[OSM-talk] Applications to the Local Chapter Agreement

2014-10-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Simon, I note in [1] that there are now three applications to the Local Chapter Agreement [2] and these are being processed now. In light of the current discussions on transparency and holding the board to account, can I ask whether it possible to disclose these just in case there are any other

[OSM-talk] A Better strikeMap\strike community

2014-10-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Kate Chapman wrote: What would you like the board to do to recognize the work of the volunteers? Hi Kate, Personally I don't want a pat on the back, but I would like to more prominently see the OSMF board actively supporting the community. For example, In my view we are long overdue some

[Talk-GB] Not long left to stand for OSMF board

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi, Just to flag it up here: If you want to stand for election to the OSM Foundation board you don't have long to nominate yourself. http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM14/Election_to_Board As you know a lot of the work is picked up by the working groups rather than the board so there is

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-10-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 27 August 2014 17:47, Edward Betts edward at 4angle.com wrote: I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag automatically. Can we now move forward with this? Yes please :-) I'll admit to losing track of the thread. Last thing I recall Edward was working on some

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

2014-10-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
Meant to send that to list. -- Forwarded message -- On 17 Oct 2014 00:59, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Crud, I guess Tulsa's out... Nowhere is rules out. At this stage we're seeking proposals. From my experience with organising SOTM 2013, I would say that the

Re: [Talk-GB] Confused over access...

2014-10-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
As pointed out the access tags work as a hierarchy with more specific modes of transport overruling the less specific forms. There's a nice diagram on the German version of the access page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Access_hierarchy_simple2.png (Note that it only shows a small

[OSM-talk] Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

2014-10-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi list members, State of the Map conferences are a great way to bring the community together, reach out to new members and promote innovation. I am delighted to see that the OpenStreetMap Foundation have committed to continuing State of the Map in 2015. The OSMF annual SOTM complements local

[Talk-GB] Updates from National Library of Scotlad

2014-10-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, NLS have been a keen contributor to OpenStreetMap and continue to provide historic maps for use in both OpenStreetMap and OpenHistoricMap. Their most recent updates include 1:1,250 scale covering central London and Edinburgh (1940s-60s) which include house numbers, and 1:10,560 maps for

[OSM-talk] How best to create a single point of interest online map with OSM data?

2014-10-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
* Ways disappear on the map (they don't get a pin: zoom in on the map to see two hidden toilets). This was a problem we had with the Mappa Mercia pub example. Turned out overpass can export centre points and following an update to uMap we posted a new guide:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] October social

2014-10-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
What's everyone's plans for food? Do we know if the place does food / there is somewhere nearby? If no then, not a problem, I'll just grab something before meeting. See you later Rob On 1 October 2014 09:48, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: A few suggestions: The new building on the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 24 September 2014 11:46, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Comments? Wow, that looks great. The light blue is tricky to see, but otherwise this looks fantastic :-) How long did it take you? I need to restart my attempt to add the Warwickshire data. Seeing this should keep me

[OSM-talk] The problem of mapping temporary features

2014-09-07 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Back in January/February of this year parts of Somerset, UK were flooded. This data was added to OpenStreetMap. Today a diary post on OpenStreetMap pointed me to a map rendering (MapSurfer). The map still shows the flooded area despite the fact that the waters have now retreated and the

[Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

2014-08-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I've see an increased use of block paving as a road surface on new housing developments. Example image: http://cms.esi.info/Media/productImages/38030_1338993270237_PF.jpg How are people tagging these? At first I wondered about the highway=living_street tag but the wiki page suggests

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Fred, The question of notability rules in Wikidata also crossed my mind. At this stage we are asking the question is it worth linking existing OSM data to existing wikidata via an automated process? The key word here is automated - we are already manually adding the tags (20k so far) to OSM.

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Lets just step back and reflect on this for a minute. I have reviewed the replies on this mailing list and there are a mixture of supportive comments, a few negatives and the remainder may suggest something but are neither negative or positive. Lets look at the issues raised: 1. Licence

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Simon, My understanding is that this is only looking at a very small subset of wikidata (based on a list of wikipedia categories). As such an API would only give you a partial view (70k) objects. We want to match as much as possible and therefore people will continue adding wikidata tags to OSM

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] September mapping party

2014-08-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Yeah I was thinking the same when I drove to work this morning. Shouldnt make a habit of it though :-p I'll put a tweet out. On 22 Aug 2014 15:06, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: As two of us are only available on 28 August and not on 4 September, I have decided to go ahead

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] September mapping party

2014-08-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Matthijs, Who else can't make September 4th in Coventry? I don't mind moving the date but only if it's causing a lot of problems and we know that the new date will be more popular. Regards, Rob On 15 August 2014 22:10, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: Dear all, It turns

[Talk-GB] C roads again

2014-08-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
References beginning with three or more letters or containing a semicolon: Hi Andrew, Any with FP or RB in them are public rights of way. We've been mapping those to the prow_ref= tag. Best, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

2014-08-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
Some very good tips there RichardF. Don't be fooled by the siren voices of the wiki. What's in the database is valid because it's formed by consensus. To come to the defence of the wiki (yes, there's a lot wrong with it, but there are also some good people putting in a lot of effort), it's

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 12 August 2014 21:43, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 12/08/14 20:18, Rob Nickerson wrote: Example 2 6, The Hollies, Birmingham Road, Town, ... Hard to say without knowing what The Hollies is exactly, but this is probably a case that we don't have a good answer

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Shenstone done

2014-08-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
Nice one. I've added a few OSM Notes of things that caught my attention when checking with the geofabrik OSM Inspector tool. If you have time to stop by these, that would be great. Rob On 7 August 2014 22:12, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: I wrapped up the remaining main Shenstone

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

2014-08-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Matthijs, Spotted the following sign related to your tagging of private roads discussion the other day. Enjoy :-) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93beGxtSTVGeUR2aFRqQzdaYXNGR0d6WlBhQXFr/edit?usp=sharing Rob ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] State of the Map 2013 Birmingham

2014-08-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Mary, That was almost a year ago - I'd be surprised if anyone remembers!! In any case why would you like to know? Rob On 10 Aug 2014 05:55, mooney.osm mooney@gmail.com wrote: I vaguely remember someone asking if there was a spare delegate badge. I think his name began with a G. Does

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

2014-08-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Just a few of my thoughts: 1. Bus routes Stuart wrote: I will need to think what to do when a bus turns off halfway along a road that is mapped as one line Here in Coventry we have all the bus routes mapped in OSM (splitting the road as necessary). Check out the render on the Transport layer:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

2014-07-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Looks like I'll tackle 3. I need something quick and easy as I don't think I'll have much time to map :-( Rob On 30 July 2014 21:29, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: I'll tackle 5 and 8 On 29 July 2014 11:00, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: On 29 July 2014 09:33,

Re: [Talk-GB] New mapper has imported all Nottingham street lights

2014-07-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
What happens if new contributors work out how to use the mapping tools but don't come across the import guidelines (or for that matter the community, mailing lists, etc)? I've just used JOSM to open a shapefile and attempt to upload it (I obviously didn't upload it). JOSM gave a warning message:

Re: [Talk-GB] New mapper has imported all Nottingham street lights

2014-07-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
If the answers are Yes/Yes/No, then is there a genuine problem? Like you, I personally wouldn't have imported this. My main rule is about maintainability. I'm yet to find a good tool for comparing the original import (be that from the original file or from OSM) to a new version provided by the

[Talk-GB] Change to event calendar: Midlands meet this Thursday, 31 July

2014-07-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, The Mappa Mercia group holds monthly meetings in the West Midlands on the first Thursday of every month. This month we will break the rule. Our next meeting is therefore this Thursday, 31st July in Shenstone, Staffordshire. Details at:

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Dan, We're using our Birmingham event as a way to target new contributors rather than the press. Given that we got something on local news and radio during SOTM, we'd probably struggle to get any more airtime so soon. As you say it has to be a photogenic event. I'm sure the London group could do

Re: [Talk-GB] London (Was: osm 10th birthday: press)

2014-07-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Great work with the press statement. Can the London group please decide on a venue and update the OSM wiki page. I want to send out some tweets to UK organisations to invite them to attend one of the UK events. It would look better if there was an agreed venue for London. Cheers, Rob p.s. I'm

[OSM-talk] UK public footpaths (was: Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes)

2014-07-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi, Public footpaths in the United Kingdom have been discussed at length and are detailed on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_public_rights_of_way#Tagging_Access_Provisions http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_access_provisions In summary, for a Public Footpath: * tag the

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki translate extension

2014-07-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
What we really need is people actually editing the Wiki in the first place and in my opinion the best way to get people to do so would be a better editor: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor There's an issue for this on trac [1] but the main problem is that the extension moved from

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki translate extension

2014-07-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
In my opinion we should try to keep the different language pages as similar as possible - that is, they should aim to be just translations of one another. My reason behind this is that OpenStreetMap is a community and data project. We need to work together and use common tagging so that developers

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki VisualEditor (Was: Wiki translate extension)

2014-07-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
extension moved from requiring mediawiki 1.23 to requiring mediawiki 1.24 which is still in development. Can't you just use the old version that worked with 1.23? VisualEditor is still in development. MediaWiki provide an extension so that non Wikimedia sites can start to use it but as of

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: OpenStreetMap 10th birthday Aug 9th

2014-07-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Brian, Thanks. If you pull a list of organisations together then I'll produce a list of local contributors. Given that google drive worked well for SOTM, I will share the list there and then people can just tick off who they've contacted. Rob On 23 July 2014 19:43, Brian Prangle

[Talk-GB] Celebrating OSM's 10th year in Birmingham (Saturday, 9th August)

2014-07-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, To celebrate OpenStreetMap's 10th anniversary, Mappa Mercia are hosting an event in Birmingham. Join us between 12noon-2pm (Saturday 9th August), at the wonderful Six Eight Kafé [1] on Temple Row - a 5 minute walk from Birmingham New Street railway station (map [2]). We will have cake and

Re: [Talk-GB] The Public Data Group/Companies House

2014-07-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Dave, Thanks for linking to the talk-gb list. There's some interesting stuff in there including news that the OS will add major paths to the OS OpenData Streetview map. The increased access to companies house and land registry price paid data will make more postcodes available under the Open

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aug 9th OSM 10th Birthday

2014-07-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
to find and and cental Regards Brian On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: I put out a tweet asking for suggested free venues and had a couple of responses: Six Eight Kafé on Temple Row (near the Cathedral in the city centre): http

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

2014-07-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Our mappa mercia page on the OSM wiki tells me that we have arranged our August monthly meet up to be a week early (due to the 10th birthday event on August 9th). It's listed as being Tamworth/Shenston. Do folks still want to run this event, and if yes where shall we meet? Rob p.s. I'm

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

2014-07-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
! Shenstone is quite small, but it has the advantage that we can map the entire village in one evening. Tamworth seems to be already quite well-mapped, are there any particular things we want to map there? -- Matthijs On 17 July 2014 21:24, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aug 9th OSM 10th Birthday

2014-07-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
I put out a tweet asking for suggested free venues and had a couple of responses: Six Eight Kafé on Temple Row (near the Cathedral in the city centre): http://www.sixeightkafe.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/SixEightKafe/status/489113935363469312 The Anchor in Digbeth

Re: [Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

2014-07-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
changing the national tags to conform to the OSM norm? Rob On 11 July 2014 21:35, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: listed_status=local_grade_B; heritage=6; heritage_operator=Birmingham_CIty_Council. See tagwatch for other examples On 9 July 2014 22:08, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

[Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

2014-07-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, The wiki page on listed_status does not mention locally listed buildings. How do you currently tag these in your area? A quick google suggests that Birmingham CC use a grading system (Grade A to Grade C), whereas in Coventry it is just on the list (that is, there is no grading).

Re: [Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

2014-07-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
, but it is an attempt to define a way of tagging listed buildings (etc.) on a more global basis. Jerry On 9 July 2014 21:48, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, The wiki page on listed_status does not mention locally listed buildings. How do you currently tag these in your

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi John, The negativity, or least lack of enthusiasm, is partly due to the complexity of the issue. We'd love to have Highways Agency data as open data but if the data is based upon Ordnance Survey data this becomes a quite tricky. Normally you would have the data holder apply for a Exemption

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
not render, for example I drove through Uttoxeter with osmand running and the proposed highways make the map pretty confusing. Phik (trigpoint ) On Sat Jul 05 2014 17:47:39 GMT+0100 (BST), Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi John, The negativity, or least lack of enthusiasm, is partly due

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 5 July 2014 19:20, John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com wrote: snip I'll let them them know about the copyright situation (which I was fully aware from day one was a concern) and there is no real interest from the OSM community for establishing this. John, Please don't tell the Highways

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
I've had a couple of responses off list. These are: * Constructing the past * something with crowd in it? Thanks, for these good ideas. Any more suggestions? Rob On 18 June 2014 21:04, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: A few OSM members interested in historic maps are working

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
the name as things evolve. :-) Rob On 19 June 2014 23:13, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Open Historical Map which already has a website www.openhistoricalmap.org On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: A few OSM members interested

[OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
A few OSM members interested in historic maps are working on our own version of the New York Public Library Building Inspector. If you've not yet tried it out, go take a look - it's a great site: http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/ So, the core function they are asking contributors to do is to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Archer wrote: I understood your further post in this manner: you want to take the Wikipedia link and add with a script or bot the associated Wikidata-ID. This would add the Wikidata ID Q3038 to both OSM objects place=island and boundary=administrative of Heligoland because both objects in OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens, and St Nicolas's Gift Shop all near each other. Which one should the wikipedia page St Nicolas's Church match? Great to see support for the idea. I think it's been a bit of a complex one that hasn't been grasped

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
-established and supported by many applications, and support some cases that aren't supported by the wikidata tag. 2014-06-17 19:06 GMT-03:00 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Archer wrote: I understood your further post in this manner: you want to take the Wikipedia link and add with a script or bot the associated Wikidata-ID. This would add the Wikidata ID Q3038 to both OSM objects place=island and boundary=administrative of Heligoland because both objects in OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens, and St Nicolas's Gift Shop all near each other. Which one should the wikipedia page St Nicolas's Church match? Great to see support for the idea. I think it's been a bit of a complex one that hasn't been grasped

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
-established and supported by many applications, and support some cases that aren't supported by the wikidata tag. 2014-06-17 19:06 GMT-03:00 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap-carto updates

2014-06-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Great work :-) It's wonderful to see all the activity on the mapnik-carto rendering rules and justifies the time spent rewriting the code to Carto. A big thank you to Andy Allan for kicking that off. His just-do-it approach was exactly what was needed at the time. I found out at SOTM just how

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
I don't suppose one way or the other, that's why I was asking how you proposed to measure it. Tom How do we measure the success of any tag in OSM? Some thoughts: - Other users start to contribute using the same tag - Our data consumers start making use of the tag - The tag is given

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
What would you consider a demonstration of success exactly? Tom Tom, Measuring the success of a bot can be done in the same way that the success is measured in a statistical model; Type I and Type II errors. So for example, if the test is to attach wikidata tags to churches then: * A type I

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
...@compton.nu wrote: On 08/06/14 21:28, Rob Nickerson wrote: Measuring the success of a bot can be done in the same way that the success is measured in a statistical model; Type I and Type II errors. So for example, if the test is to attach wikidata tags to churches then: * A type I error would

Re: [Talk-GB] Update: Deploying our own version of NYPL Building Inspector

2014-06-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
into the OpenHistoricalMap repo https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/building-inspector as I think that's the best place for it (not sure why I didn't do that at first, tbh) cheers, Tim On 1 June 2014 18:25, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, An update on progress deploying our own

[Talk-GB] OSM session at Wikimania 2014

2014-06-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, Looks great. Don't forget that we have a wiki as part of OpenStreetMap. There are some really simple tasks that Wikimedia folk could help us with. For example setting up a bot to fix our ridiculous number of double redirects: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:DoubleRedirects

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Warwickshire aerial

2014-06-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Brian, cc: talk-gb-westmidlands The error message JOSM is giving on Warwickshire Aerial imagery is: Image couldn't be fetched:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tysoe Mapping Party May 31st

2014-05-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
What time? I'm in but need to pop out around 2-3pm Rob On 23 May 2014 17:08, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone Can I have an indication of who's coming to this event on May 31st? The WI are laying on lunch. We have the Village Hall with wifi and Mike Sanderson(local

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
end up with a gap between terrace buildings. Help from the GIS community would be great. See the bug details at https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer/issues/19 Regards, Rob On 21 May 2014 22:41, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Good work Tim. It seems we have a lot of people

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
:57, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for you help Tim, The NYPL code is here: https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector/ I'm assuming it's rails as that's mentioned in some of the code commits, but I don't know any more than that. Best, Rob p.s. The code

[Talk-GB] Postcodes

2014-05-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
I personally put postcodes on buildings as in my two most common use cases (getting something delivered to my house, and using my GPS to get somewhere) I have become accustomed to being asked for a house number after supplying a postcode. I guess that tagging the street works (although you may

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
in Ireland and the UK. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/fireinsurancemaps.html I've reached out via Twitter and via email to the Library asking for a couple of maps for a pilot area to look at. Cheers, Tim On 16 May 2014 19:57, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
May 2014 21:08, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steven, Thanks for the offer of help. Yesterday I managed to get the NYPL vectorizer working (this is the tool that has a first stab at creating vectors from the map). I did this on a small screenshot of NLS's London maps. I've

[OSM-talk] This has to stop: User Diaries Spam

2014-05-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
Am 14.05.2014 14:46, schrieb Pieren: I would suggest to remove the diary feature completely. In my opinion that would be a big step in the wrong direction. In fact we should be expanding the community side of OSM.org as the community should be at the heart of the project. Things like mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
version of OSM for a local personal project, when I looked a few weeks ago Open Historical Map was down and was never very usable before that. It sounds like from the WIKI things maybe starting to happen, date slider planned, etc. regards, Steven On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
by their level of funding. This should not be a problem as we can self host the website. On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: The OS National Grid 1:2500 series includes addresses but is only just coming out of copyright. I have access to a slippy map with a few sheets

[OSM-legal-talk] Guideline review: Substantial

2014-05-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
All, Although I have not read up on any database legal cases (and do not have the time to), I do have some concerns as to the definition of substantial. My assumption is that insubstantial use means that the ODBL does not apply (and therefore attribution and share-alike does not apply). If this

Re: [Talk-GB] HampshireCC aerial imagery and height data

2014-05-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Colour IR:- http://faffy.openstreetmap.org/hampshire-fcir/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg Height:- http://faffy.openstreetmap.org/hampshire-height/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg Cheers Andy *From:* SK53 [mailto:sk53@gmail.com] *Sent:* 09 May 2014 09:38 *To:* Rob Nickerson *Cc:* Talk-GB *Subject:* Re: [Talk

[Talk-GB] HampshireCC aerial imagery and height data

2014-05-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Hampshire County Council have now put their 2013 aerial imagery (plus height data and near infrared data) up online under the Open Gov Licence: http://protohub.net/hampshire-publishes-aerial-photography-as-opendata-finally/ From a earlier article it seems like this is capture at 12.5cm

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-07 Thread Rob Nickerson
to be out-of-bounds Jerry On 6 May 2014 22:17, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Correction: I don't mean OS Country series (that seems to be older and probably now out of copyright). What I really mean is OS National Grid 1:2500 series, which can be seen at: http

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
Correction: I don't mean OS Country series (that seems to be older and probably now out of copyright). What I really mean is OS National Grid 1:2500 series, which can be seen at: http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/historical/ Rob On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
trying the Building Inspector with this dataset. I wonder if there's anyone from the NLS on list? On 1 May 2014 19:11, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, all Open. It's great. In terms of how we could use it here in the UK, the best data I can think of is the OS Town

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Stourbridge

2014-04-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
I'm going to try my best to pop over. I've not decided whether I'm going to come straight from work and fit some mapping in before, or whether I'll pop along later (it's been a busy couple of weeks). Any suggestions of areas that need some attention? On 30 April 2014 20:37, Brian Prangle

[Talk-GB] Mapping party - Tysoe near Banbury

2014-04-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, We have two meeting in May in the Midlands region. The first is our regular first Thursday of the month social (that's this Thursday,1st May) at Stourbridge. The second is a mapping day on Saturday 31st May in Tysoe. We were invited to Tysoe, a rural parish situated between

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: OpenData policy

2014-04-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Brian, So they are saying that the Crown Copyright statement applied to an earlier version and they acknowledge that they can remove it if they want now that they have switched to using OS OpenData. But... they want to wait until the proper consultation period and when their data quality will

[OSM-talk] Info on SOTM (WAS: No new information on the SOTM since January 2014)

2014-04-07 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Gonzalo, Henk, Thanks for the update. Having helped organise last year I had no doubt that SOTM 2014 would be going ahead - the OSMF, Henk and the SOTM Working Group are all behind it. Let me know if you need help with anything (announcements, blogging, tweeting or something that I can do

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
The OSMF key functions are available online [1] and they're very bare bones - the OSMF is hands off*. The two biggest points that relate to SOTM are: - Provides a vehicle for fund-raising to support the project. The foundation can accept donations for the OpenStreetMap Project and allocate

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
SOTM EU and US, combined with the OSMF focus on being more of a theoretical body have reduced the profit and motivation in doing a SOTM to approximately zero. I hope it still happens, but I'd be surprised. It might be better to run a SOTM South America, or something. Steve OSMF organised

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
. The conference was in early September. Based on these dates (if you add two months to each to reflect that SOTM is two months later) we are still ahead of last years schedule. Regards, Rob On 4 April 2014 22:59, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: SOTM EU and US, combined

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Demo Notes App

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I thought I'd have a go at creating an app! As I wasn't able to make it over to Birmingham on Thursday I used the time to get Version 1 up and running. It's very basic (showing OSM notes when given a set of coordinates and radius) but it has all the components that you would need to

[OSM-talk] State Of The Map France starting tomorrow in Paris

2014-04-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Wow, great stuff. Is there any live videos / webcasting for those folks who couldn't attend? Regards, Rob p.s. I'll be following the tweets on behalf of the Mappa Mercia (Birmingham and surrounding area, UK) team. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bad PMSA tags

2014-04-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
No worries. Glad that I could help. I also spotted that there are some PMSA:ref tags that you may also want to change: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=pmsa Rob On 3 April 2014 00:05, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 2 April 2014 23:46, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

[OSM-talk] Resolving OSM tags to URLs

2014-04-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
-- Andy Mabbett wrote: -- I gave the requested talk yesterday. During preparatory discussions, it turned out that, while hosted by IBM, the audience was a W3C working group, Data on the web best practice. As such, the interest was no so much trees or gas pipes, but the use of URIs (particularly

[Talk-GB] Resolving OSM tags to URLs

2014-04-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
-- Andy Mabbett wrote: -- I gave the requested talk yesterday. During preparatory discussions, it turned out that, while hosted by IBM, the audience was a W3C working group, Data on the web best practice. As such, the interest was no so much trees or gas pipes, but the use of URIs (particularly

Re: [OSM-talk] City templates - Links OFF

2014-03-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Erick, I'm not sure what you mean - can you please tell me what you are referring to. If you mean the template for places on the OpenStreetMap wik, such as as shown on the right hand side of the London page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London ) then you can edit the template at

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

2014-03-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
I wouldn't get too excited about that EU directive. I've read it twice now and both times I came to the conclusion that (at least for the UK) address data will NOT suddenly become available to OSM. For example the directive still allows for Charging and the use of Licences. The directive [1]

Re: [OSM-talk] Best way to download data of route relations?

2014-03-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
There was a question about bus routes/route relations just the other day. See my reply* at: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-March/069413.html Using Overpass API you can extract a line for a bus route relation. By default you line is made up of all the roads that form part of

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] FSFE award article on OpenStreetMap's main blog

2014-03-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
Enjoy! And thanks to Jonathan Bennett. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/03/26/document-freedom-day/ ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] 10th Anniversary Party

2014-03-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
I say we should aim to meet up with some of the other local groups. I've cc'd Jerry as he's doing a good job of announcing upcoming Nottingham meets at the moment. August 9th is a Saturday so we can make the most of the day (rather than trying to squeeze travel and the meeting into an evening).

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] 20mph zones in Birmingham to be rolled out

2014-03-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
Confused. Are the maps suggesting that any road within the area that is not otherwise coloured will become 20 mph? Of interest those maps are Ordnance Survey's StreetView product, which is one of the products that is available under OS OpenData licence and we can use it in OpenStreetMap. This

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap receives Document Freedom Day Award 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Wednesday is Document Freedom Day 2014 - and this year the work of all OpenStreetMap contributors was recognised by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) my means of the Document Freedom Day Award 2014. The award was presented on Saturday in Birmingham, England at an event attended by

[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap receives Document Freedom Day Award 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Wednesday is Document Freedom Day 2014 - and this year the work of all OpenStreetMap contributors was recognised by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) my means of the Document Freedom Day Award 2014. The award was presented on Saturday in Birmingham, England at an event attended by

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Guest bloggers and twits

2014-03-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Now that the dust has settled after the relaunch of mappa-mercia.org we'd now like to invite you to join us as a guest blogger and/or twitterer. Writing a blog post on mappa-mercia.org is very simple as the editor gives you all the buttons you are used to in MS Word/other word

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