Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey Hills Mapping Party, Sunday September 25th

2011-09-26 Thread 80n
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Hi 80n, Sorry I'm missing this - but I just arrived back from Colorado yesterday and have had a family occasion too, so consequently a bit tired! Would be good to know of any missing footpaths still

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey Hills Mapping Party, Sunday September 25th

2011-08-26 Thread 80n
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: On 25 August 2011 16:23, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Grant It's an OSM mapping party. Are you going to come along? Great. What brought on the change of heart? You misunderstand. There is no change

[Talk-GB] Surrey Hills Mapping Party, Sunday September 25th

2011-08-25 Thread 80n
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Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey Hills Mapping Party, Sunday September 25th

2011-08-25 Thread 80n
Grant It's an OSM mapping party. Are you going to come along? 80n On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: On 25 August 2011 14:49, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: There's going to be a mapping party in the Surrey Hills on September 25th. More details

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-20 Thread 80n
license not with a DbCL license. I'm sure if I'm wrong about this someone will be able to point me to the statement where this is covered. 80n ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-05 Thread 80n
their content with *any* content license or do you think they overlooked the need to consider this detail? 80n ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-05 Thread 80n
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: So presumably we also need confirmation from Ordnance Survey that they're happy for their content to be distributed under DbCL (or at least under the ODbL+DbCL combination). I

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

2011-04-19 Thread 80n
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: I've even seen status=desire to indicate that a path doesn't exist, but it would be nice if it did... Ed, you might be mis-understanding the meaning of that tag. Desire paths do very much exist on the ground and don't fall

Re: [Talk-GB] CT ambivalence (was: SotM 2011 UK? Setting up a GB OSMF chapter?)

2010-10-25 Thread 80n
contributions will be in that database, they will not go to waste. 80n Whether you support or oppose the CTs is up to you, but please don't feel that it is a waste of time to contribute to the project as it stands now. Myself, I reckon it very unlikely that a great purge of contributors

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread 80n
distant past events. 80n On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: Dear all, I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce

Re: [Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts county boundary wrong...is there adefinitive source?

2010-09-08 Thread 80n
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 be. The OS datasets are compatible with OSM as it

Re: [Talk-GB] Why I'm not currently using OS Opendat as a source WAS The last 2%

2010-08-22 Thread 80n
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:23 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.netwrote: - Original Message - From: Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com To: Robert Whittaker (OSM) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.comrobert.whittaker%2b...@gmail.com; Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010

Re: [Talk-GB] Why I'm not currently using OS Opendat as a source WAS The last 2%

2010-08-22 Thread 80n
happen later, after the license switch, when all CC-BY-SA licensed data would get purged from the database. 80n On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Barnett, Phillip phillip.barn...@itn.co.uk wrote: I’ve been mapping off and on since April 2006, and I’ve contributed approximately 1320 changesets

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

2010-08-06 Thread 80n
. 80n On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:43 PM, John Robert Peterson jrp@gmail.comwrote: This is a more fundamental problem than which source is the correct one -- names aren't properly defined to begin with. The source for most of these names is simply what locals referred to things as 100 years

Re: [Talk-GB] an estimate of data loss under relicensing

2010-07-23 Thread 80n
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: On 23 July 2010 00:05, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Is this the real CloudMade? How can we tell? And that really is the point. How can anyone tell whether they can add someone else's work to OSM unless

Re: [Talk-GB] an estimate of data loss under relicensing

2010-07-22 Thread 80n
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: On 22 July 2010 18:23, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: There''s also signs that the project is starting to splinter. Experimental forks are beginning to appear... 80n, you were one of the people agitators

Re: [Talk-GB] an estimate of data loss under relicensing

2010-07-22 Thread 80n
test here would be to determine whether CloudMade have already signed the contributor terms. If they haven't then it is hard not to draw some conclusions about their intentions with our data. 80n This makes the SA provision in ODbL pretty much worthless as far as the main OSM database

Re: [Talk-GB] an estimate of data loss under relicensing

2010-07-22 Thread 80n
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: 80n wrote: Once acid test here would be to determine whether CloudMade have already signed the contributor terms. If they haven't then it is hard not to draw some conclusions about their intentions with our

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of OS OpenData in OSM

2010-07-20 Thread 80n
much harder than it is now by a massive degree. BTW, how would a corporation agree to the Contributor Terms anyway? The sign-up page only caters for individuals. Has, for example, CloudMade, agreed to the contributor terms yet and how could we tell if they had? 80n

Re: [Talk-GB] Surry Meetup

2010-05-11 Thread 80n
Just a reminder that the Surrey meetup is tonight at 7pm. Etienne On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:38 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Folks There will be a pub-meetup for Surrey OSMers on Tuesday May 11th at 7pm. The venue is the Hand and Spear adjacent to Weybridge railway station: http

[Talk-GB] Surry Meetup

2010-04-30 Thread 80n
Folks There will be a pub-meetup for Surrey OSMers on Tuesday May 11th at 7pm. The venue is the Hand and Spear adjacent to Weybridge railway station: http://osm.org/go/euuI8D_jm- The general election will hopefully be history by then, so the main topic of discussion will be the new aerial imagery

Re: [Talk-GB] XAPI servers

2009-06-25 Thread 80n
have the horsepower to do the job. It was left on 0.5 and will probably remain that way until we have some decent servers running a proper service. 80n ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] XAPI servers

2009-06-16 Thread 80n
before these are ready, and neither are particularly high capacity. If anyone has a spare server with 350Gb disk space and reasonable network bandwith that they would like to run a xapi server on please get in touch. 80n On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Mike osm-talk...@norgie.net wrote

[Talk-GB] North Surrey Pub Meet - April 8th

2009-03-07 Thread 80n
good the beer is and so on. License talk will be be banned no doubt ;) The Hand Spear at Weybridge Station is a great pub, traditional coaching inn, good food etc. Do come along. No more details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/North_Surrey_Pub_Meet 80n

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-10 Thread 80n
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Should we investigate buying aerial photography for some of these un-loved places which would allow us the capture the base road structure and land-usage prior to any actual visit and speed things up a

Re: [Talk-GB] heathorw expansion sipson

2009-01-15 Thread 80n
to muster a small team. 80n On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:54 AM, graham gra...@theseamans.net wrote: Hi, Is anyone interested in creating a really detailed map of the area to be destroyed by the Heathrow extension. The area (the villages of Harlington Sipson and Harmondsworth: http

Re: [Talk-GB] Any West London mappers out there?

2008-10-29 Thread 80n
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: I went out tonight and mapped the building layout as best I could. (snow = yes; wet = yes; cold = yes; dark = yes) snip Looks pretty good (checking on Osmarender, though there seems to be a bug with

Re: [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread 80n
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve wrote: I was under the impression that the local authorities generally used an OS base map, so their own data may well be derived from the OS data. A few years ago now (5 or 6) the bungalow next door was knocked

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey meet up?

2008-07-30 Thread 80n
Jonathan Works for me. I think I recommended the Britannia last time. 80n On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I would consider coming down, but not on a Wednesday due to the London Mapping Party Marathon. Shaun On 29 Jul 2008, at 17:31, Jonathan

Re: [Talk-GB] London Calling

2008-05-04 Thread 80n
somehow. noname=yes perhaps. 80n On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave has made this really nice map of london http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/progress/london-noname-exsegs-080430-mapnik.pnghttp://dev.openstreetmap.org/%7Erandom/progress/london-noname

Re: [Talk-GB] Idiot in area of Kielder Water

2008-04-30 Thread 80n
Richard The username is Applewach not Applewatch. The full extent of his handiwork can be got here: http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[osm:user=Applewach] 80n On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.4258lon

Re: [Talk-GB] Idiot in area of Kielder Water

2008-04-30 Thread 80n
chance of providing the user Id as well as the name? 80n Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Woking Mapping Party

2008-04-30 Thread 80n
is virtually untouched / so this is a good one for pedestrian mappers. Access is great, with frequent trains from London, Waterloo. More details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Woking_Mapping_Party 80n ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] When is a B road still a B road?

2008-04-29 Thread 80n
, then I'd probably mark it was tertiary in this case. Possible with a note (or old_ref tag) referring to its historical B status. 80n On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure others will have come across this issue. In Birmingham, many

Re: [Talk-GB] Piste Maps

2007-09-25 Thread 80n
way of gathering data ;) 80n On 9/25/07, Thom Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a few things in the wiki about making piste maps, but the details seem to conflict on how things should be tagged etc. Does anyone know who's leading this project and what's going on with it? It would

[Talk-GB] ShoHo Mapping Party

2007-09-07 Thread 80n
This is a reminder that this weekend is the ShoHo mapping party. There's also one in Ljubljana if that's more attractive to you. The ShoHo mapping party is covering the Shoreditch and Hoxton area of London just to the east of the City. If you live anywhere in the south-east of England then it

Re: [Talk-GB] ShoHo Mapping Party

2007-09-07 Thread 80n
you tomorrow. 80n On 9/7/07, Gregory Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are we at the Transport2000 for lunch? or is the location undecided? I will probably be needing to charge my PDA quickly before I can go out again. On 9/7/07, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a reminder

[Talk-GB] ShoHo Mapping Party - September 8/9

2007-08-04 Thread 80n
for this mapping party. Just to the east of the city of London, the mapping party will cover Shoreditch and Hoxton (ShoHo) and then spread north east towards Hackney Downs. More details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/ShoHo_Mapping_Party Sign up, or be square. 80n

Re: [Talk-GB] affixing a GPS to a dashboard

2007-08-01 Thread 80n
A couple of red post-office issue elastic bands works for me. Just wrap them around the gps, it provides enough resistance to stop it sliding for all but the most aggressive manoeuvres. If you use velcro you would need to put the sticky side on both the dash and the gps ;) On 8/1/07, Steve

[Talk-GB] Transport2000 (Volunteers in/near Central London needed)

2007-07-25 Thread 80n
party and get the Transport 2000 people involved. 80n -- Forwarded message -- From: Estelle Taylor Date: Jul 25, 2007 2:46 PM Hi guys, As you may recall, we're working on launching a new website. I'd like to snip a map from Open Street Map to show users where our offices