Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon Logistics edits

On 29/07/2019 11:21, ael wrote: In the case that I mentioned, it was certainly not from their own GPS logs. A few examples I came across while looking at these with a DWG hat on were also not from GPS logs.  In one case Amazon would have had to have been delivering by tractor; in another the

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon Logistics edits

On 29/07/2019 09:35, Andy Robinson wrote: I've just looked at a number of Amazon Logistics in my local area Just to give everyone a bit of a heads-up about the DWG's involvement here - we got a number of messages about Amazon's mapping.  The biggest immediate problem was their use of

Re: [Talk-GB] Climbing new heights in “interesting” tagging

On 14/11/2018 21:25, Andrew Hain wrote: Road signs tagged natural=peak: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5890628170 https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5890628171 I'd be gentle with them - it is their first and so far only edit :) Best regards, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Roads for the Renderer

On 14/11/2018 21:03, Paul Berry wrote: I've dropped DWG a note because the mapper in question has just responded and I need to hold my tongue rather than reply. Thanks (email received, BTW). One other thing - if anyone sees issues with "highway" changes in Leeds, Manchester or MK that

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Roads for the Renderer

On 14/11/2018 19:48, Paul Berry wrote: Hi, Not for the first time I'm having a run-in with a user regarding arbitrary mapping of road classifications in Leeds. Latest changeset comments: http://osm.org/changeset/64361310 In this particular case I'd drop a mail to the DWG at

Re: [Talk-GB] Changing wikipedia links

On 01/10/2018 23:39, Dan S wrote: Op ma 1 okt. 2018 om 23:15 schreef Neil Matthews : Looks like an automated edit - albeit a human curated one - without discussion, certainly on Talk-GB. The "imports" mailing list would be the right place to discuss it, if it's a bulk edit (is it?). It doesn't

Re: [Talk-GB] Access restrictions for lorries above a certain GVM

On 26/09/2018 12:53, SK53 wrote: I can only answer for my self. I generally tag these I usually see with a plain hgv=destination, possibly with maxweight=7.5t. The sign is very rare without an additional plate allowing for deliveries. I do this largely because I want to capture the

[Talk-GB] Wickham Market, Suffolk

Is anyone familiar with this area?  Someone's mentioned on IRC that Wickham Market has been changed from town to village and back a couple of times: http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=114148812 Obviously it's been "town" more than village (and the person who added it as such was/is

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM AGM and notification

(just to add a bit to what Jerry said...) Hi Tony, First of all, welcome! You've probably already found the "Contact channels" page on the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels .  OSM globally uses lots of different mailing lists, forums, social network sites etc.  It

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

On 25/03/2018 21:49, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo wrote: ... Sorry to insist but you will undermine, especially, Welsh names, for a generic rendering that uses "name" tags. Think about that. Can you give a specific example of that?  Are you saying that "it's important to pretend that Welsh names

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

On 25/03/2018 16:18, Ben Proctor wrote: (snip) * But what about the city of Henffordd or the town of Amwythig? They have Welsh names and English names so the logic would be to use both in the name tag. Except Hereford - Henffordd and Shrewsbury - Amwythig are in England and, I

[Talk-GB] Rendering of old phoneboxes (was: Mistagging of old telephone boxes)

On 24/12/2017 01:12, Craig Wallace wrote: It would be good to have some better tags for phoneboxes (which may or may not actually contain a working phone). The phonebox is often a distinctive landmark, especially the classic red ones, and many are now listed buildings. ... Why not a

Re: [Talk-GB] Hull road renamed after rugby league star - BBC News

On 27/01/2018 13:32, Steve Doerr wrote: On 27/01/2018 13:21, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 27 January 2018 at 09:51, Colin Spiller wrote: I see malcolmh has already renamed it. Cool, but my question was "Does anyone have the coordinates, or the ID of the way, please?"

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham Tree Import

On 13/04/2017 20:26, ael wrote: And none of the 3 suggested causes applies in my case. What was the problem in your case? Best Regards, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

On 19/03/2017 12:52, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 18 March 2017 at 18:52, Brian Prangle wrote: I'm off for a break and I'm leaving a couple of key imports partially complete so I thought it best to give you an update of where I'm at: I'm told that Brian has been blocked for

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

On 19/03/2017 12:52, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 18 March 2017 at 18:52, Brian Prangle wrote: I'm off for a break and I'm leaving a couple of key imports partially complete so I thought it best to give you an update of where I'm at: I'm told that Brian has been blocked for

Re: [Talk-GB] Peak & Northern Footpath Signs

On 14/09/2016 15:15, SK53 wrote: Over the weekend I noticed a number of Peak & Northern footpath signs . A friend who is a member of the society told me that there are over 500, and that some people try to visit them in

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism by https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JoeanPlanck

On 21/08/2016 20:39, Ed Catmur wrote: Does anyone feel like sending a welcome message and/or keeping an eye on them for any subsequent vandalism this week or next weekend? I've applied a 0-hour block http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1005 (essentially a "message that has to be read

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin boundaries for unparished areas - how to handle?

On 20/08/2016 13:33, Colin Smale wrote: In the East Midlands Alex Kemp has been adding relations for these unparished areas, only distinguishable from Civil Parish relations by means of the value of the "designation" tag. This is contrary to our normal practice and feels counter-intuitive -

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

On 25/10/2015 14:42, Brian Prangle wrote (in a slightly different order): > Do we need to tag Natura 2000 SACs and SPAs? I've looked at the protected_area wiki page and quite > frankly lost the will to live. :) I'm guessing that, a bit like rights of way, the tagging will sort itself out.

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

On 16/08/2015 22:04, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 16 August 2015 at 22:57, ajt1...@gmail.com ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: Until I provided a counter-example there, the only example on https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/747 was of a well-mapped central European city

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

On 16/08/2015 18:26, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi all, Given that paths and footways are now rendered the same way in the default OSM style I wonder whether it is time to look at how the map can provide better information. For rural mappers tagging a path/footway as unpaved surface results in

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

On 16/08/2015 21:20, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 16 August 2015 at 21:06, ajt1...@gmail.com ajt1...@gmail.com That makes some sense, but OSM-Carto's biggest problem is that a number of the changes over the last year have been dedicated to making well-mapped central European urban areas look

Re: [Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

On 08/08/2015 23:24, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 8 August 2015 at 22:55, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: What is the best way of cloning the existing style setup for a UK tile server? Some useful resources: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-14-04/

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

On 13/07/2015 17:46, Paul Sladen wrote: Any UK-specific rendering is not going to solve the core issue: that large numbers of perfectly extent bridges and tunnels are not rendered; Most of these old tunnels in Nottingham are not rendered: Relation: Tunnels of Nottingham