Re: [Talk-GB] Gibraltar - Mapping Party?
Yes, I was questioning one of the authors (Goldman) rather than the guy who posted to the list (John Baker). Back to the mapping party itself, I might be interested but, due to work commitments, only if it was on certain dates: early in the new year (Jan 1st-6th); Easter or next summer. Nick -Rob Nickerson wrote: - To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org From: Rob Nickerson Date: 07/10/2012 11:18PM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Gibraltar - Mapping Party? I don't think anyone was questioning the authenticity of the claim (rather the motive of one of the authors given the padding he used around this claim). As Andy says, it is up to everyone to decide for themselves. Perhaps this could have been raised a little earlier so that people were aware and could make this decision, so thanks for brining it to the attention of the readers of this list. Can I suggest that this is not the place to make claims and counter-claims in relation to this topic. There are plenty of other websites that are probably better placed for this - lets stick to mapping here. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre
Scanning St Helens town centre this morning it seemed that a lot of ways making up the pedestrianised centre of town were missing. I thought this might be a "rendering engines not caught up with recent edits" phenomenon, but checking with JOSM just now I see that there are indeed no ways around an area centred roughly on (53.45, -2.74). A lot of individual nodes are there (pubs, bus-stops etc) are there but the ways have gone. Although I visit St Helens every few weeks or months this is not really my backyard, but I am pretty sure that these ways were pretty well mapped last time I looked. Cannot tell if this is somebody's mistake or vandalism, but can something be done to put back what has been taken away? Given that there is nothing there at all I cannot tell from JOSM history whether there was a particular chageset that caused the problem. Some of the surrounding ways that are present have a recent changeset made by "OSMF Redaction Account" - is that removal of ways that do not conform to the new licence by any chance? Bogus Zaba ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre
Hi, On 10/08/2012 12:41 PM, Bogus Zaba wrote: Cannot tell if this is somebody's mistake or vandalism, but can something be done to put back what has been taken away? Many ways in the town centre had to be removed in the license change: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=redactionbot&lat=53.44899&lon=-2.73245&zoom=15 It seems that at most of these have been contributed by user Salkunh who had not agreed to the new license when the redaction was executed. He seems to have agreed later, but the data cannot be automatically restored. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre
Frederik Ramm wrote: > It seems that at most of these have been contributed by user Salkunh > who had not agreed to "had declined" > the new license when the redaction was executed. He "She" > seems to have agreed later, but the data cannot be automatically > restored. I e-mailed Salkunh back in February with a nice friendly plea saying "St Helens and Widnes would look much poorer without your contributions". I'd even hoped that a plea coming from someone with a good St Helens surname would have been listened to (there's about four Fairhursts in the Oxford phone book, and about four pages of them in the St Helens one...). Ah well. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bomb-dropped-on-St-Helens-Town-Centre-tp5729428p5729456.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre
>(there's about four Fairhursts in the Oxford >phone book, and about four pages of them in the St Helens one...) As an aside I'm quite surprised at that, as almost all places ending in "hurst" in the UK are south of the M4 and east of two degrees west. Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre
Nick Whitelegg wrote: > As an aside I'm quite surprised at that, as almost all places ending > in "hurst" in the UK are south of the M4 and east of two degrees west. That sort of factoid is surely what OpenStreetMap was invented for. :) The origin of Fairhursts is quite starkly regional, though: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=fairhurst cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bomb-dropped-on-St-Helens-Town-Centre-tp5729428p5729469.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Garmin eTrex 30 - just reduced on amazon
Peter wrote: > Garmin suggested retail price £229.99 > Amazon had it at £178 until yesterday > > today.. > Garmin eTrex 30 Outdoor Handheld GPS Unit £157.49 Thanks Peter. I've been humming and hahing (however it is spelled) for ages about whether to get one or not. So I now have, via the Amazon link here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Merchandise#Amazon and added a bike mount to the order (self-justified by the price reduction, so effectively a freebie). Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre
Richard Another version (from CASA @UCL): http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=FAIRHURST&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name Cheers Steve -Original Message- From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] Sent: 08 October 2012 14:26 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre Nick Whitelegg wrote: > As an aside I'm quite surprised at that, as almost all places ending > in "hurst" in the UK are south of the M4 and east of two degrees west. That sort of factoid is surely what OpenStreetMap was invented for. :) The origin of Fairhursts is quite starkly regional, though: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=fairhurst cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bomb-dropped-on-St-Helens-Town-Centre-tp5729428p5729469.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb --- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Garmin eTrex 30 - just reduced on amazon
On Oct 8, 2012 3:15 PM, "Ed Loach" wrote: > > today.. > > Garmin eTrex 30 Outdoor Handheld GPS Unit £157.49 > > Thanks Peter. I've been humming and hahing (however it is spelled) > for ages about whether to get one or not. So I now have, via the > Amazon link here: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Merchandise#Amazon > and added a bike mount to the order (self-justified by the price > reduction, so effectively a freebie). I have owned a "20" for quite a while and subjectively the accuracy seems better than the hcx I had before. Not sure if that is due to the glonass support or just a more modern chipset. The interface hasn't improved much, if at all. I preferred the cycling of pages on the older models to the back button used on the new ones. My hcx bike mount had an irritating rattle which the new one doesn't have so I guess that is an improvement. Kevin ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre
Neat site but seems somewhat inaccurate for very low number surnames. Cheers Andy > -Original Message- > From: Steve Chilton [mailto:s.l.chil...@mdx.ac.uk] > Sent: 08 October 2012 15:40 > To: Richard Fairhurst; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre > > Richard > > Another version (from CASA @UCL): > http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=FAIRHURST&year=1998 > &altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name > > Cheers > Steve > > -Original Message- > From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] > Sent: 08 October 2012 14:26 > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre > > Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > As an aside I'm quite surprised at that, as almost all places ending > > in "hurst" in the UK are south of the M4 and east of two degrees west. > > That sort of factoid is surely what OpenStreetMap was invented for. :) > > The origin of Fairhursts is quite starkly regional, though: > http://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=fairhurst > > cheers > Richard > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bomb- > dropped-on-St-Helens-Town-Centre-tp5729428p5729469.html > Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > --- > > > Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all > correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All > incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital > document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. > > If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed > in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and > recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are > items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be > scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. > > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > - > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2677 / Virus Database: 2591/5816 - Release Date: 10/07/12 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
