Re: [Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

t; springs to mind again! *Rob* >Hi, > >At a time of great policy change like this, it would be hard to get every single school in the UK mapped, but I could try for my local area. > >Usually, new schools open in September and old ones close in July, w

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E in Potlatch & iD

/National_Library_of_Scotland If any of the urls are not correct give me a shout an I will update the wiki and raise a pull request for potlatch/id imagery layers. The latest pull request was merge 11 November: https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index/pull/109 Best, *Rob

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using a WMS imagery with CC-BY4.0

On 28/12/15 01:23 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote: > > Perhaps continued copyleft fragmentation is even in the (near term > anyway) interest of OSM in order to encourage all others to use > maximally permissive licenses. This wouldn't help OSM due to the contributor agree

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK group - Sign up to mail lists

ing the conference call, hence very little info in the minutes. Best, *Rob* On 21 December 2015 at 22:06, Tim Waters <chippy2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > > The minutes do not state that people agreed to set up non OSM mailing lists > as a replacement to the current sys

[Talk-GB] OSM UK group - Sign up to mail lists

(diversity) is entirely optional and I will only share annonymised results with the officers elect. Email sign up form: http://goo.gl/forms/MCTbybdzQI Minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18kAZs4yNWT1k6ehROXAqrSaG969OGBwGV3KZ2j2oXDw/edit?usp=sharing Best wishes, *Rob

[Talk-GB] Agenda and Joining details for Today's OpenStreetMap UK/GB telephone meeting

sults:* As a reminder the results of the survey we did earlier this year can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A8rKyKUW0X01n-JEMLwEUT4ktX-7WrxNP03YTkZs6lU/edit Hope to hear from many of you today (Thursday) at 8pm. Regards, *Rob* ___ Talk

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Last week on OSM

Hi, Was good to see so many at last weeks Mappa Mercia meeting in Birmingham. Just sharing this here as it was one of the things we discussed. https://tyrasd.github.io/latest-changes/ *Rob* ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-GB] First UK/GB OpenStreetMap group meeting - 17th December at 8pm

to stand for election once the constitution is established. I will share the telephone number and login PIN closer to the date. Best, *Rob*p.s. Busy on 17th December? No worries. Send me you comments and I will make sure they are shared. ___ Talk-GB mailing

[OSM-talk] Community Conference

t I would really caution against contrasting "corporate" and "community". +1 It's all about the getting the balance right. Keep the comments coming folks - this is great stuff :-) Best, *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

o, to share their views on this too. Best wishes, *Rob* P.s There is already a placeholder for a call for venues for 2017 on the OSM wiki and I have scheduled some time in our plan to look again at the function of SotM. We want this to work for the community and for OpenStreetMap so please do

Re: [Talk-GB] traffic calming

for someone to un-revert this changeset? Rob On 22 Nov 2015 20:29, "Rob Nickerson" <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22 November 2015 at 19:33, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote: > >> >> Gerd did the work you describe but went ahead with an almos

Re: [Talk-GB] traffic calming

original edit? *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] traffic calming

revert in this case - perhaps a quick chat on IRC would have helped to see if others wanted an instant revert. It now looks like we have put Gerd off editing in the UK :-( And now I definitely have wasted enough time on this matter! Happy mapping, Rob ___ Tal

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Lidar imagery

I already added z19. Do you think a z20 is needed? Rob On 13 November 2015 at 19:38, Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cheers Rob, > > > > Tracing from an overzoomed Z18 is possible, especially when you swap > transparency with BING but I wonder if a z19 w

[Talk-GB] EA LiDAR now as a WMS tile layer

the buildings and other sticky-uppy things. Happy mapping. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] EA LiDAR now as a WMS tile layer

the buildings and other sticky-uppy things. Happy mapping. Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fix oneway streets with Telenav tool

to use it is with the “trafficFlowDirection” plugin for JOSM. Basic instructions at [2], full instructions at [3]. Happy mapping. Rob [1] http://improve-osm.org/trafficFlowDirection/#6/53.219/-2.889 [2] http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2015/11/improve-osm-traffic-flow-direction.html [3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel

[Talk-GB] Fix oneway streets with Telenav tool

to use it is with the “trafficFlowDirection” plugin for JOSM. Basic instructions at [2], full instructions at [3]. Happy mapping. Rob [1] http://improve-osm.org/trafficFlowDirection/#6/53.219/-2.889 [2] http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2015/11/improve-osm-traffic-flow-direction.html [3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Quarterly project : Stats

Meant to copy the reply to the mailing list. See below. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Rob Nickerson" <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> Date: 6 Nov 2015 08:03 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats To: "Fake Robertbrook" <metaz...@fastmail.net>

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats

Thanks Adam - much appreciated. A Google sheet would be perfect if that's simple enough to do. And yes, that should make the graph a simple point and click task! Rob On 6 Nov 2015 08:02, "Adam Hoyle" <atom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Like saving to a Google Sheet? > > Soun

[Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats

ation your were expecting but is anyone up for the challenge? Best wishes, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] PIE Mapping (Was: User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction ")

d, Matt or Andy Allan may be able to put you in contact with the employee who sorted the sponsorship should you need to contact them but lets focus on helping them not bombarding them with "PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE DOING OR STOP NOW" type questions (apologi

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging street areas controlled by rising bollard barriers

That sounds like you need a conditional restriction on the way and probably on the bollard node too. Most likely "motor_vehicle=no" and "access:motor_vehicle:conditional=yes @ (18:00-10:00)". For more: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Condition

[Talk-GB] Spamdalism caught

Don't think it was spam as I think they are actually based here. If true, this is user error in editing the road instead of adding a building/address. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

Thanks. Have you had any trouble getting the tiles to load in JOSM? When I tried I keep getting error messages popping up which made it unusable. JOSM does seem to suffer from bugs these days (maybe I have a bad plugin). Rob On 15 Oct 2015 08:49, "Ed Loach" <edlo...@gmail.com>

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map 2016 Brussels: When? (Was: Help us make a logo! and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

/accommodation shortly after the announcement so we need to ensure that everything is finalised before announcing. We are looking at September so still plenty of time to organise a great conference. Best Rob - SotM-WG lead ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hacks and Hackers

Sounds interesting. See you Wednesday 7th October in the Bull. Rob On 29 September 2015 at 22:36, stuart lester <stules...@googlemail.com> wrote: > hello, > > Paul Bradshaw who organises the hacks and hackers meet up wondered if > either any OSMers fancy attending th

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

is!). Regards, Rob * By reasonable we have to put it in to context of our own manual quality which is not 100% perfect even for the experienced mapper. We also don't have a large enough community to invest the number of hours a fully manual (27million homes) process would require

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

still be needed. I wonder whether the right approach would be to extract the data straight from the LIDAR data rather than processing it to a raster image then doing edge detection on the raster. All the strava slide code is open if anyone wants to have a play [3]. Best regards, Rob [1] http://b

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Geocoding as produced work

I don't understand this objection. If a company accidentally publishes something that's a problem with their procedures, not any license (free or proprietary). On 23 September 2015 15:32:06 GMT-07:00, Alex Barth wrote: >On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Simon Poole

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] When should ODbL apply to geocoding

al portion of the database is copied. - Rob. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

se if it's a qualitative rather a quantitative statement. Calling something "geocoding" is a distraction. Look at what processes are involved (copying a database) and what the results are (a substantial or non-substantial amount of the database be

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New user edits in Stratford

Thanks Brian, As there have been a few of these lately I wonder whether we could make use of the Mappa Mercia website to host a simple guide. We could then send people a link to that when we contract them. Rob On 27 Aug 2015 11:19, "Brian Prangle" <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] September meeting - Wednesday 2nd in Tamworth

Hi all, We are due to hold our next meeting this Wednesday (you will recall that we have switched to the first Wednesday of the month). It's due to be in Tamworth. Can you please let me know if you can go ASAP as I know a number of you are unable to attend this month. Regards, Rob p.s. If you

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

there is little interest to do this on the OSM default render style which seems odd to me given how much fuss there has been on this list to recent changes to the footway/path style (over the last year)! Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

between paths you have a legal right to walk on and any other path that might exist because people happen to walk over the land thus leaving a desire line path? Rob On 17 August 2015 at 18:42, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi My thoughts as follows: 1. This is really going

[Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:trail_visibility [2] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1750 Regards, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group

basis. Having two groups that cover NI has the benefit that we can send joint letters co-signed by both groups. This may help add some weight to our requests. Anyway food for thought. I'll have to see what the others in the UK/GB group think. Rob On 4 August 2015 at 23:13, Dave Corley davecor

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

things that people voted agree/strongly agree to? Best wishes, Rob p.s. I'll be in London this weekend at the OSM mobile app dev event. I'll try to tweet and blog about this on mappa-mercia.org . If you have any app ideas you want me to share then let me know soon :-) On 1 August 2015 at 12:53, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Help us make a logo! (and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

luck :-) Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Rugby tonight

I'll be there. Probably won't map a lot as I don't have much free time to put it in OSM afterwards right now. Will discuss the website as in trying to redesign that at the moment. Rob On 5 Aug 2015 12:01, Greg gre...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Hi all. I'm local to Rugby and will be coming along

[Talk-GB] Better building terracer for JOSM

This looks promising. Worth a share :-) http://derickrethans.nl/buildings.html Regards, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Open Access Land

Where are you looking? Most of the data available at [1] is available under the Open Government Licence or the OS OpenData Licence. Rob [1] http://www.gis.naturalengland.org.uk/pubs/gis/GIS_register.asp ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

[OSM-talk-ie] A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group

established we can share work and even do joint events. Let me know your thoughts. Best wishes, Rob ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie

[Talk-GB] Open Access Land

I thought this was available in the Natural England data. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

to talk-gb@openstreetmap.org so that other members can view your comments (emails sent to this address are publicly visible). Best wishes, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

commentary). Best, Rob On 11 July 2015 at 21:19, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Dear UK/GB OpenStreetMappers, From time to time we talk about the potential of setting up a UK/GB OpenStreetMap group (name yet to be decided) but we never quite know what it should look like. Survey

[OSM-talk] Help us make a logo! (and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

(before midnight) on Saturday 15th August 2015 and we can’t wait to see your all your wonderful entries! Good luck! Rob, On behalf of the SotM WG * In fact we're delighted - this has been something we've done for previous SotM's and it is always amazing to see your logo ideas :-D

[Talk-GB] Ramblers app

Looks interesting. Anyone know more information about this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33532041 Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

to the name of the group. And yes, I admit that the subject line could have been clearer*, perhaps The What and How of a UK/GB group?. Please continue to encourage your OpenStreetMap friends to contribute to the survey. Regards, Rob * Written communication is bad, as different people interpret things

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

Hi all, As I'm not signed up to all mailing lists, can I please have volunteers to forward this to talk-gb-london, talk-gb-midanglia, talk-gb-thenorth and talk-scotland? Thanks, Rob On 11 July 2015 at 21:19, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Dear UK/GB OpenStreetMappers, From

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

Forwarding the following email to local mailing lists. We're nearing 30 responses already. Let's make that 50 by tomorrow :-) Rob -- Forwarded message -- Dear UK/GB OpenStreetMappers, From time to time we talk about the potential of setting up a UK/GB OpenStreetMap group (name

[Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

group be set up). So stop reading and go to the survey: http://goo.gl/forms/Z797QhC27c Best regards and happy mapping, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] July Meeting

What are the mapping priorities? i seem to recall someone said there was a lot left to map here? Do you think a cake is needed? Rob On 1 July 2015 at 21:27, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a family commitment pm so I'll be mapping am -getting some listed bdg pics in Codsall

Re: [Talk-GB] England LIDAR data to be OGL in September

://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/16/free-mapping-data-will-elevate-flood-risk-knowledge/ Best Dan Cool. Any idea what the resolution is and whether buildings are included or flattened to ground level? The post mentions a non-commercial version that is already available. Where can I find that? Regards, Rob

[Talk-GB] Fwd: England LIDAR data to be OGL in September

A response from Owen Boswarva. Sounds great :-) Thanks -- Forwarded message -- Rob, It's composite and tiled LIDAR data at 2m, 1m, 50cm and 25cm resolution (quoting Environment Agency Geomatics), and both DTM and DSM will be available. There isn't a separate non-commercial

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: Re: Bidford Bridge

Forward to list. R -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Date: 15 Jun 2015 19:44 Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bidford Bridge To: Andy Cc: Yeah I heard about that on the radio. The tags would be access=no, with foot=yes, bicycle=yes if they can still use it. We need

[Talk-GB] Apple streetview

Apple collecting images for a street view competitor? Details: http://maps.apple.com/vehicles/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Water Orton tomorrow

Hi all, Don't forget we are in Water Orton tomorrow evening (Thursday). Details on the Mappa Mercia page on the wiki. See you there :-) Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-de] Tag für Fahrradzählstellen

Hallo Martin und Hallo Liste, Danke für die Anmerkungen und Überlegungen. Ich finde, dass es schon wichtig ist, wo Fahrradzählstellen verortet sind. Somit könnte man spätere Zähl-Daten von der Behörde auf die Geodaten Mappen. Daraus lasse sich eine schöne Webanwendung zaubern. Außerdem

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

the rule too far and wastes the effort people have put it to the map. It is tagging for the routing engine - we should adopt another method to stop routing engines announcing turn left to xxx where xxx is unsigned. Example a signed:name=no tag. Rob ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

wikidata if the contributor prefers OSM's share alike and attribution license. Best regards, Rob [1] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk-nl] Herinnering Missing Maps GeoFort 4 juni

). Groeten en tot dan! Rob Geldhof ___ Talk-nl mailing list Talk-nl@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-nl

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible collaboration with Amey

Sounds interesting. Do you know where they are hoping to hold the event? As you say, it would be good if we could get a few folk there to describe what can be done with OpenStreetMap data and associated technologies. Regards, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

setting up your own map renderer and doing as you please (although good luck making it look anything other than a mess). I'm sure folks will be happy to point you in the direction of guides for setting that up. Perhaps look at MapBox Studio first. Regards, Rob

[OSM-talk] Learn Rails

Code academy have added Ruby on Rails, which is what OpenStreetMap uses for the website. Learn via their online interactive learning. http://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-rails You never know, you could be contributing to OpenStreetMap code soon after :)

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project All things delivery-related - an update

the skills and time to do this. Regards, Rob On 6 May 2015 at 11:29, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Are you aware of the the PostBox Finder https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elbatrop.postboxeshl=enapp from Elbatrop? I had a quick play with it ages ago, adding some collection

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project All things delivery-related - an update

in to and it would tell you about them as you travel around. It would be like a guide to where to go mapping! Geocaching for postboxes anyone? Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[OSM-talk-nl] Missing Maps in het GeoFort, 4 juni 2015

je terecht bij jongge...@gmail.com Tot 4 juni! Namens JongGeo Rob Geldhof ___ Talk-nl mailing list Talk-nl@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-nl

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] May Meeting (Disabilty Kurb Project)

afterwards? Rob On 1 May 2015 at 18:01, Mark Croft mark.croft@gmail.com wrote: Hi The group has been out to bewdley and did a test run of finding curbs. I was not able to join in cos of health problems felling worn out with weather n hayfever. I should really have a go on my own here

[OSM-talk] Case study: Lloyds TSB (Was: Chain Store Cleanup)

for Android, Windows phone and iOS, and yes, mechnaincal edits) would be welcome in my eyes. We need to grow our community and our toolset. Best, Rob [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=name%3Dlloyds+tsb ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

On 1 May 2015 at 20:26, Johan C osm...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-05-01 13:36 GMT+02:00 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: I think eventually chains will see the light, and publish their locations in an open format compatible manner. At that point a quick cross check with OSM would clear

[OSM-talk] Open community (was: Chain Store Cleanup)

third party datasets (e.g. by building tools to help us merge/conflate this data). Unfortunately OSM is not good at attracting software developers but we could really do with lots more devs :-) Best, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

[OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

hours, etc). This could be a bigger challenge! Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

process - I've heard it all before). Question: Should I revive the through_route proposal or start a new one under a different name, say route_continues (or just continues) so as to avoid any ambiguity with the use of through route in general language? Cheers, Rob

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Cycle parking

Quick question. What is the capacity of the following cycle parking rack? (The image shows a cycle rack consisting of 6 hoops/stands) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93ba09qLTlnZFJMSkk/view?usp=sharing I have my view but just want to confirm with others. Cheers, Rob

[OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

extra nodes so that the road naturally bends but the main routing engines still tell you to turn. == Question == Could we benefit from a new route relation? For example a route_continues relation? Would others find this useful? Regards, Rob [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

and as such I would expect the routing developers to be raising issues they cannot solve via code alone. This is one area where I would like my SatNav not to spew redundant instructions. Best, Rob p.s. Is highway=motorway_junction a hint for router or an aid for navigation

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Cycle parking

Good. Something a bunch of OSMers agree on - that's novel! Rob On 26 Apr 2015 22:09, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: 6x2 *From:* Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 26 April 2015 12:00 *To:* talk-gb-westmidlands *Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Cycle parking

[OSM-talk] Routing over areas

Interesting article for any routing experts: http://anitagraser.com/2015/04/17/routing-in-polygon-layers-yes-we-can/ Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-GB] SotM 2016: Call for venues - Last Week

Hi all, Just one more weekend until the call for venues for State of the Map 2016 closes. We've also got the website up and running thanks to Tom H and the Operations Working Group. I'm getting excited and we still have a long way to go! www.stateofthemap.org Regards, Your SotM team

[OSM-talk] SotM 2016: Call for venues - Last Week

Hi all, Just one more weekend until the call for venues for State of the Map 2016 closes. We've also got the website up and running thanks to Tom H and the Operations Working Group. I'm getting excited and we still have a long way to go! www.stateofthemap.org Regards, Your SotM team

[Talk-GB] Postbox refs

(as in does the match algorithm look for or exclude this character)? Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Visualising 10 years of OSM

This is pretty cool: https://www.mapbox.com/ten-years-openstreetmap/ Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-GB] New OS open data now available

Some more detail in the following article. Includes the assessment that it offers spatial data that is generally much higher in accuracy than most building shapes already on OpenStreetMap http://oobrien.com/2015/03/os-open/ Rob On 24 March 2015 at 17:58, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com

[Talk-GB] New OS open data now available

know so that we don't duplicate work. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] New OS open data now available

My understanding was that the river dataset is now fully connected (and wasn't before). Is this not the case? Are there any attributes on the building vector data? Rob On 24 Mar 2015 18:28, tony wroblewski tony.wroblew...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All Just had a quick look at the OpenData

[OSM-talk] Taginfo challenge

and fix possible tag errors (a sort of maproulette on steroids that creates tasks based on a users behaviour rather than a list of predefined tasks). For now though it would be good to link taginfo to maproulette in some way. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] Call for Venues for State of the Map 2016 - now open!

Hi all, It's emails like this that I really enjoy writing but Richard's beat me too it :-(. Ah well I had it written anyway so might as well hit send :-) --- The state of the map working group are delighted to announce that the call for venues for 2016 is now open!

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham meeting this Thursday

Hi all, Nearly the first Thursday of the month again so it's time for our Mappa Mercia meeting. We'll be in our usual winter home in The Bull, Birmingham (last time this winter?) so come join us. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia Rob PS. I can't make this one myself but hopefully

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

. In time we can and should ask each LA to use the new licence but this shouldn't stop anyone from using the data now. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

a green light lets not convince ourselves it's any other colour :-) In terms of public rights of way released under the OS OpenData licence, this means there is nothing blocking our use of this data. A ground survey is still recommended though. Best, Rob

[Talk-GB] New OS Open Data products arriving end of March

‘presumption to publish’ process all sound interesting. Keep us posted please. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

without it mapbox would drop the word what's too :-) ). I wonder if the mapbox guys have a breakdown of the notes they receive - what is their quality note to junk ratio? https://www.mapbox.com/blog/streamlining-map-feedback/ Best, Rob ___ talk mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

On 17 February 2015 at 23:57, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I could imagine that OGL-3 has imported OS ODL's clause on sublicensing that caused incompatibility with ODbL, which would make OGL-3 incompatible with ODbL.Do we have confirmation that this is not the case, i.e.

[Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

-products/ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Good news for OpenStreetMap :-) Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

Congratulations to all those who were involved in getting directions/routing on openstreetmap.org :-) Worth the wait and will hopefully encourage mappers to contribute more turn restrictions and other routing related info. Cheers, Rob ___ talk mailing

[OSM-talk] Spring 2015 (Was: guide to vandalism” in OSM?)

Pierre wrote: We have to think of OSM as a global community where not all countires are equal with access to internet and computers. Often, people have smartphones and could contribute. Adding a note with photo would greatly help. The @osmthis Twitter tag let's do this. But it is uneasy then

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project - Fix that Road Name

Following on from Brian's suggestion I have now added Notes to Rotherham and tweeted the local scout group. Will be interesting to see what happens :-) Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Open Addresses UK

address and assign coordinates. It seems like the answer is that they are using postcode centroids. The data could be used in Matt's post code tool although that seems to be down at the moment unless I've got the url wrong: http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/landregistry Rob

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