Re: [Talk-GB] UK postcodes on each side of the road

2014-05-19 Thread Lester Caine
so I'd suggest at least in the UK we do not use 'associatedStreet' at all. -- 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] UK postcodes on each side of the road

2014-05-19 Thread Lester Caine
I'd suggest at least in the UK we do not use 'associatedStreet' at all. -- 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] UK postcodes on each side of the road

2014-05-18 Thread Lester Caine
location data can be provided by tags on a street rather than duplicating that data unnecessarily on every building ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

[Talk-GB] Selection of zoom area.

2014-04-03 Thread Lester Caine
map updating. Can anybody suggest an example I can crib to get it working? -- 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: [OSM-talk] [OHM] Should we map former endonyms?

2014-03-20 Thread Lester Caine
blocks. 'former endonyms' are simply a facet of history which OSM processes simply deletes. Only where those endonyms have an actual relevance today do they fit in some peoples guide lines for current OSM data? That they need to be mapped is a given, just where is the data stored? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] [OHM] Should we map former endonyms?

2014-03-20 Thread Lester Caine
identified the proposal here for linking to wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NGEO -- 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] [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-16 Thread Lester Caine
' from being simply harvested for commercial use? And routing programs that use the OSM data have an advantage. -- 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] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-03-04 Thread Lester Caine
simply needs blocking until such time that they do accept it is vandalism? -- 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] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-02-26 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] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-02-21 Thread Lester Caine
more difficult to see and manage? It is about time we started to look at combining ways in the same way we currently do with nodes? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] BIS report on open national address data

2014-02-13 Thread Lester Caine
detail of an NLPG reference where that is not currently even recorded in the LLPG ... -- 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] Street cabinets

2014-02-10 Thread Lester Caine
to distribute them later. We have the same thing in the UK as well ... This should probably be in the tagging list ... but I'm probably not alone in not having even joined that :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSRM-talk] R: Re: problem OSRM compilying

2014-02-07 Thread Lester Caine
... I think ... it will at least say if the packages are installed. I had trouble myself with the lua side of things on SUSE -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] POI features: node vs way?

2014-01-26 Thread Lester Caine
and that should be the master POI set of tagging, while the additional fine detail forms a secondary layer of information. Only one entity but with a macro and micro view. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
. The problem here is country specific things don't get much traction, however I think that this is generally appropriate world wide? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-01-14 Thread Lester Caine
etc, that you know of? http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/historical/ -- 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: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-01-14 Thread Lester Caine
://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/disclaimer Which releases non restricted info under this license Interestingly there is no mention of OSM in the terms despite the fact that it is one of the base layers used. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-12 Thread Lester Caine
but they are not really a post office? http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/471456976 is another example of confusion, since the building above was not listed in the search results, but http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41363497 has amenity=post_depot ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-12 Thread Lester Caine
perhaps along with operator= and perhaps url to the related 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 Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

2014-01-07 Thread Lester Caine
because it's a new building, or has had an extension for example. -- 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: [Talk-GB] Question regarding OS Opendata

2013-12-28 Thread Lester Caine
and is something we need to take more seriously ... the flat earth society has been proven wrong long ago :) -- 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] 'Allowed data'

2013-12-08 Thread Lester Caine
we could get at it easier? -- 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] 'Allowed data'

2013-12-07 Thread Lester Caine
just moving that already mapped information to OHM requires a little more consideration. Delete is simply not a valid concept unless the object never existed in the first place? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] 'Allowed data'

2013-12-07 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2013/12/7 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk Delete is simply not a valid concept unless the object never existed in the first place? While I find this concept appealing at first glance, it would raise complexity much more if we

Re: [Talk-GB] Hobbyist OSM Data Server?

2013-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
. Any corrections or improvements are MOST welcome! -- 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

[OSM-talk] 'Allowed data'

2013-12-05 Thread Lester Caine
'The Data' without 'The Map' but accessing the information on how to is still an area that needs fixing. -- 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] 'Allowed data'

2013-12-05 Thread Lester Caine
is created is not the same as the history of how an object came into existence. -- 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: [OSM-talk] 'Allowed data'

2013-12-05 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Street wrote: On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:20:58 + Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I would like to request that 'start_date' is automatically populated with ad the very least, the current date, but with an option to update it based on what is being

Re: [OSM-talk] The new OpenStreetMap.org design

2013-12-04 Thread Lester Caine
useful 'advert' still makes sense to me. The 'about' page is simply too technical as an advert and something that includes many of the old front page links is more appropriate? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] The new OpenStreetMap.org design

2013-12-04 Thread Lester Caine
' that needed the major overhaul, it's the wiki/help that needs streamlining and all of the out of date material removed. With a getting started guide easily accessible. I know how difficult that is ... some of the crib sheets I've been updating haven't been touched since 2008 or earlier :( -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] The new OpenStreetMap.org design

2013-12-04 Thread Lester Caine
... hopefully working off my phone and tablet :) -- 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] Bitcoin Spam

2013-12-04 Thread Lester Caine
would help. That one will never show up as a shop anyway? But the question is probably what should be in the name field? The original entries were obviously wrong, and the current tags are better ... except for name? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

2013-12-04 Thread Lester Caine
the idea of 'office' rather than shop, that makes more 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

2013-12-03 Thread Lester Caine
then block the bitcoin tag ;) -- 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

[OSRM-talk] Problem with install

2013-12-03 Thread Lester Caine
have any idea what I'm missing in the vhost settings? ( All the PHP stuff is working fine on Nginx ;) ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

[OSM-talk] Good use of time ...

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
with 2 week old data is bad enough, and I'd like to be working with something closer to live then I can provide my own material, but until then I'm reliant on what overs are doing ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
my own set - after 7 days - but the tiles were already well out of 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Good use of time ...

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
Maarten Deen wrote: On 2013-12-02 14:38, Barry Hunter wrote: On 2 December 2013 13:17, Lester Caine wrote: what is 'export' intended to do? It gives option to select an area, then download a osm XML file. Exports the map as data. If the area is big, gives direct links to various bulk options

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
already been adopted 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 Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
as something has changed :( -- 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] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
that I was leaving the potlatch screen? OK - It has done it this time, must not have touched anything last time so not had 'save' active. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
clients followed the standards less people would top post! ;-) Very true ... My old N900 phone worked nicely email wise, the android replacement and the tablet has an apology as the sig :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
function. It's much appreciated -- 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] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-12-01 Thread Lester Caine
novice users can do easily. In the past my clients could play with this, but at present there is nothing suitable. -- 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] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-12-01 Thread Lester Caine
. It's not the interface itself that is the problem, but simply what material is displayed in those first couple of clicks! Perhaps all I am asking for is a simple link to 'other services' in that welcome box which take you to a wiki for accessing routers and other useful tools? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-12-01 Thread Lester Caine
problem ...) also you need to select one more suited to your country, which comes back to my appeal for a more 'locally focused' support path. Basically there is nothing I would recomend as a global routing option anyway? So no obvious candidate for a world wide link? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Ashamed to be a part of the OSM GB community

2013-12-01 Thread Lester Caine
is simply NOT supported well currently !!! No way can I support a whole world map, I need something that mirrors the UK area in something less than the 2 or 3 week cycle of some mirrors :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
' I expect to get to a larger map not a sales site :( There SHOULD be something we can add to all those legacy links to make the site acceptable! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: I appreciate that this may not be what you wanted to hear, but as with any big change, there is likely to be a few teething issues. Unfortunatly this has now broken many inter site links so personally I'm looking for a route to retore a more usable interface for those of us

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: This new front page simply does not work on many levels and I hope I'm not the only person who thinks that? No this is getting even more iritating ... Can someone with the capability to sort out DNS PLEASE create old.openstreetmap.org with a link to the old front page

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
sensible support for a new user even if they ARE looking for contributing. If OSM is not going to provide a usable set of pages, then I will roll my own. I do already have that running, but it's OSM's site that needs to be linked to directly to promote it! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
is currently provided is not doing the job as far as I am concerned. What we have now is not usable as advertsing for OSM, which is what all the 'View larger map' links are designed to access? Am 30.11.2013 15:41, schrieb Lester Caine: Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi Lester, If you are after a full

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
changes are not compatible with using the embed function so THAT should have beendepricated first and time provided for us to make changes to existing usage! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Which is why I simply ask that the old layout is made available again as that only requires access to pages that already exist. Silly question ... where has the 'embed' option gone? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
Simon Poole wrote: Share - HTML ? Am 30.11.2013 23:02, schrieb Lester Caine: Lester Caine wrote: Which is why I simply ask that the old layout is made available again as that only requires access to pages that already exist. Silly question ... where has the 'embed' option gone? Tool

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
interface which has easy access to edit functions, although I'm tending towards off-line editing as certainly I would NOT recommend iD even to new users, so josm currently seems the only option anyway going forward! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
there is no tidy method of reflecting those changes into my own rendering ... which is another problem 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

Re: [Talk-GB] Moderation (WAS: Primary or Trunk? PITA?)

2013-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
to that ... -- 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: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD

2013-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
the historic development of the maps. In 50 years time the current view of the map will be 'historic' and we need to design for that fact today rather than simply hiding the data in the change logs :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones (was: Deleting data)

2013-10-23 Thread Lester Caine
had a simple problem where I needed to tidy 'landuse' but it was all interleaved with other elements which certainly did not want to move :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones (was: Deleting data)

2013-10-22 Thread Lester Caine
'level' and just allow an easier way to filter what is being used? Currently what we are doing with areas when used for objects like land use IS wrong? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones (was: Deleting data)

2013-10-21 Thread Lester Caine
because other sources of TZ data are badly broken near boundaries ... -- 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] Deleting data

2013-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
deletionism! There should not be a 'delete' mechanism at all, only one which can amend or archive so that we can SEE the historic development of the information! This is as valuable as the CURRENT view ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones (was: Deleting data)

2013-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
are automatically shared? -- 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] Timezones (was: Deleting data)

2013-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
as the TZ database is concerned, and at that time areas were using different rules even within the same country. The current simplification aligns timezones with country codes or sub=codes, but it's accuracy is basically 'undefined' prior to 1970 :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] NPE data

2013-10-06 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: [Talk-GB] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

2013-09-29 Thread Lester Caine
Rob Nickerson wrote: p.s. Is there a Linux equivalent of MAPC2MAPC? qgis2 ? I still need to actually get it to create an alignment, but it displays the material I do have nicely, so is anybody using this for doing the referencing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

[Talk-GB] Search for location

2013-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
/browse/node/515065315 but using the 'McMurdo Station' name. I am expecting that I'll get several results at times, so the node/way number will be used eventually, but initial search to give a list to select from would be helpful. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Outperforming TomTom

2013-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
routing options? Maarten - I can understand your reluctance on always on data, currently I do get gaps in the mapping on the motorways here were there simply isn't any cover, but moving forward I think that particular problem will eventually be fixed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-10 Thread Lester Caine
at ... It would be MUCH safer if you had to pick the boundary to select it! -- 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: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-10 Thread Lester Caine
overlap, and you don't know that they are. -- 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

[Talk-GB] bing image alignment

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
in the morning and gather a new track as a cross reference, but are people in general finding that these new images are out of alignment with what is currently mapped? Can I assume that they need realigning before using them? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] 'Quality' of data - combining 'things'

2013-09-08 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Not really the right choice of words, but following on from yesterdays post related to 'timezone' I've been using the tools available and viewing the current coverge of that tag, which is fairly complete - except - in some areas the smaller parcels making up an area rather

[OSM-talk] 'Quality' of data

2013-09-07 Thread Lester Caine
' Not very well put, but I should be in the car aon the way up to Birmingham ;) -- 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: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-07 Thread Lester Caine
knowing! This was a reason we objected to iD being made default - it's not ready yet :( -- 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] Living with 'improvements'

2013-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
to the N900's navigation keys and also needed access to things like CTL, TAB and ESC when remote accessing the servers. Hacker's Keyboard gives that back and more important BOTH devices now work the same way :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Developing Countries Address Problem

2013-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
on that by agreeing locally on what to call roads ... Use OSM as a base for a local campaign ... -- 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] Living with 'improvements'

2013-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
Greg Troxel wrote: Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk writes: Lester Caine wrote: Basically - does anybody have a smartphone option that correctly and safely handles UK motorways and trunk roads? Well I'm seeing some feedback off-list, and there have been a few steps forward, but The one

Re: [OSM-talk] Living with 'improvements'

2013-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
so I'd missed that 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/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [OSM-talk] Living with 'improvements'

2013-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
Janko Mihelić wrote: 2013/9/2 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk: If the fix for this is to manually apply the national speed limit to every road, then OK, it's the first time anybody has suggested a fix and I'm willing to give it a try ... It's useful to give

Re: [OSM-talk] Living with 'improvements'

2013-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
algorithms apply the correct speeds based on the type of vehicle. -- 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] Living with 'improvements'

2013-09-01 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Basically - does anybody have a smartphone option that correctly and safely handles UK motorways and trunk roads? Well I'm seeing some feedback off-list, and there have been a few steps forward, but The one thing I have finally established is that off the 5 routing engines

[OSM-talk] Living with 'improvements'

2013-08-29 Thread Lester Caine
announces for these junctions! Basically - does anybody have a smartphone option that correctly and safely handles UK motorways and trunk roads? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Reference set of icons ...

2013-08-26 Thread Lester Caine
Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: OK I've spent most of the day playing with id trying to make it work in a manor that works for me. I'm at the point where I'm working out how to add missing icons

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-26 Thread Lester Caine
admit that OSRM is a German centric routing engine. Yes - another item on my TODO list is to get the routing actually using the 'minor roads' around here. It takes me on a 3 mile detour to get over to the motorway ... so I just ignore it until it's caught up :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-26 Thread Lester Caine
this even more problematic by rendering everything with very similar styles even for footpaths! ( And this discussion should probably be on the tagging list, but I've still not added that to my catalogue ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
that to fix a problem id created with a commit I had pushed. Revert rolled all the nodes back to their correct position. -- 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] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
that is currently missing? -- 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] Making iD the default editor on osm.org - some numbers

2013-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
back apart to restore the the micro view is difficult with the current tools :( And has trouble with the reusing the changeset history. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

[OSM-talk] Problems with new setup

2013-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
glass and a petrol pump are when both displayed in black -- 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

[OSM-talk] Reference set of icons ...

2013-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
is anybody working on a better reference set? -- 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

[Talk-GB] Building in space

2013-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
all come of the top level and the road access slopes steeply away from the car park. Just to add to the fun, there is a car valeting business 3 stories below, as well which is also not mapped currently. I'm not seeing anything in the wiki as a guide to handle this. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
worldwide? -- 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] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
information here is 'closed down xxx' otherwise one does not know if an item was removed because it was wrong or for some legitimate reason. So to my mind there should NEVER be a trash can - 'archive' with properly added tags is the only correct work flow! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
by reverting the change set ... a delete button is not the right tool! Case 4 ... you add something wrong to the map while editing ... use undo! Bottom line - remove the delete button :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
location urls and they will be recognised - hopefully no-one will remove that as redundant ;) Have a look at what layer is selected. You see that it's not osm. Hence the question! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org - some numbers

2013-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
it happened. See other thread an why there should not be a delete button! I made the same case on potlatch in the past and now the reasons are even greater. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
tiles. Some of the historic styles are still a lot tidier than the current style sheets :( -- 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

[OSM-talk] Editor problems ...

2013-08-23 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] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
of these public trackways so sorting this out is important. -- 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

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