time for
mapping
:-) )
I wasn't sure a mapping party would be ideal as what's most needed is
mapping over a large area (i.e. driving), but it's certainly a
possibility.
On 4 Feb 2008, at 09:24, Kevin Peat wrote:
I've very recently started to map my own area, Torbay in South Devon
Just an idea, practical doesn't come into it ;-
But if we've always done it that way wins out every time then the maps
we produce probably aren't going to be as useful as they could be.
Kevin
Tom Hughes wrote:
Kevin Peat wrote:
Richard Mann wrote:
As a general principle, I think
Hi Jack,
Welcome to mapping in the west country.
Without any in-depth checking the service roads you've mapped look okay
Drawing in a roundabout isn't too hard. Just split the road(s) that you
want to insert the roundabout into, draw in a rough circle for the
roundabout (doesn't have to be a
these data may contain errors, you can use it at your own risk, but
you can't sue us.
This whole wikipedia comparison seems bogus to me. Kids use wikipedia to do
their homework, people don't trust their lives to it like they do with maps
every day of the week. I've used an OS map many times
Hi Chris,
Thanks for this, very helpful. I just followed this through and converted
data for some woods near me and it all worked okay apart from your ogr2ogr
command line has the output and input files around the wrong way (gdal
1.7.2).
Kevin
On 11 May 2010 18:28, Chris Hill
Ed,
In fact, I don't think it should even be that. In rural Devon it is common
for
crossroads to be named - you can see the name on the side of the crossroad
sign.
This doesn't necessarily indicate a 'locality', although sometimes there
are
small villages or hamlets named after a
I think barrier=gate is more for open/closing gates across a highway (like a
farm gate for instance) whereas barrier=cycle_barrier is for the typical
offset barrier you see on paths/cycleways. Also tagging the barrier node as
bicycle=yes|true might help the routing.
Kevin
On 20 July 2010
Nice work, but as the OS data is a good dataset and compatible with our
current license why would anyone be surprised that people are using it. I've
uploaded woods and waterways for my area so it looks pretty blue but the
streets were surveyed on the ground and I would think that might be the same
However, that doesn't change the fact that the OS OpenData license is
incompatible with the contributor terms, and DbCL, and quite possibly
ODbL too.
I thought this was still to be confirmed? It may not be that important to
townies but there is a lot of value in the OS data for rural mappers
On 8 September 2010 10:07, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote:
Until the issue of whether the OS datasets can be used under the new
license/CT is resolved it seems a bit pointless doing anything like this
whatever the merits might
Yes, that was exactly the same for me so local knowledge is definitely
required.
Kevin
On 14 September 2010 21:44, Richard Mann
richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote:
At least one of the ones round here is the home/workshop of a roving
bike mechanic, so treat the data with care!
Rather than splitting the data into smaller squares, I used the process
described on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OS_Shapefiles to
extract specific things, in my case waterways and woods. You just extract
the features you want in QGIS and the Python scripts can easily be modified
to
are in many multiple segments so the
process described doesn't really work.
So I'm just trying to find an alternative.
When OGR2OSM works, the results are good enough (to then modify with JOSM).
On 30/09/2010 09:15, Kevin Peat wrote:
Rather than splitting the data into smaller squares, I used
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From: Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com
Date: 5 November 2010 09:27
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO -
apostrophes
To: Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
On 4 November 2010 14:23, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
On 5 November 2010 12:38, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote:
Aren't there two separate issues here:-
1) Disagreements between OS and OSM,
2) Representation of those disagreements in the tools.
I'm quite happy with the ITO tools as they are but if they had the resources
to render another map layer
It gets updated most days but from my observation is a day or two behind in
picking up changes.
Kevin
On 5 November 2010 15:03, Nikolay Metchev nikolaymetc...@gmail.com wrote:
I have only recently found the oscompare website as a result of
joining this mailing list.
Richard,
I think in my part of the SW the large majority of highway=unclassified
would be =1 car a minute average so just from a tagging perspective it
would be a lot easier just tagging those few that are busier.
Kevin
On 20 January 2011 12:48, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net
Hello Chris,
I was wondering why you don't see any value in just adding the postcode
centroids to the map?
There are probably 25000+ buildings in my area so it isn't feasible for me
to add them all and their addresses in less than a lifetime whereas adding
the postcode centroids would surely
So I should delete the various admin boundaries in the db then as they
cannot be viewed on the ground?
That's great for Nominatim but what if I want to find a postcode on my
Garmin?
Kevin
On 21 January 2011 09:58, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Because postcode centroids are not real -
*From:* Kevin Peat [mailto:ke...@kevinpeat.com]
*Sent:* 21 January 2011 09:52
*To:* Chris Hill
*Cc:* Talk-GB
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids
Hello Chris,
I was wondering why you don't see any value in just adding the postcode
centroids to the map?
There are probably 25000
...@raggedred.net wrote:
On 21/01/11 09:51, Kevin Peat wrote:
Hello Chris,
I was wondering why you don't see any value in just adding the postcode
centroids to the map?
There are probably 25000+ buildings in my area so it isn't feasible for me
to add them all and their addresses in less than
I don't think this data serves any useful purpose. The polygon for my area
cut right across the middle of arbitrary areas so I deleted it a long time
ago. I've never had any feedback on that so assume no-one was using it.
Kevin
On 2 February 2011 10:40, Bob Kerr
I agree with you 100% on this. I think if OSM is street-level complete
(preferably with postcodes as well) then it will be picked up by a lot more
developers for their iPhone and Android apps and the amount of feedback we
could get would be a 100 times greater than now. A standardised, OSM hosted,
Richard,
I don't think we need a bot for this as the current tools seem quite
adequate to me. If the missing streets are added this year then that would
be great.
Building a community is ideal but I think outside the successful parts of
the country we are not going to get a lot of people wanting
Hi Jason,
I am the mapper (user:devonshire) who imported the woods in your first
example around Dartmouth but it was last May so not exactly recently. The
woods that are there now are a lot better than the NPE traced ones that we
had before. I took the view at the time that importing the
He added these tags to some dual carriageway in my area that already had
speed limit tags. I was just going to delete them as they seem pointless.
Anyone know otherwise?
Kevin
On 13 Mar 2011 12:28, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Hi
You've probably seen the numerous edits by chriscf.
On 16 March 2011 17:00, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
Then there are the '30mph' which should for consistency be '30 mph' (with a
space).
I don't see the point of editing just for consistency. Developers should
handle leading/trailing spaces, or the lack thereof, and
On 29 March 2011 17:14, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote:
I think the roundabout symbol is where the user raised the bug - MapDust
seams a rather apt name in my experience though - Dust doesn't serve any
useful purpose (in reality) and neither does mapdust's bugs.
Kev
Despite the low
Well I find it encouraging that people are using OSM otherwise what is the
point of us making it? The fact they are too stupid to work a satnav is
probably true as most members of the crowd are unfortunately idiots. The
mapdust folks just need to take that into account by stopping people raising
On 5 May 2011 11:41, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote:
getting people interested in (say) the southwest?
area, and the National Parks. Time for some footpath parties, or
There's me, living just off Exmoor. Time limited, but I do what I can.
Ditto myself, around Torbay and on Dartmoor.
Haven't been to Donington for a couple of years but the only recent
change to the track itself that I am aware of is them moving the final
chicane back a few metres as shown in this image.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Donington_as_of_2010.svg
Kevin
On 8 May 2012 14:29, SomeoneElse
On Oct 8, 2012 3:15 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
today..
Garmin eTrex 30 Outdoor Handheld GPS Unit £157.49
Thanks Peter. I've been humming and hahing (however it is spelled)
for ages about whether to get one or not. So I now have, via the
Amazon link here:
On Oct 16, 2012 9:15 PM, Adam Hoyle adam.li...@dotankstudios.com wrote:
Hi Talk-GB,
Sorry if I'm posting on the wrong list.
...I have a huge preference for Potlatch over JOSM...
You can get therapy for that :]
In JOSM you can press Q after drawing a building to cure the wobbles, not
sure
On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
I think this is quite a confusing approach. Post code searches often end up
returning the wrong street that is also near the centroid, houses that don't
belong to that post code that happen to be nearby, and also weird objects
like
On 31 October 2012 18:14, Brian Quinion
openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote:
Making this sort of distinction (what can have a postcode) is incredibly
difficult - for instance NCP carparks do have a postcode.
Shame about that, but if someone does a full postcode search and there
are OSM
On Dec 10, 2012 1:25 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote
No. We should be mapping physical objects...
There are plenty of non-physical objects mapped in OSM but I don't see the
point of adding road schemes to the db before contracts are awarded. The
South Devon Link Road near me was in
On 31 December 2012 09:36, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
Many police services are considering providing front counter services out of
post offices, cafes, supermarkets!
+ libraries as they have done in my town.
I would suggest that we continue to use amenity=police both for police
Hi Bill,
On 30 December 2012 22:52, Bill Chadwick bill.chadwi...@gmail.com wrote:
I would be interested to hear how council released prow data has / has not
been used within OSM to add to or replace existing contributed path data.
Hants and Devon have released PROW data but sadly many of the
Steven,
On 31 Dec 2012 21:19, Steven Horner ste...@stevenhorner.com wrote:
I mapped a small area with landuse and some fences months ago but
refrained from doing anymore because not many others appear to be doing it.
You can see what I did here:
On 1 Jan 2013 20:34, Richard Fairhurst richard@systeme...
Until then, the advanced mappers must share in OSM's collective
responsibility to keep the project editable by newbies. That's why I
believe
widespread farm landuse mapping in the countryside is an actively harmful
indulgence.
On 23 Jan 2013 18:58, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Thanks for that. Any thoughts on whether they should be specifically tagged
in OSM?
Kevin
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On 23 Jan 2013 19:38, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote
Ideas welcome (I've not seen enough examples to get an understanding of
what these roads are actually like on the ground - photos ...
This is one:
http://m.google.co.uk/u/m/R9HAqI
The ones I have surveyed are glorified farm
On 23 Jan 2013 21:42, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
Which kml file are you referring to?
Please give me a URL so that I can download the kml and check...
The Converted kml file for Devon on this page:
http://www.rowmaps.com/kmls/DN/
Kevin
On 23 Jan 2013 23:22, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Kevin Peat wrote:
The Converted kml file for Devon on this page:
http://www.rowmaps.com/kmls/DN/
Great, thanks. Each path has a name, e.g.:
DN Seaton Footpath 2
It would help if you gave
On 24 January 2013 09:09, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote:
highway=track, access=yes, designation=unclassified_highway
...makes sense to me for those I have seen. These tracks have no
signage at all but clearly there are public access rights which would
be nice
On 24 Jan 2013 11:38, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
Please can you confirm that the routes are now better...
Thanks for that. I'll check it out and let you know (will probably be
tomorrow now).
Kevin
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On 24 Jan 2013 15:02, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote:
Since the public rights of way tagging using designation=* is a very
British (actually English and Welsh) thing, I doubt it will ever be
rendered on the main OSM map. :-(
I don't really see why that
Hi Barry,
On 24 Jan 2013 11:38, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote:
Please can you confirm that the routes are now better...
The Devon kml data looks spot on now.
thanks,
Kevin
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Hi Jason,
On 30 January 2013 08:00, Jason Woollacott wool...@hotmail.com wrote:
This relates to some work I did on the Cornish county boundary a while back,
the same also has happened at Newton Ferrers, just south of Plymouth.
I had been meaning to ask you about the boundary changes you made.
://csmale.dev.openstreetmap.org/os_boundaryline/
I wish I knew the reasoning behind it... I can understand the boundary
being at the low water mark, but it seems very odd just to draw it across
at Dittisham.
Jason
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Hi Nick,
On 11 February 2013 12:59, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
If you're interested in trying it out...
I installed the apk on a Nexus 7. The smallish downloadable packaged
maps are great and the render is nice and clear which is good for
mobile devices.
I did notice a
On 11 Feb 2013 18:06, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
...I'm guessing most pois have a node even if they have an area as well.
That might be the case today but I am assuming that as more buildings are
added then more and more POI's will just be areas.
Mkgmap has a feature to
On 20 Feb 2013 19:38, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
...I certainly wouldn't defend his attitude...
I don't know Mauls from Adam but how would you feel if you had been
contributing to the project for five years and someone you'd never heard of
sent you an unfriendly message
On 20 Feb 2013 21:14, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
...He copied data from a local newspaper article to name a road
wrongly...
Mauls might be wrong in this case but the name of a road in the local paper
isn't copyrighted. It's a basic fact, the newspaper didn't create it and
they
Aidan,
On 27 Feb 2013 09:04, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
Please don't load this data into OpenStreetMap. It's not a good idea.
100% agree with Andy. To be acceptable your script would need to do at
least as good a job as mappers could do by hand which I don't think is
possible
Aidan,
On 27 February 2013 11:12, Aidan McGinley
... I've only included the highest quality data
which is postcode centroids that fall within a building within the area of
the postcode...
Does that allay any concerns about the import?
Does the centroid always fall within the postcode area?
On 28 Feb 2013 23:08, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
...looks excellent as a get away from it all destination...
Bring some good boots as it's pretty muddy after 6 months of rain.
Kevin
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On 1 Mar 2013 13:48, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
Looks like I'm missing something here as I always assumed Dartmoor was a
moor, given its name. Is there a reason for moors being tagged as heaths?
http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUcode=UK0012929
Dudley,
On 11 Mar 2013 21:27, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
Is there a correct answer for this or is it a matter of mapping style? I
am leaning towards using Highway=Service for these and keeping
Highway=Track for tracks that link from fields to farms or roads to
fields (i.e.
On 19 March 2013 08:49, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
In case anybody has been updating OSM by removing the apostrophes, you might
need to put them back again...
Most of the councils down here are so strapped for cash that I have
been waiting for one of them to argue that as
Colin,
On 23 March 2013 14:24, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up...
User SemanticTourist has been very busy recently with Neighbourhood Plan
areas, particularly in East/West Sussex, Kent and central England.
He has been adding them to the map in
Donald,
On 29 March 2013 10:36, Donald Noble drno...@gmail.com wrote:
Hullo all,
Wondering if anyone can shed any light on this. I added a street/name
following a survey a couple of weeks ago, but it is still showing as missing
on the ITO OSM analysis map.
Should be name = Columba Terrace
Dudley,
On 29 March 2013 15:25, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
Many Thanks
I'll use the code without the county council letters as this is what is in
the name tag in JOSM. I'll debate as to whether to split the path number
according to the last number as this would require
On 8 April 2013 12:13, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote:
...I think it was this website:
http://www.netweather.tv/indeI think it would be nice to have a wiki page
OSM spotted in the wild or notable OSM use,
Richard,
On 9 April 2013 09:31, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Hi all,
Is anyone able to verify the existence or otherwise of NCN 28 from Exeter
to Dartmoor, as shown on OSM right now?
Ashamed to say I am not at all familiar with NCN 28 despite the low zoom
map on Sustrans
Replying to my own post,
On 9 April 2013 10:44, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote:
I assume the open section they are talking about on their website is the
new path and bridge around the back of Newton Abbot racecourse which I have
ridden a couple of times and does I think have some NCN signage
On 11 April 2013 08:12, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
No mention of OSM in this piece:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22099960
Google has been getting a free pass from the media but now they are making
hardware that may change, waiting for the Nexus sweatshop / employee
Hi Jason,
On 24 April 2013 11:55, Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com wrote:
I think the problem is back
Is it not just a browser caching issue? Looks okay to me in Firefox and
Chromium and I took a look at the way in josm and couldn't see anything
wrong.
Kevin
Brad,
On 24 April 2013 16:17, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote:
Strange, as I find it to be okay on the French map, and broken on
streetmap.org.
I assume you mean openstreetmap.org ?
Most of the time stale tiles are due to them being cached by the browser.
In Firefox you can hold down
On 29 Apr 2013 22:01, Rovastar rovas...@hotmail.com wrote:
Great however the OSM referenced has been shoehorned in there (not
complaining though), as the cartographers mentioned finding the new 2000ft
mountain just seemed to use Ordinance Surveynotably the wrong height
appears on OSM and
Dudley,
On 1 May 2013 19:42, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi
Am I correct in assuming we cannot use this data. It talks about OGL but
also mentions 3rd party and OS (again!!)
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/publications/data/
This dataset was discussed on the list
Interesting, although Privacy-conscious Apple fanbois seems like it might
be a very small market and why do the media often call the project
OpenStreetMaps, where does that come from?
Kevin
On 3 May 2013 10:19, david da...@avoncliff.com wrote:
On 9 May 2013 13:06, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
What do people think of this:
http://osm.org/go/0EQSJEoZT-- (aerial: http://binged.it/10kuDNm )
and this:
http://osm.org/go/eu6_VCkLp-- (aerial: http://binged.it/16js1Ye )
These look good to me. I have mapped a number of
Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote:
Case in point (green dots on OS Explorer, sort of track on NPE, nothing
in OS Streetview, perfectly good track for 4x4s (maybe even cars -
memory is fuzzy now) mountain bikes).
Something I've mapped (Potlatch2 claims AndyS has modified it - but
then
I believe that Silverstone is also an active airfield.
Only for helicopters on race weekends and for sightseeing trips, the runway was
repurposed a few years ago. To complicate things further there is a new
university building on the site so you could add campus to the list of possible
On 25 September 2017 17:13:01 BST, ael wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:36:22PM +0100, SK53 wrote:
>> Moor (or possibly fell) covers a decent amount of Corine data
>imported
>> across Europe as natural=heath. In effect natural=heath on OSM no
>longer
>> means heath.
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