Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Free Software Foundation Europe Award Presentation

2014-03-20 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
considering coming? To remind you the award is being presented at around 5pm by the Free Software Foundation Europe herehttp://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.47849/-1.88967at the Warehouse Café Regards Brian (forwarded to list by myself, RobJN) On 17 March 2014 18:32, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

Re: [OSM-talk] Use leaflet or openlayers to display a route relations in realtime

2014-03-19 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
I've looked briefly into using Leaflet or Openlayers can work out how to hard code the lat/long of each node or to load a gpx file, but see no way to retrieve the current data. What is the best/any way to do this? Cheers Dave F. Hi Dave, Take a look at Overpass API [1]. There is a XAPI

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OpenData attributes from closed vector data

2014-03-18 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
of potentially derived data. Regards, Rob On 7 March 2014 22:40, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I have been provided (i) original vector data and (ii) a printed map leaflet both of which include attribute data about roads - for example, whether the road is lit. The owner

[Talk-GB] Fwd: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Free Software Foundation Europe Award Presentation

2014-03-17 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
See Forwarded message. This included the talk-gb address in the To field, but doesn't seem to have come through, so I've reposted it. It will be great to see you all there this Saturday. Rob -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org Date: 17 March 2014

[OSM-talk] Gaming and OSM - A users reflection

2014-03-12 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi List, I spotted this on blogs.openstreetmap.org today and though it was worth a share on this mailing list. The diary post below covers one users reflection on a recent competition [1] run by Telenav / Scout in the US. Users were encourage to edit the map to earn points, with the highest

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] March meetings

2014-03-12 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
When is Saturdays meeting? Are we going for The Crown as Ian suggested? Rob p.s Sunset is at 6:14 on Saturday. On 10 March 2014 20:52, Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org wrote: I'll map the area South of the Cathedral On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Matthijs Melissen

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tysoe Parish Council

2014-03-04 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
I can help too. Rob On 4 Mar 2014 11:27, Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org wrote: Hi everyone I've had an approach from a guy called Mike Sanderson who wants to collaborate with us as the local folk have to produce a Parish Neighbourhood Plan and want some basic training and a mapping party.

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Street tagging Problem

2014-02-22 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
If you don't care for tagging lanes, then I would go for: oneway = yes oneway:psv = no This is from the oneway section of: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access Full conditional restrictions are explained at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conditional_restrictions Rob On 18 February

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Street tagging Problem

2014-02-22 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
, in effect PSV can go in both directions, it's everyone else who can't? http://bigfatfrog67.me On 22/02/2014 19:03, Rob Nickerson wrote: If you don't care for tagging lanes, then I would go for: oneway = yes oneway:psv = no ... ___ Talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] OOC 1:25k OS mapping

2014-02-20 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, That looks great - really sharp. I'll add it to my layers in JOSM and see how it differs from the NLS layer. I think it will be interesting to see how the 1:25k maps evolved over time as towns expanded. Rob On 20 February 2014 17:44, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: As an

Re: [Talk-GB] Closure of NPTG-Viewer

2014-02-19 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
FINAL CALL: Last chance to use the NPTG-Viewer before it disappears for good. Regards, Rob On 16 February 2014 15:38, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: All, In the next few days we will be moving the mappa-merica.org domain on to our new Wordpress based site (blog post

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Closure of NPTG-Viewer

2014-02-16 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
All, In the next few days we will be moving the mappa-merica.org domain on to our new Wordpress based site (blog post to follow). Part of this switch will involve the switching off of the NPTG-Viewer - a tool to compare place information in OpenStreetMap with localities in the National Public

[Talk-GB] Closure of NPTG-Viewer

2014-02-16 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
All, In the next few days we will be moving the mappa-merica.org domain on to our new Wordpress based site (blog post to follow). Part of this switch will involve the switching off of the NPTG-Viewer - a tool to compare place information in OpenStreetMap with localities in the National Public

[OSM-talk] Wiki Beginners' Guide

2014-02-15 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi, I have a proposal for simplifying the Beginners' Guide on the wiki. This is step 1 and is all about setting the foundations to make future improvements a lot easier. Comments on my proposal welcome. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Beginners%27_guide#2014_Updates Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-14 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Osmose QA tool do this job. Perhaps I am not aware of everything that Osmose can do, but my basic understanding is that it provides an in browser view of errors already in OSM. What I was trying to propose in (1) and (2) was a really slick, really simple tool that allows the user to load in two

Re: [OSM-talk] Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-11 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I tried to send the following idea to the imports mailing list the other day, but turns out I wasn't registered to post there. I guess it fits well with Summer of Code so I will add it to the wiki, but not being a developer I can't mentor anyone. snip So my question is: How do we

Re: [Talk-GB] Glasgow Open OS Data for Open Street Map

2014-02-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Tim, All, Despite what it says on http://data.glasgow.gov.uk/ this is NOT available under an OpenData licence. It is a developers license and would not allow use in OpenStreetMap: https://twitter.com/openglasgow/status/431063964437344256 I am starting to get very annoyed about how local

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-02-08 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
to raise this request on their behalf. Regards, Rob On 8 February 2014 19:53, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Rob Nickerson wrote: Warwickshire CC are documenting it at http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/gisAt the moment they seem to have gone for the approach

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] OpenData List for BCC

2014-02-07 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Try the NCR for electric charge points (need survey to confirm they are in deed there): http://data.gov.uk/dataset/national-charge-point-registry http://www.nationalchargepointregistry.com/ What we could do with is an phone app in which you can load all this data, and then when surveying you can

Re: [Talk-GB] Confirmation of Rights of Way tags

2014-02-05 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
are missing. If it's then later discovered *not* to be a right of way, the designation tag can always be removed. Nick -Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: - To: Gregory Marler nomoregra...@googlemail.com, Talk-GB talk-gb@openstreetmap.org From: Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

[Talk-GB] Confirmation of Rights of Way tags

2014-02-04 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi, Just to confirm, the tags for a right of way are described at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_access_provisions#Public_Rights_of_Way Basically, if its on the ground AND in the councils definitive map as a right of way then use designation=public_footpath (or public_bridleway, etc).

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] OFF-TOPIC: Andy's Wikipedia voice project

2014-01-29 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I spotted this on Engadget.com and thought, hmm, sounds like Andy's work. Although he's not mentioned by name in Engadget's write-up, the Guardian did give him a shout out. Well done Andy Mabbett :-) Now if only we could get both pronunciations of Shrewsbury added to it's wikipedia

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

2014-01-25 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Okay, I'm going to take a different approach and look at the original intention of the OS OpenData initiative (ignoring OpenStreetMap). Not that this relates to the original OS OpenData product. A) Following public consultation [1]: Central government has negotiated a commercial

[Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-01-14 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi everyone This url is indeed just for the 3 sets of aerial imagery and I will check with Jonathan at WCC if it's correct Regards Brian Hi All, As noted the http://wppgeog3/gs/Aerial_Photography/wms link will not work on the public web (it's a internal link for Warwickshire CC only as it

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-01-14 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Oh sorry, I've just realised that Grant's link is fine. I should read (and test) before writing! http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/gs/Aerial_Photography/wms Just pop this in JOSM's +WMS dialogue in the setting menu. Best wishes, Rob On 14 January 2014 21:41, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

[OSM-talk] Meet us in Birmingham on Thursday

2013-12-03 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi all, We are fast approaching the first Thursday of the month and that means it's time for the local West Midlands group to meet up for a drink or two in the evening. All are welcome, so please join us from 7:30pm at The Bull, Price Street, Birmingham.

Re: [OSM-talk] Meet us in Birmingham on Thursday

2013-12-03 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
(Sorry, that should have gone to talk-gb - please reply there) On 3 December 2013 22:49, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We are fast approaching the first Thursday of the month and that means it's time for the local West Midlands group to meet up for a drink or two

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] December meetup

2013-12-03 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I'm busy in the hours before our meeting so cannot give a definite time, but will aim to be there before 8 Rob On 3 December 2013 18:36, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: I usually try to get there between 7 and 7:30. I'm very busy this week but currently plan to be there -

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] New Mappa Mercia website

2013-12-03 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Okay, time to re-focus my efforts on the Mappa Mercia website. The current version of the site is online at http://mappa-mercia.org/ . And the proposed new version is in development at http://mappa.stulester.co.uk/ Looking at the new design again (with SOTM now behind us) I now think we are

Re: [Talk-GB] Hants CC - Open Government Licence use of data

2013-12-03 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi, The Hants data was one of the first Rights of Way datasets that we got access to. It is my understanding that we did get the permission for using this OS OpenData licensed data above and beyond what the OS OpenData license says (we have permission from both OS and Hants CC). Having said

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Meet us in Birmingham on Thursday

2013-12-03 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi all, We are fast approaching the first Thursday of the month and that means it's time for the local West Midlands group to meet up for a drink or two in the evening. All are welcome, so please join us from 7:30pm at The Bull, Price Street, Birmingham.

[Talk-GB] The We of the recent redesign

2013-12-02 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
(And yes, before it went live, many people suggested to remove the Welcome box as well.) And the response was 'we will not change it!' so why ask for comments when the changes were already a done deal? -- Hi Lester, I just want to pick up on this point to make it clear that the we in this

Re: [Talk-GB] cycle.travel - new OSM-powered cycling site

2013-12-02 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Oh, I forget to say that I like the way you are using the OS Open Data to add the built up landuse areas. Hopefully it will also encourage more people to map buildings to help improve the OSM data. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

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

2013-12-01 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Brian, (I tried my best to communicate this change - oh, and it was also at SOTM 2013 :-P ) I agree that these changes should be communicated better which is exactly why I posted news of this change to both the talk and talk-gb mailing list a few weeks ago. I was only aware of it's imminent

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
How do I close the Welcome to openstreetmap box on the new map page? Regards, Maarten Hi Maarten, Firstly a big thank you to everyone who worked on the new design for OpenStreetMap.org website. I'm not going to try to name everyone as I am bound to miss someone out, but as you will see online

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi Lester, If you are after a full screen map for your website, it is very easy to create one with a simple html page that links to Leaflet (the tool for providing pan and zoom, etc) and the tiles server at OSM. I've attached something I was able to get up and running quite quickly. My web

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

2013-11-17 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
To use the map I'd prefer not to have that signup box floating around all the time (I am only logged in when I am about to edit). Oliver You could tick the stay logged in button, or alternatively if you want a full screen map there are plenty of sites that provide alternate views of OSM

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

2013-11-17 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
On 17 November 2013 21:14, Oliver Jowett oliver.jow...@gmail.com wrote: Is the response to Here's a usability issue with the proposed changes really use something else then? Oliver Not at all. I am trying to help you by communicating the fact that this change is upcoming, and I am collating

[OSM-talk] Upcoming changes - a reply to your feedback

2013-11-16 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Thank you for all the comments about the proposed redesign of OpenStreetMap.org website. I fed these back to the developers on the github pull request [1]. John has written a reply to the ideas, which I have copied below. In summary changes have been made to the Welcome text and urban

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

2013-11-16 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Thanks for all the comments so far. I will communicate them back to the github pull request [1] on your behalf. In regards to the comment about wanting a [x] button on the welcome text, it does disappear for logged in users and small screen devices. As for non logged in users this request has

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

2013-11-15 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
(The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback) (I posted this email to the talk mailing list last Tuesday. Since then we had some great feedback and changes have been made to the

[OSM-talk] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-12 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
(The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback) Hi All, Today the updated design for the main OpenStreetMap.org website is nearly ready to be rolled out. You can view a demo at

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-12 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
will correct me if I have got this mixed up) On 12 November 2013 23:05, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: (The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback) Hi All, Today

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-12 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Forwarding to mailing list. -- Forwarded message -- From: christian.pietzsch Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 Subject: Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website To: RobJN Hi Thanks everyone for their great work. I like the new design. Lot of space for the map itself, clearly

[OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, A few days ago there was a thread about the pros/cons of moving admin boundaries to a new database. I'm not going to give my opinion on this as the thread has now fizzled out, but I will suggest that decisions like this should involve as many of our end data users as possible (we have

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Jochen Topf said: I am sorry if I came across as arrogant or dismissive. This is absolutely not my intention. No offence taken. As you say, we are in agreement here, mappers and data consumers must talk and help each other. What I was arguing against is somehow feeling responsible for data

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

2013-11-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi Paul, I hope you are well. As you have seen my responses at [1] and [2], it will come as no surprise that I oppose this move. I have set out my reasoning below: == Reason 1: Open Historical Maps (OHM) is not an entirely separate project to OSM == I will start by providing a bit of

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

2013-11-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, We are mixing up two issues here. One is as to whether historic layers should be removed from the default menus (and determining what counts as historic of no value to current mapping) and the second issue of how iD presents the list. Please do not let an iD bug direct the future

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Layers (WAS: Editor backbground layers in iD)

2013-11-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Andy T, By default menus I mean those background layers that appear for normal folk who just go to osm.org and click edit (be that in ID, JOSM, Potlatch). Basically those people who do not spend the time, or have the know-how to add a new layer in JOSM's menus, or add a custom URL in ID. I'm also

[Talk-GB] walks.io

2013-11-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
A great website in this weeks Weekly Notice [1] (translated from German), and a great reason as to why I contribute to OSM: http://walks.io/ Best, RobJN [1] http://blog.openstreetmap.de/blog/2013/11/07/wochennotiz-nr-172/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social tonight (Thursday)

2013-11-06 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Share an OSM moment with us over a drink or two at The Bull, Price Street, Birmingham. Tonight (Thursday) from 7 ish. I'll aim to get there at around 7:30. Hope to see you all: -) Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

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

2013-11-03 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I think its probably my turn to step in and moderate on this one given that Jonathan's original post stems from me asking him about some road classifications in his home town. To summarise: a simple question was asked entirely inocently, and I am 100% sure that it was not meant to

[OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 Videos

2013-11-02 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, As promised, I am currently working to upload the videos from SOTM 2013 in Birmingham, all sliced up into the individual presentations (rather than the whole day). So far I've managed to upload the videos for Friday. Please be aware that we had quite a few sound issues on Friday so not

Re: [Talk-GB] How to reference SotM?

2013-11-01 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
If you are using the Harvard style of referencing then this site should have you covered: http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm In regards to Alyssa's presentation, then there is a video available at http://osm.won2.de/sotm/ but there are unfortunately issues with echoing audio for

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

2013-10-30 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, I get all of your points on this one, but just as we generally don't go and remove other peoples custom tags, I think it would be a shame if we remove available layers. Having historical background layers can attract people to other projects (Open Historical Map). I've even used historic

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

2013-10-30 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Dealing with it from a UI perspective is difficult, and I get the impression that's the main issue, not the coding once the UI is figured out. I'm not a UI designer, but I'll have a go at sketching a few ideas over the next 7 days. It would be a shame to drop background layers where they are

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

2013-10-28 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, I would like to see as many layers as possible in iD and other editors. The issue, in my opinion, is one of how best to present the available layers (more on that later). So why more layers: 1). More layers = more choice and more potential sources for confirming the presence or absence

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

2013-10-28 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Is there a useful distinction between the two 1:25000 layers? -- Andrew At face value, no. They both show map sheets from the Ordnance Survey 1:25k series (although the dates may differ slightly). However if we look at the hosting of these tiles we find that one of these is provided by the

Re: [Talk-GB] Notes feature

2013-10-27 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Great idea. I spotted http://onosm.org/ the other day. Perhaps this could be used to capture the details. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2013-10-22 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Brian, I think the task was/is to change artist:name to artist_name so that it matches the existing tags used in your heritage map. Rob On 22 October 2013 17:41, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andy Can I ask why? Please be aware that my heritage map data relies currently on

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

2013-10-21 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Andy, The easiest way to do this is to go to the taginfo page and click the JOSM link in the top left. As long as you have JOSM open this will download all the content with the artist:name tag key. This is where I get stuck and have to refer to manually editing them. If you try to select all and

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

2013-10-21 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
On 21 October 2013 22:51, Ed Loach: Offlist – in JOSM after downloading, can’t you just search for things with the tag you want to change and then edit the tag, or do you mean it still adds it to the nodes of the ways even though they won’t be part of the selection? Ah yes that's how to do

Re: [Talk-GB] Names on Power Lines

2013-10-13 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi, Looking at National Grids shapefiles (published online [1] but no licence stated so assumed to be copyright), then it appears that names like the one you linked to are used but on the circuit rather than the line. For example, each line-string (or way in OSM terminology) can have a circuit 1

Re: [Talk-GB] ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries

2013-10-10 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
How would I deal with a subdivision that has multiple codes? For example in Wales, we have both GB-CRF and GB-CRD for Cardiff (Caerdydd) - one code for English language, and another code for Welsh. How to tag this? Regards, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list

[Talk-GB] Tesco Hudl - GPS accuracy

2013-10-07 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Has anyone tried the GPS on the new cheap Hudl tablet Tesco launched the other week? I'm just starting to venture into the modern world and have been trying out some of the android apps related to OSM. Many of these require a reasonably good GPS chip, which seems to be slowing me down a

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

2013-10-04 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Thanks for those that have helped so far. I am now in contact with a OSM sys admin to get these maps up on a tile server (for subsequent use in the OSM editors). Out of interest, OSM servers are able to create tiles on the fly as long as it is provided a raster image that is geocoded.

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

2013-10-04 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Thanks for those that have helped so far. I am now in contact with a OSM sys admin to get these maps up on a tile server (for subsequent use in the OSM editors). Out of interest, OSM servers are able to create tiles on the fly as long as it is provided a raster image that is geocoded.

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

2013-10-02 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
I think we can manage this :-) I would suggest just using one of the existing map tiles such as toner as a starting point. Plenty to keep us going post sotm!! Rob On 2 Oct 2013 10:09, Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org wrote: Hi everyone - I've responded to this guy and offered him our help.

[OSM-talk] OSM homepage redesign

2013-10-01 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I note that there hasn't been a recent what developments are currently happening type email, so I'll step in with this one. At SOTM 2013 John Firebaugh (mapbox) presented an update to the SOTM US talk that explored a new vision for the openatreetmap.org website. The talk was well

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

2013-09-29 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Corner coordinates are now displaying, allowing these to be aligned adjusted to fit. Have fun! Are the configuration files available already somewhere or is there a plan to make them available so users of the maps could just load the maps rather than having to align themselves with the given

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

2013-09-28 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, There is a whole bunch of OS Town Plans available on the National Library of Scotland website. They are already georectified and served up as tiles (ready for use in OSM editors). I am in the early stages of getting these added to iD and JOSM as a series of separate layers. I note that

Re: [Talk-GB] Land Registry postcode tool now running

2013-09-28 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
on the Copyright page [2] and the page makes it clear that you should see the Contributors page for the other sources. Best regards, Rob Nickerson [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Land_Registry_-_Price_paid_data [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Re: [Talk-GB] Land Registry postcode tool now running

2013-09-28 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Oh I should add that I am a fan of source tags on the objects myself so I add a source:postcode=Land Registry 'Price Paid' data tag (or =ONS Postcode Centroids) to my edits. Not everyone agrees that source tags should be added to the objects, preferring instead to add them to the changeset

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 videos

2013-09-24 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
We are fully aware of all these points and are aiming to do so. Feel free to organise sotm 14 :-) On 24 Sep 2013 07:26, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:02:05AM +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: We were hoping to get markers/chapt... Unfortunately that isn't enough

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

2013-09-23 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
and get a better plan together. ** ** Cheers Andy ** ** *From:* Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 09 July 2013 21:13 *To:* Andy Robinson *Cc:* Oxford, Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds; talk-gb-westmidlands; Talk-GB *Subject:* Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 videos

2013-09-22 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
We were hoping to get markers/chapters in the video so that you can jump to the right section. Unfortunately this is taking longer than anticipated. I'll follow up with this one and see how its going. Cheers, Rob ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] QGIS 2.0 now available

2013-09-22 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
All, For those interested in the world of GIS beyond just OpenStreetMap you may be interested to know that version 2.0 of QGIS (a free open source alternative to ArcGIS) has now been released. My understanding is that the old OpenStreetMap plugin (which broke when we moved to 64bit nodes) has

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Acesss behind houses in North Birmingham

2013-09-16 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
I've wondered about these in the past too. I'm not quite sure that track is correct even though they are unpaved (to me a track is more rural). How about: highway=service service=alley surface=unpaved I guess the next question is - what if the alleyway is only wide enough for wheelie

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Acesss behind houses in North Birmingham

2013-09-16 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
the end sections that may be paved where it rejoins the road). Rob On 16 September 2013 22:13, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: To complicate matters, a minority are paved, and a few are paved for some of their length. On 16 September 2013 22:05, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 - Poster and Accommodation deadline

2013-09-04 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
As the deadline for poster printing has gone, is there a possibility to get a print during the conference e.g. from a USB stick (like we did at FOSSGIS)? Yours, Stefan 2013/8/25 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com Hi All, Two deadlines for State of the Map to be aware of: == 1. Posters

[OSM-talk] SOTM Posters - Last Chance

2013-08-31 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, We managed to get a batch of posters printed for SOTM last Friday, so we've got time to run another print batch next week. If you would like to display a poster at SOTM 2013 and would like us to print it for you then please get in contact as soon as possible. Best wishes, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 - Final programme and end of mates rates

2013-08-30 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi Michael, I'm sorry that you are having issues with viewing the programme with NoScript running on your computer. Unfortunately with only 7 days to go until SOTM, the whole team is bogged down with organising the finer details needed to ensure that the conference runs as smoothly as possible.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 - Final programme and end of mates rates

2013-08-29 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hmm, that's odd as I seem to see it fine with and without my google account. Anyone else able to confirm this for me please? The programme will be making it's way onto Lanyrd soon so you should be able to view it there. Lanyrd has a great website designed for mobile devices (and a dedicated app)

Re: [Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 - Final programme and end of mates rates

2013-08-29 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hmm, that's odd as I seem to see it fine with and without my google account. Anyone else able to confirm this for me please? The programme will be making it's way onto Lanyrd soon so you should be able to view it there. Lanyrd has a great website designed for mobile devices (and a dedicated app)

[OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 - Final programme and end of mates rates

2013-08-28 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, == SOTM Final Programme == After a lot of hard work and many long hours the final programme for State of the Map 2013 is now available to view at http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/programme/ This will also be copied over to Lanyrd in the coming days and the preceding text updated on the

[Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 - Final programme and end of mates rates

2013-08-28 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, == SOTM Final Programme == After a lot of hard work and many long hours the final programme for State of the Map 2013 is now available to view at http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/programme/ This will also be copied over to Lanyrd in the coming days and the preceding text updated on the

[OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 - Poster and Accommodation deadline

2013-08-25 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Two deadlines for State of the Map to be aware of: == 1. Posters: == We are offering to print (free of charge thanks to ITO World) A1 sized posters for display at SOTM. This is ideal for people who want to share something with the community but are unable to attend. Our print deadline

[Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 - Poster and Accommodation deadline

2013-08-25 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Two deadlines for State of the Map to be aware of: == 1. Posters: == We are offering to print (free of charge thanks to ITO World) A1 sized posters for display at SOTM. This is ideal for people who want to share something with the community but are unable to attend. Our print deadline

[OSM-talk] Photo Competition

2013-08-19 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, To get you excited for State of the Map in 17 days time, we have launched a photo competition to find the most usual object / sign / situation found whilst surveying. You don't need to be attending SOTM 2013 to enter this competition so head over to the blog post [1] or wiki page [2] to

[Talk-GB] Photo Competition

2013-08-19 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, To get you excited for State of the Map in 17 days time, we have launched a photo competition to find the most usual object / sign / situation found whilst surveying. You don't need to be attending SOTM 2013 to enter this competition so head over to the blog post [1] or wiki page [2] to

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Local places in Wikipedia but not OSM

2013-08-11 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Half of them seem to be radio stations. Even if I can figure out how to tag these, should I tag the studio or something else (e.g. transmitter)? Radio Warwick always used to be in Students Union building, but Milliams may be able to confirm whether this is still correct. On 11 August 2013

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Just a quick update on the Hackday following SOTM 2013: If you need somewhere to stay on the Sunday and/or Monday night, Conference Aston Hotel have kindly extended our discount code. Please book online at [1] using the discount code in the confirmation email you received when you signed

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
The hotel booking link I failed to attach is: http://kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk/ Cheers, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-GB] Volunteers for SOTM 2013

2013-08-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hello Talk-GB, We could do with a few more volunteers helping out at SOTM 2013 (6th-8th September, Birmingham). The tasks will range from manning the front desk (general enquiries), helping the presenters with setting up, and keeping the conference running to schedule. Nothing too strenuous and

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Just a quick update on the Hackday following SOTM 2013: If you need somewhere to stay on the Sunday and/or Monday night, Conference Aston Hotel have kindly extended our discount code. Please book online at [1] using the discount code in the confirmation email you received when you signed

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-09 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
The hotel booking link I failed to attach is: http://kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk/ Cheers, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[OSM-talk] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-08 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, SOTM 2013 is now only 4 weeks away!! For information on signing-up, submitting a poster and/or attending the post SOTM hackday, please see the sections below. == Register to attend == If you're planning to come and have not yet signed up, what are you waiting for? If you head over to the

[Talk-GB] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-08 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Hi All, SOTM 2013 is now only 4 weeks away!! For information on signing-up, submitting a poster and/or attending the post SOTM hackday, please see the sections below. == Register to attend == If you're planning to come and have not yet signed up, what are you waiting for? If you head over to the

[Talk-GB] OS OpenData Licence update (WAS: Finding Unmapped public rights of way)

2013-07-29 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
Robert W said: That being the case, please note that Ordnance Survey have recently stated that their OS OpenData licence is not forward compatible with the ODC-By and ODbL. Yes, they did, and that quote has gotten them in a lot of trouble. The Open Government License (of which Ordnance Survey's

Re: [Talk-GB] Finding Unmapped public rights of way

2013-07-28 Per discussione Rob Nickerson
I created this in QGIS comparing the OSM data to the PRoW released from Durham County Council, I created a special query using intersects. This is why it's not perfectly accurate because if an OSM mapped math intersected with the PRoW data it would show up green, even though it may not be that

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