Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes
I've asked my contacts there to investigate. On 14 November 2011 15:20, Andy Robinson wrote: > I note that BCC have removed the gritting map link from their winter > maintenance page. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > From: Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] > Sent: 14 November 2011 11:53 > To: 'Brian Prangle'; 'Christoph Böhme' > Cc: 'talk-gb-westmidlands' > Subject: RE: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes > > > > Brian, > > > > Re Coventry, yes it would be nice to see some enthusiasm from there. Maybe > we should prod a few that are active currently? > > Re Dudley, I’ll see if I can get the contact details of the appropriate > person. > > Re Sandwell, I’m in contact. > > > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > > > From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > Sent: 14 November 2011 11:12 > To: Christoph Böhme > Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands > Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes > > > > Hi Christoph > > > > Thanks for this - We have Coventry data but can't get much enthusiasm from > the Coventry mappers to complete this. We're still to get Dudley - who wants > to approach them? Sandwell routes seem to appear at a different zoom level > to the rest? Do we just have to wait for the rendering engine to catch up? > Andy Mabbett - I think we just assume that everyone realises that the > motorways get gritted - if you start adding them where do you finish? the UK > motorway network is huge! Other major routes also gritted by the HA? Do you > want to volunteer? ;-). Andy R - I think your approach to Sandwell is the > the best- sit down around the map and correct it. Who's informing our > contact at Sandwell about progress? > > > > Regards > > > > Brian > > 2011/11/13 Christoph Böhme > > Hi all > > I've updated the gritting map [1]. The data was retrieved from the > overpass api and is hopefully up to date. The map now covers the area > between 2.275 and 1.378 west and 52.314 and 52.679 north. > > Let me know if there are areas which should have gritting routes but > don't appear on the map. I wasn't following the progress closely enough > to remember which councils made their data available already and what > has been added to the map yet. For instance, I thought the gritting > routes in Coventry were already in the database. > > Best > Christoph > > > [1] http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml > > Am 10.11.2011 12:36, schrieb Brian Prangle: > >> Hi everyone >> >> We're making great progress with over half the routes now completed. >> Christoph will be re-rendering the gritting map this weekend so it would >> be good to see if we could complete this at the same time. There are still >> two routes unallocated - so grit your teeth and choose one ;-) >> >> It's also a good opportunity to do some tidying up of the road alignments >> and anything else you see along the route >> >> Regards >> >> Brian >> >> >> >> > >> ___ >> Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list >> Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > > ___ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > > > > ___ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > > -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes
I note that BCC have removed the gritting map link from their winter maintenance page. Cheers Andy From: Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2011 11:53 To: 'Brian Prangle'; 'Christoph Böhme' Cc: 'talk-gb-westmidlands' Subject: RE: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes Brian, Re Coventry, yes it would be nice to see some enthusiasm from there. Maybe we should prod a few that are active currently? Re Dudley, Ill see if I can get the contact details of the appropriate person. Re Sandwell, Im in contact. Cheers Andy From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2011 11:12 To: Christoph Böhme Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes Hi Christoph Thanks for this - We have Coventry data but can't get much enthusiasm from the Coventry mappers to complete this. We're still to get Dudley - who wants to approach them? Sandwell routes seem to appear at a different zoom level to the rest? Do we just have to wait for the rendering engine to catch up? Andy Mabbett - I think we just assume that everyone realises that the motorways get gritted - if you start adding them where do you finish? the UK motorway network is huge! Other major routes also gritted by the HA? Do you want to volunteer? ;-). Andy R - I think your approach to Sandwell is the the best- sit down around the map and correct it. Who's informing our contact at Sandwell about progress? Regards Brian 2011/11/13 Christoph Böhme Hi all I've updated the gritting map [1]. The data was retrieved from the overpass api and is hopefully up to date. The map now covers the area between 2.275 and 1.378 west and 52.314 and 52.679 north. Let me know if there are areas which should have gritting routes but don't appear on the map. I wasn't following the progress closely enough to remember which councils made their data available already and what has been added to the map yet. For instance, I thought the gritting routes in Coventry were already in the database. Best Christoph [1] http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml Am 10.11.2011 12:36, schrieb Brian Prangle: > Hi everyone > > We're making great progress with over half the routes now completed. > Christoph will be re-rendering the gritting map this weekend so it would > be good to see if we could complete this at the same time. There are still > two routes unallocated - so grit your teeth and choose one ;-) > > It's also a good opportunity to do some tidying up of the road alignments > and anything else you see along the route > > Regards > > Brian > > > > > ___ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes
Brian, Re Coventry, yes it would be nice to see some enthusiasm from there. Maybe we should prod a few that are active currently? Re Dudley, Ill see if I can get the contact details of the appropriate person. Re Sandwell, Im in contact. Cheers Andy From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2011 11:12 To: Christoph Böhme Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes Hi Christoph Thanks for this - We have Coventry data but can't get much enthusiasm from the Coventry mappers to complete this. We're still to get Dudley - who wants to approach them? Sandwell routes seem to appear at a different zoom level to the rest? Do we just have to wait for the rendering engine to catch up? Andy Mabbett - I think we just assume that everyone realises that the motorways get gritted - if you start adding them where do you finish? the UK motorway network is huge! Other major routes also gritted by the HA? Do you want to volunteer? ;-). Andy R - I think your approach to Sandwell is the the best- sit down around the map and correct it. Who's informing our contact at Sandwell about progress? Regards Brian 2011/11/13 Christoph Böhme Hi all I've updated the gritting map [1]. The data was retrieved from the overpass api and is hopefully up to date. The map now covers the area between 2.275 and 1.378 west and 52.314 and 52.679 north. Let me know if there are areas which should have gritting routes but don't appear on the map. I wasn't following the progress closely enough to remember which councils made their data available already and what has been added to the map yet. For instance, I thought the gritting routes in Coventry were already in the database. Best Christoph [1] http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml Am 10.11.2011 12:36, schrieb Brian Prangle: > Hi everyone > > We're making great progress with over half the routes now completed. > Christoph will be re-rendering the gritting map this weekend so it would > be good to see if we could complete this at the same time. There are still > two routes unallocated - so grit your teeth and choose one ;-) > > It's also a good opportunity to do some tidying up of the road alignments > and anything else you see along the route > > Regards > > Brian > > > > > ___ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes
Hi Christoph Thanks for this - We have Coventry data but can't get much enthusiasm from the Coventry mappers to complete this. We're still to get Dudley - who wants to approach them? Sandwell routes seem to appear at a different zoom level to the rest? Do we just have to wait for the rendering engine to catch up? Andy Mabbett - I think we just assume that everyone realises that the motorways get gritted - if you start adding them where do you finish? the UK motorway network is huge! Other major routes also gritted by the HA? Do you want to volunteer? ;-). Andy R - I think your approach to Sandwell is the the best- sit down around the map and correct it. Who's informing our contact at Sandwell about progress? Regards Brian 2011/11/13 Christoph Böhme > Hi all > > I've updated the gritting map [1]. The data was retrieved from the > overpass api and is hopefully up to date. The map now covers the area > between 2.275 and 1.378 west and 52.314 and 52.679 north. > > Let me know if there are areas which should have gritting routes but > don't appear on the map. I wasn't following the progress closely enough > to remember which councils made their data available already and what > has been added to the map yet. For instance, I thought the gritting > routes in Coventry were already in the database. > > Best > Christoph > > > [1] http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml > > Am 10.11.2011 12:36, schrieb Brian Prangle: > > Hi everyone > > > > We're making great progress with over half the routes now completed. > > Christoph will be re-rendering the gritting map this weekend so it would > > be good to see if we could complete this at the same time. There are > still > > two routes unallocated - so grit your teeth and choose one ;-) > > > > It's also a good opportunity to do some tidying up of the road alignments > > and anything else you see along the route > > > > Regards > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > > ___ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting routes
Understood; but my concern is that if they're not shown as gritted, and, say, someone writes an app to do route planning via gritted roads, they'll be missed. On 14 November 2011 06:47, Mary Mooney wrote: > Hi Andy M > > Motorways are the responsibility of the Highways Agency, not the local > authority. Probably don't need to grit M5, M6 etc because the average top > speed is zero mph (tongue in cheek). > > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 13 Nov 2011, at 23:29, Andy Mabbett wrote: > >> 2011/11/13 Christoph Böhme : >>> Hi all >>> >>> I've updated the gritting map [1]. >> >>> [1] http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml >> >> Nice job; thank you. >> >> All: Shouldn't motorways be tagged as being gritted? >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> ___ >> Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list >> Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
