Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Lester Caine
e associated with both dust and more solid compaction of the surface layer. So while 'ground' may be a useful holdall where the exact nature is not known, but it is not a mechanically finished surface, it should be replaced with a more accurate designation for which 'dirt' is simply another ambiguous

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the point of the Wiki 'k=v' icon?

2015-08-30 Thread Lester Caine
and k=v makes perfect sense ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-30 Thread Lester Caine
beyond original use. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Preserving History ...

2015-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
need to get the tile server live first while still paying the bills ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Preserving History ...

2015-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
. ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Preserving History ...

2015-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/08/15 17:24, Tom MacWright wrote: It seems like the only thing you're contributing is negativity. http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/OSM+Development Not that I've got all the latest crib sheets working yet :( Last system I had fully functional was on an SUSE 12.3 -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

[OSM-talk] Preserving History ...

2015-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
is what SHOULD happen, just as the underpass route should become available in June next year. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Reply-to header

2015-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
as separate thread, some not, and so the mess goes on. Sometimes I can hit 'reply to list' and just get the list address other times it's 'reply all' and find the list as a 'cc' so it's not the list which has a problem ... it's the whole process :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
structure would go to explain a few gaps in that grid ... I'm trying to get self sufficient, but that is simply not an easy job with so many different tools used in the background! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
for those users ... I've finally got a caching setup working, but it's still not ideal. I'm still missing something on getting a clean rendering stack that can also allow additional rendering options to be developed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
by the main page. We need to be able to select style AND language defaults in much the same way that projects like php provide multiple mirrors with local translations and information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
forward But this is possibly not the best way of making a scale able system. It would be better to have a single main domain which then forwards to an appropriate service? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
On 22/08/15 19:24, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The main problem here is that OSM is used by a large part of the UK web services [...] I agree that this is a problem. But not for the reasons

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-20 Thread Lester Caine
On 20/08/15 14:06, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: On 19/08/2015, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: 98% of the history that we are looking to manage properly is currently existing in OSM. All that is needed is to add start dates to the bulk of the existing data. What do you do when a road

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-20 Thread Lester Caine
or China? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-20 Thread Lester Caine
, but not for main stream routing and where the likes of OSMAND simply gets the routing wrong ... as do other routers :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-19 Thread Lester Caine
involved is much less than some of the third party data already swamping the database so what is the problem simply properly tracking stop_date in existing rendering and leaving the evolutionary data in tact with the current material? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
. There are safe and accessible footpaths bypassing the major trunk roads, but currently the trunk routes - which have no footpaths are still provided by the routing software :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
to exist in ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

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

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/08/15 01:46, Paul Norman wrote: On 8/15/2015 2:09 PM, Lester Caine wrote: The simple answer seems to be that there is no standard when it comes to mapping applications and everybody creates their own personal special such as kosmtik rather than working with established standards

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

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
at the moment. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

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

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
that is broken. libstxxl.a has gone missing :( These days a 48 hour day would be helpful ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

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

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
wasting time on :( The simple answer seems to be that there is no standard when it comes to mapping applications and everybody creates their own personal special such as kosmtik rather than working with established standards :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
a stop_date ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Trees

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
of 'brown' for farms around Birmingham when in practice the whole area is mainly farmland. I'm just trying to work out how to strip the 'farm yard' from the generic farm tagging so that specific orchard and similar farming activity shows up better. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
been laid around here and we could have plotted their routes as the various roads were dug up and trenches cut ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
the whole lot on an OHM version of the data, or one simply maintains a little more material in the main database. The tagging decides what can be seen for a current rendering rather than snipping out bits which still need to be maintained for an historic one. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

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

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
support service to provide ... and I still need OHM as an option ... I need to get this machine configured before shipping over to the data centre where it will sit on a high speed pipe so I need to get it right. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
well unless that geometry can be completely isolated. Trying to use the same way elements for different objects in different databases does not work :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
classifications. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

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

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
is farmland. trying to fill that with blocks of landcover is what seems wrong here ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Making progress finally ...

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/08/15 09:41, Lester Caine wrote: After working through a few little nuances on SUSE linux I finally have tilemill running. It's giving me level 1 and 2 from the shape files and the loading of the style now completes without any errors. I can see it remotely although there is still

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
' is something that should never happen on what has at some time been correct information. 'Archive' is the correct term and making that data available as required ... Delete is only appropriate when the material is proven invalid. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

[Talk-GB] Making progress finally ...

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
level tiles ... how do I access them via port 20008 ... only seeing 'Not Found' which reassuringly nginx is also returning for the /tile/ access ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/08/15 22:03, Ian Sergeant wrote: On 15 August 2015 at 00:12, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: As I have said before 'Delete' is something that should never happen on what has at some time been correct information. 'Archive' is the correct

Re: [Talk-GB] Making progress finally ...

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/08/15 12:06, Lester Caine wrote: Where should I bee looking next? Why is everything so difficult. I've HAD OSRM working on SUSE12.3 and 13.1, but all the lua stuff is broken again on 13.2! I managed to use lua5.1 on the 13.1 build, but only by killing lua5.2 ... If I do that on 13.2 it's

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/08/15 23:14, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:51:13 +0100 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: But the one thing that the current model has got the capability of handling is start and stop dates for any facet of an object from the name of a shop to the evolution

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for Default Map style - pull requested is opened

2015-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
eludes me :( Lack of time is the problem, but a decent set of instructions to work with openstreetmap-carto and manage a branch off the current style would be helpful! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for Default Map style - pull requested is opened

2015-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 13/08/15 10:37, Daniel Koć wrote: W dniu 13.08.2015 11:22, Lester Caine napisał(a): producing tiles still eludes me :( Lack of time is the problem, but a decent set of instructions to work with openstreetmap-carto and manage a branch off the current style would be helpful! You may try

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
mapping ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
... some abandoned lines are not open to public access, but their existence is still real even if the actual rail has been removed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
anybody point me to a crib sheet that fills in the gaps in the openstreetmap-carto setup notes. Obviously where I would like to get to is a setup where I can identify which icon sets and colour elements go with what ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

2015-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
On 09/08/15 23:29, Lester Caine wrote: OK Have a working osmosis/replication setup which is currently running an hourly sync of my 'British Isles' database. I've been working through the notes just to make sure I've not missed anything and while I do have a working system it may perhaps

Re: [Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

2015-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
On 09/08/15 12:59, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/2015 23:24, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 8 August 2015 at 22:55, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: What is the best way of cloning the existing style setup for a UK tile server? Some useful resources: https://switch2osm.org/serving

Re: [Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

2015-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
On 09/08/15 14:17, Lester Caine wrote: On 09/08/15 12:59, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/2015 23:24, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 8 August 2015 at 22:55, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: What is the best way of cloning the existing style setup for a UK tile server? Some useful

[Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

2015-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
What is the best way of cloning the existing style setup for a UK tile server? I'm snowed under with pigging M$ crap on three sites so have not had time to refresh my earlier copy of the software. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-07 Thread Lester Caine
my own copy live. Adding a new rendering stack is secondary and does not need to be implemented to achieve the first goal. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
content. If you want the data that goes with a 'wikidata=*' entry then simply ask wikidata for it. Same with wikipedia and other data sources. If you want a sorted list get wikidata to provide it ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
tag, or you simply read the information in wikidata/wikipedia. 2015-07-31 17:21 GMT+02:00 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk: On 31/07/15 16:09, Jo wrote: That's what is proposed here though: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
pages in wikipedia, which can then be linked to OSM. Keep each project to what it is good at and sort out procedures that direct information to the right boxes. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway - routable network and reservoirs/lakes

2015-07-28 Thread Lester Caine
On 28/07/15 10:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: but have no use as a through route? the water will undoubtedly pass through on its route Flow management from man made reservoirs may tend to modify that situation. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway - routable network and reservoirs/lakes

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway - routable network and reservoirs/lakes

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
it should be drawn, but an imaginary link just showing water flow should not be necessary? Any routing process should be able to deduce the relation, there is no need to draw it. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

[Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
space on a site with a large pipe, but I would prefer to see perhaps a more distributed model where several sites mirror the same tile set and hopefully historic overlays ... another area that needs a little more locally based support. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/07/15 08:43, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Lester Caine wrote: The other area that I am looking to roll back First, I wouldn't think in terms of rolling back at all. Cartography for a UK tileset could and should be designed from scratch. If you really want to start with an existing

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

2015-07-24 Thread Lester Caine
to the surrounding areas and I read THAT page as saying landuse=farm is not valid. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarm has so few entries tagged that I am sure it could be 'retired' now? As others have said - generally covering large areas as 'farmland' is not helping anybody ... -- Lester

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

2015-07-24 Thread Lester Caine
at the bottom of the page and seeing '69' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

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

2015-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

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

2015-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
for any routing system. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

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

2015-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
they have some arbitrary boundary through the middle of farmland. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

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

2015-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/07/15 17:04, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: From a UK point of view there nothing wrong with http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/52.1106/-2.0754 and certainly that is what is needed for any routing system. Yes, this part of map is not bad. I am

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook uses OpenStreetMap

2015-07-21 Thread Lester Caine
/editing:incorrectlyspelledcities:europe:uk#fixed gives you an idea of the backlog just with the primary places information for the UK and that is only the tip of the iceberg :( I've been promised several time over the last years that Broadway will be moved back to Worcestershire but with no actual change. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
service has to support an international audience, just as some countries provide their own local services, the UK needs a similar more UK centric facility. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Layers and landuse

2015-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/06/15 11:36, Richard Z. wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:14:07PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: On 29/06/15 15:08, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: The step from 2D to 3D would add a lot of complexity on the mappers, narrowing down the mass of contributors potentially willing and able

Re: [OSM-talk] Layers and landuse

2015-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
network be inside or outside that polygon? We had the same discussion in relation to 'landuse=university' where the campus area needs an outline, but t5ere are a lot of different 'landuse' activities within that ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Layers and landuse

2015-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
be nice if the map warned you :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [OSM-talk] Layers and landuse

2015-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
then needs review ... coastal erosion etc. Boundaries and landuse are another 'plane' independent of layer, although 'mixed' use land may well be augmented by different tags once the layers are better structured? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: [HOT] About openstreetmap Name Conflict

2015-06-23 Thread Lester Caine
it's a waste of time they don't waste more ... the company is supposedly a bunch of lawyers. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

2015-06-17 Thread Lester Caine
for one user may be wildly wrong for another ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in India

2015-06-16 Thread Lester Caine
, but perhaps if they all started filling in details in India the same as we do for clients in the UK ... they obviously have time to farm email accounts to spam ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
:( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
on cheap android devices. I've actually got it running on a £40 tablet for a bigger sat nav display ... All that is lacking is that other apps go to OSMAND rather than trying to get google maps running ... which only works with a network link? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-14 Thread Lester Caine
, and it's ONLY a freely accessible project like OSM that can provide that service? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Quick tagging question

2015-06-05 Thread Lester Caine
, but it is tool dependent. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [Talk-GB] Quick tagging question

2015-06-05 Thread Lester Caine
, London Borough of Bromley, London, Greater London. While GeoNames has an entry for Hayes, Bromley, OSM it seems does not? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-04 Thread Lester Caine
to discuss the overall framework of how the layers of tagging evolve? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

[Talk-GB] place gazetteer

2015-06-04 Thread Lester Caine
(or Hierarcy if you insist) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
to that list. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
:) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
=apartments of a residential area. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
of 'ways'. The areas I'm trying to tidy up are small shopping malls which have shops within shops on multiple levels ... with accommodation above. A combination of objects is just what I'm looking for, but with different outlines for each object ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread Lester Caine
that ... or would want to do about it on the data! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread Lester Caine
On 31/05/15 12:24, Andrew Hain wrote: Does Craigslist also get oneway=-1 (traffic opposite to the direction of the way) wrong? And oneway:cycle=no and the like ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Data Model for Address

2015-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
property in the UK http://www.iahub.net/docs/1398672866952.pdf This is used by every UK council to provide the data free of charge, but we are not then allowed to use it freely :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-29 Thread Lester Caine
to provided filtered live data? Should that layer be provided by a third party? I think the answer there is probably no, but providing an interface where third party versions of the data can be used makes sense. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-28 Thread Lester Caine
for those using the maps for gaming purposes. But I don't think we can rely on a third party like Wikidata to provide this dictionary ... they may however parallel it's operation? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

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

2015-05-24 Thread Lester Caine
. OSM does not need to duplicate all of the publically available data, but an agreed standard for accessing secondary levels is still lacking? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

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

2015-05-23 Thread Lester Caine
have any satellites in Cambridge? The current documented sytle works and should perhaps be documented as the general standard? ( And PLEASE trim everything if you must top post ... even on a mobile phone these posts have been painful! ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

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

2015-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
'university, country' you see a list of entities with a single entry per, but because it's not 'physical map information' it's not acceptable to some :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2015-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
a sense of it being right. (And in any group of 10 mappers, there seem to be 11 opinions as to what is right, concensus is very hard to achieve). Only 11 :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2015-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
for a particular department. A couple of my regular haunts have just completed a re-signing exercise to help identification of departments on a number of levels. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2015-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
' icon at a macro level, and switch to icons for the collages at a suitable scale. That data in the map can then be cross-referenced from the master objects ... and be highlighted when a particular place is selected. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping high tension power lines in Nepal

2015-05-15 Thread Lester Caine
ian atkinson atkin...@hotmail.com Is over there now on a 4 week secondment, but we did not have time to get him up to speed before he went ... He get told last week end and flew out on the 12th. But being a mapper he may be a useful pair of eyes on the ground ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

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

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
on what IS a social platform. There are places where hiding ones identity is necessary, but here is not one? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Junction assessment help

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
is tagged showing the 'safe' driving direction. Would you drive up the right hand branch? That is ignoring the case of trying to escape from the police ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
On 11/05/15 09:39, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: On 2015-05-11 at 08:41:48 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: On 11/05/15 02:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I expect to see Xxzme back under a different username soon. This is the real problem. While it is now common for people to hide behind anonymous

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