[Talk-gb-midanglia] National Cycle Network mileposts

2009-06-08 Thread Ed Loach
In case anyone here isn't in the talk-gb list as well, there is a wiki page now where Sustrans have provided their list of all the mileposts, and would like us to tell them where they are (more accurately than their text description of the location that is). The wiki page makes it clearer:

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Anyone in Huntingdon?

2009-08-20 Thread Ed Loach
David asked: This Cambs CC press release suggests a minor mod to the map is needed. Is anyone near? It's probably not worth me travelling specially to Huntingdon, but if anyone could cover it, that would be good. I'm not, but I think the junction they describe is probably this one:

[Talk-gb-midanglia] FW: A14+

2009-10-18 Thread Ed Loach
-Original Message- From: Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk Sent: 18 October 2009 11:16 To: talk-gb-midang...@lists.openstreetmap.org Subject: A14+ A14 to A1 northbound only seems to be labelled on signs as (A1) or (A1(M)). Did a couple of the A14 Cambs villages at 7am this morning

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] FW: A14+

2009-10-18 Thread Ed Loach
I wrote: A14 to A1 northbound only seems to be labelled on signs as (A1) or (A1(M)). Thanks for the links and information about that stretch. Did a couple of the A14 Cambs villages at 7am this morning and will do a couple on the north side if still light when I go home (Redditch to

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Prickwillow Details [was Re: Talk-gb-midanglia Digest, Vol 14, Issue 1]

2009-10-20 Thread Ed Loach
Richard: the road still doesn't seem to be rendered; perhaps it will be by the time you read this, It is. David - can you define the extent of information that needs to be included, to 'complete the county'? I would be interested in the answer to the above too. The villages I visited

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Marker Posts

2011-10-18 Thread Ed Loach
Bother, shortened the wrong link. I meant to send http://is.gd/cDcwb7 (the other is the same area, but speed limits mph). Ed ___ Talk-gb-midanglia mailing list Talk-gb-midanglia@openstreetmap.org

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

2011-10-23 Thread Ed Loach
Ooops. Wrong group ___ Talk-gb-midanglia mailing list Talk-gb-midanglia@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-midanglia

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham/Solihull 1:25, 000 Out Of Copyright mapping now available

2009-10-17 Thread Ed Loach
As a follow up, I've now also added the sheet to the NE of Wolverhampton. Looks a totally different place without the motorways! Oxley and Bushbury look useful though; some of those areas are already mapped but I think there is more still to do there. Unfortunately there are also many new

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Coverage as at end 2009

2010-01-04 Thread Ed Loach
Having been mapping some more of NW Wolverhampton over the last few days, these figures are probably already outdated, but thought I’d add them to Brian’s list (thanks Brian for drawing my attention to Peter’s posting). Name Area km2 DfT total OSM total Coverage Wolverhampton City

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] M42, J6

2010-03-29 Thread Ed Loach
I didn't notice this until I got back, but this roundabout looks a bit wrong: http://osm.org/go/euzhlOxF_- The Coventry Road seems to go over one side of the roundabout and under the other, but I'm fairly certain both are fairly level. Perhaps someone who knows the junction could have a look?

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] M42, J6

2010-03-29 Thread Ed Loach
Andy wrote: It's an odd configuration. The A45 goes over the M42 and there are bridges for the roundabout on the north and south (over M42) and west (over A45) but not on the east side. On the east side the A45 is on a bridge over the roundabout. So the A45 goes under the roundabout at

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] FW: Emailing tweet from: citizensheep (Michael Grimes)

2010-04-12 Thread Ed Loach
2010 07:38 To: Ed Loach Subject: Emailing tweet from: citizensheep (Michael Grimes) citizensheep: If you're interested in finding out more about Ordnance Survey's release of data, join us at @MoseleyExchange tonight: http://bit.ly/9HzsrB Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/citizensheep/status

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Kidderminster this saturday - meeting place?

2010-04-16 Thread Ed Loach
Andy wrote: The King Castle is right next to Kidderminster railway station. Parking may not be free (but not a problem for those on two wheels or foot) Looks to be £2 on a Saturday (daily rate): http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/kid/details.html Ed

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Completing the Black Country by tracing OSSV

2010-04-20 Thread Ed Loach
used to live at and need to look it up before tracing there… Ed From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@googlemail.com] Sent: 20 April 2010 10:05 To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org; Ed Loach Subject: Completing the Black Country by tracing OSSV Hi everyone Andy and I reckon

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

2011-01-31 Thread Ed Loach
Monika asked: A road - this might be the A4034 - built around 40 years ago, looks like it was supposed to go to to Blackheath but it only goes to Whiteheath: there are four lanes from Oldbury, then only two lanes, but the traffic island had been built, it looks like then the building works

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] FW: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Sandwell Gritting Routes

2011-10-23 Thread Ed Loach
Ooops – sent to wrong group. Ed From: Ed Loach [mailto:e...@loach.me.uk] Sent: 23 October 2011 13:08 To: 'Gareth Illmann-Walker' Cc: talk-gb-midang...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes I think Brian is quoting Walsall

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Anyone near Bewdley?

2012-01-06 Thread Ed Loach
Steve wrote: I had previously set Bewdley as the furthest north I would go for a day's walk, but am prepared to make an exception in order to close the gap. So I have planned a circuit that does the Severn Way up to the next bridge and returns via the Geopark way. Hopefully the weather

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Island House

2012-03-29 Thread Ed Loach
I was in Wolverhampton last week end, and pointed out a big gap to my wife saying “that was where I used to go for photocopying”. I then noticed the building was on OSM, so retagged it by removing the building tag but adding a note, so no-one is tempted to retrace it. Really, I should have

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Walsall-ish

2012-05-28 Thread Ed Loach
I drove through this junction yesterday (heading east I filter to the north to head up towards the A5): http://osm.org/go/euzSxH0r1-- except, as per the Bing imagery, it is now a roundabout. If anyone is in the area (which I won't be for months) it could do with a resurvey. I’ll try and

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Walsall-ish

2012-05-28 Thread Ed Loach
Ok, ta. Must have been half asleep when I went through there, or was getting confused with the next roundabout. Sent from my HTC -Original Message- From: Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com Sent: 28 May 2012 22:16 To: 'Ed Loach' e...@loach.me.uk; Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

2012-08-03 Thread Ed Loach
Looking at the FOI request: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/119687/response/296922/attach/ 5/attachment.txt Ed From: Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 August 2012 11:37 To: 'Stuart Harrison'; talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re:

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

2012-08-31 Thread Ed Loach
I’ve just downloaded this. It looks like it contains Registered Office address which isn’t necessarily the same as the business (trading) address – for example where I used to work in Pattingham used to have a registered office in Dudley (the accountants address, I understand), and having just

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus stops

2013-11-12 Thread Ed Loach
Matthijs asked: snip The question is now, which of these should we use for the name tag? snip Please let me know what you think. For name, use whatever is on the bus stop sign. So in this example: http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/65797/article_346b19a79c148b9f

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Update shops, pubs and restaurants

2013-11-21 Thread Ed Loach
Maybe it would be an idea to set up some kind of page in which we track in which parts of Birmingham the shops still need to be surveyed? As someone who now only visits the West Midlands irregularly, you don't just need to track where still needs to be surveyed. You need a way of tracking

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bing tiles Wolverhampton

2014-01-29 Thread Ed Loach
Seems to be a Bing issue. North and East Wolverhampton seem OK, but this is the corner of the problem area (as seen in Potlatch 2): http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2#map=17/52.58943/- 2.10928 From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 January 2014 11:04 To:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bing tiles Wolverhampton

2014-01-29 Thread Ed Loach
With similar issues at Bing http://binged.it/1k6dByI Ed ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Ed Loach
Steve wrote: I was under the impression that the local authorities generally used an OS base map, so their own data may well be derived from the OS data. A few years ago now (5 or 6) the bungalow next door was knocked down and two put on the plot in it's place. After they were built, an OS

[Talk-GB] Cameras?

2008-09-07 Thread Ed Loach
I'd like a cheap digital camera to use when I'm out noting things for mapping purposes; our existing camera eats batteries. Features I'd like: * Rechargable battery * Optical viewfinder - I struggle to see the LCD display on our current camera in high light levels. * Optical zoom higher if

Re: [Talk-GB] Cameras?

2008-09-11 Thread Ed Loach
Sometime ago I wrote: I'd like a cheap digital camera to use when I'm out noting things for mapping purposes; our existing camera eats batteries. Firstly thanks for all the advice, but in the end I decided the camera on my phone was of adequate quality. I had tried using it once before, but

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-23 Thread Ed Loach
Shaun replied: As far as I understand oneway=yes applies to all vehicles on wheels. Therefore you have to do an exception for the cyclists and the buses. cycleway=opposite_lane; psv=opposite_lane should do the trick. It appears that in this case it hasn't been fully mapped. If it is a

Re: [Talk-GB] not_in_map_features (was: Oneway assumes cars?)

2008-09-23 Thread Ed Loach
... or encourage people to simply update Map Features more liberally. Many seem to view Map Features as some kind of holy thing that only the Enlightened may edit. (And even when the Enlightened make an edit, as happened to Y.T. recently, people complain about the cavalier manner in which

Re: [Talk-GB] not_in_map_features

2008-09-23 Thread Ed Loach
Frederik: Just revising Map Features on a whim without also revising the data would, however, be counterproductive because, as I said, Map Features is there to document what we have (and not to say I'd like you to do it this way in the future please). My last comment was meant to be

Re: [Talk-GB] not_in_map_features (was: Oneway assumes cars?)

2008-09-29 Thread Ed Loach
Frederik wrote: ... or encourage people to simply update Map Features more liberally. Many seem to view Map Features as some kind of holy thing that only the Enlightened may edit. (And even when the Enlightened make an edit, as happened to Y.T. recently, people complain about the cavalier

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only

2008-09-30 Thread Ed Loach
Can't we use the direction of the way being tagged? E.g. cycleway:withway=any permissible value for cycleway cycleway:againstway=any permissible value for cycleway What is it we are trying to address here exactly? I'm assuming it is cyclelanes that are part of the road/way as if they are

[Talk-GB] Any West London mappers out there?

2008-10-28 Thread Ed Loach
I notice that the biggest urban shopping development in Europe opens this Thursday: http://uk.westfield.com/london I don't know if anyone in the area is planning on updating the map. I notice the area is currently tagged landuse=construction and there is a label Westfield London

Re: [Talk-GB] Any West London mappers out there?

2008-10-29 Thread Ed Loach
Grant wrote: I went out tonight and mapped the building layout as best I could. (snow = yes; wet = yes; cold = yes; dark = yes) snip Looks pretty good (checking on Osmarender, though there seems to be a bug with rendering the eastern edge of the tile that I've raised on the [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcement: Hull completed

2008-12-24 Thread Ed Loach
I thought that club was called I moved house to map more. [I'm sure someone will come up with a better name.] I discovered Harlow had high res Yahoo imagery and have started tracing houses? (Hint) Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating postboxes - any photos around?

2009-01-14 Thread Ed Loach
Andy wrote: Yes, I've been associating the majority of the post boxes in North Birmingham with Matthew's dracos site for a bit. In doing so I've found that a few I don't have because they are collection points associated with post offices and sorting offices (no box to get the reference

Re: [Talk-GB] How to add roundabouts?

2009-01-30 Thread Ed Loach
Before we go on to do the same thing for the whole of Europe, is it the routing software or the wiki page that is wrong? The wiki page under How to Map says: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout#How_To_ Map The way should then be tagged with junction=roundabout.

[Talk-GB] North Sea Cycle Route (EV12)

2009-02-01 Thread Ed Loach
Hi Before I start a new relation I'd like other people's advice. The North Sea Cycle Route is on this page, incorrectly, as NR1: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_National_Cycle_Network The route actually arrives at Harwich International Port and joins NR51 at a

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2009-02-11 Thread Ed Loach
Lincolnshire is still on my list for 2009 snip Not sure whether it is of any use, but I did a couple of hours mapping in Lincoln fairly recently, and had expected to have much longer. So in advance I'd made myself a bit of a cake diagram, and in case it was of use to anyone else added it to

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

2009-02-25 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

2009-02-26 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] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Ed Loach
David replied to Peter: Quite a lot of the Cambs/West Suffolk stuff is organised by District at the moment (though I perhaps mistakenly conflated Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire, and e.g. the East Cambs page is actually named Ely). District is a bit more manageable a unit than County

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up wiki pages for the UK

2009-03-09 Thread Ed Loach
There is plenty left to do, but I hope people are happy with what we have being doing so far. Would it make more sense for http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England to redirect to WikiProject_England now instead of WikiProject_United_Kingdom? If so then it can be easily updated at this link:

Re: [Talk-GB] Official cycle accident information released as raw data with easting/northing

2009-03-17 Thread Ed Loach
Indeed, but OS lays claim to data _derived_ from their maps, not just copying of the maps. If GPS co-ordinates were the original source of the data, but they had been converted to grid references to make it easier for people to try looking up the locations on OS maps, would they still try and

Re: [Talk-GB] Brewery tagging

2009-03-18 Thread Ed Loach
one in Bury St Edmunds is tagged landuse=industrial (with a visitor centre attraction). That was me. It really is a factory, so I felt industrial was appropriate. No, I agree. I've seen the place and it is very industrial. But landuse to me seems more appropriate for areas, so not much

[Talk-GB] Brewery tagging

2009-03-18 Thread Ed Loach
Hi Does anyone have suggestions on how best to tag breweries if you only have a node and not a building= area? I've looked through the wiki and the creating a proposal page mentions: you want a tag for a 'brewery' - consider searching for 'beer', 'manufacturing', 'alcohol', 'industrial',

Re: [Talk-GB] Brewery tagging

2009-03-18 Thread Ed Loach
Andy wrote: yeah, the tags landuse=industrial and industrial=brewing works for me After some thought I went with this, but if the node ever becomes an area I would probably tag it building=brewery. I quite like the idea of a business= tag though. Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] Clarifying tagging for footway/cycleway etc

2009-03-20 Thread Ed Loach
I wrote: So if you have a shared use cycle/footpath where the bicycle and people are above each other white on a blue sign I'd say that highway=cycleway, foot=designated, cycle=designated and highway=footway, foot=designated, cycle=designated are equivalent, and the only difference is

Re: [Talk-GB] New South Downs National Park

2009-03-31 Thread Ed Loach
Just a thought, but if the new park boundary follows existing administrative (e.g. parish) boundaries, and if these are the same as can be traced off the out of copyright maps in Potlatch, and if you can find something in writing stating the facts of which parishes are (or aren’t) within the

Re: [Talk-GB] Possibly using highway=path for country footpaths

2009-04-03 Thread Ed Loach
I'm beginning personally to think that highway=footway/cycleway/bridleway were all a mistake and that highway=path and designation=public_footpath/etc, along with suitable access keys (foot, bicycle, etc) would have been a better starting point - there would certainly be fewer debates where things

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Ed Loach
I notice that Colchester has recently 'graduated' from UK Mapping Priorities due to the large effort that is currently going into the place. I have added a 'graduate' section to the UK Mapping Priority page for a list of towns that no longer warrant inclusion in the list (and have put

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-19 Thread Ed Loach
The C classification is just not available on the ground, and is in practice only of use to highway engineers. This interpretation is subjective to some extent, but more useful IMO (and leads to prettier maps :-)) I notice that some of the tertiary grid roads in MK have had what was

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-19 Thread Ed Loach
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/c-roads/ But is this not confusing highway=tertiary with C roads? A bit like the confusion that arises between using highway=trunk for the green/yellow A roads in the UK rather than the trunk network as maintained by the highways agency. The tag value is perhaps a bit

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-20 Thread Ed Loach
In true classic form, we seem to have forgotten to map the area around the venue. I did remember to put the venue on Sunday morning for a change. I added a telephone box that I passed between where I parked and the hotel. Ed ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Revert changes/bug in changeset?

2009-05-21 Thread Ed Loach
Can somebody look into reverting way 33136730 and 33136657. If this hasn't been done yet, try investigating the H key in Potlatch. Reverting individual ways is usually fairly easy. Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Revert changes/bug in changeset?

2009-05-21 Thread Ed Loach
I wrote: If this hasn't been done yet, try investigating the H key in Potlatch. Reverting individual ways is usually fairly easy. Sorry, wrong talk list... Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] MK Redways

2009-05-21 Thread Ed Loach
I notice from the rerendered cycle map layer, that some of these have been tagged as a local cycle network Redway http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.0473lon=-0.7524zoom=13layers=00B0FTF Should we do this with all the Redways? Ed ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] MK Redways

2009-05-21 Thread Ed Loach
Andy wrote: Not using the lcn_ref tag, please. It's hardly an alphanumerical identifier tag. If you put them in as a relation, then both the name and/or ref tags are respected by the cycle map. So, perhaps a single relation for all MK Redways? Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] Milton Keynes party - area 1

2009-05-25 Thread Ed Loach
OJ W wrote: Having missed it during the mapping party, I went back yesterday to get area 1: I did a small bit of area 28 today where friends live (though not all of 28). I'll upload that tomorrow, but have family commitments that have been delayed too long already by my Stourbridge Canal edits

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Ed Loach
Peter wrote: Any suggestion on what we should recommend for the UK? Either of: maxspeed=30mph (the user should strip a trailing mph to find the value) maxspeed=30 mph (the user should strip the last word if it is mph including the space) The maplint validation uses a regular expression which

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Ed Loach
FWIW highway code conversions are: 20mph = 32 30mph = 48 40mph = 64 50mph = 80 60mph = 96 70mph = 112 Ah - which differs from what is posted on roads out of ports: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:MaxSpeedConversionHarwich.jpg (60mph = 95km/h, 70mph=110km/h, and it looks like I

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Ed Loach
Adding another log to the fire... Is there a case for specifying knots in the same way as mph for waterway tags? Maplint validation already allows this (maxspeed=10knots for example, with or without a space) Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Ed Loach
There is a major problem with using maxspeed=NSL. Dual Carriageways. How will the applications know that a way is part of a dual carriageway or is just one oneway way that happens to be near another oneway way? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Dual_carriagew ays If

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans National Cycle Network Mileposts and Art

2009-06-08 Thread Ed Loach
Jonathan asked: Do we have an existing tagging scheme for these? Yes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Nation al_Cycle_Network#Tagging_information Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap (OSM for walkers) - increased coverage

2009-06-09 Thread Ed Loach
Sorry forgot URL (though I guess most of you are familiar) - http://www.free-map.org.uk. Also note you can add comments on a POI (e.g. pub) by clicking on it. Have you a wiki page to say how to tag for things to render under each category? For example, for public footpaths are you including

Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap (OSM for walkers) - increased coverage

2009-06-09 Thread Ed Loach
I also stated this in the original email - the key is out of date at present, I need to update it. The original email describes what the colours mean. Ooops. I skipped straight to the second email with the link and missed the first. My apologies. Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] Authorities, boundaries and admin-levels

2009-06-11 Thread Ed Loach
And here is the current OSM guidance:- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level In order to tie in with NUTS and with guidance for other countries within OSM we might want to do the following for England (Scotland and Wales would be similar but would skip some

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in Kent/London area

2009-06-12 Thread Ed Loach
Just spotted a railway line with a strange kink in it here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.56294lon=0.38386zoom=15; layer s=B000FTF I'll revert it And it wasn't just that. There were also roads moved and added, rivers, woods and admin boundaries distorted - all obvious now they're

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in Kent/London area

2009-06-12 Thread Ed Loach
Actually, I might not have reverted everything I spotted. There seems to be a bug in Potlatch reversion - it doesn't always seem to save the changes. It seems to work if I revert and then briefly move a node and move it back again. Presumably this is making a new version based on the reverted one.

[Talk-GB] Dartford Crossings

2009-06-12 Thread Ed Loach
While scanning for more obvious liam123 changes, I spotted the QE2 bridge and the Dartford tunnel. The bridge and one direction of the two tunnels are tagged as A282(M) and the other tunnel as A282. All tagged highway=motorway. I don't believe they are motorway - I think from driving it that

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in Kent/London area

2009-06-12 Thread Ed Loach
On 12 Jun 2009, at 10:42, Greg Stark wrote: How do you revert it? I don't see any button for that in the changeset viewer on Potlatch. And for that matter how do you view changesets usefully in Potlatch? All it seems to show me is the current view with no way to view the before and after

Re: [Talk-GB] Tank=yes?

2009-06-12 Thread Ed Loach
I'd suggest hazard=tanks (plural). I've not seen signs warning about tanks, but did have to give way to one at a t-junction once on the road from Wolverhampton to Cosford (as I joined it on the road from Shifnal). You could feel the road (and car) vibrating long before you knew what was causing

Re: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts

2009-06-22 Thread Ed Loach
The Essex one I traced from the dotted line on NPE. I'm not sure about 12 miles for county boundaries - I don't think Essex would want to have to maintain it's own navy to repel Suffolk encroachers for example. Having said that, I think I read somewhere that UK beaches below the high water mark

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Boundaries progressing really well, however why is Hampshire, England not rendering?

2009-07-02 Thread Ed Loach
Ed: I notice you have tweeked the 'non-simple' way today. Do you think it is now simple? If not do you want to try and sort it. I checked the way quite a bit. It shares most of its nodes with a section of a beach area, but that shouldn't be an issue. None of the nodes are included in the way

Re: [Talk-GB] Amenity Editing

2009-07-03 Thread Ed Loach
Streets certainly get postcoded differently on opposite sides of the street - one just has to look at the street name signs (as used by Rushcliffe BC) to see that. Albert Road in Wolverhampton was one of the boundaries between WV6 and WV1, where one side was all WV6 and the other all WV1 (as

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread Ed Loach
but one can then do that on the ground. Any many people are already mapping the footpaths (etc) on the ground. Each weekend my wife and I try and find time to go for a walk somewhere nearby which adds at least one public footpath to OSM based on GPX trace. And if people do add paths using NPE

Re: [Talk-GB] Mountain Biking

2009-08-17 Thread Ed Loach
Tim wrote: Anyone else out there using a Nokia 95 8GB to update maps for OSM, and/or using the openmtb project? I am ideally looking for a howto on how edit OSM and upload routes using an N95 :) I'm not, but a quick search for Nokia N95 on the OSM wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] The Black Country

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Loach
I wrote: I see on the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8212725.stm that the OS have put The Black Country on the map for the first time (without borders, as they're subject to debate). Have we not stuck a place=locality node in anywhere yet, then? Since

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 35, Issue 31

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Loach
Maybe all that that says is that this is indeed a good measure, but the final 15% is the most difficult 15% to map, as it comprises the relatively short dead-end roads in housing estates, which in terms of number rather than length must be more than half of the total and need to be done

Re: [Talk-GB] Basildon - Reminder

2009-09-25 Thread Ed Loach
Mark wrote: If anyone else fancies adding their name to the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Basildon_Mapping_Party), or just turning up at the Quays, they'd be very welcome! Belatedly, I've added a cake diagram to the page as I said I'd try and do. Hopefully I've guessed reasonable

Re: [Talk-GB] Inaccurate Sea Boundary of England

2009-10-15 Thread Ed Loach
It used to be on OSM a couple of years ago, but the node now seems to have been deleted. Still there as manmade=pier http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/25343935 Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Inaccurate Sea Boundary of England

2009-10-15 Thread Ed Loach
Ooops. I quoted the node. The node is also inside a way (area) tagged as man_made=pier http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32720920 and the area also contains a node for a helipad Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Postboxes Payphones

2009-11-10 Thread Ed Loach
I just noticed a changeset from user elbatrop which although it says it was to Tie 10 Royal Mail references to known postboxes, it has 1709 nodes in the changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3079245 Assuming this is import related, then linking a ref to a previously mapped

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey meet-up?

2009-12-03 Thread Ed Loach
I've just uploaded my escapade at the weekend, as I still us potlach how can I see which traces are mine and is it possible to download all traces in an area and see the time stamps? I'm just back from a beer festival, so can't sensibly answer all your questions right now. I think the

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey meet-up?

2009-12-04 Thread Ed Loach
I've just uploaded my escapade at the weekend, as I still us potlach how can I see which traces are mine and is it possible to download all traces in an area and see the time stamps? Gosh, was I drunk last night... Anyway, I think I'm right about g vs G

[Talk-GB] Mapping Party, 24 April 2010, Witham (Essex)

2010-01-13 Thread Ed Loach
Hi It's in the early stages of planning, but I intend organising a mapping party in/around Witham (on the A12) for Saturday April 24th (I'm also trying to organise a talk about OpenstreetMap with a hands on session to members of British Mensa at the same time/place and their magazine lead

Re: [Talk-GB] Place names for housing estates

2010-01-14 Thread Ed Loach
Tom asked: What do others think, and do? I've used both place=locality and landuse=residential/name=whatever in Wolverhampton recently. The advantage of drawing out the landuse area and using the name tag is that the name doesn't render until you've zoomed in close enough for the label to fit

Re: [Talk-GB] Road density in Naptan pay scale areas

2010-02-19 Thread Ed Loach
The Clacton pay scale area will be affected by the straight line used to complete the area, rather than the use of the coastline. This excludes almost all the urban areas that should be included. Ed From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On

Re: [Talk-GB] What has happened to Relation 2204 (ncn 4)?

2010-02-27 Thread Ed Loach
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/2204/697 As a PS I used the JOSM remote control plugin to download the above relation, and wondered if I could save as OSM, tweak version number of 697 to 703 in an editor, load the OSM back into JOSM, add a tag note=retrieved from v697 and upload.

Re: [Talk-GB] What has happened to Relation 2204 (ncn 4)?

2010-02-28 Thread Ed Loach
I have edited big relations in JOSM v2561 without any problems at all. These include long distance cycle routes that I certainly haven't downloaded the whole area for - it would be much too big to download from the API. You are right to be cautious, but I don't think there is a problem

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-03 Thread Ed Loach
Richard wrote: OS have also just announced what VectorMap District, available for free at the start of May, is going to look like: Pretty, but still no field boundaries :( So, I'm sending my wife armed with Blackadder's Provisional First Series lists to this weekend's boot sales (the first

Re: [Talk-GB] West Mids Ward Boundaries

2010-04-07 Thread Ed Loach
Steve wrote: I'd prefer to see boundaries handled by an automated (and nationwide) import process, as the OS data is likely to be at least as good as contributors' own efforts and usually much better AND they are committed to maintaining it going forward. Which seems a good opportunity to

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

2010-04-10 Thread Ed Loach
Glenn wrote: JOSM has an Orthogonalise shape option which is very useful for buildings. And a terracer plugin which I find useful for converting traced buildings to semi-detached* (or however many) properties. Ed * Slight issue when the width of the two semi-detached houses together is less

Re: [Talk-GB] Open Knowledge Conference and Spacemakers Brixton

2010-04-14 Thread Ed Loach
Harry wrote: On Saturday 24th April there are two really interesting (but unrelated) possibilities for bringing OpenStreetMap to new audiences. We need one person to give a talk at the Open Knowledge Conference. ( http://www.okfn.org/okcon/ ) and we need a couple of people to run a mini

Re: [Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-20 Thread Ed Loach
But I see OSM goes with the administrative boundaries rather than traditional counties, I think in some places there are relations for both admin boundary and ceremonial county, if that is the same as traditional. Essex for example: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Essex currently has:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-20 Thread Ed Loach
Andy asked: Is there an easy way (a wiki page, perhaps; or some kind of category view) to see links to all such relations, and other such sets, as a list? I don't think there is a single wiki page that lists them. I think it was me added the second relation to the Cambridgeshire (some weeks

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Ed Loach
Lester Caine wrote: Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: But well mapped rivers don't have ways down their middle Really? Care to expand on that please? MOST rivers are now being mapped fully and so are areas rather than a line with some arbitrary width. So there is no 'way'

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