Re: [Talk-GB] The state of Bristol in OSM

2012-01-13 Thread Lester Caine
ce to know which way they are going to jump, but I don't see any reason why they do not simply 'free up' the block on existing history and then walk away if the want to? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L

[Talk-GB] Normal practice ...

2012-01-15 Thread Lester Caine
ys. I was asked not to add them but that WAS some time back, and I see that the tag does seem to have been accepted now? This is probably another set of data that is better as a secondary layer with other contact information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - htt

[Talk-GB] Island in lake ...

2012-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
OK how do I draw the shape for an island in the middle of a lake ... I seem to recall something about getting the inner and outer paths running in the correct direction? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Blue Plaques and others

2012-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
r maybe a bit more information on how the 'blue-plaques.tsv' was created to power that map). Is there any conflict adding a link to http://openplaques.org/people/413 and the relevant plaque. We might also be able to convert them to OSM ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-02 Thread Lester Caine
it's place ... trace a building rather than just add a new node. In many cases what I wiped was a little suspect anyway so I doubt that loosing it would be that much agro anyway! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] National Library of Scotland maps

2012-03-06 Thread Lester Caine
list. I've commented in the past about the lack of a similar 'English' resource and it's a pity that the http://edina.ac.uk/ resources are not as easily accessed as the Scottish ones :( Thanks for taking the time to improve links Andy! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [Talk-GB] National Library of Scotland - Out of copyright mapping

2012-03-12 Thread Lester Caine
py to scan all the material I have available. One of these days I will improve the catalogue of what I've got available. Getting the material scanned commercially may be an option, but I think that taking a little more care and being able to rescan when material when there are problem

Re: [Talk-GB] London 2012 tourch relay route

2012-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
7;s still in my view relevant and will have a historical context thereafter. Definitely ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineer

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
p Gloucester first, there is not much left there to do -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
e. We do now have the block mechanism, and I feel this is an ideal candidate for that action? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engin

Re: [Talk-GB] Heathrow Airport

2012-03-27 Thread Lester Caine
obably correctly tagged. I presume you are looking at the license flags on that area? Certainly all the 'problems' to the East just want tagging as clean ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode update

2012-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
lem with the PAF database being licensed, that is Royal Mail managed data, but since the street name data is freely distributed, a proper codepoint what includes the street name is very much open source. We just have to add the right names ourselves :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

[Talk-GB] Micromapping ...

2012-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
ating separate nodes is just painfully slow :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Fir

Re: [Talk-GB] Micromapping ...

2012-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
away from the road. I've not been, but if JOSM has sorted the problem I'll give it a go ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: 1:25,000 Provisional series completion (NLS)

2012-05-19 Thread Lester Caine
Britain - OS One Inch, 1955-61 are mirroring OSM nicely ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes & cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
ewalk, cycletrack and other details such as barriers between carriageways is something that should just happen automatically from the real mapped features? Not something that needs to be created manually ignoring the features themselves ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery in London

2012-06-22 Thread Lester Caine
These pigging tablet email clients are crap ... Anyway ... It would be nice if there WAS a way of accessing the older imagery? - Original message - > Brilliant, thanks for the info and links. > So it looks as if they are slowly updating the whole lot -- shame they > felt it necessary to dr

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-02 Thread Lester Caine
We still NEED some usable mechanism to maintain historic information. On the whole the map is just growing, so just a valid start date is all that is needed. But increasingly we have modern history where roads are remodelled, and moving the history of those changes to something other than the ma

Re: [Talk-GB] Temporary road closures

2012-07-12 Thread Lester Caine
onths and I certainly think it's worth tagging when it happens as the alternative routes are miles! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.

Re: [Talk-GB] Building Numbers

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
quick scan around the website, but could not find any physical addresses listed ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr still irritates when I'm adding addresses for business premises ... addr:unit could fit your use ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - h

Re: [Talk-GB] Footway to Sidewalk?

2012-08-21 Thread Lester Caine
PLEASE can someone revert that straight away !!! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] On Countryside paths

2012-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
rs as a selectable lay is something I'd like to see on the main map, but for this area of the UK a local facility would be very useful. Cyclists would benefit as well as walkers. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Ca

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO - OSM Analysis updated with latest OS Locator data

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
m not sure how far east that goes. Is there a map showing where reporting areas overlap? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Enginee

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO - OSM Analysis updated with latest OS Locator data

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Ed Loach wrote: Anyway, is the map you want the one that you get when you click "map" in the top right on the above link? OK cleaver clogs :) I can see my 'problem' sitting right on the boundary of two big areas ... which wrap one another as well. --

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
only covers the actual identified properties in the PAF. There is no 'definition' of the gaps between postcodes until perhaps a new building is added. This is one of the reasons that the National Land and Property Gazetteer uses it's on references numbers for streets and properties and

[Talk-GB] Highlighting an area ...

2012-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
#x27; problem. Should I be off down openlayers as well? What is the current 'gold standard' here? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/

Re: [Talk-GB] Highlighting an area ...

2012-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
loading times. That is on the line of where I am heading :) Of cause being able to click on a 'ward' and show the councillors will have to come later ... Currently the site just has a list of streets for each, so it will be nice to know if they are ALL on OSM ... -- Lester Caine

[Talk-GB] First steps with JOSM

2012-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
hedge sticking out is also accurately mapped and does just 'end' but JOSM does not like that, so what is the 'current guideline' when we get into this level of mapping? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=conta

[Talk-GB] Boundaries ...

2012-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
s already been converted and who is already adding stuff ... I've located 'county', district' and 'parish' but I assume that I need to process the ward data myself :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=con

Re: [Talk-GB] Boundaries ...

2012-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
ically the ones I need are not present yet :( I'd not realised how long ago I last looked at this stuff. I've got the Oct2009 and May2010 files and nothing since :( Just downloaded May2012 but I could do with picking up the missing ones some time. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Boundaries ...

2012-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
xtract a single clean set of ways from the data and then create relations that simply pick up the relevant ways and add the right tags. Combining the ONS data with the OS Boundary Line stuff? OK some of this stuff has been added, but only the county boundaries cover the whole of England,

[Talk-GB] Geo-referencing

2012-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
? If I just replace all the .prj files with the 'new' one all the layers will line up? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] First steps with JOSM

2012-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
when moving combines and the like around :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names

2012-09-30 Thread Lester Caine
NOW we just need free access to it and a bot that can cross check that all of the entries exist in OSM :) THAT is a request I've put through on the open data questionair, but if we all ask? In the meantime, the local council have to make the data available under open access, so the informati

Re: [Talk-GB] Stiles (and gates) on roads

2012-10-10 Thread Lester Caine
placed the right physical distance from any road that they link to with the correct link to the main way. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

[Talk-GB] Offset problem

2012-10-22 Thread Lester Caine
tting 'town' wrong ... so is that something that needs fixing in the tags? Where are the 'town' details picked up from? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Offset problem

2012-10-23 Thread Lester Caine
and the POSTAL address IS Dumbleton, EVESHAM and it's a WR postcode, but Google says Worcs and Bing say Glocs :) I just seem to have picked a 'difficult one' -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Offset problem

2012-10-23 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Philip Barnes wrote: OSRM uses the place node from OSM. The node needs to be close enough to a road it can navigate to, otherwise it will fail. I moved Shrewsbury for this reason as it was in the middle of a pedestrianised area. I've added addr:place tags along wit

Re: [Talk-GB] Offset problem

2012-10-23 Thread Lester Caine
drive across :) OSRM is calling us 'Wychavon' though which is even more confusing :( No mention of 'Broadway' at all -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enqui

Re: [Talk-GB] Offset problem

2012-10-23 Thread Lester Caine
over the boarder a few hundred meters and I get Field Lane, Willersey which IS correct. All I'm trying to do here is get Nominatim and OSRM reporting the correct details ... but I've not found any 'rules' yet to get these reported correctly? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

[Talk-GB] Working nicely

2012-10-23 Thread Lester Caine
http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru is doing it's job nicely. All my updates and those from other people in the area are dropping into the in box and I can see if I have cocked up :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.

[Talk-GB] Finally today ...

2012-10-23 Thread Lester Caine
I know this is an international thing, but overseas locations always seem to have an even shorted 'address' that this anyway? Need to get a lot of content moved over now ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.

Re: [Talk-GB] Offset problem

2012-10-23 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Chance wrote: On 23 October 2012 12:31, Lester Caine http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2012-September/013791.html Unfortunately the :- My question is: are there any guidelines on how such areas/relations should be defined? Political/admin boundaries don't really help

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
as a data source. What gets a little confusing is that the results will only contain the full postcode if it's been added to an address, otherwise you may get results from several postcodes in highly populated areas. Once the data is transferred to addresses, only those addresses appear.

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
haps this is the problem? Until there are actual targets, anything in the general area can be useful. SO listing 'exact match' then any possible secondary hits is a good starting point? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S

Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
datasets that should be made openly available. I haven't had a reply to my own request re the NSG and NLPG stuff, but presumably there were a substantial number of requests for the same data! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=co

[Talk-GB] Problem with missing links on road

2012-11-14 Thread Lester Caine
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.04697&lon=-1.857193&zoom=18&layers=C has a gap between the Leamington Road and the roundabout. These exist on the other views and I can't see anything wrong. Any thoughts on why they are missing on the cycle and transport map views? -- Les

Re: [Talk-GB] Problem with missing links on road

2012-11-14 Thread Lester Caine
'link' stuff does make sense at times but probably not here where the one-way bit is probably enough. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirys

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-10 Thread Lester Caine
Personally I think the right time for any 'new' development to appear is when the diggers move in and start work. At that point it becomes useful to see what is going on from existing routes? Anything else is just 'speculation'. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
#x27;s been a couple of years since I last went. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk R

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-12 Thread Lester Caine
a in change sets. I'm probably spoilt with some of the comparison tools when looking at differences between versions of a file or changeset. But it would be nice to see a graphical 'diff' between version of object history in OSM ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone famiiar with Hay-on-Wye?

2013-01-06 Thread Lester Caine
he river? There is quite a steep drop from the town to the river. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - ht

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone famiiar with Hay-on-Wye?

2013-01-06 Thread Lester Caine
lities for. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Me

Re: [Talk-GB] Highways Leading to Farms and single residential properties in rural areas

2013-03-12 Thread Lester Caine
. A single residence would not normally have it's drive shown, but where it may have public access to walk down, 'track' seems less formal? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs

2013-04-05 Thread Lester Caine
can provide a short term storage solution while things are discussed further. But ideally this needs to be stored in a 'library' location? Or do the photographs need to be stored once scanned and indexed? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-23 Thread Lester Caine
es shown on the wiki page are not particularly easy to work with, and I like to be able to 'edit' the demo area to see the things that are not displayed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Serv

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
than is rendered - no bunkers for example. But I don't think we need an outline to each hole as in your example ( both links are the same ) ... I'd prefer to see one of the tee to hole tracks which is a little easier to view, that is if it's rendered ;) -- Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
OTT for the base map. I'm not a golfer - but I can see the advantage of hints when new to a course. I've copied to list as I think this is part of the general discussion to get an approved tagging page. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

2013-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
ime to remove the distinction between managed and unmanaged but in reality the distinction IS important even if it's use is not being applied properly. So what checks are you making that there is not such a distinction between the areas that you arbitrarily changing? -- Lester Caine - G8HF

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

2013-04-26 Thread Lester Caine
ckside since all these EXTRA tags are unnecessary if the base standard is followed properly. I should not have to look at secondary tags to find that an area is not actually 'landuse', but rather 'natural'. You should be able to identify managed and unmanaged areas from the m

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
sible on the ground, but it is available information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.u

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
Barnett, Phillip wrote: BR is unlikely ever to do that and the information is not > visible on the ground, but it is available information. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL They certainly are unlikely ever to do that. Unless this lot succeed .. http://www.bringbackbritishrail.org/

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
xx_in_place_of___railway.3Dabandoned.__2Fdismantled.3F <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Railways#railway:historic.3Dxxx_or_former:railway.3Dxxx_in_place_of_railway.3Dabandoned.2Fdismantled.3F> -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.u

[Talk-GB] Testing off-line

2013-06-26 Thread Lester Caine
t has been messed up. Don't you just love progress :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://m

Re: [Talk-GB] Ongoing routing developments

2013-06-27 Thread Lester Caine
when you should be using the inside and then outside lanes through the intersection. FORTUNATELY I'm still running the tomtom which correctly reports the lane to be using. Next step on my part is to see if I can get Locus to select a private OSRM server in place of the default one. I

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

2013-07-08 Thread Lester Caine
exactly to support this type of data ;) But it looks a little empty at presnet :( http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

2013-07-08 Thread Lester Caine
Adam Hoyle wrote: On 8 Jul 2013, at 11:31, Lester Caine wrote: >Adam Hoyle wrote: >>This would be awesome information to have in OSM, but as it is historic >>information, sometimes with no obvious above ground visualisation, is it >>definitely appropriate for the projec

[Talk-GB] First pass at cross reference to UK tile sources.

2013-07-09 Thread Lester Caine
7;s original map set covering the Isle of Man on it's own. The old maps need a little tweek to align them better with OSM, and then these views can be added to the timeline. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine E

[Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
t', but not via the user 'gisuser' which is what I thought should be used, and which has worked in all the previous steps running osm2pgsql. Can anybody kick me in the right direction to fix this? I've got osrm routing running on the machine so something has set up properly.

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
, and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik#Authentication_failure kicked in, but 'psql gis' gets me in and I can play with the data, just generate_tiles.py is giving the FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root" error On 10 Jul 2013, at 08:43, Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Not helping :( Panic over! Just needed to re-read the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik#Authentication_failure note ... I'd missed that the xml file was generated without a -user setting ;) Up to level 9 already ... -- Lester Caine -

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: On 10/07/13 09:24, Lester Caine wrote: Not helping :( I used http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PostGIS/Installation#openSUSE_11.2 to set up, and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik#Authentication_failure kicked in, but 'psql gis' gets me in and I can play wit

[Talk-GB] bbox coordinates

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Anybody got an 'optimal' bbox setting for the UK and Ireland including the Scottish Isles. I'm running (-14.5, 49, 3, 61) but I'm sure that the -14.5 is overkill? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] bbox coordinates

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Anybody got an 'optimal' bbox setting for the UK and Ireland including the Scottish Isles. I'm running (-14.5, 49, 3, 61) but I'm sure that the -14.5 is overkill? OK trimmed that to (-12.2, 49, 3, 61) which picks up the sea details off Ireland. May nudge

Re: [Talk-GB] bbox coordinates

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
7;s and rockall. creating tiles for the sea area is taking too much time. On 10 July 2013 10:40, Lester Caine mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Anybody got an 'optimal' bbox setting for the UK and Ireland including the Scottish Isles. I&#

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

2013-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
to run through all issues of the bartholomew half inch series but even the ones already available are a start. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirys

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

2013-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
s I'm looking to the evolution of areas over time. http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/index.php?page=Bartholomew+Cloth Thanks, Rob p.s. We should be able to get this view added to JOSM and other editors with ease if it is not already there. Yes I've been using a number of historic layers alre

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
' since essentially it's a place to eat with some form of themed entertainment? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Enginee

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
-codes.org.uk/formatting.php Personally I still think of 0207 as Inner London and 0208 as Outer London, but moving the 7/8 as part of the exchange sort of makes sense these days. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
from London :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media -

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
each? If a hotel does not accept non-residents in it's restaurant then it's not tagged ... it's function room may be tagged as 'licensed for weddings' or just receptions ... where do you stop :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
ndary searchable database makes a lot more sense but I've been pushing that for years :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
ursor much of the time that an element is selected to move! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
recognise it! 'Reading 123456' obviously did not have as posh a ring, but I of cause though it has a duff number and the Police became involved. SO lets stick to numbers ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

[Talk-GB] Building in space

2013-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
Footpaths all come of the top level and the road access slopes steeply away from the car park. Just to add to the fun, there is a car valeting business 3 stories below, as well which is also not mapped currently. I'm not seeing anything in the wiki as a guide to handle this. -- Leste

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-07 Thread Lester Caine
thout knowing! This was a reason we objected to iD being made default - it's not ready yet :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

[Talk-GB] bing image alignment

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
run over in the morning and gather a new track as a cross reference, but are people in general finding that these new images are out of alignment with what is currently mapped? Can I assume that they need realigning before using them? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [Talk-GB] bing image alignment

2013-09-10 Thread Lester Caine
ference between zoom levels and 'height' above sea level. In-line comments are 'chronological' :) OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: On 9 September 2013 20:05, Lester Caine wrote: I'm currently playing in an area where the highest resolution imagery is still an older view, whil

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-10 Thread Lester Caine
oking at ... It would be MUCH safer if you had to pick the boundary to select it! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-10 Thread Lester Caine
eral areas overlap, and you don't know that they are. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://med

[Talk-GB] Search for location

2013-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
ww.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/515065315 but using the 'McMurdo Station' name. I am expecting that I'll get several results at times, so the node/way number will be used eventually, but initial search to give a list to select from would be helpful. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [Talk-GB] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

2013-09-29 Thread Lester Caine
Rob Nickerson wrote: p.s. Is there a Linux equivalent of MAPC2MAPC? qgis2 ? I still need to actually get it to create an alignment, but it displays the material I do have nicely, so is anybody using this for doing the referencing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] NPE data

2013-10-06 Thread Lester Caine
. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD

2013-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
al is becoming available which while not relevent to a 'current' map is essential in completing the historic development of the maps. In 50 years time the current view of the map will be 'historic' and we need to design for that fact today rather than simply hiding

Re: [Talk-GB] Moderation (WAS: Primary or Trunk? PITA?)

2013-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
't post back to that ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
We need a clean user interface which has easy access to edit functions, although I'm tending towards off-line editing as certainly I would NOT recommend iD even to new users, so josm currently seems the only option anyway going forward! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Con

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
y. But as yet there is no tidy method of reflecting those changes into my own rendering ... which is another problem here. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - htt

Re: [Talk-GB] Ashamed to be a part of the OSM GB community

2013-12-01 Thread Lester Caine
us with little notification! Does no one learn? If I've got to create my own independent site to do this then OK. I did have OSRM running, but keeping our own mirrors up to date is simply NOT supported well currently !!! No way can I support a whole world map, I need something that mirrors

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
ace of Id so the principle has already been adopted here. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://me

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
having to start again as something has changed :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co

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