[Talk-gb-westmidlands] December Meetup

Hi everyone Details for the Balti Triangle mapping party pub and curry on Saturday Dec 1st are now posted on the wiki. Cake is here at the excellent mapcraft site so you can sign up early!( thanks Matt for discovering it) Don't forget you can also sign up for

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013

Hi everyone Results from Birmingham Convention Bureau's hunt for venues is back with quotes from Aston Uni, Edgbaston cricket ground, Ricoh Arena, Holiday Inn, Clarendon Suite. Based on an attendance of 300 for a conference Fri-Sun with setup time on Thursday the costs( which includes all refresh

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Photography Xmas presents

Hi everyone You might want to put the Maplin radio-controlled 3CH 2.4GHz RC Helicopter on your Xmas shopping lists - it's only £50. It comes complete with a 0.3mp video camera and a SD card slot. It only has a range of 40 metres andthe camera is angled forwards and downwards not stright down so

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013

Hi everyone Had a good introductory meeting with Birmingham Convention Bureau today. I've already had a download from them of text and images for general stuff about why Birmingham is so great. By COP Thursday they will send me quotes for and availability of venues for first half Sept. Venues wil

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Balsall Common armchair mapping cake

Hi Matt Great tool! Looks like it will be useful. Let's see how it goes and maybe do a cake with this tool for Balti Triangle? Regards Brian On 4 November 2012 17:26, Matt Williams wrote: > Hi all, > > As discussed at the last meetup > (http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2012/11/november-pub-meetin

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 and a tagging dilemma

Hi Everyone I'm meeting Birmingham Convention Bureau on Monday so I'll save a post to talk-gb until after then Also a tagging dilemma: the Water Orton sewage works has been tagged as landuse= industrial. I purposely didn't tag it as such but I was pretty ambivalent about it at the time. It smacks

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham Buildings Complete!

North Park road now complete - any other gaps anyone's spotted? On 26 October 2012 15:17, Andy Robinson wrote: > As a sweep up of minor missing locations. One side of North Park Road adj > to the M6 needs adding. > > ** ** > > Cheers > > Andy**** > &

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham Buildings Complete!

Hi everyone Well the bing tracing marathon is complete (with a few additions from OSSV where it showed new housing developments completed rather than the brownfield sites shown in the older bing imagery). There will obviously still be a few buildings missing and few that have been demolished but

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] mapping conundrum

Hi Andy Looks like you've got yourself a problem! I agree with Matt about the canoes. Some views from bing suggest the garden path joins up with one at 25 or 27 Rockingham Gardens. As it unusually sits close to no 11/15's boundary, perhaps its a granny flat for no 11/15? It seems to have taken a

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 bid

get on and move forward if we want ours > to be the one that gathers pace. > > ** ** > > Cheers > > Andy**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 08 October 2012 13:06 > *To:* talk-gb-westmidlands > *Subject:*

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Summary of Thursday's meeting

Hi everyone As promised - here's a summary of what I think we agreed 1. Open Data - we should use the consultation exercise to ask for the planning application data feeds that go to the OS on a regular basis; and for the highway engineering data ( e.g turn restrictions, speed limits); And thinki

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] October meetup

Hi all We're back on our regular slot and will be meeting this week as below The *next social* of the Midlands OSM User Group will be on *Thursday, 4th October , 2012, 7;30pm-ish to 10pm-ish*. venue; - *Venue*: The Bull, Price Street, Birmingham Look for

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Great new functionality

Hi All (especially Christoph, Matt and Rob) Pascal Neis's blog on the OSM blog page has a I Like OpenStreetMap (OpenLayers Plugin) which would look really neat on the mappa mercia main map page ( and give us some idea of who's using and liking our efforts)

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

I'd agree with Rob's logic and extend it to show one of three results: postcode missing or postcode incomplete or postcode incorrect. We have loads of addresses with only the first group in place e.g B27 and I'm sure when we were using codepoint( before we knew it was dodgy in licensing terms) we c

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] FW: Social Meeting this Thursday 2nd Aug

t > they're doing? > > > > Cheers > > > > StuartOn Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com> > wrote:From Mike…. From: Mike Duffy [mailto:mdbg02...@blueyonder.co.uk] > > Sent: 01 August 2012 12:10 > > To: Andy Robinson >

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social Meeting this Thursday 2nd Aug

Hi everyone A cake is available on the wiki - if you're going to map beforehand please choose a slice and let us know which one you've chosen via this talk list Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] This month's social

I helps if I let you know the date: this Thursday Aug 2nd ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] This Mont's Social

Hi Everyone This month we're in Coleshill. I've picked a pub not quite at random but based on web reviews: The Green Man which is on the crossroads of the B4114 and 4117 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.4992994964123&lon=-1.70544236898422&zoom=17. Mapping for those motivated to do so and meet

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tasking Tool, Redaction Bot cleanup

Hi Rob Not very user friendly - I see there are 26 tasks but there's none showing on the map to click on. Randomly clicking on the map gives me a tile as a task and prompts me that the data will appear in JOSM if it's already running - it doesn't. Re-reading your mail I see it says select a squar

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre Bus Interchange upgrade July 22

Hi everyone Progress report (mainly for my benefit so I can use this as an action list) All the new bus stops and existing bus stop name changes have been added complete with route_ref info and relevant NapTAN data Data problems ( e.g can't find Stop MF1 and some stops have no bus routes) need r

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre Bus Interchange

I'm up for that on Sun morning On 17 July 2012 16:02, Andy Robinson wrote: > Sounds like a job for a mini mapping party! > > ** > ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/t

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre Bus Interchange

centre > http://www.connectedcity.org.uk/ > > I'll look in recycling to see if I can find the insert the put in the > metro paper. > > It lists the number of bus and location of the bus stop (code that is). > > Might help? > best wishes > Alison > > On 17

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre Bus Interchange

Hi everyone: This Sunday 22 July all the bus routes and bus stops change in Birmingham to allow Corporation St to become free of buses prior to work on the Metro extension. This follows months of roadworks and temporary closures. Judging by the state of work today I shall be surprised if everythin

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] National Memorial Arboretum

Following another visit to the NMA in a break in the weather, with much of the place underwater and hordes of angry midges in the woodland groves, the arboretum is now essentially complete apart from a few thousand trees and a few hundred benches! I shall now spend a couple of weeks referencing the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] National Memorial Arboretum this Saturday

Hi Andy As you know I won't be able to make it on Saturday. However I feel guilty, having suggested this venue and then ducking out. So I took advantage of the good weather today and spent a couple of hours surveying at NMA so that I have made a contribution to the mapping effort - mostly the Far

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Davenports plaque

Visited the Maltings today looking for the plaque - and it's not there! Had a long chat with the receptionist and security guard: it was taken down immediately after the press ceremony and they've yet to decide where to put it. It's not a blue plaque but is financed and organised by Davenports Bre

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Reminder: Hampton-in-Arden meet up this Thursday, Coventry next month.

Hi everyone I've not checked out the pub - it's the only one in the village. So it will be a surprise as to what we find! See you there Brian On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Andy Robinson wrote: > Folks, > > ** ** > > Unfortunately I may miss this now as I think I’ll be in London during

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Proposed Summer timetable

Hi everyone Here's a suggestion for what we should get up to this summer - based on what people felt was OK at the April meeting and also some invention from me. I've tried to make the monthly meetings accessible by rail and also to get the Birmingham residents moving out nearer to other mappers w

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Island House

Hi Andy I'm the guilty party! I use this tag regularly to stop the building being rendered but to denote a previous bdg. I'll add Landuse=brownfield as suggested Regards Brian On 28 March 2012 17:51, Andy Mabbett wrote: > The much-talked about Island House, in Birmingham's Eastside, is now,

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] gated alleys aren't roads

Hi Marta and Adrian Thanks for your feedback. I've alerted the West Midlands osm mappers by forwarding your email to our talk mailing list. Perhaps we'll get some discussion on your comments, and the mapper(s) responsible might correct the ways. It's not an area of the city I'm familiar with I'm a

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: gated alleys aren't roads

-- Forwarded message -- From: Marta and Adrian Bailey Date: Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:41 PM Subject: gated alleys aren't roads To: commun...@mappa-mercia.org Can you make sure that back alleys are shown as paths and not as roads, especially where they are behind locked gates and the

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Mapping the City Centre Interchange as it happens

e some response, positive or negative, rather than just silence. Regards Brian Prangle -- Forwarded message ------ From: Brian Prangle Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:39 PM Subject: Mapping the City Centre Interchange as it happens To: connectedc...@centro.org.uk Dear Sirs Mappa-mercia &l

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wolverhampton Gritting Routes

’ll try and help, like I did last time. Is it easiest to check for > changes, or remove old tags and add new? > > ** ** > > Ed > > ** ** > > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 06 February 2012 17:11 > *To:* talk-gb-westmidland

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wolverhampton Gritting Routes

Hi Matt It's at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Coventry_Gritting Regards Brian On 6 February 2012 17:34, Matt Williams wrote: > On 6 February 2012 17:10, Brian Prangle wrote: > > Hi everyone > > > > Wolverhampton City Council comms team hav

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wolverhampton Gritting Routes

Hi everyone Wolverhampton City Council comms team have been in touch saying the gritting routes have been changed . They want to add our map to their facebook page which has 7000 followers. They say they have a lively debate going on about gritting. I've got the new winter service plan 2011-12 an

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham Jewellery Quarter trail

Hi Andy I've not seen any markers on the ground for these trails in the Jewellery Quarter and I've probably been up and down most streets as I've surveyed the listed bdgs there. So that's why they're not in OSM. Regards Brian On 28 January 2012 17:55, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Do we have these o

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] FOI request for Birmingham Interconnect

Hi everyone Here is the full response from Birmingham City Council. Let me know what you want us to do with the information now that we have it. Regards Brian Dear Mr Prangle *FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – BIRMINGHAM INTERCONNECT MAPPING PROJECT WITH BLUESKY AERIAL IMAGERY* * * Further

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mapping the City Centre Interchange as it happens

n-the ground completion. Regards Brian Prangle mappa-mercia Community Co-ordinator Tel 0121 604 1141 ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Metropolitan Ward Boundaries

Hi Steve We've finally got round in the West Midlands to adding the Ward boundaries for Birmingham, but following Tom Chance's experience ( see Dec 08 2011 entry here ) of having the boundary markers obscure streetnames when the boundaries run down streets as they often

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Boundaries

HI everyone I'm collaborating with Steve Brook, who has imported the Worcs boundary from the OS opendata source OpenBoundaryLine, in order to merge the West Mids, Birmingham City Council and Solihull boundaries where they touch Worcs with his new, accurate boundary relation. So far everything s

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments project

Hi everyone Andrew Mackenzie, Andy Mabbett and I have been busy collaborating with the AllotmentsData project at Leicester University. There's now a mappa mercia wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Allotments_Project to co-ordinate activities See you all at the social this week (wherever

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] New Birmingham City Council Online Mapping Service for planning

Hi everyone Take a look at https://localview.birmingham.gov.uk/Planning/Sites/Public_Access/ . It's all copyrighted but it's obviously taken them some time and I think its a good service as far as it goes. Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Shropshire Gritting Routes

Hi everyone Lorn Hullah the acting web manager for Shopshire contacted me by phone today wanting to know how to add their gritting routes to OSM and get them displayed on our map. I explained as best I could and she's off to see if she has the internal resource to do it. I also suggested that she

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Microbreweries in Birmingham?

Who tagged them ? perhaps it might be wise to ask them regds brian On 15 November 2011 16:50, Andy Mabbett wrote: > We have two pubs in Witton, each tagged as microbreweries: > >The Yew Tree: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/81601344 > >The Cap n Gown: http://www.openstreetmap.o

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes

mber which councils made their data available already and what > has been added to the map yet. For instance, I thought the gritting > routes in Coventry were already in the database. > > Best > Christoph > > > [1] http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml > > Am 10.11

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes

Hi everyone We're making great progress with over half the routes now completed. Christoph will be re-rendering the gritting map this weekend so it would be good to see if we could complete this at the same time. There are still two routes unallocated - so grit your teeth and choose one ;-) It'

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes

erlaying Black Adders route 2 data. Is this sort of >> duplication normal? >> Miked29 >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Andy Mabbett [mailto:a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk] >> Sent: 31 October 2011 17:41 >> To: Brian Prangle >> Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments project

could drop the total if we > wanted. > > ** ** > > Cheers > > Andy > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 04 November 2011 16:56 > *To:* 'Brian Prangle'; 'talk-gb-westmidlands' > *Sub

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Time to put Yardley on the map!

e commercially. We are favourably identified as a successful "Big Society"project in a research paper written by the Office of Civil Society in the Cabinet Office.<http://www.arnaudriegert.com/wp-content/uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf> (Appendix A1) I look forward

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments project

Hi everyone Anyone who wants to update their local allotments please feel free to do so using the example of the allotment here tagged as follows with data from the attached Excel spreadsheet. name= ward= operator= Birmin

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Time to put Kings Heath Village Square on the Map

orward to putting even more of Kings Heath on the map with you Regards Brian Prangle Mappa-mercia Community Co-ordinator 0121 604 1141 ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments project

Hi Andrew To sum up what we discussed last night If you can get us an early release of your data on allotments, we will: identify which fields are suitable for OSM enter those fields for all allotments in Birmingham (possible Solihull also and some other West Mids authorities if it's not too one

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Interconnect Birmingham Mapping Project

Hi everyone Following last night's meeting I sent off the following FOI request this morning: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/birmingham_interconnect_mapping/new Let's see what happens! Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Thusday meet

I'll be there too Brian On 31 October 2011 16:06, Mike Duffy wrote: > > > Is anyone up for the social gathering on Thursday? I have marked The Bull > venue in provisionally on Mappa Mercia, they do have good wi-fi access, > beer > and food. What more do we need? > Miked > > > ___

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hockley Brook: relation

Hi Andy Interesting problem - in some cases I use tunnel=yes and layer=-1 where it's a short section and likely to be straight. Where it's a longer underground section I just tag waterway= stream:underground ( or something similar) so that the data is there but there's no render. Two reasons - sto

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Locomotive on a plinth

Seem perfect to me - all it needs is a name Rgds Brian ( although perhaps it's a work of art?) On 24 October 2011 14:12, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Can anyone suggest a better way to tag this locomotive, on a plinth? > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1479037681 > > (I'm currently resea

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes

m more than happy to ask for the routes (for > Walsall) on your behalf, can't think of any reason they'd not give them me. > > However as I've been out with the gritters you should note that the routes > start and stop quite a lot so they're not like one continuous ro

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes

Hi everyone Thanks to Andy Mabbett for showing us where these files are located. I went to start editing one of the gritting routes today and discovered that the pdf files are all crown copyright maps derived from the OS so are in fact useless for our purposes- what we need are text-based descript

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New public square in Kings Heath

Whoops - walked over the public art - it's set in mosaic in the ground - a bit underwhelming for my taste which is why I probably didn't register it. Regards Brian On 15 October 2011 22:58, Andy Mabbett wrote: > A new square opened in Kings Heath this week: > > > http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/W

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New public square in Kings Heath

Mapped! Most of it is still being constructed but it's a big improvement on what was there before - don't know where the public art is though - no sign of it this morning Regards Brian On 15 October 2011 22:58, Andy Mabbett wrote: > A new square opened in Kings Heath this week: > > > http://w

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes

Hi everyone There is now a section on Sandwell's gritting routes on the mappamercia wiki page where you can sign up to complete a route, with weblinks to PDF files describing the various routes. It's good fun and also an opportunity to visit areas that haven't been touched for some time allowing

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell gritting routes

Well done Andy - I'll make start this week - it'll make a nice change form tracing buildings. I'll get a wiki page set up so other people can assist and identify routes to add. Regards Brian On 17 October 2011 10:35, Andy Mabbett wrote: > At last! > > http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/downloads/do

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Time to put Birmingham on the map

uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf> (Appendix A1) NOTE: our maps are not designed to replace or compete with the Ordnance Survey-based mapping used by the City Council for detailed planning design- they are designed for use in digital and print media for public consumption. Re

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Interconnect Birmingham

=-1.89794&zoom=15&layers=M. As the data is available to you in XML format you are not obliged to use our cartographic style - there are hundreds available and of course you are free to design your own. Looking forward to your reply and a dialogue to discuss how we can help you. Rega

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social next Thursday

Black eagle works for me - see you there On 29 September 2011 19:05, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Everyone up for a social next Thursday? If so any preference if not the > Black Eagle? > > Also, is anyone else planning on doing part of Monarchs Way on the 8th Oc

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Staffs Boundary VC NUMBER 39

Hi everyone Came across this while editing in Smethwick with a source of nbn_opendata . Relation no is 298889. What is it? It's been edited by a bot known as xybot- I've contacted the owner and I'm awaiting a reply. Does anybody know what it is? Whatever it is, it's not rendering, only shows up i

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Road Improvements

on=-1.93657&zoom=16&layers=M > and > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.513407&lon=-2.06317&zoom=18&layers=M > > Cheers > > Andy > > >-Original Message- > >From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > >Sent: 25 Augus

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Road Improvements

Hi All Selly Oak Relief Road now mapped and edited. While I was at it I also did the new junction at Burnt Tree Island in Dudley Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/l

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Selly Oak New Road

I can do this tomorrow as I have to go to Longbridge Regards Brian On 24 August 2011 14:39, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Selly Oak New Road has opened this week apparently. Needs someone to get > out > there and add the new roundabout and other various lanes a

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monarch's way distributed mapping party Saturday October 8th

Hi everyone After many hours wrestling with wiki formatting (ugh!) there's a page devoted to this event where you can sign up http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Monarch%27s_Way_Distibuted_Mapping_Party_October_8 Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fresher's Fair University of Birmingham

Thanks everyone for your pledges but I'm not comfortable entering into a financial commitment without 100% of the funds so I'm not going to run with this one. Still waiting to hear from Aston Uni Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Freshers Fair University of Birmingham

Hi All This takes place with a special day for organisations looking of volunteers and is on 22nd September 11am - 4pm which I could manage. Major snags: £50 fee and deadline is tomorrow and we have to register our organisation with them - 4 page form and contract to sign ( nothing onerous but it

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Student recruitment

Hi all Wolverhampton Uni freshers fair is on 13 Sep at Walsall Campus and 14 Sep Wolverhampton campus. I'm not here for either date. Application forms for a stall available at http://www.wolvesunion.org/pageassets/marketing/FFMP2011.pdf Regards Brian _

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] October Monarchs Way event

ow at the NEC. 8th would be my > preference though could also do the 15th. I don't recommend beyond that as > we hit the school half term on the 22nd. > > Cheers > Andy > > >-----Original Message- > >From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > &

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] October Monarchs Way event

Hi everyone Following on from the discussion at the August meeting to have a mapping event on a Saturday in October, we decided that the greatest inclusion and interest would be generated by people electing to survey a section of the Monarchs Way which meanders through large tracts of the region.

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tomorrow Night

Hi All Weather permitting I'm heading to an area south of Black Patch Park to investigate a large area of forest added by user Tom Pople. See you about 8! Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http:/

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Burnt Tree Island Dudley

I read in the local papers that this major roadway re-alignment is due to open this week. Anyone close want to have a go at surveying it? According to the press the roundabout has been replaced with a traffic-light controlled crossroads. I haven't been over there for at least a year and the constr

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social this Thursday

ying between > Ladywood and Harborne. At the Harborne end I’ll be centred at the end of the > Harborne Walkway. > > ** ** > > See you in the pub around 8 or 8:30 if I get held up. > > ** ** > > Cheers**** > > Andy > > ** ** > > ** ** > >

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social this Thursday

I don't think we set any specific goals - just enrich the data generally On 5 July 2011 22:47, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > At the June meet up we agreed to meet this coming Thursday in Harborne to > do > a spot of mapping and then beer at the Green Man, Junction of Harborne Road > &

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] FW: Certificate presentation

I'll get this up on the blog On 31 May 2011 22:12, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > Trawling through some buried emails I spotted one I had not promoted from > Andy Mabbett. Back in March Christoph joined the regular midlands social > for the last time, his studies in Birmingham over an

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] is-in:"Black Country" (was: Updated Central Oxford road classifications)

eed I went to primary school almost in it > (Aldridge). > > Robin > > *From:* Brian Prangle > *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 5:28 PM > *To:* Oxford,Oxfordshire and the > Cotswolds > *Cc:* Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > *Subject:* Re: [oxoncotswolds] is-in:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] is-in:"Black Country" (was: Updated Central Oxford road classifications)

Hi Andrew The Black Country is definitely not a daft region! It's a well known region of the Midlands with a rich industrial legacy encompassing Wolverhampton,Dudley,Sandwell and Walsall and I've surveyed about 50% of it. As agreed by the West Midlands mappers a region tag has been placed as a nod

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Artwork featuring Birmingham GPS tracks

-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Prangle Date: 25 February 2011 09:31 Subject: Artwork featuring Birmingham GPS tracks To: Talk GB Hi everyone I met the two artists planning this work last night - it's a project at the MAC (http://www.macarts.co.uk/event/plan-b-a-d

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Reminder West Mids OSM social tomorrow (Thur)

I'm afraid I can't make it - have fun! ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Off-Topic: Question on Historic Road Layout near Whiteheath, Advice

Hi Monika I remember surveying this road - the A4034 does go all the way from Oldbury to Blackheath and is very busy. Where precisely is your traffic island? Hekp on the road construction and timelines will probably be got from Sandwell Council's Highways dept Regards Brian On 31 January 2011 0

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Alternative pub suggestion!

Perhaps we should tag this loopy_juice = avoid_at_all_costs Rgds Brian On 27 January 2011 16:52, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Fairhurst has suggested the next social should be at the Sportsman > on Saltley Road. He's pointed me to this video to convince

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Actions from meeting last night

Hi everyone Good to see such a great turnout last night. Thanks to Andy M for tidying up the wiki. I've edited the main page now with a more comprehensive list of mini-priorities; links for Coventry gritting routes and a sign-up section for volunteers to trace the routes. If you want to find you

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Thursday

I'll be there On 4 January 2011 17:18, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looking forward to seeing others on Thursday evening. Who else is going? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia > > Cheers > > Andy > > > ___

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Radio WM

Thanks everyone for your kind comments - it was all down to following Andy Mabbett's advice and having a list of bullet points in front of me! Thanks Andy. Have a great Xmas everyone and possibly we'll finish the West Midlands road network in 2011. Regards Brian __

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Radio WM

Hi everyone If you can listen to BBC radio WM we're on again at 210-215 this afternoon Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Warwicks Gritting

Hi all Andrew McKenzie has been busy and it looks like Warwicks County Council will release their gritting routes as open data. If so it will be massive job to tag the roads in Warwicks ( it's got to be twice the size of the authorities we've mapped so far!) - so lots of volunteers will be require

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Radio Exposure

Hi everyone If you can tune into Ed Doolan just after 12 noon today on BBC WM I'm appearing to explain our gritting map Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Nov 4th Social

Hi everyone Thanks to Paul Williams for suggesting the Bull on Price St - what a great pub! Busy but quiet atmosphere, great food and ale, homely decor and wifi that works. And being located just behind the Childrens Hospital it's not too far from railway stations. There was only Christophe Mike

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] November 4 pub meet

Hi Christophe I'd say go ahead - the Bull is OK with me Rgds Brian 2010/10/30 Christoph Böhme > The Bull looks good. They not only seem to have have wifi but also a > blue plaque outside the pub which has not been mapped yet. > Shall I put the venue up on the wiki? > > Best, > Christoph > > "Mi

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Walsall Gritting

Hi everyone Just finished route 8 ( it made a nice change from tracing aerial imagery!) so all the Priority 1 Routes are finished. Christoph - rendered map shows up great in Firefox but I've switched to Google Chrome and I have to zoom in considerably before I get a render showing Regards Bri

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] SotM 2011 UK? Setting up a GB OSMF chapter?

I'm all for a UK SOTM conference as it would be great to meet up with folk who have been so far might only have been an electronic presence, to share best practice, get some hints and tips on techniques for map-making from the data for those of us who are less technically gifted (perhaps documentin

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Walsall gritting

Best thing to do is get a table up on the mappamercia wiki page in OSM where people can sign up to a route and indicate completion. I'll try to get some done but my priority is to get the aerial imagery tracing completed and surveyed for landuse Regards brian On 22 October 2010 21:06, Andy Mabbe

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Imagery Birmingham

Hi everyone Every building ( please check - there's bound to be the recalcitrant 1%!) inside the outer ring road has now been traced. There's also quite a few under construction that have also been added ( thanks Andy M). I believe- but this is a biassed opinion - that we now have the best mapped

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] More on Aerial Imagery

Hi everyone Following on from Andy Mabbett's suggestion there is now a wiki page devoted to this at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/Aerial_Imagery, which includes a brief list of problems for which I need some help. Don't forget we're back to regular meetings in the City Tavern B

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre

Hi everyone You might have notice a lot of editing activity recently in Birmingham City Centre. This is due to the arrival and loading of the aerial imagery we have been talking about for so long. Thanks are due to Andy for tiling the aerial imagery. Because of the licensing restrictions we (Andy

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