[Talk-GB] Hello All

2009-06-24 Thread Jack Stringer
I joined the main mailing list a few weeks ago. Just noticed there is a GB version. I am just up the road from Glastonbury Festival Site. Anyone else in here from Somerset. I am just getting into editing simple things atm. But I plan to do a proper job of surveying my own village to get myself in

Re: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts

2009-06-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 23 Jun 2009, at 13:08, Chris Hill wrote: > Having looked at this and other counties elsewhere, the coastline in > some places is clearly a poor choice for the county and regional > boundary. Off the Northumberland coast the Farne islands and the very > substantial Holy Island are apparently i

Re: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts

2009-06-24 Thread Mike Collinson
At 04:36 PM 22/06/2009, Ed Loach wrote: >The Essex one I traced from the dotted line on NPE. I'm not sure >about 12 miles for county boundaries - I don't think Essex would >want to have to maintain it's own navy to repel Suffolk encroachers >for example. > >Having said that, I think I read somewher

[Talk-GB] King's Lynn mapping party this Saturday

2009-06-24 Thread David Earl
Just a reminder that we're going to King's Lynn in west Norfolk this Saturday to try to put names to the roads mapped from the air. Details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Norfolk/King's_Lynn_and_West_Norfolk/MappingParty2009-06 Do please join what is looking like a rather sele