Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse Farm

2017-05-16 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Yes we did and this discussion is a re-run of the points raised then - not that there's anything wrong with re-running discussions. If folk feel that this is a pressing problem then we could run another Quarterly Project with the same aim. On 16 May 2017 at 15:17, Jez Nicholson

[Talk-GB] Birmingham Tree Imports

2017-05-15 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone There are still discussions reagarding tagging which I'm mulling over. However I'm proposing to edit the already imported data to improve the height data as suggested in the discussions. This will bring the data into line with the generally accepted format for height tags change

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] West Midlands Data Discovery Centre

2017-05-12 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Take a look at this amazing facility which is a development of our work locally with ODI,Birmingham Innovation Centre and Deft351. It's still only a demonstrator, developed by Opendatasoft, but I'm pretty impressed with its visualisation capabilities

[Talk-GB] Proposed Import of UK Shell Filling Stations

2017-05-11 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone There is a proposal for this import currently under discussion on the talk import mailing list and the OSMUK chapter has asked the proposer that it be discussed on the talk GB mailing list Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Next Meeting

2017-05-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
one to meet > them by 7pm if we know who they are. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 03 May 2017 13:00 > > *To:* Andy Robinson > *Cc:* Brian Prangle; talk-gb-westmidlands > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Next Meeting

2017-05-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
hour from New Street and fares > have the benefit of the West Mids zoning I believe. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/52.7572/-1.9397 > > > > The Plaza on Horse Fair is the local Wetherspoon’s. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > *From:* Brian Pr

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Next Meeting

2017-04-26 Per discussione Brian Prangle
ve. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/52.7572/-1.9397 > > > > The Plaza on Horse Fair is the local Wetherspoon’s. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 24 April 2017 19:43 > *To:* talk-gb-westmi

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Next Meeting

2017-04-24 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone This is scheduled for Thursday 4th May and as yet we don't have a venue for our first 2017 map/meet. I htink we left this with Andy R to come up with a suitable area we could blitz in an evening Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-GB] Highways England data

2017-04-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
OSMUK Chapter has opened a dialogue at senior level with Highways England about access to their data and they have indicated they are open to releasing data to us, requesting a list of what we would like to see released. So here's an initial attempt at a list (unprioritised) Comments welcome

[Talk-GB] Birmingham Tree Import

2017-04-13 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Thank you all for your interest in the import of trees in Birmingham. If we'd realised they were this interesting we certainly wouldn't have gone down the road we did. We genuinely thought that the trees of Birmingham wouldn't interest anyone outside of Birmingham and discussion

[Talk-GB] Recent Imports

2017-04-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I'm now back in circulation after a much-needed off-grid break. Give me a couple of days to digest what's been going on and get back into gear and you'll have a considered response from me. regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Recent Imports

2017-04-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I'm now back in circulation after a much-needed off-grid break. Give me a couple of days to digest what's been going on and get back into gear and you'll have a considered response from me. regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

2017-03-18 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi All I'm off for a break and I'm leaving a couple of key imports partially complete so I thought it best to give you an update of where I'm at: Trees 47,000 imported so far (out of a total approx 76,000)- none north of the M6 which I've left for Andy R. Less than 0.1% (estimate) are

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] April Meeting

2017-03-18 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Don't forget there will be NO April OSM meeting as too many of us are away and Easter makes it difficult to re-arrange. May will be our next meeting - AndyR to arrange a peripatetic venue for early mapping then pub meetup Regards Brian ___

[Talk-GB] Attendance at Traffex NEC 4-6 April

2017-03-09 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi All Would anyone be willing to help staff a stand here, for any number of days? We have an opportunity generated by our collaboration in the West Midlands which unfortunately I can't attend due to holidays. It will be a great opportunity to make some industry contacts and promote

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Amey Birmingham Highway Assets Import

2017-03-08 Per discussione Brian Prangle
re is a (python?) script called OSM Conflate > that might help here. > > I am without my laptop until Monday but will look then. > > Rob > > On 3 Mar 2017 10:06 a.m., "Brian Prangle" <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> Following

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Amey Birmingham Highway Assets Import

2017-03-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Following on from our discussions at last night's monthly meeting can I propose the following as a way forward? Traffic Signals Import as nodes and then gradually transfer relevant data to adjacent traffic signal nodes,then deleting the import node as and when folk are editing in

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] TfWM collaboration

2017-03-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Just for update All naptan bus stops from the 2009 import are now updated with name standard, route_ref data and towards data. All those marked as DEL have been deleted. Bus stops added by survey before or since the import (characterised by their absence of naptan data) are being

[Talk-GB] OSM UK Chapter Directions

2017-02-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Last week we successfully held our first members business meeting online in order to make the bureacratic decisions legally required of us. Minutes can be found here Dicussions, proposals and decisions are made on our space in

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Help with Speed Camera Relation

2017-02-24 Per discussione Brian Prangle
you mean by Single Direction? They don’t swivel and > I’m assuming they will target traffic going in both directions. > > > > Jonathan > http://bigfatfrog67.me > > > > *From: *Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> > *Sent: *24 February 2017 10:40 > *To: *

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] TfWM NaPTAN refresh

2017-02-15 Per discussione Brian Prangle
of these on the ground and find a bus stop actually there. Regards Brian On 15 February 2017 at 21:26, Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote: > On 15 February 2017 at 17:58, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've just removed the highway=bus_stop tag

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] TfWM NaPTAN refresh

2017-02-15 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I've just removed the highway=bus_stop tag from any NaPTAN node that after yesterdays' refresh carried the tag naptan:Status=DEL. There were 237 cases. The nodes are still there, just not rendered so if there are any errors in TfWM's NaPTAN data, a quick adding of a bus_stop tag is all that's

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] TfWM update of NapTAN data

2017-02-15 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Yesterday afternoon we updated existing OSM NapTAN nodes in the West Midlands Combined Authority area as per the plan documented in the wiki. We used a specific TfWM user account and hashtagged the changeset #tfwmnaptanrefresh Basically we added/updated: highway=bus_stop to all

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-13 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Marco thanks for all your efforts on this issue. I've continued to edit and comment dubious landuses (and reverse some cliffs to get left on the top) based on my knowledge of the hills in Snowdonia.and confirmation from bing. In my opinion, there's definitely a need for a community project over

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
> mailing list. The nature of OSM is that one knows nothing of many mappers > (Frederik talked about this at SotM-14): there is always a risk of doing > more than hurting their feelings. > > Regards, > > Jerry > > > > On 8 February 2017 at 21:46, Brian Prangle <bp

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Consultation for Open Transport Net (OTN)

2017-02-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Brian -- Forwarded message -- From: Shabana Everton <shabana.ever...@birmingham.gov.uk> Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 12:29 PM Subject: RE: Consultation for Open Transport Net (OTN) To: Brian Prangle <br...@mappa-mercia.org> Hello Brian The link to the android app

Re: [Talk-GB] Should a place be tagged with a node or area?

2017-02-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
gt; they were used, Royal Mail had its own idea of "counties"... > > //colin > > > > On 2017-02-10 10:23, Brian Prangle wrote: > > Hi everyone > > I've just added a relation for the boundary of the new West Midlands > Cominbined Authority <https://westm

Re: [Talk-GB] Should a place be tagged with a node or area?

2017-02-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I've just added a relation for the boundary of the new West Midlands Cominbined Authority (which is the same as the old ceremonial West Midlands County, which I've left intact as it's still used I believe where postal addresses still

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-08 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I came across glucosamine during the farmyards quarterly projectwhere she/he'd tagged place=farm to every group of isolated buildings all over Herefordshire. I think he/she means well just misinterprets tagging conventions and then rolls on regardless. Might we tackle this task under the general

Re: [Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the west mids

2017-02-08 Per discussione Brian Prangle
already have NAPTAN data? I'd be interested in having bus stops > in Fife imported. > > > On 03/02/2017 17:52, Brian Prangle wrote: > > Hi everyone > > We have an opportunity to work with the regional transport authority TfWM > to update this data which is 8 year

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-08 Per discussione Brian Prangle
, ael <law_ence@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:22:30AM +, Andy Townsend wrote: > > On 08/02/2017 10:49, Brian Prangle wrote: > > > It would be great in my opinion if we moved on as a community and > > > actually decided to act on our discu

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Review of Solihull naptan data

2017-02-08 Per discussione Brian Prangle
ap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Surveying_and_ > Merging_NaPTAN_and_OSM_data#physically_present > > ? > > > > Ed > > > > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org] > *Sent:* 08 February 2017 12:35 > *To:* OSM Group WM <talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org> >

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Review of Solihull naptan data

2017-02-08 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I've found 39 CUS stops that are marked with highway=bus_stop. Over 60% were edited by reliable mappers so I'd trust our data mostly I think it will be where CUS stops have been upgraded by TfWM sticking a pole in the ground. I think we can live with any anomalies unti an automated

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] TfWM naptan data cleanup

2017-02-08 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone This week's work has resulted in the following: 1.Removed all bus stop nodes from highways to side of way. These were mainly in NW of the region. I might not have got the correct side in every case, but this will be corrected by a later automated edit 2.TfWM's location data is not

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-08 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Looks like a challenge. We have discussed this before and there were lots of very thoughtful and knowledgeable opinions, but no decisions on any actions. I kind of got the consensus that many were uncomfortable with the spread of heathland landuse data but we never decided to do

Re: [Talk-GB] Turbo Overpass Help

2017-02-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
For anyone else wanting to run this query to help them clean up naptan data, just one small addition: add the qualifier unclassified to the list of roads Regards Brian On 6 February 2017 at 11:53, Roland Olbricht wrote: > Hi > > As part of the cleanup and refresh of NaPTAN

Re: [Talk-GB] Turbo Overpass Help

2017-02-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Roland you are a star! It works a treat. Many many thanks Brian On 6 February 2017 at 11:53, Roland Olbricht wrote: > Hi > > As part of the cleanup and refresh of NaPTAN data in the West Midlands >> we need to identify any bus stope nodes that were added in the old >>

[Talk-GB] Turbo Overpass Help

2017-02-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone As part of the cleanup and refresh of NaPTAN data in the West Midlands we need to identify any bus stope nodes that were added in the old manner i.e as a node on the highway rather than as a separate node to the side. Is this possible in turbo overpass? It's defeated me so far!

Re: [Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the west mids

2017-02-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Matthijs I echo Stuart - it's best to deal with these with the local NaPTAN maintainer, who works in TfWM Regards Stuart On 5 February 2017 at 21:22, Stuart Reynolds < stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote: > Hi Matthijs, > > Wherever possible the names in NaPTAN should match what is on

Re: [Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the west mids

2017-02-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
. One of my other > “hats" is as the Public Transport Data Standards Advisor / Expert for DfT, > which includes advising on NAPTAN. > > Regards, > Stuart Reynolds > for traveline south east & anglia > > > > On 3 Feb 2017, at 17:52, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmai

Re: [Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the west mids

2017-02-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
ce import, and I want to do a > comparison between naptan versions, to see how many of the stops have > changed position within NaPTAN over the years (and find where these updates > are not within OpenStreetMap yet. Grimsby town centre used to be a big > example of this before I

[Talk-transit] Proposed automated edit for NAPTAN data in the West Midlands

2017-02-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
We have an opportunity to work with the regional transport authority TfWM to update this imported data which is 8 years old and partially edited by OSM users. They have assigned 2 developers to work on this and I'm spending a half day each week working with them. We've agreed and discussed this

[Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the west mids

2017-02-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We have an opportunity to work with the regional transport authority TfWM to update this data which is 8 years old and partially edited by OSM users. They have assigned 2 developers to work on this and I'm spending a half day each week working with them. We've agreed and discussed

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Automated NAPTAN edit for bus stop data in the West Midlands

2017-02-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We discussed this at some length at our February meeting last night and in conformance with the automated edits policy I've produced a wikipage Regards Brian

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] TfWM Swift Collector import

2017-01-31 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone This afernoon we imported TfWM data for swift collectors as outlined previously and as per tagging schema previously described. We need to do a further iteration with improved TfWM data, which they'll work on over the next week. The problem currently is the collector positions do not

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Feb meeting

2017-01-30 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Our regular meeting is this week Thurs 2nd Feb at 7ish at the Bull Price St Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] TfWM Swift Collector Import

2017-01-25 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Following on from my previous post proposing an import, to which no-one objected here's more detail: Last total from the data provided by TfWM I have is 111 Swift Collectors, so not a huge import. If anyone wants to inspect the data I can send them the csv file. More will be

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcing OSM UK at #geomob

2017-01-25 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Go for it Jez! All I would add is that OSMUK discussions and voting take place on Loomio rather than TalkGB Regards Brian On 25 January 2017 at 08:45, Jez Nicholson wrote: > It is the #geomob meetup in London tonight. I suggested to Ed that he > announce that OSM UK

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Collaboration with TfWM

2017-01-16 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I had a great meeting with TfWM today . Essentially they're planning a complete revamp of their website and provision of public information and have come to the conclusion that OSM is the base map they need to use. I'll be spending half a day a week with their key developers in

[Talk-transit] Public Transport Smart Cards

2017-01-16 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone TfWM(Transport for West Midands) in the UK have recently introduced the Swift Card (similar to TfL's Oyster Card) and have started installing Swift Collectors in bus shelters and bus stations. Swift Collectors are where you insert your Swift Card to get the stored-value topped-up:

[Talk-GB] Public Transport Smart Cards

2017-01-16 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone TfWM have recently introduced the Swift Card ( similar to TfL's Oyster Card) and have started installing Swift Collectors in bus shelters and bus stations. Swift Collectors are where you insert your Swift Card to get the stored-value topped-up: you can't make payments- that has to be

[Talk-GB] OSMUK CIC Ltd

2017-01-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone The bureacratic engine to make this a living organism is winding up. The discussions prior to our first legal meeting (still sometime away - members will get the due legal notice) are occurring here on Loomio. It looks likely that

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

2017-01-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Well we seem to be no nearer reaching agreement on the plethora of suggestions with more people suggesting what they don't want to do rather than what they do want to do. The only drift I think was there was that it shouldn't be too labour intensive and given the season it sould be

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] January meeting

2017-01-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone It's this Thursday Jan 5th, usual time and place Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-GB] 2017 Quarterly Project 1

2016-12-29 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We seem to have had a proliferation of ideas (see below) but a strong consensus has eluded us. Missing/incorrect road names are basic attributes for our map and attracted some interest but are probably best left to a quarter that's warmer and with longer evenings (Q2 if no-one

Re: [Talk-GB] 3rd Midlands OSM New Year Meetup

2016-12-20 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Jerry Sorry - can't make that date regards Brian On 20 December 2016 at 13:46, SK53 wrote: > Just a quick note to say provisional details are: > > Date: Saturday 14th January > Location: Red Lion, Scalford, Leicestershire > > I'm keeping this provisional just in case

[Talk-GB] OSM UK Local Chapter now officially exists

2016-12-18 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone On Saturday morning I received from Companies House the Certicifate of Incorporation for OpenStreetMap United Kingdom Community Interest Company Ltd. It is a private limited company, limited by guarantee. It's taken us a year to get this far, through a protracted and often tedious

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Perry Barr underpasses

2016-12-09 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Anyone passing Perry Barr want to take a look at the underpasses? BCC tell me that they've all been replaced with signalised crossings Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
My vote goes to clearing up Notes and FIXMEs. Last time I looked the UK had one of the poorest clearup rates of Notes. On 6 December 2016 at 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I'd like to float the following ideas for quarterly projects, and see what > folk think. > > *

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wolverhampton Railway Station access from 8th January 2017

2016-12-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Ed I can do this - might not be exactly on 8th Jan Regards Brian On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Ed Loach wrote: > I've just been reading about the changes that will take place early next > year at this link > > > >

[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap UK CIC Ltd

2016-11-29 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone At last! After a protracted effort all the documents are complete, all the signatures added, and are sitting in an envelope, together with a cheque for the registration fee, ready for me to go to my local Post Office in the morning. Thanks to everyone who got involved, and thanks for

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Dec meeting

2016-11-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Thursday this week is Dec 1st so it's time to meet. Back at the Bull in Price Street. See you there. Rob can you update our website and various social media? Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

[Talk-GB] December meeting

2016-11-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Thursday this week is Dec 1st so it's time to meet. Back at the Bull in Price Street. See you there. Rob can you update our website and various social media? Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Relation: Street

2016-11-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Road ways are becoming increasingly chopped up into smaller pieces as more data is added ( speedlimits, bus routes, cycle routes, lane counts, lane types and lane turns; restrictions etc.) and the name becomes similarly repeated. I'm hesitant to use the relation street and shift

Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

2016-11-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Nicely put! I agree that we're should be using a database as a check-list for surveying the existence of things. Brian On 21 November 2016 at 13:38, Harry Wood wrote: > "Apart from size, I fail to see the difference" > Well the difference is whether you can go there and

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus Lanes

2016-11-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Anyone editing in Birmingham might see some unrendered ways tagged with MPLength=0.0. These are bus lanes I mistakenly imported from BCC. I'm gradually removing them and replacing with correct lanes:psv=x tags on the adjacent highways. Please don't delete and please feel free to join

Re: [Talk-GB] Technical Help

2016-11-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Still looking for assistance in sizing a tile server On 28 Oct 2016 1:28 p.m., "Brian Prangle" <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > We're about to start an exciting project together with Birmingham City > Council, Amey, Transport for West Midlands, Inn

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] West Midlands Combined Authority

2016-10-31 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Enjoy yourselves in Coventry - I can't make it as I'm in Ireland. Do we need to change the name of the admin boundary for the West Midlands to the new name? If not -how do we separate the new tier of administration from the postal county? Regards Brian

[Talk-GB] Technical Help

2016-10-28 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We're about to start an exciting project together with Birmingham City Council, Amey, Transport for West Midlands, Innovation Birmingham, OpenData Institute and Birmingham City University. More details to follow once it's officially launched. There's a small amount of seed funding

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] November meeting

2016-10-20 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We decided at our last meeting to switch back to the first Thursday of the month and also to hold some of our meetings in Coventry. So does anyone know a decent pub to meet in Coventry for Thursday 3rd November? Regards Brian ___

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcode Analysis

2016-10-19 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Fantastic tool Rob -fixed most of South Birmingham using it. On 18 October 2016 at 00:42, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I've been adding quite a few new addr:postcode tags as part of the > quarterly project to use the FHRS data, I began wondering what

Re: [Talk-GB] UK OSM Community Interest Company (UK local chapter)

2016-10-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
. On 29 September 2016 at 00:34, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 September 2016 at 11:35, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Now that SotM has finished we should have time to concentrate on the pro > > bono l

Re: [Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

2016-10-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi John The need for two sources of information is a only personal preference of SK53. You can choose to follow it or not. Certainly we'd like to increase postcode and address data and this can be entered from the fhsr data. It's likely to be accurate 95% of the time. Personally I think we can

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

2016-10-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I think all these measurements are a great idea but in the first instance for the taginfo script I think fhrs:id is sufficient. At least we'll know that is a direct response to our QP. Postcode data I think is a little more tricky than a raw count of objects tagged with addr=postcode. For

[Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

2016-09-30 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone It seems that the idea that got most traction from discussions is to use Food Hygiene Rating data from the Food Standards Agency to improve the density of POIs, addresses and postcodes in town centres.(Town centres are not exclusive - it's just they'll

[Talk-GB] Changeover for Quarterly Projects

2016-09-30 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Today marks the last day of our summer Quarterly Project: farmyards. Tomorrow we start our Autumn Project, which will be the subject of a following post. What have we learnt/achieved? 1. We added 1499 farmyards, which compares to an increase of 853 schools for the schools project

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-26 Per discussione Brian Prangle
It looks like the next UK Quarterly Project will be based on improving address data for town centres using the food hygiene dataset. Why don't we have a push generally on postcodes too, not limiting it to town centres? Regards Brian On 26 September 2016 at 11:25, David Woolley

[Talk-GB] UK OSM Community Interest Company (UK local chapter)

2016-09-26 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Now that SotM has finished we should have time to concentrate on the pro bono legal review of our Articles of Association. I'll give it a week for folk to fnd time to look at this. If there's a deal of contention on any issue then we'll have a concall to resolve it, if not then I'll

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK CIC local chapter

2016-09-22 Per discussione Brian Prangle
, 2016 11:01:23 AM GMT+01:00, Brian Prangle < > bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hi Everyone > > >All of you going to SotM have a wonderful time - wish I was joining > >you! > > > >regards > > > >Brian > > I'm pretty sure I saw

[Talk-GB] OSM UK CIC local chapter

2016-09-22 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Everyone I've just received the pro bono legal review of our Articles of Assocation. There are a small number of changes proposed, mainly of a simplification nature. Given that SotM is this weekend, I'll not circulate the proposed changes until next week. All our interim directors have signed

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project International Collaboration

2016-09-13 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Manfred Reiter has contacted me with the idea of running some quarterly projects in collaboration with the German Community. Currently this is just bluesky thinking. What do folk think about this? There are many different ways of organising this. regards Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] Summer quarterly project

2016-09-13 Per discussione Brian Prangle
The idea of adding opening hours and lots of fhrs data to existing OSM data is not one I personally find attractive. But I do like Jerry's idea of blitzing town centres that are poorly mapped. Our own experience in mappamercia recently in Kidderminster where we had a summer Saturday mapping

Re: [Talk-GB] Users tagging Farmyard as place=farm (Was Summer quarterly project)

2016-09-13 Per discussione Brian Prangle
; name of a farm" > To me, that means a collection of houses not associated with the farm > being collectively given the name of that farm, so in effect, a hamlet has > been named, say, Manor Farm. > > Is that a common occurrence? I know of no such in my locale. > > Dave

[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap UK Community Interest Company

2016-09-05 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Finally we have a firm of solicitors reviewing our Articles of Association with a promise of a week's turnround. Thanks are due to e4f (Entrepeneurs for the Future) which is part of Innovation Birmingham (new branding for the Science Park) for setting up the contact. Regards Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin boundaries for unparished areas - how to handle?

2016-08-20 Per discussione Brian Prangle
My vote goes to not mapping them. They don't exist as entities intrinsically, only as a negative relation of an existing entity On 20 Aug 2016 1:35 p.m., "Colin Smale" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There have been some discussions in the past couple of weeks about >

[Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Yesterday approx 150 schools were added as relations according to the taginfoscript which is monitoring schools. Does anyone know what's going on? Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] August meetup Pershore Aug 6th

2016-08-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Looks like now I CAN make it. Pub venue: can I suggest the Pickled Plum Pershore High St for 1pm? (It looks reasonable from a web search). I shall tackle the hamlet of Drakes Broughton - remember we're after anything in WR10 Regards Brian

[Talk-GB] Summer Quarterly Project

2016-08-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We've been making steady progress at about 20 farms a day but seemed to have slowed down over the last week. We've only the daily taginfoscript to capture progress of the data,

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] August meetup Pershore

2016-08-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Unfortunately I have an urgent family commitment in Ireland and can't make this now. have fun! Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] August meeting in Pershore

2016-07-18 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Let's go for Sat Aug 6th. Anyone know which is a good pub for the lunchtime meet? Regards Brian On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > My August diary is filling fast. Currently the only Saturdays I have left > are 6 and 2

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] August meeting in Pershore

2016-07-15 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone My August diary is filling fast. Currently the only Saturdays I have left are 6 and 27. Which one suits folk best? I'd prefer 6 August . Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] August Meetup

2016-07-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Which Saturady is best for everyone? I can't make 13th, all the rest are OK. Remember we're going to Pershore to map as much of WR10 as possible for mappa mercia's 10th anniversary. Perhaps we should make the whole of August a local mini-project for WR10? Regards Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

2016-07-07 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Great to see so much enthusiasm for a website and associated tools. Before we go too far down the road of tool selection would anyone care to draw up a requirements specification? What do we want the website to look like and what do we want it do for us? Some from me would include: Shopfront

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wednesday meeting

2016-07-07 Per discussione Brian Prangle
> > *From:* Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 04 July 2016 09:25 > *To:* 'Brian Prangle'; 'Rob Nickerson' > *Cc:* 'talk-gb-westmidlands' > *Subject:* RE: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wednesday meeting > > > > See you there. I’ll probably map some of Drayto

[Talk-GB] OSM UK local chapter

2016-07-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We have now secured a pro bono lawyer to review the AoA (courtesy of Birmingham Science Park). I've started to fill in in the documentation required by Companies House. For those of you who have volunteerd to be initial directors I need the following from each of you: Title Full

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wednesday meeting

2016-07-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I'll concentrate on the area between the railway station and the town centre On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote: > See you there. I’ll probably map some of Drayton Basset on the way in. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > &

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wednesday meeting

2016-07-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Yes that's right Globe Inn Tamworth at about 8pm, mapping beforehand On 3 July 2016 at 23:15, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi, > > Am I right in saying that we are at the Globe Inn in Tamworth on Wednesday? > > Hope to see you all there. > > *Rob* > >

Re: [Talk-GB] User defamation

2016-07-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Sorted offlist following DWG intervention Regards Brian On 1 July 2016 at 13:27, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > Use pmailkeey has taken to provocatively commenting on all his changesets > throughout the UK, regardless of w

[Talk-GB] User defamation

2016-07-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Use pmailkeey has taken to provocatively commenting on all his changesets throughout the UK, regardless of whether I've edited or not: Improving map or correcting deliberate damage by brianboru I have a low opinion of this mapper, and have had several conversations with him all of

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

2016-06-30 Per discussione Brian Prangle
s, is anybody up for modifying Robert Whittaker's postcode progress tool to show progress by LA (obviously it will just be a colour code of % progress as we don't have addresses with postcodes) Regards Brian On 30 June 2016 at 19:34, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/06/

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