Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
of many brands. -- 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] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
would get a definitive statement on 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

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
'documentary' tags, it's just the name tag which is contentious 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

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-05 Thread Lester Caine
the years, some stores may still be in an older livery, and in my book even the capitalization is important in that! Flag them for checking - yes - change them without any reference to the site - no. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

[Talk-GB] Different styles of annotation.

2014-11-13 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://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Different styles of annotation.

2014-11-13 Thread Lester Caine
unreadable stuff against the somewhat better older style. Your example is even worse than all the ones I've been looking at, probably because most of them are now unreadable on my smartphone! And even on full expansion I can't read them on a 24 monitor :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS Historical Maps

2014-11-13 Thread Lester Caine
but as the tile joints don't quite match, pulling the overlay a touch would allow a lot of field and property boundaries to be added but a lot of existing data overlies the old map exactly. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

2014-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
, the origin is still accurate and relevant on the ground. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

2014-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
' if these ARE in the city of London, or just part of the 'county' of Metropolitan 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

Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

2014-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
... It has signposts on the ground directing you to the town centre! Just as has been pointed out on a number of other 'towns' in proximity to London. We map the real situation on the ground - full stop. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

2014-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
being applied without any reference to the on the ground situation ... -- 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] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

2014-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
included! -- 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] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

2014-11-20 Thread Lester Caine
, and unless someone else gets there first I will revert the Hayes one in line with the one the ground situation ... just can't get JOSM running here at the moment :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-3 Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

2014-12-18 Thread Lester Caine
IS the proper mechanism, even if not ideal. I do try and keep those down in my local 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

Re: [Talk-GB] Disclaimer

2015-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
wanted to build. I had to dig down and show that we were clear of that drain ... except it was 6' further over ... right under the corner of the garage. So now there is a wooden porch which can be taken down if they need access. Bottom line - even the OS maps can't be taken as accurate! -- Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] Is a saddlery limited to horses? (BE English)

2015-03-08 Thread Lester Caine
of crossover between leather workers. -- 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] Canal River Trust maps

2015-04-02 Thread Lester Caine
that is simply missing or incorrect on google can be replaced with much more accurate local views :) Certainly the paths and access to the navigable sections of canals and rivers around here are currently totally blank on the google version. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] elsan_points

2015-04-23 Thread Lester Caine
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Pumpout was rejected because it was 'only for boats' or very strangely 'recycling'. I suppose we could hook the black waste direct into the bio-digester ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] elsan_points

2015-04-23 Thread Lester Caine
not sure just what is a suitable alternative to correctly tag the facilities I've got survey notes on for our local caravan sites ... what would have been legal as an elsan_point in the past would probably be shut down by the local council today anyway! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Wiki deprecation of an in-use feature

2015-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/04/15 21:09, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Bryce ... you still have to make the case for 'special cases'. There is no reason to have two tags for many of these amenities. That's

Re: [Talk-GB] elsan_points

2015-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
page is now in French, German, English and Russian. 'dump' just sounds wrong ... disposal would be better, but effluent_disposal_point is I think a little more generic. sanitary is more generally related to female related disposal. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] elsan_points

2015-04-23 Thread Lester Caine
with the correct values may be a more generic solution to the problem. -- 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] elsan_points

2015-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
at the outset to help mappers outwith the British Isles, but the current suggestion really doesnt help either. I knew I'd seen disposal used for chemical toilets ... https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=disposal#keys -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Labelling a greasy spoon caff

2015-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
stops, but you are right that there does not seem to be anything actually documented for this type of establishment. -- 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] Labelling a greasy spoon caff

2015-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
render confusingly with permanently located features. Mobile catering is NOT the sort of greasy_spoon we are talking about. These are sit down cafes serving mainly a full English greasy breakfast. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] elsan_points

2015-05-01 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/04/15 22:49, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: tag - disposal_point Values pump_out:grey (No sewage) pump_out:black(Contains Sewage) pump_out:bilge(May

Re: [Talk-GB] Canal River Trust maps

2015-04-03 Thread Lester Caine
On 03/04/15 14:38, pmailkeey . wrote: OSM's actually global, Brian. And other countries handle their area of the map with a lot more active support. All we are talking about here is UK data on the UK list. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Talk-GB] Quick tagging question

2015-06-05 Thread Lester Caine
, but it is tool dependent. -- 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] Quick tagging question

2015-06-05 Thread Lester Caine
, London Borough of Bromley, London, Greater London. While GeoNames has an entry for Hayes, Bromley, OSM it seems does not? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

[Talk-GB] place gazetteer

2015-06-04 Thread Lester Caine
(or Hierarcy if you insist) -- 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] Data Model for Address

2015-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
property in the UK http://www.iahub.net/docs/1398672866952.pdf This is used by every UK council to provide the data free of charge, but we are not then allowed to use it freely :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

2015-05-24 Thread Lester Caine
. OSM does not need to duplicate all of the publically available data, but an agreed standard for accessing secondary levels is still lacking? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

2015-05-23 Thread Lester Caine
have any satellites in Cambridge? The current documented sytle works and should perhaps be documented as the general standard? ( And PLEASE trim everything if you must top post ... even on a mobile phone these posts have been painful! ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

2015-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
'university, country' you see a list of entities with a single entry per, but because it's not 'physical map information' it's not acceptable to some :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

2015-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
a sense of it being right. (And in any group of 10 mappers, there seem to be 11 opinions as to what is right, concensus is very hard to achieve). Only 11 :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

2015-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
for a particular department. A couple of my regular haunts have just completed a re-signing exercise to help identification of departments on a number of levels. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] too many universities in Cambridge

2015-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
' icon at a macro level, and switch to icons for the collages at a suitable scale. That data in the map can then be cross-referenced from the master objects ... and be highlighted when a particular place is selected. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
. There are safe and accessible footpaths bypassing the major trunk roads, but currently the trunk routes - which have no footpaths are still provided by the routing software :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

[Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

2015-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
What is the best way of cloning the existing style setup for a UK tile server? I'm snowed under with pigging M$ crap on three sites so have not had time to refresh my earlier copy of the software. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-07 Thread Lester Caine
my own copy live. Adding a new rendering stack is secondary and does not need to be implemented to achieve the first goal. -- 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] Making progress finally ...

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/08/15 09:41, Lester Caine wrote: After working through a few little nuances on SUSE linux I finally have tilemill running. It's giving me level 1 and 2 from the shape files and the loading of the style now completes without any errors. I can see it remotely although there is still

[Talk-GB] Making progress finally ...

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
level tiles ... how do I access them via port 20008 ... only seeing 'Not Found' which reassuringly nginx is also returning for the /tile/ access ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

2015-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
On 09/08/15 12:59, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/2015 23:24, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 8 August 2015 at 22:55, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: What is the best way of cloning the existing style setup for a UK tile server? Some useful resources: https://switch2osm.org/serving

Re: [Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

2015-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
On 09/08/15 14:17, Lester Caine wrote: On 09/08/15 12:59, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/2015 23:24, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 8 August 2015 at 22:55, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: What is the best way of cloning the existing style setup for a UK tile server? Some useful

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
anybody point me to a crib sheet that fills in the gaps in the openstreetmap-carto setup notes. Obviously where I would like to get to is a setup where I can identify which icon sets and colour elements go with what ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Making progress finally ...

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/08/15 12:06, Lester Caine wrote: Where should I bee looking next? Why is everything so difficult. I've HAD OSRM working on SUSE12.3 and 13.1, but all the lua stuff is broken again on 13.2! I managed to use lua5.1 on the 13.1 build, but only by killing lua5.2 ... If I do that on 13.2 it's

Re: [Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

2015-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
On 09/08/15 23:29, Lester Caine wrote: OK Have a working osmosis/replication setup which is currently running an hourly sync of my 'British Isles' database. I've been working through the notes just to make sure I've not missed anything and while I do have a working system it may perhaps

[Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
space on a site with a large pipe, but I would prefer to see perhaps a more distributed model where several sites mirror the same tile set and hopefully historic overlays ... another area that needs a little more locally based support. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/07/15 08:43, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Lester Caine wrote: The other area that I am looking to roll back First, I wouldn't think in terms of rolling back at all. Cartography for a UK tileset could and should be designed from scratch. If you really want to start with an existing

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
service has to support an international audience, just as some countries provide their own local services, the UK needs a similar more UK centric facility. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2015-11-11 Thread Lester Caine
e existing copy and downloading a clean copy, or is there something to fix the update stream? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model E

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

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

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

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

Re: [OSRM-talk] Demo Server Down

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

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

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

Re: [OSRM-talk] Demo Server Down

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

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

2015-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
an the 'defa...@osm.org' ... everything is a lot crisper. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.c

[Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

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

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

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

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

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

[Talk-GB] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

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

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

2015-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
WS a selectable rendering style? But that is yet another tangent and ring fenced solution :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engine

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

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

Re: [Talk-GB] Rail maxspeeds being converted

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

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

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
e' in that data ... rather than Hoddesdon. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2015-09-16 Thread Lester Caine
in county and the like, but pub is equally relevant ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.u

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

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

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

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
00 although at the end of the day the local comunity my well call themselves a town or a village based on choice rather than size. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://

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

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

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

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

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

2015-12-07 Thread Lester Caine
ist is still the base for the green trunk routes? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rai

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [Talk-GB] UKOSM - technical aspects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2016-01-16 Thread Lester Caine
ail that could be added and if students get the bug, then the surrounding area is a little bare as well. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Mo

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

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
many cases the wrong area is tagged ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw

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

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
age around the UK for parishes is sporadic? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.u

[Talk-GB] 'Training Centres'

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

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

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

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

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

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