[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hacks and Hackers
hello, Paul Bradshaw who organises the hacks and hackers meet up wondered if either any OSMers fancy attending the next one or look at developing and OSM themed one. I shall be along at the next meeting at the bull so can discuss further when I have more details about a date and what hacks and hackers do so I can get an idea on how they may wish to use OSM. Cheers, Stu ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Future planned works
As regards the paradise and other schemes like pinch point funding there are some rough timelines on this web site http://localview.birmingham.gov.uk/bham_connected/index.html I cannot say how up to date they will keep it as developers schedules slip, etc. Let me know if you need more info. Cheers, Stu ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Road lengths in Great Britain: 2013 - Publications - GOV.UK
Not sure how helpful this is, it's OGL https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-lengths-in-great-britain-2013 ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Talk-gb-westmidlands Digest, Vol 65, Issue 4
I shall try and find out about a map from the City Council. There must be one somewhere. Stuart On 12 Mar 2014 12:01, talk-gb-westmidlands-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Send Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list submissions to talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-gb-westmidlands-requ...@openstreetmap.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-gb-westmidlands-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Talk-gb-westmidlands digest... Today's Topics: 1. 20mph zones in Birmingham to be rolled out (Matthijs Melissen) 2. Fwd: Re: 20mph zones in Birmingham to be rolled out (Rob Nickerson) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:52:45 + From: Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl To: talk-gb-westmidlands talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] 20mph zones in Birmingham to be rolled out Message-ID: cad940mozeg3h8fb+lcxey24hwtysatbwhrnw5kq6xlrtrff...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The city council in late 2012 voted almost unanimously in favour of a city-wide 20mph speed limit to improve pedestrian safety, lessen traffic congestion and reduce pollution. The roll out of 20mph speed limits across Birmingham will begin in the city centre and inner city wards despite resident objections, it has been announced. http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/20mph-zones-birmingham-rolled-out-6800676 In Luxembourg, we used a similar roll-out of speed limits to completely map the speed limits in the city, following the council quarter by quarter as they rolled out the restrictions. Shall we try to do the same in Birmingham? These are the speed restrictions as we have them now: http://www.itoworld.com/map/5?lon=-1.85152lat=52.45019zoom=12fullscreen=true By the way, what is the scope of a speed restriction sign in the UK? Is the sign valid until the next crossing, or until the next sign indicating a change of speed? I have seen both systems used in other countries. -- Matthijs -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:09:55 + From: Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com To: talk-gb-westmidlands talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Re: 20mph zones in Birmingham to be rolled out Message-ID: CAK4yQTm50Z-Dh+MtzDUwBs_5MzOzy-AanLQ0_a= zb+h031f...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 That wasn't meant to be an off list reply. See below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com Date: 12 Mar 2014 11:08 Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] 20mph zones in Birmingham to be rolled out To: Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl Cc: Its valid until the next sign. In fact department to transport guidelines are to NOT put repeater 30mph signs in built up street lit urban areas. If a side road at 40mph joins a 30mph road then there will be a 30mph sign at the end of the side road (just before it joins the main road). Coventry rolled out a 20mph zone in the city centre. At each entry to the zone they have to put in a speed gate. This makes mapping much easier as you just need to survey the gates (all roads inside are 20mph). When Coventry did it they provided a map - so I just walked around with that, photographed the precise gate location, mapped them in OSM as nodes away from the road (less likely that they will be moved accidently) and then split the road way and added maxspeed. Is Birmingham releasing a map? Rob On 12 Mar 2014 10:53, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: The city council in late 2012 voted almost unanimously in favour of a city-wide 20mph speed limit to improve pedestrian safety, lessen traffic congestion and reduce pollution. The roll out of 20mph speed limits across Birmingham will begin in the city centre and inner city wards despite resident objections, it has been announced. http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/20mph-zones-birmingham-rolled-out-6800676 In Luxembourg, we used a similar roll-out of speed limits to completely map the speed limits in the city, following the council quarter by quarter as they rolled out the restrictions. Shall we try to do the same in Birmingham? These are the speed restrictions as we have them now: http://www.itoworld.com/map/5?lon=-1.85152lat=52.45019zoom=12fullscreen=true By the way, what is the scope of a speed restriction sign in the UK? Is the sign valid
[Talk-us] Congratulation on State of the Map US
It looked a fantastic event, would have loved to have got over there for it. In terms of the organisers, who is best to contact fro swapping some experiences to help out us in the UK who are organising this year's international SOTM conference? I guess Bonnie at MapBox is pretty much the go to person? The Call for Presentations is now closed for SOTM, as the programme takes shape hope to see some of you make the trip to Birmingham, UK. Keep an eye on what is going on: http://stateofthemap.org Cheers, Stu SOTM 13 Organising Committee ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-GB] OSM volunteer to participate in panel discussion
Hello, I have had a request from Ian Holt of Ordnance Survey to see if anyone involved with OSM would like to sit on this panel: We have a Mobile Monday London event themed around location on the 24th June. Would you or someone you could suggest from OSM be able/willing to attend to sit on a panel? Topics will include crowd sourcing. http://www.mobilemonday.org.uk/ I don't feel remotely qualified to attend as my actual involvement in data capture is very limited. Can anyone suggest someone? Cheers, Stu ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Location analysis
For info I was made aware of this Location planning event in Birmingham on 21st May: http://www.thesla.org/2013/03/public-sector-event-21st-may-2013/ I may not be able to attend - I wondered if anyone could and may be able to tap up some groups for attending and/or sponsoring SOTM13? I have e-mailed the society with a view to getting help contacting their members about OSM, SOTM, etc. ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 list of tasks
I'd like to help on what was deemed the hardest task: *Sponsor package programme and promotion (maybe split into global/national/local) and Sponsor Exhibits* I think that combined with Andy R we know a fair whack of the geo type companies in the UK and we can come up with other related areas to try and tap up. Cheers, Stuart ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham Connected royalty free mapping
I shall endeavor to get them. Cheers, Stu On 6 Nov 2012, at 00:39, Andy Mabbett pigsotw...@gmail.com wrote: One thing we could do with is a list of the totems and their coordinates - as open data. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk On Nov 5, 2012 9:19 PM, stuart lester stules...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, Following the ongoing work putting up the totems around Birmingham City Centre, I have chased the project manager for more information about what data they have captured. Currently the majority of the project is run by Centro, the maps data is being used for many of the altered bus route maps centro are producing. There is also some work about the retail shopping in the City Centre. In terms of getting to see what has been captured, how it will be maintained, etc. I am hoping to learn more with a meeting in a months time. Then I will have a better idea of what is captured, what can be done with it, find out if it will be released, etc. If you have any questions you want me to ask please let me know. It is obviously a bit daft given the quality of OpenStreetMap data, however I am interested to try and use the data if it will help OSM, I will keep you informed. Apparently there are anoutehr 80 totems to go up on the inner irng road - once in place I wonder which map will have them on first? Cheers, Stuart ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Scotland SOTM
Looks a well organised event: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2012 Some things to be learnt for a full SOTM bid? ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Open source mapping conference 2013
Hello, The OSGeo UK group are aiming to host The Free and Open Source 4 Geo conference in Nottingham in 2013. They are down to the last 2 bidders and are trying to build support. This conference is superb, last year it was held in Denver and this year in Beijing. It attracts 1000+ open source mapping techies, many of whom build the technology OpenStreetMap uses. Please try to keep an eye on it, offer support or even help out. Please read below how you can help and spread the message. Dear All, Preparations are afoot for our bid to host FOSS4G in the UK in 2013, and we're looking for letters of support from companies and individuals. We're not, at this stage, soliciting for sponsorship, just people to say We support this bid and bringing FOSS4G to the UK in 2013. If you or your company would be prepared to do this, we have a template letter that you can fill in/edit and send back to us. We're keen that we don't spam people with requests for letters, so if you've already been asked, then please ignore this email, but if you'd like to help then let me know and I'll add you to our list and send you the template. Deadlines for letters are the middle of next week so that we can collate them all to go in our bid submission. For individuals- keep an eye on our bid blog at http://foss4g4uk.posterous.com/, we'll be putting a page up soon for people to sign up to offer to help- so watch this space! Thanks Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Using GPS for art
Bit of a departure but a local artist Nikki Pugh, is running an event on 26th April in Brum where you can use these large cylinders with GPS and other sensors in to react with the built environment. They are designed to make you stand out - so be warned! Pics here http://npugh.co.uk/blog/test-driving_the_possibility_probe/ Event sign up here http://heavyobjectbham.eventbrite.co.uk/ Odd but fun - Nikki then takes the data captured and visualises it Cheers, Stuart ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] ShareMap to show OSM data
Cheers Andy. Will do.
Cheers,
Stu
On 30 Dec 2011, at 15:56, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Stuart, nice work. Write-ups like this are worth putting on the wiki
somewhere so that they can easily be found by others at a later date.
Cheers
Andy
*From:* stuart lester [mailto:stules...@googlemail.com]
*Sent:* 30 December 2011 11:18
*To:* talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
*Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] ShareMap to show OSM data
Hello,
Following on from Andy Mabbett's request about easily working with OSM data
I decided ot have a bit of a play around with some of the tools out
there. I concentrated on ShareMap to try and bridge the gap between
technical use of OSM data and non-technical access. The main case is where
someone wants to render some OSM data over a map and embed it in their own
web page.
ShareMap is far from perfect (in fact I found it frustrating at times) and
you cannot get fully away from a bit of technical usage. Anyway I tried to
recreate the gritting map:
http://sharemap.org/public/Grit%20Map
This is set up as a public map, so you can simply go on and edit to see how
I put it together.
The technical part is using the XAPI calls to get the priority 1 and
priority 2 datasets - this is how I did it:
1. Create a new Container to import the OSM data into
2. click on the import form OSM button
3. This is really annoying but you can draw a rectangle to set your
bounding box, but the clicking is a bit flaky at times I found, you sort
have to do a slow double click
4. You can choose common features to import, but the gritting priorities
are a bit specialist so I used the custom XAPI area
5. I entered:
http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/way[gritting=priority_1][bbox=-2.29209872095745,52.25813715698189,-1.3733670623948984,52.683940414232836]
as you can see you can actually define your bounding box here if you get
frustrated with the draw a box function (as I did)
6. Once it has (hopefully) found some features (again I found this a bit
hit and miss) you can import the features (this puts the raw data into the
new container)
7. I then renamed the container to Priority 1
8. I then clicked on one of the lines on the map to change the colour and
apply that to all the lines in the Container
9. Saved the map
This was the repeated for priority 2 roads.
You can then embed the map as a thumbnail, with a link, as a static image
or as a flash object (following the code inthe help page):
*head*
*script* type=text/javascript
src=http://sharemap.org/js/sharemap.js*/script*
*/head*
[...]
*body*
*div* id=mapBox style=width:300px; height:300px;**
*/div*
*script* language=JavaScript**
insertInteractiveMap('*public/Grit%20Map*','mapBox',300,300);
*/script*
*/body*
You can see it is not plain sailing, but someone could potentially start to
use it to create some simple maps for their own site.I'm not sure. The
main thing is understanding the tags you want to import and using the
custom XAPI calls if you need to.
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[Talk-gb-westmidlands] gritting maps
Hi Andy,
A bit of looking at the code on the mappa mercia site shows this:
var gritting_routes = new OpenLayers.Layer.XYZ(
Gritting Routes,
http://mappa-mercia.org/tiles/gritting-overlay/${z}/${x}/${y}.png;, {
isBaseLayer: false,
sphericalMercator: true
});
Which is something that can be used with OpenLayers, a javascript library,
that the mappa mercia site uses.
However this is effectively pointing people to the mappa-mercia hosted
website and that may not be welocme if there is a sudden surge. I am sure
people on this list will have an opinion on that.
In terms of embedding the map easily on a wordpress blog, or the such like
I have not had a look at the OSM plug ins for wordpress and whether they
allow you to put addiitonal overlays over the base map (and also whether
you can tone down the base map to highlight the gritting routes) without
getting yourr hands dirty with code.
Cheers,
Stu
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Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Talk-gb-westmidlands Digest, Vol 35, Issue 8
I'm not able to make it this time sorry. I will pencil in the next one to report back on state of the map. I have a summary on my blog http://stulester.co.uk Cheers, Stu On 30 Sep 2011, at 12:01, talk-gb-westmidlands-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Send Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list submissions to talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-gb-westmidlands-requ...@openstreetmap.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-gb-westmidlands-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Talk-gb-westmidlands digest... Today's Topics: 1. Social next Thursday (Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)) 2. Re: Social next Thursday (Andy Mabbett) 3. Re: Social next Thursday (Brian Prangle) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:05:16 +0100 From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@gmail.com To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social next Thursday Message-ID: 003901cc7ed2$588ab8e0$09a02aa0$@googlemail.com Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii Everyone up for a social next Thursday? If so any preference if not the Black Eagle? Also, is anyone else planning on doing part of Monarchs Way on the 8th Oct as well as Brian, Steve and myself? Cheers Andy -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:58:02 +0100 From: Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk To: talk-gb-westmidlands Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social next Thursday Message-ID: cabixoenn2c8gdf62gbrs-ymypnvw37awy0_x_tz4cnsqo2k...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Busy elsewhere on both dates, sadly. Please let me know what you want put out on the Twitter stream. On 29 September 2011 19:05, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone up for a social next Thursday? If so any preference if not the Black Eagle? Also, is anyone else planning on doing part of Monarchs Way on the 8th Oct as well as Brian, Steve and myself? Cheers Andy ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:04:01 +0100 From: Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@gmail.com Cc: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social next Thursday Message-ID: caectzzafemwg69yt0epfb6xf-hupplnajxuhopbxswiqwur...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Black eagle works for me - see you there On 29 September 2011 19:05, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone up for a social next Thursday? If so any preference if not the Black Eagle? Also, is anyone else planning on doing part of Monarchs Way on the 8th Oct as well as Brian, Steve and myself? Cheers Andy ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb-westmidlands/attachments/20110930/bf313966/attachment-0001.html -- ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands End of Talk-gb-westmidlands Digest, Vol 35, Issue 8 *** ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] State of the map Denver
Hello all, I am headed over to Denver primarily for foss4g but thought I may as well go to state of the map. I am very novice on OSM but looking forward to it. If anyone has spotted a session they really want to know about I am happy to go and report back. Except the baseball meetup. It's just not cricket! Cheers, Stu On 6 Sep 2011, at 12:01, talk-gb-westmidlands-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Send Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list submissions to talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-gb-westmidlands-requ...@openstreetmap.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-gb-westmidlands-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Talk-gb-westmidlands digest... Today's Topics: 1. RSPB Middleton Lakes mis-tagged (Andy Mabbett) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:28:03 +0100 From: Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk To: talk-gb-westmidlands Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] RSPB Middleton Lakes mis-tagged Message-ID: CABiXOEkrowdecBm6ESwdcpF63nKosvdfNO2v87cZ3kr-e=w...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Somebody had tagged RSPB Middleton Lakes with boundary=national park. I've changed, but someone with the know-how might like to check that eidtor's other edits, in case it was part of a wider set of subtle vandalism. Of course, it might have been a good-faith mistake. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands End of Talk-gb-westmidlands Digest, Vol 35, Issue 2 *** ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
