Re: [Talk-GB] User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction "
Hi all, Just had the same thing happen near me (Croydon) but by a different user (Zain Ahmad Hashmi, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34443141). The only thing that occurred to me is that all the edits involved ways passing over or under railway lines... although like Dave F I can't see what the actual improvement is. Both "dataOne" and "Zain Ahmad Hashmi" joined Sep 15th, 2015, and seem to have done nothing other than a large number of similar edits. Either they're the same person/bot, or there's some source somewhere that is encouraging such edits for whatever reason. Thanks, David. (user Pgd81) On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:56 PM, David Woolleywrote: > On 02/10/15 20:26, Philip Barnes wrote: >> >> On Fri Oct 2 14:47:05 2015 GMT+0100, Dave F. wrote: >>> >>> >>> A new editor has started splitting roads in my locale, but from what I >>> can see making no tagging amendments. Am I missing something? If not I'd >>> like to halt him before there's too much damage. >>> >>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dataOne/history#map=11/51.2981/-1.9753 >>> >>> I've sent a message asking for clarification. >>> >> I can see nothing othet than the splits, don't think you have missed >> anything. >> > > Even if this is a botched attempt at legitimate changes, the scale of the > process makes it look like an un-sourced bulk import, possibly from an > ineligible source. > > > > ___ > 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] Vanguard Way - Anyone from the Kent / Sussex border?
There appears to be a user named VanguardWay ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/VanguardWay/edits) who has been systematically adding Vanguard Way to all ways along the route, all in mid-September of this year. To their credit, I suppose, they've added it as an extra name with a forward slash rather than replacing any existing names, but clearly the relation is both more correct and far older. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Andy Street m...@andystreet.me.uk wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:27:31 + Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Although, granted, it's probably recorded incorrectly... Yup, the fact that most/all of the ways have also been tagged with the website for the Vanguard Way is a fairly strong indicator the editor in question hasn't understood how relations work. -- Regards, Andy Street ___ 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] Vanguard Way - Anyone from the Kent / Sussex border?
(P.S. and as a local, I can confirm that no ways are actually named Vanguard Way on the ground, at least not in the Croydon area) On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:27 AM, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote: There appears to be a user named VanguardWay ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/VanguardWay/edits) who has been systematically adding Vanguard Way to all ways along the route, all in mid-September of this year. To their credit, I suppose, they've added it as an extra name with a forward slash rather than replacing any existing names, but clearly the relation is both more correct and far older. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Andy Street m...@andystreet.me.ukwrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:27:31 + Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Although, granted, it's probably recorded incorrectly... Yup, the fact that most/all of the ways have also been tagged with the website for the Vanguard Way is a fairly strong indicator the editor in question hasn't understood how relations work. -- Regards, Andy Street ___ 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] walls versus landuse=field
Hi all, This feels like an appropriate thread to butt into and ask: is there an accepted tag for grassy chalk downland, as found in southern England? Would natural=fell be appropriate here too, or is that for proper mountainous territory? If not, would something like natural=grassland, grassland=downland be appropriate? (again, like Henry Gomersall, I'm thinking about areas of open land that may be grazed but aren't really meadows to my mind.) Thanks, David. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 13:48 +0100, Henry Gomersall wrote: Yeah, I had a look, but I can't see anything about mountainous pasture land. The issue is land that is very clearly strongly influenced by the presence of animals, but isn't farmland as such. meadow is probably acceptable, but doesn't seem _quite_ right. oh, natural=fell seems to do the job :) Cheers! Henry ___ 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] Trunk vs green-sign routes in the UK
Hi, This is kind of a tagging question, but is UK-specific and pretty straightforward so I thought I'd post it here -- apologies happy to re-post if felt inappropriate. I've noticed a couple of roads in the UK being downgraded in OSM from trunk to primary on the basis that they are not trunk in the County Council / DfT maintenance sense. They are, however, green-sign primary routes and are clearly of greater importance than your average white-sign route. The ones I've noticed are the A354 (Salisbury-Blandford) and A22 (Greater London boundary to E Grinstead). Strictly speaking these changes are correct, as trunk in the UK implies being run by the DfT rather than local councils (N.B. a large number of former trunk routes have been devolved in the past 10 or 20 years). But the OSM Wiki says to use the trunk tag for primary A road (green signs), and this would certainly make more sense from the road-user perspective. Is there a consensus on this? If not, might it be a good idea to introduce a new tag signifying a UK green-sign route, and for these to be rendered as such in Mapnik (i.e. in green, the same as trunk routes)? Thanks, David. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Trunk vs green-sign routes in the UK
Ok. So I guess I should message users Trubshaw (re A354) and UltimateKoopa (re A22), then. Thanks guys. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 22/04/13 14:44, David Fisher wrote: I've noticed a couple of roads in the UK being downgraded in OSM from trunk to primary on the basis that they are not trunk in the County Council / DfT maintenance sense. They are, however, green-sign primary routes and are clearly of greater importance than your average white-sign route. The ones I've noticed are the A354 (Salisbury-Blandford) and A22 (Greater London boundary to E Grinstead). Strictly speaking these changes are correct, as trunk in the UK implies being run by the DfT rather than local councils (N.B. a large number of former trunk routes have been devolved in the past 10 or 20 years). But the OSM Wiki says to use the trunk tag for primary A road (green signs), and this would certainly make more sense from the road-user perspective. Is there a consensus on this? If not, might it be a good idea to introduce a new tag signifying a UK green-sign route, and for these to be rendered as such in Mapnik (i.e. in green, the same as trunk routes)? Yes, there has been a consensus for at least the last six and a bit years now that trunk in the OSM sense means green signed primary A road and primary means white signed secondary A road. Which is why the wiki says what it does. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign
Hi Shaun, I take it you're referring to Ipswich? In which case, I can sort of see the logic. It's not one-way, it's no entry, so when the excepting conditions are satisfied it becomes two-way. In Croydon's case there's that no motor vehicles sign at one end, with a no entry sign at the other with no excepting conditions -- so presumably the intention is for the street to be one-way even for cyclists. (which is odd, given that there's nowhere else obvious to go coming southbound on a cycle.) I'm now in contact with the local cycling advocacy group, so will see if I can get a (more) official position on Croydon in the same way as you have for Ipswich. Thanks, David. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.ukwrote: On 31 Oct 2012, at 16:02, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 31/10/2012 15:29, Andy Robinson wrote: Shaun McDonald [mailto:sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk] wrote: Sent: 31 October 2012 15:21 To: Matt Williams Cc: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign On 31 Oct 2012, at 14:49, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: On 31 October 2012 14:37, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The pedestrianised main shopping street in Croydon has a sign with the following wording: Pedestrian Zone. No vehicles except cycles and for loading 6pm-10am. How would you interpret that? I see at least 3 possibilities: (a) Cycles permitted at any time; loading only permitted 6pm-10am (this is what I guess is the correct one) (b) Cycles and loading only permitted 6pm-10am (this would also make sense; i.e. cycling only outside shopping hours) (c) Restrictions apply 6pm-10am (clearly ludicrous!) (d) Something else? I'm guessing it's meant to be (a), but just thought I'd canvas opinion before tagging. I think I agree with (a). I would find it a little strange to disallow cycling just during the day (why not just ban it entirely?). The centre pedestrianised bit of Ipswich has cycling banned from 10:30am - 4:30pm. It does get pretty busy during that time. http://goo.gl/maps/ouha1 I'm not sure that's correct? Is it not just banning cyclists from cycling against the traffic flow during this period? The sign at the other end suggests its open to cyclists at all times in the direction of normal flow. (from your corrected link http://goo.gl/maps/SM2y9 ) The key thing here is the sign it is underneath. The reference to cyclists in the text is superfluous (and presumably not authorised by the DfT) because the 'low flying motorbike' sign means no MOTOR vehicles, and a bike isn't a motor vehicle. That's not just pedantry: there is a separate sign for banning ALL vehicles, a simple red roundel with nothing inside it. There is no restriction on bikes at any time according to that sign. Their traffic engineer needs sending back to sign school. So some more info on this situation. The intention was to allow cycling in both directions between the hours of 4:30pm and 10:30 am. With vehicles for loading and service access in one direction only during those hours. However it's more recently turned out that it's not possible to legally sign a road like that. Unfortunately there are a few cyclists who are spoiling it for everyone else, by cycling dangerously during the busy period, thus the probable plan is to not allow cycling all the time in terms of signage. (The police are happy to allow sensible cycling even if not allowed). Shaun ___ 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
Re: [Talk-GB] Using UK postcode data to generate a heat map
Hi all, Thanks for all your help with this. Thought I should update. After getting confirmation of the validity of using the data, my friend and his colleagues successfully merged their postcode list with the CodePoint Open dataset and sent me the results. I then converted the eastings/northings to lats/longs using a Python routine I found on the web [1] (having first tested it out in QGIS using random postcodes from CodePoint Open, of course!) and sent it back to my friend who loaded the data into OpenHeatMap. His boss was happy and my friend bought me a couple of pints, so all is well. A few things to throw out there: -- I'm now properly in awe of proper GIS users. I had no idea that coordinate systems were so numerous and so complicated. For example, OS themselves provide a stand-alone batch coordinate converter [2], and I first tried using that to do the job, but found that the results didn't match when loaded into QGIS. So I searched again and found the Python routine [2] which *did* match. Evidently I wasn't using the OS software correctly, but no idea why. -- OpenHeatMap doesn't do true heat maps (or not that I could see anyway). Its main use seems to be things like house-price variation, where you have a *value* associated with each datapoint, rather than being interested in the *density* of datapoints. However, you can colour the points so that their overlap creates the illusion of a heatmap, which is still pretty useful for amateur use such as this. I tried following the QGIS tutorial kindly linked to by Steven Horner [3] but although each individual step seemed to work, I couldn't get the same end results. -- On a different but tangentially-related note, I had a look at the OS contour data the other day, just for kicks. It's in a format that, whilst open-able by QGIS, bears no relation to any other data I have (e.g. BoundaryLine shapefiles). It uses a different co-ordinate system, and Googling the relevant terminology lead me to a series of articles that each left me more baffled than before. Again: tricky stuff, this GIS lark. Maybe I should stick to GPS uploads, POIs and Bing tracing ;-) Again, thanks all. David. [1] http://hannahfry.co.uk/2012/02/01/converting-british-national-grid-to-latitude-and-longitude-ii/ [2] http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/support/os-net/grid-inquest.html [3] http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2012/07/tutorial-making-heatmaps-using-qgis-and.html ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] New user reinstating old railways in Norfolk
He's responded positively to comments in his latest diary entry, and has asked for help with JOSM. Hopefully this can now be resolved! Only trouble is, I fear what he wants to do is quite complex and he might struggle and get annoyed again :-s On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: However, I think it's now clear that the whole of both changesets [3,4] need to be reverted. Presumably, this should be done as quickly as possible to avoid the risk of subsequent edits complicating things. I don't have any recent experience of doing reverts, so is there anyone reading this who would be able to do them instead? Done. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/15078224 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/15078231 cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/New-user-reinstating-old-railways-in-Norfolk-tp5749762p5749768.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 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Using UK postcode data to generate a heat map
Hi all, A friend has come to me with an interesting-sounding request, and I just wondered how feasible it might be. He has a database of UK postcodes and some measurement or other (not sure what yet) and would like to create a heat map. Neither of us are techies, but I've been contributing to OSM for a year now and am familiar with JOSM and (to a lesser extent) QGIS. How difficult a project is likely to be? (bearing in mind I'd be doing it in my spare time as a favour and for my personal interest) I assume you'd first have to convert the postcodes to lat/lon? Then I'd need a rendering tool for the heat colours, and then a simple base map on which to overlay it (just thinking out loud now). It sounds like the sort of thing it'd be useful to have a tutorial for. If one exists, great! If not, and if I'm successful, I might have a go at writing one. Thanks in advance, David. (user Pgd81) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign
Hi all, The pedestrianised main shopping street in Croydon has a sign with the following wording: Pedestrian Zone. No vehicles except cycles and for loading 6pm-10am. How would you interpret that? I see at least 3 possibilities: (a) Cycles permitted at any time; loading only permitted 6pm-10am (this is what I guess is the correct one) (b) Cycles and loading only permitted 6pm-10am (this would also make sense; i.e. cycling only outside shopping hours) (c) Restrictions apply 6pm-10am (clearly ludicrous!) (d) Something else? I'm guessing it's meant to be (a), but just thought I'd canvas opinion before tagging. Thanks, David. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fmwrote: I think most of the postal_code tags on postboxes are just based on the ref. eg if the ref on the box is SE25 29, it is assumed the postbox is in the SE25 postcode, so it is tagged as postal_code=SE25. Craig Yes, that's what I think's happened. People are recording the ref (e.g. SE25 29) but are also tagged additionally as e.g. postal_code=SE25. On 11/09/2012 10:47, Matt Williams wrote: I would be surprised if post boxes being labelled with postal codes were affecting which suburb a certain street is associated with in Nominatim. Sorry, I was unclear. I don't think this is what's happening; rather, Nominatim is getting Thornton Heath (incorrectly) from somewhere, and also, separately, SE25 (incorrectly) from somewhere else. They're different instances of the same process. RE your point about postcodes simply being lists of addresses: you're quite right, of course. People tend to place great importance on living within a certain postcode, and thus we tend to think of them as defining areas, but they don't really. I'm happy not to pursue this. But this implies that postal_code=SE25 on a postbox is incorrect -- would you agree that this is the case, and would you support the removal of such tags? @Steve Doerr: Good suggestions -- I have access to both political ward boundaries and (indirectly) to postcode boundaries. However, neither quite does the job for me. It's all interesting data though, of course -- and it does provide examples of what different people/organisations think a certain placename refers to. @Tom Chance: Interesting. In Southwark, wards are tagged as boundary=administrative rather than boundary=political -- presumably this is why Nominatim picks them up? More generally, I'm glad a long-time contributor/developer like yourself has given this some thought and struggled. You ask could you decide where Croydon ends and Thornton Heath begins? -- well, I could give it a good try... but then what about other, smaller, suburbs/neighbourhoods like Waddon, Selhurst, Addiscombe -- are they part of Croydon/Thornton Heath or adjacent to it? (PS Yes, I'd seen the Dalston page before, and love it :) ) Would you support mappers just giving it a go, based on a mixture of postcodes/addresses/wards and local knowledge? Thanks all, some great responses; always a pleasure. David. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Natural England data
Andy: Thanks for the confirmation. For the data that might not be compliant, I take it OGL is the terminology I'd look for as a check? RE Bulk imports: most certainly not!! Tom: There is a long, long list of England-wide shapefiles, each downloadable with a couple of clicks from http://www.gis.naturalengland.org.uk/pubs/gis/GIS_register.asp;. So far I've downloaded Local Nature Reserve and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England-wide), opened them in Quantum GIS, and identified the selections in my local area (of many thousands in total) that I'd use for boundary fixing etc. These are the ones that are of particular interest to me, but I'd be happy to help more generally. However, I'm pretty new to all this -- it'd be good if someone more experienced could take a look and judge what the best approach might be, e.g. a smaller list of shapefiles of particular usefulness to the OSM project. Thanks again. David On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: Perhaps, David, you could upload the shapefiles somewhere so we could stick them into Potlatch 2 for tracing purposes, with a wiki page to track progress? I'd be very interested in having a look at it. Tom On 18 July 2012 20:53, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: On the whole yes as its OGL its fine for OSM. However remember to tag with the appropriate source/attribution. A word of warning though that some of the data may not be fully compliant yet so check the licence details for each data type before you use. ** ** Also PLEASE DO _*NOT*_ DO ANY BULK IMPORTS! ** ** So far I’ve used it to fix the Peak District boundary but nothing else. I think Ed Loach has used it a bit too. ** ** Cheers Andy ** ** *From:* David Fisher [mailto:djfishe...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 18 July 2012 20:18 *To:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Natural England data ** ** Hi all, I've recently come across the Natural England site, which has shapefiles for download of various category of open space (local/national nature reserve, SSSI, etc). The website states From 1 April 2012 Natural England is making its publicly available Geographic Information datasets available for commercial and non-commercial reuse under the Open Government Licence. We are now able to use this licence, as we have secured copyright exemptions from Ordnance Survey under the Public Sector Mapping Agreement. ( http://www.gis.naturalengland.org.uk/pubs/gis/gis_register.asp) Does this allow the data to be used by OSM? Thanks, David Fisher. ___ 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
Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine
Hi all, I was just wondering whether, beyond the obvious use of having accurate boundary data in OSM, the Boundary Line data could also be used to align aerial imagery, particularly at the closest zoom levels? For instance, I map in South London, close to multiple borough boundaries. As a test, I downloaded the (more accurate) 2010 data last night and opened it in JOSM as a layer along with downloaded OSM data and Bing imagery. In certain places the Bing imagery shows obvious geometric shapes such as building outlines or fences/hedges, which it could reasonably assumed that the boundary would follow (and of course the more you look along the boundary line, the more features you can use to make the fit). It seems to me to be a valid useful approach, but I just wondered what others thought? Thanks, David. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 30/05/2012 16:11, Jason Cunningham wrote: This suggests the original Boundary Line data is superior, but would need to be compared to 2012 releases to check boundaries have not moved. Does anyone have the original Boundary Line release? and would they be able to make them available? The previous releases of Boundary Line data are available here: http://parlvid.mysociety.org:**81/os/http://parlvid.mysociety.org:81/os/ http://os.openstreetmap.org/**data/ http://os.openstreetmap.org/data/ __**_ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-gbhttp://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb