Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

I fixed a few misspelled building:* keys on a long train ride after Jochen issued this challenge: https://blog.jochentopf.com/2015-03-05-new-taginfo-features-and-a-challenge.html http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/reports/similar_keys <- useful! cheers, Jo On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 12:26 PM,

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats

What happened incidentally with the "smart traffic" project for which you were mapping out tags with Birmingham city council? It sounded so promising http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/UTC Jo aka zool On November 5, 2015 9:10:40 PM GMT, Rob Nickerson

Re: [Talk-GB] User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction "

I'm not on irc much at the moment, sorry. In general you can ping d...@osmfoundation.org with requests for mapper blocks, supplying context. This sounds like a call for a zero-hour block, which obliges the mapper to log in and read messages before editing. I will have a look when i get off

Re: [Talk-GB] User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction "

Ah, I'm some way behind the times ;) On October 6, 2015 12:40:48 PM GMT+01:00, Frederik Ramm wrote: >Hi, > >On 10/05/2015 05:21 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: >> I'm away for a few days dodging raindrops in Wales so won't be able >to deal with it directly > >Blocked both >

[Talk-GB] Fwd: [Talk-scotland] State of the Map Scotland

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Re: [Talk-GB] HOT in the UK

We've also been holding regular Missing Maps mapathons in Edinburgh and Glasgow, thanks to Margaux Mesle and Duncan Bain. - Jo On May 15, 2015 10:45:55 AM GMT+01:00, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, The closest to a formal organisation is the Missing Maps

Re: [Talk-GB] User changing place=suburb to neighbourhood

I see there are no changeset comments either. Have you started a changeset discussion? I can't tell on the mobile. On April 23, 2015 12:25:10 AM GMT+01:00, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Hi User abc26324 has been changing place=suburb to neighbourhood. This edits are widespread so I

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

We have had a Scottish server for some time, you know. We have plans and dreams for the Scottish server, mostly, plus a broken Rails prototype, and a lovely animated GIF of a massive saltire. On Wed, Mar 25, 2015, at 10:33 AM, SK53 wrote: I think it's safe to say that faffy is no more[1]. As

Re: [Talk-GB] state of the map 2015

much more likely to bust a gut to get there if it had been the main sotm, but not a -us spinout with parochial concerns... zx -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

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

+1 And/or add 6 notes to the map, providing notes have meaningful content they tend to be picked up local mappers.. There is really no need to import this type of data in the UK where the mapping culture is to walk/cycle and just go and have a looksee. +1 - this seems like an ideal

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

are happy v2 is compatible with OdBL (IMO it is) then v3 is also. zx -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net On Wed, Feb 18, 2015, at 12:04 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: On 17 February 2015 at 23:57, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I could imagine that OGL-3 has imported OS ODL's

Re: [Talk-GB] import / mech edit of some Aberdeen city council open data

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015, at 07:04 AM, Jo Walsh wrote: Ugh, okay, we had it from the horse's mouth so to speak that the license on the new CKAN catalogue would be OGL. I will sanity check this today. Sadly, the horse is over-optimistic, so to speak, on this topic. Aberdeen City Council plans a re

[Talk-GB] import / mech edit of some Aberdeen city council open data

An overpass query reveals a mix of node and way data for schools existing, with nothing like the same coverage. Would people be broadly okay with this / should we be following a process through the list? The data is OGL licensed. zx -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net

Re: [Talk-GB] import / mech edit of some Aberdeen city council open data

mainly the licence question for me. Oh and I don't live anywhere near Aberdeen ;) Best Dan 2015-02-07 17:24 GMT+00:00 Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net: I'm here at http://codethecity.org and neiljp has just arrived, too, and we are egging one another on to import some Aberdeen city council

Re: [Talk-GB] Fix the road name! Progress Report

. Apologies if i've been harsh here, pressed for time but wanted to say something at this point and not spam the thousands of people on the main osm list. Thanks for following this up with me, the snappy one-liner was emitted in poor circumstances, hope you understand. ::) Jo -- Jo Walsh metaz

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-3 Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

My take is that Matthijs' heroic stand is a gesture of sacrifice of a small portion of his sanity for the greater good of OSM However, i will totally admit to secretly preparing a kind of endographic study of the social work of the DWG which i'm going to knock some academics out of the sky

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

On reflection, I don't really laugh with scorn in the face of the Mechanical Edit Policy. But it certainly looks like a mess to me. My take would be to attempt to extract the spirit of that policy and not bother kvetching over the letter of it. The phrase rough consensus and running code is

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

Hello again. I recently volunteered to serve on the DWG as a form of intellectual self-punishment, and that's working out pretty well for me so far. One thing I'm nudging for in the DWG is more documentation around the cases dealt with by the DWG. What evidence is considered, and where there

[Talk-GB] dev8d Open Mapping workshop?

dear all, I'm wondering if there would be interest on this list in teaching at an Open Mapping workshop (OSM + OpenLayers + PostGIS) during the dev8d conference, which is at ULU in London February 14th - 16th. Thw workshop would be a couple of hours long in total with two or three people

[Talk-GB] Bing imagery alignment in Potlatch 2

In this area Bing is a few metres out of alignment with features traced from historic maps and town plans. Yahoo imagery lower res seemed to fit better. A way to drag base layer like in JOSM. Or can it be corrected at source? phone: +441316502973 talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] National Map Library of Scotland API

dear Bob, all, On 08/05/2010 18:17, Bob Kerr wrote: Hi, I have been in touch with them and they are keen that we should be allowed to use their data so that we can create derived information that we can use for Openstreetmap. They have told me that they are willing to use the Open Database

[Talk-GB] Search OS OpenData through Unlock Places API

dear all, Sorry that the below is a bit spammy, but I figure there's a good chance of reaching UK researchers with geodata interest through this list. We recently added some of the OS OpenData sources to the Unlock Places search service that EDINA runs, the details are below. Not sure if the

[Talk-GB] VectorMap District tomorrow (29th)

dear all, Pls forgiveness if this is old news/missed in digest, but heard today that the new VectorMap District OS dataset is expected out tomorrow, however OS are unable to make any announcement about it due to pre-election purdah. Suppose it will quietly appear at

Re: [Talk-GB] London Mapping Marathons

On 12/04/2010 21:59, Gregory wrote: I'd be happy to do that (I'm back from the start of May!). I think Thursdays might pan out better for me, but I might alternate if stuff comes up on Tuesdays. I think it was another Nick that mentioned SOTM and language in another e-mail, and I feel I

Re: [Talk-GB] Opportunity for OSM to give a talk at University of Edinburgh

dear all, On 07/04/2010 09:51, James Stewart wrote: I see someone has put there name down at this event for giving a talk - I am prepared to contribute something too, if you would like soe support, http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/ It would be great to have a State of the Scottish Map talk