[Talk-GB] Mapping Meet Abbots Bromley 30th Dec

Just a reminder that this meeting is tomorrow. I've added some details on the wiki . Meeting times: 10:30 Buttercross, Abbots Bromley 12:30-12:50 Coach & Horses.

Re: [Talk-GB] New Year Midlands OpenStreetMap Mapping Meet: date fixed 30th Dec

noon walks 14:15 ish (again perhaps starting at another location reached by car). Pre-meetup armchair mapping of hedgerows, buildings etc can commence! Park either close to Buttercross or in Coach & Horses car park. Jerry , On 15 December 2015 at 19:02, SK53 wrote: > Dear All,

Re: [Talk-GB] Agenda and Joining details for Today's OpenStreetMap UK/GB telephone meeting

On 17 December 2015 at 01:27, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > As noted in previous emails to this list, please find the dial in number > for the first UK/GB OpenStreetMap group meeting below. > > Brian Prangle has kindly volunteered to help facilitate the first meeting > following on from his

[Talk-GB] New Year Midlands OpenStreetMap Mapping Meet: date fixed 30th Dec

Dear All, I've selected Wednesday 30th December for our footpath mapping meet. There are still two options (with maps comparing PRoW data & OSM designation): - based on Black Lion at Consall Forge .

[Talk-GB] Coast to Coast Walk relation: cross-post to Forum

This forum post might be of interest: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=52852 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] New Year Midlands OpenStreetMap Mapping Meet

Hi there, SK53 (sk53@gmail.com) invites you to participate in the Doodle poll "New Year Midlands OpenStreetMap Mapping Meet." I was asked in the pub last night whether we might be repeating the New Year mapping event after Xmas. Short answer is yes. Hopefully, the weather wil

Re: [Talk-GB] Newark on Trent mappers

very school in edubase comes with a postcode it should be > reasonably easy to correlate the OS and EduBase data, and then weed > out closed schools > > > > On 24 November 2015 at 18:31, SK53 wrote: > > Perhaps not even for those give the number of Academies (also missing is

Re: [Talk-GB] Newark on Trent mappers

2015 at 18:15, Phil Endecott wrote: > SK53 wrote: > >> Quick look (Nottingham, of course): >> >>- Polygons look OK >>- Many features missing (e.g., University of Nottingham Main Campus, >>both sites of Dunkirk Primary School >>- Old features

Re: [Talk-GB] Newark on Trent mappers

ffs, I'd like to have a look at them, > maybe there is a way to auto extract and compare buildings from that data > > On 24 November 2015 at 13:19, SK53 wrote: > > I've finally (after 8 months) got around to looking at the OpenMap Local > > buildings. I needed the

Re: [Talk-GB] Newark on Trent mappers

he tiffs, I'd like to have a look at them, > > maybe there is a way to auto extract and compare buildings from that data > > > > On 24 November 2015 at 13:19, SK53 wrote: > >> I've finally (after 8 months) got around to looking at the OpenMap Local > >>

Re: [Talk-GB] Newark on Trent mappers

I've finally (after 8 months) got around to looking at the OpenMap Local buildings. I needed them for something else which caused me to download the SK data. I'll say more in a blog post, but for now here are two comparisons of OpenMap Local buildings with EA Lidar data (DSM-DTM & Z axis accentuate

[Talk-GB] Derby Pub Meeting Tuesday 24th November, Old Silk Mill

Just a reminder that the Derby pub meeting which I re-scheduled last week will be happening tomorrow from 19:30 hours onwards. Possible topics of conversation: - OSMF Board Elections - Lidar Data - OS OpenMap Local Buildings (pace email from Christian) - Next Year other info on the

Re: [Talk-GB] Novermber Derby pub meeting

That should of course be 24th November. On 17 November 2015 at 15:23, SK53 wrote: > Sorry for the rather late notice, but I am postponing this meeting until > next Tuesday, 23rd November 19:30 at the Silk Mill. Details are now updated > on the wiki. > > My fault, I'd not

[Talk-GB] Novermber Derby pub meeting

Sorry for the rather late notice, but I am postponing this meeting until next Tuesday, 23rd November 19:30 at the Silk Mill. Details are now updated on the wiki. My fault, I'd not realised I'd chosen this week rather than next week when I set the dates at the start of the year, and although Andy p

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

Designation tag is already is use to discriminate between LNRs & NNRs (I'm not quite sure what partiticular status LNRs have but it is referred to as a designation on the Magic site). Otherwise no: most NRs will be a mosaic of different physical types, even woods will have rides, ponds, and little

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

iginal. > > Regards > > Brian > > On 1 November 2015 at 18:58, SK53 wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> I've resorted to adding another relation to do a nature reserve >> (specifically Rum NNR, but also in one or two other places. However I drew >> the line at

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

Hi Dan, I've resorted to adding another relation to do a nature reserve (specifically Rum NNR, but also in one or two other places. However I drew the line at Richmond Park which is also Richmond Park NNR. Perhaps we need nature_reserve=yes for some of these. Jerry On 1 November 2015 at 18:31, D

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

Christian's Carto-CSS stylesheets are on github here https://github.com/cquest/osmfr-cartocss. Jerry On 31 October 2015 at 06:39, Marc Gemis wrote: > You could try to contact Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr > He understands English. > > regards > > m > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 3:47 AM,

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Romantic London' - reusing Horwood's 1790's map

I suspect that the BL use Klokan 's tools, rather than the NYPL MapWarper stack which is what is on Wikimedia. Jerry On 27 October 2015 at 17:02, Dan S wrote: > 2015-10-27 14:40 GMT+00:00 Richard Symonds < > richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk>: > > This is excellent -

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Romantic London' - reusing Horwood's 1790's map

There are several old maps of London on wikimedia, notably Roque's of 1745 & Greenwood's of 1830. There is no reason why these should not be processed using MapWarper (can be done directly using the wikimedia instance). I have some notes from a seminar I attended at Nottingham University last year

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

As I said earlier finding the bounds of NRs is actually quite difficult. I sort of know roughly the bounds of Lathkill Dale at the Over Haddon end, but not how it finishes higher up. I believe this and many other NNRs in the same area are now lumped together as Derbyshire Dales NNR. One thing is a

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

Hi Brian, Original map was not based on OSM at end September, but I may be able to cobble up something else. SPAs etc. are not Nature Reserves: they are protected areas. There is much overlap between them, but many NRs are not technically protected areas: see Nick Moyes blog for the saga of The S

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline - my botched attempt to re-align ?

This is most likely just the much slower update cycle for coastlines (which come from shape files regenerated from time-to-time). On 23 October 2015 at 14:02, Bogus Zaba wrote: > A seawall was recently re-built in west Rhyl. As a result, and following > two GPS surveys, earlier this week (Tue 20

Re: [Talk-GB] temporary food markets

I have to disagree with Phil here: it's not an open and shut case. Lots and lots of ordinary markets are only visible on market days: in Nottingham Bulwell & Hyson Green markets are only active some days of the week, and we have mapped them. Worksop, which I haven't mapped, largely because it is t

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing Nature Reserves: umap

> and now the difference in number? > Is anyone tagging their changesets with something like > project=gb_quarterly? Or apparently hashtags in changeset comments is a > thing now. > > From a sunny Durham, > Gregory (LivingWithDragons) > > > > > On 5 October 2015 at 1

[Talk-GB] October Pub meeting: Tuesday 20th, Lincs Poacher 19:30

Just a quick reminder that we'll be meeting at the Lincolnshire Poacher tomorrow night from 19:30. Details on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.opens

[Talk-GB] Missing Nature Reserves: umap

I've had a quick go using the Natural England & Scottish Natural Heritage files to identify potentially missing (or missing bits of) Nature Reserves in England & Scotland. (Welsh data is definitely not open). All I did was check to see if the centroid of a nature reserve from one of the national d

Re: [Talk-GB] Last quarterly project for 2015

of boundary and path network > mapping where possible? > > > > Cheers > > Steve > > > > *From:* SK53 [mailto:sk53@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 05 October 2015 09:29 > *To:* Brian Prangle > *Cc:* Talk GB > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Last quarterly project fo

Re: [Talk-GB] Last quarterly project for 2015

I'm well in favour of mapping nature reserves, but they usually are quite difficult to find actual boundaries. Nick Whitlegg and I walked through a couple of Woodland Trust areas on Saturday and working out the extent of the area owned by the WT is difficult. Similarly, over another non-OSM matter

[Talk-GB] Dual Aperture Postboxes

I noted today a number of post boxes with two apertures, one for stamped mail, the other for franked mail. Each side of the box has a separate plate & distinct refs.I would have expected these to have been mapped as "ref=RF1 1;RF1 2", with some explanatory text to explain that this is one & the sam

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

I've certainly found that in most large shopping centres/malls etc., support elements are usually regularly spaced, and at least estimating what this spacing is & using it to correlate with features observable from outside can help refine positioning. Obviously platform lifts & escalators fit this

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

Yes, I had meant to mention it. There was a nice presentation at SotM-Fr. Jerry On 24 September 2015 at 19:46, Marc Gemis wrote: > Would a tool like http://github.pavie.info/openlevelup/ be of any help to > visualize the shops ? > > regards > > m > > On Thu, Sep 2

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

One strategy is to try & map shops at one level as areas; and map shops in remaining areas as nodes; the nodes can be slightly offset so that all are visible. It's a bit of a kludge, but providing the tagging is sensible about using layer & building:level etc, it's not tagging for the renderer, mer

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

I've had a look at the LIDAR data for Attenborough NR and also the RSBP Medmerry reserve (in the Hundred of Manhood near Selsey). I havent had a full play but so far it hasnt picked up a small elevation difference which affects the hydrology of Attenborough (thanks to Sandy Aitken, Volunteer Reserv

[Talk-GB] September Nottingham Pub meeting Tuesday 22nd Sept

Just a quick reminder, our usual meeting will take place tomorrow at the usual place: The Lincolnshire Poacher. Details on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https:/

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

Hi Brian, Seems a very sensible request. It may be worth posting this to the forums. Marek who is very active in both 3D buildings & indoor mapping tends to be there and not on mailing lists. There are both 3D building & indoor mapping subfora too, Jerry On 20 September 2015 at 19:54, Brian Pran

Re: [Talk-GB] Anybody a member of CAMRA?

I did discuss this with the local CAMRA representative responsible for the pub data, about 18 months ago. The data in WhatPub should essentially be regarded as a commercial dataset which has value for CAMRA (for instance in persuading people to join, or as base data for the Good Beer Guide): they

[Talk-GB] Post Boxes no longer present

This is really a question for Robert, but I think it might be of more general interest. I surveyed a fair bit of the town centre of Stockport on Saturday morning & have just been checking against Post Hoc to see if I missed any possible po

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

Not strictly speaking true: I can instantly think of a counter example Market Harborough which is clearly a town with a charter from the 13th century, but ecclesiastically established as a chapel-at-ease to Great Bowden (see Hosking (1955), *The Making of the English Landscape*, p. 227-228). Railwa

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

I would think late Spring/early Summer are suitable times (after university exams). I think many people camped at Oakham last time around, so warmer months with longer daylight seem sensible for that reason as well. There are B&Bs and a limited number of cheaper hotels (a Travelodge near Uppingham

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

I'm just back from my annual trip to the Rutland Bird Fair. Each time I'm struck by the fact that Rutland still needs a lot of ground survey work for OSM. Oakham for instance has a prodigious number of new houses, the PRoW network is pretty incomplete, and there are lots of other details missing i

[Talk-GB] Derby (Nottingham) pub meeting, Tuesday 18th Aug 19:30

A reminder that we will be in Derby for the pub meeting this month. We will be trying a new venue: The Old Silk Mill. (There were lots of other attractive suggestions, but juggling distance from bus station, football matches etc. led me to his one). If it is not to everyone's taste we can try one o

[Talk-GB] OpenData Camp Manchester, October 2015

The second tranche of OpenData Camp tickets become available at noon today: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-camp-2-tickets-17882025620 Earlier in the year, Nick Whitlegg, Gregory Marler and I attended the inaugural event at Hampshire County Council in Winchester. It's not strictly speakin

[Talk-GB] UK Postal District Centroids

Neil has just reminded me about NPE map derived centroids for postal districts (the outcode part of postcodes). According to this overpass query there are over 2500 of them on OSM. Are these still useful? We now have actual centroids for full postcodes and can der

Re: [Talk-GB] Open Access Land

The problem, as always, is the OGL clause "third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;", and all the Natural England data sets will have been compiled from Ordnance Survey mapping. For things like Access Land which will be mapped based on field boundaries, the only cl

Re: [Talk-GB] K4 Telephone Kiosks

obinson wrote: > I’m in Frodsham fairly regularly so will put it on my to do list unless > someone gets to it first. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > *From:* SK53 [mailto:sk53@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 01 August 2015 12:41 > *To:* Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org &g

[Talk-GB] K4 Telephone Kiosks

My sister has just been telling me about the K4 telephone kiosk which combines a phone, stamp machine and post box. There are apparently 5 examples extant, with one in Frodsham. Further details at http://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/kiosks/k4/ and http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-436820-k4

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

Completely agree with Richard, New rendering styles are a chance to start afresh with the technologies & perspectives from 10 (or 11) years worth of experience. This does not just mean vector tiles (although my feeling is these are still 'bleeding-edge'), but also potentially more use of LUA and/o

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A "UK/GB OpenStreetMap group"?

Fascinating stuff Frederik. Not entirely convinced by some of the detail. The project I ran got a domain name in 1987 of thorn-emi-crl.co.uk (I remember being slightly irritated that the guy administering names hadn't used crl.thorn-emi.co.uk which would have been more future-proof. By then UCL we

Re: [Talk-GB] Ramblers app

There's an article about it in the latest Ramblers' magazine. The app appears to use OGSB map tiles: it's a bit of a shame that we still don't have decent links with Ramblers at a national level. Nick W. & I had a number of problems with the path network in Wiltshire a couple of weeks back. Jerry

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

Actually creating built-up areas from OSM data is fraught with problems: the basic one, being that OSM landuse/landcover is too fine-grained for identifying built-up areas. This is one of the examples in my category of 'emergent data': data which is sort of there, but is actually quite hard to crea

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

Bridges and other significant remaining infrastructure of railways tagged as railway=abandoned ceased to be rendered on the Standard rendering some time ago. There was a degree of dissension with this decision: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542. Certainly I recall a few

[Talk-GB] June Nottingham pub meeting

Sorry for the late reminder: tomorrow night is our June OSM meet-up at the Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30 (Tuesday 16th), with possibility of mapping beforehand from 18:30. Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstree

Re: [Talk-GB] Quick tagging question

h this information might be used it seems best to allow consuming applications to determine which address elements other than street/housenumber are required. It would be interesting to see what decision the OpenAddresses project has taken in this regard. Jerry On 5 June 2015 at 17:54, Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] Quick tagging question

On 5 June 2015 at 14:31, Colin Smale wrote: > > > > The Royal Mail has deprecated the use of counties in addressing. The PAF > (Postcode Address File) no longer contains counties. > snip.. > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > htt

Re: [Talk-GB] Data Model for Address

If the world is complicated it may be necessary to reflect that in the data model (or alternatively make the data model so general that complications are pushed to applications). I think the Royal Mail approach to addresses is already too Procrustean! However, there is a British Standard for addre

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

I've just been looking at operator tags on amenity=university. The first point is that 600+ are not tagged with operator. Secondly, *university hospitals*, such as Addenbrookes cause problems. In practice most buildings in university hospitals are NHS owned & operated (I got round this at QMC Not

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible collaboration with Amey

We certainly could do with much more input to improve a whole load of information in Wales. From two recent visits it is clear that much of the road network extant on OSM originated from NPE maps and similar. There are substantial improvements which can be made just be re-aligning roads to existing

[Talk-GB] Derby Pub Meet-up Tuesday 19th May

Just a reminder that tomorrow night is the "Nottingham goes to Derby" meet-up. Details on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinf

Re: [Talk-GB] HOT in the UK

Hi Paul, The closest to a formal organisation is the Missing Maps project which has regular evening sessions in London. Several regular OSM contributors are formal members o

[Talk-GB] May Derby Meet-up: confirmation of date as 19th May

Just a quick note to say that I have left the date for the Derby pub meeting for next Tuesday, 19th May . As I stated before, I will be in London on that date, so wont be there. I will do the usual reminders later in the week. Regards, Je

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project "All things delivery-related" - an update

Are you aware of the the PostBox Finder app from Elbatrop? I had a quick play with it ages ago, adding some collection times to existing post boxes. Jerry On 5 May 2015 at 23:40, Rob Nickerson wrote: > >Robert Whittake

Re: [Talk-GB] Labelling a greasy spoon caff

cuisine=breakfast seems far too GB/US/CA centric. There are places in Berlin which do all day breakfasts but certainly not of that sort; in most of SE Asia breakfast is likely to be some form of congee, and there plenty of such breakfast places in Hong Kong. Of course the tag can be interpreted b

Re: [Talk-GB] Labelling a greasy spoon caff

Oddly enough I was thinking about this only a couple of hours ago. I'm aware of very few transport caffs on OSM. Have they disappeared or do I just not encounter them anymore? The only place which I thought fits the bill is on the Old Rufford Road http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/944504087, and I

Re: [Talk-GB] elsan_points

I too have problems with the name of this proposed tag, as follows: 1) It's not recognisably British English. This has been the default for tag names since the inception of the project, mainly to avoid natural complications when en-us and en-gb differ. As a native Brit I wouldn't have a clue what

[Talk-GB] April Nottingham pub meeting

Slightly belated reminder that the Nottingham pub meeting will be on Tuesday 14th April at the Lincolnshire Poacher, 19:30. ( http://tinyurl.com/NGosmPub. ) With BST now here we'll also restart mapping before the pub. My particular target is missing places of worship in Forest Fields & Hyson Green

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Projects Update

A while back I did have a go at doing delivery offices (using amenity=delivery_office) because a) these are often in funny places and b) finding the local one which is the parcel collection point was non-trivial (so useful map feature). I started because I noticed that some places have masses of p

Re: [Talk-GB] Canal & River Trust maps

It's worth considering the following; - CRT are using their own (high quality, high consistency) data. No need for OSM data. - OSM detail is highly variable, and parts of CRT's system might not be mapped at an appropriate level of detail or accuracy. - OSM tagging etc. is prone to c

Re: [Talk-GB] HampshireCC aerial imagery and height data

I think it's safe to say that faffy is no more . As this server was the repository of OSM out-of-copyright imagery as well as the Hampshire aerials (& I suspect Surrey) it may be sensible to also remove these a

Re: [Talk-GB] British National Grid File for JOSM

I generated a postgis table for the UK national grid, which I can make available as shape files etc. It has 100km, 10km, 5km, 2 km (tetrad) and 1 km squares. The actual SQL is rather easy, one just needs to use a cartesian product of two queries using generate_series(). So for instance for 100 km

[Talk-GB] Next East Midlands mapping event (May)

3 of us met on Saturday (myself, SomeoneElse and Mot from Sheffield/Rotherham) to do some footpath mapping in the far north of Nottinghamshire: still an under-mapped area despite a lot of recent work by Nigel Greens in particular. I haven't calculated how many km of new paths (or existing paths) h

[Talk-GB] Reminder: Nottingham pub meetup tonight Tuesday 17th

Subject line says it all. Hopefully the city centre will not be tool full of folk celebrating St Patrick's Day. Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Reminder: East Midlands OSM Meetings in next few days

Just a quick reminder that we have two meetings in Nottinghamshire in the next week: - Tomorrow, Saturday 14th, footpath mapping at Gringley on the Hill. Meet outside Blue Bell pub at 10:30 or join us for lunch (around 12:30-13:00) at the same venue. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wik

Re: [Talk-GB] Proposed import of approximately 6 bicycle repair tool stands in the UK

I have actually mapped one of these but have refrained from adding information about the manufacturer for fear that my ground survey will be obliterated by this import. Please dont do it. Jerry On 4 March 2015 at 22:59, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > Ok, last call for comments. > Please note this is a

[Talk-GB] Second Nottingham Mapping Meetup: 14th March

Hi All, I've just put the basic details of the follow-up to Hanbury for 2 weeks time. This will be in the far north of Nottinghamshire which has had very little ground survey work done (as can be seen by the fact that the pub I've cho

[Talk-GB] New OS Open Data products arriving end of March

Just hearing about the new OSGB OpenData products (OS Open Map?) at OpenDataCamp. These will appear around end of March: - Additional level of vector detail, including less generalised buildings and public buildings (hospitals, schools) identified. - A single merged gazetteer with mor

[Talk-GB] Reminder: Derby pub meetup tomorrow Tuesday 17th

Seem to have been far too busy over the weekend to get round to sending out this reminder (one doesnt have to have school age kids for half-term to have an impact!). We are meeting at the Tap (without cake or candles :-) from 19:30 in Derby. Details as usual on the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetma

Re: [Talk-GB] Unsigned road names (was "Fix the road name!")

I have always assumed that your usage is fine, although I have not tagged this information myself. However, today chasing up one of the missing locator streets (one I knew had been built, but had not bee in the area for a while) I found that the road is completely lacking any street name signs. Fo

Re: [Talk-GB] Data search request: help please

Another data point. This matches exactly an internal data search on a) all pubs I've had a beer in with '[Ll]ouise in the name and b) all pubs/bars/taverns/biergartens I can still remember with [Ll]ouise in the name (both UK only of course). Jerry On 22 January 2015 at 22:31, Frederik Ramm wrot

[Talk-GB] Nottingham Pub Meetup, Tuesday 20th January

Just a quick reminder that the first 'regular' pub meeting is in Nottingham at the Lincolnshire Poacher on this coming Tuesday 20th Jan. Details as usual: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Cheers, Jerry PS. Trying a group email on BCC. If it fails let me know

[Talk-GB] Nottingham & Derby Pub Meetings for 2015

Dear All, I have scheduled social meetings for Nottingham & Derby for the whole of the year ahead (at least in part so I can add them to my diary). Derby meetings are the second month in each quarter. I've kept to existing venues to keep things simple: there is always scope to modify the programme

Re: [Talk-GB] Hanbury Meeting - Fauld Crater

I resorted to natural=cliff on the sink hole under Eyam Edge, but there the sides were vertical. There has recently been a fair bit of discussion about extending cliff tags, and one of the cases is for non-vertical ones! Jerry On 10 January 2015 at 21:38, SomeoneElse wrote: > On 10/01/2015 17:

[Talk-GB] Land Registry Prices Paid 'Open Data'

Some doubts have been raised about whether this data is truly open, and a recent FOI request from Owen Boswarva further strengthens those doubts. See his blog post: http://mapgubbins.tumblr.com/post/107499166390/it-was-all-a-dream-land-registrys-price-paid . Robert Whittaker raised this on talk-le

Re: [Talk-GB] Hanbury Meeting

I had wondered if setting up an etherpad might be useful for things along the lines of 'has anyone put the 2 grit bins in yet" (again on the theme of making our mapping not just co-operative but more truly collaborative. Jerry On 4 January 2015 at 13:20, SomeoneElse wrote: > On 03/01/2015 21:0

[Talk-GB] Hanbury Meeting

Just to say thank you to everyone who came for a very damp day in the countryside. I hope that we can follow up several of the many useful discussions we had whilst walking and in the pub. If people have ideas for a follow-up mapping event, do let me know. It seems Saturdays are reasonably conven

Re: [Talk-GB] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

Well if nothing else we can talk about whether landuse=cemetery is an appropriate tag for the crater! Jerry On 29 December 2014 at 17:42, Rob Nickerson wrote: > On 29 December 2014 at 17:06, SK53 wrote: > >> Thanks for Rob for adding the missing footpaths >> <http://uma

Re: [Talk-GB] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

ve also added some more details to > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Mapping_Meetup > > See you soon, > Rob > > p.s. If you're planning to come please let us know :-) > > On 24 December 2014 at 12:55, SK53 wrote: > >> Thanks everyone for such a good resp

[Talk-GB] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

Thanks everyone for such a good response to the Doodle Poll. A couple of late entries persuaded me to choose Saturday 3rd January for the event as that allows all who could attend to make it. I have chosen the area around Hanbury and Draycott in the Clay which is to the west of Burton-on-Trent. T

[Talk-GB] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

Thanks to everyone who has participated in the Doodle poll. I plan to leave it open until Tuesday evening (23rd Dec), and will choose the date to enable as many as possible to come along. (Check Doodle to see the current situation). I will then add it to the OSM Wiki. This is just to advise that t

Re: [Talk-GB] Totesport

mine. So no expert. On 21 December 2014 at 14:39, David Woolley wrote: > > On 21/12/14 13:56, SK53 wrote: > >> >> There are still one or two unharmonised tags for bookmakers: I moved a >> few amenity=bookmaker to shop=bookmaker the other day. At least one was >> one

Re: [Talk-GB] Totesport

I'll add a note on the UK Retail section for bookies . There are still one or two unharmonised tags for bookmakers: I moved a few amenity=bookmaker to shop=bookmaker the other day. At least one was one I created & I'm pretty sure

[Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

I personally feel the current discussion is now thrashing. We are hearing repeats of the same things over again, and appear to now be bikeshedding import and mechanical edit policies. No-one seems to dispute that we do not have a consensus, Can we leave it at that "we agree to disagree". It is usu

[Talk-GB] Coastline broken : blue tiles appearing

Just to let people know that flooding is appearing in Great Britain, presumably caused by coastline problems. I hope I have fixed the apparent cause (in the region of Dunnottar Castle ), but if the problem persists mention it here or on IRC.

[Talk-GB] Belated reminder: Derby pub meeting tonight

Just been reminded that I never put an email out for the pub meeting in Derby tonight. My apologies: getting back from Argentina & family events over the weekend caused it to get missed off my to-do list. Venue : The Tap, adjacent Derwent St Bridge, Derby. Time: 19:30. More on the wiki: https://w

Re: [Talk-GB] Apple trees around Cambridge

ls, experience shows that plant nurseries are not infallible (we have a purported Cork Oak which is *Quercus robur* in our local arboretum). Jerry On 8 December 2014 at 14:17, tshrub wrote: > hi, > > SK53 schrieb: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> I've had enough troubl

Re: [Talk-GB] Apple trees around Cambridge

Hi Dan, I've had enough trouble with cherry trees on the north side of Cambridge: you really need flowers, leaves & fruit to be able to do them properly! Some are flowering cherries (loosely *Prunus serratula*, others are passable eaters or jam makers, so presumably cultivars of *Prunus avium*); a

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM University of Liverpool exercise (or 200 free(ish) volunteers)

at 15:34, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > On 27 November 2014 at 16:35, SK53 wrote: > > I have metrics from my own surveys of this type, but would expect a > shopping > > street 200 metres long would occupy a student for perhaps a couple of > hours > > (certainly my first s

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM University of Liverpool exercise (or 200 free(ish) volunteers)

I agree with Matthijs that this is a nice initiative, and I'm very pleased that you have started this discussion. I am not a Merseysider myself, but I lots of family in the area. Although I visit fairly frequently I rarely get the opportunity to map, but can form a general impression about the loc

Re: [Talk-GB] Wikis are not tablets of stone as suggested by the suburbs debate: a proposal

Hi Brian, The real problem with the wiki is that pages tend to be prescriptive rather than descriptive. This is the difference between Fowler & Fowler (or for Americans Strunk and White) and a good dictionary. A quick scan of Language Log will show all the

[Talk-GB] Post-processing shop values (was mechanical edit)

Broadly I'm not in favour of the various mechanical edits suggested. Bringing together bookmaker tags is harmless, but does little to gather in the long tail. More extensive edits both deny the undoubted value of revisiting an area (either in life or from an armchair), and are unnecessary. The fol

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