[Talk-gb-london] OpenStreetMap Pub meet-up on Tuesday 4th + Tech talk on Monday 10th

We have TWO London events coming up! : On Tuesday 4th June we'll have a social OpenStreetMap pub meet-up at The Monkey Puzzle pub from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map user, or just curious, come join us for map chat and beers! The Monkey Puzzle is here on the map 

[Talk-gb-london] Tomorrow (Wednesday) OpenStreetMap pub meet-up at Parcel Yard, Kings X

= . This is inside Kings Cross station towards the back. Past the funky curvy roof. Past the Harry Potter shop. Up some steps. We'll be on the first floor somewhere (not the 2nd floor restaurant), but it's quite big. We've got a table booked there somewhere under the name Harry Wood. If you think you

Re: [Talk-gb-london] Thu 22nd Feb - Pedestrian Infrastructure Mapathon

On Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 11:08:40 GMT, Robert Skedgell wrote: On 21/02/2024 19:58, Harry Wood wrote: > Tomorrow night (Thursday 22nd Feb) Meta are hosting a "Pedestrian > Infrastructure Mapathon" 18:00 - 20:00 pm. > > "The Open Maps Team at Me

[Talk-gb-london] Thu 22nd Feb - Pedestrian Infrastructure Mapathon

Tomorrow night (Thursday 22nd Feb) Meta are hosting a "Pedestrian Infrastructure Mapathon" 18:00 - 20:00 pm. "The Open Maps Team at Meta is partnering with local citizens to improve map data for pedestrian infrastructure in London ... learn how to increase the accuracy and detail of pedestrian

[Talk-gb-london] Tomorrow night - OpenStreetMap Xmas Pub meet-up!

Tomorrow night (Monday 18th December) it's time for the Christmas OpenStreetMap pub meet-up at The Monkey Puzzle pub from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map user, or just curious, come join us to celebrate a Mappy Christmas with lots of beers and map chat. The Monkey Puzzle is here on the

[Talk-gb-london] OpenStreetMap Pub meet-up - Thu 23rd 7pm Parcel Yard

On Thursday 23rd November it's a social OpenStreetMap pub meet-up at The Parcel Yard pub, Kings Cross Station, from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map user, or just curious, come join us for map chat and beers! The Parcel Yard is here on the map: https://osm.org/go/euu4xj5p?m= This is inside

[Talk-gb-london] Two events: Mobile mapping workshop in 45 mins + Wed 27th Sep Monkey Puzzle pub

Would it be too late to point out that there's a Mobile Mapping Workshop happening in 45 minutes time? Probably... but I thought I'd do it anyway. If it's not too late for you, then come join us outside Euston station by the Stephenson statue! https://osmcal.org/event/2327/  or we'll be in the

[Talk-gb-london] Wed 28th Jun, Barley Mow pub. 7:00pm

TOMORROW! (Wednesday 28th June) we'll have an OpenStreetMap social pub meet-up at The Barley Mow pub, Westminster, from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map user, or just curious, come join us for map chat and beers! The Barley Mow (barleymowhorseferryrd.co.uk) is here on the map:

[Talk-gb-london] Wed 28th #geomob + Tue 4th Oct Monkey Puzzle pub

On Wednesday 28th September there's a #geomob event. Presentations on a variety of map/geo topics, often including OpenStreetMap. This time it will include a talk by OSMer Ben Abelshausen. Details & sign up: https://thegeomob.com/post/sept-28th-2022-geomoblon-details On Tuesday 4th October

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing "Wikiproject" prefix from place pages

The idea of getting rid of the "WikiProject" page title prefix. There's a bit of discussion of that herehttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_organisation#Page_Name_conventions.2Fguidelines Discussion from 10 years ago!  As I said a the time, I support the idea in principle. I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM user diary etiquette

I definitely support moderation actions on the diaries (or indeed any channel) when somebody steps way out of line. > It is unfortunate because this means that quite a few useful comments> >written by some of you - the main subject was ways of fighting diary > spam - were dropped too. Do you

[Talk-gb-london] Xmas Pub meet-up tomorrow (Thu)

Tomorrow night (Thu 13th Dec) we're having a little Christmas London pub meet-up at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub from 6:30pm. Join us for some friendly social beers and a festive celebration of all things OpenStreetMap! Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is down an alleyway off Fleet Street (here on the map

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Board decision on Crimea complaint

thing here. ...but I'm putting words in other people's mouths. Let's wait and see what the board has to say (and yeah give them some time. We're all volunteers) Harry Wood On Monday, 10 December 2018, 18:12:44 GMT, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: "When in doubt, also consider the "on t

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] [OSM-dev] Tool update from HOT: MapCampaigner

Well this is drifting off the original topic but... Greg Morgan wrote: > This is nothing more than an uneducated attack on my favorite part of the > US tax code, 501.c3. This is also nothing more than an attack on a group > trying to build the OSM community. Seems a bit strong. Some folks need

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath project - tools

Alright then Rob! Here we go. The "footpaths edit tracker": https://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/diffreader/footpaths/ So far 89 people have done 1214 edits to objects with the designation=public_footpath tag. Harry On Sunday, 8 July 2018, 16:55:27 BST, Rob Nickerson wrote: Looking

Re: [Talk-gb-london] Transport for London & OSM - station mappingproject

/241310674/ If you fancy meeting some us face to face, it would fantastic to have you along at this! Harry Wood On Monday, 26 February 2018, 17:12:47 GMT, Chapple Theo <theochap...@tfl.gov.uk> wrote: Hello OSM London community Theo from Transport for London here! I manage TfL’s op

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

I wanted to make some little improvements to your map display (more readable tags) http://bl.ocks.org/harry-wood/raw/1c590b852dd2f43569c085dc554b9abd/ I'm not that familiar with 'gists'. They don't have 'pull requests' hey? Anyway my fork is here:https://gist.github.com/harry-wood

Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

So I guess you're looking for : https://vimeo.com/44870758 SheepCamp 2012, Monica Stephens There's a pretty big list of articles and talks on the Diversity wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity Harry From: Zoe Gardner

[Talk-gb-london] ☢need your help

Hello friend, I couldn't find some products so I chose to ask for your help, here's what I'm looking for http://natoquest.org/www/administrator/help/en-GB/downtown.php?UE90YWxrLWdiLWxvbmRvbkBvcGVuc3RyZWV0bWFwLm9yZw-- Harry Wood ___ Talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Access tagging for buses and service=bus

I came across a few tagging quirks to do with bus access and specifically "service=bus" First of all there's some roads with service=Bus (uppercase B). So that's definitely a mistake.Only exists in a cluster in Manchester ...plus a small cluster in Sao

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham Tree Import

> On 27/04/2017 20:26, Brian Prangle wrote: > I've annotated Harry's Import wiki page with some comments and ideas. This one: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Birmingham_City_Council_trees_data I don't want you to think of it as *my* wiki page. Like any wiki page we should aim to reflect

[Talk-gb-london] OpenStreetMap pub meet-up TONIGHT Monkey Puzzle Paddington

TONIGHT (Thursday 20th April) we'll have a London pub meet-up at the Monkey Puzzle from 6:30pm. Join us for some friendly social beers and chit chat on the subject of OpenStreetMap (contributing/using experienced/beginners, whatever interests you in and around OpenStreetMap!) Special guest:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Import Progress

I've created a wiki page specifically about the tree data import. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Birmingham_City_Council_trees_data It would be better if somebody involved in running the import, would do this (per the Import Guidelines), but I've drawn together various info I could find

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

I've created a wiki page specifically about the tree data import. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Birmingham_City_Council_trees_data It would be better if somebody involved in running the import, would do this (per the Import Guidelines), but I've drawn together various info I could find

Re: [Talk-gb-london] London, network=Barclays Cycle Hire

I forgot to say, I checked what everybody thought in the pub on Tuesday. https://www.flickr.com/photos/harrywood/33071560616/ (We all seemed to agree network=tfl_cycle_hire) Nice one Dan. Thanks for making it happen! Harry - Original Message - From: Dan S

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-london] London, network=Barclays Cycle Hire

I forgot to say, I checked what everybody thought in the pub on Tuesday. https://www.flickr.com/photos/harrywood/33071560616/ (We all seemed to agree network=tfl_cycle_hire) Nice one Dan. Thanks for making it happen! Harry - Original Message - From: Dan S

[Talk-gb-london] Pub meet-up TONIGHT Blue posts

TONIGHT we're at the Blue Posts pub from 7pm. Newman St. Join us for some friendly social beers and chit chat on the subject of OpenStreetMap (contributing/using experienced/beginners, whatever interests you in and around OpenStreetMap!) Two important notes: 1) There are several pubs called

Re: [Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the west mids

I was thinking of embarking on some development work to re-examine the NaPTAN dataset myself. We regularly consume this dataset at TransportAPI, so I have some code which works with Stops.csv  The NoVAM viewer http://www.mappa-mercia.org/novam is currently broken. Probably easy to fix. It's

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

We never actually tried out loomio properly for this. I think we can go here... https://www.loomio.org/d/xagnZoK4/what-should-the-next-project-be- ...and "Start a proposal" for several different ideas and then vote on them, and a pretty pie chart starts appearing. But... yeah if Brian just

Re: [Talk-GB] UK website

Yes. openstreetmap.org.uk would be a good canonical url, and appropriate in my opinion, that OSMF would own the domain but point it at an someone's server. Is firefishy the man to organise this? Note: if that is the canonical url, this would mean that Dennis should be looking into *redirecting*

Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

"Apart from size, I fail to see the difference" Well the difference is whether you can go there and see the business. The effect of this verifiability rule might be a size thing, which might mean that the cottage industry baking cupcakes doesn't get added but... More importantly from a process

[Talk-gb-london] OpenStreetMap meet-up TONIGHT Angel pub from 7pm

Sorry I'm forgetting to keep the mailing list informed, so this is rather last-minute if you missed it on twitter/wiki but... TONIGHT we're in the Angel pub from 7pm It's near Angel tube. Here on the map: http://osm.org/go/euu45JLI?m= The Angel pub is quite big but all on one floor. Hopefully

Re: [Talk-GB] Summer Quarterly Project

I'll link your earlier mailing list post from here:  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Project  but we could make a wiki page of it, and/or a kick off blog post. Something to link to in relation to this. Harry From: Brian Prangle To: Talk GB

Re: [Talk-gb-london] London tube stations

It'll get messy. Deep 3D examples like Kings Cross are fun. But we also need to check breadth of data across the network. Starting with the basics, we're doing pretty well on station entrances: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/h97 , but maybe not all of them. Harry Wood _

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

I'm interested in helping out with an OSM UK website. I have a few ideas. Actually the thing I'm most interested in is what you're touching on here. I'm keen to avoid a situation where we have a website festering unmaintained, or even just having niggling things wrong with it, and no way for

[Talk-gb-london] Missing Maps Tonight + Mapping St James area tomorrow

You're cutting it fine, but if you sign up now, TONIGHT there is (unusually) still spaces at the monthly Missing Maps humanitarian mapathon. This time it's hosted at the Welcome Trust building in Euston. Bring a laptop. Join in the fun! There's particularly spaces for a few more pro-mappers

[Talk-gb-london] Tuesday. Mapping Planning Meeting. Holborn Penderel's Oak

Next Tuesday (12th April) we will be holding a Mapping Planning Meeting at The Penderel's Oak pub (here on the map http://osm.org/go/euu4matrY-?m= ) It's between Holborn and Chancery Lane tube. We'll be there from 7pm This is a big pub. We'll aim to get a table somewhere near the main entrance.

Re: [Talk-GB] Geovation - Location information innovation grants - now open for applications

I have mixed feelings about Geovation You're talking very generally about consultants getting money, but there's a bigger reason to feel negative about it. The government paid Ordnance Survey £millions to release open data (because releasing open data needs to cost lots of money because...

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - New edit tracker tool

ts of France and most of Luxembourg, but I'm sure they're used to it. Harry From: Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> To: Harry Wood <m...@harrywood.co.uk> Cc: Talk-gb OSM List <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Monday, 18 January 2016, 10:36 Subject: R

Re: [Talk-GB] UKOSM - technical aspects

n, at which point you'll be able to bow back in again. That's the beauty of it. Harry - Original Message - From: Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, 11 January 2016, 11:15 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] UKOSM - technical aspects On 10/01/16 21:47

Re: [Talk-GB] First UK/GB OpenStreetMap group meeting - 17th December at 8pm

Thanks for making something happen Rob! So this conference call is TOMORROW at 8pm. I added those details to the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/UK But d'you have the dial-in details? Harry From: Rob Nickerson To: Talk-GB

[Talk-gb-london] TONIGHT! Deptford Mapping Evening

.com/OSMLondon Harry Wood ___ Talk-gb-london mailing list Talk-gb-london@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-london

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

Well done setting up the survey Rob. Good to see something happening. I think we should get our asses in gear and start forming some sort of organisation. I was surprised your survey didn't have a question What d'you think the organisation should be called?, because this is the question which

[Talk-gb-london] Tuesday Humanitarian Mapping + Wednesday Kings Cross Mapping!

I've got (at least) two events for you next week: There's a Missing Maps Project humanitarian mapping event on Tuesday, and for a change I'm actually telling you about this *before* it has sold out! These events are a lot of fun. Bring a laptop. Join in with mapping, learning or teaching. Sign

[Talk-gb-london] Wed 13th May - Mapping evening in Marylebone!

for THIS one! http://lanyrd.com/2015/geomob-may/ As ever, follow @OSMLondon on twitter and see the events list on the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London Harry Wood ___ Talk-gb-london mailing list Talk-gb-london@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

I have now written some justification for the ban, as I see it, on his talk page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Xxzme#Blocked_for_3_months My plan was to draw together various threads on his talk page and then write something like this immediately before banning him. I was in the

[Talk-gb-london] Mapping Planning Meeting - Tomorrow 7pm - Penderel's Oak

On Wednesday 25th March (That's tomorrow!) we will be holding a Mapping Planning Meeting at The Penderel's Oak pub from 7pm As we enter spring and approach the start of British Summer Time we need to look at the state of London's OpenStreetMap coverage and plan some mapping. What are the data

[Talk-gb-london] Pub meet-up next Tuesday near Trafalgar Sq

The next casual social pub meet-up will be on Tuesday 3rd March at The Lord Moon of the Mall pub near Trafalgar Square. We'll be there from 7pm Map: http://osm.org/go/euu4gPUIN-?way=140469340 Jim McAndrew AKA JimmyRocks is visiting London from the states, so the pub meet-up is dedicated to

[Talk-gb-london] Pub meet-up tomorrow night at the Parcel Yard

Sorry. Short notice again Tomorrow (Wednesday) night we'll be at the Parcel Yard for a casual social pub meet-up. It's a pub inside Kings Cross station, but not as grotty as it sounds. http://osm.org/go/euu4xjtjx-?m= When you get there... this is a fairly big pub with a confusing layout. There

[Talk-gb-london] Pub meet-up tomorrow night at the Blue Posts

Sorry for the short notice but... Tomorrow (Tuesday) night we'll be at the Blue Posts for a (probably quite small) casual social pub meet-up It's this pub on Newman Street: http://osm.org/go/euu4OnIv?m= Take care not to go to a different Blue Posts pub! When you get there... check upstairs!

[Talk-gb-london] OSM pub meet-up TONIGHT

The next casual social pub meet-up is TONIGHT at The Crosse Keys pub in Bishopsgate. Map: http://osm.org/go/euu6BYcK?m= It's close to Bank station. We'll be there from 7pm This is a big (and very grand) pub. We'll aim to get a table somewhere. We'll also aim to get organised with an

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Modus operandi of the board

btw, there should be a all values in GBP or similar on this page: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances/Balance_Sheet_2012 Well I can fix that at least (done) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

I've created a wiki page about these floods: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_Southeast_Europe_floods I included a couple of cautions familiar from the UK floods response: 1) Bosnia and Serbia have active mapping communities. We need to take care to do remote armchair mapping only if

[OSM-talk] HOT house hack - Mon-Fri next week near Worksop

If you'd like to join in, you can edit the hack pad to put your name on the list. Maybe drop us an email too. Hope to be seeing some of you soon! Harry Wood ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] [HOT] Black Forest Fire Update

Here's a wiki page for coordination. Please feel free to edit http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Fire_2013 Eugghh! The landuse data around here is a mess. Government data import I presume On the plus side. There's plenty to get stuck in and work on. I recommend JOSM for

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM volunteer to participate in panel discussion

about helping run the App of the year session!) Harry Wood -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-volunteer-to-participate-in-panel-discussion-tp5764370p5764388.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-dev] London Hack Weekend Feb 2nd 3rd

and presentations tomorrow, so do pass on the link if you know anyone (or any groups) who might be interested in that. Harry From: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk To: d...@openstreetmap.org d...@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2013, 18:33 Subject: [OSM

Re: [Talk-ht] [HOT] HOT TM jobs for Sandy's affected areas in Haiti/Jos Tasking Manager de zones affectées par Sandy

Well I've done one task square. Took me about an hour. I've added a screenshot to the 'workflow' description: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/89 Yes the bing imagery looks quite different when you zoom right in, and has a very different offset. Be sure to line up imagery with existing data before

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Disaster hackathon in Birmingham

Hello westmidlanders See this event: http://h4d2register.eventbrite.com/ I had this invitation email lingering in my inbox for some time now.  I was considering heading up to Birmingham 21-23rd to attend this disaster hackathon. Sadly I'm going to have to pass, but looks like it might be

[OSM-talk] Wiki maintenance tasks

I know it's not as fun as mapping, but I've made a list of some wiki maintenance tasks: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki_maintenance_tasks I've been meaning to write this for years. The idea is to list some ideas for wiki editing tasks which apply to a lot of different pages across

Re: [OSM-talk] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Read Only access

Ladies Gentlemen finish your uploads We are *go* for API lock-down in T minus 60 minutes. -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:28:45 +0100 From: Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) ajrli...@googlemail.com Subject:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik updating more frequently?

the rooftops ...but I understand Jon Burgess and others are monitoring it to see if the tile server keeps up with it OK. Hope the change sticks! Harry Wood ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk