Re: [Talk-GB] Alignment at Point of Sleat

I had a quick look. The lighthouse as currently mapped sits fair & square on the building outline on OS Streetview. As Grant (Firefishy) rectified these tiles using the full OSGB-02 transform this is probably the most accurately located layer. The coastline as mapped accords with this (probably

Re: [Talk-GB] How to Fix a "Fix-Me"

Hi Peter, These very much look like fixmes which got forgotten. They do not show up directly in many editors (and only recently in iD). In this case all the ones you mention look to have been fully resolved by the existing mapping. In that case it's safe just to remove the fixmes, which is good

[Talk-GB] Nottingham/East Midlands pub meeting tonight 23rd July

The July pub meetup for Nottingham and/or East Midlands will be tonight at the Lincolnshire Poacher Nottingham: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup. Mapping from 18:30, meet at Left Lion in the Market Square. I have hurt by big toe so might not be actively mapping tonight.

Re: [Talk-GB] Polygon Coverage of Cornwall

Hi Emma, A quick look suggests lots of landuse//landcover has not been mapped in Cornwall, which is fairly typical of OpenStreetMap in general. Given that you are using OpenMapTiles adding additional features to OSM is probably the quickest way to get things which you are interested in available

[Talk-GB] Solar Panels Q3 Project taster

I have set up a very small project to map Solar panels in the Yorkshire colliery village of Rossington using the Swiss OSM instance of Tasking Manager. There are still 4 LSOAs which haven't been worked on yet: solar panel density is high & imagery good so this is a

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

nt from Mailspring > <https://link.getmailspring.com/link/4ae8c29b-ecc5-4d09-9329-484dfb9dd...@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgetmailspring.com%2F=c2s1My5vc21AZ21haWwuY29t>, > the best free email app for work > On Jun 24 2019, at 3:28 pm, SK53 wrote: > > Hi Gre

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

Hi Gregory, I suspect this does not currently take account of roof-top solar power mapped as nodes. My last tally for Nottingham is a total of 4,385 solar PV generators (3,760 mapped as nodes, 625 as ways), compared with your total of 621. I added solar panels on 3 houses on Saturday (one with 2

Re: [Talk-GB] Is metric or imperial units system used for max weight signs in UK?

A couple of things: - Guernsey, Jersey & other Channel Islands are not part of the United Kingdom, or for many purposes the EU, so their laws are their own concern. (Confusingly they have both ISO country codes & ISO region codes as part of GB : depending on your usage you may wish to

[Talk-GB] SuDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems)

Last night before visiting the pub we had a look at part of Sheffield's "Grey-to-Green" SuDS system. Unfortunately all my batteries ad packed up at this point, but there are some decent pictures on twitter . The bit we looked at was

[Talk-GB] Sheffield Mapping & Pub meeting tonight

A quick reminder that the East Midlands (s.l) group will be meeting in Sheffield this evening: 18:15: Sheffield Cathedral for an hour of mapping (weather permitting 19:15: Devonshire Cat for food, drink, mapping chat 20:45: Sheffield Tap: for more chat & to be convenient for trains home for folk

Re: [Talk-GB] max_age=toddler? | Re: Playground age limits

It might be germane to this discussion to consider minheight & maxheight as possible values. Certainly in ski resorts it is not uncommon to see minimum heights for certain chair lifts (typically 1.25m) and I think I've seen similar on amusement park rides. Height is more likely to be a determining

[Talk-GB] Sheffield OSM evening meeting Tues 18th June

Dear All, I met with John & Sue Stanworth to quickly recce suitable venues for our East Midlands OSM meeting in Sheffield. We decided that the Devonshire Cat is a good first spot to meet: it's close to the centre, has plenty of space, a good range of both food & beer. We'll stay there for an hour

Re: [Talk-GB] sidewalks

I recently extended some already mapped pavements in N. Cambridge. I'm not really a fan of the current approach because I don't think it works particularly well, and I'm not aware of any good routers using this type of data for

Re: [Talk-GB] Farmland (crop or animals)?

As a walker I appreciate walking through a real hay meadow full of attractive flowers rather than a sterile green desert of rye grass. I think Dudley Ibbett made this point long ago about the Peak District. The difference is roughly equivalent to walking through a dark lifeless spruce plantation

Re: [Talk-GB] Farmland (crop or animals)?

It is well-known that meadows (hay meadows) are now a vanishingly small part of the British landscape. For instance in Nottinghamshire we have around 28 ha of MG4 grassland (the typical meadow plant community for meadows in the East Midlands). Work

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

For solar panels as nodes I have been adding two things which could fulfil these criteria: - A count of solar panel modules (the roughly 1.5 by 1 m individual panels) with generator:solar:modules. - Orientation (as generator:orientation) which can be in degrees or one of the 16 points

Re: [Talk-GB] Déjà vu

This is what I do with some kind of binary chop on dates (usually one has a decent idea of when one thought it was on OSM), I do have shops (& probably other stuff) extracted from an OSM History file from the middle of last year, so could probably get more details that way if required. Jerry On

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

A few thoughts: 1. The technologies used by OpenSolarMap by Christian Quest and others Etalab.could be applied to OS OpenLocal buildings with a suitable training set. The original French data used high quality imagery classified by cloud sourcing as to roof orientation (flat, E-W or

[Talk-GB] Derby Pub meeting tonight

Reminder that we are meeting in Derby tonight: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup. I hope to announce full details of next month's meeting in Sheffield at the start on June. Regards, Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Best One vs Best-One vs best-one vs Best-one convenience shop

I think Rob is right here: 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 > > Toys-R-Us at one stage was mapped with the

Re: [Talk-GB] Is this a footbridge?

Ed is of course right. How to map it is a more vexed problem. I think I'd still map it as a footbridge with handrail and a note that it was damaged (or even ford=yes as well): if you report it to your local highway authority it may get fixed. The reason I'm responding to this is that I've been

[Talk-GB] April Nottingham pub meeting

A reminder that our April meeting will be at the Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30 tomorrow evening. We'll be meeting at Left Lion at 18:30 to check for & map any changes in the city centre. I'll try & think a bit about areas most needing an update. More on the wiki:

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

I will often map both the track through the gate & the path over the stile. It's usually a matter of judgement as to whether the line of the PRoW should go over the stile or through the gate. It's not unusual to find a moribund stile in such circumstances, which I map as a standalone node. Keeping

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC: Solar panel mapping in the UK

I'll quickly add my responses on the thread: - *REPD issues*. All of Rob's points taken, but we mustn't forget that OSM data have always been acquired and refined iteratively. Of course data from REPD has to be taken with a pinch of salt, but at least for now it's very useful for

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC: Solar panel mapping in the UK

Yup, I don't think industrial is appropriate in many circumstances, any more than it would be for an area of wind turbines on moorland. For instance I've seen sheep grazing in between the panels (which IIRC are mounted on heliostats) on this solar farm:

Re: [Talk-GB] Removal of redundant NaPTAN data

Like Andy I can find these useful, particularly as the ones on local PTE websites are very difficult to interpret. However, they suffer from the deficiencies of being a) unmaintained on OSM; b) not necessarily reflecting multiple bus pass zones; c) being fairly crude hulls of bus stops in the

Re: [Talk-GB] State of the Map 2019, Heidelberg 21-23 Sept

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 13:14, Andy Allan wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 15:14, Jez Nicholson > wrote: > > > > That's interestingI'd wanted to go by train before as its more > eco-friendly and more interesting, but struggled with the cost compared to > flights. Do you use Loco2.com to plan?

[Talk-GB] Sheffield Pub Meeting June 2019

After a discussion in the pub tonight, we are proposing to return to Sheffield for a notional East Midlands pub meeting in June. The date will be Tuesday 18th June, venue to be determined. We will end up in the Sheffield Tap at the station to enable those of us from further South to have clean

[Talk-GB] Nottingham (& Edinburgh) pub meetings tonight

Just a reminder that we are in the Lincolnshire Poacher tonight. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Invalid building levels and building (part) height license compatibility

How very useful; had completely forgotten about this! However, I don't think that is Neil's issue, which is that building:levels should have integer values (or just possibly steps of a half). Some 3D renders make assumptions about what a default height for a single storey (level) will be. A good

Re: [Talk-GB] Common Land has stopped rendering

y conclusion on how to tag them now? > > Perhaps leisure=park, park=common? > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 12:51 SK53, wrote: > >> Yup, it's gone. I think the standard thing is use Andy's (SomeoneElse) >> map which is likely to retain features of value & relevance to Britis

Re: [Talk-GB] Common Land has stopped rendering

Yup, it's gone. I think the standard thing is use Andy's (SomeoneElse) map which is likely to retain features of value & relevance to British & Irish map users. On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 12:35, Ian Caldwell via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > In the last day or two the standard

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

I don't think Geovation are at 1 Seckford Street anymore (Future Cities Catapult have taken over IIRC), which is a shame as Seckford Street is a really nice venue. It' still available for events, but I suspect with substantial costs. I don't think Geovation have moved very far away. I suspect

Re: [Talk-GB] Lake District NationalPark

It was fixed about 6 days ago, but looks OK now http://ra.osmsurround.org/analyzeRelation?relationId=287917&_noCache=on Jerry On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 21:13, Brian Prangle wrote: > Can someone take a look at this relation? It doesn't seem to be rendering > on the main map > > Regards > > Brian >

[Talk-GB] Reminder: Derby pub meeting tonight

We're at the Old Silk Mill from 19:30 tonight in Derby: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] We're missing changes to M1 Junction 36 which have apparently been in place for a year.

t; changesets later :) > > Regards, > *Paul* > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 13:45, SK53 wrote: > >> Must say I feel a bit of a twit now; and perhaps I've saved Paul a >> journey. >> >> OS Local Open Data, of course, has at least some of these roads, I have >>

Re: [Talk-GB] We're missing changes to M1 Junction 36 which have apparently been in place for a year.

Must say I feel a bit of a twit now; and perhaps I've saved Paul a journey. OS Local Open Data, of course, has at least some of these roads, I have added the link from near Cross Keys Lane to the Rockingham Roundabout using the version I

[Talk-GB] We're missing changes to M1 Junction 36 which have apparently been in place for a year.

* A message on the forum points out that the roads immediately to the east of Junction 36 have been substantially altered: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=65350 * There is a note dating back over a year too: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1221610#map=15/53.4976/-1.4580=N

Re: [Talk-GB] Derby Meeting next month: location tba

be more inclined to come if we held the meeting closer to the station. The Brunswick is suitable, although they only do food until 20:00. Regards, Jerry On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 23:56, SK53 wrote: > Dear All, > > John Baker (Rovastar) informs me that the Old Silk Mill (our nor

Re: [Talk-GB] Dropped or lowered kerbs

It wasn't meant to be off list! Jerry On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 10:35, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 19:10, Rob Nickerson > wrote: > > > 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. >

Re: [Talk-GB] Checking UK Towns

A few points: * I believe you should complete the relevant organised edit page on the wiki. * I think any use of admin_level=11 or indeed any use of admin_level at all for un-parished areas needed to be discussed up front. Places

[Talk-GB] Derby Meeting next month: location tba

Dear All, John Baker (Rovastar) informs me that the Old Silk Mill (our normal venue) is currently closed, perhaps for refurbishment. Therefore at present our location for next month's meeting remains to be confirmed, If the Old Silk MIll has not reopened by then, likely alternatives are The Alex

[Talk-GB] Nottingham pub meeting Jan 2019

The first Nottingham pub meeting of the year will be tonight in the Lincolnshire Poacher.from 19:30. Usual wiki link: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Dates for the next two months are: * Feb: Tuesday 19th Silk MIll Derby * Mar: Tuesday 19th Lincolnshire Poacher,

Re: [Talk-GB] Greater London Authority

The reference to Information Freeway suggests it's based on pretty old info which no longer works There are also Greater London extracts from Geofabrik (& possibly BBBike). The page could do with some updates. Jerry On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 10:33, Brian Prangle wrote: > Does anyone have any

Re: [Talk-GB] Property extents

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 11:39, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > snip > > because they're more likely to get shot on private land. Hope this is > not so much of a concern in the UK ;) > > Bye > Frederik > > Only if one is a raptor: https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/ Jerry

Re: [Talk-GB] Property extents

I think in both France & Spain the cadastral information has been used largely for mapping buildings and not land-parcels. In places I know the French cadastral parcel data is difficult to interpret: overlapping parcels; individual buildings as multiple parcels; parcel boundaries not according to

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Mobility Stockport

; use by the Council, and not vice versa. They will mostly be using existing > tools. > > I believe that some mobility things are suited for inclusion in OSM, e.g. > number of steps in a flight (from a chat I had with SK53), or wheelchair > accessibility of shops (maybe using Wh

Re: [Talk-GB] Property extents

Hi Andy, Both Chris Hill & I blogged about them at the time, but they NEVER had any semblance of being open data. The same proved to be true of the Land Registry Prices Paid which now can only be used if you are an estate agent. Owen has covered both on his Map Gubbins blog. Have to dash, so

[Talk-GB] Lees Footpath Mapping tomorrow

Dear All, I have made a 1:20k map showing missing paths in the area around Lees Derbyshire. Dudley will be doing the small network around Kirk Langley in the morning. There is also a KML file of the completely missing paths suitable for use with Maps.Me. I suggest we focus on the large network

Re: [Talk-GB] Invitation: New Year Footpath Mapping

if you CANT now make the 5th. Jerry On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 10:23, SK53 wrote: > I wont close the poll yet, but Saturday 12th Jan is increasingly looking > like the best date. > > Happy Christmas to all, > > Jerry > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 13:38, SK53 wrote: > >>

Re: [Talk-GB] Leicester A

i/Gervase_Markham_(programmer) > > Best regards > Spike > > On 30/12/2018 12:26, SK53 wrote: > > Eventually I finally had time after a meeting in Leicester to go and have > a look at this. It's been on my to-do list (if no-one else caught it) but > as I usually visit Leiceste

Re: [Talk-GB] Invitation: New Year Footpath Mapping

I wont close the poll yet, but Saturday 12th Jan is increasingly looking like the best date. Happy Christmas to all, Jerry On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 13:38, SK53 wrote: > I plan to hold another footpath mapping event after Christmas. I enclose a > link to a doodle poll so that I can asc

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Invitation: New Year Footpath Mapping

91oOuPiAHleaM-2FpSUVjTtT38PS3LFDwCm2gYF7OOlXzpeNOx43W0jneyYu9CjkG8rTlaLs9V8lgkjDTXNbIrlDJPay-2FA-3D-3D> Hi, SK 53 (sk53@gmail.com) invites you to participate in the Doodle poll *New Year Footpath Mapping*. More details on OSM Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Mapping_Meetup/New_Year_2019 Participate now <http://link.e.doodle.c

[Talk-GB] December Nottingham pub meeting

Out last meeting of the year will be tonight at the Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup All welcome. A Merry Christmas to all, Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Derby Pub Meeting tonight

A quick reminder that we are meeting as usual at the Old Silk Mill from 19.30 this evening. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup#Next_Meeting Regards, Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Network tag on railway stations

I've just come across a large number of instances of network=Nation Rail on stations. Clearly this is a mistake, presumably National Rail is intended. As the station concerned is heavily branded with Merseyrail my first instinct was to change the tag to this, but then I wondered if National Rail

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes

I'm pretty sure that the "centroid" is allocated to the nearest delivery point in the postcode which places it over a building. See my (now rather) old blog post <http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2013/12/british-postcodes-on-openstreetmap.html> from 2013, and the note by Jenni Te

[Talk-GB] Nottingham pub meeting tonight

Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30 Wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Access restrictions for lorries above a certain GVM

I can only answer for my self. I generally tag these I usually see with a plain hgv=destination, possibly with maxweight=7.5t. The sign is very rare without an additional plate allowing for deliveries. I do this largely because I want to capture the information rather than because it is the most

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

I think Richard as usually eloquently summarised my position. Rutland is perhaps an extreme example insofar as more-or-less the entire population objected to the county disappearing. However such cases are not uncommon across the world: of the top of my head, I can think of the city of Allegheny

[Talk-GB] Nottingham Meeting tonight 19:30

Detals :https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] un-named roads in UK

A few general points: * Google certainly uses OS Open Data for street names in the UK. I corrected a few a while back via the OSGB feeback and they then filtered through to Google Maps. In one case the GSV clearly showed the correct name on the road sign. * The first couple of examples provided

Re: [Talk-GB] Churchyard gate/shelter

In particular, the one in Mapperley (Derbyshire) is also a war memorial, and sadly someone pinched the gates around Christmas. Jerry On 22 August 2018 at 17:27, Philip Barnes wrote: > https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Bi7 > > Looks like will_p is the man. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > On 22 August 2018

[Talk-GB] Reminder OSM East Midlands in Derby tonight

Mapping from 18:30 meet outside bus station (I've listed shops, but I think Dave Venables is now very much on top of those, s we may do something else). Old Silk Mll from 19:30. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail trialling 'parcel' post boxes

wrote: > Locations listted in this article > > https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/ > royal-mail-postboxes-take-parcels-1892430 > > Will get to survey the Elland Road one in the next couple of weeks. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > On 13/08/2018 13:48,

[Talk-GB] Royal Mail trialling 'parcel' post boxes

Press release: https://www.royalmail.com/parcel-postboxes Trial locations are in Leicester & Northampton. Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] New Ghosts Set and Survey Me Auto-Location Feature

It should be noted that many pharmacies appear in FHRS data, often with "Exempt" status. Jerry On 6 August 2018 at 23:08, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6 August 2018 at 09:39, Philip Withnall wrote: > > Thanks for the updates! A quick question about

Re: [Talk-GB] Brewshop Tagging

FWIW: this was a tag I used https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/alcohol=off_site_only (but alcohol has 2 distinct meanings). On 29 July 2018 at 19:07, SK53 wrote: > Because licensing laws are weird! Also because we use it for vintners, > specialist cider producers and posh whisky

Re: [Talk-GB] Brewshop Tagging

lse), real_ale=yes and maybe real_mild if they stock > it :D > > Phil (trigpoint) > > On 29/07/2018 17:05, Andy Townsend wrote: > > On 29/07/18 14:33, SK53 wrote: > > This is how I mapped the one I surveyed last year in West Norwood > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/513

Re: [Talk-GB] Brewshop Tagging

This is how I mapped the one I surveyed last year in West Norwood https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5139756811. Avoid shop=beverage, these are shop=alcohol. We also have the tag pub=micropub and/or micropub=yes, so pub=brewshop and brewshop=yes would fit with that scheme. (As an aside more than

Re: [Talk-GB] landuse=scrub wood

Far better to ask the original mapper via a changeset comment than involve the whole community in something which may be a trivial point. If issues arise, for instance, some mappers using it for a particular purpose then is the time to bring it to more general attention. For any given key there

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing long distance footpath relation

load it again or look at a changeset revert as I have been plagued with > timeouts given this is a large relation. > > Regards > > Brian > > On 27 July 2018 at 14:42, SK53 wrote: > >> The easiest way to do this is to use the Undelete Object option on the >> File Menu

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing long distance footpath relation

responses. Jerry I think >> if I just export your overpass turbo query to JOSM and then upload that >> will restore the relation? I've taken a look at the data and it looks OK to >> me. I'll also drop the offender a helpful note. He's an an avid contributor >> from the Cov

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing long distance footpath relation

There are several ways 1. Many LDPs are documented (with relation ids) on this page on the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_long_distance_paths . This shows it was relation 75266, deleted 7 months ago https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/75266/history. 2.

[Talk-GB] Nottingham Pub Meeting tonight

Just a reminder that the Nottingham pub meeting is tonight at the Lincolnshire Poacher at 19:30 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup. Pre-pub mapping checking shops in the city centre again, meet Left Lion 18:30. Jerry ___ Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Spurious No U turns in GB

Andy (SomeoneElse) has just pointed out some odd mapping of No U-turn restrictions in Notts. These seem to originate in the ImproveOSM QA tool developed by Telenav. A quick inspection of No U-turns in the local area shows that very many have been added in the past year, but the vast majority of

Re: [Talk-GB] Local names of bits of trunk roads

Discussed as long ago as 2011 on Sabre: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28139#p571505. This discussion on Sabre highlights the fact that the Great North Road and current A1, A1(M) route may not always be identical. I know I might refer to older dual carriageway sections of

[Talk-GB] Reminder East Midlands meeting in Sheffield tonight, Sheffield Tap, 19:30

A quick reminder that we are having the East Midlands pub meeting in Sheffield tonight from 19:30, mapping beforehand from 18:30, meet outside City Hall by ware memorial. Details on the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry

Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

There's a transaction threshold, so not fully opendata: although I'm sure it could be gamed by a crowd! Before getting overly excited, take a look at the (poorly attributed) sample 1km sq in Exeter. Volume of data is very large with (just) buildings, road & pavement edges, property boundaries

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway Platforms - Covered=yes are not shown in latest rendering

Dont forget the amenity=bicycle_parking usage (mentioned in the wiki) where the semantics are different from those you describe.12200+ examples in England. Probably the more usual way of mapping a platform canopy is with building=roof or building=canopy with possibly wall=no. Jerry On 29 May

[Talk-GB] Derby Pub Meeting tomorrow

The May East Midlands pub meeting will be in Derby tomorrow. If you want to join in testing how to use linear maps to check town centre POIs we'll meet just outside the bus station at 18:30. My test linear maps for Derby are here: * 1 page /street:

Re: [Talk-GB] Scottish community councils

Adding such things tends to be down to local mappers. The best source for accurate boundaries is OS Open Data Boundary Line: this needs a little experience to process well, but IIRC JOSM handles it reasonably well. I don't think area committees, at least in Argyll & Bute, have anything like the

Re: [Talk-GB] How to tag

I cant really help with the second two (would be really useful to know about shops which sell out!), but estate agents which have side lines of business are quite common. They often may have a mortgage broking arm, an insurance broker or be agent for a building society, and offer surveying

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing StreetSide

I have updated the wiki with some relevant information. The Ts probably need some checking between LWG & Microsoft for clarification of actual intent.For now I think it is best to not use it for adding new POIs, but to follow the

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

I've put up 2 umap instances: - Footpaths for parts of Notts quickly traced in JOSM from NPE maps (with a few from 1:25k provisional edition. Uses NPE 1:25k maps as background -

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

irect you where to look. > > Best, > Rob > > > > > > On Thu, 10 May 2018, 13:54 SK53, <sk53@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Quick correction, as I uploaded heat map to wrong Flickr account. This is >> the proper link: https://flic.kr/p/JSXgyh. >> >&

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

Quick correction, as I uploaded heat map to wrong Flickr account. This is the proper link: https://flic.kr/p/JSXgyh. J On 10 May 2018 at 13:07, SK53 <sk53@gmail.com> wrote: > I just checked on the Vision of Britain site: the core data is currently > released under CC-BY-NC. I pr

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

the current right of way will have followed farm tracks and service roads, which in many cases have disappeared. Returning to use of rowmaps I have a recent geojson file of missing paths in the North Midlands (Staffs, Derbys, Notts, Leics & Rutland) up on github: https://github.com/SK53/osm-

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

Can we please avoid changing the meaning of post office by extending it to courier offices, and restrict it to those places which offer not only a full service mail offering (aka Universal Postal Service), but the traditional other services available at post offices (some banking, government

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

I think they are popular in Flintshire around schools. I was certainly somewhat disconcerted by them when I first encountered them. It occurs to me that it may be worth mapping these because of their obvious intent to confuse, but only using highway=traffic_sign. Jerry On 2 May 2018 at 13:31,

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

In fairness to Tobias: - StreetComplete is a well-used app (over 10k installs according to Google Play), representing 2% of all changesets last year. - It offers a way for people who don't want to engage with the full complexity of learning an editor (as represented by the person who

[Talk-GB] Nottingham Pub Meeting tonight

Just the usual reminder that it is the regular Nottingham/East Midlands pub meeting tonight: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup To do something a little different for pre-pub mapping we will be meeting at the Left Lion outside the Council House at 18:30. The idea is to

[Talk-GB] Leicester pub meeting & mapathon Thursday 19th April

Just another reminder that we have an extra couple of events this week in Leicester. The Mapathon is in the Bennett Building, University of Leicester from 16:30. I'd welcome anyone who is willing to lend a hand to help any newcomers get off the ground. I'm detailing stuff on this wiki page:

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM AGM and notification

. HTH, Jerry (aka SK53) On 14 April 2018 at 13:51, Tony Shield <tony.shield...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > Starting to get into OSM mapping and things OSM - so I've found this > talk-gb mail system, I've just found the website OSM UK and seen the > weeklyOSM 403 global newsle

[Talk-GB] Leicester Meeting(s) Thursday 19th April

A quick note as I have to be out for part of today and therefore dont have time to finish adding information to the wiki. Next week we will be holding two events in Leicester connected with the GIS Research UK conference. - A Mapathon on the Missing Maps format for conference participants

Re: [Talk-GB] Bottle Kilns

Looks fine to me, and the tag is in extensive usage. This is roughly the tagging we have used for the disused one at West Hallam: https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2#map=18/52.97438/-1.35346 . My only qualm is about disused=yes. I presume this is very much the default for bottle

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] Retiring obsolete GB out of copyright layers

Just to clarify. This is about removing tiled map sets from the lists used in editors (largely to simplify the list of imagery and remove the confusing pairs of NPE, 1st series & 7th series maps. The out-of-copyright maps scanned by OSMers will remain at ooc.openstreetmap.org and can be manually

[Talk-GB] March Nottingham pub meeting

Will be tonight at the Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Petrol stations again

Dear All, You may not be aware of a new planned import of petrol stations by Ilya. This is a follow-up to the UK Shell stations using very similar principles, but a larger number of brands. Discussion on the imports mailing list here:

[Talk-GB] Derby Pub-meeting Tuesday Feb 20th

Just a quick reminder that we will be at the Old Silk Mill in Derby tomorrow, Tuesday 20th from 19:30. Details: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Regards, Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

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