Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

2016-06-30 Per discussione Brian Prangle
on the farmhouse building, and just trace > the other buildings and add a building tag (perhaps building=barn or > building=stable if I know for certain, but often just building=yes). > > > > Random example here: http://osm.org/go/0EHzKANQU- > > > > Ed > > > &g

[Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

2016-06-30 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone A new quarter starts tomorrow so we need a new topic. How about farms? Or more precisely landuse=farmyard. These are major landmarks in rural areas, often with sizeable buildings and usually named in OS StreetView. The only data I've found so far is that there are approx. 100,000

[Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

2016-06-29 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone The final Articles of Association have now been available for some weeks and have attracted no comments, so I think it's safe to say we can go ahead now and start the process of incorporation. We have 5 names for

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Saturday June meetup

2016-06-22 Per discussione Brian Prangle
, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Looking forward to it. Not sure which area of Kidderminster I should focus > on. Shout if you have any suggestions. > > Regards, > > *Rob* > > On 21 June 2016 at 19:41, Brian Prangle <br...@ma

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Saturday June meetup

2016-06-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone (except Andy R who can't come) Mapping in the morning and meetup about 1pm inthe Severn Valley Railway Cafe. I shall concentrate on the town centre Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

[Talk-GB] OSM UK chapter

2016-06-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone The silence over the last few weeks doen't mean nothing has been happening! Jerry, Rob and myself have gone through the AoA and got to a final working document. Rob will tidy this up over the next week (checking para nos, typos etc) and it will be up for your inspection. At this

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Summer Programme

2016-06-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Can we go for this? Sat 25 June Kidderminster - map in the morning, meet for lunch 1pm ish in the Severn Valley Railway Station Cafe next to Kidderminster Station Wed July 6 Tamworth - meet in The Globe Inn August - we need to fix a Saturday for WR10 Pershore- any offers? Regards

Re: [Talk-GB] Purton Hulks

2016-06-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Herring <malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On 01/06/2016 17:37, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> If you go to OSM's sister project openseamap you'll find they have a tag >> for hulk >> > > Those tags are not suitable for the objects described in the OP. All t

Re: [Talk-GB] Purton Hulks

2016-06-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
If you go to OSM's sister project openseamap you'll find they have a tag for hulk https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seamarks/Seamark_Objects Regards Brian On 1 June 2016 at 12:12, Andy Mabbett wrote: > The Purton Hulks: > >

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] June Meeting

2016-06-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Remember there's no monthly evening meeting this week as we decided to go to Kidderminster on a Saturday. How about dates for this? I can't make either June 11th or June 18th Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

[Talk-GB] UK Chapter

2016-05-09 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We're making steady progress on producing a "clean" set of Articles. Next concall will be scheduled when these are ready- might not be for a week or so, we're fitting this in around busy schedules Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Project

2016-05-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Christian Would love to test your app but too much technical ability required for the preconditions to run the app. Can't we just have a browser-based app that ordinary folk can use? Regards Brian On 5 May 2016 at 18:53, Christian Ledermann wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Registration is Now Open for State of the Map!

2016-05-05 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Mark No need to very bored in Redditch. There's a shedload of mapping to do in Redditch. What are you currently mapping? We may be able to give some remote assistance with armchair mapping and/or problem solving. Have you tried using photos with Mapillary? It's great for capturing lots of

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [OSM-talk-ie] Registration is Now Open for State of the Map!

2016-05-05 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Mark No need to very bored in Redditch. There's a shedload of mapping to do in Redditch. What are you currently mapping? We may be able to give some remote assistance with armchair mapping and/or problem solving. Have you tried using photos with Mapillary? It's great for capturing lots of

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [OSM-talk-ie] Registration is Now Open for State of the Map!

2016-05-05 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Mark No need to very bored in Redditch. There's a shedload of mapping to do in Redditch. What are you currently mapping? We may be able to give some remote assistance with armchair mapping and/or problem solving. Have you tried using photos with Mapillary? It's great for capturing lots of

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Next meeting: Atherstone

2016-05-05 Per discussione Brian Prangle
e we used the White Horse on Long Street. > > > > If I get time for some mapping I’ll focus on the south side of the railway. > > > > See you Thursday. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > *From:* Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] &g

Re: [Talk-GB] UK chapter

2016-04-28 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Same details as before for tonight's concall: 0800 2290900 code 33224 On 28 April 2016 at 18:11, SK53 wrote: > I presume it is the same as previous conference calls. See older mails on > this list. > > Jerry > > On 28 April 2016 at 17:16, Dennis Bauszus

Re: [Talk-GB] UK chapter

2016-04-28 Per discussione Brian Prangle
to create a local chapter. It's not an either/or binary choice - it is possible to do both. As I said if you don't agree then just ignore us and carry on mapping Regards brian On 27 April 2016 at 23:23, Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On 27/04/2016 16:11, Brian Pran

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapbox imagery update

2016-04-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Yep - echo the big disappointment with MapBox imagery. Perhaps when we have OSMUK up and running we can lobby MapBox for some better and newer imagery? Regards Brian On 27 April 2016 at 15:48, Andy Robinson wrote: > And I noted around Swaffham in Norfolk that BING and

Re: [Talk-GB] UK chapter

2016-04-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Dave I couldn't agree more, but for a formal organisation then I'm afraid the bureaucratic activities are a necessary evil. I'm sure all of those engaged in this process are like me and would rather be out mapping. And there'll always be mappers who don't want to join any formal organisation, just

Re: [Talk-GB] UK chapter

2016-04-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Dennis Thanks for your offers of support - I'm sure they'll be taken up enthusiastically once we've got through the drudgery of incorporation Regards Brian On 27 April 2016 at 14:41, Dennis Bauszus wrote: > I also missed the previous conference call due to a deadline.

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Next meeting: Atherstone

2016-04-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I can only do Thursday On 26 April 2016 at 23:12, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Midlands meeting is at Atherstone. Normally this would be > Wednesday 4th May however we have an opportunity to move this to the > Thursday 5th May. > > If you are hoping to

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Capter Community Interest Statement Form CIC36

2016-04-26 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Rob Want an open constitution of the kind you want? Go for unincorporated society - you can fashion it any way you want. Want an incorporated limited company? There's a mountain of legislation demanding structure you are mandated to have in your constitution - your room for manouevre in the

[Talk-GB] UK Capter Community Interest Statement Form CIC36

2016-04-25 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Links to draft documents as promised (copying from the Word template to Googledocs screws up the formatting and I don't have the patience to try and sort it out) Main Form Continuation Sheet

[Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

2016-04-22 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone As promised - here's a discussion on the issue Jerry proposed a number of scenarios which we discussed: 1. *Full powers*. Standard boilerplate text. Easy to do. Downside is that removing powers may require alterations to AoA, and furthermore restricting Directors'

[Talk-GB] UK chapter

2016-04-22 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Last night's concall made some good progress: there are no minutes (Greg we missed you!), but here is a summary of decisions and contentions 1. Name to appear on incorporation documents will be OpenStreetMap United Kingdom Community Interest Company. No doubt in everyday use this

Re: [Talk-GB] phone boxes used for other purposes

2016-04-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Well as we have a healthcare QP running which seems not to have generated a community focuslike we did with schools and there's some interest in defibs - why not get cracking on this for the rest of the QP? regards Brian On 19 April 2016 at 12:21, Paul Berry wrote: > On

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] GPS Tracks

2016-04-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Jonathan try some of the tools listed here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Batch_Upload_of_GPX_%28various_tools%29 Regards brian On 20 April 2016 at 16:58, Jonathan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Sorry if this isn’t pertinent to this list but if not point me in

Re: [Talk-GB] Remove tag "priority" from railways

2016-04-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Roland If it's only one line affected it looks like it's the work of one user. Have you tried contacting him/her? Otherwise I have no objections to your proposed mechanical edit Regards Brian On 21 April 2016 at 08:36, Roland Olbricht wrote: > Dear all, > > we

[Talk-GB] UK chapter next concall POSTPONED ONE DAY

2016-04-18 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone WAS cheduled for Wed 20 April at 8pm NOW Thurs 21 April at 8 pm Details as usual 0800 2290900 password 33224 See you there! It would be good if we could finalise the Articles of Association at this concall. Please add comments for the AoA here

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tools for Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) data

2016-04-17 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Greg Fantastic resource! Thanks for your effort here. I'll start using the toool immediately. A couple of comments: What does the B signify after a district name The logic in your stats table took a bit of working out - perhaps an explanantion might be appropriate. As I (and I guess others)

[Talk-GB] OSM UK chapter next concall

2016-04-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Scheduled for Wed 20 April at 8pm Details as usual 0800 2290900 password 33224 See you there! It would be good if we could finalise the Articles of Association at this concall. Please add comments for the AoA here

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] April Meeting Stratford

2016-04-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Our April meeting is this Wed 6th April at 8pm in Sratford upon Avon at the The Old Thatched Tavern Greenhill Street. Beforehand we're trying to map as many guesthouses/hotels as we can ( but feel free to map whatever suits you) I've cleaned up the FHRS data and eliminated some of

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] April Meeting Startford upon Avon

2016-04-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone The Old Thatched Tavern Greenhill Street (reasonably close to the station) comes out consistently top in online pub reviews - so shall we meet there at abut 8pm. I've attached a list of all the guest houses etc in Stratford - a cursory glance seems to suggest they're clustered in a

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016

2016-04-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
give a false impression of completeness, and also make > it harder without zooming in to work out which areas still need a proper > survey. > > > > If the project proves successful we could extend it to farmland areas > where hedges and fences haven’t been added to break up the area. &

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016

2016-03-31 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone It seems from the discussion on this topic that you would like a subject similar to schools for which monitoring tools can be built relatively quickly; will improve the map for the greatest number of potential users; and now we might have some better weather, something that needs

Re: [Talk-GB] Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

2016-03-26 Per discussione Brian Prangle
and make sure that on-the-ground changes get into OSM much faster than anyone else - ideally on the day of the change ;-) Brian On 26 March 2016 at 12:06, Andrew Hain wrote: > John Aldridge writes: > > > > By ensuring that OSM data is of higher quality,

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

2016-03-22 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Echoing Jerry's previous plea - please comment on the Google docs AoA- there has been a fresh definition of OpenStreetMap there for several days Regards Brian On 22 March 2016 at 21:32, Tim Waters wrote: > Frederik is correct in saying that OpenStreetMap Project does not

[Talk-GB] UK chapter

2016-03-22 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Anyone wishing to be listed as a founder member on the incorporation documents to be registered at Companies House please send your full name and address to "osmuk at nomoregrapes.com" . In case anyone wonders whose address this is: it's Gregory Marler's I guess legally that entitles

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter: Who will be the "we"?

2016-03-22 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Dave At its narrowest - the members who pay the subscription At its widest - anyone who produces or uses OSM data in the UK Regards Brian On 21 March 2016 at 00:40, Dave F wrote: > Hi all > > OK, this a genuine, non rhetorical, non cynical question. > > I've

[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

2016-03-13 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Following the extraordinary success of the Schools project we need to decide how to proceed with the next quarter's project. There is a view we shoud rollover the project for another quarter so as to approach completion. I favour rolling it into an ongoing UK national project

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

2016-03-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Edward I would import only after an invitation by a mapper or mappers in the relevant county, and only after they've checked where your data has more than one match and indicated which of the multiple matches is the appropriate one A wiki table showing the progress of each county would be

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

2016-03-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Edward I would import only after an invitation by a mapper or mappers in the relevant county, and only after they've checked where your data has more than one match and indicated which of the multiple matches is the appropriate one A wiki table showing the progress of each county would be

[Talk-GB] UK Chapter next concall

2016-03-07 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Let's go for Thurday 17March at 8pm. Same details as before- I'll post a reminder of phone number and entry code the day before Agenda: 1.Articles of Association- this should take the bulk of the meeting- Jerry and I will have a draft ready for you a couple of days beforehand. Most

[Talk-GB] (no subject)

2016-03-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I'll be scheduling a concall shortly where we can progress the Articles of Association and also hopefully finalise the objectives and name of the chapter. Membership options: the following is offered as a summary of what we might do: 1.Standard membership £5 per year Pros:

[Talk-GB] Ignore previous email - not complete

2016-03-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
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[Talk-GB] UK Chapter update

2016-03-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I'll be scheduling a concall shortly where we can progress the Articles of Association and also hopefully finalise the objectives and name of the chapter. Membership options: the following is offered as a summary of what we might do: 1.Standard membership £5 per year Pros:

Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school - Status report

2016-03-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Lester There is a tagging schema for indoor mapping and there's Open Level Up for viewing The url shows an example mappamercia is working on - not yet finished I hasten to add Not perfect as a schema ut it's the best we've

Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school

2016-03-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Rob et al I'm currently adding schools in LE postcode Regards Brian On 1 March 2016 at 18:08, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > As a reminder there is an online mapathon to map schools this evening. > Please help if you have some time :-) > >

Re: [Talk-GB] UK group: Community Interest Company

2016-02-17 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Rob I've already contacted Frederik alerting him to the potential benefits of CIC to the OSMF and he's replied that they'll investigate it. Regards Brian On 17 February 2016 at 22:57, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > One of the outstanding actions for the UK

Re: [Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

2016-02-17 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I'd prefer that these are classed as schools as that's what they're called. Rgds Brian On 17 February 2016 at 19:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just done another update to the official data in my Schools tool > at

[Talk-GB] Redraft of objectives for OSMUK

2016-01-29 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone 3rd draft following this week's concall 1.To increase the quality and quantity of data about the UK in OpenStreetMap. 2.To increase the size, skills, toolsets and cohesion of the OpenStreetMap community of data contributors and editors in the UK. 2.To promote and facilitate the use

Re: [Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

2016-01-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Thanks for the offer Frederick. I'm sure we'll take you up on it. We'll collate a list of questions and nominate someone in the UK to be the sole point of contact Regards Brian On 27 January 2016 at 10:02, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/27/16 10:02, Jez Nicholson

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-26 Per discussione Brian Prangle
AL10 boundaries came from the OSM Ireland Project on Townlands rgds Brian On 26 January 2016 at 17:38, Colin Smale wrote: > What is missing, is AL8 - used for "Districts" in the UK. Counties used to > exist in NI but they are now defunct as administrative entities. The >

[Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

2016-01-25 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Don't forget this is scheduled for 8pm Wed this week 27 January 0800 22 90 900 Pass code 33224 We'll pick up on Rob's summary email i.e objectives;legal stucture; constitution If we can I'd like to start discussing: Name (not what it will be - but a mechanism for choosing one)

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

2016-01-24 Per discussione Brian Prangle
DY almost complete so you need to pick another area. TF needs some attention rgds Brian On 24 Jan 2016 14:36, "Lester Caine" wrote: > On 24/01/16 13:09, Lester Caine wrote: > > That just leave 4 more objects to check :) > > OK most of the 'red dot' items were out of area, but

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering of layers

2016-01-21 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Stuart The rendered layering of platforms just doesn't happen. Caused me a lot of grief with Birmingham New Street - so I switched to using levels and using Adrien Pavie's OpenLevelUp which allows you to zoom up and down through building floors. Here's what New St looks like

Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-18 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I don't think we should worry about getting a standard for this. I think our main task is to extend the data and clean it up as far as we can. Then we can use the name anomalies to try and get the relevant community (i.e the schools themselves) to add the correct name - which will be the one THEY

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Schools Project

2016-01-18 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I didn't realise just how poor our schools data is! It looks good on the standard map but Robert's tool just amazes me about how much work there is to do even in what we thinkof as well-mapped areas. I'm concentrating on tidying up South Birmingham data and Dudley, with a few forays

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Duplicate railway station objects

2016-01-16 Per discussione Brian Prangle
-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Prangle <br...@mappa-mercia.org> Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Duplicate railway station objects To: Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> I would (and do) put the station node on on

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-07 Per discussione Brian Prangle
uary 2016 at 12:51, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Happy New Year! (and Happy New Mapping Year!) The first Quarterly Project > > for 2016 is now under way and is Schools. There are really two strands to > > this project. > > > > The first is t

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-07 Per discussione Brian Prangle
If no-one objects to ref:edubase can someone add it to the wiki? We should probably also add some other stuff that's come up just in case there are folk who are not on this mailing list who want to discover what the consensus is in the UK for mapping schools. Also I'm finding that frequently

[Talk-GB] UKOSM or OSMUK or OSMGB proposed aims

2016-01-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I've tried to summarise what we discussed on our initial concall and what Rob's survey revealed into a high-level and short set of aims. It's an initial draft and open for comment before our next concall (TBA before end of Jan). I've included for comparison the aims from those

[Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Happy New Year! (and Happy New Mapping Year!) The first Quarterly Project for 2016 is now under way and is Schools. There are really two strands to this project. The first is to remotely (armchai)r map and get an increase in coverage of the number of schools The latest government data is for

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Lidar imagery

2015-11-13 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Rob - great work. I've had an initial go at JOSM editing. What's the correct attribution to use for the source tag? In the meantie I've used LIDAR wich doesn't look right Regards Brian On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > The tiles to

[Talk-GB] Nature Reserves project

2015-11-12 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I've come up against a couple of problems and would like some guidance: 1.Nature reserves with one name that are made up of several other nature reserves, often with their own name. How to represent these without a mess of names rendering? Is there a relation to fit this situation?

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats

2015-11-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Adam Thanks for your efforts here. This is a big step foward for us. Is there any chance you could extend this backwards in time to Oct 1st when we started this quarterly project? I think there's something called attic data in overpass Regards Brian On 6 November 2015 at 20:45, Adam Hoyle

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats

2015-11-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Jo We've trained BCC staff in JOSM and OSM tagging generally and the specific traffic monitoring schema we've devised. To date there are 346 traffic monitors added to the road network in Birmingham ( and a few in Solihull - I've got the bug!). Next task is to extend the tagging into the SCOOT

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] November Meeting

2015-11-03 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Comes around quickly doesn't it? First wed in November is tomorrow- see you in the Bull Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

2015-10-26 Per discussione Brian Prangle
as a source for Natura 2000 status? Also isn't the tag leisure=nature_reserve? Regards Brian On 26 October 2015 at 12:23, tshrub <my-email-confirmat...@online.de> wrote: > Hey Brian, > > Brian Prangle schrieb: > >> Do we need to tag Natura 2000 SACs and SPAs? I've looked

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

2015-10-25 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I've looked at Jerry's umap ( great resource Jerry - can you update it at the end of Oct so we can see progress with fewer blue and red dots?) and the Natural England OpenData source and there seems to be a significant amount of data inaccuracy in my local area: Solihull Council lists 21 LNRs but

[Talk-GB] Last quarterly project for 2015

2015-10-05 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone For the remainder of 2015 lets concentrate on Nature Reserves Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Richard Phillips

2015-10-05 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Will My sincere condolences to you and your family on your loss, and also from fellow mappers in the West Midlands. Our loss is nowhere near as great as yours, but a loss nonetheless. Evesham is a beacon area on how to map with OSM and represents many hours of dedicated effort. It's certainy

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] October Meeting

2015-09-28 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Don't forget we now meet on first WED of the month not the first THUR. So the date should be 7 Oct not 1 Oct. Are we back in the Bulls Head? Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

2015-09-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Thanks for all your unput. It seems Andy's suggestion is the best: to align the platforms with the elevator/stairs/escalator positions in the concourse plan. I'l use that approach once I'm sure the concourse is aligned as best as I can get it. Re-aligning the platforms will take some time and will

[Talk-GB] New St station platforms

2015-09-25 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Does anyone know whether the alignment of the platforms under the concourse is based on anything other than pure guesswork? The alignment at either end where they can be seen in Bing doesn't look right either. I'm trying to get the concourse layout to match the platforms for lifts and escalators

[Talk-GB] New St station platform alignments

2015-09-25 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Does anyone know whether the alignment of the platforms under the concourse is based on anything other than pure guesswork? The alignment at either end where they can be seen in Bing doesn't look right either. I'm trying to get the concourse layout to match the platforms for lifts and escalators

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

2015-09-25 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Does anyone know whether the alignment of the platforms under the concourse is based on anything other than pure guesswork? The alignment at either end where they can be seen in Bing doesn't look right either. I'm trying to get the concourse layout to match the platforms for lifts and escalators

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

2015-09-24 Per discussione Brian Prangle
All sounds great to me. So the platforms/lines will be layer-1; the station concourse layer 0; Grand Central mall layer 1; short stay car park layer 2. Problem: there are a couple of retail outlets each side of Southside entrance which should be layer 0 to match the street, but layer -1 to refer

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

2015-09-24 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I've put in the internal outlines for the concourse and populated a few units. Thanks for the suggestion Marc I'll take a look. Richard - I now like the bridge idea for layer 1 Grand Central Mall. Should the entrances be rendered? Regards Brian On 24 September 2015 at 19:53, SK53

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

2015-09-24 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I'm not sure that tagging the internal footways as bridges quite reflects what's on the ground so I think we should just tag the layer Rgds Brian On 24 September 2015 at 16:52, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Richard Mann wrote: > > > Had a look round. The

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

2015-09-23 Per discussione Brian Prangle
orum & one here in the 3D > mapping forum > http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=548662#p548662. > > It's all fairly standard bboard software: I think OSM user name works. > > Jerry > > On 21 September 2015 at 13:34, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com>

[Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

2015-09-20 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I've blogged about this and the complexities involved with this multi-level and multi-purpose building. It would be good if we can plan how to map this sensibly and co-ordinate effort in an agreed way and not just have a free-for-all accretion of

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

2015-09-20 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I've blogged about this and the complexities involved with this multi-level and multi-purpose building. It would be good if we can plan how to map this sensibly and co-ordinate effort in an agreed way and not just have a free-for-all accretion of

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

2015-08-27 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Corrected most of them and contacted the user politley On 26 August 2015 at 18:22, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: I've only just sorted the last lot you identified! Having to contact the user then wait a few days to give then chance to reply before reverting takes up the time

[Talk-GB] Urban Traffic Control Management

2015-08-24 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone At mappamercia we're collaborating with Birmingham City Council to map their urban traffic control management systems (e.g linking together traffic signals; traffic sensor positions; and lanes being monitored.) Once we've got the data tagged suitably and we've added the data to a

Re: [Talk-GB] 10th Anniversary Rutland Mapping Party?

2015-08-24 Per discussione Brian Prangle
I'm up for this Brian On 22 August 2015 at 13:23, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: I'm just back from my annual trip to the Rutland Bird Fair. Each time I'm struck by the fact that Rutland still needs a lot of ground survey work for OSM. Oakham for instance has a prodigious number of new

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

2015-08-07 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Seeing as the survey put technical stuff like a new render low on the priority list ( it got one of the lowest strongly agree scores) lets refocus on the community stuff that the survey indicated should be more of a priority. A new UK render should be a separate task and discussion in my opinion.

[Talk-GB] JOSM paint style for naptan bus stops

2015-08-07 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi This stopped working a couple of days ago. The domain name osmalba.org which hosts the paintstyle has expired. Anyone know what's going on? Regards Brian ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Rugby tonight

2015-08-05 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I'll survey the missing roads showing up just south of Junction One Retail Park then do some retail surveying in the centre of town See you there Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] August meeting Rugby Wed 5th

2015-07-28 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I've contacted some local mappers and one of them is coming along and has recommended the Bacco Lounge http://thelounges.co.uk/lounges/bacco-lounge/ as avenue. See you there about 8pm. In the next few days I guess we need to identify what we're going to map. Greg ( the local mapper)

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Next meeting

2015-07-06 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone We've decided to change our monthly meeting from the first Thursday of the month to the first Wednesday of the month (so no excuses Stuart!). That makes the next meeting Wed 5th August which will be in Rugby. We need ideas for a good pub to meet in. Thanks to everyone for the turnout

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] July Meeting

2015-07-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
there was a lot left to map here? Do you think a cake is needed? Rob On 1 July 2015 at 21:27, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a family commitment pm so I'll be mapping am -getting some listed bdg pics in Codsall first then mapping Oakengates. I need to be away about 130

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] July Meeting

2015-07-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
in the afternoon. I’ll know where Brian has been by then so as not to conflict. One thing to remember is Oakengates carnival, we will be ok in the morning but the afternoon could be busy. Phil (trigpoint) Cheers Andy From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 July 2015 09

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] July Meeting

2015-07-02 Per discussione Brian Prangle
as not to conflict. One thing to remember is Oakengates carnival, we will be ok in the morning but the afternoon could be busy. Phil (trigpoint) Cheers Andy From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 July 2015 09:22 To: Rob Nickerson Cc: Andy Robinson; talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] July Meeting

2015-07-01 Per discussione Brian Prangle
-Original Message- From: Philip Barnes [mailto:p...@trigpoint.me.uk] Sent: 01 July 2015 18:04 To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] July Meeting On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 09:09 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyone This month's meeting

[Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

2015-06-30 Per discussione Brian Prangle
It's time to move on from delivery-related things ( from looking at Robert Whitaker's graphs http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/history/ it looks like we made a difference onpostboxes but we'll need Robert to do some more rigorous analysis). Personallly I'd like to think we can keep up some

[OSM-talk-ie] Scan request

2015-06-10 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi Could I have the blank space just to the West of Dundalk Co Louth scanned? ( I'm afraid I can't see the sheet no) Also can someone let me know what the data source is for EDs? Congrats to everyone for getting past the 50% milestone. I'm not sure my stamina or sanity will get me throught the

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Mappa Mercia summer programme

2015-06-04 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone - can you check diaries to make sure this OK for our meetup next month (too close to first Thurs so do this instead) -- Forwarded message -- From: Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk Date: 10 May 2015 at 10:56 Subject: Re: Mappa Mercia summer programme To: Brian Prangle

[Talk-GB] Possible collaboration with Amey

2015-05-18 Per discussione Brian Prangle
Hi everyone I got the following request from Rick Robinson (formerly of IBM who spoke at SotM 2013 and who is now IT Director, Smart Data and Technology for Amey and who is a keen supporter of OSM). It would be good to respond positively. *I met recently with Amey’s account who perform work on

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