Re: [Talk-gb-london] Pavement (Sidewalks)

2022-05-10 Thread Tom Chance
Hi Clive, Welcome to OSM! I started in Reading way back in 2005, and am answering as someone who doesn't have a car... Personally I think separate ways are a plague, unless there is a really clear physical separation of what is effectively a footpath, or as David says a signposted and quite

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

2019-03-14 Thread Tom Chance
e seen for example along Southwark Street SE1, we can use >gis to investigate stations based on proximity to those already mapped > > > presumably these questions affect all kinds of open data release, so it > will be good to get used to dealing with such matters > > > joe > -

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

2019-03-13 Thread Tom Chance
Hi Joe, This would be great. Welcome to the list. I used to work at the GLA (2009-16) and am glad to see you proposing this. Others will have a better idea of the process, but I'd think a first step would be to create a wiki page and set out the datasets you have, indicating for each one any

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-london] New OSM London Meetup - Invite

2017-08-21 Thread Tom Chance
given the estate name. Again, this might be a good opportunity to get a consistent approach? Best wishes, Tom *Tom Chance* *Housing policy and programmes consultant* *m: 07866 447 075* *w: *http://tomchance.org On 17 August 2017 at 12:18, Nicolas Fonty <fonty.nico...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Overpass query help - roads within a ward

2016-04-28 Thread Tom Chance
so and try again :) > > -- > Neil > > > On 28 April 2016 at 08:08, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net> wrote: > >> Okay, another one with a problem. >> >> Using the exact same query for this ward relation: >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/r

Re: [Talk-GB] Overpass query help - roads within a ward

2016-04-28 Thread Tom Chance
, but not all, and not the ways within the boundary: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/fWj Any suggestions gratefully received! Tom web: http://tomchance.org twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_chance facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TomChanceGP On 25 April 2016 at 16:45, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.

Re: [Talk-GB] Overpass query help - roads within a ward

2016-04-25 Thread Tom Chance
) > If the ways missing were part of the relation then I think > way(r.A)[highway][name] should select them too, but that's not how the > relation is composed. > > Hope that gives some other ideas, if nothing else :) > > -- > Neil > > > On 23 April 2016 at 14:20, Tom Chance <

[Talk-GB] Overpass query help - roads within a ward

2016-04-23 Thread Tom Chance
Hi all, It has been a very long time since I last posted here! I'm trying to use the Overpass API to extract all the roads within the bounds of a relation, in this case a local government ward. Can anyone spot the problem in the data? Here's the example I'm working with:

[Talk-GB] Little spate of vandalism/mistakes in SE London

2015-07-17 Thread Tom Chance
Could someone contact / chase up these new users and remove their edits? Could be vandalism, or just people not realising what they're doing. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/panchal%20chetana/history http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Solanki%20yuvraj/history

Re: [Talk-GB] Quietways question

2014-12-15 Thread Tom Chance
Hi Antje, To answer your questions... On 13 December 2014 at 00:59, Antje wrote: 1. Will Quietways be numbered for easy reference? This isn't yet 100% clear, but it looks likely. 2. Will Quietways completely entail the start of the gradual phase-out of the current LCN and LCN+ system so

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

2014-11-20 Thread Tom Chance
in as they are many years ago so it’s good to have a look again. It’s not about tagging for the renderer or even tagging for logic. It’s just tagging for the real world. Cheers Andy *From:* John Baker [mailto:rovas...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* 19 November 2014 17:27 *To:* Tom Chance; talk-gb

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

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Chance
Hello there, As somebody who dislikes change, I was slightly horrified to see these edits: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26783815 https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26795471 https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26567938 The user has changed a whole lot of places within London

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

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Chance
a look again. It’s not about tagging for the renderer or even tagging for logic. It’s just tagging for the real world. Cheers Andy *From:* John Baker [mailto:rovas...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* 19 November 2014 17:27 *To:* Tom Chance; talk-gb OSM List E-mail *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-06 Thread Tom Chance
I'd echo Andy's comments, particularly about politely contacting all new users in your neck of the woods. My principal difficulty is in working out what people have done in each changeset. The best tool we had for this - OWL - is now defunct. This let you browse around the area looking at all

[Talk-GB] New user changesets need reverts

2014-07-29 Thread Tom Chance
Could somebody revert all of these? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/liuchao/history I have contacted the user. Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Stall in Crystal Palace, London on Saturday

2014-07-15 Thread Tom Chance
Cross-posting for Londoners not on the London list... If anybody is at a loose end on Saturday, I'm running an OSM stall in Crystal Palace as part of an initiative to create pedestrian maps of the area. More details here:

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 April 2014 17:24, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote: I wouldn't not just trace, without also having a look. Also, this is a lot of work. I think this depends on your purpose and the area. If you just need to know here be buildings then there's no need to visit the area. But if

Re: [Talk-GB] W3C Invitation

2014-03-07 Thread Tom Chance
Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone I've had a definite from Andy Mabbett to do this and a possibly from Tom Chance. At this stage I think it's best to confirm on Andy Mabbett. If that's OK can Andy pick up on the use cases that have been mentioned here to get more info from

Re: [Talk-GB] W3C Invitation

2014-03-04 Thread Tom Chance
I could possibly do this, I've done various projects to do with mapping trees and know a fair amount about tree and climate change policy. But I'm not an expert on the underlying OSM data model and API. If anyone wanted to chip in thoughts on stable URIs I'm all ears. Tom On 4 March 2014 08:33,

Re: [Talk-GB] W3C Invitation

2014-03-04 Thread Tom Chance
Thanks for the additional info, Jerry. I know that councils and utility companies don't know where a lot of old pipes and cables are, but they must have started to retain details maps and data of these in the recent past? It was Southwark, not Lambeth, where I imported the trees, by the way.

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-02-08 Thread Tom Chance
On 14 January 2014 14:15, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: On 14 January 2014 14:06, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote: Jonathan Moules of Warwickshire County Council came to a midlands OSM meet on Saturday and told us about it, and subsequently confirmed in email to several

[Talk-GB] Bitcoin business listings

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Chance
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 just spotted somebody adding a node that looks like it's solely for the purpose of showing up on listings like CoinMap:

Re: [Talk-GB] Bitcoin business listings

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Chance
Thanks for the comments, everyone, I never like to delete data unless I'm really sure it's inappropriate. It's very annoying when your work is deleted by somebody with a bee in their bonnet! Tom On 22 January 2014 17:12, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Tom

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools and OSM

2013-12-31 Thread Tom Chance
Well spotted! Getting a hold of the curriculum materials would be a good place to start, so we could look for opportunities for them to learn about OSM. Regards, Tom On 31 December 2013 11:05, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone I've just read in a magazine that GIS is now

[Talk-GB] Could somebody revert this changeset?

2013-12-19 Thread Tom Chance
Hello, A user who makes lots of edits all over the globe without comments came by my neck of the woods 8 days ago and made various damaging changes: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/19400206 This changeset includes the deletion of dozens of trees, new nodes for amenities that already

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-12-19 Thread Tom Chance
On 13 October 2013 00:26, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/401 This block now appears to have expired, because the user is back to his/her old tricks again: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/19463227 Regards, Tom --

Re: [Talk-GB] ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries

2013-10-10 Thread Tom Chance
Christian, I'd be happy to add some of these, what is the tagging schema? Tom On 10 October 2013 15:42, cquest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr wrote: Hello dear GB neighbours (I'm from the other side of the channel, the froggy side). In order to simplify data reuse, I've started adding ISO3166-2

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL bus maps as source

2013-09-29 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 September 2013 18:52, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm really after moral backing that this is a breach, as I'd be surprised if they took my word for it. They have an investment in quite a few bus routes that they, probably, wouldn't want redacted. You definitely

[Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Chance
unclear as to whether this can be dealt with in the community (mailing lists?) or by the DWG. Anyhow, can somebody block/ban this user? Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net Date: 11 September 2013 20:11 Subject: User with long list of slow vandalism

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Chance
On 23 September 2013 12:22, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: It seems you have already repaired the most obvious damage yourself. Of the changesets in my local area - others covered some other edits. Indeed DWG prefers it if such issues can be resolved by the community through

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Chance
On 23 September 2013 12:27, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote: The edits seem to be seriously incompetent, rather than actually bogus, or malicious. I'm not sure, they are strange edits. On the one hand there are some outlines of actual features, on the other hand there are * random

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Chance
On 23 September 2013 16:01, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote: * changesets with the same comment that doesn't correspond with the thing they have traced, like This is a House Unfortunately, like subjects on many PC support forums, the average contributor doesn't seem to be able

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-10 Thread Tom Chance
On 10 September 2013 09:56, Ed Loach edlo...@gmail.com wrote: New mappers are likely to make mistakes whatever editing software they use. That's true. What I noticed with these landuse areas is: (a) the beginnings of a pattern, suggesting a defect in the software (b) that these changes are

Re: [Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-08 Thread Tom Chance
but perhaps it is a little too easy encouraging people to edit before they are actually aware of the impact they can have? Just a thought... - Paul Churchley http://about.me/paulchurchley On 7 September 2013 23:09, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: I've seen two new users accidentally delete

[Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

2013-09-07 Thread Tom Chance
I've seen two new users accidentally delete residential landuse areas near me in the past fortnight: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/17695130 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/17505646 Could this be a problem with the iD editor? Has anyone else noticed it? Tom --

Re: [Talk-GB] Probation offices

2013-08-07 Thread Tom Chance
You could also have a look at, and perhaps update, other probation offices. There are a few scattered about: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=probation#values If you search for the names on the main OSM page you can find them to inspect the tagging. Tom On 7 August 2013 14:11,

Re: [Talk-GB] Ffordd Llundain incorrectly named in many places in Lloegr

2013-06-02 Thread Tom Chance
On 1 June 2013 22:33, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: Personally I favour a name=Welsh Name / English Name, name:cy=Welsh Name, name:en=English Name approach, as used for instance in Brussels on OSM and officially in Biel / Bienne in Switzerland (one of the few places there which is truly

Re: [Talk-GB] Govt Consultation Uses OSM Mapping

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Chance
Oh no! Brain... conflicted. OSM maps, new road building! Tom On 21 May 2013 14:21, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: I see that today's announcement of a government consultation on the options for a new Lower Thames Crossing (https://www.gov.uk/**

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up some shop tags

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Chance
On 10 May 2013 12:54, Andrew andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Some retailers seem to cause particular problems in choosing an appropriate tag. Wilkinsons are variously tagged as supermarkets, hardware, variety and department_store. In addition the name is often entered without the 's'.

Re: [Talk-GB] Usage of lanes / turn restrictions versus multiple ways when road is not divided

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Chance
I have always operated on the assumption that you only split the road into two ways if they are physically separated by a barrier, I'm pretty sure that has been the consensus practice for a good six years. Regards, Tom On 7 May 2013 12:27, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: I

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging for a local community association

2013-05-04 Thread Tom Chance
Is this an official designation? If not, I'm not sure it's appropriate to add it to OSM. Otherwise the database would be flooded with community boundaries - neighbourhood watch, associations, clubs, political groups, etc. Tom On May 4, 2013 12:11 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] walls versus landuse=field

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Chance
On 30 April 2013 22:20, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote: The current OSM website rendering seems to be geared towards urban environments but hopefully with the developments being walked about this will be improved. It can be difficult to get an overview of field boundary

Re: [Talk-GB] the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Chance
Nice find, I've contacted them to ask if they would like to add them to OSM, or publish the measurements somewhere under the ODBL. Regards, Tom On 30 April 2013 08:05, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: On 29 Apr 2013 22:01, Rovastar rovas...@hotmail.com wrote: Great however the OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] walls versus landuse=field

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Chance
On 30 April 2013 09:38, Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net wrote: Am I the only one that has been drawing walls and not fields? It's nice to have fields as individual logical units, but they're defined by the walls, so it strikes me the wall should be the defining characteristic. Is this a

Re: [Talk-GB] walls versus landuse=field

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Chance
On 30 April 2013 12:32, Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net wrote: Does meadow mean grazing land? Do we define high fell land as meadow as well when it's used for grazing sheep? Perhaps a landuse=grazing should be available. If you wanted to define field types, I'd suggest the following tags.

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Chance
On 25 April 2013 19:57, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Just to take take the conversation into another orbit simultaneously, I'd like to clarify Tom's remarks about natural=wood and landuse=forest being interchangeable in the UK. I always tag landuse=forest where aerial imagery

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

2013-04-25 Thread Tom Chance
I can sympathise with some of what Jerry, John and Frederik have said here. There is undoubtedly a lot of slightly inappropriate tagging in the database, meaning that serious use of the data often requires a lot of cleaning up. I went around Southwark changing lots of land uses but based on

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Neighbourhood Plan Import

2013-04-24 Thread Tom Chance
On 23 April 2013 10:55, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Copied also to talk-gb. The problem is where do we stop? The majority of present/potential boundary data doesn't have a physical presence on the ground. Consider ONS Lower, middle and other output area boundaries or the NAPTAN

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Neighbourhood Plan Import

2013-04-23 Thread Tom Chance
On 23 April 2013 10:55, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Copied also to talk-gb. The problem is where do we stop? The majority of present/potential boundary data doesn't have a physical presence on the ground. Consider ONS Lower, middle and other output area boundaries or the NAPTAN

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC News - Google Map Maker edit tools extended to cover the UK

2013-04-11 Thread Tom Chance
You can always call the BBC up and ask if they would like a quote to give the piece balance. The Beeb love their balance, they get nervous if you suggest a piece lacks balance. So you'd suggest that the article includes a quote from critics who point out that the data is only available to Google,

Re: [Talk-GB] BBC News - Google Map Maker edit tools extended to cover the UK

2013-04-11 Thread Tom Chance
On 11 April 2013 14:53, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: In case people haven't noticed, the article has been updated with a quote from Chris about OSM. Well done! Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance ___

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM on BBC TV

2013-04-08 Thread Tom Chance
On 8 April 2013 12:13, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: Nothing in the credits. Is it worth looking into this? Nice spot, but I'm not sure that we want to require everyone who shows a web site using OSM tiles or data to attribute us? The web site features has the attribution. I'm not

Re: [Talk-GB] Crystal Palace

2013-03-08 Thread Tom Chance
I live in Crystal Palace, that's not far from where my brother and sister in law live. I'll get onto it. Tom On 7 March 2013 23:35, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Anyone likely to be in the vicinity of Crystal Palace in the near future? There's an area that could do with a

Re: [Talk-GB] Crystal Palace

2013-03-08 Thread Tom Chance
On 8 March 2013 18:03, Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com wrote: I left the area just before Tom moved in. I can pass on a bit of advice. The problems are in The Central Hill Estate, an area with a high crime level, so be a bit more cautious than normal if going for a walk around it.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM-GB (was Branding)

2013-02-25 Thread Tom Chance
Jerry, As somebody who has used OSM-GB data quite a bit, and as a big fan of the project, I agree with your suggestions below. Some comments on each... On 23 February 2013 12:47, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: If OSM-GB is truly to allow the improvement of OSM data it needs to do a few

Re: [Talk-GB] Pronunciation of place names

2013-01-10 Thread Tom Chance
On 10 January 2013 17:26, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: Shrewsbury is pronounced Shrew, a in the tiny animal, by locals. Have just asked someone born there, his comment was its only pronounced Shrowsbury by posh people who aren't from there, and those who go to shrowsbury

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Chance
I have been adding lots of landuse data in south east London as part of a few projects (see recent posts tagged http://tom.acrewoods.net/tag/openstreetmap/). Adding farmland fields, hedges, fences and footpaths is really valuable. The same goes for accurate landuse mapping in cities. I would

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Chance
On 1 January 2013 16:10, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: On 01/01/13 11:15, Dudley Ibbett wrote: I must admit I don't map land use if it is farmland. To me if it isn't mapped it is farmland. It would seem a reasonable default. +1 Smothering the countryside with landuse when it's

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Chance
On 1 January 2013 18:39, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: As I said above (you must have missed it) marking fields within urban areas is a good idea as you been doing. The contrast with the surroundings is valuable and is not smothering thousands of square kilometres with pointless

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-08 Thread Tom Chance
On 7 December 2012 14:10, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Just to say that I have added tagging and a relations for both of the main road schemes mentioned specifically in the Autumn Statement. Is there any actual benefit to doing this before construction

Re: [Talk-GB] Telegraph releases Green Belt data

2012-11-29 Thread Tom Chance
On Nov 29, 2012 11:57 AM, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote: On 28/11/12 20:46, Tom Chance wrote: This points to the major flaw with importing this data - it changes year to year, and we can't easily observe the changes on the ground. We might spot development on green belt and so remove

Re: [Talk-GB] Telegraph releases Green Belt data

2012-11-28 Thread Tom Chance
On 28 November 2012 19:40, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Some of the area’s most certainly are not “protected” as they are actively being discussed for development. These are probably areas that have been de-designated, or are being considered for this fate, since the Telegraph's

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Chance
On Oct 31, 2012 6:14 PM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: On 31 October 2012 16:59, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: I think this is quite a confusing approach. Post code searches often end up returning

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-22 Thread Tom Chance
On 21 October 2012 23:13, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Personally, I'd say that if the process requires the duplication of exactly the same value as is already in name that the process is flawed... I think it can be useful because the article name isn't always just the OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-17 Thread Tom Chance
On 17 October 2012 10:40, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Either way, I'm very much into adding addressing information these days and I encourage more people to start adding it. +1 Yes indeed, being able to offer a database of addresses on buildings - albeit probably with quite

Re: [Talk-GB] Updated GB cycle lanes map

2012-10-03 Thread Tom Chance
On 3 October 2012 13:36, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 2 October 2012 13:46, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.comwrote: If it's that good, perhaps it would be signposted enough to be an LCN? I suspect it's too indirect to actually see much commuter/utility use.

[Talk-GB] Errors with addresses in OSMI

2012-09-25 Thread Tom Chance
I've been nosing around the brilliant OSM Inspector tool to check up on my work with addresses, and I've come across some errors I don't understand or can't fix. The first issue is that the tool flags up endpoint_wrong_format, which the wiki says means one or other of the numbers in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors with addresses in OSMI

2012-09-25 Thread Tom Chance
On 25 September 2012 12:58, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 25/09/2012 10:34, Tom Chance wrote: The first issue is that the tool flags up endpoint_wrong_format, which the wiki says means one or other of the numbers in the housenumber aren't integers. But they are! Here's

Re: [Talk-GB] Highlighting an area ...

2012-09-21 Thread Tom Chance
On 21 September 2012 12:51, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: Tom, I’m guessing when you save from QGIS you are also reprojecting? Oh yes, that too. Which in my case usually involves half an hour of faffing around because I've forgotten how to force QGIS to do that, having already mucked around

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Chance
On 10 September 2012 22:07, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that in my area (Croydon, S London) a lot of streets POIs are identified by Nominatim with a nearby suburb of Croydon (Thornton Heath) rather than with Croydon town itself. The Nominatim/geocoding guys said

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Chance
On 11 September 2012 14:22, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote: @Tom Chance: Interesting. In Southwark, wards are tagged as boundary=administrative rather than boundary=political -- presumably this is why Nominatim picks them up? Oh, interesting, last time I looked there was an admin

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Chance
On 28 August 2012 00:44, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: What I have in my mind is to grab each months data release from land registry (thus building up a good database of address + postcode), and then have some tool to visualise where we can match OSM addresses (without

Re: [Talk-GB] Footway to Sidewalk?

2012-08-21 Thread Tom Chance
On 21 August 2012 13:29, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Also, mass-retagging I frown upon. Why was this even done?! Agreed. Frederick has already applied a block. Out of interest, which part of the mechanical edit policy did this contributor not comply with? As he notes in that forum

Re: [Talk-GB] Footway to Sidewalk?

2012-08-21 Thread Tom Chance
On 21 August 2012 14:40, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Out of interest, which part of the mechanical edit policy did this contributor not comply with? As he notes in that forum thread, he thought he had followed it to the letter. Well the venue looks wrong to me to start with - he used

Re: [Talk-GB] Strange Routing Error

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Chance
On 15 July 2012 10:46, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: I am trying to fix a routing problem, that I found whilst investigating an error was reported in mapdust. [...] I am assuming it is more than a problem with OSRM. Otherwise I guess the only option is just to re-survey, delete

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps using Sustrans Cycling data

2012-07-12 Thread Tom Chance
On 11 July 2012 16:22, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) gra...@dalmuti.net wrote: Has anyone from OSM approached Sustrans in the past? There were some attempts in the past, e.g. this threat from 2008: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2008-June/006463.html Has anyone made progress

Re: [Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

2012-06-28 Thread Tom Chance
On 28 June 2012 11:15, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.ukwrote: tl;dr: Please tag your local station(s) with platforms=n where n2 While we're on this subject... I am, after all these years, still a bit confused about the best way to tag a train station where we have multiple lines

Re: [Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

2012-06-28 Thread Tom Chance
On 28 June 2012 17:45, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.ukwrote: On 28/06/2012 17:19, Tom Chance wrote: According to Wikipedia's actual page on the station it has 8 platforms. [citation needed] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_railway_station Tom -- http

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-22 Thread Tom Chance
On 18 June 2012 14:46, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Will the errors/discrepancies we identify be fed back to the DfT? Unless Martin knows more than I do, then in all honesty I doubt it. I'm hoping instead that whenever the DfT next want cycling data - say 2-3 years down the

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Chance
On 18 June 2012 10:11, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: Are there any notes I'm missing about how to access and deal with nodes in the DfT data? e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/edloach/7392860104/in/photostream Did this get an answer? I've tried, and failed, to click on the underlying DfT

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Tom Chance
On 18 June 2012 14:35, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 June 2012 18:30, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: It would be really helpful if the snapshot server could render a map showing where the remaining unmerged data is located. That's a good idea, and it's something

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-17 Thread Tom Chance
Martin, This looks like a great project. Can you clarify the situation in London? I don't really know what areas the SuperLondonBorough sets cover. I added some hints to the wiki as to where each of them open, then went from the one that starts in Sydenham to pan up to my neck of the woods and

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping murals mosaics

2012-06-06 Thread Tom Chance
On 4 June 2012 15:28, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The nice folk at OpenPlaques have drawn my attention to the London Mural Preservation Society's map: http://londonmuralpreservationsociety.com/ which uses OSM, but with (presumably) their own data overlaid. It occurs to

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-29 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 May 2012 15:44, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: My questions to the community: 1) Would a bulk upload of any or all of this data be interesting? Thanks for raising this, it would be great to get a more complete set of boundaries. In answer to your first question, no, please

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-29 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 May 2012 16:03, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Colin Smale wrote: My questions to the community: 1) Would a bulk upload of any or all of this data be interesting? I think uploading the files somewhere for people to use would certainly be interesting, yes. You could

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-29 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 May 2012 17:19, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: They need to be manually entered as relations sharing nodes with those features. I would say that sharing nodes can lead to problems. Boundaries that get imported or manually traced from OS data often have no visible reference on

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-29 Thread Tom Chance
On 29 May 2012 18:52, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: My question is: how do you know the boundary aligns with an existing object? Aha! A very good point. I suppose in my case because I've been actively involved in canvassing for a political party for years in the area, I know which

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-11 Thread Tom Chance
On 11 May 2012 11:59, Andrew Chadwick a.t.chadw...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/05/12 10:45, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Sorry but I do have to say this. In an area (UK outside of Scotland) where sadly, you're not free to roam where you like, access rights are *absolutely vital detail* for walkers and

[Talk-GB] Addresses for blocks of flats

2012-05-03 Thread Tom Chance
Is there a good way to tag flats within a building so that it is clear the flat numbers (e.g. 1-12) correspond with the building and not with the street? These are two examples I'm struggling with: A block of flats, 1-12 Honor Oak Mansions, sits on Underhill Road. The block doesn't have a number

Re: [Talk-GB] Addresses for blocks of flats

2012-05-03 Thread Tom Chance
On 3 May 2012 14:59, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote: I've done addr:flats=1-18 before which I saw was in use: 14:57 osmbot-test Derick: Tag addr:flats has 1468 values and appears 5220 times in the planet. 14:58 osmbot-test Derick: Tag addr:flatnumber has 68 values and appears

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Tom Chance
On 26 March 2012 14:29, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote: Although I'm only a lurker on openstreetmap and talk-gb, my understanding is that the DfT did not do this and that whoever did add HS2 to OSM would probably not want it deleted. If this is right, then maybe somebody who

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery update? using photo's from late 2011?

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Chance
On 9 March 2012 14:22, Mike Valiant mike_vali...@hotmail.com wrote: On their website, if you select Bird's Eye view then the view stays the same to maximum resolution. If however you select Aerial view it uses images taken at a different time and then flips to the Bird's Eye view at the

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-06 Thread Tom Chance
On 6 March 2012 15:48, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: (But I've not looked at really densely-mapped areas such as London, and the situation may be more serious there.) There are lots of patches of detail in London that are still at risk:

Re: [Talk-GB] Two remapping OSMI queries

2012-01-20 Thread Tom Chance
Righto, thank you. Tom On 20 January 2012 16:08, woll w...@2-islands.com wrote: I meant if the tag and its value are the same as they were before woll wrote I think I'm correct in saying that the visualisation tools can't tell that you deleted a tag and recreated it, if the tag and

[Talk-GB] OSM map on Telegraph web site

2012-01-13 Thread Tom Chance
The Telegraph have used OSM for a map of some proposed new river crossings in east London, not sure if it was in the paper as well. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/9009627/London-to-get-new-road-tunnel-under-River-Thames-within-decade-promises-Boris-Johnson.html

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-08 Thread Tom Chance
On 8 January 2012 13:49, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: I strongly recommend that first you look at your areas and contact undecided mappers via the OpenStreetMap messaging system or directly if you know them. Ask if they would not mind logging into their account and accepting even

[Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-04 Thread Tom Chance
I've been looking at this handy map of objects that will (currently) be lost on the license change: http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=12lat=51.5032lon=-0.068 It appears as though we'll lose most of the tube stations, along with an awful lot of fiddly little bits of detail in London, where the

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-04 Thread Tom Chance
On 4 January 2012 12:29, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: There are no genuinely anonymous edits. Our database has the user id and email address for everyone who made such an edit. They have received the license change emails (if their address is still valid), and they can log in and

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Chance
I used to occasionally use a bus service in the London Borough of Sutton that did the same thing. Tom On 24 November 2011 10:27, Kev js1982 o...@kevswindells.eu wrote: Preston bus (used?) to operate on a hail and ride basis - i.e. it would stop anywhere on the estates to pick people up and

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-21 Thread Tom Chance
On 20 November 2011 22:51, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: I have just added Craig's address lookup code to the BrewMap popups, along with some changes I have made to the key and statistics bits. Oh, this is a bit of a shame in my view. Now the map shows the address for this

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