We have TWO London events coming up! :
On Tuesday 4th June we'll have a social OpenStreetMap pub meet-up at The Monkey
Puzzle pub from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map user, or just curious,
come join us for map chat and beers!
The Monkey Puzzle is here on the map
= . This is
inside Kings Cross station towards the back. Past the funky curvy roof. Past
the Harry Potter shop. Up some steps. We'll be on the first floor somewhere
(not the 2nd floor restaurant), but it's quite big. We've got a table booked
there somewhere under the name Harry Wood. If you think you
On Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 11:08:40 GMT, Robert Skedgell
wrote:
On 21/02/2024 19:58, Harry Wood wrote:
> Tomorrow night (Thursday 22nd Feb) Meta are hosting a "Pedestrian
> Infrastructure Mapathon" 18:00 - 20:00 pm.
>
> "The Open Maps Team at Me
Tomorrow night (Thursday 22nd Feb) Meta are hosting a "Pedestrian
Infrastructure Mapathon" 18:00 - 20:00 pm.
"The Open Maps Team at Meta is partnering with local citizens to improve map
data for pedestrian infrastructure in London ... learn how to increase the
accuracy and detail of pedestrian
Tomorrow night (Monday 18th December) it's time for the Christmas OpenStreetMap
pub meet-up at The Monkey Puzzle pub from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map
user, or just curious, come join us to celebrate a Mappy Christmas with lots of
beers and map chat. The Monkey Puzzle is here on the
On Thursday 23rd November it's a social OpenStreetMap pub meet-up at The Parcel
Yard pub, Kings Cross Station, from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map user,
or just curious, come join us for map chat and beers!
The Parcel Yard is here on the map: https://osm.org/go/euu4xj5p?m= This is
inside
Would it be too late to point out that there's a Mobile Mapping Workshop
happening in 45 minutes time? Probably... but I thought I'd do it anyway. If
it's not too late for you, then come join us outside Euston station by the
Stephenson statue! https://osmcal.org/event/2327/ or we'll be in the
TOMORROW! (Wednesday 28th June) we'll have an OpenStreetMap social pub meet-up
at The Barley Mow pub, Westminster, from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map
user, or just curious, come join us for map chat and beers!
The Barley Mow (barleymowhorseferryrd.co.uk) is here on the map:
On Wednesday 28th September there's a #geomob event. Presentations on a variety
of map/geo topics, often including OpenStreetMap. This time it will include a
talk by OSMer Ben Abelshausen. Details & sign up:
https://thegeomob.com/post/sept-28th-2022-geomoblon-details
On Tuesday 4th October
The idea of getting rid of the "WikiProject" page title prefix. There's a bit
of discussion of that
herehttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_organisation#Page_Name_conventions.2Fguidelines
Discussion from 10 years ago! As I said a the time, I support the idea in
principle. I don't
I definitely support moderation actions on the diaries (or indeed any channel)
when somebody steps way out of line.
> It is unfortunate because this means that quite a few useful comments>
>written by some of you - the main subject was ways of fighting diary
> spam - were dropped too.
Do you
Tomorrow night (Thu 13th Dec) we're having a little Christmas London pub
meet-up at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub from 6:30pm. Join us for some friendly
social beers and a festive celebration of all things OpenStreetMap!
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is down an alleyway off Fleet Street (here on the map
thing here.
...but I'm putting words in other people's mouths. Let's wait and see what the
board has to say (and yeah give them some time. We're all volunteers)
Harry Wood
On Monday, 10 December 2018, 18:12:44 GMT, Manfred A. Reiter
wrote:
"When in doubt, also consider the "on t
Well this is drifting off the original topic but...
Greg Morgan wrote:
> This is nothing more than an uneducated attack on my favorite part of the
> US tax code, 501.c3. This is also nothing more than an attack on a group
> trying to build the OSM community.
Seems a bit strong. Some folks need
Alright then Rob! Here we go. The "footpaths edit tracker":
https://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/diffreader/footpaths/
So far 89 people have done 1214 edits to objects with the
designation=public_footpath tag.
Harry
On Sunday, 8 July 2018, 16:55:27 BST, Rob Nickerson
wrote:
Looking
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If you fancy meeting some us face to face, it would fantastic to have you along
at this!
Harry Wood
On Monday, 26 February 2018, 17:12:47 GMT, Chapple Theo
<theochap...@tfl.gov.uk> wrote:
Hello OSM London community
Theo from Transport for London here! I manage TfL’s op
I wanted to make some little improvements to your map display (more readable
tags)
http://bl.ocks.org/harry-wood/raw/1c590b852dd2f43569c085dc554b9abd/
I'm not that familiar with 'gists'. They don't have 'pull requests' hey? Anyway
my fork is
here:https://gist.github.com/harry-wood
So I guess you're looking for : https://vimeo.com/44870758
SheepCamp 2012, Monica Stephens
There's a pretty big list of articles and talks on the Diversity wiki page
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity
Harry
From: Zoe Gardner
Hello friend,
I couldn't find some products so I chose to ask for your help, here's what
I'm looking for
http://natoquest.org/www/administrator/help/en-GB/downtown.php?UE90YWxrLWdiLWxvbmRvbkBvcGVuc3RyZWV0bWFwLm9yZw--
Harry Wood
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I came across a few tagging quirks to do with bus access and specifically
"service=bus"
First of all there's some roads with service=Bus (uppercase B). So that's
definitely a mistake.Only exists in a cluster in Manchester ...plus a small
cluster in Sao
> On 27/04/2017 20:26, Brian Prangle wrote:
> I've annotated Harry's Import wiki page with some comments and ideas.
This one:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Birmingham_City_Council_trees_data
I don't want you to think of it as *my* wiki page. Like any wiki page we should
aim to reflect
TONIGHT (Thursday 20th April) we'll have a London pub meet-up at the Monkey
Puzzle from 6:30pm. Join us for some friendly social beers and chit chat on the
subject of OpenStreetMap (contributing/using experienced/beginners, whatever
interests you in and around OpenStreetMap!)
Special guest:
I've created a wiki page specifically about the tree data import.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Birmingham_City_Council_trees_data
It would be better if somebody involved in running the import, would do this
(per the Import Guidelines), but I've drawn together various info I could find
I've created a wiki page specifically about the tree data import.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Birmingham_City_Council_trees_data
It would be better if somebody involved in running the import, would do this
(per the Import Guidelines), but I've drawn together various info I could find
I forgot to say, I checked what everybody thought in the pub on Tuesday.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/harrywood/33071560616/ (We all seemed to agree
network=tfl_cycle_hire)
Nice one Dan. Thanks for making it happen!
Harry
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I forgot to say, I checked what everybody thought in the pub on Tuesday.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/harrywood/33071560616/ (We all seemed to agree
network=tfl_cycle_hire)
Nice one Dan. Thanks for making it happen!
Harry
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From: Dan S
TONIGHT we're at the Blue Posts pub from 7pm. Newman St. Join us for some
friendly social beers and chit chat on the subject of OpenStreetMap
(contributing/using experienced/beginners, whatever interests you in and around
OpenStreetMap!)
Two important notes:
1) There are several pubs called
I was thinking of embarking on some development work to re-examine the NaPTAN
dataset myself. We regularly consume this dataset at TransportAPI, so I have
some code which works with Stops.csv
The NoVAM viewer http://www.mappa-mercia.org/novam is currently broken.
Probably easy to fix. It's
We never actually tried out loomio properly for this. I think we can go here...
https://www.loomio.org/d/xagnZoK4/what-should-the-next-project-be-
...and "Start a proposal" for several different ideas and then vote on them,
and a pretty pie chart starts appearing.
But... yeah if Brian just
Yes. openstreetmap.org.uk would be a good canonical url, and appropriate in my
opinion, that OSMF would own the domain but point it at an someone's server. Is
firefishy the man to organise this?
Note: if that is the canonical url, this would mean that Dennis should be
looking into *redirecting*
"Apart from size, I fail to see the difference"
Well the difference is whether you can go there and see the business.
The effect of this verifiability rule might be a size thing, which might mean
that the cottage industry baking cupcakes doesn't get added but...
More importantly from a process
Sorry I'm forgetting to keep the mailing list informed, so this is rather
last-minute if you missed it on twitter/wiki but...
TONIGHT we're in the Angel pub from 7pm
It's near Angel tube. Here on the map: http://osm.org/go/euu45JLI?m=
The Angel pub is quite big but all on one floor. Hopefully
I'll link your earlier mailing list post from here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Project but we could make a
wiki page of it, and/or a kick off blog post. Something to link to in relation
to this.
Harry
From: Brian Prangle
To: Talk GB
It'll get
messy.
Deep 3D examples like Kings Cross are fun. But we also need to check breadth of
data across the network. Starting with the basics, we're doing pretty well on
station entrances: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/h97 , but maybe not all of them.
Harry Wood
_
I'm interested in helping out with an OSM UK website. I have a few ideas.
Actually the thing I'm most interested in is what you're touching on here. I'm
keen to avoid a situation where we have a website festering unmaintained, or
even just having niggling things wrong with it, and no way for
You're cutting it fine, but if you sign up now, TONIGHT there is (unusually)
still spaces at the monthly Missing Maps humanitarian mapathon. This time it's
hosted at the Welcome Trust building in Euston.
Bring a laptop. Join in the fun! There's particularly spaces for a few more
pro-mappers
Next Tuesday (12th April) we will be holding a Mapping Planning Meeting at The
Penderel's Oak pub (here on the map http://osm.org/go/euu4matrY-?m= ) It's
between Holborn and Chancery Lane tube. We'll be there from 7pm
This is a big pub. We'll aim to get a table somewhere near the main entrance.
I have mixed feelings about Geovation
You're talking very generally about consultants getting money, but there's a
bigger reason to feel negative about it. The government paid Ordnance Survey
£millions to release open data (because releasing open data needs to cost lots
of money because...
ts of France and most of
Luxembourg, but I'm sure they're used to it.
Harry
From: Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com>
To: Harry Wood <m...@harrywood.co.uk>
Cc: Talk-gb OSM List <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, 18 January 2016, 10:36
Subject: R
n,
at which point you'll be able to bow back in again. That's the beauty of it.
Harry
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From: Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk>
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, 11 January 2016, 11:15
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] UKOSM - technical aspects
On 10/01/16 21:47
Thanks for making something happen Rob!
So this conference call is TOMORROW at 8pm.
I added those details to the wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/UK
But d'you have the dial-in details?
Harry
From: Rob Nickerson
To: Talk-GB
.com/OSMLondon
Harry Wood
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Well done setting up the survey Rob. Good to see something happening. I think
we should get our asses in gear and start forming some sort of organisation.
I was surprised your survey didn't have a question What d'you think the
organisation should be called?, because this is the question which
I've got (at least) two events for you next week:
There's a Missing Maps Project humanitarian mapping event on Tuesday, and for
a change I'm actually telling you about this *before* it has sold out! These
events are a lot of fun. Bring a laptop. Join in with mapping, learning or
teaching. Sign
for THIS one!
http://lanyrd.com/2015/geomob-may/
As ever, follow @OSMLondon on twitter and see the events list on the wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London
Harry Wood
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I have now written some justification for the ban, as I see it, on his talk
page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Xxzme#Blocked_for_3_months
My plan was to draw together various threads on his talk page and then write
something like this immediately before banning him. I was in the
On Wednesday 25th March (That's tomorrow!) we will be holding a Mapping
Planning Meeting at The Penderel's Oak pub from 7pm
As we enter spring and approach the start of British Summer Time we need to
look at the state of London's OpenStreetMap coverage and plan some mapping.
What are the data
The next casual social pub meet-up will be on Tuesday 3rd March at The Lord
Moon of the Mall pub near Trafalgar Square. We'll be there from 7pm
Map: http://osm.org/go/euu4gPUIN-?way=140469340
Jim McAndrew AKA JimmyRocks is visiting London from the states, so the pub
meet-up is dedicated to
Sorry. Short notice again
Tomorrow (Wednesday) night we'll be at the Parcel Yard for a casual social pub
meet-up.
It's a pub inside Kings Cross station, but not as grotty as it sounds.
http://osm.org/go/euu4xjtjx-?m=
When you get there... this is a fairly big pub with a confusing layout. There
Sorry for the short notice but...
Tomorrow (Tuesday) night we'll be at the Blue Posts for a (probably quite
small) casual social pub meet-up
It's this pub on Newman Street:
http://osm.org/go/euu4OnIv?m=
Take care not to go to a different Blue Posts pub!
When you get there... check upstairs!
The next casual social pub meet-up is TONIGHT at The Crosse Keys pub in
Bishopsgate.
Map: http://osm.org/go/euu6BYcK?m=
It's close to Bank station. We'll be there from 7pm
This is a big (and very grand) pub. We'll aim to get a table somewhere. We'll
also aim to get organised with an
btw, there should be a all values in GBP or similar on this page:
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances/Balance_Sheet_2012
Well I can fix that at least (done)
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I've created a wiki page about these floods:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_Southeast_Europe_floods
I included a couple of cautions familiar from the UK floods response:
1) Bosnia and Serbia have active mapping communities. We need to take care to
do remote armchair mapping only if
If you'd like to join in, you can edit the hack pad to put your name on the
list. Maybe drop us an email too.
Hope to be seeing some of you soon!
Harry Wood
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Here's a wiki page for coordination. Please feel free to edit
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Fire_2013
Eugghh! The landuse data around here is a mess. Government data import I
presume On the plus side. There's plenty to get stuck in and work on. I
recommend JOSM for
about helping
run the App of the year session!)
Harry Wood
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and presentations tomorrow, so do pass on the link if you know anyone
(or any groups) who might be interested in that.
Harry
From: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk
To: d...@openstreetmap.org d...@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2013, 18:33
Subject: [OSM
Well I've done one task square. Took me about an hour. I've added a screenshot
to the 'workflow' description: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/89
Yes the bing imagery looks quite different when you zoom right in, and has a
very different offset. Be sure to line up imagery with existing data before
Hello westmidlanders
See this event: http://h4d2register.eventbrite.com/
I had this invitation email lingering in my inbox for some time now. I was
considering heading up to Birmingham 21-23rd to attend this disaster hackathon.
Sadly I'm going to have to pass, but looks like it might be
I know it's not as fun as mapping, but I've made a list of some wiki
maintenance tasks:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki_maintenance_tasks
I've been meaning to write this for years. The idea is to list some ideas for
wiki editing tasks which apply to a lot of different pages across
Ladies Gentlemen finish your uploads
We are *go* for API lock-down in T minus 60 minutes.
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the rooftops ...but I understand Jon
Burgess and others are monitoring it to see if the tile server keeps up
with it OK. Hope the change sticks!
Harry Wood
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