On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:18:04AM -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Sorry, where was I?
I don't know about you, but I was in mid-Wales. It was very sunny.
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:15:34AM +1000, mick wrote:
That make a lot of sense to me, the church has been the focal point of the
village since Saxon times while the Post Office didn't appear until the 19th?
century.
Except there are cases where the village moved and but the church didn't.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:05:43PM +, Robert Norris wrote:
Not sure how widespread the update is, but certainly the Bing Imagery
covering the Isle of Wight has recently been updated to imagery taken within
the last few months.
Goes off to check nearby Portsmouth
Yay finally
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 05:44:48PM +, David Earl wrote:
I was appointed to the project from that [...]
Congratulations!
and also published the tagging schema I'm working to (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cambridge/University_of_Cambridge )
Can I pursuade you to remove the
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 05:11:20PM +, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
- Local cycle networks with objective, on-the-ground evidence
(usually signposts) are tagged as lcn=yes (and lcn_ref=...,
lcn_name=..., or the relations equivalent) as at present.
This sounds reasonable. Round here (Oxford),
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 02:05:52PM +, Ed Loach wrote:
In your first example,
they're all double-labeled, EG: http://cycle.st/p34892
Seems to be located on Northmoor Road according to the accompanying
map, yet the route seems to be drawn on Charlbury Road.
The geolocation was wrong -
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:57:19PM +1000, John Smith wrote:
I don't think intent alone is enough, if the intent is to limit
derivative copies you need to stipulate that in your license to B,
otherwise you know that C is able to do what ever he likes based on
the license between B and C.
I
[Sorry to quote so much context - please do scroll down!)
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:16:03AM +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:
I think the question being asked arises from the following
hypothetical chain of events:
1/ Person A has a database that he licenses under ODbL.
2/ Person B
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:18:19AM +, Peter Miller wrote:
I use the following method.
If the OS name is different from the streetsign and general usage I put it
in not:name
If it is apparently a valid alternative I put it on alt_name
I am not clear why anything else is required.
What
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:25:31PM +, Ed Avis wrote:
I would suggest that whoever removed Mascall Avenue from the map should have
mapped what replaced it - a brownfield site or whatever - to avoid future
confusion.
For what it's worth, we did - there's now a landuse=residential;
I think the official launch is soon, but Oxford University's new
Mobile Oxford website is looking pretty good and makes extensive
use of the OSM data we've collected for the city. I think it rocks
(and I'm not involved, except for having given a ton of feedback!)
The site's at http://m.ox.ac.uk/
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:12:13AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
You could have done church_type=cathedral, church_type=church, and
church_type=chapel (arbitrary tag name choice... probably not a good
one) and let the renderer figure out that for itself.
[Digression into an edge-case, probably
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:02:08PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2009/6/8 Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap@earth.li:
The chapel of one of Oxford University's colleges, Christ Church,
is also a cathedral. A rather unimpressive cathedral, but a
cathedral nevertheless
OK, this needs a wider audience than just those on IRC:
15:49 zere even Shakespeare is an OSM contributor. look at king henry IV:
15:49 zere Bardolph: We first survey the plot, then draw the model // And
when we see the figure of the house // Add the tags
building=yes,
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:45:00PM -, Ed Loach wrote:
Oneway is strange in that as well as yes/no you can have oneway=-1
for one way in the opposite direction of the way, and I still can't
work out why that is necessary.
It used to be the case that the renderers wrote the name of the
A friend asks:
What's the most efficient route for visiting all Oxford's
colleges?
Method of transport: bicycle. No other restrictions except that
you must pass the lodge of each college. Doubling back on
yourself is allowed (despite the title of the post!).
So, since the data for Oxford
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:47:10AM +, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
Stephen Gower wrote:
What's the most efficient route for visiting all Oxford's
colleges?
So, since the data for Oxford is pretty much there, is this a
challenge any of the routing engines can help
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:13:25PM +, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
I think there is a misunderstanding going on here. If I speak English, I
want and English map of the world. If I speak French, I want a French
map of the world. In neither case do I want a map that has England in
English
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:26:49PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
I propose that it be possible for features to be tagged using a generic
left/right scheme, with left and right being relative to the direction
of the way.
So you might have a road way with a node somewhere in the middle with
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:45:27PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
Out of the blue, I've been asked to advise Cyclox, a local cyclists'
advocacy group about improving [upon] the Oxfordshire County Council's
cycle map for the city of Oxford[1], and I've said I'll help out.
That's
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:18:32AM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
Oxford is supposedly one of the better mapped cities in OSM, and looking
at the map seems to agree, but a lot of problems show up when you try to
route through it using Gosmore. See:
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:13:00PM +0100, Paul Jaggard wrote:
Interesting clip from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7539529.stm
It's a plug for a programme, 'Britain From Above', which starts 10th August,
but the trailer alone is worth watching for some lovely GPS-derived
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:13:00PM +0100, Paul Jaggard wrote:
Interesting clip from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7539529.stm
It's a plug for a programme, 'Britain From Above', which starts 10th August,
but the trailer alone is worth watching for some lovely GPS-derived
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:33:10PM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
So it really depends on interpretation. In particular, footways have a
particular legal status in the UK which doesn't apply to every place
that you can walk.
Just as a point of information, this isn't actually true. As far as I am
I'm not quite sure who is considering this, but
http://www.cyclecheltenham.org.uk/map_standard.html claims to be being
considered as the basis for a national standard.
The actual map looks pretty good for an end-user and exactly the sort of
thing I want to see. However, I can see that trying to
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:37:19PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
Hi,
I have been facing problems mapping grass. The only mention of grass
in map features is village_green. My Josm also shows landuse=grass,
but this is not on the map features page. [...]
I feel all these can be brought
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Igor Brejc wrote:
I've started playing around using DirectX in combination with SRTM data
to draw 3D relief OSM maps. The plan is to add this feature to Kosmos.
Please visit http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-in-3d if
you want to see
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:01:36PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
Did this happen / is it likely to happen next week? I haven't heard
anything about it since this e-mail from about 6 weeks ago.
I can't make the 19th now, but if anyone fancies this Thursday
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:53:40PM +0100, Andy Allan wrote:
... but to be honest, I'm not entirely comfortable with it, and I
still think the lane/lane_opposite doesn't handle things fully either.
I found a bit in Hyde Park where there was a one-way road with cycle
lanes on both sides - with
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 'nesting' rule does not exist. We have already had enough examples of
where boundaries form different 'sets' of areas so there is no way to
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:31:32PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
I subscribe to the view that areas should correspond to the real area on
the ground and mostly be kept clear of roadways. Placing an Area's Nodes
near the adjacent Way's nodes helps make the map easier to maintain.
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:01:33AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
* Some people started tagging *and rendering* crossings, using a
particular tagging scheme.
* Some other people, who weren't actually out doing the work, started
complaining about what was going on [1]
May I take this
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:39:15PM +0100, 80n wrote:
bicycle=yes and surface=gravel are an incompatible combination in my book ;)
There's gravel and there's gravel though - pea gravel like my
grandfather had on his drive (in the New Forest!) and had to rake
after cars had been over it is
A List Apart does Why Mashups Suck and briefly mentions OSM:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/takecontrolofyourmaps
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:31:02AM +0100, Bruce Cowan wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:57 +0300, SteveC wrote:
Like, er, electing President Bush, or Prime Minister Gordon Brown (no
election) ?
I'm a pedant [...]
Oh, if we're being pedantic, I'd like to point out that the British
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:28:37PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
The shorter, the better (sometimes space is limited). So why not, with a
small DNS change:
openstreetmap.org/credit
If we have to attribute at all (I wanna PD map!) I'd prefer the
main website to have a link to
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:48:18PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote:
if we are going to have an 'attribution' page on the wiki[1], with the
fine print regarding sources of various chunks of data, would a link
to it be possible, on the main map page? titled say 'data attribution'
or 'data sources'?
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:46:10AM +0100, Steve Hill wrote:
In this example, as far as I can tell we have 2 roads called the A11 and
a road joining them called the A14 - route planners can deal with this
just the same as they can deal with A11 - A14 - A134.
Route planners shouldn't be
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:53:49AM +0100, SteveC wrote:
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=287
I see this has been referenced with a useful Editors Note at
http://industry.slashgeo.org/industry/08/04/01/1059213.shtml
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current
problems in rendering
For me it's the routemap problem - how to represent multiple routes
sharing the same street/line/etc, for example bus routes, named or
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:28:20AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
I'm still not sure if this proposal was actually *intended* to
discourage anyone spending his time to work on the current mess of
proposals and to improve the map features page - or if it only was a bad
joke with an unwanted side
Voting is now open on the Skyhook proposal - please add your
support:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Skyhook
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:04:58AM +, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
The idea that
someone in around 100 years time will still have to struggle with the
license issues we are setting up now on my data really worries me
With your own
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:18:34PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
I bet you'll find them in other catholic regions as well.
BTW: you'll even find wayside_shrines in Greece, which isn't that
catholic :) .
Oh, but it is./unhelpful_pedant
(second point of
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:51:35PM +0100, Mike Collinson wrote:
Unless someone corrects me: No, as it is (I assume) an original map
and not a facsimile made by them.
Just as a reference, all maps made available at Oxford's Central
Library are facsimiles of the original collection and they
CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE, GUYS!
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Michael Collinson wrote:
maxheight= 3 ft - original-easy-to enter folksomomic key (defaults
either to metric or local usage, there are arguments for both)
maxheight:metric = 0.912 - added either by power users or
Hi Gerv - I've snipped lots below - if I haven't commented on any
part, I pretty much agree.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 06:36:48PM +, Gervase Markham wrote:
Narrow sections are denoted by maxwidth. One narrowboat (just over 7
feet) is given as 2.5m. Two boats is 5m. It's not necessary
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:43:25AM +, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Amenities
-
New tag value: amenity=sanitary_station
Sanitary station is a really misleading (but sadly widespread) term.
Better to group all the constituent services
(amenity=pumpout;water_point), and to come
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:14:09AM +0100, Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:
I've now implemented an algorithm for finding a good center-point for
areas. It's already commited to svn as revision 6390.
That's great - I think most people would prefer not to have
rendering instructions (such as a
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:58:20PM +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:
i'll second that, but unless bildstock is an english word, we
shouldn't use it - current protocol is british english words only.
Marc, does this have a direct english equivalent? is icon correct, or
does that relate to
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