Re: [Talk-GB] FW: [carto-soc] Maps available (London WC2)

Hi, I'm nearby enough to pop-in. If someone tells me what I'm looking for and I have someone else to pass them on to because I wouldn't know what to do with them! Ciarán ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] GB Chapter

Hi, Might be cool to set up a Saturday mapping party and social combined somewhere easy to reach and needing some mapping between London and Birmingham. That's a great idea! Could you suggest a date? Date's are usually more of a problem for me than location. Cheers, Ciarán

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Kidderminster

Hi, I have to say I am really impressed with what you guys managed to do in such a short time. We indeed rock. Ciarán ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Promotional OSM Materials

Hi, I have just volunteered to run a stall at the Brixton Spacemakers event his weekend[1]. I could do with some stickers and nice leaflets to hand out. I know there are some materials on the website I can print off, but I was hoping that OSM-F had some resources they were willing to give me. If

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] WM Hack Day

Hi, There was talk on Saturday about a OSM hack day in Birmingham. Was there any preliminary dates for the event? I'm going to miss the London event, and have an idea I'd like to try out (making an OSM based A-Z). Ciarán ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Kidderminster/Bewdley Mapping Party (SatMap) on Saturday 17th April 2010

Hi, You'd be more than welcome! Having contributed is not a requirement to attend a mapping party. I was the same as you, just turned up to a weekend mapping event and got shown the ropes, and now I try and fit some in when I can. Ciarán ___

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

Hi, My questions is: If the map is printed on b/w will the rectification work when it's uploaded in walking-papers.org? Yes. The rectification/orientation stuff is done on shape rather than colour. Ciarán ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

Hi, Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walking Papers, but with the ability to carve an area up, and have multiple maps of it (zoomed out and zoomed in). Even better if what you produce from Merkaartor was compaitable with Walking Papers, or could implement the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

Hi, The way they encode the QR code is public insofar that the source code to walking papers is FOSS. That isn't the patented technology. The algorithmn that is able to calculated the orientation of the paper that is scanned and re-orientate it (I have never scanned in a piece of paper

Re: [OSM-talk] feasibility - different use of openstreetmap

Hi, If this in not the correct group for this, then what group would I ask this question? I realize the your system is about street and I want to misuse it for land areas, but it is such a nice system and looks like a great framework to start building what I need from. I'm afraid I don't

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

Hi, Also I've spoken to Draco in the past, and his website does not sync with OSM. He has tried to get help with a mass import but the discussion was rat-holed due to supposed problem deriving data from Royal Mails postbox list.

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

Hi, We seem unable to contact Liam123 via normal channels. This means we have to think of other ways of contacting members who continually put mistakes into the dataset. Is it not possible to put a flag on his account, so when he logs in he is told what he has been doing and asked to explain

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik rendering

Hi, I noticed the blisteringly fast rendering the other day, it had started rendering before I'd even finished my editing session. Means I will need to hone my JOSM skills so that I'm not the slowest part of the system! Thanks Sys Admin Ninja's, we love you all. :) Ciarán

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

Hi, Sorry, I should also have said ... there are two tags because someone cared enough about the difference to want to differentiate them. I'm surprised whoever that was hasn't spoken up. That may be me. :) I do see a clear distinction between a grave yard and cemetery. I care little how

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mapping the University of Birmingham

Hi, It is difficult, but possible. Both me and Christoph have tried to map bits of the campus. I found that I had to do it in a half traditional - half technical manner. The attached picture explains it better. Each X is a waypoint, taken a distance away from the building in an area you get

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

Hi, Seen this map before, very cool. Do you use the postcode=* or add:postcode=* to pull out the areas? Ciarán ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] A process for rethinking map features

Hi, I am a mapper who would be happy to have some kind of governance process to the dispute of tags or acceptance of them. As has been mentioned membership of OSMF and participation of SOTM should not be factors, however we are all quite technically literate so why note have IRC meetings every

Re: [OSM-talk] landuse for hotels

What landuse are we using for hotels? I'm pretty sure it should be commercial or retail. I'm going to go with commercial, they as retail suggests that they sell a physical product. Ciarán ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Reminder - Midlands social (and micro mapping) Thursday 2nd July

Sorry, Will be preoccupied with Europython. Have fun without me. Ciarán ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Reminder - Midlands social (and micro mapping) Thursday 2nd July

Sorry, Will be preoccupied with Europython. Have fun without me. Ciarán ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[OSM-talk] UKUUG - Summer 2009 - Birmingham

Hi, UKUUG are looking for a talk about OSM for their Summer 2009 conference in Birmingham, I was the go-to-guy, however I may not be the best person to present to the technical audience that are likely to attend. Is anyone else willing to do a talk. Andy and Shaun : As I didn't hear anything

[Talk-GB] UKUUG - Summer 2009 - Birmingham

Hi, UKUUG are looking for a talk about OSM for their Summer 2009 conference in Birmingham, I was the go-to-guy, however I may not be the best person to present to the technical audience that are likely to attend. Is anyone else willing to do a talk. Andy and Shaun : As I didn't hear anything

[OSM-talk] UKUUG : Suggestions

Hi, I've been asked to help coordinate an OpenStreetMap track at the UKUUG Summer conference (http://www.ukuug.org/events/summer2009/). UKUUG is (in my opinion) a hard core techie conference of sys-admins and computer scientists. The conference is being held in Birmingham, and I would have done

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging dangerous areas

There are many areas that nearly everyone agrees is unsafe, even the residents. But not all the residents would have the same opinion. But more importantly, there is a reasonable amount of subjective stuff in OSM already e.g. permissive footways across vacant land, residential vs.