Re: [Talk-GB] Defibrillator Mapping

2016-05-23 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
Hello all, There's a project started for Yorkshire and Humber, which seems to be run by Yorkshire Ambulance Service, BHF and others: https://www.mapmydefib.com No actual map there, just a form asking for people to register new defibs. I'm not sure how to approach them but willing to give

[Talk-GB] Great British Public Toilet Map

2014-11-20 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
Hello all, The Great British Public Toilet Map [was launched yesterday] providing details of over 8,000 public toilets in the UK including council facilities, train stations, community toilet schemes as well as shopping centres and libraries. An alarming finding from the research by Royal

[OSM-talk] Missing Maps article in The Guardian

2014-10-07 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
Hello all, I spotted this yesterday: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/06/missing-maps-human-genome-project-unmapped-cities It ends with: Guardian Cities will host a Missing Maps party next month to map an African city. Get involved: cit...@theguardian.com Regards, Ben

[OSM-talk] Munzee - a sort of QR scavenger hunt, uses OSM

2013-04-22 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
Hello all, I've not seen this mentioned on the list (I googled site:lists.openstreetmap.org munzee) Munzee - http://www.munzee.com/ - a sort of scavenger hunt using QR codes (and recently NFC tags) played with a smartphone app. They have a map to show locations of munzees (i.e. the QR codes or

Re: [Talk-GB] Lake District Satellite Imagery

2012-10-22 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
Hello all, I never use the highest zoom level Bing imagery as it's rarely sharp enough to be useful. I have found Bing to give better resolution and alignment than OS OpenData StreetView (OSSV) in most places I work on (mostly West Yorkshire). Bing also tends to agree more precisely with the

Re: [Talk-GB] Lake District Satellite Imagery

2012-10-22 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
On 22 October 2012 14:23, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ben Pollinger [mailto:benpollinger+...@gmail.com] wrote: Sent: 22 October 2012 13:12 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Lake District Satellite Imagery Hello all, I never use the highest zoom level

[Talk-GB] Olympic torch route on Guardian website

2012-06-19 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
Hello all, I just noticed this uses OSM data: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/interactive/2012/may/18/olympic-torch-route-map-london-2012 I quite like the rendering style, though it shows up the patchiness of things like farmland and woodland in rural areas. I wonder if The Guardian did this in

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

2011-03-17 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5 queries a day limit without an account) [1] but based entirely on data in the OSM database.

[Talk-GB] OS OpenData Viewer

2010-08-06 Per discussione Ben Pollinger
Hello all, Not sure if this has been mentioned on the lists: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/viewer/ Note the boundary layer tab in the top-right. I was only aware of http://os.openstreetmap.org/ Cheers, Ben ___ Talk-GB mailing