Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire
It's interesting to compare their approach with that of the capital of what used to be one of the most closed countries: the Municipality of Tirana (Albania) is now putting (some of) its data online voluntarily, in co-operation with the local hackerspace. http://opendata.tirana.al/ They haven't seen the need to provide an English translation of the pages, but many of the subject area titles are guessable without knowledge of Albanian, and Google Translate knows Albanian. I've been working with the Tirana hackerspace in mapping parts of the country, and when I commented it would be nice to get plans of the underground Cold War bunker complex that now houses the exhibition "Bunkart", one phone call was enough to arrange access to the data (not yet processed, though). On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Dave F wrote: > Great Scott! Like wading through treacle. I admire your perseverance. > > Did you ever get a reason as to why they were being so restrictive? Empire > building? 'Knowledge is power?' > > After seeing the long list of other local authorities who had released > their data you'd have thought they would realise they were being a bit > siliy. > > Not only time, but /so/ much money wasted. > > Dave F. > > > On 11/05/2017 00:20, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > >> After a rather long battle... >> > > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire
On 11 May 2017 at 20:24, John Aldridge wrote: > One bit of feedback, from a first try at doing this for real: footpaths > often cross parish boundaries, and at least in this area change their > reference when they do so. But your slippy map only displays geometry for a > single parish at a time, meaning that tracking the prow_ref value for the > full length of a single path can take a lot of navigation within your tool. > > Would it be hard to display geometry for all ROWs overlapping the current > slippy map extent, whichever parish they are from? Yes, it can be a bit annoying to move from one parish to the next. The way I've got things set up at the moment (the Rights of Way for each parish is in a different file) it would be difficult to display rights of way over a wider area as you suggest. I see your point, although I'm not sure adding more would actually make things any easier, as you'd then be less likely to notice changes in RoW number across parish boundaries as the change-points don't always correspond to the modern boundaries. What I tend to do when I'm working with the tool is to do one parish at a time and just split the ways at the boundary and tag the half that's in the parish I'm working on. Then I will do the other half at some later stage, when I get round to doing the other parish. Not necessarily ideal, but it works reasonably well for me. I presume you've found that clicking on the slippy map in a neighbouring parish (within the same district) will bring up a popup with a link to that parish's page? This doesn't work across district and county boundaries, but is helpful for moving around the rest of the time. Robert. PS: Data for Hertfordshire is now available if anyone is interested: http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/progress/herts/ -- Robert Whittaker ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #357 2017-05-16-2017-05-22
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 357, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/9104/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages where?: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/weeklyosm-is-currently-produced-in_56718#2/8.6/108.3 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
