[Talk-GB] Using data from OS maps

2018-11-30 Thread Philip Withnall
Hi all, An enthusiastic new contributor in the Lakes area has admitted using OS data in one of their changesets ­— afaik copying from OS walking maps is not allowed, and I don’t think any of the OS OpenData data sets include PRoW designations (I’m happy to be corrected on this). What’s the right

Re: [Talk-GB] When is a hedge a wood?

2018-08-27 Thread Philip Withnall
On Sun, 2018-08-26 at 20:35 +0100, Martin Wynne wrote: > Rural boundaries can be extraordinarily difficult to map. For > example, > is this: > > https://goo.gl/maps/FtjMZiwNj542 > > a) a fence, > > b) a hedge, > > c) a very narrow wood, > > d) all three at the same time? > > Is the area

Re: [Talk-GB] New Ghosts Set and Survey Me Auto-Location Feature

2018-08-06 Thread Philip Withnall
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 08:01 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > A couple of updates to my tools that you might be interested in: > > First there's a new set of objects in my "Ghosts" tool at > https://osm.mathmos.net/ghosts/. There are 162 still-mapped "Co-Op > Pharmacy" branches, which

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

2018-05-04 Thread Philip Withnall
On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 12:52 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: > On 04/05/18 12:28, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > > Or do people think we should use amenity=post_office for them with > > some other tagging used to differentiate things? If we did want to > > use > > other tagging to differentiate,

Re: [Talk-GB] New Post Office Data and Comparison Tool

2018-02-19 Thread Philip Withnall
On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 13:29 +, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > Some of you may have already seen that a few weeks ago I eventually > got a positive response from Post Office Ltd. (POL) to a request I > made for a re-usable list of their branches, and permission to use it > to help

[Talk-GB] NaPTAN merge tool?

2017-12-22 Thread Philip Withnall
Hi all, Who’s maintaining the NaPTAN merge tool? It seems to be broken — every request to the node layer gives a HTTP error 403. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Surveying_and_Merging_NaPTAN _and_OSM_data#Tools http://b3e.net/novam/ Thanks, Philip signature.asc Description: This is

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

2017-11-03 Thread Philip Withnall
On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 12:55 +0300, Ilya Zverev wrote: > Hi, > > You might remember a few months ago I discussed here importing of > Shell fuel stations. The data provider is Navads, which has a > contract with Shell for putting their stations on the map. They asked > me to proceed with the import

Re: [Talk-GB] Access and other tags for a particular Restricted Byway

2017-09-29 Thread Philip Withnall
On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 14:06 +0100, David Woolley wrote: > On 29/09/17 13:56, Bob Hawkins wrote: > > > In the absence of the image, the two signs read as follows: 1. In > > white > > on blue: Oxfordshire County Council/No vehicles beyond this point > > except > > for access. > >

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Philip Withnall
On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 13:16 +0100, Philip Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 11:28 +0100, James Harrison wrote: > > > > As an aside to this conversation, where are photos most useful for > > OSM > > contributions? Just built-up areas or road junctions etc? If we > > were > > designing a

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of Way Data for Warwickshire

2017-09-14 Thread Philip Withnall
On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 18:37 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > PS: To contrast with the good news here, East Riding of Yorkshire is > being decidedly unhelpful at > https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_rights_of_way_gis_data_ > 2 > , although they'll need to drag their feet for

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way in Oxfordshire and Hampshire

2017-09-08 Thread Philip Withnall
On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 17:11 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > On 23 August 2017 at 15:25, Philip Withnall <phi...@tecnocode.co.uk> > wrote: > > On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 11:30 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) > > wrote: > > > Some of you have have alr

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way in Oxfordshire and Hampshire

2017-08-23 Thread Philip Withnall
On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 11:30 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > Some of you have have already come across my Public Rights of Way > comparison tool at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/progress/ which > aims to help mappers trying to complete the mapping of Rights of Way > in their area.