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

2009-02-26 Thread Ed Loach
(tonight if I get home at a reasonable hour). This morning as it turned out. Rerendered on Osmarender already: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.50283lon=-0.09569zoom=17laye rs=0B00FFF though the streets are too short for the names to show there. Mapnik *may* show them, but the revisions

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] London's Shortest Street

2009-02-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/02/2009 09:53, Dave Stubbs wrote: 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

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

2009-02-25 Thread Ed Loach
Just a warning: the area isn't very comprehensively mapped... there are quite a few roads missing/slightly wrong.. don't get side- tracked too much :-) I noticed. I caught an earlier train, so got almost an hour of the area mapped. Mainly bins and cycle parking on my route from Guildhall

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

2009-02-24 Thread Ed Loach
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 tomorrow, and it's only a minor

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

2009-02-10 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
PM To: osm-gb Subject: [Talk-GB] London's Shortest Street According to a friend of mine's blog, London's shortest street is Clennam Street in SE1, though the first blog post is about another very short street, Leigh Hunt Street, nearby: http://realcycling.blogspot.com/2009/02/londons-secret-zen

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

2009-02-10 Thread David Earl
On 10/02/2009 20:32, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: In Birmingham we have A B Row, which while not being perhaps the shortest street (though it is exceedingly short) it is the shortest name. ... Blaenavon in Gwent also has a set of streets named A Row, B Row etc. David

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

2009-02-10 Thread Christopher Woods
...and York probably wins the prize for the shortest street with the silliest name: http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4437062 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma_Gate To be honest, I've always fancied living on either Australia Road, Commonwealth Avenue, India Way, Canada Way