Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-de] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
sted, the instructions "keep to outside lane and wait for clear traffic in the three lanes coming the other way" could probably be inferred, but I doubt that stopping the the fast lane would be appreciated by other drivers? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact -

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=55.85277,-4.26733&sspn=0.015273,0.029011&ie=UTF8&ll=55.855793,-4.268575&spn=0.007636,0.014505&t=h&z=16 Me thinks it is time for a hall of shame on the OSM site, with links like this and hopefully the correct solution on OSM? -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
anes=2 where there is no doubt, and road junctions where several differing routes through are allowed will remain a problem, but detailing the lanes of a way where a complex junction is involved seems an essential area to come to some agreement? With micromapping the lanes being the

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
currently documented, and neither are the guidelines for creating a multiple way route and flaging it as a single element :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySol

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
ro view would need the 'path=left', 'path=both' information as tags is questionable? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Mod

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
was a "band" word & anybody quoting it was given a > slap on the wrist & told to go & stand on the naughty step :-) Lots of streets around here, but the only things banned would be vehicles on the pedestrian only ones ;) Anyway Top down view - single way with lots of t

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Roy Wallace wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Lester Caine wrote: >>> Can I check? Are there people here who are suggesting that, in my case, >>> they want to draw all four ways (yes, I know the footpath hasn't been >>> mapped yet) as a single way

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
can exist simply as a POI tag, or as fine detail, perhaps even with parking bays. The point is to make things transparently scalable. At the 'county' level you don't need the shape of the car park, just a tag to it's presence so you can indicate where they are. Same with any

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
d details like two or three deck bridges also require a little more information, although the layer model would at least keep cars off the train level ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
eted as applying to the relation level, but then latter additions require all of that 'tidying' to be undone manually to put the correct data back :( And this seems to be the case here? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=conta

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: > 2009/9/28 Lester Caine : >> And this seems to be the case here? > > The problem is the ways are the best place to tag the ABS information, > and the ABS data just happens to follow rivers, islands, railways and > roads and so on which is very useful wher

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - boolean values

2009-10-03 Thread Lester Caine
Konrad Skeri wrote: > Time to end this debate > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/boolean_values http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/boolean_values -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?pag

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
27;rules' ( at least that is my understanding - based on feedback - since I even have trouble with English sometimes ;) ) ( Egil - a little aside, while a check box for boolean would be nice, there is still an element of 'NULL' - that is in addition to setting a boolean tag, one

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
Andrew Errington wrote: > On Mon, October 5, 2009 15:36, Lester Caine wrote: > >> ( Egil - a little aside, while a check box for boolean would be nice, >> there is still an element of 'NULL' - that is in addition to setting a >> boolean tag, one still needs to de

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
ide of road'. The field boundaries, and ramblers paths that they follow instead of the roadway need to be consistently tagged? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
ght. Rather than all these separate elements, tag values should form part of the tagkey object, and descriptions can be added at any level. I need to find the link to a good example, but one or a series of short posts for excluding or diverting motor vehicles fr

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
David Earl wrote: > On 05/10/2009 11:43, Lester Caine wrote: >> Rather than all these separate elements, tag values should form part >> of the tagkey object, and descriptions can be added at any level. I >> need to find the link t

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-07 Thread Lester Caine
ld be the norm and I have no doubt at some point even roads will be represented by areas, BUT with a macro view that presents things as a simple 'way based' view. > Of course, nothing is ever final ... With ever more people adding data, the 'macro' view is straining to conta

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-07 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: > 2009/10/7 Lester Caine : >> Mike Harris wrote: >>> Chris >>> >>> Despite the well-argued views of a minority, I am persuaded by the equally >>> well-argued views of the (considerable) majority who favour option (b). >>> &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Instead of voting

2009-10-08 Thread Lester Caine
ere. We still have not come to any consensus on the general points of mapping and who is in charge so a dictate from above TELLING us to move to a new list seems somewhat out of place? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] proposal for deletion: talk-us-ga and

2009-10-21 Thread Lester Caine
, rather than completely screwing up even the forum type lists would have been a much better use of peoples time :( There is not currently a single solution, but I see no reason why a good email based list can't simply add a web based interactive archive as well? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn Restrictions Editor

2009-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
elp here is if we actually had agreement on how this level of micro-mapping is handled anyway ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Mo

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
and get the same results. And how many of their competitors would also be linked to that site via google's linked advertising? OSM simply has no 'baggage' to worry about! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.

Re: [OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

2009-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
> wget. The poor machine can barely cope with serving real users without > also having to handle that. What database is the wiki running on? My own sites I simply have a backup of that running and rsync the backup along with the images directory to the backup machine. Very little load on e

Re: [OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

2009-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
can't for the life of me think what sort of research would require a > copy of the wiki though. If a suitable backup is available, then we can provide mirror sites. The problem of cause is that editing needs to be restricted to the main site, but even that can be catered for with care

[OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-26 Thread Lester Caine
tags on the linear feature for routing purposes, but the ability to draw a road in the same detail as a golf course is a no brainer? Higher level views can then pull out nodes for hospital, golf course and road grid while higher zoom levels can how acurate fine detail? -- Lester C

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
Roy Wallace wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lester Caine wrote: >> The bottom line is that while adding 'width' tags all the way along a road >> may >> be a practical half way house, other area features are not handled the same >> way >> s

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
verges, but what is the route passable by a pushchair or wheelchair? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Works

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-29 Thread Lester Caine
their correct designation . around here it is the footpaths which do not follow directly the 'roadway' and many of them are 'pavements' where cycling is specifically banned. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
the 'paths' that I need to describe. They are really large areas of grass which can be walked across to get to other points, rather than a 'tag' on the side of a near by road using the road to do the 'pedestrian' routing is simply wrong but so also is

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-03 Thread Lester Caine
y? This is more than adequate for routing purposes, and any finer detail really needs the areas of all of the parts that make up the roadway? At what point to you switch from 'dual carriageway' to 'divided road' ? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Conta

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-04 Thread Lester Caine
geway Seconded - I think in most of these cases, the connection to the other roads dictates that they need to be split and correctly join other ways. 5 for example would seem to be best described as a 'roundabout' as it certainly looks like it is for turning around. 3 as actually just

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
'copyright' simply does not do - and is an area where there is NO case law to fall back on? SO we need something which can then become acceptable case law? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Servi

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
no reason to remove the existing format, and I see little point adding tags for something that is hiding the micro view? SOME roads do need a 'divider' tag, but only to add 'white line' and other 'micro' data that can't be included by areas or other means. The c

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
t the end is handled much easier with a simple dual carriage way? And many of the other examples need the same end cases. So at what level does a simple 'divided' tag actually work in practice? However 'double white lines' on a single carriage way road IS a divider that needs

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
Steve Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Lester Caine <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: > > I think my only problem with 'divided' is "At what point do you > apply it?" The > samples being shown are quite clearly - on t

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
are kept separate from vehicles also requires additional ways. Simply adding yet more tags for something which is not part of the actual roadway is another 'macro' bodge which in reality requires at least a separate way ... ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
you. > > Isn't that in essence what licenses are for? That is the entire crux of this problem ... CAN we trust commercial organizations with big bank balances to play fair. I think the answer has to be 'NO' so we need the DATA protected a little better . -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > so we don't need imported data? Only where it is actually adding information. When it is overwriting data that may well be more accurate - then no we don't ? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=cont

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-01 Thread Lester Caine
adding the REAL fine detail of ways that do not actually physically form part of the 'accompanying' road. This sort of 'shorthand' should not replace mapping the real situation on the ground ESPECIALLY where the cycleway ( or sidewalk/footpath ) is not physically part

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
round. So really all that is required a relation between the A and B views of the world? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Enginee

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
d party' ways also needs to co-exist with actually mapping the cycleway. I don't see the creation of tags which then conflict with lower level mapping as an improvement. BUT if the tags relate to a shorthand FOR the lower level details and do not prevent actually ad

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
Steve Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer > mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > 2010/1/2 Lester Caine mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> > > Provided that this does not result in REMOVING ways that are

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
Claus Hindsgaul wrote: > > > 2010/1/3 Lester Caine mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> > > It is however a very good example of where people have taken the > trouble to > ACTUALLY map reality and their efforts have been destroyed! At the > end of the &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
r how do you combine the information from a lower view which shows the fine detail which is REQUIRED at that level into the higher level views? Claus - It's not a simple matter of 'aiding the choice between' - the more fundamental problem is how do we get both to co exist? If some

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
a 'road map' or 'cycleway map', then that is not a problem, but it should not then prevent the fine detail from being maintained below it? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Se

Re: [OSM-talk] Vertical ways (staircase)

2010-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
ve on another, offsetting them in the area occupied by the steps gets around the editor limitations? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.c

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
h target. Micro-mapping the physical areas on the ground is the ultimate, but showing separate pedestrian and cycle crossing points, and linking them to foot and bike only routes is something of a mess currently? > I can see why this sort of nonsense would put a commercial router off > - it m

Re: [OSM-talk] Fun with duplicate nodes

2010-02-10 Thread Lester Caine
he data set, nodes may well be on different 'layers'! ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping streets as areas - can I do it now?

2010-02-22 Thread Lester Caine
t lower zoom levels. When zooming in, a '4 lane road' should become 4 individual ways before coming an area with fine detail of lane markings, hard shoulder, and central reservation. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L

Re: [OSM-talk] Name tags on sidewalks and on cycleways next to a road

2010-03-15 Thread Lester Caine
trying to work from lots of replicated data is just wrong? And creating an area covering the whole fine detail and working from that is also wrong? 'big wide boulevard' is the entity, and just needs a high level tag, and the lower level detail should just reference that? --

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries along roads

2010-03-22 Thread Lester Caine
road structures and property boundaries set up our own fork with tools that allow things that the simplify everything camp don't thing we should have? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://l

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
features. And the Idea that natural=water should wrap what are quite clearly man made waterway features just reinforces that and while the effects are small, many parts of the world even 'coastline' is now a man made construction. But the 'tags' list is probably the p

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
a even if we currently tag it as leisure=marina without any agreement as to just what area that should cover. It's the insistence that water only applies to natural elements which just does not fit properly, and man_made=reservoir while much more accurate does not fit in with a consistent

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-22 Thread Lester Caine
waterway data structure given all of the secondary tagging to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver and the like. But where lakes - natural and man-made - have navigation routes through many of the waterway tags also apply but this has been another area of discussion to map t

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
e thoroughfare elements may be additional to the postcode itself, so 10 characters is never enough. Open Location Code lacks the ability to handle multi-story housing. It only gets you to the apartment block. This is an area where OSM still needs some more work. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
coding system' for the physical location can be used to display the raw numbers? But for readability, just as OLC does, one uses the town and country and simply provide a GPS location limited to that area. A bit like 'national grid' in the UK > Cheerio John > > On 11

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
to be stored in the database. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
Even something as simple as identifying the local time given some sort of location identifier becomes unreliable when local variations of language and custom are added in. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Se

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
gt; > How about musical notation? We could sing our parcels to their > destinations. ;-) Or even more radical ... just use numbers for time and location :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - h

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
s ... and currently OSMAnd is simply wrong for the UK! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://med

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/16 08:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Lester Caine <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: > > On 02/11/16 00:57, john whelan wrote: > > If OSMand etc treat them differently then we may not be showing the > > shortest ro

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
likes of yahoo and google ... just leave working systems alone ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
the android phone, something that is becoming worse rather than better. Even driving down the M5 I get gaps in reception, so everything has to be local, which OSMAnd does a good job of for most things ... just not B/unclassified roads :( Docker is yet another infrastructure tool to get ones head arou

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
On 08/11/16 18:54, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > FWIW, I like the "-scape" suffix, e.g. OpenStreetscape: Get's my vote Capital 'S' though OpenStreetScape -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Cain

Re: [OSM-talk] it may be useful

2017-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/03/17 18:38, Lester Caine wrote: > Kind regards, Lester Caine *I* did not sent that email! Which is why it has another email address since forging my own would fall fowl of my spf record! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=cont

Re: [OSM-talk] it may be useful

2017-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/03/17 19:47, Lester Caine wrote: > On 30/03/17 18:38, Lester Caine wrote: >> Kind regards, Lester Caine > > *I* did not sent that email! Which is why it has another email address > since forging my own would fall fowl of my spf record! OK anybody know who to repor

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-21 Thread Lester Caine
t no idea what the tool is supposed to do :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainb

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
me and it would not take much for them to take box="w,s,e,n" as an alternative input. But the range of 'standards' for passing parameters is the problem here not simply what is being passed. With each OS and programming language having it's own style of working there is

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
you may need to swap between languages ... > On 22/04/2017 15:45, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 22/04/17 15:28, Dave F wrote: >>> As they're parameters, the format can be standardised for the end user & >>> any programme should be able to sort out syntax behin

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
Importance can depend on why you are using the road? Things like 'speed_limit' need to be handled before adding another 'classification' tag? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
I see no way to harmonization world wide. Even for just 'trunk'. The 'rules' for a country or area need to cover the differences that apply in that area? Just as the routing rules need to know France is Left Hand and UK is Right ... with different default speed limits. >

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
7;s not just OSM routing that gives problems, other routing engines are showing similar detours around local 'shortcuts' ... so even within a single country harmonization is a problem ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
to the M5 and again 'shortest' picks the quick route but then avoids the M5 as well :) Interesting ... checking OSRM is getting it right so I need to check OSMAND again on that. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
On 22/08/17 17:19, Philip Barnes wrote: >> called differently, but this is it: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical >> > Isn"t that going to be rather subjective? And will depend on 'time of day' ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
... what it should be using is a percentage, so 5% would be tidy and 10% pushing where a traffic camera would be 'within tolerance'. Since speedometers are only required to be 'within 10%' currently ... you get the idea ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
le Evesham area just grinds to a halt. Stratford is just as bad and the new roads planned will make things even worse rather than helping. We don't stand much chance of designing a harmonized routing process when the planners can't even fix the problems they create :( -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
in UK trunk road :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdi

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
x27;fastest' route for UK rural areas - and get my blue motorway, green trunk and red primary road back :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquir

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
one :) My old dedicated sat nav did a good job as well as handling hands free calls on the N900 mobile. Modern options are going down hill fast and can't even do the basics! Simple reception of a signal would be nice to have once again ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contac

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
took a couple of minutes to find the right location to see what data was in OSM for the collage and some material that has not yet made it into wikidata came up. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services -

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
edata become a more reliable source of such data. Just a single link to a substantial set of additional data. So ... where does 'brand:' come from? Should this not simply be 'link:'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/w

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 14:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 14:28, Lester Caine wrote: > >> wikidata provides a section which documents a range of LINKS which >> identify the same object on other databases. It would be nice if there >> was a stable identity on OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 16:48, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 16:06, Lester Caine wrote: > >>> While it is not yet complete, in what way is Wikdiata failing to be >>> sufficiently reliable? >> >> Much of the work I did on wikipedia was stripped for all s

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
tion pane (using the default desktop view) AH - so it's stripped when you grab a printed copy of the article :( There may be a link to Wikimedia Commons material, but not to wikidata material in external links ... that is where I expected to find it ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
del. It is why I think 'another' cross-reference tool may be more appropriate with OSM and wikipedia/wikidata simply being sources. THAT requires OSM to have a 'unique id' one can use to cross reference though :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://ls

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
ts of objects, which can then be linked to bot's which manage primary data such as the NSG's update reports adding new streets and changes to location hierarchy. But I should prefer that this layer is part of OSM rather than a third party service. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
d displaying location data but it's the ID of premises such as birth, death and activity locations that overlay all the objects I'm working with. Premises listed on the UK national census are a typical fairly reliable source I'm working with daily ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
Highgate cemetery. wikidata should probably have an object for that with links to Highgate cemetery and OSM could have a complete set of all gravestones on the site, or link to an external copy of that list. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
a during the UK group push on it there were often a lot of corrections made to get the right 'set' of data on a school object. While only a small number of objects were actually wrong, that is enough to justify needing a manual cross check of some sort. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
f the place data that overlays that, so OSM only needs to use the wikidata namespace for all of that material. I don't think that the idea of 'bot' space actually fits into that model as it is the unique ID that is fixed and 'bot' tags either need to be acces

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
is an independent and unrelated project with it's own agenda ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
s from the wikidata bot's? Even if it is OSM bots that are doing the processing. The annoying thing here is that the hierarchy of places that wikidata provides could be useful to OSM searches ... but it still needs the likes of Nominatim and/or GeoNames to cross reference that data which provi

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
the same object class and is nearby" is not very > good and error prone. This could be a human-curated process, e.g. ask > the user to help deciding which  Wikipedia articles does this object > represent, and offer some likely candidates, but it shouldn't be > automatic.  I

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-25 Thread Lester Caine
ntry. What is currently missing is a clean set of guidelines for using any third party reference? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://en

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
may not be 'managed' ... and are combined with 'grassland' and other natural or managed landcover. We can define landuse=park, but that park can have a lot of detail contained within it ... We are looking to render blocks of trees, grass, and other objects how ever created? -- Le

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
anning authorities have requested as perhaps a barrier or simply as an amenity ... or has been preserved as it has been there for hundreds of years ... We need to build a proper hierarchy of LANDUSE into which more detail can be added if required? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
, rather than implying different interpretations on existing tags depending on where they are used? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model E

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/17 10:34, Warin wrote: > On 02-Nov-17 09:21 PM, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 02/11/17 09:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> ONE tag to say what? You are still owing an answer to this. >> I think the problem is similar to the multiple areas problem. There are >>

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

2017-11-21 Thread Lester Caine
On 21/11/17 04:02, Marc Gemis wrote: > I'll agree with Yuri that is has to be the choice of the mapper to > work in a specific region and not the challenge creator. I stopped using MapRoulette simply because it was taking me well out of my comfort zone ... -- Lester Ca

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