Re: [Talk-GB] Any mappers in Colchester who can help map a road?

2015-04-09 Per discussione Ed Loach
). Ed From: Stuart Reynolds [mailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk] Sent: 02 April 2015 15:31 To: Ed Loach Cc: talk-gb OSM List E-mail Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Any mappers in Colchester who can help map a road? Ed, hi Thanks. For info, Essex County Council have told me

Re: [Talk-GB] Any mappers in Colchester who can help map a road?

2015-04-02 Per discussione Ed Loach
It isn’t open yet (at least when I last checked) – I’ve left the A12 where the park and ride is being built to the north of J28 and headed south to see if it was open. I’ve made a note where I amended the section to the south that was open (and still roadworks) when I last drove through:

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM down?

2015-03-24 Per discussione Ed Loach
Maarten wrote: The only response from www and api I get is Incomplete response received from application. Is it only my or is OSM down? Not just you. Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] spammy survey questions.

2015-03-03 Per discussione Ed Loach
Gianfranco asked: What if we ask not only to publish as open access the resulting work but also to give back to the community all raw material? Is this another survey? Was my question above? Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Bus Depots

2015-02-13 Per discussione Ed Loach
I’ve not read the whole thread but there was a tagging list discussion in 2010 which I found linked from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-09-13#Depo ts_and_Garages Ed From: Antje (OpenStreetMap) [mailto:kurias...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 February 2015 16:46 To:

Re: [OSM-talk] How We Map

2015-02-11 Per discussione Ed Loach
On 11 Feb 2015 17:53, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: Am 11.02.2015 um 17:51 schrieb Mikel Maron: Already a great piece. +1 As a suggestion for improvement: I'd love to have a clear statment in the way that somebody new in the project should at least inform himself about

Re: [Talk-GB] Disclaimer

2015-01-28 Per discussione Ed Loach
On 28/01/2015 01:13, Neil Matthews wrote: Do we need an OSM disclaimer The copyright page does include: Inclusion of data in OpenStreetMap does not imply that the original data provider endorses OpenStreetMap, provides any warranty, or accepts any liability.

Re: [Talk-GB] Data search request: help please

2015-01-23 Per discussione Ed Loach
Another point in favour of the two pubs theory is searching for %Louise% at WhatPub.com and making sure filters for open/real ale available etc are cleared: http://whatpub.com/search?q=%25Louise%25t=ftp=1alt= Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] WM Boundary relations

2015-01-19 Per discussione Ed Loach
Brian wrote: I've not changed any boundary WAYS as that is a massive job. I think that we really don't need the ways any longer as the relations will get rendered, but that's another discussion entirely and a tedious job to do. But perhaps we'd better do it to avoid confusing software and

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Nominatim results

2015-01-14 Per discussione Ed Loach
I've been looking at Tipton since it got a mention in #osm-gb IRC channel for a note being added near Staffordshire. http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=114798 Nominatim is using old county place nodes which pre-date the boundary relations to determine the county. Some

Re: [OSM-talk] Minor Roads

2014-12-23 Per discussione Ed Loach
I would say you often can’t tell the difference on the ground either if you’re talking unclassified/residential, except for the presence of residences. But where are you talking about making them darker? You don’t say in your question, then talk about two editors who have their own internal

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-3 Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

2014-12-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
Perhaps just posting Overpass links and locals manually making the changes would be better? I compared the Overpass before and after links only to find that the nearest item on the first link is missing on the second as the Sainsbury(')s is missing a shop tag. And now it also misses the

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-3 Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

2014-12-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
Finding small problems like this does have an advantage, but it looks like fixing them mechanically is actually missing the opportunity to improve the map in other ways at the same time. As it happens, the local Sainsbury's that I just updated also made me realise that there is now aerial

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse vs Vegetation vs Landcover proposed cleanup at wiki

2014-11-30 Per discussione Ed Loach
If I understand correctly we are talking about combining 3 similar wiki pages into 1, not changing any tagging, in which case it makes sense. In my opinion the wiki needs more how to tag instructions (e.g. links to videos showing how in basic mode in most popular editors) as well as the existing

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping turn lanes on major roads

2014-11-08 Per discussione Ed Loach
I'd always assumed that the correct way to map turn lanes is via: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:turn:lanes . This is what I started using after first using OsmAnd and seeing lane hints on some roads, and wondering how it knew. I started adding them elsewhere (not many so far). As

Re: [Talk-GB] ooc.openstreetmap.org

2014-11-06 Per discussione Ed Loach
Steve asked: Has this service been discontinued? Or is there just a temporary problem with it? According to the wiki, faffy has a problem http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status I believe os.openstreetmap.org was temporarily pointed elsewhere (and still is). Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-05 Per discussione Ed Loach
So the question is - what makes you think that 'Footwear' is part of the name, rather than a description of the products they sell? How about their about page? http://www.brantano.co.uk/en-gb/desktop/about-us Brantano Footwear was established in the UK in 1998 Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
Are there still objections against Brantano? Yes. It says Brantano Footwear as the name on the sign on at least the two nearest stores to me. I have no objections to brand or operator being Brantano, but not the name field. Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
In the late 70s, early 80s when ADSA arrived as the new kid on the block, everyone seemed to know it was short for Associated Dairies, but that has probably long since been forgotten. Regarding ASDA, I was following one of their delivery vans yesterday and noticed all occurrences of their

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Per discussione Ed Loach
On 1 November 2014 01:06, Lester Caine mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Brantano (UK) Limited shops are all branded 'Brantano Footwear' that is their shop 'Logo' Matthijs: We currently have 116 times Brantano and 12 times Brantano Footwear in the UK. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve's better map

2014-10-31 Per discussione Ed Loach
Steve wrote: imagine what Simon could achieve by spending that time and energy on making the world better. What, like http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/history or https://help.openstreetmap.org/users/2053/simonpoole/recent/ or https://code.google.com/p/osmeditor4android/source/list

Re: [Talk-GB] Confused over access...

2014-10-14 Per discussione Ed Loach
The more specific access tags take priority over the more general, so in your example access=no precludes all traffic, but bus=yes and psv=yes means buses and taxis are allowed. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#Transport_mode_restric tions I am surprised there is no

[Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

2014-10-02 Per discussione Ed Loach
It has been over a year now since I first mentioned http://www.loach.me.uk/osm/LloydsTSB/ here, and there are still lots of branches that haven't been remapped, so I thought I'd mention it again. Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Per discussione Ed Loach
Example? Perhaps use wikidata for finding translations of OSM objects' names where they don't have an on the ground name in that language to map in OSM. Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-13 Per discussione Ed Loach
Dan wrote: addr:flats = 1-5;The Garden Flat;The Penthouse This one is news to me. It seems a bit quirky to use addr:flats=3 to represent Flat 3 but if it's used then I'll use it. Do yall use it? (I think I've used addr:unit before, but never been sure)

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

2014-08-12 Per discussione Ed Loach
After previous discussions I've already changed the C road references that I mapped (from roadworks signs) to official_ref, so your suggestion seems sensible. I feel ref should be reserved for (permanently?) signposted references. Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect speed limit anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-08-11 Per discussione Ed Loach
Since these notes are automatically generated there's no on you could ask for clarifications, which is needed for all issues. Are we still talking Incorrect speed limit? What clarification does that need? I used to get a lot of similar reports from Skobbler, so mapped all the local speed

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
Since English has non-phonetic spelling (and some placenames are particularly non-phonetic) there's no solid base for automatic transliteration to something meaningful in another script, so I think it's reasonable to put the Ukrainian spelling in explicitly, for places for which such a

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

2014-08-03 Per discussione Ed Loach
I downloaded latest naptan data the other day and used qgis to filter stops.csv to just those in Tendring, or on roads that run along the border, to give me something more manageable to look at. 995 stops before any other filtering. I've not finished verifying imported stops after an initial burst

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: Removing Content from .../User:xxx/Kosmos Pages

2014-08-01 Per discussione Ed Loach
Is anybody still using the Kosmos software? Your question prompted me to run Kosmos, as I still have it installed as well as Maperitive and I wasn't sure why. It seems I haven't yet upgraded the rules I used to create the Beer Festival map I did for station to venue which uses

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: Removing Content from .../User:xxx/Kosmos Pages

2014-08-01 Per discussione Ed Loach
Is anybody still using the Kosmos software? It seems I had updated at least the mono version of the rules already, so have now deleted all my Kosmos rules from the wiki. Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Come back Osmarender, all is forgiven!

2014-06-24 Per discussione Ed Loach
Michael wrote: This reminds me to the good old times in OSM. Can anybody remember that the sand bunkers on some golf courses had beeen tagged as natural = beach to get them rendered? :-( Not everything was good in good old times... You're trolling, yes? golf=bunker still isn't rendered,

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.

2014-06-09 Per discussione Ed Loach
It seems we have this one: http://www.sangosands.com/restaurant-and-bar-with-menues.html mapped solely as a restaurant. http://osm.org/go/e6WYUKyzk--?m= Perhaps less than 34 miles? Ed -Original Message- From: Dan S [mailto:danstowell+...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 June 2014 16:28 To: Talk

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Per discussione Ed Loach
Tom wrote: In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. http://binged.it/1iByiPy), the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery so you can accurately guess individual buildings. Perhaps it is just me, but I don’t think residential

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City (again, sorry!)

2014-04-22 Per discussione Ed Loach
There is no might about it. The wiki at least is explicit: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity But has also had the meaning pretty much redefined in 2013 from how I understood it to be before then. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:place%3Dcityold id=812669

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Per discussione Ed Loach
I checked a couple of changesets that were local enough to have appeared in one of the RSS feeds of activity in my local area (April 2013). In those two changesets as far as I could make out the only changes were additional nodes in the ways (A12 and adjacent). Checking back to late 2011 they

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea/Russia/Ukraine Borders

2014-03-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
Clifford Snow wrote: Should this section be restated in the OSM wiki under boundaries?  Perhaps better to link to the OSMF document? Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bing tiles Wolverhampton

2014-01-29 Per discussione Ed Loach
Seems to be a Bing issue. North and East Wolverhampton seem OK, but this is the corner of the problem area (as seen in Potlatch 2): http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2#map=17/52.58943/- 2.10928 From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 January 2014 11:04 To:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bing tiles Wolverhampton

2014-01-29 Per discussione Ed Loach
With similar issues at Bing http://binged.it/1k6dByI Ed ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-GB] Addresses: tagging query

2014-01-28 Per discussione Ed Loach
Andy asked: I'm attempting to add an address which has the following format: Building Retail Park Road Place County Post Code While I'm able to match most parts of the address to their corresponding addr:* tags the Retail Park line has me stumped. Does anybody have any suggestions

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM in Linux Format magazine

2014-01-21 Per discussione Ed Loach
Added, though didn’t know quite what to do about URLs – the ones I included show the articles are available as PDFs to subscribers while it is the current issue, but they’ll probably need updating when the next issue comes out. Ed From: Gregory [mailto:nomoregra...@googlemail.com] Sent:

Re: [OSM-talk] Contacting wiki admins?

2014-01-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Statistics has links to which users are on the categories but don't think their is a single point of contact. I'd probably recommend asking in #osm first of all to see who is around via irc.openstreetmap.org if you don't have a client already. On 18 Jan 2014

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs PhaseOut: help needed, Mapping party

2014-01-12 Per discussione Ed Loach
Just a small update, posted on my blog about the progress: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/werner2101/diary I thought OSB wasn't allowing new bug reports? There seem to be a few from Géovélo, such as http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?zoom=19lat=47.12282lon=-1.63 087layers=B0T opened

[Talk-GB] FW: OpenStreetBugs PhaseOut: help needed, Mapping party

2014-01-06 Per discussione Ed Loach
Forwarded from osm-talk after reading the diary entry: [GB] 2517 Very little progress. (70 Bugs fixed). Can anyone promote it to GB mappers? The bugs are distributed over the whole country. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetBugs/Phase_Out Ed -Original Message- From:

Re: [OSM-talk] The new OpenStreetMap.org design

2013-12-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
Lester wrote: The other area though is the fact that for many years we have been (aside: we who?) using the embedded map as a replacement for Google and I HOPE we still want to encourage that use? But the shift to being 'mapping' orientated as it odds with that usage? Now that

Re: [OSM-talk] The new OpenStreetMap.org design

2013-12-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
Lester replied: Well if I am the only person using embedded maps then why provide them? Sorry, when you used we I didn't know who you were speaking about. I've just been working through all the combinations again to document things myself. Yesterday when I grabbed an iframe, the large map

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

2013-12-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
I guess e-businesses have a legitime interest in being found on a bitcoin accepting businesses directory, but not necessarily on being shown on a bitcoin map. One I edited recently (probably - is there any way of telling for sure if the edit has come via coinmap) was a user at Discogs who had

Re: [OSM-talk] Good use of time ...

2013-12-02 Per discussione Ed Loach
Lester asked: I ask again - what is 'export' intended to do? Have you tried it? I just have and it lets me select an area then exports that area as OSM .osm XML format. I'm guessing there are similar limits to downloading areas as there are in JOSM but haven't tried it (I zoomed in on a single

Re: [OSM-talk] Good use of time ...

2013-12-02 Per discussione Ed Loach
There was an option to download to PDF and PNG, which was nice so you could make a printed map immediately. Why has that been removed? It moved to the Share button when that was added in early August. Ed ___ talk mailing list

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

2013-12-02 Per discussione Ed Loach
Lester: MOST other projects maintain the older style of site in parallel with such a major overhaul. Name one. I can probably name more that don't. Facebook for example is always adding changes. Unless you mean during the test phase, like we had the new site running on the redesign url

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

2013-12-02 Per discussione Ed Loach
Andy wrote: I miss the slider for zooming in and out. Having to make multiple clicks (on the - icon for zooming out) is an inconvenient kludge. Again, this isn't a new change. You do know about shift-click the + or - to go three zoom levels a time? Ed

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

2013-12-01 Per discussione Ed Loach
Martin wrote: the wiki was linked directly. Our wiki is the principal (loosely) structured key about osm, created by the community. Its starting page is a good entry if you want to get serious, and I am sure also longtime contributors go there rather often. I think it is better on the Help

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

2013-12-01 Per discussione Ed Loach
Lester: The about page is VERY short on help to get to other material ( but I do not object to advertising sponsors on that page ), and I probably need to try the site as a cold user to se if registering a new account is any more helpful, but trying to establish what is needed to help

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Update shops, pubs and restaurants

2013-11-21 Per discussione Ed Loach
Maybe it would be an idea to set up some kind of page in which we track in which parts of Birmingham the shops still need to be surveyed? As someone who now only visits the West Midlands irregularly, you don't just need to track where still needs to be surveyed. You need a way of tracking

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

2013-11-13 Per discussione Ed Loach
Christian Quest wrote: No more links to: - the wiki - the copyright/licence stuff - help.osm.org André has already mentioned two of these, and the copyright/licence page is linked both from the attribution on the map and from the About page. Ed

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus stops

2013-11-12 Per discussione Ed Loach
Matthijs asked: snip The question is now, which of these should we use for the name tag? snip Please let me know what you think. For name, use whatever is on the bus stop sign. So in this example: http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/65797/article_346b19a79c148b9f

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Food Hygiene Rating System

2013-10-20 Per discussione Ed Loach
Is the FHRS ref/id printed on each venues window sticker/certificate? Or do we have to look up the venue in an open database to get the id? Tendring has only just decided to join the scheme so it isn't something I've yet paid any attention to when out of the area to see, so really I'm asking for

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice needed for maxweight turning restriction

2013-10-12 Per discussione Ed Loach
ael wrote: I have a road with a maxweight (7.5t) sign at one end but none at the other end. So I take it that this means that vehicles over this weight may not enter from that end. I have used relation tagged with type=restriction:maxweight maxweight = 7.5 restriction = no_entry

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

2013-10-10 Per discussione Ed Loach
Colin wrote: I assume that should be in lower case, as per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:iso3166-2 It seems you can take your pick... http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=3166 Perhaps a secondary task could be making usage consistent ;) Ed

[Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

2013-10-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
As you might all know, Lloyds TSB split to become Lloyds Bank and TSB a couple of weeks ago. To help find those that still need remapping I had a quick play and came up with http://www.loach.me.uk/osm/LloydsTSB/ I've not added a key, but used logos I found off the internet (with a bit of a

Re: [Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

2013-10-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
Matt wrote: This looks really useful, thanks. It might also be worth checking the 'operator' tag as well as many banks have that tagged rather (or maybe as well as) than the name All suggestions greatfully received. If you refresh now, an operator starting Lloyds TSB will trump whatever is

Re: [Talk-GB] Lloyds TSB

2013-10-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
Dan wrote: Handy tool, thanks. It might be good to limit it to items tagged amenity=bank and amenity=atm though, as I've spotted some Lloyds pharmacies showing up here in southeast London as well as the banks. I could, but it is only showing those as Pharmacy is missing out of the name

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-10 Per discussione Ed Loach
Lester wrote: It would be MUCH safer if you had to pick the boundary to select it! But much harder to use for areas that share the boundary ways with an adjacent area. You'd have to resort to the / stuff that Potlatch uses or middle-click for JOSM (or whatever). New mappers are likely to make

Re: [OSM-talk] House Numbers

2012-12-31 Per discussione Ed Loach
According to this list, 208 accounts have added more than 10k house numbers - if any one of them has actually surveyed that many houses they should be awarded a prize! While I'm surprised that my entry is as high as it is, it is entirely possible that I've added almost 40,000 house numbers

Re: [Talk-GB] Routing Addresses

2012-12-27 Per discussione Ed Loach
Is there some better tagging we can do in OSM to lessen the visibility of districts and regions, and get the display to a useful town or village and county. Or is this a problem of the routers? I think it is because different admin levels have different significance (in addresses) in different

[Talk-GB] FW: NaPTAN Bus Stops

2012-12-14 Per discussione Ed Loach
Forwarded to see if my bounce issues have been resolved. -Original Message- From: Ed Loach [mailto:e...@loach.me.uk] Sent: 12 December 2012 09:02 To: 'Donald Noble'; 'talk-gb@openstreetmap.org' Subject: RE: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN Bus Stops Donald asked: Any pointers much appreciated. I’ve

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

2012-11-21 Per discussione Ed Loach
It's caused by this changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10450293 Example change: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/8011778/history I suspect that the admin_level=2 boundary shouldn't stop at the water's edge in this case. There is another admin level 2

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Per discussione Ed Loach
Henning asked: Which of above tags are obsolete and should be removed after checking the object against aerial image and gps-tracks? JOSM already discards (some) obsolete Tiger tags: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/7915 And a similar patch https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4552 was

Re: [OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

2012-11-17 Per discussione Ed Loach
I'd rather deprecate platform for busses if anything. One of the problems with the bus stop tag, and hoping I don't reopen old arguments, is that due to a mistranslation in the wiki in the dim and distant past many people have tagged bus stops as nodes on the way where the bus stops, when they

Re: [OSM-talk] Tool to detect incorrect oneways?

2012-11-12 Per discussione Ed Loach
I think this would show on the small components routing layer at OSRM http://map.project-osrm.org/ Ed -Original Message- From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl] Sent: 12 November 2012 10:28 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Tool to detect incorrect oneways?

Re: [Talk-GB] Request: Norfolk Broads National Park Boundary

2012-11-03 Per discussione Ed Loach
I've not looked at OS Strategi, but the Natural England datasets are now OGL licenced and they contain the national park boundaries, and I think are better resolution. http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/publications/data/default.aspx Ed -Original Message- From: Robert Norris

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Corporate OSMF Members

2012-10-25 Per discussione Ed Loach
Frederik wrote: in the coming years, the OSMF will re-work their articles of association which are currently very old fashioned and geared more towards a British manufacturing firm than towards an international mass membership nonprofit (FSVO mass). I believe OSMF is currently

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-17 Per discussione Ed Loach
Matt wrote: I actually do that in reverse. I first trace all the houses in an area from Bing and then when I'm out surveying (using either a printed map or tablet) I'll use those outlines to match against reality. Either way, I'm very much into adding addressing information these days and

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-16 Per discussione Ed Loach
Adam wrote: Can anyone give me any pointers about importing house shapes into OSM? They were probably traced by hand from Bing imagery rather than imported. I've added a few buildings over the years, but they end up being slightly wobbly, which is far from ideal. I have a huge preference

Re: [Talk-GB] Garmin eTrex 30 - just reduced on amazon

2012-10-08 Per discussione Ed Loach
Peter wrote: Garmin suggested retail price £229.99 Amazon had it at £178 until yesterday today.. Garmin eTrex 30 Outdoor Handheld GPS Unit £157.49 Thanks Peter. I've been humming and hahing (however it is spelled) for ages about whether to get one or not. So I now have, via the Amazon link

Re: [Talk-GB] Highlighting an area ...

2012-09-21 Per discussione Ed Loach
Tom, I’m guessing when you save from QGIS you are also reprojecting? Ed From: Tom Chance [mailto:t...@acrewoods.net] Sent: 21 September 2012 12:37 To: Lester Caine Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Highlighting an area ... On 21 September 2012 12:20, Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] {urgent} wrong licence information!

2012-09-17 Per discussione Ed Loach
Looks like it has been done. http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Osm:Export.start.export_detai ls/dediff=4223004oldid=1509470rcid=curid=1065143 Short: http://is.gd/vzKO8e Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Legal Wording again..

2012-09-14 Per discussione Ed Loach
Chatting on IRC yesterday for suitable updated attribution text for my Maperitive rendered images, the following was suggested as sufficient: © OSM contributors, osm.org/copyright was suggested as sufficient. My first attempt showed different attributions for the web map background (cc by-sa)

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

2012-09-12 Per discussione Ed Loach
Well, I'm not an expert, but as when you upload a GPX track it gives you 4 options for visibility for each track, then that choice is effectively the extent of how you licence that individual track for use by anyone (as well as whatever licence the full database of points is released under). If

[OSM-talk] New Sage CRM Mapping Component uses OpenStreetMap

2012-09-05 Per discussione Ed Loach
https://community.sagecrm.com/user_community/b/sage_crm_news/archive /2012/08/28/sage-crm-mapping-component-7.1.aspx (short http://is.gd/e6k5uD ) Excerpt: Powered by OpenStreetMap, the free wiki world map, the component allows you to browse your customer visually and see nearby amenities such as

Re: [OSM-talk] New Sage CRM Mapping Component uses OpenStreetMap

2012-09-05 Per discussione Ed Loach
On 05/09/2012 11:13, Ed Loach wrote: And: Users need to have HTTP access to *.openstreetmap.org. Steve asked: Should we perhaps be concerned about that? Does this square with our tileserver usage policy? I don't know. It is an optional component, and I don't know how many Sage CRM

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-31 Per discussione Ed Loach
I’ve just downloaded this. It looks like it contains Registered Office address which isn’t necessarily the same as the business (trading) address – for example where I used to work in Pattingham used to have a registered office in Dudley (the accountants address, I understand), and having just

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

2012-08-03 Per discussione Ed Loach
Looking at the FOI request: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/119687/response/296922/attach/ 5/attachment.txt Ed From: Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 August 2012 11:37 To: 'Stuart Harrison'; talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re:

Re: [OSM-talk] Need some clarification on edits

2012-07-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
If I understand correctly, a grey checkbox in the history in JOSM means a non-agreeer to the CT. Those edits should be redacted, correct? Grey means they signed up after the new CT were the only ones, so automatically accepted rather than choosing to. Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] Bot redaction UK

2012-07-16 Per discussione Ed Loach
Blackadder asked the same question on irc earlier, and “I was looking at cornwall when I made the bbox” was the reply. The NW Europe box will cover it, I believe, but everywhere will get covered sooner or later. Ed From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] Sent: 16 July 2012 13:20

Re: [Talk-GB] Redaction progress

2012-07-13 Per discussione Ed Loach
Steve wrote: Interesting. I see that a number of redaction edits have been made in northern France, so maybe the mappers in those areas should be made aware. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-fr/2012-July/045439.ht ml Ed ___ Talk-GB

Re: [OSM-talk] Cookies on OSM

2012-07-11 Per discussione Ed Loach
Piwik requires explicit consent as it's not an 'essential' cookie Even session cookies are still a grey area! http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_commu nications/the_guide/cookies.aspx mentions: European data protection authorities opinion In June 2012, European

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-10 Per discussione Ed Loach
We are expecting to begin on _Wednesday_ (11th July) assuming a couple of final setup details are completed by then. The bot will run with Ireland first of all, then the UK, then the rest of the world. Consequently please expect to see a few changes to your local area later this week.

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens, Doorstep Greens CROW Open Area land

2012-07-04 Per discussione Ed Loach
Looking at the page on boundary=protected_area, perhaps class 7 is the right one for Millennium Greens? From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area#Bac kground There are no protected areas for the United Kingdom in the WDPA So I'd say probably not Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-19 Per discussione Ed Loach
It's just a vanilla potlatch instance, by the way. All the merging panels etc are built-in to the standard potlatch, there's no special code or branch or anything in the deployment that we're using here. I wondered if the created_by changeset tag value could be the same as the name that

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
Rob replied: From what I understand the cycleway:left=lane ( right) is the correct way to tag these. The choice of 'left'/'right' depends on which way the road is drawn in OSM. As you probably already know all roads (ways) have a direction which can be found by selecting the way and looking

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
Ooops. Wrong list, sorry. Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
Are there any notes I'm missing about how to access and deal with nodes in the DfT data? e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/edloach/7392860104/in/photostream Ed -Original Message- From: Martin - CycleStreets [mailto:list-osm-talk- g...@cyclestreets.net] Sent: 17 June 2012 12:44 To:

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
Also, I'm not up on cycleway lane tagging, and on a section where there are lanes both sides, is cycleway:left=lane and cycleway:right=lane correct, as per merge tool suggestions? Also, the merge tool is showing a suggest of Lane with a capital letter, which I think should be lower case. Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
One last comment for now. When looking at a project page, such as: http://gravitystorm.dev.openstreetmap.org/cnxc-snapshot/projects/78/ tagged_ways It would be good to have a link to edit a relevant area, or failing that at least a latitude/longitude so you can find the way. I've followed the two

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Per discussione Ed Loach
Rob wrote: I don't see this. Right and Left tell you where the lane is, but it does not tell a user (or routing software) which direction you can ride in. This requires knowledge of which side of the road each country drives on (or forward/backward tags). Ah, yes. I see your point. I

Re: [Talk-GB] OT: Is Bristol the UK's only cross-border city?

2012-06-13 Per discussione Ed Loach
Colin wrote: However the boundary between England and Wales runs approximately half-way between the two islands. I haven't found a definitive statement of where the border lies The nodes that are part of the boundary way between the two islands are tagged with a source and a note (and a ref),

Re: [OSM-talk] Enhanced version of OSM Administrative Boundary Map at OpenMapSurfer.uni-hd.de

2012-06-11 Per discussione Ed Loach
I have been doing quite a bit of work on them (in Kent, UK) recently and the changes are not showing up yet. I don't know if it relates, but a lot of Kent boundaries seem to have an inconsistent use of roles (some ways use them, some don't): http://www.loach.me.uk/osm/boundaries/ Ed

Re: [OSM-talk] One town, two featured images

2012-05-30 Per discussione Ed Loach
Andrew: Should a map of the whole world really have two images of Oxford featured in three weeks? Tom: If Oxford has two special things in it in 3 weeks, I don't see why not. +1 But I've noticed for the last couple of weeks that we've got to Monday morning and there is no new image. If

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

2012-05-29 Per discussione Ed Loach
2. I don't think you should continue to make mass edits under the username WorstFixer because that implies that before you fixed things they were among the worst which has the potential to offend people. I've not been following what has and hasn't been done, or is proposed, but the username

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