Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-21 Thread Lester Caine
:) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-18 Thread Lester Caine
with that object as if it is. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Lorries can't limbo

2020-11-13 Thread Lester Caine
which prevented any recovery vehicle accessing from that end and any chance of pulling it out that way anyway. It had to be pulled back and exit the way it came in. Whether lorries of this size should even be on these roads is another matter :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar tagging app

2020-10-06 Thread Lester Caine
of the units have panels on the roofs, so I think that is next on my list to do ... problem is I've not mapped these before, so what is my best starting point re adding them. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] How closely do we map lamp posts?

2020-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
question is just why the kerb to the footpath and the cycleway had to be moved at all? It no longer lines up with the next section anyway. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers

[Talk-GB] How closely do we map lamp posts?

2020-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53999106 One does wonder about the competence of builders at times? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

2020-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
them ... even where land registry records show a different situation? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
source of local time data for example. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalme

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN tag proposal page

2020-07-21 Thread Lester Caine
, Lester Caine wrote: On 20/07/2020 22:11, Rob Nickerson wrote: If there are no red flags I will move for a vote. Looks sensible to me but will there be a matching usrn tag? I see the occasional use of :gb: on other tags and any 'convention' on upper or lower case is possibly an international one

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN tag proposal page

2020-07-21 Thread Lester Caine
anything actually says the country code being upper case trumps the convention of tags being lower case? I'm a long time PHP user where the case is agnostic anyway in many cases but again that is not specified here either ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
t may well be more accurate data. On 10/07/2020 14:21, Lester Caine wrote: On 10/07/2020 11:27, Mark Goodge wrote: This is, of course, one of the problems with proprietary data. It can be difficult to spot errors, because the people who are most likely to spot errors - members of the gene

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
of raw data. I don't think THAT has changed since the requirements for councils to provided the raw NPLG data passed into law? I'm fairly sure the street data is part of the same legal framework ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-04 Thread Lester Caine
On 04/07/2020 23:14, Cj Malone wrote: On Sat, 2020-07-04 at 22:24 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: What is needed is a means of adding LAYERS of data which can be managed either via third party data sets, or manual edited using existing tools to add data that is missing from the narrow view confined

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-04 Thread Lester Caine
On 04/07/2020 20:33, David Woolley wrote: On 04/07/2020 18:24, Lester Caine wrote: The current 'OHM' is not a layer that can be easily combined with the current 'OSM' layer. Large sections of the current data are simply cloned into OHM I'm not referring to OHM; I'm referring to the main OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-04 Thread Lester Caine
with the 'master' copy. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-04 Thread Lester Caine
what is available against the now somewhat out of data local extracts I have from the original NLPG dataset. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access

2020-05-25 Thread Lester Caine
which may be to approach the destination from the other end and perhaps even indicate 'back up to destination' ... now that WOULD be an intelligent router ... but if there is no information on which to base that decision even the driver has to guess. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
to difficult to 'recover' it after systems stopped working. So where would I head to get my hands on an XML dump of the current data to see if I can push it into the copy of Q2A I've just set up ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
of that. Question2Answer looks like it's being well supported. At least it has a release that works on the latest PHP and while it's a little long in the tooth, https://github.com/jamesspittal/osqa-q2a offers a hope that there is potential to pump existing material across? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
faster updates are now happening at least as new road names are created. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
receiving datasets this was a secondary piece of data yet at that time we were looking to manage the postcode tables for the councils that were providing the UPRN feed! They were not prepared to pay Royal Mail for data that they were legally required to create themselves ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
the UPRN allows is the addition of external information which is also managed by public services. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
by processing the location information, but being able to simply list all of them WITHOUT the overhead of other processing has to be the right way forward? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
hange most of the references but https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk/wiki/view/NLPG+Data is now up to date, just again, BS7666 is another chargeable element and my copy is no longer available on-line :( OH and it should be UPRN/USRN nowadays ... my 2006 databases still have the USN field name. -- Le

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
o identify that this short form is actually correct, but your council tax or business rates will be charged against the UPRN reference on the council systems. It is not intended to be anything other than a 'machine readable' unique refference ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

2020-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
something similar so a common country based tag for 'Property Reference' and 'Street Reference' may be a valid subject. But UPRN and USN seem right anyway. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding missing roads using Facebook detections

2020-03-27 Thread Lester Caine
/ ... for examples of the problem, although the wiki site which carried all of the reported errors has now been taken down by Facebook :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-25 Thread Lester Caine
of the 'complaints' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Ground truth v legal truth

2019-07-19 Thread Lester Caine
to calm traffic and provide direct rules for routing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https

Re: [Talk-GB] Automated Code-Point Open postcode editing (simple cases only)

2019-07-19 Thread Lester Caine
looking up on OASAnd and not finding which I need to actually put in! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https

Re: [Talk-GB] Ground truth v legal truth

2019-07-19 Thread Lester Caine
bers ... but they are a key part of vehicle routing. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedi

Re: [Talk-GB] Ground truth v legal truth

2019-07-19 Thread Lester Caine
to 'tertiary' should apply where a route IS more access route than primary link between to 'higher classification' routes. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] handling street names in speech

2019-07-17 Thread Lester Caine
processes will always be wrong. The real problem is that there is no mechanism to add corrections in a secondary system in much the same way as there is no translation system for the key English elements of the data. Even IPA strings depend on the context and accent that is being vocalised! -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

2019-07-04 Thread Lester Caine
omeone has an 'approved' way of adding it back? Personally I think that micro-mapping complex junctions does require multiple ways even if the planned routes through a junction can be abused by taking the wrong path ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsc

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

2019-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
fairly sure that weight limit signs are always in tonnes and have a 't' after the weight figure. The regulations certainly refer to 7.5 tonnes as a base for weight restriction for structural reasons and vehicle plated limits are in tonnes. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] We're erasing our history in wiki

2019-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map new housing?

2019-03-08 Thread Lester Caine
use OS material, but the developers drawings don't and in most cases even OS don't have the new roads and other details so permission to use is all that IS needed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging post towns and other addressing issues in the UK

2019-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
On 28/01/2019 18:24, Will Phillips wrote: On 28/01/2019 17:28, Lester Caine wrote: The reality is that for the UK ALL we need is the Postcode to supply a reference to the Royal Mail 'postal address' as that is purely a Royal Mail invention anyway.  I personally don't see the need to add

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging post towns and other addressing issues in the UK

2019-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
r:street' everywhere but that is what people seem to prefer. Adding several more addr: fields to EVERY building is just taking things too far? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
, but where we have a block of houses being able to quickly draw an outline and then create several objects with the same set of tags is easier than trying to manually create each linked element of the building. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
n the two halves of a semi these days. But draw one half with all it's tags then mirror to create the other half, and just edit the house number. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://l

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF makes a political decision where should be a technical solution?

2018-11-23 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Plus code grid service

2018-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
d traction on the ground? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Med

Re: [Talk-GB] Network tag on railway stations

2018-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
my book. The other metro lines are similarly owned and operated. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Network tag on railway stations

2018-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
On 17/11/2018 14:46, David Woolley wrote: On 17/11/18 14:36, Lester Caine wrote: Who operates the station, and who operates on each line accessing that station. The various ID's would help keep this data up to date. You need to distinguish between operating the line and operating services

Re: [Talk-GB] Network tag on railway stations

2018-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
covers all the options. Who operates the station, and who operates on each line accessing that station. The various ID's would help keep this data up to date. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] Network tag on railway stations

2018-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
that stations like Ormskirk would have that problem ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Really heavy browser load with Overpass-turbo map display

2018-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
the lack of Firebug as the replacement has problems with font sizes at least on linux and does not provide some of the nice features Firebug STILL provides on my development machine. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L

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

2018-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
currently ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https

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

2018-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
work off OSM ... and will until all that data is available in OHM ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

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

2018-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
ng the new version, but the old version is still valid data and needs to be handled better than it is currently. If the process is managed properly then adding additional historic data should not be a problem since the vast majority of that data will simply be a 'start_date' for objects that A

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

2018-08-29 Thread Lester Caine
On 29/08/18 21:21, Jubal Harpster wrote: Stadium Mews https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/260127900 https://goo.gl/maps/JJNxamCgLy12 _https://binged.it/2C0LAw1_ PAF file ... N5 1FP -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
listing? I find the practice of adding ANY tag that does not enhance the data as pointless. There is no need to TAG that there is no number ... you just don't add the tag ... just as the example here ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

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

2018-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
ther while 'highway_authority_ref' suggests a more central management? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Work

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

2018-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
yes could be used to identify that there are associated area objects that can be used on higher resolution mapping. I don't think 'area:highway=' has place especially where the 'centerline' way is used to combine several highway=xxx types such as road,cycleway and footpath ... -- Lester Caine - G8

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

2018-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
On 08/08/18 17:03, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I think these things are at least partly a product of what generation you belong to. I think one can include 'Middlesex' in that package? Just when will it cease to exist ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https

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

2018-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
ment of a town over time potentially needs very little 'historic' data other then 'start_date' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Mod

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

2018-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
it'. It's not difficult for a computer to manage and if people have the desire to start filling in all the gaps then they should be supported, not told to go away? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

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

2018-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
or numbers displayed, but one still use them to avoid several miles of 'detour' via primary roads because the sat nav does no accept them as a 'fast route'. OSMAnd is a sod for that problem :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

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

2018-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
On 08/08/18 10:56, Dave F wrote: On 08/08/2018 09:54, Lester Caine wrote: we are now in a situation where much accurately mapped material is simply dumped when there is a change to the current situation. 1. it's not dumped, it's still in the database as a historic version. 2. Changes almost

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

2018-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
' and add a new section with the boundary change as 'start_date=xxx'. The ONLY question is what happens to the data once it has an end date ... which may be some time in the future ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

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

2018-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
using them is just another plus for OSM. But I have no problem accepting that this should be on a UK specific map rather than something dumbed down for the whole world ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electroni

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

2018-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
way and we just need to add the USRN reference to each way in the UK -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Worksh

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

2018-08-05 Thread Lester Caine
of the database! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https

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

2018-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
=secondary' references can suffer from the same problem of not actually being displayed on the ground. So how the renderers handle this element is a world wide problem, and perhaps 'display_ref=no' would be appropriate in some areas of the world? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

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

2018-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
it to display 60 or 70 as appropriate :( And I WILL get around to adding a UK rendering of road colours sometime ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https

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

2018-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
displayed on the ground! Should they be tagged using some 'hide' tag? 'ref' is the correct tag for the way's reference number ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] building=grandstand vs leisure=bleachers

2018-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
particular event but present for some time perhaps every year. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-03 Thread Lester Caine
, but 'FIXME' is clean and changing them just because you can adds nothing to the data. Get on an deal with them to remove them all together is the right tack ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-03 Thread Lester Caine
? The fact that 'FIXME' and 'fixme' can exist on the same node just seems wrong in ANY case? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

2018-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
of what is important' on a single static map and I know the technology is there, just not the resources to generate it? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Toys R Us

2018-05-06 Thread Lester Caine
change to 'shop-closed' but I don't see much movement on signage being taken down on other closed businesses? So we maintain the accurate mapping ... and map what is seen. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

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

2018-05-04 Thread Lester Caine
On 04/05/18 14:41, Steve Doerr wrote: On 04/05/2018 12:52, Lester Caine wrote: it's not helped when postoffice.co.uk don't list the independent post offices in there search results! According to them Broadway does not have a post office ;) It comes up for me at Russell Square, Back Lane

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

2018-05-04 Thread Lester Caine
Broadway does not have a post office ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Petrol stations again

2018-03-09 Thread Lester Caine
On 09/03/18 20:19, Philip Barnes wrote: Leicester Forest East looks a bit confused, it is down to both modify a Shell node and to add a BP node. It can't be both. I will try to check what brand it really is. It's a Welcome Break, so Shell ... at least it was last time I passed. -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Please do not re-use old node IDs

2018-03-06 Thread Lester Caine
know the answer, but should the API be able to accept these ID's anyway? In an ideal world, the previous now hidden data should perhaps be flagged when the ID is used? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2018-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
email replies properly handled on different lists :( ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2018-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
countries not have motorways at all? Certainly the current default rendering is useless for many of us anyway so we have to ue an alternate anyway ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-02-01 Thread Lester Caine
using postal_code has the same problem of matching ... OR is that only to be used on the buildings ON the substreet ? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysol

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-01-31 Thread Lester Caine
so similar to 'Flat 1 Block of Flats' ' Street' but this still leaves the 'addr:street' or 'postal_code' question for the tag on the primary street. Having SOME of these tagged 'addr:parentstreet' is simply wrong ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-01-30 Thread Lester Caine
done in several areas ... I've even got all 4 screens running cleanly for the first time in years so I can keep multiple views open while cross checking things. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-01-30 Thread Lester Caine
for addr:postcode ... 'postal_code' pairs up with 'is_in' which is something else that does not work well? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

Re: [Talk-GB] Help remembering how to ...

2018-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
On 29/01/18 21:22, Lester Caine wrote: It has been a while and my notes and crib sheets seem to be messed up. Have JOSM running with ImportImagePlugin and I have a tif file with a 28 pixel per meter scale, and the lat and long for the top left corner, but I'm obviously not putting the right

[Talk-GB] Help remembering how to ...

2018-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
done in the past and fine tuned position once loaded so has something changed, or have I just got the wrong data. I'm fairly sure I also had a Linux program that helped me play with the values but having brain freeze at the moment ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
to be changed to or mixed with 'postal_code' then so be it, but 'don't worry' is not the right answer when one IS trying to tidy well defined data sets. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
to the addr: group of tags ... except most sat nav's these days understand a postcode better than a street name. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
see no reason to remove the addr:postcode from the street especially where routing to the property can take you to the wrong street where the building is closer to another road but has no access from it. So I'm not going to remove valid tagging ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

2018-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
ave to add addr:street= when the road already has name= ... The adjacent building use addr:street= ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/01/18 09:37, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2018-01-23 10:06 GMT+01:00 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>>:  Actually it's more likely to be the estate name so for my near by estate it is messy since I've ended up using 'housenumber' so that

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
A' or something similar. Units on a storage site may well be more complex than just number. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

2018-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
how it was generated, and can filter the 'social media' contributions from the 'constructive' ones. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Mod

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

2017-12-28 Thread Lester Caine
phone <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:phone?uselang=en-GB>+44 > 1274 306188 <tel:+441274306188> > ref:navads_shell NVDS353-12038573 > > > but no street or city. The whole thing seems odd to me. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - h

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

2017-11-21 Thread Lester Caine
On 21/11/17 04:02, Marc Gemis wrote: > I'll agree with Yuri that is has to be the choice of the mapper to > work in a specific region and not the challenge creator. I stopped using MapRoulette simply because it was taking me well out of my comfort zone ... -- Lester Caine -

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

2017-11-16 Thread Lester Caine
more detail to this. Certainly many Shell and BP forecourts are owned and run by Spar and not Shell or BP ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread Lester Caine
olour scheme in the UK map. I keep looking at OSMAND and thinking ... I must look at what is needed for a UK road theme there we have American and German! Vector display really is the way forward then one can select the right default for any area. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

2017-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
is really Cheltenham Road. All needs a bit of an update as the Transport Cafe has been closed for a while and the lorry park is closed off. But like many 'Shell' stations, it is operated by a third party, not by Shell. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.c

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/17 10:34, Warin wrote: > On 02-Nov-17 09:21 PM, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 02/11/17 09:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> ONE tag to say what? You are still owing an answer to this. >> I think the problem is similar to the multiple areas problem. There are >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
ng different interpretations on existing tags depending on where they are used? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Wor

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
ave requested as perhaps a barrier or simply as an amenity ... or has been preserved as it has been there for hundreds of years ... We need to build a proper hierarchy of LANDUSE into which more detail can be added if required? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - h

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