Re: [Talk-GB] Address list

2010-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
appropriate. . -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-12 Thread Lester Caine
are really necessary, but if the information IS available, then it would be nice to be able to include 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-10 Thread Lester Caine
that I have in historic data IS no longer physically present is the other 5% ... ( actually probably 99.5 to 0.5 ) -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-10 Thread Lester Caine
unacceptable, and so it's perhaps deciding the rules moving forward that we need to agree on initially? -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
be taking note of the star_date and end_date 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 Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
for probably 99% of historic 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// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
to the main one ... I'd just be happy with the one I was using ... -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
since we have addresses from birth certificates :) -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
practice? -- 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] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
be acceptable, but simply tagging a node is not the right way to provide ALL of the information that would be useful when it comes to micro-mapping the details? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
OSM has no way of including that 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] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
to highway=ford ... so that the way detail can be added? -- 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] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
eventually be obliterated by future development, on the whole the road system in London for example has simply evolved and expanded so all that is needed is to know when a road first appeared? No clutter as such, just currently missing real data? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] OS 10k file name problem

2010-09-24 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: http://lsces.co.uk/mapper/display_map.php is slowly getting there. but I need to make the selected map more switch-able so I can run the original Isle of Man historic maps as well. OK that now has a complete 10k grid, and I'm working on the vector data next ... -- Lester

[Talk-GB] OS 10k file name problem

2010-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
time. The idea is to provide the 10k data as alternative layer to the osm data at some point, and switching to a windows server seems somewhat archaic? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] OS 10k file name problem

2010-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
there. but I need to make the selected map more switch-able so I can run the original Isle of Man historic maps as well. -- 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] OS Opendata amp; the new license/CT

2010-09-16 Thread Lester Caine
idea, it is total bloat when it comes to the volume of data in OSM. Numeric flags for a lot of core data would remove one hell of a lot of duplication ... and can quite easily be returned as full XML when required. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Legal discussion on talk@

2010-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
interested groups could translate would make sense !!! There is no censorship or ulterior motives of all the crap being on legal-talk - anybody can join in - just don't let the bulk of it STILL fall over here as well ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] The License Change

2010-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
. Perhaps we just have to give up and simply let them? And publicise the free alternative better ... -- 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: [Talk-GB] Definitive source for UK streetnames? - OS, 'road name signs', or a council 'list'?

2010-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
by a commercial operation that then makes money out of 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://medw.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
of the branding jigsaw. -- 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] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-07-12 23:45, Lester Caine wrote: ... As others have pointed out, 'brand' may be a better choice of 'name' in some cases, but in reality there are THREE possible tags in many of these cases. For example name=the fancy hotel brand=best western operator=the local best

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-25 Thread Lester Caine
with any other tags can carry on working happily with just the highway 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
to be specifically identified, and we had this discussion some years ago when the *_link tags were added! -- 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] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
road to another, and not just another road? Tag it motorway when it goes to another motorway where is the division between motorway and slip road. It needs something to identify the situation on the ground! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
Anthony wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Ed Avis wrote: Isn't this tagging redundant? If a link road leads from a primary to a secondary, or whatever, this can be seen by looking at the tags

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
reasons, and it would be nice to see the state of things at a particular snapshot in time. Following the development of London for example -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

2010-06-07 Thread Lester Caine
be pointless? -- 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] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

2010-06-07 Thread Lester Caine
there is no point trying to redesign it ... lets just use 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: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-06-02 Thread Lester Caine
way as the roads? 'Safe' for pedestrians to use is simply undefinable as we have already decided when trying to identify URBAN areas where one would not walk on one's own! MAPS can't define what is safe. But they should at least show alternatives where they are available? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-06-01 Thread Lester Caine
the road is really relevant? -- 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] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

2010-05-26 Thread Lester Caine
the 'loot' over, the thefts I've seen around here would not have had any problem 'radioing home' ;) -- 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] Little religious man made objects : crosses and shrines

2010-05-21 Thread Lester Caine
, and was to do with the differences between these, memorial and monument -- 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] Ordnance Survey talk tomorrow

2010-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
only use Windows ... -- 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] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: But well mapped rivers don't have ways down their middle Really? Care to expand on that please? MOST rivers are now being mapped fully and so are areas rather than a line with some arbitrary width. So there is no 'way' corresponding to some arbitrary mid

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
Ed Loach wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: But well mapped rivers don't have ways down their middle Really? Care to expand on that please? MOST rivers are now being mapped fully and so are areas rather than a line with some arbitrary width. So

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
Shaun McDonald wrote: On 25 Apr 2010, at 07:57, Lester Caine wrote: If a footpath gets moved do you think I should still show a way mark it as 'this is where it used to go'? 'closed=2007' makes perfect sense to me. People then coming back to an area that they walked 30 years ago would

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Dave F. wrote: Lester Caine wrote: But well mapped rivers don't have ways down their middle Really? Care to expand on that please? MOST rivers are now being mapped fully and so are areas rather than a line with some arbitrary width. So there is no 'way

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic data (was OS Boundaries)

2010-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
changes made to the 'historic' copy when in fact it is the 'current' version that is being changed? This data needs to be transparently available in a single database. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-19 Thread Lester Caine
set of ways seems much more correct to me. The same with similar data from other countries. -- 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] Military objects in RU: warning about status of voting

2010-04-15 Thread Lester Caine
Kirill Bestoujev wrote: 2010/4/15 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk Of cause what is missing here is that since this 'vote' was only in Russian then the vast majority of us would not even be able to vote anyway. There should perhaps be a rule

Re: [OSM-talk] Military objects in RU: warning about status of voting

2010-04-14 Thread Lester Caine
definition of landuse should follow the international standards, and that includes 'military' as a basic definition anyway. -- 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] Abnormal votings on military objects in RU wiki part; PocketGIS madness

2010-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
slop' that the rest of the world does not want to start down? If RUSSIA's secret data is sanitised, then how many other counties are going to expect the same treatment? Can you see the problem Eugene? We simply can't say yes to any incorrect mapping! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Abnormal votings on military objects in RU wiki part; PocketGIS madness

2010-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
that they have a problem with, then THAT needs a little more tactful handling! However the history of these changes will still be maintained. So an alternative method of 'correcting the mistake' will be required ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-11 Thread Lester Caine
, but OSM has the correct tracks! -- 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] Separation of sources

2010-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
of the building details are now filtering through from the NLPG database. Certainly new site information is more likely to come that route. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-05 Thread Lester Caine
with lower case names. A bit of a pain when using Linux - obviosuly OS is still windows based :( -- 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] Post code areas

2010-04-02 Thread Lester Caine
that we need hierarchic lists overlying the physical data so that one can search for locations in that tree, and postcode is just another fairly consistently defined tree? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

2010-04-02 Thread Lester Caine
Vincent Pottier wrote: Le 02/04/2010 09:01, Lester Caine a écrit : Looking at the post code data that has just been 'open sourced' by the UK government I am beginning to realise part of the problem here. We are trying to create a generic solution when in reality there are distinct

Re: [OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-01 Thread Lester Caine
Data available tomorrow (Thursday) at http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata . Looks like the demand is too great ;) Anybody actually managed to register yet? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries along roads

2010-03-22 Thread Lester Caine
that the simplify everything camp don't thing we should have? -- 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] Name tags on sidewalks and on cycleways next to a road

2010-03-15 Thread Lester Caine
, and just needs a high level tag, and the lower level detail should just reference 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping streets as areas - can I do it now?

2010-02-22 Thread Lester Caine
lane road' should become 4 individual ways before coming an area with fine detail of lane markings, hard shoulder, and central reservation. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fun with duplicate nodes

2010-02-10 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] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
pedestrian and cycle crossing points, and linking them to foot and bike only routes is something of a mess currently? I can see why this sort of nonsense would put a commercial router off - it may not affect their current service, but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence, does it? -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Vertical ways (staircase)

2010-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
by the steps gets around the editor limitations? -- 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] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
is how do we get both to co exist? If someone is going to DICTATE that we will never map some details then I think we have a problem? But that is where we are stuck at the moment anyway? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
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://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
Steve Bennett wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/2 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk Provided that this does not result in REMOVING ways that are mapped

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
Claus Hindsgaul wrote: 2010/1/3 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk It is however a very good example of where people have taken the trouble to ACTUALLY map reality and their efforts have been destroyed! At the end of the day everything needs

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
or more abreast. Complex tags can be added to 'B' to provide the width, distance for some other way and the like, but that is no substitute for actually mapping the information on the ground. So really all that is required a relation between the A and B views of the world? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
actually adding the full detail, there is not a problem. I was just concerned when it was being suggested that these REPLACE the lower level detail! They must not prevent the mapping of the actual fine detail. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-01 Thread Lester Caine
on the ground ESPECIALLY where the cycleway ( or sidewalk/footpath ) is not physically part of the 'accompanying' road. NOTHING should dictate that removing physical data is the 'correct' way of mapping! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
that in essence what licenses are for? That is the entire crux of this problem ... CAN we trust commercial organizations with big bank balances to play fair. I think the answer has to be 'NO' so we need the DATA protected a little better . -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: so we don't need imported data? Only where it is actually adding information. When it is overwriting data that may well be more accurate - then no we don't ? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
to fall back on? SO we need something which can then become acceptable case law? -- 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] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
roads do need a 'divider' tag, but only to add 'white line' and other 'micro' data that can't be included by areas or other means. The crosshatch area is just another edge case that needs to be handled in bother levels. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
of the other examples need the same end cases. So at what level does a simple 'divided' tag actually work in practice? However 'double white lines' on a single carriage way road IS a divider that needs tagging? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: I think my only problem with 'divided' is At what point do you apply it? The samples being shown are quite clearly - on the whole - dual carriageway

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
. Simply adding yet more tags for something which is not part of the actual roadway is another 'macro' bodge which in reality requires at least a separate way ... ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-04 Thread Lester Caine
for example would seem to be best described as a 'roundabout' as it certainly looks like it is for turning around. 3 as actually just a wide road marking. Such cross hatch areas do need to be covered but this a single road with 'advisory' road marking rather than a divider? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-03 Thread Lester Caine
the areas of all of the parts that make up the roadway? At what point to you switch from 'dual carriageway' to 'divided road' ? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
is drawing an imaginary additional set of ways except where they are specifically marked. -- 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] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-29 Thread Lester Caine
is specifically banned. -- 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] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
Roy Wallace wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The bottom line is that while adding 'width' tags all the way along a road may be a practical half way house, other area features are not handled the same way so why should roads be any different

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
is the route passable by a pushchair or wheelchair? -- 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

[OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-26 Thread Lester Caine
as a golf course is a no brainer? Higher level views can then pull out nodes for hospital, golf course and road grid while higher zoom levels can how acurate fine detail? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

2009-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
cope with serving real users without also having to handle that. What database is the wiki running on? My own sites I simply have a backup of that running and rsync the backup along with the images directory to the backup machine. Very little load on either machine -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

2009-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
provide mirror sites. The problem of cause is that editing needs to be restricted to the main site, but even that can be catered for with care -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
. And how many of their competitors would also be linked to that site via google's linked advertising? OSM simply has no 'baggage' to worry about! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn Restrictions Editor

2009-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
on how this level of micro-mapping is handled 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 Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] proposal for deletion: talk-us-ga and

2009-10-21 Thread Lester Caine
no reason why a good email based list can't simply add a web based interactive archive as well? -- 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] Instead of voting

2009-10-09 Thread Lester Caine
not come to any consensus on the general points of mapping and who is in charge so a dictate from above TELLING us to move to a new list seems somewhat out of place? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-07 Thread Lester Caine
things as a simple 'way based' view. Of course, nothing is ever final ... With ever more people adding data, the 'macro' view is straining to contain the micro details, so this IS going to carry on evolving. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-07 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: 2009/10/7 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: Mike Harris wrote: Chris Despite the well-argued views of a minority, I am persuaded by the equally well-argued views of the (considerable) majority who favour option (b). That is not to say that there isn't room for using a bit

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
an element of 'NULL' - that is in addition to setting a boolean tag, one still needs to decide if it should or should not be present ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
Andrew Errington wrote: On Mon, October 5, 2009 15:36, Lester Caine wrote: snip ( Egil - a little aside, while a check box for boolean would be nice, there is still an element of 'NULL' - that is in addition to setting a boolean tag, one still needs to decide if it should or should

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
that they follow instead of the roadway need to be consistently tagged? -- 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] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
with 'landuse' but I don't have time ... need to be on the road by 1 ... -- 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] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - boolean values

2009-10-03 Thread Lester Caine
Konrad Skeri wrote: Time to end this debate http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/boolean_values http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/boolean_values -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
additions require all of that 'tidying' to be undone manually to put the correct data back :( And this seems to be the case here? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: 2009/9/28 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: And this seems to be the case here? The problem is the ways are the best place to tag the ABS information, and the ABS data just happens to follow rivers, islands, railways and roads and so on which is very useful where people

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Roy Wallace wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Can I check? Are there people here who are suggesting that, in my case, they want to draw all four ways (yes, I know the footpath hasn't been mapped yet) as a single way specify the differences

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
. The point is to make things transparently scalable. At the 'county' level you don't need the shape of the car park, just a tag to it's presence so you can indicate where they are. Same with any object? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
information, although the layer model would at least keep cars off the train level ;) -- 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] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
route and flaging it as a single element :( -- 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] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
ones ;) Anyway Top down view - single way with lots of tags such as 'bridge'. Bottom up view - every detail mapped and 'linked' in some way but each with it's own structural element. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-de] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
be appreciated by other drivers? -- 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] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
=0.007636,0.014505t=hz=16 Me thinks it is time for a hall of shame on the OSM site, with links like this and hopefully the correct solution on OSM? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Lester Caine
view of things - but then the programmers there are in one camp or the other ... -- 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

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