Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Cambridgeshire Guided Bus
There are signs for the destinations, and distances. I honestly can't recall if there were bike symbols on them - there may well have been. I clearly remember that the sign had a picture of a walker, a cyclist and a horse rider on it when I was at the Swavesey station. However when I went back to photograph the signs, they were covered up again - possibly as a result of an email conversation I had with the guy from the council concerning its status. Donald ___ Talk-gb-midanglia mailing list Talk-gb-midanglia@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-midanglia
Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage
The area figures are obviously including the wet bits. Bristol is half water: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7019663.stm This article mentions Denny Island - which was absent from OSM. I've now added it from the NPE map, although I don't know whether its location has changed with the movement of the sands/mud. Does anyone have a more up to date source for its outline? Donald ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Roundabout, ways and relationship policies
I'm just trying to think what makes a roundabout a roundabout instead of just a one-way system. So far I've come up with: 1. It is one way in the appropriate direction (clockwise in the UK) 2. All the roads leave/join the outside of the loop (*) 3. It generally isn't very built-up in the middle (**) 4. It has a reasonably circular shape (***) 5. It is signposted as such Of course, there are sadly lots of exceptions... * Increasingly there are roundabouts with roads running through the middle: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.936219lon=-1.24996zoom=18layers=B000FTF The road through the middle is generally one-way though, and usually just one road. ** http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.910579lon=-1.400756zoom=18layers=B000FTF (The Charlot Place roundabout in Southampton now has the reasonably tall Jury's Inn hotel in the middle of it - I'm sure people can think of many others) *** Can't think of any oddly shaped roundabouts off the top of my head, but I'm pretty certain that there are plenty. :) How about this one: http://osm.org/go/0EFYMXaIH-- which fulfills all of the above 5 criteria, but just has a 'short-cut' across one side. In this case, each 'junction' on the roundabout is controlled by traffic lights and has between 2 and 5 lanes. I have to navigate it frequently and I can't say it's one of my favourite ones! Donald ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Roundabout, ways and relationship policies
How about this one: http://osm.org/go/0EFYMXaIH-- which fulfills all of the above 5 criteria, but just has a 'short-cut' across one side. In this case, each 'junction' on the roundabout is controlled by traffic lights and has between 2 and 5 lanes. I have to navigate it frequently and I can't say it's one of my favourite ones! These aren't too dissimilar. Although I'm curious how your example works - it looks like the short cut is only of use for people who have come off the southbound carrigeway of the motorway and want to get back on the southbound carriageway - why wouldn't they just go along the motorway instead of taking the junction? (I presume I'm missing something important about who can use the shortcut lane :) You can use it if you come off the southbound carriageway and want to go west (or into the services), or if you approach from the west (or from the services) wanting to go South. In both cases you could also take the outer loop, although I think the signposts discourage it. I think I'm correct in saying that the shortcut was the original part of the roundabout, and the extra extension was built at a later stage to accommodate increased traffic as a result of Stansted airport just to the east. Donald ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc
if a bot can do it then there's no reason the data consumers can't do it too without the bot. If you don't have a good reason to change something just leave it be. Or alternatively, why not just run the bot on the copy of the data at the input to the renderer*, rather than on the database itself? The effect for the rendered map is the same. * By renderer, I mean any consumer of the data (such as a routing algorithm) rather than just something that produces a visual representation of the data. Donald ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Free National Grid Vector Layers for gas and electricity?
Also, I suspect that selling maps is a nice little earner for people such as the land registry, so licensing them all as CC-BY-SA isn't in their interest (as much as it may be in the tax payer's interest). And that, I believe, is the crux of the problem. The people who get to decide have a vested interest, which definitely isn't aligned with the interests of those who pay. Donald ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Fix My Street
Just thought I'd mention a very useful UK based website. FixMyStreet.com is a project run by the MySociety people. I mention it because we are the one riding around all the time, and we will be bound to notice mistakes like incorrect street names etc, or even the less mundane pot holes. To report a problem just type in the postcode or street name /area, locate on a (OS) map, and describe the problem. FixMyStreet then submit the report to the local council to be fixed. Ciarán There is also fillthathole.org.uk, a site run by the CTC (Cyclist's Touring Club) aimed at defects in the road that present a hazard to cyclists. Very much the same idea but with a specific focus on issues that affect cyclists. Donald ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
