Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
. Adding tags for sidewalk, cycletrack and other details such as barriers between carriageways is something that should just happen automatically from the real mapped features? Not something that needs to be created manually ignoring the features themselves ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
colliar wrote: On 22/05/12 12:13, Lester Caine wrote: Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/5/21 Rob Nickersonrob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: p.s. Personally I feel that cycle TRACKS would be much easier to map if drawn as a separate highway=cycleway (despite any challenges the renderers

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
. Adding tags for sidewalk, cycletrack and other details such as barriers between carriageways is something that should just happen automatically from the real mapped features? Not something that needs to be created manually ignoring the features themselves ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: 1:25,000 Provisional series completion (NLS)

2012-05-19 Thread Lester Caine
Britain - OS One Inch, 1955-61 are mirroring OSM nicely ... -- 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] Micromapping ...

2012-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
separate nodes is just painfully slow :( -- 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// Firebird

Re: [Talk-GB] Micromapping ...

2012-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
away from the road. I've not been, but if JOSM has sorted the problem I'll give it a go ;) -- 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: [Talk-GB] Postcode update

2012-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
being licensed, that is Royal Mail managed data, but since the street name data is freely distributed, a proper codepoint what includes the street name is very much open source. We just have to add the right names ourselves :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

2012-04-04 Thread Lester Caine
not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the images up anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free vectorized data? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

2012-04-04 Thread Lester Caine
it scanned 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// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Komuna e Malishevës, Serbia ?

2012-04-01 Thread Lester Caine
on getting the coastline complete it is going to be difficult to fix some of these irritations. I've given up asking for a proper check on hierarchy place and is_in which would at least get towns in the right country ... rather than relying on the mapped boundaries ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Komuna e Malishevës, Serbia ?

2012-04-01 Thread Lester Caine
Mike Dupont wrote: 2012/4/1 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk Altin Ukshini wrote: Does anyone care about these reports ? I said it before and I'm saying it again, we can't monitor/administer the map everyday and you know this, we

Re: [OSM-talk] Komuna e Malishevës, Serbia ?

2012-04-01 Thread Lester Caine
there was some vandalism prior to the database going to read-only :( -- 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] OS maps circa 1900 wanted, will contribute to scanning cost

2012-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
' attaching. I have a growing collection of maps going back into the 1800's but only an A3 scanner which is not ideal as it has a lip around the scanning area :( http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/view/Mapping+Index -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Heathrow Airport

2012-03-27 Thread Lester Caine
are looking at the license flags on that area? Certainly all the 'problems' to the East just want tagging as clean ... -- 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] Remapping update

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
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Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
mechanism, and I feel this is an ideal candidate for that action? -- 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] Database Rebuild scheduled to start on the 27th of March 2012

2012-03-21 Thread Lester Caine
that this week, and the other local blocks such as at Malvern are only fine detail that would probably be better mapped clean anyway. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [Talk-GB] London 2012 tourch relay route

2012-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
thereafter. Definitely ... -- 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// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes

2012-03-17 Thread Lester Caine
, it does at least pick up the faster roads rather than routes that are perhaps 0.5km shorter but using roads with many roundabouts rather than the adjacent motorways or dual carriageways with none. That and I could not drag the route to use the more practical roads on Seamonkey. -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes

2012-03-17 Thread Lester Caine
did try IE7 but that is just a mess ... the route description comes up in the wrong place and background boxes are missing. -- 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] Nice problem to have

2012-03-16 Thread Lester Caine
: we probably should be careful to reduce these records to the pure user count. 'contributing users' who have more than say 10 commits? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] National Library of Scotland - Out of copyright mapping

2012-03-12 Thread Lester Caine
. One of these days I will improve the catalogue of what I've got available. Getting the material scanned commercially may be an option, but I think that taking a little more care and being able to rescan when material when there are problems ourselves may be an advantage? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
. In the UK nowadays you will be lucky to find a post office 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 Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-06 Thread Lester Caine
. The smaller patches it's much quicker to remap than try and get in contact. In MOST cases I've actually replaced the problem work with a more comprehensive rework anyway ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] Blue Plaques and others

2012-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
to power that map). Is there any conflict adding a link to http://openplaques.org/people/413 and the relevant plaque. We might also be able to convert them to OSM ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
are NOW simply classifying 'undecided' as 'declined' which does seem to be the recommendation, then what is the point of waiting for the outstanding users to accept, anyway? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 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// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: A brief interruption from your scheduled programming. Haha. I'm an idiot. Sent to the wrong list. *pours coffee on in effort to wake up* I did wonder since I though we were being constructive on the thread you had posted to ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

[Talk-GB] Island in lake ...

2012-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
OK how do I draw the shape for an island in the middle of a lake ... I seem to recall something about getting the inner and outer paths running in the correct direction? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] How I got here

2012-01-18 Thread Lester Caine
genealogical data companies have got on the bandwagon yet, but the 'spirit of cooperation' that OSM fosters should ensure that all of this data is freely available especially when it's based on the freely donated work of others! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
these differences that impinges on this fine detailing of 'industrial area' ... we still have to improve on the micro-mapping guide lines ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-16 Thread Lester Caine
anyway? Does mapnik currently respect 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// Firebird

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-15 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/1/14 Russ Nelsonnel...@crynwr.com: Lester Caine writes: yet there seems to be no way to create secondary databases of information which can be used in parallel but separately hosted. Yes, we need *more* OpenStreetMaps from which you can fetch different

[Talk-GB] Normal practice ...

2012-01-15 Thread Lester Caine
back, and I see that the tag does seem to have been accepted now? This is probably another set of data that is better as a secondary layer with other contact information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-14 Thread Lester Caine
of people working on areas which the general mapping population seems to think are not appropriate to be uploaded to the master database, but as yet there seems to be no way to create secondary databases of information which can be used in parallel but separately hosted. -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-14 Thread Lester Caine
Russ Nelson wrote: Lester Caine writes: yet there seems to be no way to create secondary databases of information which can be used in parallel but separately hosted. Yes, we need*more* OpenStreetMaps from which you can fetch different types of information. For example, any data which

Re: [Talk-GB] The state of Bristol in OSM

2012-01-13 Thread Lester Caine
they are going to jump, but I don't see any reason why they do not simply 'free up' the block on existing history and then walk away if the want to? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-12 Thread Lester Caine
Dave Stubbs wrote: On 11 Jan 2012 22:08, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Lester Caine wrote: I know what areas of data I am working on. OK Just crashed it again ... but having done at least a couple of hours work and saved MOST of it. So to log

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
of red dots around my clear 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// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
mins tidying up an area while I'm waiting for something else to finish is time usefully spent, but fire-fighting why something random is happening takes a lot longer :( Hence asking the question ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: I know what areas of data I am working on. OK Just crashed it again ... but having done at least a couple of hours work and saved MOST of it. So to log current state ... Flash area just went grey Bottom line has Transfering data from ecn.t0.tiles.virtualearth.net

[Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
OK how many of you are having trouble editing for more than 10 minutes? I've lost as much work as I've done this evening with potlach just freezing :( I had the same problem at the weekend, but put it down to finger trouble, know I know it is software. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
more time tomorrow night. Just pissed me off that I'd fixed the same block twice, but not managed to save any of the work :( -- 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] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
, but user 80n seems to be contaminating a large sway of the country so it seems to me we need to 'start at the top' and if these users confirm that there work has to be redone, then we can look at things like re-baseing the motorway system nodes -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
the rest anyway. Just the top couple which impact a substantial area and one decline which has a chunk of work locally but not to difficult to redo. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[Talk-GB] (still editing) 10335460

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
Took a little time to tidy up a few nodes hile I was reviewing things, but while the update said it had saved, it's showing as still editing despite having logged back out ... what happens to hanging edits nowadays? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
Michael Collinson wrote: Good point Andy. I cannot find a link though? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
, so how does one decided what data stays in the main database and what is archived? Just retaining all where it is currently stored just seems the logical way forward to me ... although if a mechanism can be added for secondary layers ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
data you take pleasure in destroying -- 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// Firebird

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
as an alternative to destroying data as it is superseded by changes on the ground. But one of the rules that does apply is that data that has been generated by others SHOULD NOT simply be destroyed unless it is inappropriate. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
in the edit history. In my own databases nothing is deleted ... it simply gets flagged as to it's status ... in fact one has to hand edit the database to actually delete any data. In OSM terms - we just look at the edit history for the same information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
mind still provides the most logical way forward. But at what point does an historic element get degraded to the secondary storage area? Or more important ... what classifies historic data as being 'main stream'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
; in other cases, you might want to show both historic data and current-day data. This is the area that we still need to get some agreement on :( Current rendering does not take any notice of start and stop dates ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
Brian Prangle wrote: and what do you call places where they make cider/perry? The back yard ;) ... although the location of active cider presses would be another useful addition. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

2011-10-20 Thread Lester Caine
is that nick is listed as 'UK' area on the extract list, and people don't think to look at other options :) -- 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] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

2011-10-20 Thread Lester Caine
Mick wrote: I hadn't thought of UK as being Northern Europe, I looked in Western Europe. That's where they hid it ;) I'd found the Isle of Man ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
. It is the interpretation of the data that is the problem, not the data itself, and if anything that needs to be handled in the conversion process to the device not on the raw map? Bodging the data so that the device does what you want ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
to be investigated a little further since 'junction=roundabout' just seems wrong anyway. -- 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] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

2011-08-30 Thread Lester Caine
data sources where this information can be stored would at least allow it's integration? And the creation of 'temporary' layers where material is being worked on but has not yet been fully integrated would also seem to be a way forward even for general mapping? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Canal Maps of the 19th Century

2011-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Mabbett wrote: Yours for £20. Or review for free? http://www.canalmaps.net/A702.htm The book is on google along with some related documents ... As an aside, is there an equivalent to the National Library of Scotland archive? http://geo.nls.uk/ -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Routing and other problems west of Uttoxeter

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
frames :) -- 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// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Routing and other problems west of Uttoxeter

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
in missing information. -- 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// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Looking For Unconnected Cycleways

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
for a number of those :) -- 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// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

2011-08-05 Thread Lester Caine
Stephan Knauss wrote: And I have the data in a quite high resolution available because I'm planning a zoom functionality. So an initially scaling based on the data extents could be a useful next step? If you already have a higher resolution base. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

2011-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
to maintain the history of that change, and similar things such as change of use ... I still live in the hope of being able to draw a map of an area with a particular date to go with my genealogical work ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

2011-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
to zoom in further is probably secondary to many people 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

[OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
simply has to be consistent? Then what may be missing IS a tag for 'split_from' or 'merged_with' but the linked ID's must also be consistent? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
happened? If a item has history then it's ID can't be reused. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/xxx/history simply has to be consistent? Then what may be missing IS a tag for 'split_from' or 'merged_with' but the linked ID's must also be consistent? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: On 02/08/11 18:43, Lester Caine wrote: Richard Mann wrote: I think he was joking about reusing ids (he was illustrating the point with the sort of daft temporary fix that someone might do ... if they were daft) Well someone has set up the system to reuse them http

Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
on the ground, but in many cases the names ARE there and it is just a matter of getting the compare process to mae the connection. SO there is little incentive to make changes since OSM IS correct ... so the 80% is probably a little low in reality. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Another heads up - new mapper appears to be deleting stuff in Ashbourne

2011-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
that the account was only set up 5 minutes before would suggest an newbie editor. -- 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] Airspace Co.

2011-06-07 Thread Lester Caine
database, but which can overlay any other OSM 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] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Lester Caine
... perhaps because I HAVE to focus on it better to see any detail at all ... even with my glasses on. A logo should be 'crisp' and scale nicely from Icon through to larger image, and the loss of the distinctive outline IS the major problem. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-04-30 Thread Lester Caine
? I do not even recall any discussion that that a change was being planned? -- 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] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-04-30 Thread Lester Caine
says nothing ... Also how much stock of the current logo version is left on the shelves of those supplying it? -- 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] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-04-30 Thread Lester Caine
I am trying to make is did anybody changing the logo even consider the other areas that money would have been spent? I see pictures of large banners in addition to the vests which no longer match the current style of the website! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Things that aren't stations tagged railway=station

2011-04-19 Thread Lester Caine
railway and the track is slowly working it's way up the old abandoned line ... But a part that may be useful in the UK is cleaner identification of preserved over main line railway stations? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-16 Thread Lester Caine
and mangling it, creating a more open data interface so that third parties can supply feeds in much the same way as we use a range of background tiles at the moment. I am thinking directly here about paralleling the current OS data with OSM data. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-16 Thread Lester Caine
that is the source ... -- 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// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-16 Thread Lester Caine
that having the courtesy to recognise where data can from should be any sort of a problem. 'Requiring it' just acknowledges that some people do not extend that common courtesy. I find no restrictions on what I need to do with the data. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] SABRE Maps

2011-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
is very nice. -- 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// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Cost of tolls

2011-03-13 Thread Lester Caine
, even if you need a ten page document then to work out how much ... -- 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] Tools for a better tomorrow

2011-02-22 Thread Lester Caine
picked' and obvious errors stripped from more complex useful edits. Ultimately we should be able to provide many distributed copies of the master database spreading the load and permitting local specialist information to be managed in parallel ... using the same tools? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

2011-02-12 Thread Lester Caine
on my Nokia phone. Now that I have found a phone that works - with LINUX on it - I was at least happy. WHO is going to be supplying LINUX (meego). And do say 'Use Android' THAT is not linux and just as crap as iphone when it comes to using EXISTING applications. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
discrepancies, but some OS names ARE wrong compared to the ground details. Have we got a way of flagging the name:os so that we can identify these and flag them as 'different' rather than 'missing' -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
of the Cotswolds. A lot of the 'missing' roads are simply where a name is misspelt, or a section has not kept the name when someone split it. I'm left with the -'s- problem and some roads which I know are right on OSM ( hence the question about flagging that ;) ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
and I wonder how many of the remaining matches would be made if these were simply stripped before comparing? -- 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] ORS discussions

2011-01-26 Thread Lester Caine
the distance in miles to corespond to the milometer on the 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 - http

[Talk-GB] ORS in miles

2011-01-25 Thread Lester Caine
Anybody know if there is an option to select mile display in an openrouteservice.org url. I've got everything else working nicely, but now I need to get it displaying the distance in miles ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
and so provide the missing information to link the postcode to a physical road. -- 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] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk]wrote: Sent: 21 January 2011 11:41 AM To: 'talk-gb OSM List' Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: One thing that is absolutely clear to me is that you can't add

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
detail coordinate data from OS even if it does not give real road names. THAT is at least better for looking up 'xx within a 20 mile radius' where the previous options may well have only had 50 mile accuracy. So replacing the course data with finer lookup is at least a step forward. -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
by an area anyway. One would not be using the boundary of that area as that IS the wrong 'way'. -- 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: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids - use in searching

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
application for OSM, so it would be great to import this data so that Nominatim and other searches can use it. That would supersede the current approximate lookup based on FreeThePostcode. That is - I believe - where the EX13 7## data actually came from. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Postmortem analysys

2011-01-09 Thread Lester Caine
that no nodes at different elevations but the same coordinates are allowed is just crass. -- 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] Postmortem analysys

2011-01-09 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: On 09/01/11 10:34, Lester Caine wrote: Nathan Edgars II wrote: But why write routers for the one case thats theoretically possible, instead of the millions that are not only possible, but already in existance? I don't care how the routers are written. I care about people

Re: [OSM-talk] Postmortem analysys

2011-01-09 Thread Lester Caine
then they perhaps should be identified differently if they need to be highlighted? -- 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

[Talk-GB] Kick on IE setup

2011-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
IE8 anyway ... it was installing it that cause all the agro ... but even dropping back to IE6 now I'm not getting anything with OSM, yet javascript and everything else seems to be enabled correctly. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Postmortem analysys

2011-01-07 Thread Lester Caine
the same point -- 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// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] What phone survey results

2011-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
SteveC wrote: In response to the critique of the validity, feel free to go do a better job. I was just curious. One thing that it does not show is what OS is being used. 'nokia' covers several options, and I'm finding my N900 is actually quite a nice linux computer ... -- Lester Caine

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