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Thanks - that fits very neatly with a previous meeting in town, so I will
try to get along to it.
David
On 10 February 2015 at 08:27, A. Mayer wrote:
> Hi -
>
> for those of you who haven't seen on Meetup or elsewhere:
>
> Our First meeting of the year
> Cambridge OpenStreetMap
> Tuesday, Febru
I couldn't make that day unfortunately. I'll try to get to the next one if
there is one.
David
On 23 January 2015 at 13:48, A. Mayer wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Did any of you come to the November Cambridge meeting? How was it, what
> did you speak about?
>
> Best,
> Toni
>
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Hello Alex,
I did a similar exercise for Cambridge a few years ago now as the basis
for the University of Cambridge map (http://map.cam.ac.uk). I wrote up
the tagging scheme, as you referenced. We used our own rendering, which
is why it doesn't matter from our POV whether it appears on the mai
On 16/09/2013 12:52, Oliver Jowett wrote:
I'll try to ride the length of the path some time checking what exactly
is signposted.
http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/32577/
I wonder if cyclestreets assigns different costs to highway=bridleway vs
highway=cycleway? It does show them differently
On 16/09/2013 10:08, Oliver Jowett wrote:
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:58 PM, David Earl mailto:da...@frankieandshadow.com>> wrote:
It's signposted as a bridleway (only the northern section), so it is
technically correct. On the basis of map whatbyou see on the ground,
th
It's signposted as a bridleway (only the northern section), so it is
technically correct. On the basis of map whatbyou see on the ground, thats
a valid change. So long as it have bicycle=yes, and retains the NCN
information, I don't think it matters that much. Oliver is right though,
use by horses
I thought people might like to know about this event at the ADC Theatre,
Cambridge on Sunday morning, November 25, part of Cambridge Wordfest...
http://www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/wordfest/simon-garfield.aspx
It's only a small theatre and is half full already.
David
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It is indeed: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/davidearl/diary/17820
David
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Richard Moss wrote:
> I saw a tweet yesterday saying that the University of Cambridge had
> switched to
> OSM (#switch2osm) . Is that Project Drake done David? Looking good!
>
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On 07/01/2012 18:39, Richard Moss wrote:
Of my first 7 users, only 2 replied to me, but checking their user
pages, I find 5 have accepted the new terms :)
Unfortunately of the people I wrote to only one other than the one who
replied has also now accepted, so I'm on 2/14. User 'Martin Green' i
I did the same around Teversham/Cherry Hinton last week, and also looked
at what I'd need to do to replace unlicensed contributions. I've written
personally to the following:
smncrsk
Martin Green
user_4538
Roman
Robert Duncan
Dave Tracey
NickF
HendrikG
Simon Proven
of which only the last has r
Those of you on talk-gb may remember the announcement of the University
of Cambridge's OpenStreetMap project (
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-July/012067.html ).
I was appointed to the project from that and I have now written up a bit
about what I'm doing on my OSM diary
On 26/08/2011 10:57, David Earl wrote:
Park Street P, Lower Park Street, Cambridge
Woops, that looks like my mistake. Surprised no one has picked it up since.
Was missing the name; also now added outline
St Alban's P, Lensfield Road, Cambridge
Private church school presumably. I
On 26/08/2011 10:57, David Earl wrote:
Friday Bridge P, Maltmas Drove, Friday Bridge, Wisbech (there seems to
be an unnamed school in the area, probably this)
I surveyed this, so I probably mistyped a tag or something. I'll fix it
- I should be able to go back to my notes if necessary.
On 26/08/2011 10:57, David Earl wrote:
St Mary's P, Wintringham Road, St Neots
Hmm, need to check that. I thought I'd got them all in St Neots.
I did have it - added since your list.
David
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right infringement, even if the document is copyright) -
schools are rather distinctive.
On 21/08/2011 10:55, Richard Moss wrote:
After the emails on this subject in June, David Earl suggested it would
be worth checking for completeness of schools from the County Council's
website. They publish
On 11/08/2011 23:54, Richard Moss wrote:
Recent exchange on Cambridge Cycling Campaign general email list below.
It looks as if the current status on OSM may need to be updated. Anyone
in the area?
I've "opened" the road, though it could do with a survey to get the
exact course. The road is on
Cambridgeshire County Council has announced that both the Busway (and
cycleway alongside) and the new road between Hills Road bridge and the
station will both officially open on 7 August. Of course the busway is
already accurately mapped, should just need a status change. The
Cambridge Gateway
Just to let people know, I'm doing a talk about OpenStreetMap to a group
called NetSquared
http://www.meetup.com/Net2Camb/events/16931235/
http://net2camb.org/
on April 19th in Cambridge. If anyone else wants to come, I'm sure you'd
be welcome.
David
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On 31/12/2010 11:24, Richard Moss wrote:
So the first question is: do we leave the line of the old railway
where is is on OSM (traced from NPE around here), and put in a new
separate line for the guided busway where it deviates
That seems reasonable to me, as old railways are marked elsewhere.
On 21/09/2010 10:35, Tom Sutch wrote:
I went for a ride at the weekend taking a rather large diversion to
check out the new route. I see you have changed Little Fen Drove (the
old NCN11 to Burwell) on OSM to lcn=yes. Is this because it's
blue-signed towards the NCN route?
Yes.
If so I think t
=52.28741&mlon=0.30041
but there's a gate across the nw end which was firmly padlocked shut on
Sunday. I imagine that will be rectified in due course.
There's also a few photos at
http://cambridge.cyclestreets.net/galleries/162/
David
On 12/09/2010 23:19, David Earl wrote:
I was at
On 13/09/2010 11:55, Philip Shore wrote:
I knew you would have been there as soon as I saw the press release.
:-) I can't believe I didn't know about it, and would have loved to
have gone.
There are a number of great pictures on this blog:
http://keeppushingthosepedals.blogspot.com/2010/09/lodes
I was at the opening and I had my GPS with me of course, though at
least two of us have already added most of this in preparation, not
least because I'm preparing a map of this and the new ncn51 via the
busway for Cambridgeshire County Council.
In fact there's only a fairly short section that is n
On 10/08/2010 21:31, Richard Moss wrote:
On Tue 10/08/10 16:36 , "David Earl" da...@frankieandshadow.com
sent:
I'm doing a printed cycle map which covers, among other places,
Huntingdon. This needs to include the "old Houghton Road" which has
been re-opened fo
I'm doing a printed cycle map which covers, among other places,
Huntingdon. This needs to include the "old Houghton Road" which has been
re-opened for bikes and buses since I surveyed, linking Main Street,
Hartford to the A1123 bypassing the roundabout, here:
http://osm.org/go/eu68dXesk-
Are
On 05/07/2010 09:03, Ed Loach wrote:
According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access the meaning
of access=no is "Access by this transport mode is not permitted,
public does not have a right of way" but it's not clear to me
*which*
mode of transport that sentence refers to.
So, does
An interesting little situation arose today where a street was
incorrectly "corrected" from StreetView. I'm sure the underlying OS data
will turn out to be correct, but you can't tell from SV.
Here is the real situation from ground survey. It's presumably like this
because a spur was extended w
I didn't have any other takers originally for tomorrow, but if anyone
wants to join Chris and I, we'll be on the 10.18 train from Cambridge
(10.52 from Ely) to make a start on Whittlesea. The weather is looking
very promising.
David
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On 23/03/2010 13:32, Ed Loach wrote:
> > Broughton is marked TBD, the other two "Roads surveyed May
>
> > 2009" by Ed
>
> > Loach I think (any comment Ed?) so I'd assumed they were done.
>
> Not me. The wiki page was updated to say "Roads surveyed May 2009" on
> 30th June 2009 by Markpeers. My f
Thanks Richard ...
On 22/03/2010 23:10, Richard Moss wrote:
> David
>
> I'm replying to this subject and also "Whittlesea".
>
> I nearly got up to Ramsey on Saturday but the rain dampened my
> progress. I took in Woodhurst, Old Hurst and Broughton. Some
> residential roads missing in these villa
2010 14:57, David Earl wrote:
> I estimate we are now at 92% by population (508,000 out of 553,000
> done).
a bit under 41,000 remaining, so actually 512,000 done out of 553,000,
nearer 93%
> If we can address Whittlesea and Ramsey in the next couple of
> months, that will bring us
Back in October I emailed about Operation Complete Cambridgeshire, to
try to complete the survey of the whole County to street and POI level
by mid 2010.
I've just been reviewing where we're up to and I'm really pleased to see
that progress is excellent. I think we're on track to systematically
So, how about we do Whittlesea one day in April?
Four of us should be able to do it in a reasonable length day (pop:
16,000). If we have more, Ramsey (pop 6,000) is a possibility on the
same day, Coates and Eastrea are a small missing villages just to the
east of Whittlesea, and though it's in
On 18/03/2010 06:50, Mike Morrin wrote:
> Over the past year, I have walked and mapped all (maybe missed 1km) of
> the public footpaths in a polygon bounded by: Arrington, Croydon,
> Gamblingay, Gransden Airfield, Croxton, Yelling, Papworth Everard,
> Connington, Boxworth, and Bourne.
That's brill
I would imagine the County Council would probably be OK with using it to
that extent if we sought permission and they were happy with the terms
(because once it's in OSM, essentially it can be used by anyone
downstream) and I can't see that the status is OS tainted (though
anything to do with t
Original Message
Subject:National Trust Press Release - Reach Bridge Brings Lodes Way a
Step Closer
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:17:18 -
From: Cooper, Howard
5 March 2010
*Reach** Bridge** Brings Lodes Way a Step Closer*
**
Construction has begun on a new cros
Hi,
Richard Moss and I will be heading up to the pretty villages of Upwell
and Outwell south east of Wisbech this coming Sunday with scope to
include the villages of Christchurch, Friday Bridge and the fens north
east of March. If anyone wants to join us, do get in touch.
At some point fairly
On 07/12/2009 13:08, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:04:02PM +0000, David Earl wrote:
>> As you may know, the busway didn't open on Nov 29th. It looks like being
>> January now. The twits announced the opening date and *then* did the
>> snagging in
Just following up on previous thread...
As you may know, the busway didn't open on Nov 29th. It looks like being
January now. The twits announced the opening date and *then* did the
snagging inspection and found lots of construction faults.
I went along it last Wednesday in the company of Bob M
On 09/11/2009 15:15, David Earl wrote:
> Their page doesn't call it a bridleway either
Actually, following the link in the corner to
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/thebusway/community/rights/
it then says:
"New bridleway and cycleway: To make sure people can still enjo
On 09/11/2009 14:54, Tom Evans wrote:
>>> The busway people themselves are referring to it as a bridleway
>>> rather than a cycleway over that section. Even they wouldn't
>>> claim it's fit to be called a cycleway, it's just sustrans
>>> doing that.
>> No it isn't: "From St Ives to Longstanton th
On 09/11/2009 14:40, David Earl wrote:
"From St Ives to Longstanton the path will be of a
> compacted limestone material. This is a widely approved type of surface
> for rural cycleways as it is much smoother than any other gravel-type
> surface. It is usable for all types
On 09/11/2009 14:27, Tom Evans wrote:
Incidentally, I have tagged it as bridleway, because that's
what it is (I encountered a horse!), but note that the
Swavesey - Cambridge bit has been tagged as cycleway. Any
thoughts?
>>> Definitely cycleway (with horse=yes): this will be
On 09/11/2009 14:21, David Earl wrote:
> On 09/11/2009 14:05, Richard Moss wrote:
>> I cycled Swavesey - St Ives yesterday afternoon, and entered some of
>> the data last night. I did the bridleway rather than the actual
>> busway, but have added some detai
The County Council has announced an opening date of Sunday November 29th
for the guided busway. In the meantime, Steve Chilton has released the
map style change to render bus_guideway, so I'll update the track from
construction a few days before opening. It'll look like a railway, but
blue. (Th
On 26/10/2009 08:08, Ed Loach wrote:
> Covington was already well mapped; I think I added the postbox and
> some other minor details. I've just added a relation for the Three
> Shires Way which cuts through the bottom edge of the village, though
> this will need extending at some point.
Excellent,
Many thanks. More below...
On 19/10/2009 22:55, Richard Moss wrote:
> Malcolm / David
>
> I had a very enjoyable Saturday late afternoon pedalling around
> Prickwillow, and I would be grateful for your observations (or anybody
> else!).
As you say it needs some more rendering, but I'll have
On 18/10/2009 19:36, Ed Loach wrote:
> I'm home now, arriving home at 6pm after diverting slightly to drive
> and waypoint Bythorn, Molesworth, Brington, Old Weston, Leighton
> Bromswold, Barham and Woolley before rejoining the A14 at J19A. I'll
> try and get around to adding what I noted over the
On 18/10/2009 18:18, Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> See http://pathetic.org.uk/secretive/a14m/
It's all due to change again in the next 6 years! Though at 1.4 billion
pounds and counting, can it survive the "savage cuts" everyone's talking
about? It's a not insignificant sum to pay for a very short s
The Cambridgeshire NAPTAN data was imported (thank you!) for
Cambridgeshire on Friday. This will mean there are some duplicate
pre-existing, or mispositioned bus stops that need tidying up.
The ones I've just been noticing round my village are so far pretty much
coincident with the ones I previ
On 15/10/2009 20:32, Peter Miller wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2009, at 13:29, Keith Edkins wrote:
>
>>> * http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fenland
>>> (This page didn't exist previously, I created it this morning)
>>> (Laverock, could you confirm March is complete?)
>> E&OE the named roads are complete a
On 15/10/2009 21:48, Malcolm Boura wrote:
> I have a software problem at present but assuming that I can persuade my
> GPS to talk to my laptop I'll take a look at the Kennett area.
> Alternatively, I am thinking of buying a hand held GPS, mainly for
> walking but car use would be a bonus.
>
>
On 14/10/2009 13:40, David Earl wrote:
> As I mentioned, I'd like to promote a Wisbech mapping party.
There's a sign up page now:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fenland/WisbechMappingParty2009-11
David
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As I mentioned, I'd like to promote a Wisbech mapping party. Given how
long it would take me to get there and back, it's pointless me going
just for a day, so I propose to stay overnight and do two full days
surveying.
I suggest November 14-15.
So, would anyone like to join me? Obviously if yo
A few weeks ago now, I met with the GIS people at Cambridgeshire County
Council. In response to some criticism by local authority inspectors,
they are working on improving their online mapping over the next year.
They are constrained by OS contamination in some areas, but I think
there is a rea
I notice some of the interior plan of the shopping arcades in the middle
of Cambridge has been plotted:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.204701&lon=0.121434&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF
(a) I rather think the "insideness" of these streets ought to be
reflected in a tag rather than in the name.
(
On 20/08/2009 16:46, Richard Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Ed Loach wrote:
>
>> David asked:
>>
>>> This Cambs CC press release suggests a minor mod to the map is
>>> needed.
>>> Is anyone near? It's probably not worth me travelling specially
>>> to
>>> Huntingdon, but if anyone could cover
This Cambs CC press release suggests a minor mod to the map is needed.
Is anyone near? It's probably not worth me travelling specially to
Huntingdon, but if anyone could cover it, that would be good.
Sorry about the long link...
http://www2.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/db/pressrel.nsf/6fcbd4565a583c64
simon...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've finally made a start on Sudbury, and have got about half of it
> done. I'll try to finish it during August if I get a few spare hours.
>
> Also, I was mulling the A131 and its trunk status (according to the
> map). This seems odd, when comparing it to oth
I'm afraid I've only had limited interest in Saturdays in August for
working more on King's Lynn: people seem to be committed already.
How about Sundays? Can people make any of these?
August 9, 16, 23, 30(BH)
(I dropped 2nd as it is a bit short notice)
David
David Earl wrot
Cambridgeshire County Council has registered us for this scheme (ref
BKG0031), so if we need a community minibus for a mapping part, we can
get one (of course, we'd need to pay for the use of it, but should be
much cheaper than renting one).
David
David Earl wrote:
> I've had
I've had notification (via Cambridge Cycling Campaign) about a scheme
whereby Cambridgeshire County Council will put community groups (which I
think could very reasonably include OpenStreetMap in the "Interest,
hobbies and arts groups" category) in touch with minibus operators
(particularly oth
In the end there were just three of us made it to King's Lynn last
Saturday week. We achieved a lot, but couldn't hope to cover the entire
town. So I'm trying to raise interest again - hey c'mon they have
numbers in double figures elsewhere.
So if you're interested, would you like to indicate w
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
It looks like we can raise 5 people for June 27th at King's Lynn from
the replies I had. Perhaps we might get a few more from the main list
and/or the wiki.
There's details and a sign-up page, here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Norfolk/King%27s_Lynn_and_West_Norfolk/MappingParty2009-06
(B
Would people be interested in a mapping party for Kings Lynn for a
Saturday in June and if so, which - 6, 13, 20 or 27th?
The street layout has already mostly been put in place, though as we've
discussed on this list before by what means we aren't quite sure:
possibly personal aerial photograph
On 02/05/2009 09:02, Ed Loach wrote:
> 1. I’d probably use highway=service and service=driveway now you
> make me think about it, but just checked a similar place I’d tagged
> previously and only used highway=service. I’d say driveway as a driveway
> to a house often ends at a garage. I mi
FYI, as I had worked on some of these recently, I've fleshed out the
parishes list on the Mid-Suffolk page at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mid_Suffolk
Mid Suffolk District starts just east of Bury St Edmunds and extends
towards Ipswich. So if you've been doing anything in that area, perh
On 23/03/2009 15:48, Glenn Proctor wrote:
> I've started mapping Barrow and would be interested in any comments
> people have on what I've done so far.
Welcome to the list. (Glenn and I also had a short exchange of
introductory emails previous to this, but others may also find this
reply useful)
On 09/03/2009 12:24, Philip Howarth wrote:
> Thanks for the update, David. Did you get any positive vibes from
> whoever so that we might not expect it to happen again?
No. After my first communication, I asked if he would be offended if we
reverted the changes and I had no reply.
I've just bee
On 08/03/2009 17:26, Philip Howarth wrote:
> Was the 'original'* issue ever progressed?
>
> I've seen others asking David but no reply.
No, I left it in the end. By the time we'd had the discussion there was
too much additional change to be able to revert cleanly.
If you recall, the changes ro
I said was going to suggest we complete Bury St Edmunds before
Christmas, but then I had a whole series of silly ailments so didn't
much feel like it.
However, the days are getting longer now and the weather's improving.
It's a bit short notice I know, but would anyone like to join me this
Sat
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