Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

; wrote: > Done > > > > Ed > > > > *From:* Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 14 October 2015 18:04 > *To:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed > now available > > > &

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map 2016 Brussels: When? (Was: Help us make a logo! and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

Hi Stefan, Thanks for your concern. The SotM working group is in good shape and we are currently dotting the last few i's and crossing the last few t's before we announce the date of SotM 2016 in Brussels. Please accept my apology for the delay. We have some folk who buy travel

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hacks and Hackers

Sounds interesting. See you Wednesday 7th October in the Bull. Rob On 29 September 2015 at 22:36, stuart lester wrote: > hello, > > Paul Bradshaw who organises the hacks and hackers meet up wondered if > either any OSMers fancy attending the next one or look at

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

Sounds good Chris. No problems with imports from me (assuming the data passes reasonable* quality assurance). I do feel that the concerns over imports are preventing OSM from properly innovating. This is a good example of dataset and an innovative approach that has been made available to us. It

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

>On 24/09/2015 18:41, Phil Endecott wrote: >> You could easily trace building outlines from this > >This looks excellent, but being inherently lazy, is there any software >to convert what I assume are pixels outlines into vectors? > >It would save a *lot* of tracing. (Caveat: I'm not advocating

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New user edits in Stratford

> Corrected most of them and contacted the user politley > > On 26 August 2015 at 18:22, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I've only just sorted the last lot you identified! Having to contact the >> user then wait a few days to give then chance

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] September meeting - Wednesday 2nd in Tamworth

Hi all, We are due to hold our next meeting this Wednesday (you will recall that we have switched to the first Wednesday of the month). It's due to be in Tamworth. Can you please let me know if you can go ASAP as I know a number of you are unable to attend this month. Regards, Rob p.s. If you

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

Thanks Andy, Fully aware of access land, undocumented rights of way and permissive paths. I just need to remember to be careful of what I write on this mailing list (but I was trying not to write an essay). I'm surprised if this is just England and Wales as I would have thought some other

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

and how many people had walked it recently. I guess if the new rendering for footway throws up significant problems there will be more interest in a UK website. Regards Dudley Sent from Windows Mail *From:* Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com *Sent:* ‎Sunday‎, ‎16‎ ‎August‎ ‎2015 ‎18‎

[Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

Hi all, Given that paths and footways are now rendered the same way in the default OSM style I wonder whether it is time to look at how the map can provide better information. For rural mappers tagging a path/footway as unpaved surface results in it having less prominence on the map. As most

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group

- Hash: SHA1 Hi Rob, Thanks for your email. Yes, we're looking into setting up OSMIE, but I'm not sure how far along that is at this stage. On 02/08/15 13:55, Rob Nickerson wrote: Personally I see no problem in going UK and those in NI can then join either group (or better still, both

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

things that people voted agree/strongly agree to? Best wishes, Rob p.s. I'll be in London this weekend at the OSM mobile app dev event. I'll try to tweet and blog about this on mappa-mercia.org . If you have any app ideas you want me to share then let me know soon :-) On 1 August 2015 at 12:53, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Help us make a logo! (and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

Hi all, Don't miss out on your chance to win tickets to State of the Map 2016! All you need to do is have a go at designing a logo for the competition. Deadline is 23:59 UTC (before midnight) on Saturday 15th August 2015 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2016/Logo_brief Good

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Rugby tonight

I'll be there. Probably won't map a lot as I don't have much free time to put it in OSM afterwards right now. Will discuss the website as in trying to redesign that at the moment. Rob On 5 Aug 2015 12:01, Greg gre...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Hi all. I'm local to Rugby and will be coming along to

[Talk-GB] Better building terracer for JOSM

This looks promising. Worth a share :-) http://derickrethans.nl/buildings.html Regards, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Open Access Land

Where are you looking? Most of the data available at [1] is available under the Open Government Licence or the OS OpenData Licence. Rob [1] http://www.gis.naturalengland.org.uk/pubs/gis/GIS_register.asp ___ Talk-GB mailing list

[OSM-talk-ie] A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group

Hi all, A few weeks ago I set up a survey to find out how people would want a potential UK/GB OpenStreetMap group to look like. Vincent kindly forwarded it to this list. The survey was focussed on what it should do and how it should structure decision making and financials. It did not ask whether

[Talk-GB] Open Access Land

I thought this was available in the Natural England data. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

Hi all, Thank you for taking the time to fill out the A UK OpenStreetMap group? survey. In the 3 weeks since the survey first opened we received a total of 101 responses. This is a great response rate and indicates that many people are interested in the prospect of such a group. So what do the

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

commentary). Best, Rob On 11 July 2015 at 21:19, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Dear UK/GB OpenStreetMappers, From time to time we talk about the potential of setting up a UK/GB OpenStreetMap group (name yet to be decided) but we never quite know what it should look like. Survey

[OSM-talk] Help us make a logo! (and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

The State of the Map working group is pleased* to announce a call for logo designs. We need your help to build a strong recognisable logo for State of the Map 2016 (SotM) conference taking place in Brussels, Belgium. The conference is the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s annual gathering of the OSM

[Talk-GB] Ramblers app

Looks interesting. Anyone know more information about this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33532041 Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

in different ways. This is especially true when crossing cultural boundaries. My top tip is to assume positive intent and if in doubt ask :-) On 11 July 2015 at 21:19, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Dear UK/GB OpenStreetMappers

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

Hi all, As I'm not signed up to all mailing lists, can I please have volunteers to forward this to talk-gb-london, talk-gb-midanglia, talk-gb-thenorth and talk-scotland? Thanks, Rob On 11 July 2015 at 21:19, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Dear UK/GB OpenStreetMappers, From

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

Forwarding the following email to local mailing lists. We're nearing 30 responses already. Let's make that 50 by tomorrow :-) Rob -- Forwarded message -- Dear UK/GB OpenStreetMappers, From time to time we talk about the potential of setting up a UK/GB OpenStreetMap group (name

[Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

Dear UK/GB OpenStreetMappers, From time to time we talk about the potential of setting up a UK/GB OpenStreetMap group (name yet to be decided) but we never quite know what it should look like. Survey time!! Please fill in the following 2 minute survey: http://goo.gl/forms/Z797QhC27c Your

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] July Meeting

What are the mapping priorities? i seem to recall someone said there was a lot left to map here? Do you think a cake is needed? Rob On 1 July 2015 at 21:27, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a family commitment pm so I'll be mapping am -getting some listed bdg pics in Codsall

Re: [Talk-GB] England LIDAR data to be OGL in September

Hi all, Just passing this on - the Environment Agency's LIDAR mapping of much of England is going to be opened up in September, under the Open Government Licence:https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/16/free-mapping-data-will-elevate-flood-risk-knowledge/

[Talk-GB] Fwd: England LIDAR data to be OGL in September

version; the same data that will be open from September is currently available free for non-commercial and academic use. You can get it here: https://www.geomatics-group.co.uk/GeoCMS/Order.aspx Regards, Owen On 19 June 2015 at 21:04, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Re: Bidford Bridge

Forward to list. R -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Date: 15 Jun 2015 19:44 Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bidford Bridge To: Andy Cc: Yeah I heard about that on the radio. The tags would be access=no, with foot=yes, bicycle=yes if they can still use it. We need to

[Talk-GB] Apple streetview

Apple collecting images for a street view competitor? Details: http://maps.apple.com/vehicles/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Water Orton tomorrow

Hi all, Don't forget we are in Water Orton tomorrow evening (Thursday). Details on the Mappa Mercia page on the wiki. See you there :-) Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

Andy wrote: For example, when processing OSM data for my own use I'll try and drop unsigned names and refs from roads (there's no point in saying turn left on Foo Street if Foo Street does not appear on the sign). I hope you've not deleted any of the data I added. Just because it doesn't have

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

Hi Fred, Great question. I feel that we should link to wikidata and this is a good example of why. There are lots of things that are in wikidata that are not suitable for OpenStreetMap tags but could be used by creative folk in a data maps mashup. Looking at the entry for London [1] I see

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible collaboration with Amey

Sounds interesting. Do you know where they are hoping to hold the event? As you say, it would be good if we could get a few folk there to describe what can be done with OpenStreetMap data and associated technologies. Regards, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

when a mapper invents something new, they can add tags for colour, opacity, line colour, line width, line opacity - for areas and similar attributes for lines and points (colour, opacity, size etc.) and obviously tags for name and description etc. What do people think to this ? The people behind

[OSM-talk] Learn Rails

Code academy have added Ruby on Rails, which is what OpenStreetMap uses for the website. Learn via their online interactive learning. http://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-rails You never know, you could be contributing to OpenStreetMap code soon after :)

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project All things delivery-related - an update

times to existing post boxes. Jerry On 5 May 2015 at 23:40, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Whittaker has an excellent site http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/ monitoring OSM data on postboxes in the UK. Here you can see progress (even a league table of who's

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project All things delivery-related - an update

Robert Whittaker has an excellent site http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/ monitoring OSM data on postboxes in the UK. Here you can see progress (even a league table of who's contributing). From the history graph you can see there's been an increase in activity since the project got going.

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] May Meeting (Disabilty Kurb Project)

Sounds like an interesting project. Hopefully we'll see you in Bromsgrove on Thursday to discuss this in more detail. Speaking of which does anyone know what the plan is for Bromsgrove. Is there any priority areas that we should focus on or shall I just pick something and meet you in the pub

[OSM-talk] Case study: Lloyds TSB (Was: Chain Store Cleanup)

Andy Mabbett wrote: I suppose it depends whether we want to map what (sometimes incorrect) store signs say, or what the stores actually are. I favour the latter, but if you want the former, I have a list defunct shops whose signs are still visible, which you can add Another issue to consider is

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

On 1 May 2015 at 20:26, Johan C osm...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-05-01 13:36 GMT+02:00 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: I think eventually chains will see the light, and publish their locations in an open format compatible manner. At that point a quick cross check with OSM would clear

[OSM-talk] Open community (was: Chain Store Cleanup)

Fred wrote: I don't think that is something that really advances the quality in OSM, and I would encourage you to grab a notepad and venture outside to do some mapping. That way you wouldn't be scripting world-wide cleanup operations but who knows, you might actually add real value to OSM. Hi

[OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

I think eventually chains will see the light, and publish their locations in an open format compatible manner. At that point a quick cross check with OSM would clear up most of the issues. Agree. Has anyone actually asked the retail chains? I haven't because I don't want to suggest that we will

[OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

Ok a few people are agreeing that a relation is needed to assist the routing engine to provide higher quality instructions (with routing left unaffected). That's good. I'd like to get something in the wiki and ideally get it approved (this is not an invite to talk about the wiki or the approval

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Cycle parking

Quick question. What is the capacity of the following cycle parking rack? (The image shows a cycle rack consisting of 6 hoops/stands) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93ba09qLTlnZFJMSkk/view?usp=sharing I have my view but just want to confirm with others. Cheers, Rob

[OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

Hi all, In the UK (particularly in rural areas) it is common to find a road that turns 90 degrees to the left or right without a junction (that is the road just continues and white lines mark it as such). Meanwhile another road may come in from the other side with a 'give way' style junction.

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

There already is a through_route relation, to show the path of the through route. It might not be well documented, but it is used (I believe)by mkgmap. There was a proposal, which was eventually rejected: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/through_route IMHO it was rejected as

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Cycle parking

Good. Something a bunch of OSMers agree on - that's novel! Rob On 26 Apr 2015 22:09, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: 6x2 *From:* Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 26 April 2015 12:00 *To:* talk-gb-westmidlands *Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Cycle parking

[OSM-talk] Routing over areas

Interesting article for any routing experts: http://anitagraser.com/2015/04/17/routing-in-polygon-layers-yes-we-can/ Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-GB] SotM 2016: Call for venues - Last Week

Hi all, Just one more weekend until the call for venues for State of the Map 2016 closes. We've also got the website up and running thanks to Tom H and the Operations Working Group. I'm getting excited and we still have a long way to go! www.stateofthemap.org Regards, Your SotM team

[OSM-talk] SotM 2016: Call for venues - Last Week

Hi all, Just one more weekend until the call for venues for State of the Map 2016 closes. We've also got the website up and running thanks to Tom H and the Operations Working Group. I'm getting excited and we still have a long way to go! www.stateofthemap.org Regards, Your SotM team

[Talk-GB] Postbox refs

Hi, I've noticed recently that postbox references have started appearing with a D on the end (same ref as before just with a D added to the end). This seems to be in areas where RM have updated the collection times. Does anyone know what the D means? Does RobW's tool allow for this D (as in

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Visualising 10 years of OSM

This is pretty cool: https://www.mapbox.com/ten-years-openstreetmap/ Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-GB] New OS open data now available

Some more detail in the following article. Includes the assessment that it offers spatial data that is generally much higher in accuracy than most building shapes already on OpenStreetMap http://oobrien.com/2015/03/os-open/ Rob On 24 March 2015 at 17:58, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com

[Talk-GB] New OS open data now available

Hi all, So the new OS OpenData that was discussed a few weeks ago is now available: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2015/03/new-os-opendata-products-now-live/ I think there could be many good uses of this including to help validate some of our data. If anyone is using this then let us

Re: [Talk-GB] New OS open data now available

to include a few more details, but not enough detail on them for accurate usage in OSM. So basically, it gives us slightly improved buildings, but they are still highly simplified in terms of their pay for products. Tony On 24 March 2015 at 18:58, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote

[OSM-talk] Taginfo challenge

Simply fixing the tags would do nothing but mask the bad data. Not necessarily as fixing the tag could also result in the data being rendered therefore making it more visible for people to come in and fix (if a local community of OSMers exists). There are arguments on either side but I do feel

[OSM-talk] Call for Venues for State of the Map 2016 - now open!

Hi all, It's emails like this that I really enjoy writing but Richard's beat me too it :-(. Ah well I had it written anyway so might as well hit send :-) --- The state of the map working group are delighted to announce that the call for venues for 2016 is now open!

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham meeting this Thursday

Hi all, Nearly the first Thursday of the month again so it's time for our Mappa Mercia meeting. We'll be in our usual winter home in The Bull, Birmingham (last time this winter?) so come join us. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia Rob PS. I can't make this one myself but hopefully

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

Robert wrote: I think that would be jumping the gun slightly. What I understand from OS's answer to me, is that previously released datasets will remain under the OS-ODL, and there is no automatic retrospective change of the licence. I think you are overly risk averse in this case and it could

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

Robert wrote: I've now had a reply from OS about this. They say: Previous such releases will not necessarily be included - only those that we are informed about in the future. If the dataset had already been notified to us, or we had approved

[Talk-GB] New OS Open Data products arriving end of March

Sounds interesting. Here is an announcement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/britain-leads-the-way-as-ordnance-survey-helps-to-drive-economic-growth-and-digital-innovation-through-open-data Bit hard to tell until we see the data but the Gazetteer, the Open Water Network and the new

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

Hi Bryce, I don't think people read the text above OSM's notes submission form anyway. I fall in to the camp of less is better. Mapbox blogged about how they do it recently. I really like the big describe what's wrong header as it achieves so much in so few words (and I'm sure if it made sense

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

On 17 February 2015 at 23:57, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I could imagine that OGL-3 has imported OS ODL's clause on sublicensing that caused incompatibility with ODbL, which would make OGL-3 incompatible with ODbL.Do we have confirmation that this is not the case, i.e.

[Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

Hi All, At long last the open data licence scene in the UK has now become a lot simpler as OS have ditched their OS OpenData Licence and replaced it with the standard OGL:

[OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

Congratulations to all those who were involved in getting directions/routing on openstreetmap.org :-) Worth the wait and will hopefully encourage mappers to contribute more turn restrictions and other routing related info. Cheers, Rob ___ talk mailing

[OSM-talk] Spring 2015 (Was: guide to vandalism” in OSM?)

Pierre wrote: We have to think of OSM as a global community where not all countires are equal with access to internet and computers. Often, people have smartphones and could contribute. Adding a note with photo would greatly help. The @osmthis Twitter tag let's do this. But it is uneasy then

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project - Fix that Road Name

Following on from Brian's suggestion I have now added Notes to Rotherham and tweeted the local scout group. Will be interesting to see what happens :-) Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Open Addresses UK

One of the topics from last nights social was Open Addresses UK: https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/ The question was- how accurate? In my quick straw poll I check 3 addresses and found that they are accurate to street level but not individual property. We wondered how they take a submitted

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social this Thursday

I'll be there too. Hope to see a few more folks there as well :-) Rob On 3 February 2015 at 16:12, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I will be there this Thursday (hopefully not on my own). -- Matthijs On 3 February 2015 at 09:24, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote:

[Talk-GB] Fix the road name! Progress Report

Hi Jo, Sorry to hear that you feel that way. The Fix The Road Name initiative comes from Mappa Mercia - an OpenStreetMap group in the West Midlands. It is the first of our quarterly projects that are designed to promote OSM and attempt to grow a bigger and better community in the UK (similar to

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I've sketched out a blank template of upcoming Mappa Mercia events so that everyone knows the dates of our future meets. April's is on the day before Good Friday so we may want to consider moving that one closer to the date

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

Missing link :-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Events On 19 January 2015 at 21:54, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I've sketched out a blank template of upcoming Mappa Mercia events so that everyone knows the dates of our future meets. April's

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

Hi All, I've sketched out a blank template of upcoming Mappa Mercia events so that everyone knows the dates of our future meets. April's is on the day before Good Friday so we may want to consider moving that one closer to the date if it is apparent that attendance will be low. SUGGESTIONS:

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hanbury meeting

Hi all, So now that all the mapping is in I have updated my footpath map with paths completed. In total we mapped over 6 miles of previously unmapped paths: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/hanbury-footpaths_24885#14/52.8452/-1.7367 Given that the aim was to meet as a group, rather than

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

The Mapillary team are working on integration with ScoutSigns Yay that's great news! To me this is as big as when Bing let us use their imagery. It'll be a great resource and shows that companies are confident enough in OSM to make it part of their day-to-day and to share back so freely :-) Rob

[OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

There have been a couple of threads on OpenStreetMap’s mailing list this month to do with change. The first, entitled “Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto”, is all to do with a change to the way the default map style *looks* on openstreetmap.org. The second, “MEP –

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

Hi Dave, Although I wasn't there so don't know for certain, I would expect that Henk's (the compère) comment was in reference to the previous talk about Canadian Postal addresses. These things get lost without the full context :-) Regards, Rob ___

[Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

Hi, This talk was given at SOTM 2014 and the video is now online: http://vimeo.com/album/3134207/video/115313286 Summary: Telenav are collecting photos of roadsigns and making them available to OSM via a JOSM plugin. Most coverage is in Germany but there is also a fair number in the UK. See the

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

I didn't look very hard but I also haven't seen anything more recent. The video does say it's beta at this stage launching early 2015. It's still very impressive even now. I looked into image recognition a year ago so have a basic understanding of how complex the matter is. It's pretty amazing

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

Hi all, I've finally found some time to catch up with this thread. :-) * Mapping event Sat 3rd Jan - yes I'll be there, and will map some footpaths. * Lifts - yes If you want a lift from the Warwick/Coventry area (or a train station that my route will take me past) then let me know. * I've also

Re: [Talk-GB] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

Hi all, I've finally found some time to catch up with this thread. :-) * Mapping event Sat 3rd Jan - yes I'll be there, and will map some footpaths. * Lifts - yes If you want a lift from the Warwick/Coventry area (or a train station that my route will take me past) then let me know. * I've also

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

On 29 December 2014 at 17:06, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for Rob for adding the missing footpaths http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/hanbury-footpaths_24885#14/52.8432/-1.7341 (although I've read his blog posts about using umap, seeing is believing). Obviously we can potentially

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

I would map to the first dropped kerb and join back to the road. I would leave what's there but add a link to the road (perhaps at the exit road of the station). Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Skybox for good imagery test

This is not what Skybox has stated publicly (later), seehttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2014-November/008053.html https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2014-November/008053.html This may or may not be in conflict with what Mikel wrote, but in any case there

Re: [OSM-talk] Skybox for good imagery test

Just to pick up on your point about HOT. Google has confirmed that Imagery released under Skybox for Good can be digitized into OSM under OSM's license. This applies to all imagery whether the imagery was captured following a request from HOT or any other organisation. Currently we have the

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

I would be tempted to go a little bit darker - not much but right now the proposal looks very washed out against the background and the contrast between buildings and churches is very stark. But in general this is a good idea. Rob ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there some loop trip founder?

Take a look at http://walks.io/ as a good starting point. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] 176k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

You need to follow the Mechanical Edit Policy: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy This might actually be an import, since there's another data source. Either way, your proceed needs more documentation and review

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Last week in OSM

Hi, This is a neat little tool that shows you the recent edits in OSM. Instead of just showing changeset boxes it shows the individual ways! http://tyrasd.github.io/latest-changes/#13/52.2782/-1.5759 Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

[OSM-talk] Project #OSMselfie

Nice idea. Too often our communications are faceless and I wonder if this in any way has an effect on the tone of the discussions (that is, would we be more polite if we could 'see' the person we are talking too)? Rob p.s. The more time I spend on the mailing lists, the more I see them as a tool

Re: [OSM-talk] Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: On 15.10.2014 19:46, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi list members, State of the Map conferences are a great way to bring the community together, reach out to new members and promote innovation. I am delighted to see that the OpenStreetMap Foundation have committed

[OSM-talk] Skybox release aerial imagery

Hi list, Google (through their acquisition of skybox) have released some aerial imagery under the Cc-by licence: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/26/skybox-for-good/ Can someone just remind me - are we able to use this in OpenStreetMap? If yes, please forward to the HOT mailing list as it is of

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hockley Flyover art

I recognise that artist's work! He has a piece in Coventry too. I was pretty sure I'd mapped it and could just add the wikidata tags but turns out I was wrong. Anyway it's now mapped and includes wikidata tags and the English Heritage listed status tags:

Re: [OSM-talk] Applications to the Local Chapter Agreement

Thanks Jói, I was never seriously expecting there to be any conflicts over geographic territory and I'm confident that you are best placed to know of any other groups in your area. My question was more out of curiosity - I'm glad I asked because I've discovered new groups I was unaware of :-)

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

Matthijs wrote: Dear all, I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains Thanks Matthijs and everyone else who has contributed since. I know that retail mapping is one of Matthijs' pet projects (he always picks up the retail areas

[OSM-talk] AGM announcements

Simon wrote: The scheduling issue is real and it flatly wouldn't have been possible to formally announce in time (which would have had to been 60 days back to give enough time to avoid the cut off without undue haste). The solution to this will likely be to disassociate GM scheduling from the

[OSM-talk] Simon Poole resigns

I've only spotted this on OSMF-talk so far but feel it should be shared here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2014-October/002773.html I'm still reading through the OSMF-talk mailing list, but so far it looks like Simon has not yet provided any reason (which is fine for now

[OSM-talk] SotM 2014 program and AGM

Hi all, The program for SotM 2014 is now available. This includes the date and time of the Annual General Meeting of the OSM Foundation. SotM: http://stateofthemap.org/program AGM: http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/14 I'd like to thank everyone involved in pulling this

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