Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Christopher Baines
On 15/08/15 16:14, Lester Caine wrote: Not getting much help on the GB list so I thought I'd widen the question. A couple of years back I had my own server setup working with a base of OSRM and routing covering the UK. While the map server is still working, routing has packed up and some of

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Christopher Baines
On 16/08/15 12:52, Lester Caine wrote: On 16/08/15 12:16, Christopher Baines wrote: The obvious question is that given tilemill is not longer being maintained, what are the preferred alternatives? I'm actually not happy with the way OSRM has moved and there does not seem to be a 'standard

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

2015-05-22 Thread Christopher Baines
On 21/05/15 22:39, Dan S wrote: I don't relish bringing this up since it's a bit of a tangle, but I noticed Cambridge has a lot more universities than I thought! Apparently 1219, judging from the number of amenity=university tagged objects. In real life I'm aware of two: Cambridge Uni, Anglia

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Indoor walkways

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Baines
On 05/04/14 00:48, Christopher Baines wrote: Out (step two) can be done in a number of ways. The library that I have been working on for doing map stuff around the University of Southampton has a isolated internal indoor maps component, I plan to strip this out and make it available

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Indoor walkways

2014-04-04 Thread Christopher Baines
On 04/04/14 19:40, Dudley Ibbett wrote: I visited the NEC this week and tried using Osmand to navigate between Birmingham International Railway Station and the Hilton Hotel. Whilst the map was very helpful and has lots of detail, the suggested route took you via roads. How might you map

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Indoor walkways

2014-04-04 Thread Christopher Baines
On 04/04/14 23:21, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 4 April 2014 20:55, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: The really hard problems are related to how to map multiple levels with our current tools, but this doesn't usually impinge on the basic walkway, although places like the Barbican already show the

Re: [Talk-GB] W3C Invitation

2014-03-05 Thread Christopher Baines
On 04/03/14 14:00, Dan S wrote: It appears someone at Southampton University has been attaching URIs to buildings/rooms etc, and separately (?) some bus-stops have data.gov.uk URIs - if you can find those people and whether they've written anything about their use-case that would be a nice

[Talk-GB] Surveying Private Roads

2013-06-01 Thread Christopher Baines
I would like to survey the house numbers for some private roads in Southampton, currently I have avoided the area as I am uncertain about the access restrictions. Does anyone have any generally applicable advice about this situation? The roads in question are here:

Re: [Talk-GB] Another rendering problem in Cornwall/Devon

2013-04-27 Thread Christopher Baines
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 19:57 +0100, ael wrote: I have just noticed another (mapnik?) rendering problem on the boundary between Cornwall and Devon. In fact it may be the boundary itself that is the problem: admin_level = 6 boundary = administrative left:county = Devon name =

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering of a reservoir/lake in Cornwall.

2013-04-21 Thread Christopher Baines
On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 12:20 +0100, ael wrote: Hello, I noticed that Siblyback Lake: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.5077lon=-4.49397zoom=15layers=M is not rendering properly (in Mapnik, at least). I emailed the last user to modify the area, and he said that he had tried to fix it

Re: [Talk-GB] FixMyPaths - Hampshire rights of way problem reporting app - now available for testing

2012-11-30 Thread Christopher Baines
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 00:11 +, Nick Whitelegg wrote: So if anyone is interested in testing it this weekend or next and is in or near Hampshire, please download! The app initially downloads a large (8-9MB) map file (it uses the client-side Mapsforge library) so you'll probably need to have