Re: [Talk-GB] Guidance for adding PRoW to OSM

2012-12-31 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Dudley Ibbett wrote: Please be careful with the ™doesn't actually exist™ as the owner may not have maintained the access point in the hope that people will stop using the path. I've seen this on a number of occasions. If there's something visible on the ground then I'd definitely map it,

[Talk-GB] Byway between Muston and Belvoir (was Guidance for adding PRoW to OSM)

2012-12-31 Per discussione SomeoneElse
/user/SomeoneElse/traces/1360385 It's got waypoints in it - look for those labelled sym=Boat Ramp for PROW identifiers. The actual recorded PRoW (byway) as shown by OS cuts the corner slightly, but is shown as not being visible on the ground (the PRoW Byway route is not recoreded on OSM

Re: [talk-au] Suburbs in Australia

2012-12-20 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Darren Burt wrote: See the recent discussion on this list for town vs city, in the OSM sense. Can you provide a direct link or forward information on this? The list archives are here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/ and the city thread started here:

[Talk-GB] Cycle routing over uncycleable BOATs

2012-12-20 Per discussione SomeoneElse
(like the Unfit for Motors question, but for bicycles) I recently noticed that someone's changed the track between Stanage Pole and Redmires west of Sheffield to bicycle=no. It's been a few months since I was there (and the last time I was it was snowing horizontally) so I can't be sure but

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-18 Per discussione SomeoneElse
One thing that I'd definitely do (and you may be doing already) would be to record details from the actual sign in a note tag. That's not going to help routers, but it will help future mappers and aid retagging when at some point in the future we've reached a concensus about how best to map

Re: [Talk-GB] The Monsal Trail in Derbyshire

2012-12-18 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Thanks to everyone who replied. I'll go with cycleway, since that seems to be the most popular description of it. I'll try and address the sense of 2 abreast is possible and an ambulance can get down there if necessary by sticking a width tag on it. Re the other thoughts: Although there

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Circular Quay missing

2012-12-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Ben Kelley wrote: Most of Circular Quay, east of Pitt St seems to have disappeared. Seems to be change 14271851. Could someone revert this? I've reverted it. I'll send a polite message to the mapper - it looks like a I just want to create a simple map for my hotel reception Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-talk] View tag details

2012-12-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Philip Barnes wrote: On the main osm map, under the edit tab, until recently there used to be a 3rd option. It's moved back to the layer switcher, where it used to be before it moved to the edit menu. Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list

[Talk-GB] The Monsal Trail in Derbyshire

2012-12-15 Per discussione SomeoneElse
A couple of weeks ago I spent a very cold day walking up and down part of the Monsal Trail - essentially from Little Longstone to the A6. It has been remapped since the tunnels reopened, but is in places a bit of a hodge-podge, so I propose to standardise it a bit as follows: o Instead of

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

2012-12-07 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Peter Miller wrote: Just to say that I have added tagging and a relations for both of the main road schemes mentioned specifically in the Autumn Statement. Is there any actual benefit to doing this before construction actually starts? Until that point nothing on the ground has changed -

Re: [Talk-GB] Telegraph releases Green Belt data

2012-11-28 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andy Allan wrote: Before we could use it in OSM, we'd need the dataset to come with a clear licence. (as has already been mentioned by Blackadder on #OSM-GB) I suspect that we'd also want slightly more accurate data. I've had a bit of a look at the Telegraph's map and in places it's not

Re: [OSM-talk] there are lots of falkland islands

2012-11-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Robin Paulson wrote: tens, possibly hundreds in fact. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-51.8629lon=-58.2445zoom=13layers=M http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-51.8315lon=-58.9263zoom=12layers=M perhaps an import gone wrong? It's caused by this changeset:

Re: [Talk-GB] OS boundary data as background images in Potlatch orJOSM

2012-11-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
J.Woollacott wrote: Colin Is there anyway to get the National Park's boundary lines in this format please? The Peak District boundary has some info about where it came from: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/162867421 Which does prompt another question - is a national park boundary

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator comparison and Google Streetview

2012-11-15 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Peter Miller wrote: Just to say that I, along with a number of other people, have being doing some OS Locator based updates to OSM over the past few days following the release of the latest OS Locator update. (leaving aside the Google issue) Can I make one additional request - If you're

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading data via the Export tab

2012-10-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Dave F. wrote: Downloading XML from the website's Export Tab appears to put a Limit of 50,000 nodes. Given that what you're after isn't time-critical, wouldn't Overpass or even a split from an england.osm.pbf be a better option? Cheers, Andy ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Downloading OSM data for certain area using Geofabrik

2012-10-18 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Dave F. wrote: I'm trying to download OSM/XML data to upload to my Garmin GPSr. Since teddynetz stopped updating I've tried using Geofabrik. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to store a file for Bristol/Bath area. Anybody know where it's stored or failing that recommend an alternative? If you

Re: [OSM-talk] Who is a good mapper? Who isn't?

2012-10-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: Equating changeset comment quality with mapper quality is total BS. Descriptive comments are helpful to other mappers but that is all. They don't tell you anything about the quality of the changes. Directly

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

2012-10-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Chris Hill wrote: We have had problematic edits from that young man before. He seems to have changed his OSM ID (from TomPopple) For the avoidance of confusion, and not blocking the wrong user (!), actually the old name was tompople, unused since Jan 2012. Cheers, Andy

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

2012-10-15 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Does anyone know if the A460 is now subject to motorway regulations as it passes over the M6 and M6 Toll? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.66199lon=-2.06171zoom=16layers=M I'm guessing that it doesn't, and that the two most recent changes here (to motorway_link and adding bicycle=no) are

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group Welcome WG

2012-10-02 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Richard Weait wrote: Dear All, I recently discussed an idea for a new OSMF working Group on the OSMF talk list. Like many other people, I've contacted new local mappers over the last couple of years and can probably contribute some stats to help collate the was contacted, how and what the

Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

2012-10-01 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Ilya Zverev wrote: It marks a changeset than probably needs attention. The same as red date colour in the front-end. Such changesets are mostly potlatch edits involving ways and relations, mass deletions or other significant edits. Hmm. Apparently most of my changesets need attention

Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Philip Barnes wrote: Select way or node. Click advanced. Click way/node number. Click more details. I think that the question was about changeset tags, in which case there are a couple more steps: View History. Choose the changeset to view information for, and click it. Here's an

Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Someoneelse wrote: Is there any easy way (in any editor with any plugin) of getting to this information - preferably a collated list of object / changeset tags? I've just done this in P2's history dialogue for 'comment' and 'source': https://github.com/systemed

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: In that you agree with most of the opinions expressed on the French list : contributors using the cadastre generally add other details at the same time, which is one of the reasons why they find using two different accounts inconvenient. Maybe it's a work in

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Without the isolated clusters of buildings, how would you know that some important roads are missing ? Visiting the village and walking around it? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Are we now reaching the crux of this discussion ? Do you believe that local survey is a requirement for mapping ? I don't and I back my position with all the places I have mapped without having visited them - I'm curious about what criticism you'll express about the

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

2012-09-26 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andrew M. Bishop wrote: At the moment though Routino doesn't store the value of maxspeed:hgv tags but if people started using them then it might be worth adding. Surely we wouldn't want to encourage people to add that to every single carriageway road in the UK with a national speed limit,

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

2012-09-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andrew M. Bishop wrote: As the author of an OSM data consumer (the router Routino) I think that distinguishing between single and dual carriageways is mostly irrelevant in the argument for preferring numeric values for maxspeed tags. The real reason which I see, and which is much more difficult

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/248 because that poor guy doesn't read english, was following what we've always done. Hang on - they've been editing since 5th September, it's just over two weeks later; their changeset 13180810 contains 21976 nodes and

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

2012-09-10 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Ilya Zverev wrote: 1) A tile layer of GPS points for the whole world down to zoom 11: http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/ Thanks - that's really useful. It's really easy to see which bits have been mapped locally or remotely! Cheers, Andy ___

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO path designation map designation=unclassified_highway

2012-09-03 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Rob Nickerson wrote: The reason designation=unclassified_county_road is described as obsolete on Robert's page is that there is legally no such thing (unlike public footpaths, etc.. which are included in the legislation - CROW Act 2000). It's a designation still in use by some councils on

Re: [OSM-talk] ITO Mapper sessions to OSMHV changesets

2012-08-22 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Gioele Barabucci wrote: At first I thought about reading the user and time and ask the API to give me back all the changesets around that time frame, but that is highly unreliable. Any other idea? Not directly related to ITO Mapper, but there's a discussion taking place on osm-dev that

Re: [Talk-GB] Should highway=byway be deprecated?

2012-08-22 Per discussione SomeoneElse
to designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic. Cheers, Andy * mostly in the East Mids - other areas may vary! http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=7lat=53.37917lon=-0.4812layers=B0Tu=SomeoneElse ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] Should highway=byway be deprecated?

2012-08-22 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Philip Barnes wrote: I have seen Byway signs in Wiltshire in the past few months. But did they actually look like BOATs or Restricted Byways? Were there associated signs saying take a motorbike up here and we'll nick you (RB) or deep ruts caused by the off-road crowd (BOAT)? In

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

2012-08-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Philip Barnes wrote: A different colour for the machines which charge would be useful, to allow these to be ignored. They're in an ever-so-slightly lighter blue, I think? Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Footway to Sidewalk?

2012-08-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Adam Hoyle wrote: On 21 Aug 2012, at 14:47, Andy Allan wrote: On 21 August 2012 13:27, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Although I'd usually oppose such Americanisms, in this case sidewalk is unambiguous in a way that footway (or pavement

Re: [Talk-GB] On Countryside paths

2012-08-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Philip Barnes wrote: A UK renderer for OSM would be the way to go, that is able to use the OSM data and display rights of way. Would help to spot tagging errors, once they are shown correctly. Well, there's this one that ITO have made: http://www.itoworld.com/map/87#fullscreen (but every

Re: [OSM-talk] Amazon River Relation damaged

2012-08-07 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Holger Jeromin wrote: Is this a problem made by a user or is the editor causing a loss of relation members? Have you contacted the user to find out what they might have done to cause the problem (or even to alert them to the fact that there IS a problem)? Without that, it's difficult to

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - Automated edit: footway - sidewalk

2012-07-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Gregory wrote: I don't have an account on the forum. Your standard OSM login should work there I think? Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction finished already?

2012-07-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jan Kučera wrote: Ok so are imports allowed again? Back in April I made this request: http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg42372.html and I'd suggest that it would help mappers if imports stayed off for a while too. In some areas there's a fair bit of tidying up still to

Re: [talk-au] Question about relations

2012-07-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Adrian Plaskitt wrote: My specific question is, when the route passes down only part of a way, say just a few blocks of a longer street, how do you assign the relation to just a few internodes. Is it necessary to split the ways at the nodes and then just assign the relation to the segments

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps using Sustrans Cycling data

2012-07-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 23/07/2012 11:47, Dave F. wrote: NCN 4 data is already stored within the relation And (for the benefit of the tiny minority who may be unaware) is displayed nicely here: http://cycling.lonvia.de/en/?zoom=14lat=51.45923lon=-2.60028 Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps using Sustrans Cycling data

2012-07-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 23/07/2012 13:31, Dave F. wrote: On 23/07/2012 13:00, SomeoneElse wrote: http://cycling.lonvia.de/en/?zoom=14lat=51.45923lon=-2.60028 Nice. Does that read just the relation data? There's an about this map link at the bottom right that explains what it's using, that points to: http

Re: [talk-au] I feel like such a newbie

2012-07-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Brett Russell wrote: 'Java' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. That just means that Java isn't on your path. Where Java.exe will be will depend on your version of windows, and which version of Java you installed. You'll probably find it

Re: [talk-au] I feel like such a newbie

2012-07-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
FWIW recent splitter and mkgmap versions should work OK with pbf files, I think. (although I still convert to .osm myself, using osmconvert: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert ) Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction and re-mapping

2012-07-13 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Pieren wrote: What would be nice is a slippy map highlighting all elements where user OSMF Redaction Account is the last modifier or destroyer. If you're happy to wait a day, you could do that with ITO's OSM mapper (for ways at least). Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps using Sustrans Cycling data

2012-07-13 Per discussione SomeoneElse
ASnail Snail wrote: Are there other ways other than the cycle map and viewing the attributes of the road to view the changes? (if it affects routing) perhaps some web routing service that honours cycle route settings and displays the date of the data that it uses? Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-talk] Submitting POI to OSM made easy

2012-07-11 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Josh Doe wrote: ... However, I'd say the hardest part of using the tool will be finding it! Make sure to update the wiki, and put it in a prominent place (within one or two clicks from the homepage). From memory I think that there's at least one help.osm.org question about how do I just add

[Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-06-30 Per discussione SomeoneElse
I've noticed a few of these popping up recently, e.g.: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/168528933 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/77277743/history and http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/77277743/histor http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/77277743/historyy

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English?

2012-06-06 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Dave F. wrote: Hi As the subject line really. I've had a quick look but came up blank. Cheers Dave F. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Is http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/en.html what

Re: [OSM-talk] Changing capitalization (Lima)

2012-05-31 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Alex Barth wrote: We're currently working with Ruben (user Rub21) on fixing street name capitalization in Lima - a lot of the street names are ALL CAPS where they should be properly capitalized. Ye gods. Looking at that patch of Lima it appears that name capitalisation is the least of your

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence

2012-05-31 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andy Street wrote: ... do a ground survey to ensure that the path actually follows the route recorded in the definitive map. ... or use a source tag to make it clear where it's come from and that a ground survey hasn't been done there? I'm sure that there'll be places where a right of way

Re: [Talk-GB] Unclassified Country Road (UCR)

2012-05-31 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi All, Now that the Public Right of Way documentation [1] has settled down a bit, I have had a chance to pick up some of the other comments received in the last few weeks. One of which was on Unclassified Country Roads (UCR). I was wondering when this one would crop

[OSM-talk] An indoor airport

2012-05-29 Per discussione SomeoneElse
The fence around an airport here** (Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan): http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.83491lon=74.5764zoom=16layers=M Seems to have been tagged building = yes, building:levels = 2. I'm sure it gets chilly there in the winter, but this seems unlikely. Perhaps someone local to the

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Steve Bennett wrote: We'd be vulnerable to exactly the same kind of attack, right? Do we have any mechanisms to detect or prevent it? Well (at the risk of stating the bleeding obvious) we can actually see data that says maxspeed=0 rather than just wondering why we never actually get routed

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-29 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Tom Chance wrote: 1) Most boundaries follow existing features like roads, rivers, etc. That raises an interesting question - how is the boundary actually defined? Is it defined as the boundary between X and Y is the middle of the river Z, or has someone plotted a series of points P

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: ele=0

2012-05-19 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Worst Fixer wrote: While doing this edit, I also want clean other tag. Also is_in tag was parsed into a set of more detailed tags. I also created overview.html that might help your review. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzI7ljRzQhp4VnFPVkhZa096LWM What _exactly_ are you actually

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging the South Dorset Ridgeway (was South West Coast Path Inland)

2012-05-18 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 18/05/2012 23:51, m902 wrote: 1. Should I add it to the (already too big) South West Coast Path relation? The bits I've looked aren't currently part of any relation. Or should there be a new relation for the South Dorset Ridgeway? Given that the SW Coast Path relation has

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Or indeed we could just go with network=National Rail as a good enough solution. My issue with National Rail was that, to me, (as I explained to the Peruvian chap who's edited Mansfield Woodhouse station): National Rail means these people:

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
AJ Ashton wrote: .. and apparently we messed up. ... AJ @ MapBox Sorry, but who's we here? Is it a bunch of people at some other mailing list/forum, or who work for Mapbox, or something else? Last night I spotted changes from someone (I think*) from Peru, and (I think) from the US -

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way - Image vote

2012-05-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andrew Chadwick wrote: Not a waymarker, but the signposts are fairly rare too; Public Byway or just Byway is the normal wording FWIW Derbyshire seem to have started (within the last 3 months or so) using Byway Open to All Traffic in full on signs. Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

2012-05-15 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Kate Chapman wrote: Hi All, Personally I think it is discouraging. I think positive encouragement is much better than this negative method. Maybe there's a place for both, but one worst example appears to be someone who's been mapping their home town for about a month, which really isn't

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way - Image vote

2012-05-11 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: If the right of way is recorded in the Definitive Statement, then its 100% verifiable that it is indeed a right of way, and we can (given permission to use the Statement) record that in OSM. Indeed - but it's helpful if a source:designation indicates that, so

[Talk-GB] Donington Park

2012-05-08 Per discussione SomeoneElse
(on a different mailing list) Philip Barnes wrote: Very true, and it really grates hearing Donington Park refered to as being in Derbyshire. Seeing that, I had a look to see if anyone had managed to get the current circuit layout for Donington in yet. Unfortunately they haven't, and the

Re: [Talk-GB] Donington Park

2012-05-08 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Kevin Peat wrote: Haven't been to Donington for a couple of years but the only recent change to the track itself that I am aware of is them moving the final chicane back a few metres as shown in this image. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Donington_as_of_2010.svg Yes - that's the one.

Re: [OSM-talk] etrex 20 vs etrex H

2012-05-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Frans Thamura wrote: is etrex 20, ok? It's been discussed on a few of the mailing lists - I'd have a read of those. There are specifics about X works better than before but Y does not; so whether it'll work for you depends on what you want to do with it.

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-02 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Peter Rounce wrote: In view of recent interest in UK rights of way, should we set up a wiki project, possibly at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom/RightsOfWay If you do that what would be helpful would be to include some reference to the other wiki pages that

Re: [Talk-GB] Problematical rural edits across England

2012-04-27 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Philip Barnes wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:25 +0100, Andy Street wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 02:12 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: ... Answers I received about the designation tagging included things like included on Notts CC's definitive map as a byway and from a Definitive map modification

[OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962

2012-04-26 Per discussione SomeoneElse
I noticed this while looking at the map here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059lon=34.825519zoom=18layers=M The Hires coverage of Bing imagery in the Near East label is from the name on this relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1298962 Regardless of the perhaps

[Talk-GB] Problematical rural edits across England

2012-04-26 Per discussione SomeoneElse
I'm wondering what is the best approach to take with a relatively recent contributor to OpenStreetMap. Since joining they've made a large number of edits geographically spread across England. Unfortunately, most of these edits seem at odds with previous on-the-ground surveys. Examples of

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-22 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: It would be _super_ good if we had some tool that would flag and notify some advanced active mapper in a given area of any changesets that delete more than 2 features. .. I'd be totally up for checking any and all changesets in Haiti that delete _anything_. ..

Re: [Talk-GB] Southwest Coast Path (relation) has mostly disappeared.

2012-04-09 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jason Cunningham wrote: Various available links given for checking or viewing the relation are not working (at the moment). Is this a temporary problem, or is it linked to the size of the relation? It looks that way - the links work OK on one of the smaller relations on the United Kingdom

Re: [Talk-GB] Southwest Coast Path (relation) has mostly disappeared.

2012-04-05 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jason Cunningham wrote: I'm therefore concerned I may have done the dirty deed. It wasn't you! wget --timeout=120 http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/69318 shows that the current version is 1751 Looking at the sizes in bytes of previous versions (by doing e.g. wget --timeout=120

Re: [Talk-GB] Southwest Coast Path (relation) has mostly disappeared.

2012-04-05 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Right, (following a discussion on IRC) the SW coast path should be back to as it was in rev 1746 now, apart from ways 30720938, 65128178, 2604800, 30337452, 22976293, 4980897, and 98346377 which were deleted. Locals familiar with the route might want to check what to check the gaps. Also,

[OSM-talk] A personal plea to bot authors

2012-04-01 Per discussione SomeoneElse
There are a number of automated changes that get made to the OSM database (bots). Some are straightforward (correcting common misspellings), some less so (changing one form of tagging to another, removing incorrect data*, removing single-node ways). Would it be possible to suspend automated

Re: [Talk-GB] Un-relicensable roads - now with secondary roads included

2012-03-22 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jason Cunningham wrote: Just had a look at the text file. Can anyone give me some advice on a way to quickly find the locations given in file? It's the way ID: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/78499375 http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=78499375

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways in old mediterranean and similar towns.

2012-03-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Janko Mihelic' wrote: Mappers in these towns treat ways in old parts of their town as something that can't be a footpath. Venice: map http://osm.org/go/0IDhdnwp - photo http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/28533234.jpg San Giminagno:map http://osm.org/go/xXvzjCybS-- photo

Re: [Talk-GB] New, kothic-js version of Freemap

2012-03-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hi, As from yesterday (March 18th) the default version of Freemap (www.free-map.org.uk; UK OSM-based countryside mapping site) has become the kothic-js based 0.6. Apologies if I've missed it, but is there a permalink option anywhere? Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle route 20 / Wandle Trail fragmented

2012-03-12 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andy Allan wrote: It's hard to see the history of such well-edited relations, since our browsing interface will simply time out. This should work, I think: http://osm.mapki.com/history/relation.php?id=12179 ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-02-24 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Richard Fairhurst wrote: (shame it's a Google map, though) Indeed. According to Google someone has knocked down Derby cathedral and rebuilt it across the road. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim and language tags

2012-02-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Brian Quinion wrote: Official languages only (i.e. ones that are used on signs in that country) Presumably you don't want political official languages - i.e. languages that are official but almost no-one speaks as a first language. Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-01-27 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Matthias Meißer wrote: Of course we know, that using just Bing, is just the #2 choice for adding details to our database and that survey is what we all really like. But in this case, we believe, that it is a good compromise (see hints in Wiki). Currently there seem to be no definitive answer

Re: [Talk-GB] unacceptable data

2012-01-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
David Fitzhugh wrote: Could someone please point me in the right direction for finding what may or may not be acceptable data re the license changes. ( I believe its marked in red !!!) There's a summary of the tools available on this wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping

Re: [OSM-talk] howto reverting one changeset?

2012-01-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Paul Hartmann wrote: JOSM reverter plugin is used frequently and should work without problems. It worked for me the last time that I used it (last week I think). I'll try and revert http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10333257 and post success or failure back here. Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-talk] howto reverting one changeset?

2012-01-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
OK, done. What I did was: Check from looking at the changeset that at least some objects haven't been reverted or modified already. Double-click on josm-tested.jar (I used the one that I had from 2nd September 2011 since I know that worked last week) Despite the prompt I didn't update JOSM

Re: [OSM-talk] howto reverting one changeset?

2012-01-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Andy for helping, I had 4223 version of JOSM, that is the latest in Fedora RPM repository. When I started the plugin and gave it changeset it would just hang there, I left it that way for over 10 minutes then made a forceful close :( Valent.

[Talk-GB] Staffordshire Way

2012-01-13 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Just for info, it looks like this has been split up and made part of a super-relation by this changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1956970 With the middle bit added to European walking route E2. This isn't necessarily a bad idea although (a) I suspect some discussion first

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-11 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Michael Collinson wrote: Back to the original thread, good news. Three of the top UK undecided contributors have responded to my messages and kindly accepted the new terms. York, South Wales and High Wycombe looking much better now. Thanks Mike. Chesterfield's looking healthier for that

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM render for mobile

2011-12-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Frans Thamura wrote: you can try www.osmosa.net it is not mobile touch optimize, we cannot zoom by gesture multiple touch and pull apart to zoom is working for me on that site (on a Blackberry Playbook with a Webkit-based browser). ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM render for mobile

2011-12-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Frans Thamura wrote: hi someone. :) do u use the osmosa.net or openstreetmap.org? F Definitely osmosa.net! - Your server will have seen me zooming into Denmark, Western Australia from the same IP address that I'm sending this email from about 20 minutes ago. Cheers, Andy

[Talk-GB] GB boundaries (was Revert my changeset please)

2011-12-05 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Ed Loach wrote: I have seen ... boundaries which follow rivers merged with less accurate river ways rather than moving the river tags to the relevant section of the boundary way). On that specific question, I've seen plenty of places where an imported GB boundary nearly-but-not-quite

Re: [Talk-GB] Revert my changeset please

2011-12-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 03/12/2011 15:45, Pawel Stankiewicz wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#Can_anybody_import_boundaries_of_Scottish_councils.3F More than 1 year ago. And nobody seems interested in. An entry on a wiki talk page that no-one else notices isn't really a

Re: [talk-au] Thoughts on co-ordinating re-mapping

2011-12-02 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 02/12/2011 04:47, El Segundo Can't win wrote: There are two types of re-mapping - on the ground re-mapping, and desktop re-mapping. There's also arguably a third - re-adding edits lost as a result of removal of non-CT edits using notes taken at the time of the original on-the-ground

Re: [Talk-GB] Further Detail on Open Data Measures in the Autumn Statement 2011

2011-11-30 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Craig Loftus wrote: Additionally the OS has also committed to release a set of National Trails in collaboration with Natural England, by April 2013. 2013? What happened to just getting the data out-there? By 2013 I suspect that a few of the national trails will have every gate and stile

Re: [Talk-GB] LCN - Local Cycle Network

2011-11-28 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Jonathan Bennett wrote: Then don't map them. Seriously, if these networks aren't at the implementation stage, there's little point in adding them to OSM. Even worse, if a route relies on some improvement work (e.g. clearing of a railway trackbed) that hasn't been done, having the route there

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Graham Jones wrote: I have had a good go at removing false positives from the BrewMap http://brewmap.maps3.org.uk tagQueries http://brewmap.maps3.org.uk/client/tagQueries.html page by coding it into the query I use to generate the list. There are a few odd things that I think are supposed to

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-14 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Brian Prangle wrote: 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. I believe that it's both, actually. It

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Brian Prangle wrote: How to distinguish real ale from industrial mass market breweries? Put something descriptive in real_ale= perhaps? ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo Imagery

2011-10-19 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Ilya Zverev wrote: Hi! A month ago we said bye to Yahoo imagery due to the shutting down of some of their services. But it is still available in both Potlatch versions. Did the permission to trace mention the services that can be used for tracing (and how is it available in Potlatch then), or

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo Imagery

2011-10-19 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Or we switch P1 off. ;) Eeek! Don't go saying things like that... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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