[OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
support service to provide ... and I still need OHM as an option ... I need to get this machine configured before shipping over to the data centre where it will sit on a high speed pipe so I need to get it right. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
well unless that geometry can be completely isolated. Trying to use the same way elements for different objects in different databases does not work :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
classifications. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
is farmland. trying to fill that with blocks of landcover is what seems wrong here ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway - routable network and reservoirs/lakes

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway - routable network and reservoirs/lakes

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
it should be drawn, but an imaginary link just showing water flow should not be necessary? Any routing process should be able to deduce the relation, there is no need to draw it. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

2015-07-24 Thread Lester Caine
to the surrounding areas and I read THAT page as saying landuse=farm is not valid. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarm has so few entries tagged that I am sure it could be 'retired' now? As others have said - generally covering large areas as 'farmland' is not helping anybody ... -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

2015-07-24 Thread Lester Caine
at the bottom of the page and seeing '69' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook uses OpenStreetMap

2015-07-21 Thread Lester Caine
/editing:incorrectlyspelledcities:europe:uk#fixed gives you an idea of the backlog just with the primary places information for the UK and that is only the tip of the iceberg :( I've been promised several time over the last years that Broadway will be moved back to Worcestershire but with no actual change. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

2015-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

2015-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
for any routing system. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

2015-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
they have some arbitrary boundary through the middle of farmland. -- 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 road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

2015-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/07/15 17:04, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: From a UK point of view there nothing wrong with http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/52.1106/-2.0754 and certainly that is what is needed for any routing system. Yes, this part of map is not bad. I am

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

2015-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
need to get the tile server live first while still paying the bills ... -- 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] Preserving History ...

2015-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
. ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

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

2015-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/08/15 17:24, Tom MacWright wrote: It seems like the only thing you're contributing is negativity. http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/OSM+Development Not that I've got all the latest crib sheets working yet :( Last system I had fully functional was on an SUSE 12.3 -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

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: [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: [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: [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: [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: [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

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

2015-08-30 Thread Lester Caine
and k=v makes perfect sense ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-30 Thread Lester Caine
beyond original use. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Lester Caine
e associated with both dust and more solid compaction of the surface layer. So while 'ground' may be a useful holdall where the exact nature is not known, but it is not a mechanically finished surface, it should be replaced with a more accurate designation for which 'dirt' is simply another ambiguous

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: [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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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: [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: [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: [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: [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: [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

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-22 Thread Lester Caine
f the secondary tagging to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver and the like. But where lakes - natural and man-made - have navigation routes through many of the waterway tags also apply but this has been another area of discussion to map the actual routes across the water a

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
leisure=marina without any agreement as to just what area that should cover. It's the insistence that water only applies to natural elements which just does not fit properly, and man_made=reservoir while much more accurate does not fit in with a consistent landcover/landuse overlay? -- Lester C

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-10 Thread Lester Caine
On 10/03/16 17:46, Philip Barnes wrote: > You will also need to consider bus lanes as well. Complicated by selective operating times and contraflow problems :) I got caught out by that going to SOTM at Birmingham ... OSMAND was telling me where to turn ... -- Lester Caine - G8

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

2016-03-04 Thread Lester Caine
k this third party activity is helpful to > OSM! In the first instance I have no intention of contributing to > bitcoin since I think it's main reason for existence is to hid scammers > and until that secrecy is removed ... I will not be signing up ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

2016-03-04 Thread Lester Caine
first instance I have no intention of contributing to bitcoin since I think it's main reason for existence is to hid scammers and until that secrecy is removed ... I will not be signing up ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Cain

Re: [OSM-talk] OT: How do you read OSM Emaillists?

2016-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
y fails to display properly ... but here is not the place to be complaining :) -- 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 W

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
as simple as identifying the local time given some sort of location identifier becomes unreliable when local variations of language and custom are added in. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
oding system' for the physical location can be used to display the raw numbers? But for readability, just as OLC does, one uses the town and country and simply provide a GPS location limited to that area. A bit like 'national grid' in the UK > Cheerio John > > On 11 Jul 2016 2:36 pm, "Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
re elements may be additional to the postcode itself, so 10 characters is never enough. Open Location Code lacks the ability to handle multi-story housing. It only gets you to the apartment block. This is an area where OSM still needs some more work. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
e stored in the database. -- 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://r

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
gt; > How about musical notation? We could sing our parcels to their > destinations. ;-) Or even more radical ... just use numbers for time and location :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - h

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
atural=water should wrap what are quite clearly man made waterway features just reinforces that and while the effects are small, many parts of the world even 'coastline' is now a man made construction. But the 'tags' list is probably the place to open a discussion on this ... not that I b

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
On 08/11/16 18:54, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > FWIW, I like the "-scape" suffix, e.g. OpenStreetscape: Get's my vote Capital 'S' though OpenStreetScape -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Se

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/16 08:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk > <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: > > On 02/11/16 00:57, john whelan wrote: > > If OSMand etc treat them differently then we may not be show

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
leave working systems alone ... -- 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] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
the android phone, something that is becoming worse rather than better. Even driving down the M5 I get gaps in reception, so everything has to be local, which OSMAnd does a good job of for most things ... just not B/unclassified roads :( Docker is yet another infrastructure tool to get ones head arou

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
simply wrong for the UK! -- 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] it may be useful

2017-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/03/17 18:38, Lester Caine wrote: > Kind regards, Lester Caine *I* did not sent that email! Which is why it has another email address since forging my own would fall fowl of my spf record! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=cont

Re: [OSM-talk] it may be useful

2017-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/03/17 19:47, Lester Caine wrote: > On 30/03/17 18:38, Lester Caine wrote: >> Kind regards, Lester Caine > > *I* did not sent that email! Which is why it has another email address > since forging my own would fall fowl of my spf record! OK anybody know who to repor

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-21 Thread Lester Caine
idea what the tool is supposed to do :) -- 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 Di

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
hem to take box="w,s,e,n" as an alternative input. But the range of 'standards' for passing parameters is the problem here not simply what is being passed. With each OS and programming language having it's own style of working there is simply to many variables to create a single stand

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
een languages ... > On 22/04/2017 15:45, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 22/04/17 15:28, Dave F wrote: >>> As they're parameters, the format can be standardised for the end user & >>> any programme should be able to sort out syntax behind the scenes. >> Totally ag

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
On 22/08/17 17:19, Philip Barnes wrote: >> called differently, but this is it: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical >> > Isn"t that going to be rather subjective? And will depend on 'time of day' ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
route but then avoids the M5 as well :) Interesting ... checking OSRM is getting it right so I need to check OSMAND again on that. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
. what it should be using is a percentage, so 5% would be tidy and 10% pushing where a traffic camera would be 'within tolerance'. Since speedometers are only required to be 'within 10%' currently ... you get the idea ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
k road :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
s to a halt. Stratford is just as bad and the new roads planned will make things even worse rather than helping. We don't stand much chance of designing a harmonized routing process when the planners can't even fix the problems they create :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
to find the right location to see what data was in OSM for the collage and some material that has not yet made it into wikidata came up. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enquir

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
independent and unrelated project with it's own agenda ... -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
t are doing the processing. The annoying thing here is that the hierarchy of places that wikidata provides could be useful to OSM searches ... but it still needs the likes of Nominatim and/or GeoNames to cross reference that data which provides an alternate secondary database. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 16:48, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 16:06, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > >>> While it is not yet complete, in what way is Wikdiata failing to be >>> sufficiently reliable? >> >> Much of the work I did on wikipedi

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
as the NSG's update reports adding new streets and changes to location hierarchy. But I should prefer that this layer is part of OSM rather than a third party service. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
why I think 'another' cross-reference tool may be more appropriate with OSM and wikipedia/wikidata simply being sources. THAT requires OSM to have a 'unique id' one can use to cross reference though :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
lot of corrections made to get the right 'set' of data on a school object. While only a small number of objects were actually wrong, that is enough to justify needing a manual cross check of some sort. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?pa

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
that overlays that, so OSM only needs to use the wikidata namespace for all of that material. I don't think that the idea of 'bot' space actually fits into that model as it is the unique ID that is fixed and 'bot' tags either need to be accessible in 'mapping' space, or remain in the se

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
g the default desktop view) AH - so it's stripped when you grab a printed copy of the article :( There may be a link to Wikimedia Commons material, but not to wikidata material in external links ... that is where I expected to find it ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
as birth, death and activity locations that overlay all the objects I'm working with. Premises listed on the UK national census are a typical fairly reliable source I'm working with daily ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Cain

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
emetery. wikidata should probably have an object for that with links to Highgate cemetery and OSM could have a complete set of all gravestones on the site, or link to an external copy of that list. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
stest' route for UK rural areas - and get my blue motorway, green trunk and red primary road back :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Mod

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
d dedicated sat nav did a good job as well as handling hands free calls on the N900 mobile. Modern options are going down hill fast and can't even do the basics! Simple reception of a signal would be nice to have once again ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
epend on why you are using the road? Things like 'speed_limit' need to be handled before adding another 'classification' tag? -- 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] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
ting that gives problems, other routing engines are showing similar detours around local 'shortcuts' ... so even within a single country harmonization is a problem ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
a country or area need to cover the differences that apply in that area? Just as the routing rules need to know France is Left Hand and UK is Right ... with different default speed limits. > Le mar. 22 août 2017 à 11:16, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk > <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>&

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
me a more reliable source of such data. Just a single link to a substantial set of additional data. So ... where does 'brand:' come from? Should this not simply be 'link:'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine El

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