Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

2015-07-23 Thread Andy Townsend
On 23/07/2015 19:13, Lester Caine wrote: The random use of FARM for large areas is totally inappropriate, and personally I'd remove the bulk of those areas ... or cover the rest of the UK. Using 'farm' for the central farm area makes much more sense and is what is the normal standard south of

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for well mapped rural area and well mapped town/city

2015-07-20 Thread Andy Townsend
On 20/07/2015 11:04, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: I am looking for well mapped rural area. I located some places but all are either missing major features (like part of landuse) or quality of mapping (especially landuses) is poor. One place where rural landuse is mapped is here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for well mapped rural area and well mapped town/city

2015-07-20 Thread Andy Townsend
On 20/07/2015 11:04, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: I am looking for well mapped rural area. I located some places but all are either missing major features (like part of landuse) or quality of mapping (especially landuses) is poor. ... and one with both landuse and field boundaries just west of

Re: [Talk-GB] Little spate of vandalism/mistakes in SE London

2015-07-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/07/2015 09:37, Tom Chance wrote: Could someone contact / chase up these new users and remove their edits? Could be vandalism, or just people not realising what they're doing. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/panchal%20chetana/history

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 131, Issue 10

2015-07-11 Thread Andy Townsend
‎You may need to explain in a bit more detail what you're trying to do - what buttons you're pressing, what you'd expect to happen, and what actually does happen. it'd probably make more sense to ask a question at help.osm.org (you can use your normal osm.org login there) or on IRC - the main

Re: [OSM-talk] Students editing for assignments

2015-07-03 Thread Andy Townsend
On 03/07/2015 19:00, Michał Brzozowski wrote: I ask that we create some guidelines for that type of editing, as we're no sandbox [3]; [3] We should definitely make one, like one that Wikipedia has. Although it wasn't really designed for that, we have got

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

2015-05-03 Thread Andy Townsend
On 02/05/15 18:01, Colin Smale wrote: A bit of a meta-discussion I wonder why this topic is not going the same way as the debate on talk-gb last November-December in which it was proposed to tidy up and normalise various spelling variants? There was a lot of vehement opposition to any

Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD

2013-11-09 Thread Andy Townsend
On 09/11/13 11:58, Rob Nickerson wrote: As you have seen my responses at [1] and [2], it will come as no surprise that I oppose this move. I have set out my reasoning below: Hi Rob, hi Paul, I'll not venture into the how of this only the what... Let's think about it from the perspective

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