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

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 14:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 14:28, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > >> wikidata provides a section which documents a range of LINKS which >> identify the same object on other databases. It would be nice if there >>

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

2017-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
ich  Wikipedia articles does this object > represent, and offer some likely candidates, but it shouldn't be > automatic.  I think Mapbox was working on something like that? There are many lists of data which I now expect to appear in wikidata. If THAT is appropriate is not a question to answer here, b

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

2017-11-21 Thread Lester Caine
On 21/11/17 04:02, Marc Gemis wrote: > I'll agree with Yuri that is has to be the choice of the mapper to > work in a specific region and not the challenge creator. I stopped using MapRoulette simply because it was taking me well out of my comfort zone ... -- Lester Caine -

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
her natural or managed landcover. We can define landuse=park, but that park can have a lot of detail contained within it ... We are looking to render blocks of trees, grass, and other objects how ever created? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?p

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
ave requested as perhaps a barrier or simply as an amenity ... or has been preserved as it has been there for hundreds of years ... We need to build a proper hierarchy of LANDUSE into which more detail can be added if required? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - h

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
ng different interpretations on existing tags depending on where they are used? -- 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] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/17 10:34, Warin wrote: > On 02-Nov-17 09:21 PM, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 02/11/17 09:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> ONE tag to say what? You are still owing an answer to this. >> I think the problem is similar to the multiple areas problem. There are >>

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

2017-10-25 Thread Lester Caine
ng is a clean set of guidelines for using any third party reference? -- 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 Engineer

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-03 Thread Lester Caine
? The fact that 'FIXME' and 'fixme' can exist on the same node just seems wrong in ANY case? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

2018-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
of what is important' on a single static map and I know the technology is there, just not the resources to generate it? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-03 Thread Lester Caine
, but 'FIXME' is clean and changing them just because you can adds nothing to the data. Get on an deal with them to remove them all together is the right tack ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
A' or something similar. Units on a storage site may well be more complex than just number. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/01/18 09:37, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2018-01-23 10:06 GMT+01:00 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>>:  Actually it's more likely to be the estate name so for my near by estate it is messy since I've ended up using 'housenumber' so that

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

2018-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
how it was generated, and can filter the 'social media' contributions from the 'constructive' ones. -- 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 ?

2018-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
countries not have motorways at all? Certainly the current default rendering is useless for many of us anyway so we have to ue an alternate anyway ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2018-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
email replies properly handled on different lists :( ) -- 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] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

2018-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
yes could be used to identify that there are associated area objects that can be used on higher resolution mapping. I don't think 'area:highway=' has place especially where the 'centerline' way is used to combine several highway=xxx types such as road,cycleway and footpath ... -- Lester Caine - G8

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
listing? I find the practice of adding ANY tag that does not enhance the data as pointless. There is no need to TAG that there is no number ... you just don't add the tag ... just as the example here ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] building=grandstand vs leisure=bleachers

2018-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
particular event but present for some time perhaps every year. -- 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] Please do not re-use old node IDs

2018-03-06 Thread Lester Caine
know the answer, but should the API be able to accept these ID's anyway? In an ideal world, the previous now hidden data should perhaps be flagged when the ID is used? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Really heavy browser load with Overpass-turbo map display

2018-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
the lack of Firebug as the replacement has problems with font sizes at least on linux and does not provide some of the nice features Firebug STILL provides on my development machine. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF makes a political decision where should be a technical solution?

2018-11-23 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Plus code grid service

2018-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
d traction on the ground? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Med

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

2019-07-04 Thread Lester Caine
omeone has an 'approved' way of adding it back? Personally I think that micro-mapping complex junctions does require multiple ways even if the planned routes through a junction can be abused by taking the wrong path ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsc

Re: [OSM-talk] We're erasing our history in wiki

2019-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https

Re: [OSM-talk] handling street names in speech

2019-07-17 Thread Lester Caine
processes will always be wrong. The real problem is that there is no mechanism to add corrections in a secondary system in much the same way as there is no translation system for the key English elements of the data. Even IPA strings depend on the context and accent that is being vocalised! -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-25 Thread Lester Caine
of the 'complaints' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
of that. Question2Answer looks like it's being well supported. At least it has a release that works on the latest PHP and while it's a little long in the tooth, https://github.com/jamesspittal/osqa-q2a offers a hope that there is potential to pump existing material across? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
to difficult to 'recover' it after systems stopped working. So where would I head to get my hands on an XML dump of the current data to see if I can push it into the copy of Q2A I've just set up ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access

2020-05-25 Thread Lester Caine
which may be to approach the destination from the other end and perhaps even indicate 'back up to destination' ... now that WOULD be an intelligent router ... but if there is no information on which to base that decision even the driver has to guess. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
source of local time data for example. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalme

[OSRM-talk] Problem with install

2013-12-03 Thread Lester Caine
have any idea what I'm missing in the vhost settings? ( All the PHP stuff is working fine on Nginx ;) ) -- 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] Separation of sources

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

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

2010-04-11 Thread Lester Caine
, but OSM has the correct tracks! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-19 Thread Lester Caine
set of ways seems much more correct to me. The same with similar data from other countries. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

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

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

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

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

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

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

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

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

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey talk tomorrow

2010-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
only use Windows ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Definitive source for UK streetnames? - OS, 'road name signs', or a council 'list'?

2010-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
by a commercial operation that then makes money out of it :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata amp; the new license/CT

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

[Talk-GB] OS 10k file name problem

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

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

2010-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
there. but I need to make the selected map more switch-able so I can run the original Isle of Man historic maps as well. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

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

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Address list

2010-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
appropriate. . -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

[Talk-GB] Kick on IE setup

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
and so provide the missing information to link the postcode to a physical road. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
by an area anyway. One would not be using the boundary of that area as that IS the wrong 'way'. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids - use in searching

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

[Talk-GB] ORS in miles

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
and I wonder how many of the remaining matches would be made if these were simply stripped before comparing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

Re: [Talk-GB] SABRE Maps

2011-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
is very nice. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

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

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

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

2011-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
that the account was only set up 5 minutes before would suggest an newbie editor. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

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

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

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

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
frames :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

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

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
in missing information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Looking For Unconnected Cycleways

2011-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
for a number of those :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

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

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

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

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

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

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

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

[Talk-GB] (still editing) 10335460

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

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

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

[Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

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

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

2012-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
more time tomorrow night. Just pissed me off that I'd fixed the same block twice, but not managed to save any of the work :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
of red dots around my clear area ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Talk-GB] Normal practice ...

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

[Talk-GB] Island in lake ...

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Blue Plaques and others

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

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

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

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

2012-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
thereafter. Definitely ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
-- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
mechanism, and I feel this is an ideal candidate for that action? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Heathrow Airport

2012-03-27 Thread Lester Caine
are looking at the license flags on that area? Certainly all the 'problems' to the East just want tagging as clean ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode update

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

[Talk-GB] Micromapping ...

2012-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
separate nodes is just painfully slow :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird

Re: [Talk-GB] Micromapping ...

2012-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
away from the road. I've not been, but if JOSM has sorted the problem I'll give it a go ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

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

2012-05-19 Thread Lester Caine
Britain - OS One Inch, 1955-61 are mirroring OSM nicely ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

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

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Temporary road closures

2012-07-12 Thread Lester Caine
and I certainly think it's worth tagging when it happens as the alternative routes are miles! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [Talk-GB] Building Numbers

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
the website, but could not find any physical addresses listed ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr still irritates when I'm adding addresses for business premises ... addr:unit could fit your use ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
. There is no 'definition' of the gaps between postcodes until perhaps a new building is added. This is one of the reasons that the National Land and Property Gazetteer uses it's on references numbers for streets and properties and postcodes - when recorded - are buried in the fine detail. -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] Highlighting an area ...

2012-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
of where I am heading :) Of cause being able to click on a 'ward' and show the councillors will have to come later ... Currently the site just has a list of streets for each, so it will be nice to know if they are ALL on OSM ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

[Talk-GB] Geo-referencing

2012-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
? If I just replace all the .prj files with the 'new' one all the layers will line 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/ Model Engineers

Re: [Talk-GB] First steps with JOSM

2012-09-25 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: [Talk-GB] Stiles (and gates) on roads

2012-10-10 Thread Lester Caine
be placed the right physical distance from any road that they link to with the correct link to the main way. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
source. What gets a little confusing is that the results will only contain the full postcode if it's been added to an address, otherwise you may get results from several postcodes in highly populated areas. Once the data is transferred to addresses, only those addresses appear. -- Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
? Until there are actual targets, anything in the general area can be useful. SO listing 'exact match' then any possible secondary hits is a good starting point? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

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