On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:18:04AM -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
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> Sorry, where was I?
I don't know about you, but I was in mid-Wales. It was very sunny.
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:15:34AM +1000, mick wrote:
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> That make a lot of sense to me, the church has been the focal point of the
> village since Saxon times while the Post Office didn't appear until the 19th?
> century.
Except there are cases where the village moved and but the church didn't
I think the official launch is soon, but Oxford University's new
Mobile Oxford website is looking pretty good and makes extensive
use of the OSM data we've collected for the city. I think it rocks
(and I'm not involved, except for having given a ton of feedback!)
The site's at http://m.ox.ac.uk/
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:02:08PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > 2009/6/8 Stephen Gower :
> >>
> >> The chapel of one of Oxford University's colleges, Christ Church,
> >> is also a cathedral. A rather unimpressive cathedral, but a
> >> ca
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:12:13AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
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> You could have done church_type=cathedral, church_type=church, and
> church_type=chapel (arbitrary tag name choice... probably not a good
> one) and let the renderer figure out that for itself.
[Digression into an edge-case, probabl
OK, this needs a wider audience than just those on IRC:
15:49 even Shakespeare is an OSM contributor. look at king henry IV:
15:49 Bardolph: We first survey the plot, then draw the model // And
when we see the figure of the house // Add the tags
"building=yes, addr:hou
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:45:00PM -, Ed Loach wrote:
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> Oneway is strange in that as well as yes/no you can have oneway=-1
> for one way in the opposite direction of the way, and I still can't
> work out why that is necessary.
It used to be the case that the renderers wrote the name of the s
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:47:10AM +, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
> Stephen Gower wrote:
> >> What's the most efficient route for visiting all Oxford's
> >> colleges?
> >
> > So, since the data for Oxford is pretty much there, is this a
&
A friend asks:
> What's the most efficient route for visiting all Oxford's
> colleges?
>
> Method of transport: bicycle. No other restrictions except that
> you must pass the lodge of each college. Doubling back on
> yourself is allowed (despite the title of the post!).
So, since the data for Ox
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:13:25PM +, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
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> I think there is a misunderstanding going on here. If I speak English, I
> want and English map of the world. If I speak French, I want a French
> map of the world. In neither case do I want a map that has England in
> Engli
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:58:43PM -, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
wrote:
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> The problem here is who says it's a public right of way. If you ask your
> local authority they will bring out there plans which give the details and
> reference numbers but these of course exist on OS mapping.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:57:01PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
> Stephen Gower wrote:
> > I see from later posts that you also suggest using this scheme for cycle/bus
> > lanes to indicate which side of the road they should be rendered.
>
> Did I?
I thought it was you -
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:26:49PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
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> I propose that it be possible for features to be tagged using a generic
> left/right scheme, with left and right being relative to the direction
> of the way.
>
> So you might have a road way with a node somewhere in the middle
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:45:27PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
> Out of the blue, I've been asked to advise Cyclox, a local cyclists'
> advocacy group about improving [upon] the Oxfordshire County Council's
> cycle map for the city of Oxford[1], and I've said I'll help out.
That's
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:13:00PM +0100, Paul Jaggard wrote:
> Interesting clip from the BBC:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7539529.stm
>
> It's a plug for a programme, 'Britain From Above', which starts 10th August,
> but the trailer alone is worth watching for some lovely GPS-derived
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:33:10PM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
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> So it really depends on interpretation. In particular, footways have a
> particular legal status in the UK which doesn't apply to every place
> that you can walk.
Just as a point of information, this isn't actually true. As far as I
I'm not quite sure who is considering this, but
http://www.cyclecheltenham.org.uk/map_standard.html claims to be "being
considered as the basis for a national standard."
The actual map looks pretty good for an end-user and exactly the sort of
thing I want to see. However, I can see that trying t
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:36:14AM +0200, Erik Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Stefan Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:58 +1000, Joseph Gentle wrote:
> >>
> >> Good for filling in all the missing street names.
> > Interesting question. Are we allowed
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:37:19PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been facing problems mapping grass. The only mention of grass
> in map features is village_green. My Josm also shows landuse=grass,
> but this is not on the map features page. [...]
> I feel all these can be br
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Igor Brejc wrote:
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> I've started playing around using DirectX in combination with SRTM data
> to draw 3D relief OSM maps. The plan is to add this feature to Kosmos.
> Please visit http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-in-3d if
> you want to
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:53:40PM +0100, Andy Allan wrote:
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> ... but to be honest, I'm not entirely comfortable with it, and I
> still think the lane/lane_opposite doesn't handle things fully either.
> I found a bit in Hyde Park where there was a one-way road with cycle
> lanes on both sides -
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:54:53AM +0100, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
wrote:
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> This brings me to the point though. Currently we map physical features as
> they exist and in some cases the alignment of known construction, what we do
> not do is use OSM as a planning tool. What are people's
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The 'nesting' rule does not exist. We have already had enough examples of
> > where boundaries form different 'sets' of areas so there is no way to
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:31:32PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
>
> I subscribe to the view that areas should correspond to the real area on
> the ground and mostly be kept clear of roadways. Placing an Area's Nodes
> near the adjacent Way's nodes helps make the map easier to mainta
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:01:33AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > * Some people started tagging *and rendering* crossings, using a
> > particular tagging scheme.
> > * Some other people, who weren't actually out doing the work, started
> > complaining about what was going on [1]
>
> May
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:39:15PM +0100, 80n wrote:
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> bicycle=yes and surface=gravel are an incompatible combination in my book ;)
There's gravel and there's gravel though - pea gravel like my
grandfather had on his drive (in the New Forest!) and had to rake
after cars had been over it i
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:31:02AM +0100, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:57 +0300, SteveC wrote:
> > Like, er, electing President Bush, or Prime Minister Gordon Brown (no
> > election) ?
>
> I'm a pedant [...]
Oh, if we're being pedantic, I'd like to point out that the British
"A List Apart" does "Why Mashups Suck" and briefly mentions OSM:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/takecontrolofyourmaps
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:46:10AM +0100, Steve Hill wrote:
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> In this example, as far as I can tell we have 2 roads called the A11 and
> a road joining them called the A14 - route planners can deal with this
> just the same as they can deal with A11 -> A14 -> A134.
>
> Route planners shouldn'
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:48:18PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote:
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> if we are going to have an 'attribution' page on the wiki[1], with the
> fine print regarding sources of various chunks of data, would a link
> to it be possible, on the main map page? titled say 'data attribution'
> or 'data sourc
A cartoon on satnav: http://xkcd.com/407/
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:53:49AM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=287
I see this has been referenced with a useful Editors Note at
http://industry.slashgeo.org/industry/08/04/01/1059213.shtml
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
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> I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current
> problems in rendering
For me it's the routemap problem - how to represent multiple routes
sharing the same street/line/etc, for example bus routes, named or
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:44:00AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
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> We don't manage other people's data on their behalf. We assimilate it
> into the collective, and it thereby becomes everybody's data. We
> modify it, delete it, replace it, change all of its properties and
> tags as we see fi
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:54:53PM +0100, Pieren Pieren wrote:
> > FULL ACK - the current page is a PITA!
> >
> +1
> I restored the single page.
-1
The full page has got way too long to actually be useful. In my
opinion, it should include the main options for highways, perhaps
the top
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:28:20AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
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> I'm still not sure if this proposal was actually *intended* to
> discourage anyone spending his time to work on the current mess of
> proposals and to improve the map features page - or if it only was a bad
> joke with an unwanted
Voting is now open on the Skyhook proposal - please add your
support:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Skyhook
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I don't think there was a formal announcement here when the
proposal http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Skyhook
was made. Please comment on this proposal which will be opened for
voting two weeks from now, if appropriate.
Best wishes
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:04:58AM +, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
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> The idea that
> someone in around 100 years time will still have to struggle with the
> license issues we are setting up now on my data really worries me
With your
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:18:34PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
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> I bet you'll find them in other catholic regions as well.
> BTW: you'll even find wayside_shrines in Greece, which isn't that
> catholic :) .
Oh, but it is.
(second point of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic )
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:09:00PM +, Gervase Markham wrote:
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> You feel like you're looking at the map with double
> vision.
After drinking from a Crudely-drawn pint glass?
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:51:35PM +0100, Mike Collinson wrote:
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> Unless someone corrects me: No, as it is (I assume) an original map
> and not a facsimile made by them.
Just as a reference, all maps made available at Oxford's Central
Library are facsimiles of the original collection and th
CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE, GUYS!
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Michael Collinson wrote:
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> maxheight= 3 ft - original-easy-to enter "folksomomic" key (defaults
> either to metric or local usage, there are arguments for both)
>
> maxheight:metric = 0.912 - added either by power us
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:32:47PM -0800, Tom Carden wrote:
> >
> > This is something I know a little bit about. I've CC'd the
> > mysociety-maps list too so they know that other people are still
> > thinking about this.
A recent post on that list...
> > Happily I can inform you that this work
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:43:25AM +, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> > Amenities
> > -
> > New tag value: amenity=sanitary_station
>
> Sanitary station is a really misleading (but sadly widespread) term.
> Better to group all the constituent services
> (amenity=pumpout;water_point), an
Hi Gerv - I've snipped lots below - if I haven't commented on any
part, I pretty much agree.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 06:36:48PM +, Gervase Markham wrote:
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> Narrow sections are denoted by maxwidth. One narrowboat (just over 7
> feet) is given as 2.5m. Two boats is 5m. It's not necessary
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:14:09AM +0100, Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:
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> I've now implemented an algorithm for finding a good center-point for
> areas. It's already commited to svn as revision 6390.
That's great - I think most people would prefer not to have
rendering instructions (such as a
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:58:20PM +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:
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> i'll second that, but unless bildstock is an english word, we
> shouldn't use it - current protocol is british english words only.
>
> Marc, does this have a direct english equivalent? is icon correct, or
> does that relate to som
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:11:35PM +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:
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> the boundary data should be relatively easy to come by
Not where it isn't marked on the ground, and is only defined by
reference to the Copyrighted national mapping. The is the case in
many places in the UK.
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