Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
I encountered https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/issues/4140
and it is hard to me how it should be decided.
Do you have some clear preference?
As a shopper, the important question for me is whether a
shop will actually sell to me, i.e. whether they are
Cj Malone wrote:
This also means shop=frozen_food, currently they are mainly
shop=supermarket
My local one was doing a roaring trade in 36-packs of loo roll
a few weeks ago. I believe they are also one of the cheapest
places to get cans of coke. So frozen_food sounds a bit too
limited.
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
I wondered if anyone had any affordable hosting recommendations?
Would be looking for hosting of not much more than approximately
£20/EUR 20 per month, perhaps £30/EUR 30 as a maximum.
My current server has 1GB of memory and can just about cope with
the areas above,
SK53 wrote:
Quick look (Nottingham, of course):
- Polygons look OK
- Many features missing (e.g., University of Nottingham Main Campus,
both sites of Dunkirk Primary School
- Old features present (e.g., Elms Primary School, closed prior to 2011)
- Reasonably well attributed.
At
Chris Hill wrote:
I've had a go at extracting the height of buildings from the Environment
Agency LIDAR, and it seems possible.
I loaded the EA data into a database and found all the height points
within the polygon of an existing building outline. The highest value is
the height of the
Chris Hill write:
On 24/09/15 18:41, Phil Endecott wrote:
Chris Hill wrote:
Suitably processed this could provide a source of building outlines.
Yes, I think it could be very useful for that. I've had a play
and rather than doing shaded relief I've just converted the height
directly
Chris Hill wrote:
Suitably processed this could provide a source of building outlines.
Yes, I think it could be very useful for that. I've had a play
and rather than doing shaded relief I've just converted the height
directly into a grey shade. I've then applied ImageMagick's edge
detection
Has anyone reviewed how useful this LIDAR data would be for 3D city
mapping?
Chris Hill wrote:
The slippy map with relief tiles made from the data and optionally
contours also made from the data is here: http://relief.raggedred.net.
Thanks Chris. I've just been looking at Hull city centre.
Chris Hill wrote:
DSM does include
building outlines. I've processed a small part of the data to see them.
Here's an example of a TIFF of DSM data with the building outlines:
http://raggedred.net/shared/ta0230.tif
Thanks Chris, that's quite impressive.
My interest is in using this as a
Hi Chris,
Chris Hill wrote:
I've been looking at OS Open Names
I've also had a look at Open Names, but looking at everything
except roads and postcodes. My conclusion was that it is not
a useful replacement for the old 1:50k gazetteer because it
doesn't contain names for any natural
Maarten Deen wrote:
I came across this example [1] where a way has bicycle=no and
cycleway=lane.
IMHO these two tags are also conflicting and the bicycle=no should be
removed. Any thoughts?
Cycle lanes that you cannot, either practically or legally, cycle
along are horribly common. Examples:
Neil Pilgrim wrote:
I've used fhrs to add some data and wondered about this, though in Scotland
they didn't seem to have a rating.
My understanding is that in Scotland is it Pass / Fail, rather than stars.
Phil.
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OpenStreetmap HADW wrote:
A couple of days ago, I walked a footpath, which turned out, along
with the preceding private road, to be a PROW on foot. As I wanted to
detail map it to show steps, I first calibrated Bing against OS
StreetView
When using any OS data it's important to be certain of
Robert Whittaker wrote:
I assume that these digitised PRoW Maps from local councils are
released under the OS OpenData License. That being the case, please
note that Ordnance Survey have recently stated that their OS OpenData
licence is not forward compatible with the ODC-By and ODbL [1]. Hence
Dudley Ibbett wrote:
I'm trying to make use of the row files on rowmaps for derbyshire and
staffordshire and and merging these with and osm map file to then produce
maps that can highlight which paths are and aren't mapped.
Thanks for doing this.
One suggestion - it would be great if the
Stefan Keller wrote:
Actually, I'd like to hear the opinions of those website admins who
really are affected by spam registrations
I'm not an OSM website admin, but I do run a site that uses a CAPTCHA
and my experience is that in recent times it has become almost completely
ineffective. The
Steve Doerr wrote:
On 31/05/2012 20:13, Worst Fixer wrote:
If you notice some big flaw in my case change algoritm, mail me privately.
I'd only comment that a really intelligent de-capitalization algorithm
would attempt to supply the accents that are missing from the
capitalized forms.
I
Worst Fixer wrote:
I ask you to review my planned edit.
There are lot of ways to tag intermittent water feature found in database.
Most popular is intermittent=yes. All others come from different old
imports. Date ist 2009-2010 year. I countiered ~350 000 features tagged in
different such ways.
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2012/5/29 Phil Endecott spam_from_osm_t...@chezphil.org:
No doubt at some point someone
decided that lake:shore_length:miles=2 was a useful thing to record, and
you want to remove it. Ã Why?
because there is no such thing as a shore length, it depends
Worst Fixer wrote:
I also created overview.html that might help your review.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzI7ljRzQhp4VnFPVkhZa096LWM
I just get You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this
video. when I try to view that. If it's just an html file, can't you
post it
Pawel Stankiewicz wrote:
Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Pawel Stankiewicz wrote:
If you don't know how to revert an import, chances are you
shouldn't be doing the import in the first place.
Chances are something very different from a ban.
No. You're misunderstanding
Taru Ani wrote:
USGS topo maps are in the public domain (
http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html), but must give credit to the
USGS.
Not, you don't have to acknowledge them; they can be used without
restriction. (If you did, they wouldn't be public domain.) However,
they do encourage
Dear All,
Two slight off-topic questions for UK map enthusiasts:
(1) Can you think of any depressions in Britain? I.e. places where the
contour lines on the map would wind the wrong way? I ask because I
recently noticed that the OS OpenData contour data is wrong around
Princes Street
Donald Allwright wrote:
(1) Can you think of any depressions in Britain? I.e. places where the contour lines on
the map would wind the wrong way? I ask because I recently noticed that the
OS OpenData contour data is wrong around Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh. It looks
as if the
Matthias Mei?er wrote:
Well, another aspect for a press release might be, that OSM has limited
resources as well. Maybe this visualisation and analysis of the tile
usage by Apps would be a good starting point:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/15190
Friends, please don't do
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Am wanting to develop Freemap (coubtryside-orientated OSM site) and
its mobile client, OpenTrail, further but the thing that's always holding
me back, and forcing me to restrict it to certain areas of the UK only,
are the limitations of the server.
So is anyone aware of
Hi Mike,
Mike Dupont wrote:
Hi,
we have experimented with hosting the tiles on archive.org
there are no size limits or bandwith limits,
http://ia600606.us.archive.org/31/items/SharedMap2/index.html
Can you clarify this a bit? Have the archive.org people officially
said, you're welcome to
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Around
Easter 2010, IIRC, I surveyed what appeared to be a footpath in good faith:
I was then given a hard time by the landowner
about trespassing etc.
The landowner has told you that it is not a footpath. Please delete
it. (Or re-tag as private.)
Regards, Phil.
Attila Sz?sz wrote:
Sorry for the slightly out of topic subject, but I'd appreciate hearing
about your recommendations in regards with a hosting provider that allows to
run a reasonable amount of processes on their servers primarily for OSM data
processing.
Keep your existing service for the
Hi Craig,
Craig Loftus wrote:
If anyone knows about using cloud-hosting as a mirror, particularly if
you think it is a terrible idea, please speak up now.
I use S3 extensively. It does exactly what it says on the tin.
Be sure to create your buckets in the right geographic zone (i.e. EU,
Tom Hughes wrote:
http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/2056/using-the-ordnance-survey-national-grid-with-openstreetmap
Making search work is a whole different issue and I would certainly
consider reasonable patches to do that - there are complicated issues of
OS intellectual property
Hi Frederik,
Excuse me for jumping in here without knowing much of the background, but:
Frederik Ramm wrote:
I need to use simplified polygons;
cutting out a country with a 15k node polygon would take forever.
Is your point-in-polygon test O(N) in the size of the polygon? You can
do much
Dear Experts,
Can anyone propose a test that I can use to distinguish between
roadside cycle-lanes and off-road cycle paths?
This is part of my effort to superimpose OSM path info onto OS District
Map. I would like to show off-road cycle paths that would typically be
shown on a paper OS
David Earl wrote:
On 15/04/2011 19:50, David Earl wrote:
there's various lane indications such as
cycleway=lane
...
PS if you want examples, Cambridge and the surrounding area is
particularly dense with all the variations of these all over the place.
Indeed, I live in Cambridge...
A good
Gilles Bassi?re wrote:
I'd like to get advice about toponymy in the context of hiking paths.
When hiking, I often encounter short technical passages which have a
name painted on the rock. In French, the name almost always begin with
Pas de ... but I'm not sure if there is a good translation for
Luke Smith wrote:
Hi Phil,
What did you use for the 3D render?
That's a screenshot from my 3D Lake District iPhone app.
The maps I've put together aren't using the VectorMap raster, so I have
the roads rendered above the paths - otherwise I'm sure things would be
all over the place.
Mike Harris wrote:
What is needed in OSM for walkers - but how to
do it? (thanks to Nick and others for great work) is (a) contours and
(b) field boundaries.
Contours (nominally at 1:50,000) are included in OS OpenData.
Regards, Phil.
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andynbe...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder what will happen to OS streetview when the 1 scale mapping is
withdrawn in 2 years time. The 1 is being replaced by VectorMap local
under the Public Sector Mapping Agreement.
Streetview is described as one of the styles of VectorMap Local:
Ed Avis wrote:
These maps will probably become collector's items:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12684156
What struck me was this quote:
She also confirmed that some previously unnamed parts of the
loch had been named after cartographers and rangers who had
worked
Hi Nick,
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Sometime, perhaps over Easter, I'd like to do something I've been meaning
to do for a while, and that is create pseudo-Landranger maps by combining
OS Vector Map District, contours from OS Landform Panorama, and OSM footpaths.
I will naturally be interested to
Hi Nick,
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Am interested in using the OS OpenData contour set for an
augmented reality app for walkers (extension of the OpenTrailView
idea). What I have in mind is to load them into a database
and implement a lookup facility where the elevation at a
particular lat/lon
Hi Joe,
There are tricks there, such as egg-balancing on watching
the water go down the sink in different directions - supposedly induced by
the coriolis effect.
This tells you all you need to know; it's not science, it's just a
tourist spectacle.
I once kept a tally on my bathroom mirror
Dear Experts,
I have been experimenting with superimposing OSM footpaths onto the OS
StreetView and District maps; I'm trying to get something that looks a
bit like a fake Explorer map. The results are generally
satisfactory; see e.g. http://chezphil.org/tmp/mamtor.jpeg ; as you can
see,
Ed Loach wrote:
What can I do to improve on that?
designation= (public_footpath, public_bridleway, etc - see for
example
http://tagstat.hypercube.telascience.org/tagdetails.php?tag=designat
ion
) is quite widely used, and is particularly useful where a
footpath/bridleway runs along
Lars Aronsson wrote:
I doubt that any yellow pages catalog covers a critical mass of
all business any longer. We're back to the 19th century, when,
before telephones, various private publishers printed address
calendars.
Just jumping in with a random factoid here. I read a piece in the
Hi Matt,
Matt Amos wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Phil Endecott wrote:
Dear All,
I'd like to use the OSM logo (i.e. the magnifier on a map one) for a
go to openstreetmap.org button in an iPhone app. It looks like the
logo is GPL licensed, which prevents me from doing
Dear All,
I'd like to use the OSM logo (i.e. the magnifier on a map one) for a
go to openstreetmap.org button in an iPhone app. It looks like the
logo is GPL licensed, which prevents me from doing this. Quoting this
page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Matt
the icon has the
Hello,
Please excuse me for writing in English...
All next week I will be in Koeln for the Photokina trade show, where I
will be showing an interesting demo that uses some OSM data. If any
curious OSM people in the area would like to see what can be done with
the data that you have collected,
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
We've put together a press release with OSM (strictly speaking OSMF)'s
reaction to Google Map Maker.
You can get it in PDF or RTF format at:
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/pr_material/releases/
Dear Experts,
For a while I've been hacking together a digital picture frame
application that shows my geo-located photos on a world map. At the
moment I'm using the NASA blue marble satellite imagery for the
basemap, which works well (and looks nice) at the sort of scale that
I'm interested
Hakan Tandogan wrote:
On Tue, June 24, 2008 17:13, Phil Endecott wrote:
So I was wondering whether anyone here knows how I could improve on
this, i.e.
- Is there an improved version somewhere with more ranking
information in it?
www.geonames.org ? They aggregate lots of data sources
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