Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-15 Thread Lester Caine
On 15/02/16 14:15, Colin Smale wrote: > On 2016-02-15 13:42, Lester Caine wrote: > >> So Bath is also a >> city despite being below some arbitrary population limit. >> > Bath has around 100k inhabitants, not exactly a hamlet... But it doesn't > have a city counci

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-15 Thread Lester Caine
on record? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalme

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-13 Thread Lester Caine
rom edubase when a schools reference changes :) But I am playing with historic stuff to see if I can create a history for each school from the edubase data. Very much a back burner job, but amazing what you can conjure up using a relational database ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-12 Thread Lester Caine
.. as you say it's more local choice on any final distinction. I think Facebook may have solved the problem ... EVERYTHING is a city! Even if getting the city into the right county/country is something that still has to be fixed :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Conta

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread Lester Caine
he CofE and how it's printed on site or on other documents. This is a bit of a mess across the board :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/02/16 19:34, John Aldridge wrote: > On 12-Feb-16 17:31, Lester Caine wrote: >> I adopted the standard of official_name=xxx where the edubase listing >> differs from the signage or other local 'format'... > > I'm not objecting, but why did you feel you wanted to clo

[Talk-GB] 'Training Centres'

2016-02-04 Thread Lester Caine
seems wrong Heart of Worcestershire College http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5902498 http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/38737994 And some missing bits ;) The whole spread of sites has just one edubase ID ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Lester Caine
what percentage actually have edubase or similar ID tags as well. That coverage needs more work yet. I've hacked the current name check script and can identify those schools that exist but without an ID. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=co

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Lester Caine
ll? Since these do not have to include that in their titles ... The tricky bit being the 16-19 age range campuses. Of cause once the URN is included one can look up the secondary data anyway. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

2016-01-24 Thread Lester Caine
On 24/01/16 13:09, Lester Caine wrote: > That just leave 4 more objects to check :) OK most of the 'red dot' items were out of area, but I've tidied them up anyway as they are still Worcestershire. Pershore College has been sort of solved by following the current signage ;) It has 'P

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

2016-01-24 Thread Lester Caine
' but that is not in the WR area, having a B postcode I think. That just leave 4 more objects to check :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.c

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

2016-01-24 Thread Lester Caine
be useful ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Med

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: 27,232 matches found in England

2016-01-24 Thread Lester Caine
chools project. But I am now at the point where adding the wikipedia tag, but this opens a can of worms since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Schools_in_Worcester only lists some schools and some of them are now closed ... so where does one stop cross project? -- Lester Caine -

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools Progress Tracker Update

2016-01-24 Thread Lester Caine
ground. ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

[Talk-GB] OSMSchools - Loose ends ...

2016-01-22 Thread Lester Caine
flags schools that are missing a edubase reference. While all the schools are now listed, I know some do not have a full tag set including street, postcode. edubase and website. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Wales data

2016-01-19 Thread Lester Caine
ttle slow downloading, but has all the data and seems to be updated regularly even if it still has old website url's and other content ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySol

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Wales data

2016-01-19 Thread Lester Caine
filename / URL? I just download with Firefox, opened in LibreOffice and filtered the Worcs/WR* entries to give me a working list ;) Nice to not have to jump through hoops to get a list. If you get stuck trying again, shout and I'll drop you a welsh filtered version. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - New edit tracker tool

2016-01-18 Thread Lester Caine
On 18/01/16 13:13, Dave F. wrote: > On 18/01/2016 13:00, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 17/01/16 20:35, Harry Wood wrote: >>> I made a new tracker tool for this school mapping project: >>> >>> http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/diffreader/schools >> Can I m

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - New edit tracker tool

2016-01-18 Thread Lester Caine
k/edubase/ can you add the website to the school so we have all the contact details for later developments. Since it's on the same page as the primary details it's just a couple more clicks to copy. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Two schools on the same site

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
be listed and can be crossed off. Getting the schools to provide the fine detail would then be the follow up. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
data page, it is not the right answer especially since there are separate figures for the two villages which one would EXPECT wikidata to document? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySol

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Multiple Schools on one site

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
l or another, and certainly the ones I have personal knowledge off do not have parking areas segregated to one or other building so there is not a 'shaded area' at all? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http:/

Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
uld be taken as official, and many of the missing schools simply have a large discrepancy in names, but which any human would understand as matching ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
On 17/01/16 18:17, Edward Betts wrote: > Wikipedia has an article about a village called Brailes, but OSM has nodes for > two villages, Upper Brailes and Lower Brailes. The matcher solves this problem > by picking the civil parish. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
ing automatically tagged ALSO need updating to an alternative object. Lets get one tidy finished before then looking for other? Adding all of these just adds to the work tidying the basic objects. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Cai

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Multiple Schools on one site

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
many cases the wrong area is 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://medw

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
age around the UK for parishes is sporadic? -- 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.u

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Multiple Schools on one site

2016-01-16 Thread Lester Caine
ail that could be added and if students get the bug, then the surrounding area is a little bare 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/ Mo

Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

2016-01-13 Thread Lester Caine
y data which would simplify accessing data such as website, so I am planning to duplicate that entry from the edubase site for website and phone. Just as a little funny. My wife's school had 119 pupils ... 60 boys and 60 girls :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http:

Re: [Talk-GB] UKOSM - technical aspects

2016-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
have your github user name. Others > (anyone) will be able to make changes via pull requests anyway. OK Guys time for me to bow out ... Seems lots of decisions have already been made and they do not work with my methods or cover my own views of what a 'British' group should support ...

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile Server manual build 15.10 troubleshooting

2016-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
ich I was hoping to make live to produce a UK style service, but currently only the OSRM layer is working fully. I'm at the pink square stage on the tile server ... and need to pay the bills so don't have time to 'start again' with a new framework. -- Lester Caine - G8

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK group - Sign up to mail lists

2015-12-20 Thread Lester Caine
On 17/12/15 22:02, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Email sign up form: > Minutes: Do we really have no option but bloody Google ... ANYTHING would be better than that and it will certainly put me off if that is adopted going forward! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2015-12-15 Thread Lester Caine
some people think should be added directly to the database and the Starbucks finder is a particularly good example! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.co

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

2015-12-15 Thread Lester Caine
', but of cause the 'holland' search needs to be global ;) -- 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] Nominatim weakness

2015-12-14 Thread Lester Caine
to gauge if you don't know what the user expects to see? (An the pigging change of motorway colour really does not help a new user in the UK! One can not readily distinguish the motorways around Birmingham) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wik

Re: [OSM-talk] How does one tag a business that closed and was replaced by something else?

2015-12-14 Thread Lester Caine
may split again. I presume that both already have their own address entries 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: [Talk-GB] route relations type=road

2015-12-07 Thread Lester Caine
ist is still the base for the green trunk routes? -- 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 Rai

Re: [Talk-GB] route relations type=road

2015-12-07 Thread Lester Caine
the new road network needs to be correct. If I want data on 'route' like A37 then the starting point is the ref tag and traffic direction rather than a messed up list of elements. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
cle if the smartcode goes down to individual postal addresses, or just the building? -- 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 Works

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
signs? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
ou can convert that TO a w3w title. If the mapping system is only accurate to 10mts your android drone has a selection of targets. I've just looked up my own address in the UK and depending on which map overlay I select I got four different answers, some the next door addresses. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
an be identified. As has already been pointed out on the discussions on these droids, it only works when there is a single story dwelling. Add 100 flats with one front door on a busy street ... but personally I think there will be more losses due to droids being intercepted in flight? :) >

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
en) third-party solution ? And of cause why rely on some optical barcode marking when a wireless based tag would be better. May need to change the battery every few years, but it only need to be in receive mode until a drone is in range ... with a button to 'sync' location with base ... -- L

[Talk-GB] Sync problem with british-isles.osm.pbf

2015-11-11 Thread Lester Caine
e existing copy and downloading a clean copy, or is there something to fix the update stream? -- 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 E

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

2015-11-10 Thread Lester Caine
ake slip road onto Axx' and that in my book is where the _link information has an important element but could also be a second tag. However like 'highway=residential', 'highway=trunk_link' is a shorthand that works at many levels ... but should the link be tagged for the road it provides the

Re: [OSM-talk] Undiscussed (?) edits removing lesser-used highway=* tags

2015-11-10 Thread Lester Caine
ne? As with the current discussion, key elements need a few ground rules, but that does not prevent additional data being added via extra tags. The rule about not tagging for renderer or router works both ways since one may need to add information that can't easily be accessed

Re: [Talk-GB] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

2015-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
ents are treated with the same level of importance, then the addition of other restrictions will make more sense, rather than promoting a 20MPH 'B' road over a 60MPH 'unclassified' ... which the current rendering is doing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsce

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Carto: White Roads & Road Widths

2015-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
e simple answer is secondary, tertiary and unclassified roads in many areas of the world have the same importance, so rendering them drastically differently is a mistake! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Service

[Talk-GB] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

2015-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
deprecated warnings on maxzoom it's not actually producing tiles ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Carto: White Roads & Road Widths

2015-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
devices the problem is worse than on high resolution devices. -- 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] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

2015-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
ssified_and_unclassified_roads next :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [Talk-GB] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

2015-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
ently in rendering ( or routing rules ) adds an incorrect importance to one over the other. In the absence of any other evidence I'm planning to simply re-tag the problem unclassified routes as tertiary for now, but I can make a case for all being secondary so they get rendered with the same

Re: [OSRM-talk] Demo Server Down

2015-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
ighway,secondary,ref,302}, null). (7) However it does not seem to worry osrm. Now to work out why tilemill has stopped working :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enq

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Carto: White Roads & Road Widths

2015-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
als may well have missed numerous examples of where something that looks good for a few limited examples fails in the wider coverage. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enquiry

Re: [OSRM-talk] Demo Server Down

2015-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
o need to pull in a new version of software, but the current style change is taking all my spare time at the moment. > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >> > On 01/11/15 20:42, Patrick Niklaus wrote: >>> >> The data on the dem

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/15 12:49, Marc Gemis wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk > <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: > > Now that I've got an easy toggle between the new style and the French > tile server a few more backwards steps bec

Re: [OSM-talk] Improved new Icon set for Open Street map

2015-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
looking to extend that into the icon map for my own rendering. While the styling for OSM is quite complicated it can easily be broken down into manageable elements such as road colours, or icon library, so switching elements is not particularly difficult once one has a working local rendering system. -- Le

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
urther loss of contrast! That is why I've been looking to a style that restores a more usable map for the visually impaired as demonstrated by the sample I provided earlier. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Elec

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

2015-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/15 10:02, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 01/11/15 07:22, Ed Loach wrote: >>>> It very simple, the colours should match the road sign colours: Blue, >>> Green, Red! >>> Red? >> all the legislation, &

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

2015-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
ions. It is one of the areas that I have actually adjusted in my own clone of the style and is a little different on the French version. p.s. - Anybody still got signs with red backgrounds in their area? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=co

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
'farm' areas still display incorrectly. That one is a tagging problem in the data! http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/OSM+Development was where I was back in August, but I've not been able to get back to that since, and the current fire fighting will add further to that delay :( -- L

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

2015-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
mall or retail premise, and once again, the amenity provided is the job function. The estate agent is next to the chemist's shop in the same building, so tag the building 'retail', and each unit with is amenity(s)? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?pag

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
ky stile for halloween but the purple colouring for roads? Anyway ... got to get out to site to fix another bloody sick M$ machine :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enquir

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
re bandwidth to do that. I bought the machine for this job some months back but as yet it is still only partially working ... now if others are working to the same end can we not pool that resource? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.C

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
WS a selectable rendering style? But that is yet another tangent and ring fenced solution :( -- 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 Engine

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
on the sat nav in the car should match display wise what one has reviewed on the desktop prior to planning the route ... so in addition to stabilising the broadband service, the off-line services need to be kept in sync, along with the editors ... and so it goes on :( -- Leste

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

2015-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/10/15 21:01, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > * Major rewrite of road and railway rendering, as part of Mateusz > Konieczny's Google Summer of Code project. See BUGGER I still haven’t got the backup system working and now all my UK stuff is screwed up :( This really does not work! --

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
an the 'defa...@osm.org' ... everything is a lot crisper. -- 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.c

[Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

2015-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
is the only source that has much of the detail that I need to show, and retaining blue ad green road links is essential in my book ... and one of the reasons I started even developing with OSM. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Map key

2015-10-17 Thread Lester Caine
eneral agreement for the change. But I have no doubt other sources will become live if the change goes ahead with their own style of map key ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enquir

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

2015-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
ave black boxes over the station area. I know the turntable area was cleared to put the electrification gear in, but the British Rail line books should clarify if there were other changes. It looks like extra tracks have been added through the platform area? -- Lester Cain

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

2015-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/09/15 23:22, Lester Caine wrote: > On 25/09/15 22:48, Graham Jones wrote: >> I'm pretty sure there have been no changes to the tracks or major >> building structures at station platform level - I didn't see any >> evidence of heavy work like that on my travels anyway. &g

Re: [OSM-talk] recent changes in rendering the map make it worse

2015-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
ed to get a proper tile cache working. But what I do have working shows in house rendering is not at all difficult. Just need to nail all the cludges in a simple to roll package of tools? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Ele

Re: [Talk-GB] Anybody a member of CAMRA?

2015-09-16 Thread Lester Caine
in county and the like, but pub is equally 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.u

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
nned state. History is an inherent part of the current 'namespace'! -- 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] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
e' in that data ... rather than Hoddesdon. -- 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 Rainbo

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
ipedia is far from complete so one finds erratic quality of information. Additionally wikidata is still at an early stage and does not have the bulk of the information already in wikipedia, so someone has to go through and change all the information blocks around or add missing ones where needed :(

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
n area and identify which of multiple zones it is actually in. Adding this data to the places does not fill that hole :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirys

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
y of a location on OSM, so having it appear as both a town and village would be confusing on searches. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ M

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
ata software to use the new coding format. The various boundaries are also available complete with updates since 2012 -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - h

Re: [OSM-talk] Buildings on abandoned railways (via Overpass)

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
ne-idea-be-back-on-track.html is a current item on my own pet 'abandoned railway' ... and the preserved railway is fast approaching from he south ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
ur own enclave is probably one unnamed 'hamlet', and I think there are potentially another couple, but I think what is missing is the outline of what ONS classify as the 'built up area' of Broadway ... And the boundaries of the parishes in Gloucestershire are missing as well ..

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
00 although at the end of the day the local comunity my well call themselves a town or a village based on choice rather than size. -- 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] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/09/15 00:41, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 14/09/15 00:16, Lester Caine wrote: > >> The OSM wiki defines 'hamlet' as less than 100-200 people, but village >> supposedly starts at 1000 up to 1 with the proviso that it depends >> on the country. Ideally the two

[Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
, but these still only go down to the ward/parish level. There is still no ID for the town/village :( And Scotland and Northern Ireland are separate data sets ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

[OSM-talk] Mapping what is on the ground ...

2015-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
use the 'Subedge' second half and that incudes what started the fun ... the map showing the 'Weston Subedge Halt' on the old railway ;) I'm asking both parish clerks just what the current legal position is, but mapping what you see does not help. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: important... recomend auto deletion of any Fw:important

2015-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
On 11/09/15 01:27, Warin wrote: > I'll be putting a block on any more messages with the subject containing > Fw:important The buggers are using several subjects, multiple probably hacked relay sites, but all ending at the same crap. Just need that site closing down? -- Lester Caine -

Re: [OSM-talk] Motion: Dedicated mailing list for abandoned railways

2015-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
s rebuilt and what replaced is exactly the sort of data that should be recorded. -- 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 Digit

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-08 Thread Lester Caine
documented in the change log, so all we are talking about is semantics and allowing a view of the data that can be rendered using the existing tools. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-08 Thread Lester Caine
no other indication it ever existed. -- 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://med

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-07 Thread Lester Caine
ain valid in the other. The current OHM is simply a scratch pad to store isolated historic material. It does not have any of the history currently being created daily in the main database. 'It get deleted' is the very history that someone has spent a lot of time previously documenting. -- Lester Cain

Re: [Talk-GB] Rail maxspeeds being converted

2015-09-05 Thread Lester Caine
ing to the current working books http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/10563.aspx Anything else is simply incorrect, so these changes should be reverted back to the correct data? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electron

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

2015-09-03 Thread Lester Caine
ced that there should be some more history prior to that date since the 2012 data already contains the planed improvements to the junction. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolv

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
ession of it and rail routes are one of those documented exceptions. -- 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] Abandoned Rails

2015-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
al of record. And in the UK you just buy a copy of the Electoral Register ... -- 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 Wor

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
stcode is added here so that searches can be done properly. Just because a post has not been put in the ground to identify a location, the location still exists if properly documented. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
e stuff to correct the mistakes. I have tried simply hiding the data which works around here, but another area nearer London is obviously using a different tag to 'farmland' ... just not identified yet what else to ignore. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
nclude the buildings within the area in the relation? Which is why I've stopped at just drawing boundary types so far. Actually the property boundaries on our road include the area of grass outside the front fence, but not the path which is another detail not yet added ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

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

2015-09-01 Thread Lester Caine
objects so even the fact that a page has an icon does not mean you will see it on the map you are looking at. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolv

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=woodchip to surface=woodchips

2015-08-31 Thread Lester Caine
to dust control. 'dirt' tends to imply a dusty surface, something one would not expect with a better managed soil surface. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://e

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >