by "beet" , and retag these existing ways if they actually should be beetroot. In the UK

Re: [Talk-GB] tag prow_ref

2017-01-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/01/17 23:56, David Groom wrote: Has any one got any instances of any providers of OSM data using the prow_ref on rendering / routing A map style rather than a "provider of OSM data", but it seemed like a good idea so I added basic support at:

Re: [Talk-GB] natural=heath

2017-01-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/01/2017 12:40, Jez Nicholson wrote: ... so maybe a bot that auto-challenges large/sweeping changes? I can just see it - "Clippy for OSM" - "It looks as if you are crayoning in some landuse? May I suggest you leave your chair and map what is outside your door?" :) More seriously,

Re: [Talk-GB] natural=heath

2017-01-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/01/2017 12:28, ael wrote: When I contacted one of the main offenders; I didn't get a very helpful response. It's a shame that this happens, but please do keep trying to contact other mappers where there's a problem like this. If for no other reason, it exposes the problem on

Re: [Talk-GB] natural=heath

2017-01-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/01/2017 11:53, SK53 wrote: Somehow I have been oblivious to the fact that large numbers of polygons tagged natural=heath have been added over the past few months to OSM. I think what's happening here is one mapper "colouring in" without any particular knowledge of the area. Whilst

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Townsend
On 03/01/2017 22:34, Rob Nickerson wrote: Water sounds good. ... and to me too - in fact it's what I've been doing on and off for the last couple of months, mainly in South Wales bordering areas that I've been walking where I've noticed that streams are in the wrong places. OS OpenData

Re: [Talk-GB] Local Authority rights of way information

2016-12-21 Thread Andy Townsend
On 21/12/2016 11:32, Dave F wrote: Interesting. Under what license to you believe East Riding issued the data that ROWmaps is using? The actual page at the rowmaps site is: http://www.rowmaps.com/datasets/EY/ It seems to say (and I'm paraphrasing) "ERYC say it's Crown Copyright, but the OS

Re: [Talk-GB] 3rd Midlands OSM New Year Meetup

2016-12-20 Thread Andy Townsend
On 20/12/2016 20:55, Paul Sladen wrote: [Based on developments today], Why not hold it at the Bluebell in Attenborough on the evening of Wednesday, 8 January 2016[1]. Because it'd be dark? :) There's no reason why a bunch of OSMers couldn't turn up on that evening _as well_, of course...

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] This is an auto-generated note from MAPS.ME application:

2016-12-19 Thread Andy Townsend
On 19/12/2016 14:12, Paul Berry wrote: That's a definite usability issue in their application (to say nothing of an annoyance to OSM mappers downstream). Is it possible to raise it with them as a bug? See https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues/4819 and the links from there including one

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] This is an auto-generated note from MAPS.ME application:

2016-12-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/12/2016 12:54, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: I wonder if this could be down to a simple misunderstanding of the Map.me UI. As far as the user is concerned he's stated that an object on the map no longer exists. He may not be aware this his action is adding a note rather than

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Townsend
On 07/12/2016 17:50, Andy Robinson wrote: Andy T, As far as I can see the new 2b shapefiles now uploaded to OSM are the "confirmed" and "consulting" route sections as shown on page 8 of:

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Townsend
On 07/12/2016 10:36, Paul Berry wrote: ... but I believe you're referring to: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-plan-and-profile-maps-woodall-to-conisbrough North of there actually, up through Mexborough. If you know previous route mapping has changed in areas, and remains

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Townsend
On 07/12/2016 08:25, Paul Berry wrote: I We don't know if it's going to take a city centre route or spur from the Don Valley route yet so unless things change the current relation still stands: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4124756 I thought that, at least here:

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Townsend
On 29/11/2016 19:19, Andy Robinson wrote: As it happens the Phase 2b shape files are available. Just rather buried under an obscure filename. I'll post again once I've made the route updates for 2b (Manchester & Leeds) Which routes do the 2b updates have for north and south of Sheffield?

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Townsend
On 06/12/2016 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote: also Wikidata - ... Upon reading that my first thought was actually "checking all of the wikidata references that have been added by people not necessarily familiar with the area". See, for example, the discussion on

Re: [Talk-GB] Road classifications in Leicester

2016-11-29 Thread Andy Townsend
On 29/11/2016 19:54, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi all, A new user is changing road classifications. I've sent a note: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/44042265 If no change, I will ask for a temporary block on edits as the pace is very fast. Thanks Rob. I'm not convinced by

[Talk-GB] Chesterfield Pay Scale Area (former NaPTAN Plusbus zone)

2016-11-08 Thread Andy Townsend
I've just noticed that Chesterfield Pay Scale Area matches neither the current Plusbus zone, nor the "Day Rider" zone, nor the "Day Rider Plus" zone. It matches what used to be the "Day Rider" zone, which predates Plusbus and was reorganised some time ago. I'm proposing to delete it, but am

Re: [Talk-GB] Location: High accuracy mode on android

2016-10-09 Thread Andy Townsend
Short answer: Probably not.Longer answer:There are two bits to this. One is where your phone got its location from and the other is what you actually added to OSM.Taking the first bit first, it would depend on

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google

2016-10-05 Thread Andy Townsend
On 05/10/2016 11:56, Dave F wrote: On 04/10/2016 21:03, Andy Townsend wrote: ...the user gets to place the new poi by moving the underlying osm map around to place it accurately Oh, if only that were to happen in reality. Generally speaking, the MAPS.ME problems that I see are associated

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google

2016-10-04 Thread Andy Townsend
he sort of locations you want returned, it won't do it.   Original Message   From: David Woolley Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:44 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google On 04/10/16 21:03, Andy Townsend wrote: > obtained as I understan

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google

2016-10-04 Thread Andy Townsend
As I understand it, MAPS.ME locations are taken from the phone's location. The "Google" in the created_by tag just means the Android version of MAPS.ME‎. The actual location comes from the phone - obtained as I understand it in recent versions via Google Play Services*. Whether that's

Re: [Talk-GB] Users tagging Farmyard as place=farm (Was Summer quarterly project)

2016-09-13 Thread Andy Townsend
On 13/09/2016 13:29, Dave F wrote: There's been an increase (world wide) in the use of place=farm. ... The reason for the increase could be it being displayed in the OSM carto rendering Just one example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4364588497 I believe many, if not all, are

[Talk-GB] Does "Great Britain" need a relation with "place=island" on it?

2016-08-18 Thread Andy Townsend
This was prompted by a comment directed at me on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37713755 , after I'd mentioned a problem raised on the help site that might be related https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/49058/rendering-of-lakes-on-garmin-devices . Given that it seems impossible

Re: [Talk-GB] National Park extensions

2016-08-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/08/2016 16:42, jc...@mail.com wrote: As a result much of what has been added is inaccurate, not least because many nodes are shared with highways etc. despite the written descriptions clearly stating "...it follows the edge..." (Yorkshire Dales was mostly clean of shared nodes but Lake

Re: [Talk-GB] ref:hectares on admin boundary, and non-responsive mapper

2016-08-16 Thread Andy Townsend
things that is often a surprise and a frustration to people and companies coming into OSM anew (especially companies) is that everything moves quite slowly - it's about creating a Canaletto rather than Sid from down the road applying a couple of coats of Dulux. I suspect that that the speed perception

Re: [Talk-GB] Defibrillator Mapping

2016-08-16 Thread Andy Townsend
On 16/08/2016 09:35, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: As in other areas, our mapping of Defibrillators in the East Midlands doesn't seem to be very complete yet... Thanks Robert. The two nearest to me that I'm aware of are actually very new - they've only appeared within the last couple

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-04 Thread Andy Townsend
On 04/08/2016 15:22, Andy Allan wrote: I had a look at a few of these, and they seem to be simple shapes that I'd normally tag on the ways (i.e. they are multipolygons with only a single outer way). This seems strange to me - is it intended? Is it desirable? Maybe they'd be better as ways,

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-04 Thread Andy Townsend
On 04/08/2016 14:42, Brian Prangle wrote: Yesterday approx 150 schools were added as relations according to the taginfoscript which is monitoring schools. Does anyone know what's going on? I'd ask Christian Ledermann - the numbers roughly match his changes I think. Example:

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

2016-06-30 Thread Andy Townsend
On 30/06/2016 18:13, Brian Prangle wrote: ... some farms seem to be little more than caravan storage, some have transformed into equestrian centres, small industrial parks or become just residential ... Indeed, farms sounds like a good idea to me. Quite a few to the east of me seem to have

[Talk-GB] Removal of "sport" from recreation grounds, adding fixmes (was sport=soccer not sport=football.)

2016-06-13 Thread Andy Townsend
As a bit more background to this, see the changeset discussion comments on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39809705 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39812846 . I got a reply re "football vs soccer", but not about any of the other questions raised in there. I didn't revert

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project (Health): Pharmacies and Defibrillators

2016-05-20 Thread Andy Townsend
On 20/05/2016 16:29, SK53 wrote: In my experience there are certain prescription which I can only get fulfilled by a hospital pharmacy (those written by a consultant). Agreed - and in the case of the one I'm familiar with it's not a stock issue but a bureacracy one - anything written

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Thread Andy Townsend
On 12/05/2016 23:13, David Woolley wrote: They started their life being purely for private profit, got nationalised, then handed to a charity, but never got made public rights of way. It depends where you are, I think. Certainly the canal towpath nearest to me (Cromford Canal) is mostly

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Incorrect 'suburb' in 'reverse nominatim' search

2016-04-25 Thread Andy Townsend
(top-posting because it probably does make sense to keep the whole of the previous email together at the end) I suspect that this might be partly related to this enhancement request: https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues/231 The tl;dr of that is "nominatim works much better with areas

Re: [Talk-GB] Remove tag "priority" from railways

2016-04-21 Thread Andy Townsend
On 21/04/2016 09:32, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi Roland If it's only one line affected it looks like it's the work of one user. Have you tried contacting him/her? Otherwise I have no objections to your proposed mechanical edit As I understand it, that one user was also working for Mentz. I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] Revert request: #38048227 and #38048737

2016-03-31 Thread Andy Townsend
On 31/03/2016 14:16, Ed Catmur wrote: Could someone with access to the revert scripts please rollback these changesets? Dee's just mentioned on IRC that she's reverted them - so all sorted now I think. Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

2016-03-24 Thread Andy Townsend
On 24/03/2016 11:26, Andy Townsend wrote: I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries For completeness, this list will include the notes that I added for this particular misspelling: http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/notes/search?q=cemetary=0 (just for info in case anyone wasn't

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

2016-03-24 Thread Andy Townsend
On 24/03/2016 11:14, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Can I propose that someone who is more knowledgeable than me does a mechanical edit within the UK to correct “Cemetary” to “Cemetery”? I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries a while back (mainly trying to provide an "in" for new local

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

2016-03-14 Thread Andy Townsend
On 14/03/2016 20:50, Rob Nickerson wrote: My concern with rivers is that we don't have tools to measure progress - taginfo gives a count of nodes/ways/relations whereas we'd want total length of features per region (in miles/km). I'd agree that tracking progress with that one would be tricky.

Re: [Talk-GB] Pubs as areas: should be map the property or the building?

2016-03-14 Thread Andy Townsend
On 11/03/2016 17:26, SK53 wrote: A quick query on IRC and Andy (SomeoneElse) also maps pubs this way True, but not with a zealous committment to it "absolutely being the best way". I'm open to persuasion. Part of the reason might be that I'm probably more likely to sit in the beer garden

[Talk-GB] Sad News

2016-03-11 Thread Andy Townsend
News reached the OSM Weekly team recently that Bogus Zaba*, occasional poster to this list and regular contributor to www.weeklyosm.eu, has passed away after a short illness. According to a note from his wife "the cause of OSM was very dear to his heart and he greatly enjoyed his virtual

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

2016-03-11 Thread Andy Townsend
On 11/03/2016 12:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: Tickets have also been raised (to save anyone else looking it up) https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2680 https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11541 I don't see anything for P2. I haven't looked for other editors. Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] New users and P2

2016-02-26 Thread Andy Townsend
On 26/02/2016 07:59, Marc Gemis wrote: How do you detect that stuff is gone ? I'm thinking of benches, waste-bins, telephones, etc. All those little things that are not or hardly visible on aerial imagery ? Do you constantly look at the screen of your smartphone or GPS to see whether there is

Re: [Talk-GB] New users and P2

2016-02-25 Thread Andy Townsend
On 25/02/2016 17:04, Nick Whitelegg wrote: One thought I've had for a long time (and have probably mentioned in the past) is a walkers' editor (app rather than web-based). To be used something like: User goes for walk and records GPX trace, following this sort of pattern. Each time the

Re: [Talk-GB] Other Routes With Public Access

2016-02-16 Thread Andy Townsend
On 14/02/2016 18:34, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Routes marked by OS as "Other Route with Public Access" will most probably be routes that appear on the local Highway Authority's "List of Streets Maintainable at the Public Expense", but are not maintained to a standard for regular motor

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-15 Thread Andy Townsend
On 15/02/2016 12:35, Gregory wrote: What did people think of my place:designation=* suggestion? Sounds good to me. No uses yet (obviously), but would allow a more sane "place" tagging for e.g. St David's, which isn't a really city in any normal sense. Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-15 Thread Andy Townsend
On 12/02/2016 17:10, Philip Barnes wrote: The original node, http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3216768/history http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=3216768 Thanks. So mostly city, but it did spend a couple of years as a town and a couple of shorter periods as village. Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-12 Thread Andy Townsend
On 12/02/2016 13:15, Colin Smale wrote: According to Wikipedia, ... ... I wouldn't assume that what wikipedia says has any particular relevance with respect to how something is mapped in OSM. The language used in the English wikipedia is a mix of American and English (and other) usages,

Re: [Talk-GB] Changeset #36985172 revert request - Deal area, Kent

2016-02-04 Thread Andy Townsend
On 04/02/2016 16:50, Gregory Williams wrote: I did the original mapping of Deal, so I'll take a look later, when I can get to a PC. Brilliant - thanks! ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Changeset #36985172 revert request - Deal area, Kent

2016-02-04 Thread Andy Townsend
On 04/02/2016 15:49, Colin Smale wrote: Actually, this user has done a lot more damage, in many other changesets over the past few weeks... Methinks a candidate for a block pending contact... Anyone with an interest in the Deal area is recommended to check the area...ent I'd suggest that

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-27 Thread Andy Townsend
On 26/01/2016 17:19, Walter Nordmann wrote: Hi, any reason why there are only admin boundaries with admin_level=10 in Northern Ireland? No counties (AL6), no cities (AL8), no Suburbs(AL9) - nothing Ireland (the island) is normally handled as one entity in OSM, so tends to be covered by

Re: [Talk-GB] route relations type=road

2015-12-07 Thread Andy Townsend
On 07/12/2015 11:35, Colin Smale wrote: Where two roads are multiplexed, it looks like one of the refs is the primary and is shown without brackets, and the other is shown within brackets, such as the A22 near Uckfield which multiplexes with the A26. It is shown as "Eastbourne A22 / Lewes

Re: [Talk-GB] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

2015-11-04 Thread Andy Townsend
On 04/11/2015 12:54, James Tait wrote: ... I stumbled upon a changeset[1] that highlighted questions I already had about the tagging of roads in Mickleover. I'd tend to agree that Mickleover's "over-tertiarised" (and it's not the only place). It might be something to raise at the next East

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-10-31 Thread Andy Townsend
On 31/10/2015 02:09, Lester Caine wrote: OK ... what do we need to do to get a working UK map again? Simply put, if you're relying on a remote resource staying the same over time (perhaps you're selling services based on that resource and don't want the customer re-education cost of a future

[Talk-GB] Cerne Abbas Giant - how best to tag it?

2015-10-28 Thread Andy Townsend
Currently the Cerne Abbas Giant is suffering from an extreme bit of "tagging for the renderer" - for example http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/320313087 is apparently a "driveway". Is there a more usual way to tag the constituent parts of this sort of thing? A couple of the white horses are

Re: [Talk-GB] User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction "

2015-10-22 Thread Andy Townsend
For info - I've added a comment to the discussion on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34799530 (a recent changeset by Zain Ahmad Hashmi) and also one to https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34777018 (dataOne). It'd certainly be interesting to see what correlation there is between

Re: [Talk-GB] PIE Mapping (Was: User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction ")

2015-10-22 Thread Andy Townsend
On 23/10/2015 00:08, Rob Nickerson wrote: >Phil (trigpoint) wrote: > >In http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34325458 comments Zain Ahmad >Hashmi mentions PIE mapping, which is is for commercial truck routing. > Hi all, PIE mapping were at the London OSM mobile themed dev hack weekend at

Re: [Talk-GB] name=Driveway & more "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction"

2015-10-22 Thread Andy Townsend
On 07/10/2015 00:05, Dave F. wrote: Hi Two parts to this post. 1) A user https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mustafa_geo has made some country wide amendments where service roads are being named 'Driveway' They all appear to be related to parcel delivery stations. It seems very unlikely they

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging street areas controlled by rising bollard barriers

2015-10-19 Thread Andy Townsend
On 19/10/2015 18:29, Michael Maggs wrote: How do I go about tagging rising bollard barriers that are used to control vehicular access to an area of streets? There have been some new rising bollards installed in Bath recently which block most motor vehicles between the hours of 10am and 6pm,

Re: [Talk-GB] User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction "

2015-10-05 Thread Andy Townsend
(let's try that again with an actual message) I did have a bit of a conversation on some of the earliest of their changesets, but didn't really get a sense of why the roads were being split. You could argue that splitting a piece out "prior to surveying what the height restriction actually is"

[Talk-GB] "historical edits" in Bristol (was "Re: Birmingham New Street station re-opens")

2015-09-21 Thread Andy Townsend
On 21/09/2015 22:36, Neil Matthews wrote: I want to flag up a couple of "historical edits" in Bristol: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34126960 http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34147883 it might be wise to check other edits from this user. Many thanks, Neil (ndm) P.S.

Re: [Talk-GB] useless survey?

2015-09-15 Thread Andy Townsend
First of all - thank you for "properly mapping" this bit of the country. Wales tends to be a bit of a poor relation when it comes to on-the-ground mapping (like some of the other bits of the island also far from population centres). For those who aren't familiar with it, often the mapping

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC4 tonight 9 pm - A Very British Map: the Ordnance Survey Story

2015-09-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 10/09/2015 04:16, mick wrote: On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:59:59 +0100 Philip Barnes wrote: Spotted this on the Rambler-Net list. In case you hadn't already spotted this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06b36q3 See also:

Re: [Talk-GB] Rail maxspeeds being converted

2015-09-05 Thread Andy Townsend
On 05/09/15 09:18, Dave F. wrote: Hi A user has been converting the maxspeed tag of railway line from mph to kph: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/278060675/history#map=17/51.42363/-2.72120 It appears to be a straight conversion ie 100mph = 161. Which seems a bit silly. I'm sure the

Re: [Talk-GB] 10th Anniversary Rutland Mapping Party?

2015-08-24 Thread Andy Townsend
I've done rural bits and pieces in Rutland on and off over the years* and would certainly be up for more mapping there. The tricky bit I suspect might be finding a mutually acceptable weekend before the clocks go

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-18 Thread Andy Townsend
On 18/08/2015 07:43, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 18 Aug 2015 03:56, Andy Townsend ajt1...@gmail.com mailto:ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: There's no interest to do this in the OSM standard style because it is abundantly clear that any new attempts at changes that make rural navigation possible

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-18 Thread Andy Townsend
On 18/08/2015 09:48, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 18 August 2015 at 10:20, Andy Townsend ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: In the immediately previous message you said: So far there is little interest to do this on the OSM default render style which seems odd to me given how much fuss there has been

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/08/2015 23:25, Rob Nickerson wrote: So far there is little interest to do this on the OSM default render style which seems odd to me given how much fuss there has been on this list to recent changes to the footway/path style (over the last year)! There's no interest to do this in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/08/2015 21:43, Rob Nickerson wrote: ... In regards to designation=*, are we now the only country that makes a distinction between paths you have a legal right to walk on and any other path that might exist because people happen to walk over the land thus leaving a desire line path? Hi

Re: [Talk-GB] Little spate of vandalism/mistakes in SE London

2015-07-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/07/2015 09:37, Tom Chance wrote: Could someone contact / chase up these new users and remove their edits? Could be vandalism, or just people not realising what they're doing. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/panchal%20chetana/history

Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD

2013-11-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/11/13 11:58, Rob Nickerson wrote: As you have seen my responses at [1] and [2], it will come as no surprise that I oppose this move. I have set out my reasoning below: Hi Rob, hi Paul, I'll not venture into the how of this only the what... Let's think about it from the perspective

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