Re: [Talk-GB] Separation of sources

2010-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
of the building details are now filtering through from the NLPG database. Certainly new site information is more likely to come that route. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-11 Thread Lester Caine
, but OSM has the correct tracks! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-19 Thread Lester Caine
set of ways seems much more correct to me. The same with similar data from other countries. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: But well mapped rivers don't have ways down their middle Really? Care to expand on that please? MOST rivers are now being mapped fully and so are areas rather than a line with some arbitrary width. So there is no 'way' corresponding to some arbitrary mid

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
Ed Loach wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: But well mapped rivers don't have ways down their middle Really? Care to expand on that please? MOST rivers are now being mapped fully and so are areas rather than a line with some arbitrary width. So

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
Shaun McDonald wrote: On 25 Apr 2010, at 07:57, Lester Caine wrote: If a footpath gets moved do you think I should still show a way mark it as 'this is where it used to go'? 'closed=2007' makes perfect sense to me. People then coming back to an area that they walked 30 years ago would

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: But well mapped rivers don't have ways down their middle Really? Care to expand on that please? MOST rivers are now being mapped fully and so are areas rather than a line with some arbitrary width. So there is no 'way

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic data (was OS Boundaries)

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
changes made to the 'historic' copy when in fact it is the 'current' version that is being changed? This data needs to be transparently available in a single database. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey talk tomorrow

2010-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
only use Windows ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Definitive source for UK streetnames? - OS, 'road name signs', or a council 'list'?

2010-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
by a commercial operation that then makes money out of it :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata amp; the new license/CT

2010-09-16 Thread Lester Caine
idea, it is total bloat when it comes to the volume of data in OSM. Numeric flags for a lot of core data would remove one hell of a lot of duplication ... and can quite easily be returned as full XML when required. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

[Talk-GB] OS 10k file name problem

2010-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
time. The idea is to provide the 10k data as alternative layer to the osm data at some point, and switching to a windows server seems somewhat archaic? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] OS 10k file name problem

2010-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
there. but I need to make the selected map more switch-able so I can run the original Isle of Man historic maps as well. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] OS 10k file name problem

2010-09-24 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: http://lsces.co.uk/mapper/display_map.php is slowly getting there. but I need to make the selected map more switch-able so I can run the original Isle of Man historic maps as well. OK that now has a complete 10k grid, and I'm working on the vector data next ... -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
eventually be obliterated by future development, on the whole the road system in London for example has simply evolved and expanded so all that is needed is to know when a road first appeared? No clutter as such, just currently missing real data? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Address list

2010-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
appropriate. . -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

[Talk-GB] Kick on IE setup

2011-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
IE8 anyway ... it was installing it that cause all the agro ... but even dropping back to IE6 now I'm not getting anything with OSM, yet javascript and everything else seems to be enabled correctly. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
and so provide the missing information to link the postcode to a physical road. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk]wrote: Sent: 21 January 2011 11:41 AM To: 'talk-gb OSM List' Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: One thing that is absolutely clear to me is that you can't add

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
detail coordinate data from OS even if it does not give real road names. THAT is at least better for looking up 'xx within a 20 mile radius' where the previous options may well have only had 50 mile accuracy. So replacing the course data with finer lookup is at least a step forward. -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
by an area anyway. One would not be using the boundary of that area as that IS the wrong 'way'. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids - use in searching

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
application for OSM, so it would be great to import this data so that Nominatim and other searches can use it. That would supersede the current approximate lookup based on FreeThePostcode. That is - I believe - where the EX13 7## data actually came from. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

[Talk-GB] ORS in miles

2011-01-25 Thread Lester Caine
Anybody know if there is an option to select mile display in an openrouteservice.org url. I've got everything else working nicely, but now I need to get it displaying the distance in miles ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
discrepancies, but some OS names ARE wrong compared to the ground details. Have we got a way of flagging the name:os so that we can identify these and flag them as 'different' rather than 'missing' -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
of the Cotswolds. A lot of the 'missing' roads are simply where a name is misspelt, or a section has not kept the name when someone split it. I'm left with the -'s- problem and some roads which I know are right on OSM ( hence the question about flagging that ;) ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
and I wonder how many of the remaining matches would be made if these were simply stripped before comparing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

Re: [Talk-GB] SABRE Maps

2011-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
is very nice. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Things that aren't stations tagged railway=station

2011-04-19 Thread Lester Caine
railway and the track is slowly working it's way up the old abandoned line ... But a part that may be useful in the UK is cleaner identification of preserved over main line railway stations? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Another heads up - new mapper appears to be deleting stuff in Ashbourne

2011-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
that the account was only set up 5 minutes before would suggest an newbie editor. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
on the ground, but in many cases the names ARE there and it is just a matter of getting the compare process to mae the connection. SO there is little incentive to make changes since OSM IS correct ... so the 80% is probably a little low in reality. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Routing and other problems west of Uttoxeter

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
frames :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Routing and other problems west of Uttoxeter

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
in missing information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Looking For Unconnected Cycleways

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
for a number of those :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Canal Maps of the 19th Century

2011-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Mabbett wrote: Yours for £20. Or review for free? http://www.canalmaps.net/A702.htm The book is on google along with some related documents ... As an aside, is there an equivalent to the National Library of Scotland archive? http://geo.nls.uk/ -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
Brian Prangle wrote: and what do you call places where they make cider/perry? The back yard ;) ... although the location of active cider presses would be another useful addition. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
, but user 80n seems to be contaminating a large sway of the country so it seems to me we need to 'start at the top' and if these users confirm that there work has to be redone, then we can look at things like re-baseing the motorway system nodes -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
the rest anyway. Just the top couple which impact a substantial area and one decline which has a chunk of work locally but not to difficult to redo. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[Talk-GB] (still editing) 10335460

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
Took a little time to tidy up a few nodes hile I was reviewing things, but while the update said it had saved, it's showing as still editing despite having logged back out ... what happens to hanging edits nowadays? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
Michael Collinson wrote: Good point Andy. I cannot find a link though? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

[Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
OK how many of you are having trouble editing for more than 10 minutes? I've lost as much work as I've done this evening with potlach just freezing :( I had the same problem at the weekend, but put it down to finger trouble, know I know it is software. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
more time tomorrow night. Just pissed me off that I'd fixed the same block twice, but not managed to save any of the work :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
of red dots around my clear area ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
mins tidying up an area while I'm waiting for something else to finish is time usefully spent, but fire-fighting why something random is happening takes a lot longer :( Hence asking the question ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: I know what areas of data I am working on. OK Just crashed it again ... but having done at least a couple of hours work and saved MOST of it. So to log current state ... Flash area just went grey Bottom line has Transfering data from ecn.t0.tiles.virtualearth.net

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-12 Thread Lester Caine
Dave Stubbs wrote: On 11 Jan 2012 22:08, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Lester Caine wrote: I know what areas of data I am working on. OK Just crashed it again ... but having done at least a couple of hours work and saved MOST of it. So to log

Re: [Talk-GB] The state of Bristol in OSM

2012-01-13 Thread Lester Caine
they are going to jump, but I don't see any reason why they do not simply 'free up' the block on existing history and then walk away if the want to? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[Talk-GB] Normal practice ...

2012-01-15 Thread Lester Caine
back, and I see that the tag does seem to have been accepted now? This is probably another set of data that is better as a secondary layer with other contact information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

[Talk-GB] Island in lake ...

2012-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
OK how do I draw the shape for an island in the middle of a lake ... I seem to recall something about getting the inner and outer paths running in the correct direction? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Blue Plaques and others

2012-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
to power that map). Is there any conflict adding a link to http://openplaques.org/people/413 and the relevant plaque. We might also be able to convert them to OSM ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] National Library of Scotland - Out of copyright mapping

2012-03-12 Thread Lester Caine
. One of these days I will improve the catalogue of what I've got available. Getting the material scanned commercially may be an option, but I think that taking a little more care and being able to rescan when material when there are problems ourselves may be an advantage? -- Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] London 2012 tourch relay route

2012-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
thereafter. Definitely ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
-- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
mechanism, and I feel this is an ideal candidate for that action? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Heathrow Airport

2012-03-27 Thread Lester Caine
are looking at the license flags on that area? Certainly all the 'problems' to the East just want tagging as clean ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode update

2012-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
being licensed, that is Royal Mail managed data, but since the street name data is freely distributed, a proper codepoint what includes the street name is very much open source. We just have to add the right names ourselves :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

[Talk-GB] Micromapping ...

2012-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
separate nodes is just painfully slow :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird

Re: [Talk-GB] Micromapping ...

2012-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
away from the road. I've not been, but if JOSM has sorted the problem I'll give it a go ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: 1:25,000 Provisional series completion (NLS)

2012-05-19 Thread Lester Caine
Britain - OS One Inch, 1955-61 are mirroring OSM nicely ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
. Adding tags for sidewalk, cycletrack and other details such as barriers between carriageways is something that should just happen automatically from the real mapped features? Not something that needs to be created manually ignoring the features themselves ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Temporary road closures

2012-07-12 Thread Lester Caine
and I certainly think it's worth tagging when it happens as the alternative routes are miles! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] Building Numbers

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
the website, but could not find any physical addresses listed ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr still irritates when I'm adding addresses for business premises ... addr:unit could fit your use ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
. There is no 'definition' of the gaps between postcodes until perhaps a new building is added. This is one of the reasons that the National Land and Property Gazetteer uses it's on references numbers for streets and properties and postcodes - when recorded - are buried in the fine detail. -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] Highlighting an area ...

2012-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
of where I am heading :) Of cause being able to click on a 'ward' and show the councillors will have to come later ... Currently the site just has a list of streets for each, so it will be nice to know if they are ALL on OSM ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

[Talk-GB] Geo-referencing

2012-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
? If I just replace all the .prj files with the 'new' one all the layers will line up? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [Talk-GB] First steps with JOSM

2012-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
:) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Stiles (and gates) on roads

2012-10-10 Thread Lester Caine
be placed the right physical distance from any road that they link to with the correct link to the main way. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

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

2012-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
source. What gets a little confusing is that the results will only contain the full postcode if it's been added to an address, otherwise you may get results from several postcodes in highly populated areas. Once the data is transferred to addresses, only those addresses appear. -- Lester Caine

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

2012-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
? Until there are actual targets, anything in the general area can be useful. SO listing 'exact match' then any possible secondary hits is a good starting point? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

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

2012-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
datasets that should be made openly available. I haven't had a reply to my own request re the NSG and NLPG stuff, but presumably there were a substantial number of requests for the same data! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

[Talk-GB] Problem with missing links on road

2012-11-14 Thread Lester Caine
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.04697lon=-1.857193zoom=18layers=C has a gap between the Leamington Road and the roundabout. These exist on the other views and I can't see anything wrong. Any thoughts on why they are missing on the cycle and transport map views? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Problem with missing links on road

2012-11-14 Thread Lester Caine
' stuff does make sense at times but probably not here where the one-way bit is probably enough. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-10 Thread Lester Caine
the right time for any 'new' development to appear is when the diggers move in and start work. At that point it becomes useful to see what is going on from existing routes? Anything else is just 'speculation'. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
of years since I last went. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-12 Thread Lester Caine
of the comparison tools when looking at differences between versions of a file or changeset. But it would be nice to see a graphical 'diff' between version of object history in OSM ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone famiiar with Hay-on-Wye?

2013-01-06 Thread Lester Caine
the town to the river. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Highways Leading to Farms and single residential properties in rural areas

2013-03-12 Thread Lester Caine
not normally have it's drive shown, but where it may have public access to walk down, 'track' seems less formal? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs

2013-04-05 Thread Lester Caine
storage solution while things are discussed further. But ideally this needs to be stored in a 'library' location? Or do the photographs need to be stored once scanned and indexed? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-23 Thread Lester Caine
on the wiki page are not particularly easy to work with, and I like to be able to 'edit' the demo area to see the things that are not displayed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
as in your example ( both links are the same ) ... I'd prefer to see one of the tee to hole tracks which is a little easier to view, that is if it's rendered ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
for the base map. I'm not a golfer - but I can see the advantage of hints when new to a course. I've copied to list as I think this is part of the general discussion to get an approved tagging page. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

2013-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
but in reality the distinction IS important even if it's use is not being applied properly. So what checks are you making that there is not such a distinction between the areas that you arbitrarily changing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

2013-04-26 Thread Lester Caine
all these EXTRA tags are unnecessary if the base standard is followed properly. I should not have to look at secondary tags to find that an area is not actually 'landuse', but rather 'natural'. You should be able to identify managed and unmanaged areas from the main tag! -- Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
, but it is available information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
.3Dabandoned.__2Fdismantled.3F http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Railways#railway:historic.3Dxxx_or_former:railway.3Dxxx_in_place_of_railway.3Dabandoned.2Fdismantled.3F -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Ongoing routing developments

2013-06-27 Thread Lester Caine
running the tomtom which correctly reports the lane to be using. Next step on my part is to see if I can get Locus to select a private OSRM server in place of the default one. I have my local server working and I can get at some of the elements, but need to be able to use it live. -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

2013-07-08 Thread Lester Caine
exactly to support this type of data ;) But it looks a little empty at presnet :( http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

2013-07-08 Thread Lester Caine
still to be resolved is how to link between current data which may have 'start_date' relevant to a search, and data which has expired from the current map ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[Talk-GB] First pass at cross reference to UK tile sources.

2013-07-09 Thread Lester Caine
covering the Isle of Man on it's own. The old maps need a little tweek to align them better with OSM, and then these views can be added to the timeline. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
thought should be used, and which has worked in all the previous steps running osm2pgsql. Can anybody kick me in the right direction to fix this? I've got osrm routing running on the machine so something has set up properly. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
#Authentication_failure kicked in, but 'psql gis' gets me in and I can play with the data, just generate_tiles.py is giving the FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user root error On 10 Jul 2013, at 08:43, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: I've been working through all the disjointed

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Not helping :( Panic over! Just needed to re-read the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik#Authentication_failure note ... I'd missed that the xml file was generated without a -user setting ;) Up to level 9 already ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: On 10/07/13 09:24, Lester Caine wrote: Not helping :( I used http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PostGIS/Installation#openSUSE_11.2 to set up, and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik#Authentication_failure kicked in, but 'psql gis' gets me in and I can play with the data

[Talk-GB] bbox coordinates

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Anybody got an 'optimal' bbox setting for the UK and Ireland including the Scottish Isles. I'm running (-14.5, 49, 3, 61) but I'm sure that the -14.5 is overkill? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

2013-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
of the bartholomew half inch series but even the ones already available are a start. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

2013-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
looking to the evolution of areas over time. http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/index.php?page=Bartholomew+Cloth Thanks, Rob p.s. We should be able to get this view added to JOSM and other editors with ease if it is not already there. Yes I've been using a number of historic layers already. -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
entertainment? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
-codes.org.uk/formatting.php Personally I still think of 0207 as Inner London and 0208 as Outer London, but moving the 7/8 as part of the exchange sort of makes sense these days. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
London :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
room may be tagged as 'licensed for weddings' or just receptions ... where do you stop :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
of the time that an element is selected to move! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

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