I think all are acceptable. FWIW I've always followed Harry Wood's dictum
and lumped these in as shop=beauty (aka Beauty Salon) possibly with a
sub-tag beauty=tanning. But given the paucity of usage on taginfo.uk, I
suspect I haven't been consistent.
OSM Nottingham
craft is fine, but the point of tagging is to make it simple for
people to choose something: not to adhere to some rigorous data model.
In Slide 17 of this presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/SK53/gone-shopping-detailed-retail-mapping I
suggested some broad groupings for retail and separated out
There's another option using the heritage
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/heritage tag, which
is basically corresponds to an admin_level. Personally find it a bit
clunky, but it is an attempt to define a way of tagging listed buildings
(etc.) on a more global basis.
Jerry
Just a link to a forum post which may be of interest:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=26029
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Next Nottingham pub meeting will be this coming Tuesday at our usual venue:
The Lincolnshire Poacher.
I will not be at the pub until 20:00 as I plan to attend the launch of
Jones the Planner's new book Towns in Britain at Nottingham Contemporary.
Consequently I am not planning any pre-pub
Following on from DanS's query I came across the following wonderful
postcode oddity: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.28921/-2.47207
Close inspection of the addresses I've mapped suggests that there are two
No 11s and two 14s on Clover Drive. However, if you examine the data, this 11
There are at least two major streets in the middle of
Nottinghamhttp://osm.org/go/eu8Y~fqF2?layers=Nlike this: logically
the street does not have a name, the sides of the
street have names:
- North of the Council House, the S side is Smith Row, the N side is
Long Row
- South of the
Hi All,
After the great turn-out in February we thought we'd take the Nottingham
pub meeting to Derby this month.
As the Exeter Arms was so busy, we moved the venue to the Tap, which is
right next to the bridge over the Derwent on Derwent Street. (I note that
someone armchaired the name back to
Hello There, Would someone in/near the Lake District, UK care to check on
four recent changesets by Sum Wum namely these :-
crinkle crags and pike o blisco draft
Closed about 22 hours ago · #22299350
crinkle crags close up
Closed 1 day ago · #22288398
langdale map10
Closed 1 day ago · #22288304
Not looked at these for a while: it's clear that OS Locator is adding more
small terraces, blocks of flats etc which it didn't have.
Plenty of new surveys to be done, although the hoary old ones still exist,
like this one:
http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?osl_id=780375. I've
This data was loaded on OSM servers about a month ago as a slippy map. I
need to check with Grant (Firefishy) about links etc.
Jerry
On 9 May 2014 00:23, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Hampshire County Council have now put their 2013 aerial imagery (plus
height data
Grant normally updates it when a new release is made.
Last year he did a diff between all the various releases. See:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-November/015526.html
Jerry
On 9 May 2014 09:57, tony wroblewski tony.wroblew...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All
Does anyone
The 1:2500 maps, and many other large scale maps on the Warwickshire site
were digitised and rectified by Landmark Information
Grouphttp://www.landmark.co.uk/,
who own the copyright in the images and of course in their rectified form.
Landmark. Landmark have a commericial business, Old-Maps which
I plan the next Nottingham pub meeting for Tuesday 29th April at the
Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30.
As the clocks have gone back I'll be outside at 18:30 for an hour of
mapping. Current targets in the area are:
- St. Ann's area to E of Mansfield Road. Still lots of detail missing.
-
Just to follow up Dudley's initial post:
- It's clear that we need to map at least some indoor walkways and
passages just to provide rational pedestrian routing.
- If we want to build comprehensive sets of data for things like
shopping centres then we also need a way to represent that
There is a conference for people who record wildlife in Cheshire at Chester
Zoo on 26th April:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zKSQDAMOK-ngilXnOLdKhre8xL-h6sG6FYvEbUhyJbM/viewform
It might just be of some interest to OSMers in the local area.
I get the emails because I once uploaded some
Back in the Lincolnshire Poacher this coming Tuesday 25th March.
I can give some background on last OSM Hack Weekend and interesting talks
at Geomob this week in London.
Cheers,
Jerry
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I've been doing a bit of attributing to post boxes of late, and have a
couple of queries:
- Around Maidenhead a wall post box mounted in a brick pillar is a
fairly common type. I'm at a loss as to how these might be tagged using
post_box:type. A good example is SL6 4, which is tagged as
-people/304bca06b78cf4d6836adfa80a9a2188e7c713f0/ml/
On 21/03/2014 18:19, SK53 wrote:
* I've been doing a bit of attributing to post boxes of late, and have a
** couple of queries:
* ** Around Maidenhead a wall post box mounted in a brick pillar is a
** fairly common type. I'm
Should add there are known cases where specific trees have been EXCLUDED
from mapping.
The one which comes to mind is the national database of native Black
Poplarshttp://sppaccounts.bsbi.org.uk/content/populus-nigra-1(*Populus
nigra betulifolia*) maintained by the BSBI recorder for the taxon,
I dont know that we've mapped any gas lines in the UK although IIRC
Helsinki is festooned with underground infrastructure on OSM. I resisted
mapping the local pipework when the gas main was replaced, although all the
coloured markings are still visible on the street. One thought is this
area is
normally just delete the
node. Councils also keep records of stumps, which would still have root
systems.
Regards,
Tom
On 4 March 2014 14:25, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
I dont know that we've mapped any gas lines in the UK although IIRC
Helsinki is festooned with underground infrastructure
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*Subject:* [Talk-GB] Derby (translocated Nottingham) Pub Meeting tonight
Exeter Arms close to bus station across the Derwent, 19:30.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup
Hope
My impression is that the 2008 imagery (zoom 20 and 21 is still available
in JOSM). It certainly would be a disappointment because the 2008 imagery
was taken in good sunlight and is mostly directly overhead.
Jerry
On 1 March 2014 18:41, Will Phillips wp4...@gmail.com wrote:
Since about last
Exeter Arms close to bus station across the Derwent, 19:30.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup
Hope to see some of you there!
Jerry
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Just a quick reminder that the Nottingham pub meeting will be in Derby on
Tuesday 25th Feb at the Exeter Arms from 19:30. (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup)
I hope we might see some new faces!
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Interesting, and a big document.
Just loved this example on the last page: GRIAMACHARRY, KINBRACE, KW11
6UB, the place furthest from its postcode centroid (8 km)
Yesterday, the Scottish Affairs Select Committee took evidence relating to
Land Reform: but there was plenty of interesting and
Tom is quite right, this is in no way shape or form an Open Licence for the
OSGB material.
Nor is the Glasgow Open Licence strictly speaking Open, as it prevents use
for Illegal or Immoral purposes without defining the latter. It is
another pernicious OGL fork.
Ironically, one of the suggested
Mike,
Firstly, I think Tom Chance has covered all the significant issues.
I'm assuming that the types of assets your potential users are interested
in are of the order of schools, libraries, health facilities etc. rather
than street furniture. In these categories I would estimate a typical level
I've just been looking at use of designation on taginfo
UKhttp://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/designation#valuesand
there are many not very appropriate uses.
The ones which stick out to me are : permissive_bridleway (if its
permissive it's not been designated), Holiday Chalet and The
Today whilst moving bugs over from OpenStreetBugs I noticed that the
Silverstone
GP circuit http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2259914 is tagged
leisure=sports_centre and Huntingdon
Racecoursehttp://www.openstreetmap.org/way/111342905is tagged with
leisure=track.
Whereas it is true that
(trigpoint)
2014-02-01 SK53 sk53@gmail.com:
Today whilst moving bugs over from OpenStreetBugs I noticed that the
Silverstone GP circuit is tagged leisure=sports_centre and Huntingdon
Racecourse is tagged with leisure=track.
Whereas it is true that Silverstone is a centre
18:46, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
Of course it would be much better if everything was released under plain
OGL,
Indeed. Coincidently, it seems that OS is currently running a survey
on the future of OS OpenData. So if anyone would like to let them know
that it would be better
the wiki text could be made more explicit.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 January 2014 14:25, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
By all means say OSMf/LWG consider that OSGB OGL data can be included
in OSM, but
I
For the sake of clarification:
Robert Whittaker's interpretation of the Ordnance Survey Open Government
License is not widely accepted in the community.
Overall in the past 3 and a half years we have traced, imported or
otherwise derived large quantities of data under this license. Mike
say OSMf/LWG consider that OSGB OGL data can be included in OSM, but
I personally avoid doing so ...
Jerry
On 24 January 2014 12:58, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 January 2014 11:32, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
For the sake of clarification
This is advertising pure simple. It needs to be deleted.
On 22 January 2014 11:49, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
Hello,
A little while ago Amaroussi posted a diary entry about people adding
bitcoin payment info to OSM objects:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Amaroussi/diary/20772
I've been somewhat remiss in sending mail out about these, and once again a
couple of days have slipped from when I meant to send the message.
Tuesday 21st 7:30 Lincolnshire Poacher, Mansfield Road.
February's meet will be Tuesday 21st Feb somewhere in Derby (need to
consult with Paul the
Just to be clear I mean Tuesday 21st January, the Feb date is for the next
meeting
On 17 January 2014 10:19, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
I've been somewhat remiss in sending mail out about these, and once again
a couple of days have slipped from when I meant to send the message.
Tuesday
I believe that they have been split-up, but Alyssa also did a similar
presentation at SotM-US which is available on both Vimeo archive.org as a
standalone presentation.
Jerry
On 1 November 2013 18:03, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
chirita.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
I can reference videos, but
.
thanks to sk53 for pointing out this source of information, it looks
really promising :)
Neil
On 19 Oct 2013 14:01, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Hi
I wanted to add url links for UK Food Hygiene Rating System to
restaurants cafes etc. Such as:
http
This morning I came across a name tag on a power
linehttp://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.18607/-1.14961.
I believe this is now quite a common practice ( 8% of lines in an 3-month
old data-set). Personally I deplore it:
- I have never found a convenient sign on a power line giving it's
I had a very brief chat with someone at SotM touching on this.
I don't think the 1inch:10 mile data is at all useful in OSM: it's too
generalised and would result in huge awkward to maintain polygons. However
in many places the field geology is much more detailed and is both at a
scale compatible
I think the standard way is to map the building and add suitable nodes for
the relevant functions.
Sports arenas which are also used for concerts etc., are usually tagged as
a sports arena (pace Wembley Stadium, National Ice Stadium etc.). A useful
rule-of-thumb is to base the core tagging on the
Just a reminder that we return to the city for the October pub meet-up. No
planned mapping beforehand as it's getting dark now.
Hope to see you tomorrow,
All the best,
Jerry
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In general waterways mapped with NPE will be rather inaccurate. It is more
likely that this stream still exists but is perhaps as much has 200 metres
away. Masses of persistent features (notably streams, but also major roads
etc) were mapped from NPE maps upto around 2010 when OS OpenData and Bing
I'd be interested if enough advance notice is given!
Where would the likely starting point be (I'd be coming by public
transport)?
Jerry
On 2 October 2013 00:16, Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote:
I would be, however I'd be more keen to take my mountain bike out -
there's seems to
I think what is best is a 'world file'. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file.
I dont quite know what technology wikimedia are using, but there are some
experienced wikimedians in the OSM community: Susanna Anas from Helsinki
has been driving a lot of activity about using old maps from
Just a general point about shops. There is a perfectly good OPEN data
source containing address ( postcode centroid as lat/lon) available for
all food outlets covering most UK local authorities.
This is the Food Standards Agency's Food Hygiene Rating
AFAIK all OS StreetView tiles on OSM are projected in Spherical Mercator
and this reprojection will certainly have been done using proj4, i.e, it's
algorithmic not table-driven.
OSSV scale is 1 pixel / metre, so accuracy is less than that.
So sources of error are:
- Feature generalisation in
am @SK53onOSM on twitter, but Kate @wonderchook) Harry are
prolific tweeters too.
Hope to see many of you again (!) tomorrow.
Regards,
Jerry SK53 Clough
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As I've been busy losing my voice by talking too much at SotM13, but I
thought I'd give a little advance notice that we will have the Nottingham
pub meeting in Worksop on Tuesday 10th September.
This is because the OSM HOT team are staying at the Base Camp, a bunk
house, in Clumber Park: and it
Sorry that should be White Lion, and it's 500 metres from the Mallard
On 8 September 2013 13:41, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
As I've been busy losing my voice by talking too much at SotM13, but I
thought I'd give a little advance notice that we will have the Nottingham
pub meeting
I'd agree with Mike, banqueting_hall is a tad too specific, but I did like
the other option of function_hall suggested by someone earlier in the
thread. Event_hall is an equivalent which works fine for me too.
Note that there is a cross-over to things tagged village_hall or similar,
and many
Exactly why OS Street View should only be used as a guide, not gospel.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:21 AM, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.comwrote:
On 28 August 2013 09:50, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote:
new-fangled expensive wedding licences. Or telling my local vicar and his
wife
Open Historical Map is a sandbox environment and has only been around for a
few months. It's far too early to write it off.
A more reliable link is probably hosm.gwhat.com, but Jeff Meyer has been
having problems with the servers recently, and it doesn't seem to up atm.
Jerry
On Sat, Aug 31,
The entire landcover tag discussion on the wiki is a huge distraction,and
not based on any objective criteria, let alone an attempt to see if what we
have works.
I, on the other hand, gave a paper at SotM-Eu in 2011 which showed that use
of existing tags could provide a level of
The convention exists because the grounds in which a place of worship
exists are rarely places of worship themselves. Try conducting a marriage
in a churchyard (probably the tag you are looking for
landuse=churchyardhttp://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=churchyard,
to heavily used but in
) seems
unusually clunky.
Jerry
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:41 PM, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.comwrote:
On 28 August 2013 09:50, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote:
churchyard (probably the tag you are looking for landuse=churchyard, to
heavily used but in existence) instead of a church
I don't think these are hedgerows at all. They are really relict river
gallery woodland (usually *Salicion albae,*
NVChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_and_scrub_communities_in_the_British_National_Vegetation_Classification_systemW6)
and I would expect are mainly Willows with the odd Poplar
I doubt if anyone checks the Naptan account: it's an import account largely
to separate personal mapping from imports. Furthermore I don't know how
active the user who co-ordinated the imports is these days: info is
available on the wiki.
I don't think either OSM or NaPTAN ever came up with a
IIRC virtually every round of phone number expansion has not been very
forward looking. I think Ovum did the consultancy on the first
onehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhONEday:
just adding a '1' on the front of each STD code, which was obviously a
kludge. I vaguely remember the London 01 = 071,081
I'm awaiting all the bad jokes, but have just noticed that the IGS National
Borehole database is available under OGL:
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/boreholescans/
I've used this before for local history stuff, and a friend who has an
amateur interest in hydrology worked out all sorts of things from
databases have a
DATE data type (or one of the many variations like DATETIME or TIMESTAMP).
Why not apply the same principle to phone numbers?
Colin
On 2013-08-22 14:35, sk53.osm wrote:
IIRC virtually every round of phone number expansion has not been very
forward looking. I think Ovum
As the NSA clearly don't process their data according to E.164 (otherwise
how could they confuse Washington DC area code with Egypt), I think we can
skip it too!
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
**
I am not sure what your issue was with highway=path
Just a quick reminder that this is scheduled for tomorrow at 19:30.
Notionally an OSM 9th Birthday event: not sure if there will be cake.
Details on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup
Jerry
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time to time.
Jerry
On Jul 29, 2013 12:20 PM, Phil Endecott spam_from_os...@chezphil.org
wrote:
sk53.osm wrote:
Overview of missing Derbyshire footpaths:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/**sk53_osm/9390856924/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sk53_osm/9390856924/
Interesting.
I think you're
Hmm, I have sitting on my desktop a whole load of QGIS analyses of OSM
designation=* against the DCC rowmap TAB file, but as I'm on my way to SotM
Baltics wont write this up until I get back.
I haven't looked in detail, but basic use of buffers seems to grab most
matching footpaths (buffer OSM
Overview of missing Derbyshire footpaths:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sk53_osm/9390856924/
Jerry
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:33 PM, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, I have sitting on my desktop a whole load of QGIS analyses of OSM
designation=* against the DCC rowmap TAB file
Just a reminder that tomorrow is the monthly Nottingham pub meet-up.
Lincolnshire Poacher, 18:30 for mapping; 19:30 for beer / chat etc.
I'm keen to continue mapping in the Carrington area as it is more of a
commercial area than I had expected. Perhaps we could divide up and each do
one of the
at 11:28 AM, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote:
Given that SotM-US has been running over this weekend, there's probably a
few of the talks which will be of interest to anyone. So far the one's I
think are worth a discussion over a pint are:
- Mikel Maron's talk on community
about OSM in general.
Jerry
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:00 PM, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote:
I've put dates in the wiki for next 3 months of Nottingham pub meetings:
next Tuesday 11th
July 9th
August 13th
All will be at 19:30 at the Lincolnshire Poacher. A mapping activity for
an hour
Hi Nick,
I went out doing a bit of footpath surveying the other day ended up doing
several submissions to the county council website: mainly about missing
signage. Also rather irritating was that a couple of paths marked on (a
recent) OS map do not exist, so one would want to feedback to them.
Hi Nick,
We have Open Data locally for Nottingham ProW (significant because the city
was exempt from maintaining a definitive map until recently). So far all I
have done is added ref information to paths already mapped. Even with open
data the situation is still confusing: for instance a footpath
I've put dates in the wiki for next 3 months of Nottingham pub meetings:
next Tuesday 11th
July 9th
August 13th
All will be at 19:30 at the Lincolnshire Poacher. A mapping activity for an
hour beforehand (which may start from somewhere else) Details on the wiki:
. Do you really need to print this
email?
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*Subject:* [Talk-GB] Ffordd Llundain incorrectly named in many places in
Lloegr
I notice that many highways
I had this problem in
Carmarthenshirehttp://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2011/07/footpaths-in-carmarthenshire-whats-point.htmla
couple of years ago. I chose not to mark this on OSM because in
practice
the footpaths are non-existent. Also at least one ran through the front
garden of one of my sister's
I don't think Richard's original post was an invitation to discuss arcane
quirks of Britain's historical railway system.
I have raised the issue of wholesale tag changing several times recently,
and as this tagging is clearly not with the consensus of mappers either in
the UK or elsewhere, I
the parking relates
(actually business may do perfectly well!)
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:41 PM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:31 PM, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote:
The only thing I'm not sure about is having the role of the owning entity
blank. Any
Like others I agree that split roads must have some absolute barrier
between them. If there is a traffic jam and it is possible to do a U-turn
then the road should not be split.
There are however a number of cases which might be a bit harder to call. I
notice a revised road layout yesterday where
I propose to tidy up some shop=* tag values. I am not certain of the full
scope, but here are ones I do know about:
- to shop=bookmaker from bookmakers, bookies, Bookmaker, Bookmakers,
bookmarkers,turf_accountant [shop=betting has nearly as many uses as
shop=bookmaker, and shop=gambling
This is a follow-up to my recent postings on refs on tertiaries and
unclassified roads. This is not a whinge it is about a potentially serious
issue.
I have been looking at websites for a number of Local Authorities to see if
their statutory register of Highways has been licensed with a suitable
The license terms seem fairly straightforward despite them adding Natural
England in front of the name of each license. Virtually all the data of
interest has been compiled from OSGB data (not maps, but probably using
vector data) and therefore under current terms is released under the OSGB
Well I'm definitely in favour of mapping the boundary ways: hedges, fences,
walls.
I do not see any general value in mapping fields one by one, unless there
are particular cultural reasons (for instance the Cheshire Cheese in Hope,
Derbyshire, has maps showing all the historical field names on
This adding of refs on roads is getting ridiculous. I just was geotagging
some photos and I noticed this: http://osm.org/go/eu1a7D4X.
A number of unclassified residential roads have been tagged in Cheshire
(can't remember which one it is because this is on the border) with
obviously internal
Have you seen Richard Weait's page on this subject :
http://weait.com/node/21.
And fewer of those named ways to make the hole names look nice :-)
Jerry
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Bob Kerr
openstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
I have been spending a lot of time looking at
This is quite reasonable, although as I use farmland for all agriculture
(but not viticulture or orchards) I had never appreciated that it seems to
have become synonymous with arable.
I still think landuse=farmland, farmland=arable is a better way of tagging
( a tad friendlier to data consumers).
This is one of the calcareous grasslands; downland sounds good, although
chalk_downland might be more precise.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:00 PM, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
This feels like an appropriate thread to butt into and ask: is there an
accepted tag for grassy
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Date: Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Using rights of way data
To: Will Phillips wp4...@gmail.com
Will,
The OSGB license is the one we have been using for StreetView, Locator etc.
AFAIK the main issue
.
Obviously I will now have to make my intentions absolutely explict with
notes etc., which rather defeats the point of tags. Perhaps I should use
SK53:natural=wood and then they won't get trampled on.
The problem is that you are anxious for everything to be rendered in a
uniform manner, but you
I think JonathanB is spot on here: if the original landuse tags had been
landuse=forestry, landuse=farming;
landuse=selling_things;landuse=office_drudgery and so on, the widespread
confusion between landuse (usually can be denoted by an abstract noun), and
natural or landcover (which can usually
I've added the Ladies (Pans) Course at
Machrihanishhttp://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?q=machrihanishzoom=16lat=55.42622lon=-5.72159layers=B0Fand
the 1st 18th of the Championship course. I can't remember where all
the tees are, and as for many links courses, fairways are often shared
between holes.
I notice that there have been a large number of mass edits of tags
associated with either land cover or land use recently. Some may indeed be
useful corrections, but altering all natural=meadow to landuse=meadow
probably interferes with the intentions of the original mapper: meadows can
be created
OSGB has just tweeted it's 10 fascinating facts. I thought it would be fun
to compare with OSM
1. Pylons: 80,517 ; 58,487
(OSMhttp://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=tower#values
)
2. Post Boxes: 93.728 (OSGB); 42,742
(OSMhttp://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=post_box#values
I've noticed that many minor roads in the Highland Region of Scotland have
been tagged with ref=[CU] based on a PDF document from the regions
transport department. I've altered a few of these where I've encountered
them to official:ref=* as I don't believe that these are verifiable on the
:
sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote:
I've noticed that many minor roads in the Highland Region of Scotland
have
been tagged with ref=[CU] based on a PDF document from the regions
transport department. I've altered a few of these where I've
encountered
them to official:ref=* as I
about how they work.
The branding issue is something else again.
Does anyone else have any thoughts?
Jerry Clough
SK53
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On 05/07/2011 10:51, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Tom Chance wrote:
So I suspect it's potentially breaching copyright, and a matter of
judgement as to whether it's worth the risk. For example, if you
were copying in data from a commercial web site whose business
model was based around that data
To my horror I see that I did't update the mani wiki page when I changed
the calendar. Many apologies. Let me know if this is now too short notice.
Just a quick reminder, that this is scheduled for 19:30 tomorrow, meet
up at 18:30 for mapping walk outside the Lincolnshire Poacher.
Wiki page:
On 16/06/2011 15:31, TimSC wrote:
My communication recent with the woodland trust, regarding open data:
It would be good if you could do more on data openness - that is more
permissive permissions to use data on your web site. Also it would be
good to be able to upload creative commons
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