Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge
On 23/05/15 16:36, David Earl wrote: As I said, I think the upward compatible change for this is to use a tag with the unique ID of whatever operator (and I think URL would be a good one, not as a link, but an ID, since two people can't have the same one, and all orgs we'd be interested in would have one). That way operator remains the human-friendly item it already is. While not popular, the addition of identifiers IS now gaining traction, especially where the underlying data relates to imports from other places. Personally I would see no conflict if contributions such as the the UofC material had it's own 'facilities' reference which then allows all of the estates management data to be linked to the map. The lookup that the reference accesses could be direct to the relevant collage and department on the UofC website, but additionally when logged in it would go to private data. OSM does not need to duplicate all of the publically available data, but an agreed standard for accessing secondary levels is still lacking? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Fire Hydrants in Derbsyshire
My request to Derbsyshire Fire Service for the location of fire hydrants in that country was refused; but after I contacted the Information Commissioner's Office, they did an about face, and the data may now be found in a spreadsheet, downloadable from: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/locations_of_fire_hydrants_2 Please feel free to cite that case, if you make a similar request to any other UK fire service. We now need to consider the best way to verify such information, and to get it into OSM. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 3:31 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: On 23/05/15 16:36, David Earl wrote: As I said, I think the upward compatible change for this is to use a tag with the unique ID of whatever operator While not popular, the addition of identifiers IS now gaining traction, especially where the underlying data relates to imports from other places. +1 I am in the camp that strongly supports retaining primary key references on the OSM side. It works great, and the occasional problem (for example manual edits deleting the ref) appear to be exactly that: occasional. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
