Re: [Talk-GB] Tank=yes?

2009-06-13 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/6/12 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk: I'd suggest hazard=tanks (plural). I've not seen signs warning about tanks, but did have to give way to one at a t-junction once on the road from Wolverhampton to Cosford (as I joined it on the road from Shifnal). You could feel the road (and car)

Re: [Talk-GB] Authorities, boundaries and admin-levels

2009-06-13 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/6/13 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: On 13 Jun 2009, at 09:30, Peter Childs wrote: 2009/6/11 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk: And here is the current OSM guidance:- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level In order to tie in with NUTS and with guidance

Re: [OSM-talk] pub vs bar vs club

2009-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/6/3 Joe Richards joefis...@yahoo.com: How do you tag a drinking establishment that is not a pub?  I'm thinking of places where  * they typically don't serve food food=yes/no (I think the default is No)  * the name doesn't start with The or have Olde Worlde signs out the front

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/6/3 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Peter Miller wrote: Personally I want a structure for the town which tells a story about today's road use, rather than a dusty document in a council. I should inform routing engines to keep cars on major roads and cyclists off them. I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/6/2 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: Peter Miller wrote: Sent: 02 June 2009 5:31 PM To: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not? I have used primary, secondary and tertiary to indicate relative traffic levels on

Re: [Talk-GB] Isle of Wight 2

2009-06-01 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/6/1 SteveC st...@asklater.com: I'm tempted, but half the point is that we need to stop thinking that the IoW is mapped, without addresses or turn restrictions there's a long way to go. On 1 Jun 2009, at 10:53, Steve Chilton wrote: Steve I would be very interested. Would you consider

Re: [OSM-talk] script to cut a big OSM map into letter or A4 size papers

2009-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/27 Arlindo Pereira nig...@nighto.net: Wow, I second that question, that would be very nice. I'm no scripter myself, but I suppose that it won't be needed to render the tiles on the device, just tome way to download the png tiles from the server and print them side to side. [] On

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] tagging stones in the wild (erratic, balancing, boundary, stone age, artifact)

2009-05-23 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
Points http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trig_point Get some mapping done using one all the better I guess (Unless that causes copyright problems .) Peter Childs ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-23 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/22 Nop ekkeh...@gmx.de: Hi! start_date=, end_date= http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Properties http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/start_date/ http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/end_date/ maybe someone could create the tag pages for those on wiki? Silly point old data can be important

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

2009-05-21 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/20 Joe Richards joefis...@yahoo.com: Where did this idea go in the end? It seems the talk about it petered-out, or was some action agreed (along with who was going to undertake it)? Given the US have forgotten to keep the GPS system up to date, maybe we need a few satelites of our

[OSM-talk] GPS Future Was Re: Satellite for OSM

2009-05-21 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/21 Joe Richards joefis...@yahoo.com: Where did this idea go in the end? It seems the talk about it petered-out, or was some action agreed (along with who was going to undertake it)? Given the US have forgotten to keep the GPS system up to date, maybe we need a few satelites of our

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-20 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/20 Jacek Konieczny jaj...@jajcus.net: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:59:05AM +0100, Radomir Cernoch wrote: In the Czech list we ended up with the following solution, which tries to copy the legislation (which is a good starting point, I guess): 1) Every road is by default 'rural' road

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
I get the message, clearly our Scottish folk are feeling unloved too ;-) I think its more of a problem that the Scores are done Per Head Population Rather than land area. Its just important that The Highlands and Dartmoor get mapped as it is that London or Birmingham get done, In just as much

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/18 Bruce Cowan li...@bcowan.fastmail.co.uk: On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:33 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: I also think we need to decide where tertiary should be used, as there's quite a difference between different blocks at the moment - most don't have any but some have loads. My personal

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/13 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: Ok, this I'll agree on. My original post was just to talk about it... not really to do it. But it sounds like we should take baby steps. Let's work on the minutely diffs first and if some crazy person comes up with a good use case for streaming, we can

Re: [OSM-talk] Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS

2009-05-11 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/11 Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk: I've just got a new Nokia 6220 Classic Mobile Phone. Its got a built in GPS which means I've been able to get out and get a bit more mapping done (Since I did not have a GPS this has been difficult) I have Freemap Mobile in development,

[OSM-talk] Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS

2009-05-10 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
I've just got a new Nokia 6220 Classic Mobile Phone. Its got a built in GPS which means I've been able to get out and get a bit more mapping done (Since I did not have a GPS this has been difficult) I've got the Sport Tracker software installed, which seams to be relatively good at getting

Re: [OSM-talk] Languages

2009-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/7 Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com: On Thursday 07 May 2009, Tal wrote: Imagine that you plan a business trip to Tel-Aviv and want to print yourself a map of the city. Or maybe you'll be spending a week in Cairo. Can you not see the benefit in having a map with the street names in a

[OSM-talk] Osmisis Uk Extracting

2009-05-01 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
I'm trying to use Osmosis to extract the Uk data from the planet file, and ideally put it in a PostgreSQL database (but I have a serous lack of hard driver space currently. I want to use it for geocoding I really want a list of roads the there locations in the Uk. Could take someone else

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmisis Uk Extracting

2009-05-01 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/5/1 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk: If this is planet-090421.osm.bz2 then it is a known problem. Please use  planet-090429.osm.bz2 which should have that bug removed. Hmm rsync -LP rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/planet-latest.osm.bz2 . But I might not have

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline accuracy?

2009-04-29 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/4/29 Alice Kaerast kaer...@qvox.org: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:25:20 +0100 mle i...@dynoyo.plus.com wrote: I was staying very near the east coast, and noticed that tracks near the coast appeared too far inland (further west than expected) when the GPS tracks were plotted.  They also seemed

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-24 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/4/24 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio jldoming...@prodevelop.es: At the deep zoom levels (zoom=6 and higher numbers), Sweden and Finland don't look large, because you don't see other countries on the same screen.  At these deep zoom levels, the difference in scale between the top and bottom of

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/4/23 Jacek Konieczny jaj...@jajcus.net: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:23:16AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: not mean that these countries are twice as large in the real life.  Scale bar values, if presented in meters/feet, should be adjusted according to latitude. Even then it cannot be

[Talk-GB] Wincanton streets in the news

2009-04-07 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
I notice this week that Wincanton has a new house estate and the streets are getting named after Ankh-Morpork (If any one is going to map that I'm not sure where we put the data :) Is there a way to tag towns with there twin town. Oh where is Peach Pie Street and Treacle Mine Road. Peter.

Re: [OSM-talk] What is amenity=food_outlets in map features?

2009-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/3/29 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: Hi! Someone added amenity=food_outlets to the map features and even after reading the comment An area with several food outlets I'm quite unsure what this could be. Is this a collection of several amenity=fast_food or a kind of

Re: [Talk-GB] Route planner using UK OSM data

2009-03-23 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/3/23 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: Nice work :-) Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andrew M. Bishop Sent: 22 March 2009 10:23 PM To:

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

2009-03-23 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/3/23 Andrew Chadwick (email lists) andrewc-email-li...@piffle.org: Richard Mann wrote: Ways in OSM - at least as I've been told - are assumed to include any pavements/cycleways there may be to the side of the road (both in-lane and on-sidewalk), but not more segregated stuff. At least

Re: [Talk-GB] What should we do with the towns/cities section on the England page

2009-03-10 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/3/10 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: The Cities/Towns and Vilages section on the England page is very out- of-date. It is however a way of accessing the country by post code. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_England#Cities.2C_Towns_and_Villages Personally I do see

[OSM-talk] Problem with osm2pgsql

2009-03-09 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
I've been trying to import the Planet file into postgres using osm2pgsql, Using the current SVN version, it seams to be segmenting when processing the first Way (Under Ubuntu Hardy). Does any one have any ideas, or shall I try and import a subset (The UK would fit my purpose) and try and get more

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem with osm2pgsql

2009-03-09 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/3/9 Martijn van Oosterhout klep...@gmail.com: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote: I've been trying to import the Planet file into postgres using osm2pgsql, Using the current SVN version, it seams to be segmenting when processing the first Way (Under Ubuntu

Re: [Talk-GB] Markers on OSM with text

2009-03-09 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
2009/3/9 Mike m...@csits.net: Folks, I'm trying to use a slippy OSM map on a webpage with various markers.  I want each marker numbering from one to whatever.  I have read the guide here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openlayers_POI_layer_example which explains how to add a text box

[Talk-GB] Kent entry on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK

2009-03-08 Diskussionsfäden Peter Childs
Seams Kent is missing on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK not 100% of the full status, so I'll add a blank in and someone can fill in the gaps, Also Medway following the recent 2nd Medway mapping party http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Medway. I'll link it all together the best I can.

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