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

2012-01-12 Thread Dave Stubbs
On 11 Jan 2012 22:08, Lester Caine 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 current state ... Flash area just went grey Bottom

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes

2010-10-27 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 26/10/2010 10:04, Dave Stubbs wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Andy Mabbetta...@pigsonthewing.org.uk  wrote: On 25 October 2010 12:47, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com  wrote: Shaun McDonaldsh...@...  writes: I

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes

2010-10-26 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 25 October 2010 12:47, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Shaun McDonald sh...@... writes: I have been adding the three letter short code as the ref tag when I have been editing around stations. e.g.

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes to Shapefile

2010-04-26 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote: I am currently trying to create a series of shapefiles from postcodes (using OS Open Geo Data) using the code from Random Junk

Re: [Talk-GB] OS StreetView accuracy: caution!

2010-04-10 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote: On 9 April 2010 18:40, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: Hasn't one of OSM's (many) mantras been doesn't matter if it's approximate: someone can always improve it later or rough is better than nothing? Sure, some

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-04-10 Thread Dave Stubbs
It's worth noting that the Yahoo aerial photography is also out of date; in some cases [1] people have traced streets from the photo which bear no relation to what's on the ground.  Yet nobody suggests we should stop tracing from it. Yes they do.

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm in line with this view too. We cannot assume that the OS mapping is correct, it may or may not be current or accurate, so it's useful as a guide in the absence of any other verification source.

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:26 PM, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:46 PM, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: If we use only manual surveying, we can only achieve coverage of about 1%. I don't think that is satisfactory. Imports are

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:07 +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote: Basically: please don't break the map :-) perhaps a stupid question... Is there no version control? I couldn't find anything on the wiki about it. Sure. But if you

[Talk-GB] Post code map updated with a Code-Point Open layer

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Stubbs
Hi, The Ordnance Survey OpenData released today contains a dataset called Code-Point Open giving the coordinates of about 1.5 million postcodes. I've added a layer onto the postcode area map to show this data in the same way it's been showing NPE, OSM and FreeThePostcode data for some time. Go

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-14 Thread Dave Stubbs
Free release of the raster products would also harm public perceptions of Ordnance Survey. The perception of OS is that they're data hoarders (which the tax payer payed for) in the belief that 'knowledge is power' Umm, no. The public perception of the OS is that they make pretty maps of

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-18 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote: 2009/9/18 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com: ***PLEASE*** PULL THE PLUG ON HIM! Is it a good idea to remove the Live Change Feature in Potlatch for everyone. I'm thinking this is the cause for a lot of our problems.

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-18 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:26 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 18/09/2009 10:53, Tom Hughes wrote: On 18/09/09 10:33, David Earl wrote: Tom - this is persistent continuous abuse. I really think we have to block his IP address until such time as we can work out how to deal

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-18 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: I agree. I think it would be even more useful to be able to quarantine particular users changesets for manual review so

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 17/09/2009 14:38, David Earl wrote: On 17/09/2009 14:35, David Earl wrote: Another one at 13:56, also failed to revert http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2511524 changeset upload failed: 412

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: Hi, I set about correcting a few dozen post code entries in NPE for south east London, but the postcodes map doesn't seem to be updating:

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Dan Karran d...@karran.net wrote: 2009/9/14 Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk: OK, back up and running now. Thanks for getting that up and running again Dave. Would it be possible for you to include labels for the postal sectors on there as well, so

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle Map - without the cycleway?

2009-08-26 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:57 PM, WessexMariowessexmario-...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I'd like to use the OSM Cycle Map rendering at different zoom levels as the base layer for a project I'm doing, but I want to overlay something else, and the emphasised cycleways in large red lines are both

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

2009-08-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tom Chancet...@acrewoods.net wrote: Hi, I set about correcting a few dozen post code entries in NPE for south east London, but the postcodes map doesn't seem to be updating:

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 again

2009-08-08 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Jeffrey Martindogs...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we want different policies for different areas and different kinds of data. For example once all the roads are mapped we freeze the roads, but we allow free changing of street names until they reach a freeze point.

Re: [Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-21 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:16 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.comwrote: For the record: I agree with Peter that we need to undo this user's changes, however it is done, and that it could cause large parts of East Anglia to be wiped out if data that happened to have his name on were to be

Re: [Talk-GB] Amenity Editing

2009-07-04 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/7/4 Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com: No need for relations. Just tag each address with addr:postcode or postal_code and all is sorted. Tag it with addr:postcode as that seems to be the system for now. And in case you haven't seen it:

Re: [Talk-GB] Amenity Editing

2009-07-04 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/7/4 Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com: The reson for removing it would help in clarifying which one is to be used. Which one is that then? :-) Also for the programmers it saves on having to call 2 tags. Meh.. took me ten seconds for that map. If we take the atitude you suggest

Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap (OSM for walkers) - increased coverage

2009-06-09 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/6/9 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Jonathan Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: Ed Loach wrote: Have you a wiki page to say how to tag for things to render under each category? Tag...  Render... BURN HIM! BURN! :-) Gah, the common

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans National Cycle Network Mileposts and Art

2009-06-08 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/6/8 Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Sustrans do not have accurate locations for their mileposts and art so are interested in data gathered by OSM contributors. I'll try to get all the ones on the northern half of NCN 7 the

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/6/4 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: I have been looking at the coverage of maxspeed limit data for highways in the UK and we seem to have a right mix of styles. Here is the data for bug chunk of England while avoiding including anything from France or Ireland (which would include

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/6/4 WessexMario wessexmario-...@yahoo.co.uk: I propose that we adopt a new key:  maxspeed_mph It exists: maxspeed:mph Problems I'll do inline: It would be - simpler for UK, USA and other imperial countries to enter the speed. - less prone to error - users may not be used to kph

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/6/4 WessexMario wessexmario-...@yahoo.co.uk: Very helpful. And to be clear is says their should be a space between the number and the unit, ie '50 mph' not '50mph'. I wouldn't get too concerned about the space, computers can handle that well, so an optional whitespace should be

Re: [Talk-GB] London's Shortest Street

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/2/24 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk: Clennam Street is not on OSM, which is shame if the street has this dubious honour of being the shortest. Not living anywhere near, I wonder if someone nearer might like to pop round to get London's Shortest Streets on the map! I'm near there for work

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

2008-12-12 Thread Dave Stubbs
2008/12/11 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: A quick scoot around our green and pleasant land reveals a number of really unloved places (Why are so many in Lincolnshire!). We need ideas on how to get these places on the map, whether it be motivating the natives or

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only

2008-09-30 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Gregory Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk-gb- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LeedsTracker Sent: 30 September 2008 18:49 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:28 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/09/2008 09:56, Dave Stubbs wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote: whether you can just cycle the wrong way down the road avoiding any

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-23 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun replied: As far as I understand oneway=yes applies to all vehicles on wheels. Therefore you have to do an exception for the cyclists and the buses. cycleway=opposite_lane; psv=opposite_lane should do the trick. It

Re: [Talk-GB] Change of pub for tonight's mapping party

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregory wrote: Sent: 21 September 2008 3:58 PM To: Shaun McDonald Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Change of pub for tonight's mapping party Because there needs to be a micro mapping

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycling between capitals

2008-05-15 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note to observe that you can now use the OSM cycle map to travel between the three capitals of Great Britain, give or take a very few 100-yard lacunae: - London-Edinburgh via NCN4 (-Reading), NCN5

Re: [Talk-GB] London Calling

2008-05-06 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, Thank you very much for doing this rendering, it is a lot easier that the other images that have shown the same thing. How often are you likely to update this slippy map? Hopefully about once a week after the

Re: [Talk-GB] London Calling

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Stubbs
I made a slippy map for london to highlight no-named streets: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/no-names/ Yeah, there's work that could be done on the styles I'm sure, but it'll do for now. The idea is that everything should just become a washed out version of the main map -- get naming

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

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 80n wrote: The username is Applewach not Applewatch. By the look of it he/she/it uses both. Presumably the username Arsehole

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Potlatch 0.8

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Richard Fairhurst wrote: To add a way/whatever to a relation, use the new link icon on the right, then select a nearby relation from the menu (or Create a new relation). Thanks for the

[Talk-GB] London progress and unnamed roads

2008-01-31 Thread Dave Stubbs
Hi, I've added a slightly modified London rendering to the progress images I've been making. The rendering dehighlights parts of the data that have probably just been traced. http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/progress/?region=london-noname There's nothing clever going on here, it just

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Dave Stubbs
On 21/09/2007, Jonathan Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote Leaving the units off is quite a bit like not bothering with the first 2 digits of the year for whatever reason. It's more like not stating that the year is in the Gregorian calendar every time you write one. Yes

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] DIY mapping and Power to the People letters

2007-09-04 Thread Dave Stubbs
On 05/09/07, Daniel Glassey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Editors reply on your letters page (A to B 61) you said: The Open Street Map project is a fascinating co-operative global venture, allowing individuals to upload mapping data from their GPS receivers, producing royalty-free street

Re: [Talk-GB] cycling routes

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Stubbs
On 16/08/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has just been brough to my attention. http://maps.camdencyclists.org.uk/ Had a quick look but nothing too understand it properly. Was wondering if it may be of use to those working on the cycle routes if you werent aware of it

Re: [Talk-GB] How do I tag this cyckeway?

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Stubbs
On 16/08/07, Rik van der Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own suggestion is: whateverkey=road/track/path/trail (4m/4m/2m/1m) cycle=yes;foot=yes network=ncn;byway;burnswalk;kmtrail; network_ref=ncn7 and if you like to gather info on the pavement, also: