this not be
expanded to suit?
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Overpass was (eventually) the way to go. Downloaded a couple of areas
looking good on the GPSr.
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I'm trying to download OSM/XML data to upload to my Garmin GPSr. Since
teddynetz stopped updating I've tried using Geofabrik. Unfortunately it
doesn't seem to store a file for Bristol/Bath area. Anybody know where
it's stored or failing that recommend an alternative?
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On 18/10/2012 22:10, Dave F. wrote:
It appears not to like the negative values. Any solutions?
Doh! I typed the lat/lon incorrectly works OK now.
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On 16/10/2012 14:31, Brian Prangle wrote:
Banning him will result in him popping up with another name which
will make him difficult to track.
I'm no expert, but can he be tracked by his IP address no matter what
account (assuming he's using the same computer?)
Dave F
but the time it saves for each edit it's used in is huge.
The solution should have been to add the missing features into P2 before
removing the item. Probably too busy having a focus group meeting to
discuss yet another colour scheme change.
Dave F
them if they were made with an older, more inaccurate GPSr.
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On 15/10/2012 15:52, Richard Weait wrote:
I'd love to make printed collector sets...
Wouldn't it be better if you spent your time mapping?
There seems to be a hell of a lot of ancillary stuff going on around
OSM. Maybe a 'Back to Basics' push might not go amiss.
Dave F
Hi
I noticed that the edit in Potlatch 1 option has been removed from the
Edit pull-down. The only reason I used this is to revert complete ways
back to a previous state. Has this been added to P2? Couldn't see
anything in the Help/Primer pages.
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such as
this only when I have been to an area actually seen it, which renders
most of the DfT info worthless.
I've even seen data for NCN 4 that's illegal where it suggests a right
hand turn but is explicitly denied by signs.
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On 03/10/2012 21:17, Ilya Zverev wrote:
Since today, after a discussion on #osm, only these potlatch edits
that modify or delete relations are marked as needing attention.
Great.
Not sure how you have conversations on #osm when it's interspersed with
American college girls telling us about
.
This looks like a great resource I'm using it regularly but I'm not
sure edits done in Potlatch should automatically be considered
suspicious, and classifying an edit 'red' because six nodes one way
were removed when 134/3 were added seems a bit harsh.
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other editors are any better.
The determining factor for the accuracy of all the data is the person
doing the editing - Garbage in, garbage out.
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On 29/09/2012 09:24, Ilya Zverev wrote:
Hi!
For a long time now, there has been no tool to properly monitor an area.
Is the RSS feed working? When I paste the feed url into the location bar
(Firefox 15) it just reverts back to the previous page.
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of
the RSS feed listings?
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On 28/09/2012 16:15, Stephan Knauss wrote:
Google image search found this picture for sale on this stock photo
agency:
Bleedin' hell! Look at those prices! That has got to be a joke.
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on the Nominatim site.
Incidentally search for the PM's office (SW1A 2AA) doesn't find any
addresses.
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Hi
FYI a 6 digit code with no space gives a 'TypeError at
/landregistry/search/ 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable' error.
If I search my code (with a space) it finds it, but if I search by
street name it only finds ones State side. Is this a nominatim problem?
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On 07/09/2012 21:03, Philip Barnes wrote:
The result being routing through the
tunnel no longer works.
Which routing would this be? The word Ferry, AFAIK relates solely to
water transportation. As it's a rail link I expect a rail route to work.
Car routes should be programmed to work with
To reinforce my argument:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:route=ferry?uselang=en
A rail ferry is where a train is loaded on board a ship transported
across water. Not sure where these still exist. I'm sure someone more
knowledgeable will post an example.
On 22/08/2012 01:06, SomeoneElse wrote:
Well, there's this one that ITO have made:
http://www.itoworld.com/map/87#fullscreen
Is there description of the rules ITO is using?
It doesn't recognise highway=bridleway as a single tag which I thought
was valid.
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Hi
is there an out of copyright source for the two different types of
byway: restricted_byway byway_open_to_all_traffic?
If not, as many are signed on the ground as just 'byway', I'm not sure
highway=byway should be deprecated. How are users distinguishing what
type they are?
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increase in supposed experienced mappers failing to
understand even the most basic of tagging rules, I fear you all have an
uphill struggle in getting them to understand operators, bur I wish you
luck.
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erroneous data.
Thanks
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On 13/07/2012 13:37, ASnail Snail wrote:
Hi
I've read some of the comments on this thread and done a bit of
comparing reality with the Sustrans routes on Google and whats in OSM.
Where I work in Bristol, there are quite a lot of cycle lanes
not referenced
On 23/07/2012 13:00, SomeoneElse wrote:
On 23/07/2012 11:47, Dave F. wrote:
NCN 4 data is already stored within the relation
And (for the benefit of the tiny minority who may be unaware) is
displayed nicely here:
http://cycling.lonvia.de/en/?zoom=14lat=51.45923lon=-2.60028
Nice. Does
On 21/07/2012 21:14, Lambertus wrote:
Just a suggestion but, Dave, please leave of the booze a few hours
before writing another email. Thanks!
My Lord, what an arrogant, self important dickhead (And believe me, I'm
being polite).
I repeat, who put you in charge of Twitter?
Dave F
people should be ignored.
So I hereby politely ask the owner of the channel to remove the
following two tweets:
Who put you in charge of Twitter? Seriously don't dictate, politely or
otherwise.
It's people who're sensitive to 'offensiveness' that need to change
their attitude.
Dave F
against traffic.
On the whole I think the OSM tagging system is more detailed accurate.
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On 19/06/2012 17:22, Ben Pollinger wrote:
Hello all,
I just noticed this uses OSM data:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/interactive/2012/may/18/olympic-torch-route-map-london-2012
I quite like the rendering style, though it shows up the patchiness of
things like farmland and woodland in rural
you have any background info on why the decided to use OSM?
With what regularity will they be updating?
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said he plans on
getting it back up running. Hopefully very soon.
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On 06/06/2012 20:34, Stephan Knauss wrote:
On 06.06.2012 19:48, Dave F. wrote:
As the subject line really. I've had a quick look but came up blank.
go to osm.org, in the top right corner of the map select MapQuest Open.
I clearly didn't look hard enough! Thanks to all
Hi
As the subject line really. I've had a quick look but came up blank.
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their taking their eye off the ball. The best thing for
OSM mappers is to keep on mapping.
we harness the local knowledge of our 60 million satnav customers,
How are the village pond footpath that's goes past it being mapped
when their customers are travelling at 70mph on the nearby motorway?
Dave F
these.
It's a shame they couldn't co-ordinate to use the same colour scheme.
Dave F.
On 18/01/2012 11:19, woll wrote:
For way 3256123 (the anti-clockwise carriageway of the M25), Potlatch doesn't
seem to highlight it when the 'Show licence status' option is enabled.
http://www.openstreetmap.org
, if not, do it as Maarten suggests. The latter is OK, but the
former is more accurate, I'm all for making OSM that.
Personally I generally split it when there's two or more lanes in each
direction, but have been known to do it when there a wide verges etc.
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polite :)
Is there a way to tell who has been contacted already out of the
contributors who haven't signed? I don't think numerous people
contacting a user is the best way to get him to sign on the dotted line.
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On 02/01/2012 18:55, OJ W wrote:
The Good Pub Guide used to have a useful section for places that you
could get dinner as an alternative to motorway service stations...
There was a couple who, tired of extortionate service station prices,
compiled a list of all good eateries one mile in all
On 15/12/2011 04:56, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
They bitch, they moan,
Pot, kettle, black.
Shut up map.
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On 28/11/2011 18:37, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
(for example, I'm group co-ordinator for North West Oxfordshire
and have tagged those routes in our area which are under discussion
with local councils and are likely to open in the next few years)
What tags did you use?
Dave F
On 04/11/2011 10:49, Craig Loftus wrote:
Using that as a basis we could tag
building=distillery
building=brewery
building=cider_press
building=perry_press
How would you tag multi use buildings?
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Is there a utility to allow a user to draw a boundary box like this
get a permalink for it?:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?box=yesbbox=-2.59472%2C51.39784%2C-2.1%2C51.42825
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://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1318930
These three are still a bit cumbersome to load so I recommend using at
least four sections for the Monarch's way.
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I can't speak German so I not sure if it's a known problem, but I can't
get OSM to display as an overlay when I select Bing aerial as the
background. It just loads pink tiles. It's been like that for a while.
Are others getting this fault?
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On 26/08/2011 17:33, Dave F. wrote:
http://sautter.com/map/
Just had a reply from Frank the owner of the site. He's aware of the
problem will try to fix it in the next few weeks.
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. I shall look out for the signs.
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the route shown on the OS see if there's a
complimentary sign pointing back up the path?
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overwriting more recent ways.
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is moved then that
way is considered to have been modified should be recorded as such.
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not sure every segments has to display the
route number.
Incidentally, does route 205 terminate at the end of Bond Street?
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On 06/07/2011 10:03, Jo wrote:
There is this proposal
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Route_Segments,
which I like, but it seems it's not worked on anymore and it's not
rendered, since it involves relations containing relations. I don't
really mind having many relations
On 07/07/2011 21:52, Robin Paulson wrote:
On 7 July 2011 23:02, Dave F.dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
You don't actually say what the problem is.
err, what? the problem is managing the ways inside the editor
(potlatch 2).
You made no mention of that in your original post. Maybe you should
It's back to normal, Thanks to both.
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On 06/07/2011 18:29, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Dave F. wrote:
I must be missing something, because I believe this discussion is a
complete waste of time.
It is good that you have the modesty to assume that you're missing
something rather than 10 others are completely wasting their time
On 06/07/2011 21:04, Anthony wrote:
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote:
Dave F. wrote:
If one of these gets moved then the whole way gets updated,
No.
Substantively, that is what happens, but technically, in the database,
it is not.
In the database, we
Hi
Today (for me at least) Bing have removed the OS map option from the
selection list.
Has this happened to others? Is this intentional? - I can't find any
news about it.
To those who like to jump the gun - No, I don't use it to add data to OSM.
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but when selected, doesn't display the 1:50k or 1:25k images at any zoom
level' instead showing the standard road map option.
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persuading OS to release data at the same time!
It's only as the deadline draws near that those in favour of the change
are trying to put the blame on the mappers for there potentially being a
conflict. I find this irritating.
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slinging mud, even though they're the creators of the problem!
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to be performed; doesn't the 'bridge=' tag define that the two
crossing ways are separate?
Hope you can clarify it for me.
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the whole area but if you zoom in you can
view the local edits.
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On 11/05/2011 19:09, eMerzh wrote:
Hi,
There is an rss feed updated automaticaly from the wiki,
http://feeds.feedburner.com/OSM_Community_Updates
and you can also see it on blogs.osm.org.
i try to announce them as well on my twitter / identica account
https://twitter.com/eMerzh or
you've got used to having disturbed sleep cycles does not
make it a universal useful discussion forum.
If you OSMF SWG (or whatever you call yourselves nowadays) insist on
using IRC you'll have to put up with the dissenting calls of intentional
exclusivity.
Dave F
use IRC!!!
Discuss on this forum instead of IRC. It's self recording of
*everything* that's said allows *all* to contribute at *all* times.
It's really simple. Even enough for you to deal with it.
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for the descenting voices to feel it's behind
closed doors.
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the middle mouse wheel to scroll it changes the zoom of
the map in P2.
It took me a while to cotton on, initially it just appears that FF is
just being sluggish. It didn't happen in FF 3.6
Is anybody else getting this know how to sort it?
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On 18/04/2011 16:59, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Robert Whittaker wrote:
I've just declined the new OSM Contributor Terms (CTs), because
I've previously made edits based on OS OpenData
In which case, I would appreciate it that if you carry out any future
non-OS-derived edits, you do so from
been a conclusive resolution, I've not
seen it.
If there has been, could you help by referring to it?
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I'm after an android app that, has an Ordnance Survey 1:25k layer option.
I've got Rmaps but that only loads 1:50k
Is there such a beast?
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On 08/04/2011 15:11, Ed Avis wrote:
I think he meant to say highway=no, which I have used successfully in London.
I must of missed the discussion on the use of this tag. is there a wiki
page?
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On 02/04/2011 16:46, Steve Coast wrote:
* Replace OSM front page with google maps
* HOT announce zombie apocalypse response team
* OSM made official royal wedding map
Yawn
Why are April fools neither witty or funny any more?
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in a relation.
General mapping tip: You can go as detailed as you like - if it's
physical, you can map it (given time patience).
Personally I don't tag pavements that are not separated from the road by
grass verge etc.
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On 31/03/2011 12:40, Dave F. wrote:
On 31/03/2011 06:55, Steve Coast wrote:
Ok I think it's shameful how bad the mapping was there so I added a
bunch of trees, car parks, the park, some buildings...
Let's see how good we can make Lockport, NY ?
As someone from across the pond, excuse my
://maps.google.com/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=43.1789745390415+-78.7073448300362aq=sll=37.0625,-95.677068sspn=38.008397,61.787109ie=UTF8t=hlayer=ccbll=43.179676,-78.708394panoid=GG5wE7P_TeUPTdHc3fPZ9Qcbp=12,187.02,,0,25.55ll=43.179674,-78.70827spn=0.001414,0.002041z=19
Boule/bowls?
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On 31/03/2011 13:19, SomeoneElse wrote:
On 31/03/2011 12:40, Dave F. wrote:
As someone from across the pond, excuse my ignorance, but what are
these for:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=43.1789745390415+-78.7073448300362aq=sll=37.0625,-95.677068sspn
(among many other things) that it is not allowed to use the
photographic imagery in Google Maps to create derivative works.
No, it's not acceptable.
To be clear I was not asking for tagging advice, I was just curious.
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On 29/03/2011 19:01, Frederik Ramm wrote:
David,
If you are on the 4th page and haven't understood what this is about,
then you're not the target audience...
Wouldn't this be better in an appropriate -dev forum?
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made any sense and the OSM data is
correct so it's a false positive anyway. The rest just don't seem to
make sense.
I agree.
I think these are the same as ones displayed in Potlatch2. They're
irritating because of their inaccuracy refusal to stay permanently off.
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pressed touch screens).
I've seen many 'wrong turn indicated' messages in residential areas,
that I suspect have been sent in error by users when handling their
phone after they've parked their car.
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On 29/03/2011 18:58, Kevin Peat wrote:
Well I find it encouraging that people are using OSM otherwise what is
the point of us making it?
The fact they are too stupid to work a satnav is probably true as most
members of the crowd are unfortunately idiots. The mapdust folks just
need to take
. are better used as they can be
verified by other means than the OS.
In the cases of use I mentioned, the removal of ORPA did not reduce the
accuracy of the ways.
*If* OS is the only source then I believe it should be be removed for
reasons already stated.
Dave F
that there is
a public right of access - and others illegally indicating otherwise!).
Do these lists use the name OR PA?
If not, then the only source is the OS which is copyrighted.
Tag what you see on the ground
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Is this correct or have I missed something?
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On 13/03/2011 12:27, Dave F. wrote:
Hi
You've probably seen the numerous edits by chriscf.
Well, after reading up on this, I kind of understand what the
source:maxspeed is used for, but I'm not happy that chriscf has guessed
that value for key tags that were added by other users
,
attempt to infer NSL status
Tags:
FIXME:nsl = inferred single-carriageway NSL - remove this tag once verified
source:maxspeed = UK:nsl_single
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It's clear that the simplified Street
View building shapes are inferior to high-res aerial photos that Bing has
let us use.
But only with older buildings. OS SV is much more upto date with new
version being issued every 6 months (?).
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in reasonably sizes chunks then *checked*
afterwards they bring value to the OSM database.
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for 'donuts'. There's over 130 of
them (excluding names).
Can anyone think of any other crude labelling that should be corrected?
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(Allowed button) in
version 2.
I'm not saying it's correct or not, just pointing it out.
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bears no relation to what I see on the bugs
website.
There's far more appear to be either out of date or widely misaligned.
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