[Talk-gb-westmidlands] January Meeting

2013-11-11 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone On Thursday we discussed getting together like last year for a December Saturday mini-mapping party with an Xmas curry afterwards, but none of our diaries would co-operate. So we decided to have the event on Saturday 11th January when we'll map Warwick (which needs some TLC) until it

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Addresses

2013-10-28 Thread Brian Prangle
Congratulations due to everyone! We've just passed 100,000 addresses in the West Mids Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-GB] Notes feature

2013-10-27 Thread Brian Prangle
It seems that some businesses are starting to use the notes feature to identify their location, thinking it's just like Googlemaps perhaps. I think we should encourage this by separating the notes function into 2 , adequately labelled, one for place your business/event here and one for map

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fixing tag error

2013-10-22 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Andy Can I ask why? Please be aware that my heritage map data relies currently on searching for artist_name Regards Brian On 21 October 2013 21:52, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Over the last few days, I've tagged a number of local (wider West Midlands) artworks (many

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice needed for maxweight turning restriction

2013-10-13 Thread Brian Prangle
why not just tag a node on the road where the sign is as maxweight? It's much simpler and reflects what's on the ground Regards Brian On 13 October 2013 12:28, ael law_ence@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:00:38PM +0100, Philip Barnes wrote: I came across an odd situation

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] Possible pub meetup with the West Midlands crew in early October?

2013-10-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Rob I'm still banking on there being a 3rd Oct regular meetup. I too can't make the 5th Regards Brian On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Andy, == You may need to forward this to the Oxon list as I'm not subscribed == We hadn't forgotten

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: This Is Then - music project in need of a map

2013-10-02 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone - I've responded to this guy and offered him our help. Regards Brian -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:07 AM Subject: Re: This Is Then - music project in need of a map To: marko ma...@thisthen.co.uk Hi

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 mapping

2013-08-26 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Peter I'm gradually adding listed buildings along the route in Warwickshire regards Brian On 21 August 2013 15:52, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Just to highlight some mapping ITO have just released, which was developed with CPRE showing the construction, landuse and

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

2013-08-22 Thread Brian Prangle
In the West Midlands we have dozens of these which cater mainly for Asian weddings and celebrations where large extended families have to be catered for. Probably the same in most large urban areas. I generally just tag them as building=yes and with the name on the display board which usually

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Re: Longbridge Aug 1st

2013-08-01 Thread Brian Prangle
a photo of the sculpture. ** ** See you later Cheers Andy ** ** *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com bpran...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 23 July 2013 09:57 *To:* talk-gb-westmidlands *Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Longbridge Aug 1st ** ** Hi everyone

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Brum A38 tunnel closures

2013-07-19 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Tunnels closed in OSM at 0745 this am! Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] A38 Tunnel Closures

2013-07-19 Thread Brian Prangle
engines will also prevent route calculation through the tunnels. Our map is also annotated to show the tunnels as closedhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.480132lon=-1.907045zoom=18layers=M Regards Brian Prangle Community co-ordinator ___ Talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Brum A38 tunnel closures

2013-07-19 Thread Brian Prangle
Andy ** ** *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org] *Sent:* 19 July 2013 07:57 *To:* OSM Group WM *Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Brum A38 tunnel closures ** ** Hi everyone ** ** Tunnels closed in OSM at 0745 this am! ** ** Regards

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Godiva returns

2013-07-11 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone On Saturday 10 August Godiva will make her triumphant return to her home town of Coventry aboard her Cyclopedia with a cavalcade of cyclists and walkers joining her on Coventry’s iconic ring road. I think the ring road will be closed to traffic and given over to some kind of festival

Re: [Talk-GB] Three Choirs Way relation completed

2013-06-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Steve Why not just leave the out-and-back ways as a spur? regards Brian On 2 June 2013 19:11, Steve Brook srbr...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I have now finished mapping the Three Choirs Way long distance footpath between the three cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford.

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] June meeting in Redditch

2013-05-31 Thread Brian Prangle
Do we have a pub selected yet? ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[talk-au] StateoftheMap Conference

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I know it's a long way and an expensive trip but don't feel excluded - there's lots of ways you can participate 1. We're a global project so has anyone any ideas about forward-looking outfits in Australia who get OSM who might want to sponsor the conference? 2. We're having a poster

Re: [Talk-GB] Usage of lanes / turn restrictions versus multiple ways when road is not divided

2013-05-08 Thread Brian Prangle
Well if a road is separated into lanes by a large area of paint which has a legal injunction not to enter, can that be regarded as barrier=paint? It passes the test of being physical - visible paint has been applied to the road and it passes the test of being a barrier by law. Regards Brian

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

2013-04-25 Thread Brian Prangle
Just to take take the conversation into another orbit simultaneously, I'd like to clarify Tom's remarks about natural=wood and landuse=forest being interchangeable in the UK. I always tag landuse=forest where aerial imagery shows a regular pattern of tree spacing which is a good indicator of

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Increased use of OpenStreetMap

2013-04-23 Thread Brian Prangle
-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Increased use of OpenStreetMap To: Paul Inman paulin...@warwickshire.gov.uk Hi Paul It looks great even with screenshots! I shall make sure I use the service

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Warwicks Election

2013-04-23 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Warwicks County Council message about their election coverage was too big to get onto the mailing list as it it contained 3 png screenshots of the application. If anyone is despaerate to see the screenshots let me know and I'll mail them separately Regards Brian

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Neighbourhood Plan Import

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Do we have a collective opinion about this proposed import circulated by stephen.pete...@sky.com on the talk gb list? Personally I wouldn't want it as I believe we decided not to include ward boundaries as the present cartographic style clutters up and already busy urban map.

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway bridge numbers

2013-04-09 Thread Brian Prangle
I'm already using bridge_ref= and also adding operator= when I remember Rgds Brian On 9 April 2013 15:17, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: Hi Andy Seems a good idea. I would suggest a new tag, such as bridge_ref. I have come across cases of canal bridge numbers using the ref

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Easter Weekend

2013-03-27 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Henk and Floris are coming over from the Netherlands this weekend to do some scouting and videoing for the conference. They've suggested a pub/curry get together for either Sat or Sun evening. Anyone around? Anyone want to meet Henk and Floris? Regards Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-03-12 Thread Brian Prangle
Aidan I've had a look at your list and would say it's way under - you only have 3 B27 codes and I've completed addressing this whole postcode area - I've not got every one complete but I'm sure there's far more than the 3 you're showing, including the one for my own house which is missing!

[Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 Birmingham

2013-03-11 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I'm composing a press release and want to compare this year's event with the previous conference in the UK - Manchester 2007. Can anyone who was there remember how many delegates there were? Has anyone got any group photos from then? Also any can any sysadmins give me an idea of

[Talk-GB] SotM 2013 Birmingham Bid

2013-01-22 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We've finally published a bid after several weeks work from the combined effort of mappers from mappa-mercia ( the collective name for mappers in the West Midlands). You can read it herehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2013/Call_for_venues/Birmingham on the Call

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-01-16 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Aidan You might like to get a volunteer to check a pilot import that's limited within a manageable area - suggest a limited range of postcodes Regards Brian On 15 January 2013 11:32, Aidan McGinley aidmcgin+openstreet...@gmail.comwrote: @Rob yes I had seen that. It is a great tool, but

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-01-13 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Aidan If you were to do this then two things you should consider: 1. only tag closed ways where tag is building=xx AFAIK water and woods and gardendens etxc don't have postcodes 2. how to treat buildings where there is already a postcode and if correct/incorrect Regards Brian On 13

Re: [Talk-GB] European Walking Route E2 / Staffordshire Way / Viking Way

2013-01-09 Thread Brian Prangle
I've no idea who's behind the relation E2 even though the Heart of England Way which I walked the whole length and edited a lot of it is designated E2 from end to end - it was added to the relation after I'd completed my editing. I have seen an E2 marker post although I forgot to take a photo!

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Meeting last night

2013-01-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I should have a revised SOTM 2013 bud document out sometime over the weekend, together with a summary of our brainstorming For the blog on mappa mercia the login username is brianboru100@gmail.comand the password is 2009mapper Regards Brian

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 list of tasks

2013-01-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone As promised - if you want to put your name forward for a task - now's your chance! Regards Brian · Sponsor package programme and promotion (maybe split into global/national/local) · Sponsor Exhibits · Contracts/Insurance · Conference Registration

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Jan social - Birmingham

2013-01-02 Thread Brian Prangle
See you all there - I'll bring along a printed copy of the SOTM 2013 bid so we can finalise it Regards Brian On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, Happy new year! Just a quick reminder that it is the monthly meetup tomorrow (Thursday): The

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed Buildings Photos

2012-12-14 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I've been thinking about how best to share any photos you might think of taking on your travels. All you have to do is upload them to your web photo service of choice and as long as you put them in a public folder I can link to them. You'll have to let me know of course the url of the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting Map - Dudley

2012-11-30 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Nick Well done for stepping forward to do this! Just follow the tagging schema from an existing way that is on a gritting route maintenance=gritting, gritting=priority_1, 2 or 3 -if none is indicated in the data set to priority_1, gritting_route_ref= x (if Dudley data has these)

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Heritage Map -URGENT

2012-11-30 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Panic mode! I'm a bit confused about urls from mapbox. The one I sent out before had a https:// header and when I link to it it goes to my mapbox homepage complete with editing rights. Is this what you're seeing? You should see a homepage icon in the top right with my name against it

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed Bdgs map on Mapbox

2012-11-27 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Stuart Glad you like the map. The English Heritage data is a bit flaky. I've been working from a pdf list prepared by BCC some time ago which is much more accurate - also the layer in the self-service planning map(only for checking purposes of course!) which I guess comes from the same list

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed Bdgs map on Mapbox

2012-11-25 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Well, having worked some more on cleaning and populating the data - guess what? The data is by no means complete or accurate. It's pretty good - probably about 95% complete and 95% accurate. It's just the usual annoying almost perfect but not quite there that we come to expect from

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] west midlands listed buildings map

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Well it's nearly here! It's very much a work in progress with a lot still to do - it's really a proof of concept at this stage https://tiles.mapbox.com/brianboru/map/map-ag576a5p. So don't expect it to be perfect - it will be some time before it's a public site. I've built this in

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Photography Xmas presents

2012-11-08 Thread Brian Prangle
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

2012-11-05 Thread Brian Prangle
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

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

2012-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
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 m...@milliams.com wrote: Hi all, As discussed at the last meetup

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

2012-11-02 Thread Brian Prangle
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

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

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Chris Great work! I can now get cracking on adding complete postcodes to addresses. Regards Brian On 30 October 2012 19:24, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the

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

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Prangle
On another track it would be good if ITOworld could add to their buildings section a postcode map showing red = no postcode, yellow=first section only e.g B27, and green= complete postcode e.g B27 7XP. This would help in identifying where to add postcodes Regards Brian On 31 October 2012 18:55,

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

2012-10-27 Thread Brian Prangle
North Park road now complete - any other gaps anyone's spotted? On 26 October 2012 15:17, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: As a sweep up of minor missing locations. One side of North Park Road adj to the M6 needs adding. ** ** Cheers Andy ** ** *From:* Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] Odd edits around the A460 in the W Midlands

2012-10-16 Thread Brian Prangle
We in the West Mids are well aware of this user and have been monitoring and cleaning up after him for some time. He has never replied to any emails we have sent him, except very early on. He is very unusual and seems to be a Jekyll and Hyde character who has done some excellent work where he

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] mapping conundrum

2012-10-09 Thread Brian Prangle
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

[Talk-GB] SOTM 2013

2012-10-09 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone At our previous pub meeting for mappa-mercia on October 4 we had a great discussion about how we'd like SOTM2013 to come to Birmingham - so we got a group of volunteers (well everyone at the meeting) and have come up with an outline case for Birmingham Bid - see

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

2012-10-08 Thread Brian Prangle
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] SOTM 2013 bid ** ** Hi

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] October meetup

2012-10-01 Thread Brian Prangle
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, Birminghamhttp://www.thebull-pricestreet.com/ Look

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

2012-10-01 Thread Brian Prangle
How about making contact with the road experts at SABRE to answer some of these questions? I'm sure they'd have a pretty definitive view Regards Brian On 30 September 2012 22:43, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 27 September 2012 17:42, Jason Cunningham

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Data User Group asks what data do you want

2012-09-28 Thread Brian Prangle
I've asked for a csv file of all the listed buildings Regards Brian On 27 September 2012 22:24, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Just a quick heads up that the Open Data User Group (supported by UK Government) as asking what data do you want. If interested there are

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

2012-08-31 Thread Brian Prangle
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

Re: [Talk-GB] Find My Nearest Cash Machine

2012-08-21 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Andy Impressive! Shame about the data. Just done a quick look around Acocks Green - ATMs missing and some are up to 30m away from their actual location. I would estimate about 95% accuracy. Anyone else had a look? Regards Brian On 21 August 2012 11:30, Andy Mabbett

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

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Prangle
To: Andy Robinson Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social Meeting this Thursday 2nd Aug Will bite at lower end of slice 5 Miked29 From: Andy Robinson Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:54 PM To: 'Brian Prangle' ; 'talk-gb-westmidlands' Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social Meeting

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

2012-07-31 Thread Brian Prangle
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

2012-07-30 Thread Brian Prangle
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-au] Redaction recovery

2012-07-24 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi All I can give assistance retracing roads from bing concentrating on motorways and primary roads - I've made a start in South Sydney. Let me know if there's anywhere more urgent. I map mostly in Birmingham UK wher we're now pretty complete and are mostly tracing buildings from bing and

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

2012-07-19 Thread Brian Prangle
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

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

2012-07-17 Thread Brian Prangle
in the city 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 Jul 2012, at 15:42, Brian Prangle wrote

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

2012-07-17 Thread Brian Prangle
I'm up for that on Sun morning On 17 July 2012 16:02, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a job for a mini mapping party! ** ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] National Memorial Arboretum

2012-07-16 Thread Brian Prangle
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

[Talk-GB] Bot redaction UK

2012-07-16 Thread Brian Prangle
Is there any reason why a slice of the Western Hebrides has been omitted from the redaction process for the UK? Based on evidence from http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php ___ Talk-GB mailing list

[Talk-GB] Micronations

2012-05-10 Thread Brian Prangle
If you look at zoom level 3 for the UK you will see the Kingdom of Ivania rendered. A google search throws up http://micronations.wikia.com/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ivania which is a vanity nation consisting of someone's bedroom in Derbyshire. I can see a rash of these appearing. Are they appropriate to be

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Davenports plaque

2012-05-02 Thread Brian Prangle
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

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

2012-05-01 Thread Brian Prangle
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 ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, ** ** Unfortunately I may miss this now as I think I’ll be in

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Tagging Guideline - wiki page proposals

2012-04-30 Thread Brian Prangle
On 28 April 2012 11:03, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.comwrote: I'd only use cycleway=track if there's a track on both sides, otherwise I use cycleway:left=track or cycleway:right=track, as appropriate. I also add a highway=cycleway alongside, because some applications prefer

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Proposed Summer timetable

2012-04-09 Thread Brian Prangle
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

[Talk-GB] Licence Change

2012-04-05 Thread Brian Prangle
Congratulations and many thanks to all those who worked so hard to effect the licence changeover - including all those who contributed to the mad rush to recover as much of the map as possible before the cutoff. One small point for the communications team- the link from the home page to open

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wolverhampton Gritting Routes

2012-02-06 Thread Brian Prangle
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

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

2012-01-13 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi all I've been systematically clearing, together with Andy Robinson, Birmingham and the West Mids for a couple of weeks. We have one prolific local mapper who hasn't accepted which means a lot of work in the Black Country and Coventry. Biggest issues so far are the motorways, ways that are part

Re: [Talk-GB] Staffordshire Way

2012-01-13 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Andy I walked,surveyed and mapped the Heart of England Way and I've seen it added to E2. I didn't see a single waymarker for the E2 along its entire length. Since it's a complete relation I haven't noticed anything broken Regards Brian On 13 January 2012 20:08, SomeoneElse

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-11 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Matt Peter is unlikely to accept the new CTs but has not yet declined. Blackadder has emailed him recently but not got a response. Peter was very active and has contributions all over the West Midlands from various mapping parties so it would be a shame to lose his contribution but I'm not

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Boundaries

2011-12-07 Thread Brian Prangle
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

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments project

2011-11-28 Thread Brian Prangle
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

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-27 Thread Brian Prangle
But it's common parlance to refer to real ale from the decades-long activities of CAMRA which was never called CAMRAB - this is splitting hairs On 27 November 2011 19:54, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 27 November 2011 19:46, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-18 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone If we include all off licences then we're going to have to include all pubs and bars and the map is going to get seriously crowded. Should we tag off-licences that sell real ale as realale=yes and if we extend this to specialist wine merchants and whisky shops then perhaps we should

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Thread Brian Prangle
Sven - we do have a couple of wineries and vineyards in the UK! On 15 November 2011 14:34, Sven Geggus li...@fuchsschwanzdomain.de wrote: Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote: Things tagged with microbrewery should be okay... assuming they respected the tags original

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Just dome some armchair mapping in Hereford where the HP Bulmer site is a massive industrial complex so I don't think ciderhouse or press or mill is somehow appropriate so I've labelled it industrial=brewery for the meantime. Perhaps we should also have industrial=cider? The Bulmers

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Whilst I originally envisaged this as a UK project, what Sven has brought up does suggest that it has a global perspective, but I doubt if Graham's time or server could cope with something that large. The wine industry is certainly global and Heineken( not real ale I know!) has 115

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

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Prangle
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 10.11.2011 12:36, schrieb Brian Prangle: Hi everyone We're making great progress with over

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Prangle
Graham fantastic work! I updated some breweries I'd previously edited to get them to comply with your tagging schema and they were on your map in minutes! Was going to say something about the icons but I see they're only temporary New set of objectives with some drinking attached to seek out

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Graham Problem - I've entered a couple of microbreweries where your map selects the name of the pub rather than the name of the microbrewery located on the same site e.g http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/136989676 where I've tagged the pub with name= and the brewery with name_1= .

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Browsing around Burton to see why there are so many Coors Breweries in the tagquery page ( there are 3 sites tagged but only one rendering at the moment) I came across the National Brewery Centre tagged as a museum. As it has Brewery in its name I would have expected to see it in the

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes

2011-11-10 Thread Brian Prangle
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 ;-)

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

2011-11-06 Thread Brian Prangle
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 Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes I've now recieved eight

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Interconnect Birmingham Mapping Project

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
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-gb-westmidlands] Time to put Kings Heath Village Square on the Map

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
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

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Anyone who wants to update their local allotments please feel free to do so using the example of the allotment here http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.45061lon=-1.842371zoom=18layers=M tagged as follows with data from the attached Excel spreadsheet. name= ward= operator= Birmingham

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

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Societyproject 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 to putting even more of Yardley on the map with you Regards Brian Prangle Mappa-mercia

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-04 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. If we can build on Graham's initial efforts I think we can get a great map and do some some interesting surveying with an incentive to get people out mapping! As a first pass on a tagging scheme can I suggest we follow the wiki page at

[Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-10-30 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Having just been at the CAMRA Birmingham Beer Festival and seen the huge number of breweries from across the UK Got me thinking - is there any appetite for a project similar to the baseball project http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Big_baseball_project_2011 in getting all the

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-10-30 Thread Brian Prangle
! Regards Graham. On 30 October 2011 15:15, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone Having just been at the CAMRA Birmingham Beer Festival and seen the huge number of breweries from across the UK Got me thinking - is there any appetite for a project similar to the baseball project

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

2011-10-24 Thread Brian Prangle
and stop quite a lot so they're not like one continuous route. This is because there is crossover in terms of the routes the drivers have to take to get to the roads they actually have to grit. Gareth On 22/10/2011 14:55, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyone Thanks to Andy Mabbett

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

2011-10-24 Thread Brian Prangle
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 a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Can anyone suggest a better way to tag this locomotive, on a plinth? http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1479037681

Re: [Talk-GB] How to tag Police Memorial Trust (and similar) memorials

2011-10-24 Thread Brian Prangle
How should I tag the fact that a memorial was erected by the Police Memorial Trust? How about operator=Police Memorial Trust Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] 1:25,000 OOC OS maps - Update

2011-10-23 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Andy I can donate some time depending on the date you choose Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes

2011-10-22 Thread Brian Prangle
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

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

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Prangle
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 a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: A new square opened in Kings Heath

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   >