[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Dodgy edit in Coventry

2016-10-19 Thread Matt Williams
Hi all, I don't have time to check it in full right now but I saw a suspicious edit crop up today in Coventry http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43006455 Given that they titled the shop 'lol' I'm guessing it is semi-deliberate vandalism. I seem to remember that we have a process in place

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcode Analysis

2016-10-19 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 19 October 2016 at 10:22, Jez Nicholson wrote: > Robert...are you going to rerun it? or set it to automatically rerun? The OSM data for http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postcodes/osm-errors.html comes from http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/ and it's currently the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcode Analysis

2016-10-19 Thread Brian Prangle
Fantastic tool Rob -fixed most of South Birmingham using it. On 18 October 2016 at 00:42, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I've been adding quite a few new addr:postcode tags as part of the > quarterly project to use the FHRS data, I began wondering what

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcode Analysis

2016-10-19 Thread Jez Nicholson
Robert...are you going to rerun it? or set it to automatically rerun? On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 at 10:11 Brian Prangle wrote: > Fantastic tool Rob -fixed most of South Birmingham using it. > > On 18 October 2016 at 00:42, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < >

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat-nav maps update aims to prevent stuck lorries

2016-10-19 Thread Marc Gemis
There is this max height map http://maxheight.bplaced.net/ (wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maxheight_Map) But it seems to be inaccessible at the moment. Perhaps a mail to the author (mmd) will revive it ? regards , On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:29 PM, bivand paul

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat-nav maps update aims to prevent stuck lorries

2016-10-19 Thread Colin Smale
A year ago there were two users adding lots of these restrictions. One of them was working for piemapping.com who make money out of routing for commercial clients. They ended up getting blocked and promptly stopped their OSM activities. I would hate to think that others might be put off by this...

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat-nav maps update aims to prevent stuck lorries

2016-10-19 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 19 October 2016 at 13:29, bivand paul wrote: > Just saw this on BBC. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37703556 > > As OS seem to scent £££, this may be an opportunity for us to help out... Looks like it's the same product as this announcement:

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat-nav maps update aims to prevent stuck lorries

2016-10-19 Thread Colin Smale
On 2016-10-19 15:55, Dave F wrote: > Hi > > I was the thread's originator. > > I haven't rechecked all their changesets, but from memory they didn't add any > restrictions, just split roads, apparently at random points. Thanks for the > reminder that I need to go a reconnect them. > > Did

[Talk-GB] Sat-nav maps update aims to prevent stuck lorries

2016-10-19 Thread bivand paul
Just saw this on BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37703556 As OS seem to scent £££, this may be an opportunity for us to help out... Some easily gettable wiki guidance on mapping height and width restrictions for the UK and maybe a quarterly project in the future sounds possible.

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcode Analysis

2016-10-19 Thread Hogobl1n
Chris Hill-6 wrote > Very useful lists. I've fixed the HU mistakes the list highlighted. One > thing that did jump out at me is that a postcode was added to the area > of a school rather than one of the buildings. Is this common practice? I agree the lists are very useful and I see I have

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat-nav maps update aims to prevent stuck lorries

2016-10-19 Thread Dave F
Hi I was the thread's originator. I haven't rechecked all their changesets, but from memory they didn't add any restrictions, just split roads, apparently at random points. Thanks for the reminder that I need to go a reconnect them. Did they ever come back with a satisfactory explanation