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

2012-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
datasets that should be made openly available. I haven't had a reply to my own request re the NSG and NLPG stuff, but presumably there were a substantial number of requests for the same data! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

[Talk-GB] Problem with missing links on road

2012-11-14 Thread Lester Caine
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.04697lon=-1.857193zoom=18layers=C has a gap between the Leamington Road and the roundabout. These exist on the other views and I can't see anything wrong. Any thoughts on why they are missing on the cycle and transport map views? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Problem with missing links on road

2012-11-14 Thread Lester Caine
' stuff does make sense at times but probably not here where the one-way bit is probably enough. -- 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] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-10 Thread Lester Caine
the right time for any 'new' development to appear is when the diggers move in and start work. At that point it becomes useful to see what is going on from existing routes? Anything else is just 'speculation'. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
of years since I last went. -- 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] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-12 Thread Lester Caine
of the comparison tools when looking at differences between versions of a file or changeset. But it would be nice to see a graphical 'diff' between version of object history in OSM ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone famiiar with Hay-on-Wye?

2013-01-06 Thread Lester Caine
the town to the river. -- 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: [Talk-GB] Highways Leading to Farms and single residential properties in rural areas

2013-03-12 Thread Lester Caine
not normally have it's drive shown, but where it may have public access to walk down, 'track' seems less formal? -- 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] Aerial Photographs

2013-04-05 Thread Lester Caine
storage solution while things are discussed further. But ideally this needs to be stored in a 'library' location? Or do the photographs need to be stored once scanned and indexed? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-23 Thread Lester Caine
on the wiki page are not particularly easy to work with, and I like to be able to 'edit' the demo area to see the things that are not displayed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
as in your example ( both links are the same ) ... I'd prefer to see one of the tee to hole tracks which is a little easier to view, that is if it's rendered ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
for the base map. I'm not a golfer - but I can see the advantage of hints when new to a course. I've copied to list as I think this is part of the general discussion to get an approved tagging page. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

2013-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
but in reality the distinction IS important even if it's use is not being applied properly. So what checks are you making that there is not such a distinction between the areas that you arbitrarily changing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

2013-04-26 Thread Lester Caine
all these EXTRA tags are unnecessary if the base standard is followed properly. I should not have to look at secondary tags to find that an area is not actually 'landuse', but rather 'natural'. You should be able to identify managed and unmanaged areas from the main tag! -- Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
, but it is available 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 Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
.3Dabandoned.__2Fdismantled.3F http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Railways#railway:historic.3Dxxx_or_former:railway.3Dxxx_in_place_of_railway.3Dabandoned.2Fdismantled.3F -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Ongoing routing developments

2013-06-27 Thread Lester Caine
running the tomtom which correctly reports the lane to be using. Next step on my part is to see if I can get Locus to select a private OSRM server in place of the default one. I have my local server working and I can get at some of the elements, but need to be able to use it live. -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

2013-07-08 Thread Lester Caine
exactly to support this type of data ;) But it looks a little empty at presnet :( http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ -- 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] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

2013-07-08 Thread Lester Caine
still to be resolved is how to link between current data which may have 'start_date' relevant to a search, and data which has expired from the current map ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[Talk-GB] First pass at cross reference to UK tile sources.

2013-07-09 Thread Lester Caine
covering the Isle of Man on it's own. The old maps need a little tweek to align them better with OSM, and then these views can be added to the timeline. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
thought should be used, and which has worked in all the previous steps running osm2pgsql. Can anybody kick me in the right direction to fix this? I've got osrm routing running on the machine so something has set up properly. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
#Authentication_failure kicked in, but 'psql gis' gets me in and I can play with the data, just generate_tiles.py is giving the FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user root error On 10 Jul 2013, at 08:43, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: I've been working through all the disjointed

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Not helping :( Panic over! Just needed to re-read the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik#Authentication_failure note ... I'd missed that the xml file was generated without a -user setting ;) Up to level 9 already ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with postgres

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: On 10/07/13 09:24, Lester Caine wrote: Not helping :( I used http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PostGIS/Installation#openSUSE_11.2 to set up, and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik#Authentication_failure kicked in, but 'psql gis' gets me in and I can play with the data

[Talk-GB] bbox coordinates

2013-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
Anybody got an 'optimal' bbox setting for the UK and Ireland including the Scottish Isles. I'm running (-14.5, 49, 3, 61) but I'm sure that the -14.5 is overkill? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

2013-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
of the bartholomew half inch series but even the ones already available are a start. -- 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] Historic Maps - Can you help?

2013-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
looking to the evolution of areas over time. http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/index.php?page=Bartholomew+Cloth Thanks, Rob p.s. We should be able to get this view added to JOSM and other editors with ease if it is not already there. Yes I've been using a number of historic layers already. -- Lester

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
entertainment? -- 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: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
-codes.org.uk/formatting.php Personally I still think of 0207 as Inner London and 0208 as Outer London, but moving the 7/8 as part of the exchange sort of makes sense these days. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
London :) -- 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: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
room may be tagged as 'licensed for weddings' or just receptions ... where do you stop :) -- 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] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
of the time that an element is selected to move! -- 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: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
did not have as posh a ring, but I of cause though it has a duff number and the Police became involved. SO lets stick to numbers ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

[Talk-GB] Building in space

2013-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
all come of the top level and the road access slopes steeply away from the car park. Just to add to the fun, there is a car valeting business 3 stories below, as well which is also not mapped currently. I'm not seeing anything in the wiki as a guide to handle this. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-07 Thread Lester Caine
knowing! This was a reason we objected to iD being made default - it's not ready yet :( -- 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

[Talk-GB] bing image alignment

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
in the morning and gather a new track as a cross reference, but are people in general finding that these new images are out of alignment with what is currently mapped? Can I assume that they need realigning before using them? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-10 Thread Lester Caine
at ... It would be MUCH safer if you had to pick the boundary to select it! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-10 Thread Lester Caine
overlap, and you don't know that they are. -- 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

[Talk-GB] Search for location

2013-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
/browse/node/515065315 but using the 'McMurdo Station' name. I am expecting that I'll get several results at times, so the node/way number will be used eventually, but initial search to give a list to select from would be helpful. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

2013-09-29 Thread Lester Caine
Rob Nickerson wrote: p.s. Is there a Linux equivalent of MAPC2MAPC? qgis2 ? I still need to actually get it to create an alignment, but it displays the material I do have nicely, so is anybody using this for doing the referencing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] NPE data

2013-10-06 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] Editor backbground layers in iD

2013-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
the historic development of the maps. In 50 years time the current view of the map will be 'historic' and we need to design for that fact today rather than simply hiding the data in the change logs :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Moderation (WAS: Primary or Trunk? PITA?)

2013-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
to that ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
interface which has easy access to edit functions, although I'm tending towards off-line editing as certainly I would NOT recommend iD even to new users, so josm currently seems the only option anyway going forward! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
there is no tidy method of reflecting those changes into my own rendering ... which is another problem 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

Re: [Talk-GB] Ashamed to be a part of the OSM GB community

2013-12-01 Thread Lester Caine
is simply NOT supported well currently !!! No way can I support a whole world map, I need something that mirrors the UK area in something less than the 2 or 3 week cycle of some mirrors :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
already been adopted 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 Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
as something has changed :( -- 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] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
that I was leaving the potlatch screen? OK - It has done it this time, must not have touched anything last time so not had 'save' active. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
clients followed the standards less people would top post! ;-) Very true ... My old N900 phone worked nicely email wise, the android replacement and the tablet has an apology as the sig :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Thread Lester Caine
function. It's much appreciated -- 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: [Talk-GB] Hobbyist OSM Data Server?

2013-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
. Any corrections or improvements are MOST welcome! -- 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] Question regarding OS Opendata

2013-12-28 Thread Lester Caine
and is something we need to take more seriously ... the flat earth society has been proven wrong long ago :) -- 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] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-12 Thread Lester Caine
but they are not really a post office? http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/471456976 is another example of confusion, since the building above was not listed in the search results, but http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41363497 has amenity=post_depot ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-12 Thread Lester Caine
perhaps along with operator= and perhaps url to the related service? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-01-14 Thread Lester Caine
etc, that you know of? http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/historical/ -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-01-14 Thread Lester Caine
://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/disclaimer Which releases non restricted info under this license Interestingly there is no mention of OSM in the terms despite the fact that it is one of the base layers used. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail Parcelforce delivery offices

2014-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
. The problem here is country specific things don't get much traction, however I think that this is generally appropriate world wide? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [Talk-GB] POI features: node vs way?

2014-01-26 Thread Lester Caine
and that should be the master POI set of tagging, while the additional fine detail forms a secondary layer of information. Only one entity but with a macro and micro view. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] BIS report on open national address data

2014-02-13 Thread Lester Caine
detail of an NLPG reference where that is not currently even recorded in the LLPG ... -- 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

[Talk-GB] Selection of zoom area.

2014-04-03 Thread Lester Caine
map updating. Can anybody suggest an example I can crib to get it working? -- 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 postcodes on each side of the road

2014-05-18 Thread Lester Caine
location data can be provided by tags on a street rather than duplicating that data unnecessarily on every building ... -- 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] UK postcodes on each side of the road

2014-05-19 Thread Lester Caine
so I'd suggest at least in the UK we do not use 'associatedStreet' at all. -- 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 postcodes on each side of the road

2014-05-19 Thread Lester Caine
I'd suggest at least in the UK we do not use 'associatedStreet' at all. -- 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

[Talk-GB] Duff data on facebook

2014-06-09 Thread Lester Caine
created for 'Worcestershire', but even these are now being redirected to the 'correct' master according to Facebook. Can anybody throw ANY light on to why they insistthat their data is the correct view? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Duff data on facebook

2014-06-09 Thread Lester Caine
the corrections have been replaced by further links to Gloucestershire :( Croudsourcing only works if there is someone bothering to fix the problems ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes

2014-06-11 Thread Lester Caine
mentioned the postman walking up the street - well I guess you could say that the walk also includes the driveway up to the front of each house/letterbox. Whether nominatim works or not is a search problem, not a mapping one (i.e. not mapping for the nominatim). -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

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

2014-07-06 Thread Lester Caine
properly. But I've yet to get my own copy to even route properly yet via B and 'C' roads. It takes me on a 9 mile detour going north from here :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

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

2014-07-30 Thread Lester Caine
in this case reverting was just petty ... and that this data should be put 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/ Model Engineers

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

2014-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
that could be developed with data management tools that would then be usable with other data sets such as lamp posts, post boxes, telephone distribution cabinets and the like? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

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

2014-08-01 Thread Lester Caine
copy of what was imported. What is available and easily accessible is growing daily ... but it does not need to be all imported into one database :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2014-08-01 Thread Lester Caine
nice to hear that OSM is providing a stable base to work from, and since your own data needs to be accurate OSM benefits in return. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road

2014-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
to Bath could really do with a proper set of dual carriageways from the M4 and going across Bristol to the M5. I frequent that area on business quite often, and am using tertiary roads most of the time simply to get into one side of the distruption, even before the road was closed. -- Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
in a different alphabet is something that the renderer can do if required. But this is a discussion for the international list rather than just the UK? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-05 Thread Lester Caine
may be missing here is if google is getting english-to-ukrainian wrong? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
that makes up for this but given the large size of some key text it will take a while to populate :( There are a lot of third party tools but no coordination on managing the translation data. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
in OSM, not one that may change when people make mistakes changing other data :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
should I at a new destination and we are talking a several mile detour here which can add 30mins to the journey. -- 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] UK addresses

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
that is required since the rest can be cloned from the postcode - or some other unique ID for the related object. The structure should support this method of working and then editors could pull up matching data where necessary. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 13/08/14 08:20, Tom Hughes wrote: On 13/08/14 07:37, Lester Caine wrote: On a slightly different tack, the tertiary road designation is more of a problem. While not advocating 'tag for routing', this is one that is making my own use of OSMAND almost impossible, and I can't believe others

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 13/08/14 08:58, David Woolley wrote: On 13/08/14 08:29, Lester Caine wrote: rest can be cloned from the postcode - or some other unique ID for the related object. Only if you have purchased access to the PAF or National Gazeteer. Capture of the former, on OSM, is patchy

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
there may be several postcodes for a single identified street. It's the NSG that is primary in defining road works locations these days. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
but it's perhaps surprising that many objects that have their own postcode are not currently included when that information is available in the original sources. I've just added Ragley Hall postcode but a number of the locations I look at Monday it was missing. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Licences for Highways and PRoW data (Was: C roads again)

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
Local Street Gazetteer and both of these then feed into the National version. The NSG is a believe part of 'The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991' https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/street-works-co-ordination for some light reading ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
some time soon we will have open access to that information to mess things up again. The problem is that using this much more consistent id is not something humans will be comfortable with :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Licences for Highways and PRoW data (Was: C roads again)

2014-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
of 'The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991' https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/street-works-co-ordination for some light reading ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-13 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: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in London

2014-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
does create a conflict because the relation is now broken? -- 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] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
is simply adding the correct start date to already mapped existing objects! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
On 05/10/14 21:43, David Woolley wrote: On 05/10/14 14:11, Lester Caine wrote: Which sort of ties in with my constraints on relations. If an edit is breaking something it's easy enough to say unable to proceed because ... but ideally the API should be able to find a new missing bit and add

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-06 Thread Lester Caine
On 06/10/14 09:26, David Woolley wrote: On 05/10/14 22:28, Lester Caine wrote: All achievable if the API monitors the constraints on relations and checks that what JOSM submits is complete. That would represent a radical change in design philosophy. At the moment, the code behind the API

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-06 Thread Lester Caine
will include the state_date tag and so filtering that can happen locally, but adding the essentially quite small amount of historic changes is not so easy to achieve? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2014-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
/file/194259/PSV_Operator_Licensing_Guide.pdf documents the minefield, but does not identify who can and can't use UK restricted roads :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] addressing (was addr:place)

2014-10-26 Thread Lester Caine
' model. -- 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: [Talk-GB] addressing (was addr:place)

2014-10-27 Thread Lester Caine
, cycletrack and the like! -- 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] addressing (was addr:place)

2014-10-27 Thread Lester Caine
! Properties are grouped by the delivery area footprint covered by sorting offices which in some areas may not align even with local ward boundaries! There have been some examples given of different area postcodes for different sides of a street in the past. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
with the name they are using ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
to 'dictate' what is acceptable content it should be managed properly rather than blindly re-writing tags. I'm not saying that the changes are wrong ... just that this is not the right method to get things done. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
of the identified 'problems' resulted in a message to the original editor asking them to check rather than blindly making an executive decision that something has to be wrong :( Yes we want consistent data, but that is not achieved by blindly making it consistent ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
the door to correcting any collateral damage more easily. -- 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

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