[Talk-GB] Aylesbury mapping expedition: Saturday 20th July

need confirming if you fancy a walk in the countryside! [1] http://osm.org/go/euttizLr?m [2] http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=13lat=51.81661lon=-0.81488layers=B00TFF - it's a good indicator of the areas needing a little TLC too... -- Andrew Chadwick

[Talk-GB] NSL in built-up areas: what source:maxspeed to use?

parlance, and we're not doing designations here. There don't seem to be any relevant matches for lit or light. I'm planning on making a presets bundle for them, so values would need would need to fit alongside GB:motorway, GB:nsl_dual, GB:nsl_single. -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

have with this) - it just makes things a lot easier!! Yep, agreed; it's in keeping with recent moves for separately mapped pavements too. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way - Image vote

designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic anyway :D -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lanes and Cycle Tracks - how to map

a bad idea: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

should encourage the use of the most expressive single-tag scheme for a thing up front because that enables new users to enter fairly informative data in the most comfortable way for them. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

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

signposted :D That's OK for the vast majority of map users even if it's a bit pants for data consumers and we should be pushing for designations and access tags in the long run. But let's convey it in a way tailored to the levels of involvement of our users. -- Andrew Chadwick

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

are or even what the surface is, I've almost not visited it myself, and you've purposefully obscured the waymarker, hiding the official intent behind the way's existence. Perhaps you should be asking me how I would tag such a thing based on the available evidence. -- Andrew Chadwick

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

provided you're not mapping for the foibles of a particular renderer. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

(Where's the path?, Yes it does, doesn't it?) On 03/05/12 14:47, Andy Street wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 12:58 +0100, Andrew Chadwick wrote: By now, h=footway seems merely a specialisation of h=path. The _only_ information it adds is that it's normally used by pedestrians

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

more fluid in practice and (theoretically should) pay greater attention to the road's importance in the transport grid. [... (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.] -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB

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

... -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Tagging Guideline - wiki page proposals

. (Yes, this would have the effect of moving all the historical guff about detailed tags for RoWs to the sub-pages because each of the jurisdictions has a slightly different set of them. That's not necessarily a bad thing given how they can take over discussions.) -- Andrew Chadwick

[Talk-GB] Designation: should we begin using prefixes

for them, similar to the way we denote national speed limits? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Tagging Guideline - wiki page proposals

to deserve bicycle=designated for BOATs though. Criticism welcome, I'm still happy to maintain the presets in line with any new page which emerges. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] United Kingdom Tagging Guidelines on the OSM wiki: due for an update?

happy about designation=* and generally focusing on simplicity, anyway. There's hope :) I won't be making any sweeping changes to the main page without putting up drafts for review and announcing them here. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] United Kingdom Tagging Guidelines on the OSM wiki: due for an update?

On 17/02/12 15:16, Craig Wallace wrote: On 17/02/2012 14:26, Andrew Chadwick wrote: Re https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines Who's with me? Any against? I'd *love* to know up front if anyone has any evidence of big areas of highway=path + access tags used

[Talk-GB] JOSM presets for rights of way in England and Wales

. Details and rationale can be found in the presets bundle itself and on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines#JOSM_presets_now_available Comments on these presets and how they might be improved are welcome! -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

and conversion of many-figure OS grid refs with a good degree of success. Do you get the same positional results with this? Does applying the OSTN02 transform too make any difference? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

card for offline use, but can't be worked on publicly (AFAICT), and has had ad releases in the past without any warning, behaviour which I dislike intensely. And, erm, that's what I actually use. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk

[Talk-GB] Test edits (or potential v*nd*lism?) near Charlbury, Amersham

-in message, as has Richard F. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/testflash09/edits Should this be another liam123, how would I go about reverting this as an ordinary user - and is that even possible? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Possibly using highway=path for country footpaths

, cattle grid...) Within urban areas I mostly default to highway=footway for unsignposted urban cut-throughs simply because they tend to have more infrastructure on the ground that you can use to grok the way's intended purpose. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging best practices

are available, the styles of training available, whatever (...don't know the problem space that well here...). -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=cyclefootway

bridleway; and indeed if you follow it through it turns off into a more conventional thin, muddy, hoof-churned pathway for horses. So two stretches, one tagged h=service;designation=public_bridleway, the other tagged as a regular h=bridleway.) -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=cyclefootway

David Earl wrote: On 23/03/2009 15:57, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Andrew Chadwick wrote: But it [...] has blue low-flying-bicycles signs If/when it is signed as NCN57, then it will have a cycleway sign as evidence on the ground. In the meantime it quacks like a bridleway, so surely it ought

Re: [Talk-GB] Clarifying tagging for footway/cycleway etc

of =designated, =yes, and =no for the access types. (I wonder if there's such a thing as =discouraged...) [1] http://www.dft.gov.uk/transportforyou/access/peti/guidanceontheuseoftactilepav6167?page=10 -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Brewery tagging

, without visiting a place, you can't really map it. So who wants to try to try to organise a map-up event at their local brewery? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

, not-NoDerivs community is not the place to store such data. I would consider this sort of upload to be in direct contravention of our license, and delete it on sight. -- Andrew Chadwick signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

as an exercise for the reader, naturally. And could be difficult since the OSMdb doesn't appear to record any of that stuff... -- Andrew Chadwick signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

[OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link (was: Re: Bad Bot Activity)

/Key:highway . Anyone want to give it a go? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

importance to the spirit of [[Any tags you like]] and the nature of other people's data :( -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] highway=tertiary[_link?] (was: Re: highway=secondary_link)

. Not having link roads: a concrete criterion for highway=tertiary? :-) -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

it Europe-only. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom - nothing http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Oxford - still contains my typo :/ Possibly some caching issue here. Hopefully it'll all shake itself out eventually. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

in terms of the way's node ordering. It's much easier to implement than compass directions etc. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging]

that some recent automated edits and bots have been pretty ill-conceived. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging]

this is a notable, relevant, and verifiable thing to have on Tag_features. Shall I merge the two, spit out a proper proposal and description and get it all voted on properly, or just get on with it and add it and update the osmdb accordingly with a bot? -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging]

considered a useful tag already. Probably. Certainly that should count towards it. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: OSM2Go map editor 0.6.13 released for Maemo, Debian, and Ubuntu

-- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC :left/:right (asymmetrical roadside features)

directions, and it shouldn't be important unless it *has* to be important. For this it would have to be important. Can people take a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Way_Direction_Dependant and make sure we've caught everything? Thanks. -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC :left/:right (asymmetrical roadside features)

) But saying has some things along the side of it is something we can do already. It'd be helpful sometimes to add on the left to that. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC :left/:right (asymmetrical roadside features)

them (often they need things like lit=yes/no too, those ones). -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC :left/:right (asymmetrical roadside features)

Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists andrewc-email-lists at piffle.org writes: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left The proposal suggests an interpretation of suffixes like property:left=value property:right=value I see one big trouble

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC :left/:right (asymmetrical roadside features)

JOSM 1318 or JOSM 1418 (the current josm-latest.jar). I've tested with cycleway:left=track as well as foo:left=42. Probably this would need to be raised as a separate bug if people express general satisfaction. Can't speak for Potla(t)ch, not tried. -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC :left/:right (asymmetrical roadside features)

for the cycle layer, IMO. But that's just MO.) -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC :left/:right (asymmetrical roadside features)

(s) of the road a cycleway is on, for example. I think it would work quite well for static, non-access-related features applicable only to single sides of the road. Abutters, cycleways, names spring to mind as immediate uses. -- Andrew Chadwick

[Talk-GB] Oxford UK 1:2500 O/S maps from 1958: copyright status of in-house copies?

on this, but all I've read recently on that is this: http://jergames.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-copyright-law-in-verse.html ) -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford UK 1:2500 O/S maps from 1958: copyright status of in-house copies?

Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: 2009/2/14 Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) andrewc-email-li...@piffle.org: I really wish warper allowed you to stitch multiple uploads from the same source together into a scrollable, WMSable whole by tag or somesuch. Great idea, and it's in the pipeline :-) Cool

Re: [OSM-talk] Oxbridges of Konigsberg

not a Hamiltonian cycle either. Travelling Salesman^WStudent Problem, maybe. How to weight the graph? Cobbles, distance, proximity of pubs? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

interpretation is one or the other (check!), it varies.}}} -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Oxford PhD Fieldwork

to some degree, so feel free to come along and participate. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Cycle Infrastructure in US

(or the equivalent crossing type), though that will suffer from the directionality problems with the original highway=stop. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Event: A New Cycle Map for Oxford, 22nd January 2009

this, so if you're interested, please come along to the meeting! * Cyclox is the cycling campaign group for Oxford. * OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing

[Talk-GB] Event: A New Cycle Map for Oxford, 22nd January 2009

this, so if you're interested, please come along to the meeting! * Cyclox is the cycling campaign group for Oxford. * OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Keep Mapnik relevant

people know the old name of but not the new. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Syntactic conventions for tags

Jochen Topf wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:01:48PM +, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) wrote: (Actually, I like the colon syntax a lot. Wonder if it's worth formalising that a bit more, saying that either order matters, or order doesn't matter?) Of course the order matters

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Properties for Tags

representing logic depending on what atoms are used. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Keep Mapnik relevant

. Tongue-in-cheek suggestion: new tag, visible=yes/no or relevant=yes/no. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Syntactic conventions for tags

a lot. Wonder if it's worth formalising that a bit more, saying that either order matters, or order doesn't matter?) -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Keep Mapnik relevant

that composing existing tags with /even contradictory/ properties like disused=* beats inventing new tags. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Your whishlist for Debian Packages?

-based systems. You'll find my work so far in https://garage.maemo.org/svn/osm2go/ under branches/ports/debian. What's the next step towards adoption? Organise a mentor, I assume. Any pointers? Get trunk to stop shipping a debian/ directory is on the list... -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2go as yet another desktop tool?

of project location using maemo-mapper, but that's all. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2go: mobile mapping with Nokia n800/n810

FYI for those watching this project: it's recently sprouted a mailing list at https://garage.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/osm2go-users . -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping parties - Dec/Jan/Feb

in there. Anyone know the extent of the original damage? Otherwise +1 for Reading, as others have suggested. Plymouth's a bit far for me, but doable. Jan/Feb better for me ATM. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2go: mobile mapping with Nokia n800/n810

:) -- Andrew Chadwick FRISKET_MULTVSZ RSS N/A (unpatched) 85512 24412 N/A (unpatched) 85512 24412 1.0 85516 24416 1.0 85516 24416 2.0 85516 24432 2.0 85516 24416 3.0 85516 24420 3.0 85516 24416 4.0 85516 24420 4.0

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2go: mobile mapping with Nokia n800/n810

around when a project is opened. There are a few hardcoded constants that you might want to tweak for speed and prettiness on actual n8X0 hardware; I'll leave that to you because I don't have the SDK here right now. -- Andrew Chadwick osm2go-0.5-5+pan1st+recentre.patch.gz Description: GNU Zip

[OSM-talk] UK bike map standard: Cheltenham pattern becoming more objective

use of this standard is limited to councils and large institutions only. Problematic for my own work at the moment: I'm working with a local cycle campaign group who've had Bad Experiences with the Council's efforts at bike mapping, who would very much like to do their own thing using OSM. -- Andrew

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2go: mobile mapping with Nokia n800/n810

cleanly against osm2go-0.5-5, as found at http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/chinook/free/source/o/osm2go/ -- Andrew Chadwick osm2go-0.5-5+pan1st.patch.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2go: mobile mapping with Nokia n800/n810

Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: Am Montag 17 November 2008 schrieb Andrew Chadwick (email lists): It'd be really cool if the dependency on Hildon, osso, and various other Maemo-specific parts could be relaxed for users of devices like Eee PCs, but I guess that's less of an immediate requirement

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2go: mobile mapping with Nokia n800/n810

). -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Minimum or maximum clothing demanded

be considered implicit in a region. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Mapping party (Micro / 1 day): Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK; 25th Oct 2008

to the page above and on the Upcoming page as they emerge over the next week or so: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1170074 Hope to see some familiar and new faces there. Come along :) -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Mapping party (Micro / 1 day): Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK; 25th Oct 2008

to the page above and on the Upcoming page as they emerge over the next week or so: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1170074 Hope to see some familiar and new faces there. Come along :) -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Update: picking dates for Abingdon Mini Mapping Party, sketch of the plan

somewhere rather closer to Oxford if everyone's heading back in that direction. But keeping it spontaneous on the day is probably a good idea. I'll investigate free wifi and opening hours of things in the bubble this coming weekend. -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenCycleMap: outreach to local group and council: any HOWTOs or pointers? [Oxford and general content]

Stephen Gower wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:45:27PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: Out of the blue, I've been asked to advise Cyclox, a local cyclists' advocacy group about improving [upon] the Oxfordshire County Council's cycle map for the city of Oxford[1], and I've said

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only

that we should be thinking about? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only

to say which side of the road it's on: a fact currently left unstated. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[OSM-talk] OpenCycleMap: outreach to local group and council: any HOWTOs or pointers? [Oxford and general content]

://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=15lat=51.75321lon=-1.25636 Wonder if that might have been selling the project locally? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenCycleMap: outreach to local group and council: any HOWTOs or pointers? [Oxford and general content]

Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: Out of the blue, I've been asked Specifically this: Dear Andrew, I'm hoping that you are the same Andrew Chadwick as the OpenStreetMap contributor. The local cycle campaign group Cyclox and I are keen to improve the County Council's current cycle

Re: [Talk-GB] Mini mapping party in Abingdon [Oxfordshire], anyone?

Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:33:11PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: Abingdon in Oxfordshire is heavily infested with dragons. Would any heroic .uk/.ie/.elsewhere OSMers out there be willing to help drive them off, in principle? [...] Yup, sounds good. My

[Talk-GB] Mini mapping party in Abingdon [Oxfordshire], anyone?

. I could make a cake, maybe organise a bike convoy from Oxford/Radley stations. Would anybody be interested in attending one afternoon, one weekend in the next month or so? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] Routing through Oxford

go, or gosmore not recognising them. Seems to be a mix of both. It's possible that Gosmore is working from old data and I'm not. I feel a pub crawl^H^H^H^H^Hcity centre restrictions mapping party coming on. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] QUESTION

with your username. Non-'public' points can still be downloaded, but timestamp and creator are stripped, leaving basically a 2d scatterplot with some extra information on some of the nodes sometimes. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford meetup

make the 19th now, but if anyone fancies this Thursday evening... Don't see why not. Jericho Tavern suit everyone, and is 7 PM a good time? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin

Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

for this, I've no objection to making lots of little amenity=dentist-style tags for the smaller practices and forgoing the merge. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

with recommending this; operator=* to mean who runs it (country-specific values, no doubt). Sergio has mentioned this too with reference to Spain. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

on it? For example, there's everything from supply sheds serving the hospital to nurses' accommodation, playing fields and gardens on one of the sites 'round here.) -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

. It would feel strange to call an optician a clinic too, even if the upstairs consulting rooms are all separate and have something of the doctor's surgery nature. Hmm. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford meetup

Richard Fairhurst wrote: Andrew Chadwick (list subscriptions) wrote: That would have been the Isis Boathouse, I think (Socks, you there?). Sounds good. There's a bit of an OSM tradition of going to the Jericho Tavern, too. I like the sound of that place (now). As for time, does

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] access=license

that interpretation? The only objection I can see is that some might misspell the word. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik street name positioning

(as well as?) doubling names. I must really finish getting the warren-o-buildings done for the shopping centre to the N. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford meetup

would be too short notice. -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] area topology

Stephen Gower wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:31:32PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: A road is represented by a single way. Although the way has zero width in the database, it represents the whole width of the carriageway (pavement) and well as the pavement (sidewalk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Road crossings proposal - status?

highway=traffic_signals. Does anyone think that we should be deprecating highway=crossing in favour of crossing=*? What are the behaviours of current editor and renderer software when highway=traffic_signals;crossing is used? -- Andrew Chadwick

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Crossing access types (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

of crossing traffic a motorist may expect, and b) what sorts of crossing traffic may use the crossing. To keep things simple, one would assume a default value of crossing_traffic=foot anywhere there's a crossing=* or a highway=crossing. Does that make sense to you guys? -- Andrew Chadwick

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Crossing access types

Steve Hill wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: * If two ways cross at a crossing Node, access keys would logically apply to both. Declaring that crossings are somehow special and that access tags on them apply only to the crossing traffic is worse. Ok

Re: [OSM-talk] area topology

: there's no excuse for trapezoidal buildings with the new extrusion stuff now in JOSM :) However, rivers are Interesting: quite often an Area whose edge is defined by a river may change over time as the river meanders... In that case, it probably does make sense to abut a Way to an Area. -- Andrew

[OSM-talk] Fixing unnamed ways places (was: [t*gg*ng] Road crossings proposal - status?)

when it's known that the data cannot be gathered. For example, if the sign has been stolen from a highway=residential, and the council haven't got round to replacing it. /t.i.c -- Andrew Chadwick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http