Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society
>The problem is having highway=bridleway with highway=track. Now as Richard B >said there is now the designation tag so >highway=track and >designation=public >bridleway can be done. However this isn't rendered >either at all, or if it were would >clash and not render correctly (brown >dash for track with yellow dash for >byway on mapnik). Freemap seems to >asume >that >highway=byway is another way of saying it's a road. Which is >odd becuase byways may be on a tarmacked >road (can >only >think of 1 i've >seen), but they are also on tracks or just grass. In this example the byways >are mere tire tracks in the >grass: http://www.free-map.org.uk> >freemap/index.php?zoom=16&lat=52.09726&lon=-1.06801&layers= Tag them with designation=public_byway, or byway, or byway_open_to_all_traffic, then they'll show up. ;-) Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC
Ed, I suspect that they only have access to a list of all taxable address, probably under license from the post office. Can anyone confirm or deny? Tim On 22/05/11 15:42, Ed Avis wrote: Clearly the local authority must have a list of all taxable addresses, with house number and postcode. If it can be safely released (just the address, with no other identifying information) then it would be a great completeness check for OSM, even better than OS Locator. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC
Clearly the local authority must have a list of all taxable addresses, with house number and postcode. If it can be safely released (just the address, with no other identifying information) then it would be a great completeness check for OSM, even better than OS Locator. -- Ed Avis ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC
Tim, You might like to ask them to provide you with a list of geodata they hold and that they can release (under the PSMA) without any restrictions. I got such a list off Southwark Council and it gave me a few ideas of data that would be useful including trees and cycle parking stands. Tom On 22 May 2011 11:11, TimSC wrote: > > Hi all, > > I met people from Kent's OpenKent, which is a county council open data > initiative [1][2]. They explained their work and I told them about > openstreetmap and its community. They said Kent is not as well developed in > open data as some councils but they have a long term commitment to > improvement. They have some data sets available but they seem to be mainly > concerned with expenses, census data and school expenditure so far. They > said they are seeking ideas of what data to publish because they need to > prioritize their effort in getting the data for which there is a public > demand. If you have ideas, I suggest you get in touch. I expect other > councils have already done stuff that's interesting and it might be worth > making them aware. They also plan to showcase interesting data > visualisations based on their data or any Kent related data. It might be > good to get publicity for small projects. OpenKent is also seeking ideas and > feedback for a (web based?) data visualisation tool they are planning to > help the (non-technical) public use the data. > > I tried to think of data that would be useful to mappers. Obviously the > rights of way data would be amazing. The council also holds the parish > boundaries data. Some government data sets use parish and electoral > boundaries as their areas, so that would be useful to do visualisations. > Also the Kent Heritage Tree Project [3] might like the parish boundaries, as > apparently many old trees are on or near these boundaries. Having lists of > public institutions, possibly with addresses, would be great to validate the > OSM database. We can quickly find any schools, public services that we > missed. I suspect we will avoid doing imports of data which is not really > GIS but we might add data to OSM to make visualisations and mash ups easier > (machine tags and data to link to their database rows). > > Again, they said they would appreciate any ideas. I talked to Noel Hatch > and Matthew Kerr. Get in touch with them. :) > > Regards, > > TimSC > > [1] http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/open_data.aspx > [2] http://openkent.blogspot.com/ > [3] http://kentheritagetrees.btcv.org.uk/ > > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC
Hi all, I met people from Kent's OpenKent, which is a county council open data initiative [1][2]. They explained their work and I told them about openstreetmap and its community. They said Kent is not as well developed in open data as some councils but they have a long term commitment to improvement. They have some data sets available but they seem to be mainly concerned with expenses, census data and school expenditure so far. They said they are seeking ideas of what data to publish because they need to prioritize their effort in getting the data for which there is a public demand. If you have ideas, I suggest you get in touch. I expect other councils have already done stuff that's interesting and it might be worth making them aware. They also plan to showcase interesting data visualisations based on their data or any Kent related data. It might be good to get publicity for small projects. OpenKent is also seeking ideas and feedback for a (web based?) data visualisation tool they are planning to help the (non-technical) public use the data. I tried to think of data that would be useful to mappers. Obviously the rights of way data would be amazing. The council also holds the parish boundaries data. Some government data sets use parish and electoral boundaries as their areas, so that would be useful to do visualisations. Also the Kent Heritage Tree Project [3] might like the parish boundaries, as apparently many old trees are on or near these boundaries. Having lists of public institutions, possibly with addresses, would be great to validate the OSM database. We can quickly find any schools, public services that we missed. I suspect we will avoid doing imports of data which is not really GIS but we might add data to OSM to make visualisations and mash ups easier (machine tags and data to link to their database rows). Again, they said they would appreciate any ideas. I talked to Noel Hatch and Matthew Kerr. Get in touch with them. :) Regards, TimSC [1] http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/open_data.aspx [2] http://openkent.blogspot.com/ [3] http://kentheritagetrees.btcv.org.uk/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
