[Talk-gb-westmidlands] FW: Eventbrite, revised page
-Original Message- From: Andrew Mackenzie [mailto:a.macken...@bethere.co.uk] Sent: 18 May 2012 18:41 To: Stuart Harrison; Stuart Lester; Philip John; Pete Does Web Things; A J Robinson; Matt Williams; Rob Nickerson; mike; Adrian Short Subject: Eventbrite, revised page Hi all Eventbrite booking for the Mapping Workshop is open http://mapitude2012.eventbrite.co.uk/ It would be useful if you could confirm by booking there. So far only shows me, though some of you have confirmed to me. I have revised the event blog page http://take21.org/blog/?page_id=1463 It now shows three tracks: for developers, user groups and beginners. Paul Bradshaw is going to come and has been collecting data about disabled access to olympic facilities, so there is a topical data journalism angle which complements Alison Smith's work on disabled access. We might ask the OSM community to do some surveying for this. On the page it says 'awesome new thing', which looks made up, but it's something I saw yesterday at the geomob event at UCL. It's Taarifa http://www.taarifa.org/main I'm talking with the developers and they are hopeful one of them will be able to come and talk about it. Andrew ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] FW: Eventbrite, revised page
-Original Message- From: Andrew Mackenzie [mailto:a.macken...@bethere.co.uk] Sent: 18 May 2012 18:41 To: Stuart Harrison; Stuart Lester; Philip John; Pete Does Web Things; A J Robinson; Matt Williams; Rob Nickerson; mike; Adrian Short Subject: Eventbrite, revised page Hi all Eventbrite booking for the Mapping Workshop is open http://mapitude2012.eventbrite.co.uk/ It would be useful if you could confirm by booking there. So far only shows me, though some of you have confirmed to me. I have revised the event blog page http://take21.org/blog/?page_id=1463 It now shows three tracks: for developers, user groups and beginners. Paul Bradshaw is going to come and has been collecting data about disabled access to olympic facilities, so there is a topical data journalism angle which complements Alison Smith's work on disabled access. We might ask the OSM community to do some surveying for this. On the page it says 'awesome new thing', which looks made up, but it's something I saw yesterday at the geomob event at UCL. It's Taarifa http://www.taarifa.org/main I'm talking with the developers and they are hopeful one of them will be able to come and talk about it. Andrew ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Coventry Meetup - Mapping 'cake' online
Hi All, Just a quick reminder about the next social (Coventry). If you have time to map beforehand the 'cake' is now online. There are a few different areas including buildings, retail, civic - All within the ring road. If you have a desire to go further out then feel free to drop me a message with you mapping interests as I might be able to point you in the direction of some of the more interesting spots. The *next social* of the Midlands OSM User Group will be on *Thursday, 7th June, 2012, 8pm-ish to 10pm-ish*. *Venue*: The Litten Treehttp://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.405605lon=-1.512914zoom=18layers=M, Warwick Row, Coventry Cake: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coventry_2012_Cake Regards, Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-GB] FW: Eventbrite, revised page
-Original Message- From: Andrew Mackenzie [mailto:a.macken...@bethere.co.uk] Sent: 18 May 2012 18:41 To: Stuart Harrison; Stuart Lester; Philip John; Pete Does Web Things; A J Robinson; Matt Williams; Rob Nickerson; mike; Adrian Short Subject: Eventbrite, revised page Hi all Eventbrite booking for the Mapping Workshop is open http://mapitude2012.eventbrite.co.uk/ It would be useful if you could confirm by booking there. So far only shows me, though some of you have confirmed to me. I have revised the event blog page http://take21.org/blog/?page_id=1463 It now shows three tracks: for developers, user groups and beginners. Paul Bradshaw is going to come and has been collecting data about disabled access to olympic facilities, so there is a topical data journalism angle which complements Alison Smith's work on disabled access. We might ask the OSM community to do some surveying for this. On the page it says 'awesome new thing', which looks made up, but it's something I saw yesterday at the geomob event at UCL. It's Taarifa http://www.taarifa.org/main I'm talking with the developers and they are hopeful one of them will be able to come and talk about it. Andrew ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] National Rail as a brand (was: Bulk railway station changes)
On 21/05/12 16:37, AJ Ashton wrote: In the previous thread it was mentioned that many people don't commonly refer to any part of the system as 'National Rail', but it seems that is the official name for the double-arrow brand used on signage and maps. I don't know if this was mentioned in the previous thread, but I'll just add that the London Underground does, or at least used to, refer to it as national rail. It says international rail for St Pancras etc. too. Maybe other TfL services do the same? -- Borbus. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal
As part of improving the wiki pages on UK tagging guidelines, I wanted to add details about cycle lanes and cycle tracks. As seen in this mailing list, I quickly got confused. I want to take this opportunity to share my findings. 1. cycleway key. I found the current cycleway key to be confusing. It attempts to allow the mapper to tag cycle lanes (within the roadway/carriageway) and cycle tracks (alongside, but not within the roadway). It is complicated by the fact that there could be a LANE on either, or both sides of the road. Furthermore there could be a cycle TRACK on either side of the road and these may be one-way or two-way. We use opposite to indicate that cycles can travel against the flow of traffic on a one-way street, but on a two-way street you would use cycleway:right=lane to signify that there is a cycle lane in the opposite direction to how the road is drawn in OSM. 2. Left, Right, Forward, Backward. I expect many people find these hard to understand. What if the cyclelane is not on the far left/right but is between traffic lanes (e.g. for straight on when you have a left turn lane for vehicles). 3. My thoughts My current thinking (based on looking at example cycleways in the UK and Netherlands), is that we should consider splitting out the 2 cases (English: lanes and tracks; Dutch Fietsstrook and Fietspad). By doing this we make have tags with clear purpose. For example: 3a - Cycle lanes (within the roadway/carriageway) / Fietsstrook. In this case the direction matters. Exact lane position is not so critical but can be tagged using the lanes tagging scheme if desired. * For beginners: cyclelane = forward cyclelane = backward cyclelane = both * For more detail (e.g.) cyclelane:forward = shared (to include the current sharrow value) cyclelane:forward = share_busway cyclelane:forward = advisory (term used in the UK; fietssuggestiestrook in Dutch) cyclelane:forward = mandatory (a UK term meaning that other vehicles are prohibited from using the lane) cyclelane:forward = yes 3b - Cycle tracks (alongside and separate from the roadway) / Fietspad. In this case it is the side of the road on which the track is that matters most. Direction can be added for countries that have one-way cycle tracks. * For beginners: cycletrack = left cycletrack = right cycletrack = both * For more detail (e.g.) Mainly for the Netherlands which can have one-way cycletracks (can also be foot=no if a pavement also exists, so this may need to be incorporated but is not essential) cycletrack:left = forward cycletrack:left = backward cycletrack:left = two-way note how this would be easy for renderers to draw and add direction arrows. 4. Discussion. I appreciate that this is a radical change from the current system. However as adoption of the current system is still _relatively_ low (in terms of renderers and routing software), IF we are to address this, then now is the best time. Regards, RobJN p.s. Personally I feel that cycle TRACKS would be much easier to map if drawn as a separate highway=cycleway (despite any challenges the renderers and routers currently have with this) - it just makes things a lot easier!! ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
