Re: [Talk-GB] Anglican churches

2020-12-18 Thread Donald Noble
Robert. > > -- > Robert Whittaker > > _______ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] FWD: Re: House number ranges that are only odd or even

2020-12-15 Thread Donald Noble
; - and yes, is easier to map and import > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-27 Thread Donald Noble
undary? >>> >>> Best >>> Dan >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 4:25 PM Jeremy Harris wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 26/11/2020 11:16, Jez Nicholson wrote: >>>>> > A

Re: [Talk-GB] Q4 2020 Quarterly Project: Defibrillators

2020-11-14 Thread Donald Noble
project on cycle infrastructure has some very encouraging results, > which I’ll post about separately. > > > > Best regards, > > Gareth > > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openst

[Talk-GB] Tagging of solar panels - number of modules

2020-08-29 Thread Donald Noble
erator%3Amodules> 2 plant:solar:*modules* <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/plant%3Asolar%3Amodules> 1 *modules* <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/modules> [2] http://osm.gregorywilliams.me.uk/solar/index.html -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk

[Talk-GB] Mapping new housing developments in midlothian for Spokes cycle map

2019-08-24 Thread Donald Noble
received, even if it is just an email to tell me of a development site I have missed. Cheers, Donald [1] http://www.spokes.org.uk/spokes-maps/ [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Midlothian_New_Development -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map new housing?

2019-03-10 Thread Donald Noble
Dave, As others have pointed out there is no particular way to do this, but I find that cycling round the roads with a helmet mounted video camera, speaking out the road names/house numbers as I go past. Often it takes a few visits to get everything correct, but even if it is not perfect it can st

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of Argos stores

2019-03-10 Thread Donald Noble
9 > general,21 > supermarket,8 > gift,5 > convenience,4 > houseware,4 > catalog,2 > catalogue_store,2 > electronics,2 > general_store,2 > hifi,2 > furniture,1 > general_retailer,1 > hardware,1 > household,1 > retailer,1 > outpost,1 > > Cheers &

[Talk-GB] Tagging of Argos stores

2019-03-10 Thread Donald Noble
I noticed recently that an Argos[1] counter has opened inside the large Sainsbury's supermarket at Murrayfield, but I am not sure how best to tag this. I had a quick look, and Argos stores in the UK seem to be tagged in multiple ways, but I am not skilled enough with Overpass to check how many of

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh social meetup Tuesday 19th

2018-06-17 Thread Donald Noble
Just a reminder that the next Edinburgh social meeting will be on Tuesday 19th June, from about 19h in the Guildford Arms (behind the Apple Store). Feel free to join us to chat about OSM, mapping, or tech in general. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events Cheers, Donald --

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh meet up Tuesday 18th July

2017-07-17 Thread Donald Noble
Just a quick reminder that the next Edinburgh Openstreetmap meet up is tomorrow evening (Tuesday 18th July). As usual, from around 19h00 or soon afterwards until late(ish) at the Guildford Arms (just behind the Apple Store) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events Cheers, Donal

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh Social Meetup, Tuesday 21 March

2017-03-20 Thread Donald Noble
Another month, another meet up. As usual, we will be catching up for a beer and to chat all things OpenStreetMap, cartography and tech. We will likely be discussing progress on mapping the 20mph speed limit changes in Edinburgh, plus any other local issues that have arisen. Feel free to join us f

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging redevelopment and closed roads

2016-09-20 Thread Donald Noble
If a building or road is removed, and nothing has replaced it, then i think it is good to have some sort of lifestyle prefix like demolished:building or removed:road, especially as they are usually still visible from aerial images. I have also used highway=no not:name= for the ITO analysis. Once

Re: [Talk-GB] Defibrillator Mapping

2016-08-18 Thread Donald Noble
The locations on the lucky2bhere website don't seem to be that accurate for the ones I have some local knowledge of in the Spey valley, so would only be of use as a guide for accurate survey. Regards, Donald On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 at 16:38, Alasdair McKinnon wrote: > I recently saw this article in

[Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-07 Thread Donald Noble
Hi all, I spotted in Edinburgh first, and across the central belt of Scotland, that a relatively new user, tintin2873 [1], has been renaming a lot of the ways that make up the national cycle network to include the NCN reference number. e.g. "Middle Meadow Walk" has been changed to "Middle Meadow W

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging U road numbers [was: Search but cannot find]

2015-03-18 Thread Donald Noble
wiki isn't telling me about it. If there is indeed a consensus > then it'd be nice for it to be documented! > > Dan > > _______ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Donald Noble htt

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Underground services

2015-01-20 Thread Donald Noble
ion? > > Could the scars along roads be used to help interpolation of positions? > > Could we develop hand held instruments to detect various things? > > Does dowsing work? > > Can we use the markings sprayed on the pavement by utility companies to > identify what's there? > > > > Cheers,

Re: [Talk-GB] Hanbury Meeting - Fauld Crater

2015-01-10 Thread Donald Noble
;> http://www.helenlee.co.uk/tutbury/fauld.html >> >> Cheers, >> >> Andy >> >> > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

2014-09-02 Thread Donald Noble
s/video of this area to hand. Chers, Donald On 1 September 2014 16:50, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Andy Allan wrote: > > > On 31 August 2014 18:27, Donald Noble wrote: > > > I have tended to map sections of residential streets with block > paving, no >

Re: [Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

2014-08-31 Thread Donald Noble
ie 20mph or less? > Any traffic calming to slow vehicles down, eg speed bumps, or chicanes. Or > street furniture, ie trees, bollards, benches on the road. > > Craig > > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey National Grid maps of Edinburgh

2014-08-11 Thread Donald Noble
k/mapdata3/os/edinburgh_1250_out/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png > > Regards, > Rob > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://fli

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

2014-07-31 Thread Donald Noble
rvices - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstre

[Talk-GB] Road Hierarchy in Central Edinburgh

2014-07-27 Thread Donald Noble
foot=yes, etc" or just "motor_vehicle=no" Thanks for any input on this. Donald (disclaimer: I'm a cyclist and resident of Edinburgh) -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with May 2014 OS Locator data

2014-05-18 Thread Donald Noble
t; Developer > ITO World > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB maili

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: [Talk-scotland] Shetland-Orkney ferry and NCN 1

2014-03-26 Thread Donald Noble
t; > ferry, but then I've never been north of John O'Groats! >>> > >>> > Could someone with local knowledge correct/amend as applicable? Better >>> > to have this section of NCN 1 missing than send people on a non-existent >>> > ferry, I think. >>

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-17 Thread Donald Noble
until this user responds to messages on the site. Cheers, Donald [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20556553 On 9 February 2014 20:32, Donald Noble wrote: > Hi All, > > The user robbief14 [1] has changed sections of the M90 around the New Forth > Road Bridge which are stil

[Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-09 Thread Donald Noble
user. regards, Donald [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/robbief14 [2] original changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20442315 my revert: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20452252 changed back to motorway again: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20458591 -- Donald

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO's OSM Analysis updated with the latest OS Locator data

2013-05-18 Thread Donald Noble
is is something that could (easily) be tweaked in the algorithm. Cheers, Donald -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Named street shown as missing on ITO OSM analysis

2013-03-29 Thread Donald Noble
Columbia Terrace. The service tag is used for the type > of service road, i.e. driveway. > > > Am wondering if highway = residential, motor_vehicle = private would be > better? > > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > -- > > > > Sent from my Nokia N9 >

[Talk-GB] Named street shown as missing on ITO OSM analysis

2013-03-29 Thread Donald Noble
ated recently, or have I done something silly? Cheers, Donald -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN Bus Stops

2012-12-21 Thread Donald Noble
Thanks Peter, Ed, Barry, I haven't had much success with parsing the Naptan xml data, whether using Thomas' naptan2osm or not. However, I've managed to use the csv format version of the data, trimming to the Glasgow area in QGIS, and tweaking the resulting file in OpenOffice. Not quite as automat

[Talk-GB] NaPTAN Bus Stops

2012-12-11 Thread Donald Noble
point too. Any pointers much appreciated. regards, Donald [1] Using TextWrangler 4.0.2 on Mac OS 10.8.2 -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names

2012-09-30 Thread Donald Noble
I would appreciate some opinions on acceptable data sources for road names when out surveying, particularly thinking about new housing developments here, but could apply elsewhere too. Of the six data sources below, the first and last are pretty black and white OK and not OK respectively, but what

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-04 Thread Donald Noble
On 4 July 2012 09:39, Craig Loftus wrote: > I think highway=no is typically used as a temporary tag to try to stop > remote mappers from adding something from a source that is not up to > date. > … However, what > is the argument for keeping connections between sections of dismantled > railwa

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-03 Thread Donald Noble
uple of railway=station+disused=yes nodes to railway:historic=station, where there is no visible evidence left on the ground (and so they are no use for navigation), so maybe railway:historic=rail keeps things tidier. regards, Donald -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com

Re: [Talk-GB] National Rail as a brand (was: Bulk railway station changes)

2012-05-30 Thread Donald Noble
rail and maybe tram networks? I think that most stations wouldn't need this adding initially (i.e. no mass change) but it could be helpful for areas with another network Donald OSM: drnoble -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble _

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-06 Thread Donald Noble
uld have been anyway. However, the main road network should be preserved. Might take a few nights of armchair mapping, but the weather still isn't great…! Donald -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Scottish National Park Rendering

2012-01-03 Thread Donald Noble
penstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1947603 - Cairngorms NP 2. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/46343328 - Lomond & Trossachs NP -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list Tal

Re: [Talk-GB] Changeset Reversal: ok, who broke Scotland?

2012-01-02 Thread Donald Noble
and these 2 might be related to the issue - but I'm not sure at all. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10063288 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10112311 Cheers, Donald -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___

[Talk-GB] Bing background showing OS 1:50k when zoomed in to areas with no detailed coverage

2011-09-19 Thread Donald Noble
over OS 1:50k maps, but maybe not everybody will (know) to do this. Cheers, Donald -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing li

[Talk-GB] Copyright issues of checking details on other websites

2011-07-04 Thread Donald Noble
website, and if anything would help to promote their business, but it would be good to get another opinion. Thanks, Donald -- Donald Noble http://drnoble.co.uk - http://flickr.com/photos/drnoble ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http