Hi Stanislav,
I agree there is something missing in this area as I've added some things on
Dartmoor (which has a vast amount of this stuff) and couldn't find many
helpful tags already in use.
I'm not too keen on natural=stone as surely the significant thing about
these artifacts is they are not
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talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] *On Behalf Of *Kevin Peat
*Sent:* 23 May 2009 15:44
*To:* Stanislav Brabec
*Cc:* talk@openstreetmap.org
*Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] tagging stones in the wild (erratic,
balancing, boundary, stone age, artifact)
Hi Stanislav,
I agree
I'm in favour. I think separating legal status from the highway tag is a
good thing in general.
Currently with bridleways tagged as highway=bridleway you have no idea what
kind of actual way you are dealing with. Where I live (Devon) there are a
lot of bridleways, some on wide tracks and some
I also like the 3 column layout as it is a lot more inviting to potential
new recruits than the current page.
Map thumbnails also seem like a good idea although I would drop osmarender
as a thumbnail and replace it with a topographic hiking map or maybe a
rotating spot for the likes of
I don't realistically see an automated reputation system working given the
community we have but how about a mentoring type approach where experienced
mappers adopt one or more newbies.
When someone signs-up for the project (or maybe when they make their first
edit) they could be given a list of
2009/7/10 Peter Dörrie peter.doer...@googlemail.com
Well, as the OSM community grows exponentially at the moment we will run
out of expereinced mappers pretty soon ...
There might be exponential growth in accounts opened by lurkers, bots, and
spammers but I don't think the growth in people
I made some changes a couple of weeks ago to the banks of the River Dart
through Totnes
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.42863lon=-3.67974zoom=15layers=B000FFF
Obviously those changes have been picked up as the county boundary is
rendering along the updated river bank but the actual river
the boundary relation for the
southwest counties that he'd just added the coastline to the relation,
and not considered river mouths. I'll look into the data myself if I
get the time.
2009/3/2 Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com:
I made some changes a couple of weeks ago to the banks of the River Dart
Thanks Jon, that's great.
Kevin
Jon Burgess wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:51 +, Kevin Peat wrote:
I made some changes a couple of weeks ago to the banks of the River
Dart
through Totnes
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.42863lon=-3.67974zoom=15layers=B000FFF
Obviously those
I can't see how any plan that involves deleting non-trivial amounts of
data is ever going to work anyway as who is going to stop people from
re-uploading the data with minor changes to tags and all the nodes moved
by a metre or two?
Kevin
Ed Loach wrote:
I wrote:
As I think someone
Not quite the AI solution you are looking for but I use Viking
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/) as a way of quickly overlaying
my tracks on OSM maps and then doing a check around the route to see
what needs doing.
Kevin
Milenko wrote:
Couldn't you just make an assumption in
Instead of trying to counter the googlespeak wouldn't it be better to think
about why they feel the need to do this kind of thing in the first place
rather than sponsoring an OSM based venture. Similarly, why are companies
like waze trying to start from scratch rather than using our data for
I've also just got an android phone and have been trying the various map
related apps.
Just tried mapdroyd today which is closed source but has the useful feature
of offering OSM maps in precompiled packages which I would certainly like
(or at least to have a decent tile cache facility) as the 3G
It seems I'm a villain too although it's news to me.
Thinking about it, it must be from copying and pasting some OS VectorMap
polygons between .osm layers in JOSM over the last couple of weeks. JOSM
seems to create the nodes for the polygon and then create them again with
the way if that makes
On 3 July 2010 14:27, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
But the underlying idea of property is required for attribution as well;
you cannot force people to provide attribution without first claiming that
the data is yours and yours alone and only by following your license will
people
In a project where there are endless copies of the data floating around the
net I can't see how deleting non-trivial amounts of data is going to work
anyway. What is going to stop people who don't care about the license
change, or are just pissed off to lose their work, just re-uploading the
On 17 July 2010 20:40, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
snip
It should really be Would you find it acceptable if OSMF relicensed the
whole dataset to ODbL without asking for consent from individual
contributors, thereby making sure that there is no data loss, but
disregarding
From their wiki - The Wayfinder software is a client-server based system
for navigation and different related location-based-services, including
mapping and searching for places and addresses. The server is designed to be
highly scalable and has a distributed architecture and runs on Linux CentOS
Where the same thing is being tagged in different ways then by all means
spend your energy trying to unify them as that ulitmately benefits all data
consumers and reduces scope for mapper confusion.
In the case of hospital or fire_station though I don't see the point of
these changes. In these
Both the police and ambulance service spend a lot of their time on
non-emergency items as do hospitals, doctors, etc. If you want to write an
app that lists the police under an emergencies menu/button then go ahead
but you don't need to change the OSM data to do it.
Kevin
On 30 July 2010
On 4 August 2010 14:34, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:53, Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu wrote:
snipped
Let's try not to subject OSM data users to death by a thousand
self-appointed license nitpickers.
+1
The negative attitude to nearmap is
On 10 August 2010 19:25, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
On 10/08/2010 19:13, SteveC wrote:
Interesting statistics:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Aude/osmtalk
What does that prove?
verbosity *doesn't* equate to disruption.
+1
I don't find
On 28 September 2012 15:13, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
yes, but often when something is wrong, the source-tag is as well ;-).
I have seen lots of source=PSG (coastline) where the data obviously
was far too detailed to be from PSG, it is because people hardly
remove
On 10 October 2012 21:22, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
What are the results?
...
The most common comment quality is 18.
Half of all accounts have comment quality from 13 to 36.
Bots usually have comment quality under one.
Equating changeset comment quality with mapper quality is
On 6 November 2012 09:28, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
A public domain street sign does not become automagically a
copyrighted derivative work just because you see it through a
copyrighted photo. And this is true worldwide, not only in some
countries.
Isn't the real point that regardless
On Nov 19, 2012 7:32 PM, Tim Waters chippy2...@gmail.com wrote:
The supplied cable is a small one, about 1ft long, if that helps.
Same here, I have a 20 and it only mounts with the supplied cable which is
about 15cm.
Kevin
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On 21 November 2012 09:23, Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl wrote:
I wouldn't have tagged the driveways with access=private unless there
was a sign that actually says so. Not because of any rendering issue,
but because I am lazy and it doesn't really add any information.
I think service=driveway
Hi Roland,
On 21 January 2013 08:37, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote:
Dear all,
have you ever been annoyed that Mapnik doesn't render a name for a street or
a pub, although you are interested in?
Really nice and would be great to see it on osm.org. It is just a
shame that so
On 21 January 2013 13:49, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote:
Having the icons on the map is unlikely possible, because there might be
simply not enough space on the Mapnik map.
Maybe so but having clickable POI's is a lot less useful if loads of
them don't render. A lot of common
On 25 Jan 2013 22:20, Apollinaris Schöll ascho...@gmail.com wrote:
have used Vespucci until a year ago. At that time the user interface was
way to complicated. I know it has improved since but cant test anymore
without a Android device.
I've used Vespucci a fair bit recently on my Nexus 7.
On 29 January 2013 10:58, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
comment.
I tried that too and gave up. However, it's also covered by CNN
Also covered by the BBC (seems like no comments) and Map Maker also
got a good mention on BBC Radio 4 over breakfast this morning.
On 3 Feb 2013 00:31, Tom Taylor tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com wrote:
...They don't contribute to the mapping that is presumably our primary
interest.
Open source projects have a philosophy about them, they are not just a pile
of data and source code. Although the term 'geocode' is not core to OSM
On 11 Feb 2013 18:33, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
What's the best tool to get Garmin devices to show maxspeed on screen?
...
I would like to be proved wrong but AFAIK this isn't possible. You could
generate a garmin map with roads coloured by speed limit but probably not
worth the
On 13 Feb 2013 12:59, Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de wrote:
Hello,
Is there some way to display the names of crossroads on the OSM map?
place=locality
Kevin
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On 13 Feb 2013 14:20, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote
+1, place=locality is generally a generic placeholder, which
should/could be substituted by the time we dig deeper into toponyms
and develop more specific classes...
Well a place is just a named geographical location and I
On 14 Feb 2013 01:10, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org
Annoyingly, most of the cool goodies like on-screen speed limit and
overspeed alert and lane assist aren't available in the mkgmap output as
far as I can tell¹...
I have rolled my own OSM based maps for years using mkgmap for Etrex and an
Florian,
On 18 March 2013 14:32, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote:
I'd rather go for getting your own OS running on a commercial GPS
available e.g. the Garmins getting you DIY GPS receiver running
is probably not that hard - but for what purpose? It'll neither be better
on battery life,
On 18 March 2013 15:20, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote:
Why would that be a waste of time? One could workaround e.g. replace
the Garmin stuff and let the multitude of OSM tags be displayed,
probably even with a user preference...
Wouldn't it be better to just start with an Android device
On 18 March 2013 16:18, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote:
Show me a smartphone with the screen turned on, gps running which lasts
more than 3 hours...
You are right there, but I wasn't really thinking of a phone. I have a
Nexus 7 + waterproof case and *if* the screen was brighter it would
make
On 24 March 2013 15:00, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote:
Currently ist's really hard for anyone (not just Europeans) to do any change
to the mapnik style due tu its complexity. That's why nobody really works on
it; not because they don't care but because its freaking hard to get the
On 24 March 2013 16:38, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
What makes you think money is the problem?
Money could help to speed up the process by buying time which people
may not be able to give as a volunteer. Crowd sourcing map data works
great because it is fun (for OSMers at least!) but
On 14 May 2013 11:43, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote:
We would be alpha all the way into 2016 then.
Really, we've been told that HTML5 SVG are taking over vector graphics
for the web for nearly 5 years now. There are still painful holes in the
implementations. Without things like
On 14 May 2013 13:29, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
On 14/05/13 13:14, Kevin Peat wrote:
I would imagine that most OSMers would have (at least) Firefox and
Chrome/Chromium installed. If iD doesn't work so well on Firefox yet
then why not put up a dialog at the start of a session
On 14 May 2013 13:36, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
And some of us find the conditions G$ put on chrome is a reason NOT to
have anything to do with it. It's bad enough the pressure to change for
spurious reasons without having OPEN projects like OSM making the same
demands :(
Use
Lester,
On 14 May 2013 14:30, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
But I'm have been more than happy with seamonkey for many years so why
would I switch to something else just because someone thinks they know
better :( When they get proper email support back ... there may be a reason
to
Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote
What do I think? I think code counts - good quality, robust, deployable
code. Routing will happen on the front page pretty much instantly if
someone
comes up with a top-quality UI and the resources to make it happen. So
far
they haven't. You can have
Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr wrote:
It's not obvious at all, I even think this would have several negative
effects:
- rewarding contributions one way or another (like giving acces to
some additional service) may push quite bad quality contributions
(gamification for example is to be
Not sure about the security benefits of using Tor with OSM but I have messed
with it in the past and the performance can be pretty poor and probably not
great for an interactive Potlatch session. I've also read somewhere that
flash apps can easily give away your local IP even when using Tor.
On 16 October 2010 15:33, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, what's the scope - are we talking about a code of conduct for
the mailing lists? for contributors to the database? for contributors
to the wider OSM universe?
This is a very good point. It is hard to see how a CoC
On 16 October 2010 16:01, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
That's really a technical issue: synchronizing accounts. Let's not get
caught up in implementation details.
Anybody who doesn't like readiing postings by ...
just filter them.
The problem with disruptive people goes
On 2 November 2010 10:27, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Maybe one day someone will come up with a smart, genuinely beneficial idea
like that, and we can migrate the ford tagging over time. But they haven't
done yet.
This isn't a theoretical discussion, these edits have been
On 9 November 2010 12:46, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
historic ways that have been overlaid with a new road structure are not
very common.
I don't think that is true at all. Everytime a new housing estate is built
there are changes to existing highways, new roundabouts, junction
On 16 November 2010 02:19, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been a little selective in quoting your message but I think you have
correctly identified the split. Germany and the UK with high mapper density
are probably for the new license and dumping the older data other parts of
On 22 November 2010 18:32, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
it was simply assumed right from the outset that share-alike is
the 'consensus'...
Are there any concrete examples of share-alike actually benefitting OSM? It
seems like a good thing for software projects but for OSM I don't really
Also check out Oruxmaps that allows you to package osm and other maps for
offline use.
Kevin
On 3 Jan 2011 23:15, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote:
Is there an Android OS app for osm?
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+1 on this idea
I have used josm since I started with osm but still end up clicking fairly
randomly on these icons. A menu would be way better.
Kevin
On 24 Jan 2011 22:41, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/1/24 Sebastian Klein basti...@googlemail.com:
Anthony wrote:
This is a very good point. In the past I have thought about contacting the
mappers active in a particular area but it's a pain in the a*se to do
something that should be trivial. The current OSM messaging system could
really do with a bit more social thinking not just relying on users adding
their
Peter,
The point isn't whether or not your tool will create correct route relations
but what the point of doing that would be. I can understand creating route
relations for long distance cycling/hiking paths that people actually want
to navigate and historic routes (Route 66 comes to mind as a
You don't need a route relation to do that just a ref tag.
Kevin
On 21 February 2011 17:40, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote:
Navigation, for starters : turn-by-turn indications are improved by being
able to mention turn left on route 35.
Besides, it is static geographic data
to be done, some of which is tedious and easily performed by
computers.
~ Peter Budny
Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com writes:
You don't need a route relation to do that just a ref tag.
Kevin
On 21 February 2011 17:40, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote:
Navigation
Is there any reason to still have the NPE layer accessible from the editors.
It was useful in the pre-OS/Bing days but seems like a liability now?
Kevin
On 25 February 2011 17:47, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
I have edited coastlines in Cornwall last summer and they are
still
not
Russ,
You are spot on with this. I don't think UK contributors would currently be
madly tracing OS data into OSM if it was easy to produce a complete UK map
from OSM surveyed data with the missing bits filled in from the OS dataset.
Until better tools are available people are going to keep
to the list as well
On 22 Mar 2011 16:58, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote:
On 22 Mar 2011 10:41, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote:
Robin's point stands - should we mark the low water mark and the high
water mark and render the littoral zone differently?
I guess it is part
On 11 April 2011 20:14, Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote:
Of course, its not about the license at all - if you appeal to fans of
licenses you'll attract nobody. Google will take potential users by
providing an awesome end product; the sort if thing everyone can appreciate.
Make some
On 13 April 2011 15:32, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
Where to start. There's the obvious ones like most active contributor per
region, first 100 nodes / ways (that persist), one /two/five-year
contribution anniversary, first dog waste disposal bag dispenser in your
home town, etc.
On 16 April 2011 17:00, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Isn't it funny how, just over a year ago, we couldn't care less about
anything the Ordnace Survey did, and suddenly we are a project that must
choose their license according to what is compatible with OS?
...
I say to you the
On 16 April 2011 19:42, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
If people are indeed doing that then I would *definitely* suggest the fresh
air option, no matter what we intend to do license-wise; see recent imports
discussion on talk-gb (Adding a further 250,000 roads quickly using a
Bot).
On 3 May 2011 15:53, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
You seem to imply that relations are faster / less manual work
requiring when entering addresses manually with one of the OSM
editors, but from my own experience they require at least the same
(manual) work, if not more.
On 15 March 2014 08:22:26 GMT, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote:
Am 14.03.2014 12:43, schrieb o...@k3v.eu:
IMHO, share alike is just like DRM on music
What??? Come on, don't be foolish! DRM tries to prevent any reuse of
date whereat Share Alike just requests to offer the data under
On 14 August 2010 10:14, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 August 2010 10:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
I might miss the point: but why do some governments put their data
under cc-by or cc-by-sa licenses if those are not suitable for data
but only for
On 25 August 2010 08:41, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
It is bad enough if the share-alike minority force their will on the rest
of the project now; we must not allow them to force their will on everybody
who is in OSM in 10 years' time.
I find this oft-repeated argument to be
On 26 August 2010 01:05, Sebastian Hohmann m...@s-hohmann.de wrote:
Starting a new project would be like rebuilding the whole house, just to
make it a new color. The upgrade clause is like repainting the house, but
restricting this to only very few colors, might make a future owner unhappy.
On 7 October 2010 10:43, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote:
On 10/07/2010 10:04 AM, Ed Avis wrote:
Rob Myersr...@... writes:
I'm coming to the conclusion that individual contributor of original data
to OSM and institutional importer of a third party database should be
treated differently,
On 8 April 2011 11:38, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ed,
transfer rights to the OSMF
I believe that this is the (only) critical issue. To be open contributions
need to be given freely and without restriction, so as to avoid the current
situation where some contributors
On 25 April 2013 11:14, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es wrote:
The folks who drafted the EU DB directive most likely were not aware that
in a
near future, a person from a country A could put data about country B in a
DB
inside a computer in a country C...
But in their world view
time for
mapping
:-) )
I wasn't sure a mapping party would be ideal as what's most needed is
mapping over a large area (i.e. driving), but it's certainly a
possibility.
On 4 Feb 2008, at 09:24, Kevin Peat wrote:
I've very recently started to map my own area, Torbay in South Devon
Just an idea, practical doesn't come into it ;-
But if we've always done it that way wins out every time then the maps
we produce probably aren't going to be as useful as they could be.
Kevin
Tom Hughes wrote:
Kevin Peat wrote:
Richard Mann wrote:
As a general principle, I think
Hi Jack,
Welcome to mapping in the west country.
Without any in-depth checking the service roads you've mapped look okay
Drawing in a roundabout isn't too hard. Just split the road(s) that you
want to insert the roundabout into, draw in a rough circle for the
roundabout (doesn't have to be a
these data may contain errors, you can use it at your own risk, but
you can't sue us.
This whole wikipedia comparison seems bogus to me. Kids use wikipedia to do
their homework, people don't trust their lives to it like they do with maps
every day of the week. I've used an OS map many times
Hi Chris,
Thanks for this, very helpful. I just followed this through and converted
data for some woods near me and it all worked okay apart from your ogr2ogr
command line has the output and input files around the wrong way (gdal
1.7.2).
Kevin
On 11 May 2010 18:28, Chris Hill
Ed,
In fact, I don't think it should even be that. In rural Devon it is common
for
crossroads to be named - you can see the name on the side of the crossroad
sign.
This doesn't necessarily indicate a 'locality', although sometimes there
are
small villages or hamlets named after a
I think barrier=gate is more for open/closing gates across a highway (like a
farm gate for instance) whereas barrier=cycle_barrier is for the typical
offset barrier you see on paths/cycleways. Also tagging the barrier node as
bicycle=yes|true might help the routing.
Kevin
On 20 July 2010
Nice work, but as the OS data is a good dataset and compatible with our
current license why would anyone be surprised that people are using it. I've
uploaded woods and waterways for my area so it looks pretty blue but the
streets were surveyed on the ground and I would think that might be the same
However, that doesn't change the fact that the OS OpenData license is
incompatible with the contributor terms, and DbCL, and quite possibly
ODbL too.
I thought this was still to be confirmed? It may not be that important to
townies but there is a lot of value in the OS data for rural mappers
On 8 September 2010 10:07, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote:
Until the issue of whether the OS datasets can be used under the new
license/CT is resolved it seems a bit pointless doing anything like this
whatever the merits might
Yes, that was exactly the same for me so local knowledge is definitely
required.
Kevin
On 14 September 2010 21:44, Richard Mann
richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote:
At least one of the ones round here is the home/workshop of a roving
bike mechanic, so treat the data with care!
Rather than splitting the data into smaller squares, I used the process
described on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OS_Shapefiles to
extract specific things, in my case waterways and woods. You just extract
the features you want in QGIS and the Python scripts can easily be modified
to
are in many multiple segments so the
process described doesn't really work.
So I'm just trying to find an alternative.
When OGR2OSM works, the results are good enough (to then modify with JOSM).
On 30/09/2010 09:15, Kevin Peat wrote:
Rather than splitting the data into smaller squares, I used
Post to list as well
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From: Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com
Date: 5 November 2010 09:27
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO -
apostrophes
To: Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
On 4 November 2010 14:23, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
On 5 November 2010 12:38, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote:
Aren't there two separate issues here:-
1) Disagreements between OS and OSM,
2) Representation of those disagreements in the tools.
I'm quite happy with the ITO tools as they are but if they had the resources
to render another map layer
It gets updated most days but from my observation is a day or two behind in
picking up changes.
Kevin
On 5 November 2010 15:03, Nikolay Metchev nikolaymetc...@gmail.com wrote:
I have only recently found the oscompare website as a result of
joining this mailing list.
Richard,
I think in my part of the SW the large majority of highway=unclassified
would be =1 car a minute average so just from a tagging perspective it
would be a lot easier just tagging those few that are busier.
Kevin
On 20 January 2011 12:48, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net
Hello Chris,
I was wondering why you don't see any value in just adding the postcode
centroids to the map?
There are probably 25000+ buildings in my area so it isn't feasible for me
to add them all and their addresses in less than a lifetime whereas adding
the postcode centroids would surely
So I should delete the various admin boundaries in the db then as they
cannot be viewed on the ground?
That's great for Nominatim but what if I want to find a postcode on my
Garmin?
Kevin
On 21 January 2011 09:58, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Because postcode centroids are not real -
*From:* Kevin Peat [mailto:ke...@kevinpeat.com]
*Sent:* 21 January 2011 09:52
*To:* Chris Hill
*Cc:* Talk-GB
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids
Hello Chris,
I was wondering why you don't see any value in just adding the postcode
centroids to the map?
There are probably 25000
...@raggedred.net wrote:
On 21/01/11 09:51, Kevin Peat wrote:
Hello Chris,
I was wondering why you don't see any value in just adding the postcode
centroids to the map?
There are probably 25000+ buildings in my area so it isn't feasible for me
to add them all and their addresses in less than
I don't think this data serves any useful purpose. The polygon for my area
cut right across the middle of arbitrary areas so I deleted it a long time
ago. I've never had any feedback on that so assume no-one was using it.
Kevin
On 2 February 2011 10:40, Bob Kerr
I agree with you 100% on this. I think if OSM is street-level complete
(preferably with postcodes as well) then it will be picked up by a lot more
developers for their iPhone and Android apps and the amount of feedback we
could get would be a 100 times greater than now. A standardised, OSM hosted,
Richard,
I don't think we need a bot for this as the current tools seem quite
adequate to me. If the missing streets are added this year then that would
be great.
Building a community is ideal but I think outside the successful parts of
the country we are not going to get a lot of people wanting
Hi Jason,
I am the mapper (user:devonshire) who imported the woods in your first
example around Dartmouth but it was last May so not exactly recently. The
woods that are there now are a lot better than the NPE traced ones that we
had before. I took the view at the time that importing the
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