Re: [Talk-GB] Increase of mail size limit

It is, but those tend to be a little more point-to-point rather than > send-to-all. I think most newsletter type things tend to link rather that > attach images. > > On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 21:01, Rob Nickerson > wrote: > >> Personally I don't think that is very user friendly.

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Road junctions

I would put a lot less feeder roads in. How does it look if you only split the road when there is a physical object it needs to go around? For example don't split the left/right turn lanes when driving frm Technology Drive to Mill Road as there is no physical barrier between these lanes. If you'd

Re: [Talk-GB] Tools to support solar panel mapping?

My bad. No IDs in the recent fit reports, but they *used* to publish them. The September 2016 files show the fit ID. https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/fit/contacts-guidance-and-resources/public-reports-and-data-fit/installation-reports Best, Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging a named building now used for a different purpose

>I could do that here, and then move the building name into the 'addr:housename' key, but that seems inappropriate. That's what I would have done. Curious as to why you think that is inappropriate? Seems logical to me (addressing a letter would be Jewellery company name, Wisdom Hall, Street,

Re: [Talk-GB] Tools to support solar panel mapping?

> we don't have any official ID numbers for the items-to-map I'm almost certain I have pointed it out here already, but in case not: any solar PV installation which is receiving a subsidy will be registered and will therefore have an ID. Larger installations are installed in the Renewable

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Summer programme of meetings

Hi all, As per the below, we had suggested a Saturday mapping event in June in Wombourne, Staffordshire. We have a choice of 5 Saturdays (1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th). The 29th is the date of the OSM UK annual general meeting so I won'y be able to attend. So far the 1st and the 22nd are good for

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] River Rea, West of Kings Norton Park

You could try looking at historic maps on National Library of Scotland's online map portal to see if you can find a name. Best, Rob On Tue, 30 Apr 2019, 19:50 Andy Mabbett, wrote: > Done; but is it a river, or a stream? And does it have its own name? > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 19:09, Brian

[Talk-GB] GeoBusiness 2019 - Next Tue-Wed

Hi all, One for those with a business interest in geo (or wanting to start one) - it's GeoBusiness 2019 next week in London (21-22 May). Attendance is free: https://www.geobusinessshow.com/ Best regards, *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing list

[Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charge points

Robert, all, See also: https://www.eafo.eu When I looked at EV charge maps last month, this seemed the most complete. For these "close but not close enough" third party data sets do we need a special tool to help us refine the data quality? E.g. an app that asks you to collect a GPS tagged

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-london] bulk importing london open data to osm

Hi all, In addition to Martin's TfL cycle data project, I wanted to draw your attention to another London data email (see below). This one is for Electric Vehicle charge points. I've had a quick play and the data quality looks good at first glance. It would benefit from a few more eyes on it so

Re: [Talk-GB] Increase of mail size limit

Personally I don't think that is very user friendly. I can post onto my Google drive or upload to the wiki (if it's one of the very few file types it supports) but others may not know or be bothered. It's quite normal to include attachments in line with communication (e.g an attachment in an

Re: [Talk-GB] Increase of mail size limit

David wrote: >Please don't. If people regularly start sending large attachments, I >will need to remember to check for them and remove them from my personal >archive, even if I defer reading the mail. Hi David, If your struggling *that* much I can probably spare some old floppy disks or CD-Rs

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

Hi Martin, Hi all, -- Second attempt to send this mail, this time with attachments hosted on cloud (feel free to copy to OSM wiki) Good to see the TfL project moving forward. As background for those that were not aware, Transport for London first approached the OpenStreetMap United Kingdom

[Talk-GB] Increase of mail size limit

Hi, Tried to send a mail to the list but it failed: > Message body is too big: 533180 bytes with a limit of 40 KB Any chance that the limit could be lifted? 40 KB seems very low given how cheap storage space is. Thanks, *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMappers meeting in Norfolk

Hi Nora, I hope the Norfolk event went well yesterday. I hope to see some more in the future. P.S. Once again, my apologies to the readers of the list if this is not properly threaded reply. I looked at nabble as suggested but firefox warns me that it is not correctly https secured so I won't be

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMF Board face-to face meeting: Suggest the topics and issues that matter to you

P.S. I have no idea how to achieve this (sorry) but my gut instinct is that we need to use https://www.openstreetmap.org/ to highlight more about the community as well as the map data. --- Best regards, *Rob* On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 20:37, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > Some ma

[Talk-GB] OSMF Board face-to face meeting: Suggest the topics and issues that matter to you

Hi all, Some may be interested in completing the following super short survey: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/05/09/osmf-board-face-to-face-meeting-suggest-the-topics-and-issues-that-matter-to-you/ For those who don't know, the OSMF is the "international not-for-profit organization

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

at 23:14, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > For the next OSM UK annual general meeting we thought we would try London > as a possible location. Does anyone know of good (and cheap) venues that we > can use? We have 100 members but would expect the number to actually attend > woul

[Talk-GB] Best-one

My view on these cases is to use the name as the company uses in their own written context rather than any stylisation on the store sign. Their website uses "Best-one" so that's what I'd pick. Regards, Rob P.s. sorry for new thread. I'm not subscribed to receive the mails and clicking the web

[Talk-GB] Solar data

Hi all, Been watching the thread on Solar. A couple of comments. 1 Boundaries. As the image (linked to below) from a WPD public webinar shows it is not easy to map separate solar sites based in a single location. No way to tell which panels belong to which site from aerial imagery alone.

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] April 4 - Meeting in Alcester

Hi all, As you will know from Brian's "Summer programme of meetings" email, we are heading to Alcester, Warwickshire, this Thursday. Plenty of pub options in the high street. I suggest we meet at the Turks Head between 7:30 and 8:00 after an afternoon/evening of mapping the town. In regards to

[Talk-GB] Press opportunity

Hi all, We have been approached by the press (national newspaper/online). They are wanting to write an article in their weekend magazine on OSM as part of a series on "hidden work that makes the internet thrive". They asked if they can meet an OSM mapper and meet them whilst out mapping. Aim is

[Talk-GB] Measuring building height

For building heights why not try using a laser measure? Those with a Pythagoras Measurement mode should automate the calculations for you. Price has fallen a lot over the years. Seems like even a basic £30 device is sufficient. Best regards, Rob ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

Martin wrote: >But presumably the designers of OSM intended only one of these meanings >for the highway tag. But I still don't know whether it is physical >appearance or legal status. The wiki seems to be mixed up on this. For >example: > > Hi Martin, I really think you are over-thinking it.

[Talk-GB] London venues

Hi all, For the next OSM UK annual general meeting we thought we would try London as a possible location. Does anyone know of good (and cheap) venues that we can use? We have 100 members but would expect the number to actually attend would be in the region of 20-30 unless paired with a

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway or track?

>More generally, does highway= indicate the physical appearance as surveyed -- or the intended use, as designated? Hi Martin, First map the feature: Use the highway tag to describe how it looks physically. Add the legal status: Use designation=* to add a legal status (e.g.

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] March Meeting

This one is probably the last winter meeting in Birmingham. We then start our summer 2019 tour of the region. If you want Mappa Mercia to visit your city/town/village or know of a good place to visit, please let me know. Thank you, *Rob* On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 08:13, Rob Nickerson wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

will email OSMUK first before going to the company, just to see how the > land lies (pun intended!). > > Cheers > > Steve > > On 06 March 2019 at 19:54 Rob Nickerson > wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > >Would OSM benefit from another imagery source? Getmapping have >

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

Hi Steve, >Would OSM benefit from another imagery source? Getmapping have tentatively offered theirs. See: https://itsahill.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/edina-geoforum-2019/ and get back to me via any of the normal methods. > >Cheers >Steve Chilton (@steev8) It's certainly worth exploring and I

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] March Meeting

Likewise. See you there. On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, 20:30 Ian Caldwell via Talk-gb-westmidlands < talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > I should be there > > Ian > > > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 19:42, Br > > Ian > Prangle wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> This Thursday 7 March is our scheduled

[Talk-GB] OSM UK: Talent Directory success & working with National Trust Inbox x

Hi all, For those not signed up to the OSM UK newsletter (why not?, sign up here [1], archive here [2]), please see the latest edition below. This includes news on our talent directory for those looking for paid or volunteer OSM work: Andy provided some training in Manchester and next week we

[Talk-GB] Astigan drone

Doing the rounds today on the websites: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/12/british_solar_drone/ https://astigan.uk/project/ Will be interesting to see what resolution they get and whether any organisations buy imagery that eventually finds it's way to OSM. *Rob*

[Talk-GB] Belfast meetup plus how can OSM UK help with events?

Hi all, For those able to make it to Belfast next Saturday, OpenStreetMap Ireland are hosting a meetup with Queen's University Belfast. It looks set to be a great event including a talk on Drones and Mapping by Conor Graham from the GIS & Geomatics Lab Centre in QUB. Sign up is via EventBrite:

Re: [Talk-GB] Dropped or lowered kerbs

Hi Andy, It somewhat depends on what you are trying to map. The kerb=* tag on the wiki page you linked to is for when mapping a crossing. As shown on the second example on the page. you would create a way that runs perpendicular to the highway at the point where a footpath (or cyclepath) crosses

[Talk-GB] I have a philosophical question...

A while ago we had an idea of creating a "top 10" list of things to focus on. Ideas welcome. Best, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Property extents

Hi all, You may recall that the geospatial commission & ordnance survey have announced that they will be releasing "property extents". By chance I found myself in a meeting room with both organisations so I asked what "property extents" means. It is the land area (e.g. garden boundary of a

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] January meeting

See you all there :-) I will bring the new hi Vis vest for you to see. Rob On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, 11:09 Brian Prangle Me too! > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 10:03 PM Rob Nickerson > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> January 3rd is the first Thursday of the month so OSM meetu

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] January meeting

Hi all, January 3rd is the first Thursday of the month so OSM meetup time. Anyone able to make it given proximity to the holiday? Best regards, Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Saturday Mapping

Hi all, Sorry for the delay. I too can attend. I'm traveling from Warwick and can give lifts if needed (and on route). Is there any mapping that we can do now so as to make it easier when we get there? Some of the imagery layers (esri, mapbox or digital globe) can be suprisingly up to date.

Re: [Talk-GB] Govt should pressure Google to release data

Hi Gregory, Leigh has expanded a bit on twitter: https://twitter.com/ldodds/status/1066233917722845184 I think their argument is that some big tech companies are already sharing back (e.g. into OSM) and this should be seen as the standard approach. This becomes particularly true when big tech

[Talk-GB] Waylens camera and OpenStreetCam

- Hi Dave, It is: - - 157 degree wide angle - f/2.4 aperture https://www.waylens.com/horizon/techSpecs/ Thanks, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] NT paths in OSM

Hi Ian, Good that you identified OSM as a key part in this project. As noted on the forum, you probably want to avoid adding access=yes. The access tags (access, vehicle, motor_vehicle foot, etc) are a hierarchy as shown in the diagram linked below. Adding access=yes would imply that all other

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Open MasterMap progress since Policy Announcement

s/1052228644318392320 >> >> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 19:36, Rob Nickerson >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Recap: The Ordnance Survey are working with the new Geospatial >>> Commission on opening up access to more of their data. >>>

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia thursday

Hi all, First Thursday of the month this week which means Mappa Mercia meeting. Are you able to join us this Thursday? The Bull, Price Street, Birmingham. From around 7:30pm. Thanks, *Rob* ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

[Talk-GB] Launch of OpenStreetMap Ireland as a the legal entity

For those who can make it Maynooth (west of Dublin) on 20th October: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/openstreetmap-ireland-launch-tickets-51268903671 A big congratulations to those involved. Wishing you all the best. Thanks, *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] October Meeting

Great. See you later :-) On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, 15:40 Ian Caldwell, wrote: > I hope to be there. > > Ian > > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 at 21:44, Rob Nickerson > wrote: > >> Great. See you there (back at our usual: The Bull, Price Street). >> >> *Rob* >>

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] October Meeting

Great. See you there (back at our usual: The Bull, Price Street). *Rob* On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 at 20:36, Eike Ritter wrote: > Dear all, > > > I can make it. We're back in Birmingham for Winter. As I will need to > > travel in, I will only do so if others are confirmed as attending. Hope > > to

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] October Meeting

I can make it. We're back in Birmingham for Winter. As I will need to travel in, I will only do so if others are confirmed as attending. Hope to see a few of you there. Thank you, *Rob* On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 10:20, Brian Prangle wrote: > Hi everyone > > I can't manage this meeting next week

Re: [Talk-GB] Android Auto and OSM

Simon wrote: > The question is what not "ignoring this" entails. Well a few things: 1. OSM community members being aware of it and perhaps checking it out if they have a chance (as part of knowing the industry / competition). 2. Doing some research as to whether it is possible to integrate an

Re: [Talk-GB] Android Auto and OSM

Hi Simon, No this is not that simple and (in my view) OSM shouldn't ignore this. It works with quite a few existing third party apps (list on [1], [2]) including Google competitors (e.g. Amazon Music) and Open Source (e.g. Signal messenger). I cannot see any OSM app in the list which is a shame

[Talk-GB] Android Auto and OSM

Hi all, I recently was on holiday and needed maps for the hire car. Usually I use Maps.Me as I like the fact that you can download the maps in advance and that they have the hotels from Booking.com (thereby increasing the chance that I can easily find my hotel). This time however I forgot the

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

Like Brian, I am interested if OSM UK can do anything here. I liked his suggestion of a vote with a minimum number of people (with work done in advance by volunteers on both sides). In a semi-related note: Does anyone have the admin boundaries (including low level such as Borough and District)

[Talk-GB] Stimulus Fund - Invitation to tender: Local government open geospatial data stimulus fund

Hi again, Today the Open Data Institute (ODI) launched an invitation to tender for a share of a stimulus fund. OSM UK has provided some early thinking / feedback in the development of this and we are pleased to see OpenStreetMap so prominent within the tender (especially given all the current

[Talk-GB] UK Talent Directory

Hi all, I managed to send this to OSM UK email newsletter recipients before heading off on holidays and responses suggest the form is ok - so now publicising more widely. Note: This is for people who are UK/Isle of Man/Channel Islands based. If we get to the scale where we have a client who has

Re: [Talk-GB] 'C' class roads references.

>On what basis is 'highway_authority_ref' being put forward since I don't think the councils who allocate the references for C and U roads are actually the 'highway_authority' Hi Lester, I expect the basis is the Highways Act 1980 which defines them as "Local Highways Authorities". I'm not sure

[Talk-GB] 'D' class roads references.

Dave can you do the D class roads too. Someone has added these - e.g: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.21554/-1.87663 Thanks, *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: August Meeting

ome up with a suitable pub and some suggestions > for sectionso f the Herefordshire Trail Rgds Brian > -- Forwarded message - > From: Brian Prangle > Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018, 12:24 > Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] August Meeting > To: Rob Nickerson &g

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] August Meeting

I'm free this coming Saturday. Location wise, I'm flexible. I'm also available for lifts if anyone wants one. The following Saturday will be hard for me but I can probably do later weekends. Thanks, Rob On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, 15:30 Brian Prangle, wrote: > Hi everyone > > We generally do a

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus routes in Rugby

Which bus company serves Rugby? We could ask our contacts in Warwickshire CC, or the designer of this map on their website: https://apps.warwickshire.gov.uk/api/documents/WCCC-906-239 *Rob* On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 22:18, Gareth L wrote: > Hiya, > > > > I see there are some bus routes mapped

[Talk-GB] OS Open Zoomstack

Hi all, Some OS news related to the work the OS are doing to make more data available. --- OS Open Zoomstack makes elements of our opendata available as one map, in one file to be used for GIS, web, mobile or offline use. It’s designed to make OS map data more accessible and easier to use in

[Talk-GB] OSM Awards 2018

Hi all, The community voting for the OpenStreetMap Awards 2018 is open until 26 July. Please head to the awards website and choose nominees you think are worthy of the award. http://awards.osmz.ru/ Every OSM account is eligible to vote and you can vote for as many nominees as you would like

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths update: live edit of designation and prow_ref

check the configuration). > > > I'll modify the code when I have a moment so that if it gives a 401 it > comes up with a more friendly message to tell the user they need to log > back in. > > > I have changed the code slightly to reduce the risk of caching old > versions of

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath project - tools

o. The "footpaths edit tracker": >> https://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/diffreader/footpaths/ >> >> So far 89 people have done 1214 edits to objects with the >> designation=public_footpath tag. >> >> Harry >> >> >> >> On Sun

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath project - tools

Hi all, I made quiet a few edits to the wiki today. I also started a basic TagInfo script for tracking progress: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G9KXfp4Ho3fVROO9MxotcYTydl9CEXB_fi5ko2pM5Kc/edit#gid=189420610

[Talk-GB] Footpath project - tools

Hi all, Just getting round to adding to the OSM wiki page on the quarterly project. Looking back at the schools one, it would be amazing if Harry's tool could be adapted to the designation=public_footpath (and others) tag. Is this possible?

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpaths QP

Robert's tool does number of kilometres (km) but just for the counties where we have OGL data to compare against. http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/progress/ It would be good to have km for all counties. I'm sure even with non-OGL data we can show the target km versus the OSMF KM mapped. Is

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths update: live edit of designation and prow_ref

ear? > > > The way you mentioned doesn't seem to have any edits even after refreshing. > > > Nick > > > -- > *From:* Rob Nickerson > *Sent:* 07 July 2018 12:37:26 > *To:* Nick Whitelegg > *Cc:* Talk-GB > *Subject:* Re: [Tal

[Talk-GB] Warwickshire footpaths - prow ref

Hi Brian, cc: talk-gb where there is an ongoing discussion about prow ref. I want to use this post to highlight that even the local authorities are not internally consistent. Good to see you on Thursday. As discussed I will start with Stratford upon avon district (admin level 8) rights of way:

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Warwickshire footpaths - prow ref

Hi Brian, cc: talk-gb where there is an ongoing discussion about prow ref. I want to use this post to highlight that even the local authorities are not internally consistent. Good to see you on Thursday. As discussed I will start with Stratford upon avon district (admin level 8) rights of way:

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths update: live edit of designation and prow_ref

deal. Now multiple edits in one session are grouped into a single > changeset. > > > Let me know if you're still having problems; let me know what edits you're > trying to do and I'll try and reproduce them. > > > Nick > > > >

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths update: live edit of designation and prow_ref

Hi Nick, How long does it take for the edits to go through to OSM? I expected it to be live but this doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks, *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] July Meeting

Hi Brian, I will be there this week (Thursday 8pm). Anyone else confirmed as attending? Thanks, Rob On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, 19:08 Brian Prangle, wrote: > Hi everyone > > This month will be Coventry.Meet at the Town Wall Tavern > from

[Talk-GB] Q3 2018: Paths and rights of way

Hi all, With summer aligning with recent interest in footpaths, let's spend the next 3 months project focusing on paths and rights of way. I have created a wiki page (stub). Please add to it: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2018_Q3_Project:_Paths_and_rights_of_way We can also do with a

[Talk-GB] Next Joy Diversion event - Manchester

Hi all, Not sure if this got posted whilst I was away, but Open Data Manchester are organising a follow on event: -- Hello all, There so much lovely feedback after our ODM/OSM Joy Diversion event that we have been asked to run another one. So on the 21st July we are running More Joy Diversion

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMM announcement (Was: ..crown jewels)

A few more links: Gov announcement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/unlocking-of-governments-mapping-and-location-data-to-boost-economy-by-130m-a-year OS: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/open-mastermap.html

Re: [Talk-GB] Two new tools: 'Ghosts' and 'Survey Me'

A couple other "Ghosts": - Total petrol stations (I'm almost certain this brand has gone now but struggled to find definitive proof) - The army recruitment shops - can't remember the name (Brian will know as he mentions this occasionaly) *Rob*

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths - new site focusing on OSM UK footpath mapping

Hi Nick, I like this. Spent some time last night adding designations to existing OSM paths using one of the OGL datasets. A couple of questions: 1. Do you have a combined ROW dataset (bringing all the rowmaps files together)? If so could you host this somewhere. 2. Is it possible to

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

me know. Best regards, *Rob* On Wed, 9 May 2018 at 21:13, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi > > Just posted a "challenge" to Loomio for anyone who is interested. It's a > bit beyond me so thought I'd post it here. > > Basically we have point data of historic footpaths (som

Re: [Talk-GB] Two new tools: 'Ghosts' and 'Survey Me'

Nice one. I hope you didn't mind me sharing it on twitter as well. I like this sort of thing as it makes it obvious what things nearby need a quick survey. It's super helpful when travelling away from home and you have a spare 15 mins to go out and map. Are you taking suggestions as to what to

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] June meeting

Oops, I'm a week ahead of myself. It is of course next week (first Thursday of the month). Sorry for any confusion. Best wishes, Rob On Tue, 29 May 2018, 23:16 Rob Nickerson, wrote: > Our meeting is this Thursday. I seem to recall that we picked Nuneaton. > Any pub suggestions? > >

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] June meeting

Our meeting is this Thursday. I seem to recall that we picked Nuneaton. Any pub suggestions? Please let me know if you're going. I shall be there. Um, what is it... Meet in pub from 8pm? Best regards, Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

[Talk-GB] Bing StreetSide

Hi all, Not seen this posted here yet. According to this German link, bing now allow use of their street level imagery for use in editing OSM: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=698568#p698568 I'm on mobile at the moment and cannot seem to find UK coverage. Is there much? Rob

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Tomorrow

Hi all, Just forwarding this message about tomorrow (Saturday) in Manchester. We're expecting about 40 people in total so should be a great event. Best regards, Rob -- Forwarded message - From: Open Data Manchester Date: Fri, 18 May 2018, 12:22 Subject:

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

ar Farm > > So broadly in conclusion: it doesn't seem to give more than comparison > against rowmaps for identifying missing paths for OSM, but it does have > potential for finding lost paths. For the latter case rather more > annotation of information would be needed. > > >

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

hese missing paths, e.g. if I am in Southampton, find the >> nearest village with 10, 20 (or whatever) missing paths within a 5-mile >> radius. >> >> >> Would be nice to have an app too so you can find these footpaths while >> you're actually out. >> >

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

<davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi > > I'm probably missing something. As we have current data on prowmaps.co.uk, > will using such old data have any value/accuracy? > > DaveF. > > On 09/05/2018 21:13, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > Hi > > Just pos

[Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

Hi Just posted a "challenge" to Loomio for anyone who is interested. It's a bit beyond me so thought I'd post it here. Basically we have point data of historic footpaths (some 300k points) and I think it would be amazing to compare this to OSM to see if we can find more footpaths to map.

Re: [Talk-GB] Toys R Us

ame. Likewise the Territorial Army changed name 6 years ago > and we still have 27 instances of the old name. So how about volunteers > for a campaign to contact local mappers and gently encourage them to update > the map? > > Regards > > Brian > > > On 5 May 2018 at 11

Re: [Talk-GB] Toys R Us

I come across them. Rob On Sat, 5 May 2018, 23:41 Rob Nickerson, <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > The reason I said "full removal preferred" was because on a shop=* > feature, my understanding is that the name tag relates to the shop. So no > shop equals no shop to

Re: [Talk-GB] Toys R Us

ed to edit these to remove the shop tag and name tag and to add an advertising=sign tag and message=Toys R Us tag. To me this feels like the most appropriate OSM tags to use. What do you think? Rob On Sat, 5 May 2018, 11:57 Rob Nickerson, <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > And for the

[Talk-GB] Toys R Us

And for the balance: I disagree with Frederik on this one. If we know the map is wrong we should fix it. We should not leave it just because it may encourage others to fix it and then go on to do other local edits. Frederik's view is that a crap map encourages more people to edit. I'm not

Re: [OSM-talk] How INSPIRE data are sold in your countries

eer), and > as far as I know the conditions of availability to citizens were not > enshrined in the INSPIRE directive. > > NL makes a lot of spatial data under INSPIRE freely available, see > https://www.pdok.nl/en > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 2, 2018, at 17:10, Rob Nickerson

Re: [OSM-talk] How INSPIRE data are sold in your countries

INSPIRE is an EU requirement. As far as I know the UK makes all their INSPIRE data open for free, although I am not sure if they had to under the EU rules of if they just decided to. See: https://data.gov.uk/location/inspire *Rob* ___ talk mailing

[Talk-GB] Implicit speed limits: What to tag in built-up areas?

>When the user answers *"Yes, no sign"* At that point the easiest option is for the app to simply stop. Add no data to OSM. And yes, you may have to go back several roads before you see the speed limit sign. No all local authorities put up the repeater signs but that doesn't mean that the speed

Re: [Talk-GB] Implicit speed limits: What to tag in built-up areas?

> so something should be defined and documented I agree with my fellow mappers. There is no need to add this to the UK tagging guideline. > motorways indicated by the international chop sticks sign That is brilliant. I have to find a way to use that expression somewhere :-) P.S. I wish other

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] OSM UK Manchester mapping party (Joy Diversion) and AGM

Oh and a reminder to consider a ticket split to save on rail travel. For Coventry to Manchester, splitting at Stafford saved me a few quid. Of all the website I like this one: https://new.trainsplit.com/ Cheers, *Rob* On 22 April 2018 at 23:26, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK Manchester mapping party (Joy Diversion) and AGM

Oh and a reminder to consider a ticket split to save on rail travel. For Coventry to Manchester, splitting at Stafford saved me a few quid. Of all the website I like this one: https://new.trainsplit.com/ Cheers, *Rob* On 22 April 2018 at 23:26, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>

[Talk-GB] OSM UK Manchester mapping party (Joy Diversion) and AGM

Hi all, We figured our way through a joint event sign up so have now sent all the details out for the Saturday 19 May event. It also now has a name: Joy Diversion! In case you don't receive the email newsletter, please see: https://mailchi.mp/d3c26a7908fc/joy-diversion-agm-sign-up Sign up to

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] OSM UK Manchester mapping party (Joy Diversion) and AGM

Hi all, We figured our way through a joint event sign up so have now sent all the details out for the Saturday 19 May event. It also now has a name: Joy Diversion! In case you don't receive the email newsletter, please see: https://mailchi.mp/d3c26a7908fc/joy-diversion-agm-sign-up Sign up to

[Talk-GB] ID now shows local groups

Hi all, May I point out this: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4815#issuecomment-379611696 Today I added Mappa Mercia as a test case. I will proceed to add UK. Please let me know if you'd like your local group adding (London, East Midlands, etc). I will need a geographical area plus

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