Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] West Midlands Fire Service using OSM data without attribution

Andy wrote: > West Midlands Fire Service announced a new "Risk Explorer" web > service > [1] today; it is clearly based on OSM map data, but I can see no > attribution, > > I have pointed this requirement out to them on Twitter [2] and await > their response. > > The site was built by a company

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Cosford aircraft

Andy asked: > We have several of the static, outdoor aircraft at the RAF Museum at > Cosford mapped as "historic=aircraft" nodes, but with no tags giving > their type, registration, etc. > > An example is: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6249198920 > > with others close by. > > Does

Re: [OSM-talk] Extending the 'geo:' uri scheme: Adding parameter 'osmid'

> Good point. Also consider that OSM ids have an advantage over > coordinates, because if an OSM object gets deleted then a query for > that id will return "Not found". That in itself is valuable information > to a data consumer. But rather than being deleted, they may become a different thing,

Re: [Talk-GB] Lorries can't limbo

The one mentioned on this list in July 2017 perhaps? https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2017-July/020359.html Ed From: Peter Neale via Talk-GB Sent: 13 November 2020 08:37 To: n...@ijive.co.uk; Jez Nicholson Cc: Talk-GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Lorries can't limbo I am

Re: [Talk-GB] ISO 3166-2:GB

The values seem to be in OSM in the ISO3166-2 tag (a couple twice) https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/ISO3166-2#values I tried to get overpass turbo to display them but I either got a timeout or a very large amount of data returned. I zoomed in and got GB-ENG, GB-ESS, GB-SOS and

Re: [Talk-GB] National Cycle Network removal/reclassification

Peter asked (re NCN 51): > What area is this, please? > > NCN 51 comes near me through Milton Keynes, so I have made some adjustments > to the relation in the past (when it was re-routed to avoid going through the > middle > of the intu shopping centre). I live near the Colchester to Harwich

Re: [Talk-GB] National Cycle Network removal/reclassification

DaveF replied to: > > So even if Sustrans declassify it, if the signs are still up shouldn’t > > it remain in OSM? with: > OSM should be using the most up to date data available. In this > instance > I think Sustrans saying they've decommissioned a few NCNs & > publishing > an updated map is

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

Colin wrote: > Thanks for your message. I would like to challenge one point - your assertion > that the Regions > at admin_level=5 are in "widespread popular use". It is true that many people > talk about > geographical regions like "the South-East" or "the North-West". But these are >

Re: [Talk-GB] Bus Routes on OSM

I use the opendata to compare with OSM to identify any changes to routes that include any bus stops within the Tendring, Colchester and Maldon districts of Essex, then manually update. I usually do this weekly. The app I use to compare the data is in github, but I've got a feeling "Add Area" is

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

I'd suggest only add it to buildings where the address already exists and there is a one to one mapping, so we can use unmatched values to see where needs surveying. Ed Get Outlook for Android From: Stephen Knox Sent: Saturday, July 4,

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

Thanks from me too Robert. Of course the first place I zoomed into was where I live. It appears that where the house next door was knocked down (roughly 10 to 15 years ago at a guess) and two built there are three pins. Checking the council's planning portal it was 17 years ago and the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] One-way in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton Council's Twitter feed provides a link to https://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/parking-and-roads/city-centre-road-changes Ed -- EdLoach ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Farmfoods clean up

If you can't copy the opening hours data, are you sure you can copy the store reference? I've already checked and I used shop=supermarket for their local store, probably based on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Retail_chains_in_the_United_Kingdom Ed From:

Re: [Talk-GB] hgv=discouraged

I used motor_vehicle=unsuitable here https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/26551700 for want of a better tag. I wouldn't ever drive it, as having walked it and seen all the scrapes in the road surface where cars bottom out on the sharp transition from the steep slopes up to the bridge to the

Re: [Talk-GB] Motorway junctions where the slow lane seperates from the through lanes

See also https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes which has some quite good notes on how to map lanes. I suspect this is how OsmAnd knows to give me lane guidance (can’t think how else it could know). I suspect based on that you’d want to begin your new way for the drop lane where the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK coastline data

You'll probably get comments about import guidelines but I did similar for Tendring about 9 years ago before there were any. I think your use of the word import in this scenario may be misleading as you're not bulk importing the whole coastline but selectively improving sections of coastline by

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Downloading Slippy Maps / User-Agent

I've recently written an application to download (non-OSM) information automatically by basically automating what I previously did manually. In case the people who run the site I'm downloading from wonder why I'm only making three calls to complete the authentication and download the data

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data [Thread 2]

Stuart wrote: > Even more so in bus stations. The name Derby Bus Station (actually > just "Bus Station” in the locality of Derby) applies equally to all 29 > bays in the bus station. “Bay 1” through “Bay 29” are the indicators. Agreed this is useful when adding the stops for the mapper, but

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data

Silent Spike wrote: > Would be curious to learn more about your route maintenance process. > I have a list of local bus route relations I've been meaning to update, but > it's hard to do so without all of the stops mapped (hence my desire to > import the available data). The application I

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data

David wrote: > Given that few people like maintenance work, if you can't map all > the > stops from first principles, it is very unlikely that imported ones will > get maintained. Retaining the NaPTAN tagging is important in > allowing > any later remerge of the updated NaPTAN data. I've been

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric car charging points

Robert wrote: > As it happens, I've just started having a play with this data. I > haven't got a full comparison tool working yet, but you can get an > idea of how the NCR data compares to what we currently have in > OSM at > https://osm.mathmos.net/chargepoint/progress/ (click on one of > the >

Re: [Talk-GB] Increase of mail size limit

Rob wrote: > Joking aside, please note I'm not asking for much here. A 40kb limit is tiny > and > people do breach the limit occasionally. In this instance it was ~500kb. I > ended up > having to put the attachments elsewhere but that delayed the post by 24 hours > (it was already late and I

Re: [Talk-transit] Ideas for a simplified public transportation scheme

I've been generally ignoring this thread, but did spot the handy summary from Jarek. In particular: > 7. For public transit routing, it appears that having highway_bus_stop > nodes ("locations where people wait for buses") arranged in order in > a > relation is sufficient, per the comments

Re: [Talk-GB] Is this a footbridge?

I'm guessing it was a footbridge, and now needs repair. From: Martin Wynne Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2019 1:24:22 PM To: Talk GB Subject: [Talk-GB] Is this a footbridge? Is this a footbridge? Or maybe a ford? Stepping stones? There is a solid handrail, but only a

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

I recently found this gate which I think everyone walks around, but I'll probably map it as on the route of the footpath when I get around to looking through all the photos from that day. https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/w2kvnsbGoKkhgIKFMsksLg Ed From: SK53

Re: [OSM-talk] We're erasing our history in wiki

Of course, being a wiki, it isn't actually deleted, just marked as deleted. But looking at it now I can't see why we'd still want it in the wiki, asking people to use possibly no longer existent api end points to test software that long since has been tested. Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] Removal of redundant NaPTAN data

The interactive map on the plusbus site, e.g. http://www.plusbus.info/clacton-on-s perhaps has a better display as it shows the individual stops and perhaps rather than having the area mapped we should add a naptan tag to the stop nodes (for signposted stops I tend to just add naptancode and

Re: [Talk-GB] Removal of redundant NaPTAN data

Stuart asked: > What do you mean by “pay scale”? Are you meaning the definition of a stop as > a fare stage, or as part of a zone? The pay_scale_area ways were the PlusBus zones as they were in 2009 according to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Import e.g. this one for

Re: [Talk-GB] Milton Keynes Redways - How to Tag Consistently

How tagging changes over time... RichardF wrote: > highway=cycleway, segregated=no achieves all that in two tags > rather than > seven. :) I remember https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes_Mapping_Party_2009 where it looks like we (or at least I) only used highway=cycleway, e.g.

Re: [Talk-GB] We're missing changes to M1 Junction 36 which have apparently been in place for a year.

Paul wrote: > Jerry, > > No worries. I think I'll still pop down for a survey anyway because I now > want to > try the GPS + car trick and see how it turns out. We'll compare changesets > later :) Much of Clacton was originally mapped using that method, when there was no imagery covering

Re: [Talk-GB] drawing internal parts of buildings

Marc asked: > Did you try any of the 2 maps listed on > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor_Mapping ? > > I tried openlevelup : > https://openlevelup.net/?l=0#18/52.54051/-0.26289 but I'm not > sure > whether I should be able to see the rooms on that one I think from reading

Re: [Talk-GB] drawing internal parts of buildings

Dan suggested: > If you want the rendering to do something different, you could raise > an issue or even get involved in coding the main "openstreetmap- > carto" > rendering style: > https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto Like perhaps

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

Dan wrote: > The more orthodox use is described here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses#Using_interpolation Interesting. I'm clearly behind with wiki reading. My views on addr:interpolation are still based on

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

BD asked: > can some one tell me, what is the best way to map houses in residential area. > > Which one should we consider the most appropriate way to map longer building > comprised of few properties? I'm not sure either of your two examples are the best way, and I suspect the answer is

[Talk-GB] Plumb Center (etc)

I originally sent this from an unsubscribed email address. If the list maintainer sees this, please don't release the original copy. Ed -Original Message- From: Ed Loach Sent: 28 October 2018 10:32 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Plumb Center (etc) After spotting

Re: [Talk-GB] Access restrictions for lorries above a certain GVM

Tobias asked: > In United Kingdom, how do you tag roads signed with this sign? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_traffic_sign_622.1A.svg Based on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conditional_restrictions I'd go with something like access:hgv:conditional=no@(weight>7.5) with added

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

Stuart wrote: > I propose that we refer this to the OSM UK Directors and ask them > to review the arguments for both sides and come to a firm decision. > That’s what we elected them for, after all. I didn't. I thought OSM UK was to promote OSM in the UK, not decide what we can and can't map.

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

Warin wrote: > OSM users can easily remove stuff in there pre filtering of OSM data. > So it is not an issue for them. I missed the start of this thread (it was last month - I was nomail) but agree with this. If OSM user's want boundaries from OSM then they can quite happily set up a filter to

Re: [Talk-GB] Wickham Market, Suffolk

Chris wrote: > The parish council website sits on the fence and calls it a 'thriving > community'. At the top of their home page that's true. Lower down they get off the fence and write "Please do take a look at our PhotoGallery of our beautiful village" http://wickhammarket.onesuffolk.net Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] un-named roads in UK

I missed the start of this thread as I was away, but there are some unnamed roads in England with houses on that just have a postal address in the format house name, hamlet name, parish name, postal town or at least there is the one where I commented on this note:

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

Mateusz wrote: > Also, OSM Inspector anyway is not useful at all for offline tag listing on > map > during survey, on a phone (my particular usecase). Funnily enough I've added FIXME tags when out surveying with my phone (Vespucci). FIXME pre-dates the fixme wiki proposal (if you dig out the

Re: [OSM-talk] Sidewalk symmetry

Clifford wrote: > There is a good website that explains the separate way approach > http://opensidewalks.com > I know the people who put it together and they convinced me it's the better > approach. I would say separate ways make more sense in urban USA where you can't cross the road just

Re: [OSM-talk] GDPR introduction

Andrew asked: > Yes that does help clarify my concerns too. I still wonder if someone > outside the EU can go ahead and publish the full metadata included > OSM database under the ODBL outside the OSMF, or in the worst case > local communities outside the EU can still publish their regional

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposal for simplification of mapping public transport

Stephen wrote: > If a consumer doesn't care about stop_position members, it's trivial > to > ignore them. If the current spec says they're mandatory, then > propose > making them optional; I would support that. I don't support > prohibiting > or removing them. They are optional in the current

Re: [Talk-GB] Post offices that have closed

For a temporarily closed one near here, I just changed the opening hours to Mo-Su closed (the convenience store it is in is still open). Ed From: Adam Snape Sent: 06 April 2018 17:35 To: Andrew Hain Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Next quarters project: Post Offices

Thanks Robert. I’ve been trying to track down some of the local unmapped ones. This one I need to update (thanks to the ex-parish clerk who is regularly on a pub quiz team with me confirming): http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/branch/24436 The actual location is the Memorial

Re: [Talk-GB] New Post Office Data and Comparison Tool

I asked: > > The delivery office still has the post office tag on. Should it be > > tagged differently, or have a subtag added > > (post_office=delivery_office maybe?), or something else? David replied: > I would say amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail. Maybe not > even > that it you cannot

Re: [Talk-GB] New Post Office Data and Comparison Tool

Looks interesting thanks. I found a postbox that had recently been re-tagged as a post office by a new editor straight away. One of the unmatched items is the delivery office in Frinton-on-Sea (the counter services have moved to the Co-Op). The delivery office still has the post office tag on.

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

> All that is left to be sorted out is should all the current > addr:postcode entries logged against the street ways be replaced > with > postal_code My suggestion is don't worry about it. Data consumers can easily check for both, and as soon as the actual addresses be mapped the tag

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project: Petrol stations

It looks like amenity=charging_station is documented in the wiki as only for nodes. As they don’t let you use your mobile phones or jump start cars on petrol station forecourts, I suspect that any charging stations will be positioned far enough from the pumps area that a separate node to

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

I've checked the only one near me, in Clacton, and the address details in OpenStreetMap are correct and the proposed address changes are wrong. Ed > -Original Message- > From: Ilya Zverev [mailto:i...@zverev.info] > Sent: 03 November 2017 09:56 > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject:

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

> At the same time it seems (at a > first glance) there is not a single link on the site to OpenStreetMap. At a quick glance the "Learn" page explains the first thing you need is an OpenStreetMap account, and when I clicked "Login" it asked me to allow access to Tasking Manager 3 (probably as I

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

> For anyone else reading, we're talking about > http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postcodes/stats/ > When I drilled down a bit I found an NG column with a * in it, e.g. http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postcodes/stats/CO/CO13/ In this instance I think the 4 CO13 3 codes are PO Boxes but fall just

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus stops suspended

If they’re physically still there leave the nodes there but temporarily remove them from the affected route relations? From: Andy Mabbett [mailto:a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk] Sent: 03 October 2017 08:51 To: talk-gb-westmidlands Subject:

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

Ew. Bus route relations are a real time consuming pain to maintain. It is possible to get both the Naptan data and the Traveline data under OGL https://data.gov.uk/dataset/traveline-national-dataset https://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan (though one requires you to register for an ftp login to

Re: [Talk-GB] Shared Public Rights of Way

Split it at the parish boundary? From: Bob Hawkins [mailto:bobhawk...@waitrose.com] Sent: 04 July 2017 10:15 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Shared Public Rights of Way I have discovered a situation in South Oxfordshire where a single bridleway has two route codes:

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing fuel stations in UK and future similar imports

Rory wrote: > To chime in, and say I think it's OK to have external ids/refs > like this. I've done an import which added such a ref and use that tag > elsewhere. I can totally see the benefit for this w.r.t. to make it > easier for OSM to interoperate with other datasets. With the > obvious >

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Attenuation Ponds / Sustainable Drainage schemes

That seems to be what I settled on too, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/189511931 Ed From: Chris Hill [mailto:o...@raggedred.net] Sent: 07 May 2017 17:35 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Attenuation Ponds / Sustainable Drainage schemes [not cross

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Postcode Checking

How sure are you that 'Old Postal Unit' isn't just that the postcode got left out of the update by mistake? It's just that checking the first two CO postcodes in the list, the businesses there still seem to be using the 'old' one on their websites, e.g:

Re: [OSM-talk] No changeset discussion box - Modified via wheelmap.org?

James asked: > wasn't it like 30 minutes without activity it'll close? One hour https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/app/models/changeset.rb#L41 Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Is there a problem with the standard tile rendering

I /dirty ‘d a couple of tiles (at z19 and z18) and they seem to have rendered OK. Ed From: Ian Caldwell [mailto:ian1caldwell+...@googlemail.com] Sent: 01 March 2017 09:22 To: Talk GB Subject: [Talk-GB] Is there a problem with the standard tile rendering

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate ways in multipolygon relations

Nev asked: > is there a JOSM plugin to assist with duplicate ways? > > We have been given explicit permission to use a good data set of > shapefiles that define boundaries for the OSM. > I am a new user to QGis and wonder if the splitting and conflating of > the shapefile to be merged can be

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

How many of those also have physically_present=no (so definitely a bus stop, but no pole) as described here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Surveying_and_Merging_NaPTAN_and_OSM_data#physically_present ? Ed From: Brian Prangle [mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org] Sent: 08

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto database schema change

Dave wrote: > One improvement/correction?: The wooded area South of Greyfield > Wood: > https://lua.osm-carto.paulnorman.ca/#15/51.3189/-2.5230 > > Last edited 2 years ago. OSMI doesn't flag it up as a problem & it > appears to have just one shared start.end point. > > Cycle/Transport/Human

Re: [Talk-GB] Named landuse polygons

DaveF wrote: > Please be aware this is the talk-GB forum. > > Use of place=farm in Britain is almost certainly misguided. If anyone > knows of an appropriate location please post here. > > It's not use of the tag itself that's the problem, it's contributor's > misinterpretation of it. When was

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging a multilvel building

Mark asked: > Does that make sense? If so, how do I do it? For similar reasons I've avoided mapping the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton which has 1 level of shop entrances on Dudley Street, 2 in the middle, but 1 again on Victoria Street. Due to the hill the Dudley Street ground level and

Re: [Talk-GB] Monitoring OSM changes (was Re: natural=heath)

Adrian wrote: > I did set up some changes-in-a-given-area RSS feeds from ITOworld > years > ago (I'd explain what they are better, but while the feeds still work > I've forgotten my login to go and get the tool's name :-D) You might not have forgotten your ITO world login - if you have an RSS

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

A GPS trace is in the upload queue. I’ll try and get more details from my dashcam though it was fairly misty at 8am this morning. Ed From: Brian Prangle [mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org] Sent: 01 December 2016 13:26 To: Ed Loach Cc: OSM Group WM Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

SK53 mentioned: > In Tendring poleclimber adds notes from planning applications. And we try and check them fairly regularly. He also updates http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/tendring-openstreetmap-notes_97621 I agree trying to close notes would probably not be a good project - it should be

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

or whatever OpenStreetView is now called images, I’ll try that too). Ed From: Brian Prangle [mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org] Sent: 01 December 2016 13:26 To: Ed Loach Cc: OSM Group WM Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wolverhampton Railway Station access from 8th January 2017 Hi Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] Summer quarterly project

Dan wrote: > Town-centre blitzes can lead to out-of-date data very quickly. Town > centre data is better to have in OSM if it has maintainer(s). Jerry > acknowledged this, but I still would like to register a concern about > that! I'll agree that it is better to have a maintained set of data,

Re: [Talk-GB] Summer quarterly project

Paul commented on John's suggestion: > Speed limits would be a good one, although impossible to armchair-map unless > you know > something I don't. Also, would it stem the tide of useless speed limit notes > from Navmii GPS users? I can't guarantee it would stem the tide of Navmii speed limit

Re: [Talk-GB] Composite mapping (OSM and OS, PRoWs etc)

I’m not sure which of your data sources give which bit of your rendering, but at about TM 151 312 (and I can’t get search by grid reference to find this location – slightly NE of Bradfield, Essex) you have both the correct route for the Essex Way (as in OSM, here-ish

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

I don’t think we should be mapping things as parishes then adding an extra tag to say “this isn’t a parish”. It isn’t an administrative area so shouldn’t have an administrative boundary. At best you could perhaps use something like boundary=unparished_area (no admin level needed, though I

Re: [Talk-GB] wrong tag "tunnel_name""bridge_name"

Checking taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk there are 1957 bridge_name compared to 633 bridge:name - is the wiki's use of bridge:name perhaps the mistake? Ed From: heimlik...@mail.com [mailto:heimlik...@mail.com] Sent: 09 August 2016 18:25 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] wrong

Re: [Talk-GB] wrong tag "tunnel_name""bridge_name"

Historically the bridge wiki page didn't have the bridge:name suggestion, and the only suggestion was that on the talk page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:bridge#Naming which suggested bridge_name. I was unaware of these recent (pre-2012) changes Ed From: heimlik...@mail.com

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

Are we going to need to discuss tagging? I tend to put landuse=farmyard on the way around the farmyard and name= I then put the address details 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

Re: [Talk-GB] OS open map local polygon accuracy

The shapes themselves aren’t particularly accurate, if you look at say building outlines and compare to Bing. It shouldn’t take long to find a non-rectangular building on Bing which has been approximated to rectangular in OS Open Map Local Ed From: ro...@beardandsandals.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Project

Christian asked: > As schools.mapthe.uk is an import project to osm: > > Does the community `buy in` to this approach? > Can I go forward to contacting osm imports? > What would you like to see as improvements? > > As usual silence counts as approval ;-) I missed earlier emails on this

Re: [Talk-GB] Defibrillator Mapping

I've just emailed the East of England Ambulance Service to let them know their current worksheet of locations has the postcode of the Wivenhoe Co-Op store against both the Wivenhoe location and the Brightlingsea location (which should be CO7 0BT). Discrepancy spotted thanks to

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

I spent some time not that long ago trying to survey all the ones in Tendring using the list available at http://www.eastamb.nhs.uk/Get-involved/Community-Public-Access-Defibrillators.htm as a starting point of where to look. I’ve fed back to them some spelling mistakes that are on their

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

With noon rapidly approaching I'll withdraw my earlier suggestion regarding deleting sadly-lacking-in-information buildings as part of a future project. Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

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

I was thinking of a different possible project which perhaps we can postpone until a different quarter rather than starting today. There are a lot of buildings which have been traced from various imagery layers but with no other useful information on them. Is it a shop, a house, what is its

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

Great news. Is it possible we can add something to the wiki page about an agreed way to tag multiple schools on a single site, or schools with multiple sites. I think earlier discussions here suggested: For a site with multiple schools (grounds shared, separate buildings) tag the

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

Robert wrote: > Just a quick note to say that I've updated the matching used in my > tool at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/progress/ so that > OSM > objects with a ref:edubase, ref:seedcode, or ref:deniirn that > matches > an entry on the official list will now always be 'matched' in my

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

Stuart wrote: > 1 site, 2 schools: > • boundary has amenity=school > • buildings have school names & e.g. edubase tags. I used amenity=school for > the individual buildings though, as well as building=school. It should > probably > only be building=school, really, as the site is the amenity.

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

> > The site relation page however > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site#Prop > osal > > suggests it should be multipolygon and not site - > > "For example the tag amenity=school describes the perimeter of > the school grounds, for schools with multiple sites the

[Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers? Similar questions for other variations - I've seen CE, CoE, C of E for example. I've been leaving existing names in the main (occasionally adding VC or VA)

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Multiple Schools on one site

On 17/01/16 00:08, alasd...@dunakin.me.uk wrote: > I'd like some advice please on how to tag 2 Schools that use the > one site. Lester replied: > What I've done initially is tagged the buildings of each part with the > correct name and ref:edubase tag, and not put a tag on the site > boundary.

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering idiosyncrasies

Dave asked: > > > Is anybody able to explain why the wood on the left renders > > > above the school, yet the one to the right, under? Martin replied: > > because areas are sorted by size, bigger is rendered first. Dave commented: > I genuinely can't work out if that's said as a joke. Take for

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

Richard wrote: > Matthijs Melissen wrote: > > Today, v2.36.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet has > > been released and rolled out to the openstreetmap.org > > servers. It might still take a couple of days before all tiles > > show the new rendering. > > Congratulations to all involved -

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

Lester wrote: > Bing and Google are almost useless, and the new indistinguishable > rendering primary routes and motorways on OSM once everything > finally > re-renders are going to be useless as well. As I just posted on talk, I was attached to the old colour scheme and didn't want it to

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

Ah, yes. I had to upgrade to JOSM latest rather than JOSM tested. I would like to thank Simon04 for his quick response to my error report https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11942 Ed From: Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] Sent: 15 October 2015 23:16 To: Ed Loach Cc

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

Done Ed From: Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 October 2015 18:04 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available Ed, Is it possible to add Bing aerial as a layer - it would be interesting to

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

Some time ago Chris wrote: > In the blog article > (http://chris-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/more-lidar-goodness.html) I > explain a bit about the difference between DSM and DTM. DSM > does include > building outlines. I've processed a small part of the data to see them. > Here's an example of a

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Lidar data - Worcester

For the Tendring 50cm link Rob mentions below I downloaded the DSM data for TM01, TM02, TM03, TM11, TM12, TM13, TM21, TM22, TM23 (effectively a 30km x 30km square which covers more than just the Tendring district) and followed the instructions on Chris Hill’s blog post [1] after unzipping all

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Cathorpe Interchange

Andy wrote: > BBC News is reporting that part of the new Cathorpe Interchange > opened today. > > Does anyone know which part this is, and has it been marked as > open on the map? I've seen the follow up emails, but I have gps traces of A14 to M6 from 8pm Friday and now don't know whether it

Re: [Talk-GB] Anybody a member of CAMRA?

Dave F. wrote: > Considering CAMRA's What Pub? website is volunteer, crowd sourced, I was > mildly disappointed to see it using Google maps. I've just this minute > written an email to them explaining some of the advantages of using OSM. Andrew Black commented: > My concern is the

Re: [OSM-talk] Junction assessment help

. [mailto:pmailk...@googlemail.com] Sent: 11 May 2015 01:19 To: Ed Loach Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Junction assessment help Hi Ed, On 11 May 2015 at 01:07, Ed Loach edlo...@gmail.com wrote: Looks correct to me, based on your description. Do you have photos to make things perhaps clearer? Ed (EdLoach

Re: [OSM-talk] Junction assessment help

Looks correct to me, based on your description. Do you have photos to make things perhaps clearer? Ed (EdLoach) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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