Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

It's interesting to compare their approach with that of the capital of what used to be one of the most closed countries: the Municipality of Tirana (Albania) is now putting (some of) its data online voluntarily, in co-operation with the local hackerspace. http://opendata.tirana.al/ They haven't

Re: [Talk-GB] the steepest residential street in England

North Lane in Bath ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/2955824#map=19/51.37754/-2.33364) is very steep, but only side entrances to houses open onto it, so I'm not sure whether it counts fully as residential. __John On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Dave F wrote: > >

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

I hadn't known (or remembered) that recommendation from the wiki; but still, the Ukrainian spelling (resulting in a Ukrainian reader understanding it as a reasonable phonetic imitation of the English name) may often be very far from a transliteration (letter-for-letting substitution) from the

[Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

No mention of OSM that I can see, though; a different kind of mapping: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23203500 http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/hillforts-atlas.html __John ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Usage of lanes / turn restrictions versus multiple ways when road is not divided

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:06 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.comwrote: What do people think of this: http://osm.org/go/0EQSJEoZT-- (aerial: http://binged.it/10kuDNm ) and this: http://osm.org/go/eu6_VCkLp-- (aerial: http://binged.it/16js1Ye ) I like these (although the first one

Re: [Talk-GB] Pronunciation of place names

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: My friend Terence Eden has some interesting comments on documenting the pronunciation of place names, in this blog post: Can we solve the problem of how to do this, in OSM? We could have a keyword convention for

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

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 10/12/2012 08:18, Kevin Peat wrote: On Dec 10, 2012 1:25 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote No. We should be mapping physical objects... There are plenty of non-physical objects mapped in OSM As primary

Re: [Talk-GB] PRoW Ref codes (WAS:Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence)

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: Is it not sensible to use the reference format of the place you are in, rather than create some sudo standard? A web application I'm developing straddles many counties.  So I've decided to adopt the scheme:  

Re: [Talk-GB] Post boxes!

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Was thinking more along the line of asking him is he minds us using his photos to add the extra details to OSM (e.g. ref numbers, collection times, and royal cyphers). Or we could invite him to sign up to OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

I started to work on Hampshire, but got the following request from a decliner: I was wondering if you would mind refraining from 're-mapping' my contributions for the time being? I'm still in discussions with the OSMF regarding re-licensing some of my contributions which come from a 3rd party

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism changeset

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Oliver O'Brien m...@oliverobrien.co.uk wrote: Hi This appears to be a vandalism changeset: 10947970 Details: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10947970 It would be great if there was a report obvious vandalism button on Changeset information

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism changeset

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Odd Gustafsson odd_lars...@hotmail.com wrote: Yeah, adding: bridge=yes, foot=no, layer=5, oneway=-1 and surface=grass, to a road happens to me all the time ;) Sorry, didn't look closely enough! I just saw the odd-shaped road.

Re: [Talk-GB] License changeover - Important West Country update

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Contributor Guy has now accepted the new contributor terms and OSMI License View is already showing the new picture [1]. I had done some remapping in that area, before Guy agreed --- could someone now revert those

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Spagehtti junctions in Cambridge and St Ives

I've looked a bit further into disabled access to crossings, and raised it on the accessability mailing list, and found that there is a proposal to map crossing islands already (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Traffic_island). After mailing about this, I then realized that it

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

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Also, can you describe the freeze? ... As Richard (albeit fairly bluntly) said, we've not heard similar reports from other people, but they might just be silently enduring it. Any further help you can give us to get to

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

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I think there's always been a memory leak there with P2; I've noticed that sort of behaviour for months. I've only done minimal bits of delving into it, but suspect it's a case of _either_ some sprites being left

Re: [Talk-GB] Project Drake - mapping the University of Cambridge

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: What do other people think? If there's a strong view not to have these parenthesised bits there, I'll take them out of the name tags. I think it would be best to have the information somewhere, in a consistent form

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 November 2011 10:02, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: . Yes, “Former Brewery” is the former Ridley’s site. Bishop Nick launched their first beer at The Compasses, Littley Green (next village over) recently;

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

I'm sure this is a cider brewery, I've driven past it quite a few times and remember seeing the signage. (I used to live near Limerick). I don't know of any beers from Bulmers, I'm pretty sure they're only ciders. __John On 11/20/11, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: This was

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Borbus bor...@gmail.com wrote: distillery=whisky Do we need to make a distinction between whisky and whiskey?  I don't know much about whiskey, I seem to remember the difference is more than just spelling. Whisky (Scottish) is distilled twice (and the smoke

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Graham the one or two vineyards in the South There's some disgreement on how to tag these (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vineyard), between landuse=vineyard and landuse=agriculture

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am interested in creating maps of historical features (e.g all roman remains, medieval things, World War 2 things etc.). This could be extended to cover more everyday things, I suppose, but that would

Re: [Talk-GB] How to tag Police Memorial Trust (and similar) memorials

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: I recently mapped a couple of Police Memorial Trust memorials, for example:   http://www.policememorial.org.uk/Police_Memorial_Trust/PMT_Local_Memorials/PMT-Swindells-2004/PMT-Swindells-2004.htm  

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Marker Posts

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Nicola Smith nicolasmit...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi  All, I appreciate it is something we don't necessarily map, but has anyone seen any gas/oil marker posts on their travels? I am interested in the sub-surface layout Me too --- I've been mapping quite a few

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Marker Posts

There's also a water pipeline heading northeast (again, visible on osmarender) at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.2165490686893lon=0.0422796607017517zoom=17 -- I remember it being built (I used to live near there). Again, I traced it as far as I could from bing. __John