Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Social this Thursday

I'll be there too. Hope to see a few more folks there as well :-) Rob On 3 February 2015 at 16:12, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I will be there this Thursday (hopefully not on my own). -- Matthijs On 3 February 2015 at 09:24, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote

[Talk-GB] Fix the road name! Progress Report

for details. Best wishes, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

Ah yes, I should have pointed out that this is our normal first Thursday of the month meetings at this stage. We will aim to set up some Saturday events most likely in partnership with the Nottingham folks. Rob On 20 January 2015 at 10:04, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Historically

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

Missing link :-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Events On 19 January 2015 at 21:54, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I've sketched out a blank template of upcoming Mappa Mercia events so that everyone knows the dates of our future meets. April's

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mappa Mercia events

: Please suggest mapping locations. We had a lot of success mapping Shenstone [1] last year as this turned out to be a perfect size for us to map in one evening. Best, Rob [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/52.6364/-1.8386 ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hanbury meeting

maximise paths mapped, I think this is a respectable number. Well done everyone :-) Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

The Mapillary team are working on integration with ScoutSigns Yay that's great news! To me this is as big as when Bing let us use their imagery. It'll be a great resource and shows that companies are confident enough in OSM to make it part of their day-to-day and to share back so freely :-) Rob

[OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

There have been a couple of threads on OpenStreetMap’s mailing list this month to do with change. The first, entitled “Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto”, is all to do with a change to the way the default map style *looks* on openstreetmap.org. The second, “MEP –

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

Hi Dave, Although I wasn't there so don't know for certain, I would expect that Henk's (the compère) comment was in reference to the previous talk about Canadian Postal addresses. These things get lost without the full context :-) Regards, Rob ___ Talk

[Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

Hi, This talk was given at SOTM 2014 and the video is now online: http://vimeo.com/album/3134207/video/115313286 Summary: Telenav are collecting photos of roadsigns and making them available to OSM via a JOSM plugin. Most coverage is in Germany but there is also a fair number in the UK. See the

Re: [Talk-GB] View roadsigns in JOSM

that Telenav are willing to do the processing and release the data to OSM :-) Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

added some more details to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Mapping_Meetup See you soon, Rob p.s. If you're planning to come please let us know :-) On 24 December 2014 at 12:55, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone for such a good response to the Doodle Poll. A couple

Re: [Talk-GB] Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

added some more details to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Mapping_Meetup See you soon, Rob p.s. If you're planning to come please let us know :-) On 24 December 2014 at 12:55, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone for such a good response to the Doodle Poll. A couple

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Post-Christmas Midlands OSM Meet-up

On 29 December 2014 at 17:06, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for Rob for adding the missing footpaths http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/hanbury-footpaths_24885#14/52.8432/-1.7341 (although I've read his blog posts about using umap, seeing is believing). Obviously we can potentially

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

I would map to the first dropped kerb and join back to the road. I would leave what's there but add a link to the road (perhaps at the exit road of the station). Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Skybox for good imagery test

there is more than enough fuzziness to sit quiet at this point in time. Simon Thanks Simon, I hadn't seen that. Will speak with Mikel. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Skybox for good imagery test

the following statement: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-October/071318.html Whilst a more formal written text is sitting with Mike Collinson and we hope to have him and LWG ok it soon. Best, Rob p.s. Any comments on alignment very welcome especially if evidenced with GPS traces. :-D

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

I would be tempted to go a little bit darker - not much but right now the proposal looks very washed out against the background and the contrast between buildings and churches is very stark. But in general this is a good idea. Rob ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there some loop trip founder?

Take a look at http://walks.io/ as a good starting point. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] 176k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

to be in line with the various guidelines. - Serge Hi Serge, I've started to produce that page now: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/wikidata So far I've included comments from August and November. I need to review the Sep-Oct comments on talk mailing list. Regards, Rob

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Last week in OSM

Hi, This is a neat little tool that shows you the recent edits in OSM. Instead of just showing changeset boxes it shows the individual ways! http://tyrasd.github.io/latest-changes/#13/52.2782/-1.5759 Rob ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb

[OSM-talk] Project #OSMselfie

Nice idea. Too often our communications are faceless and I wonder if this in any way has an effect on the tone of the discussions (that is, would we be more polite if we could 'see' the person we are talking too)? Rob p.s. The more time I spend on the mailing lists, the more I see them as a tool

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contents Licence for OSM Data

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/14 02:11 PM, Alex Barth wrote: We have no significant third party ODbL data releases due to OSM share alike to show for, Then clearly OMS should have stuck with BY-SA for the database, as that did gain third party data releases. but

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contents Licence for OSM Data

with the share-alike content/data to become share-alike itself. It's congenital, not viral. It propagates by inheritance, not contagion. ;-) - - Rob. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUUPtbAAoJECciMUAZd2dZ91cH/1jbALOpOXN2kjNmTI1WkpuO

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contents Licence for OSM Data

their commercial point of view re the licensing of OpenStreetMap data. Does it really deserve any more attention than that? Uncertainty is simply a term of art that means obvious impediments to my sense of entitlement. Likewise, lack of clarity means haven't read the contributor terms. - - Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

to support. A venue would be great but not essential (hopefully a year in advance in a large city still leaves lots of suitable venues left). Rob P.s If it turns out to be too much of a challenge I guess the deadline will just have to slip back beyond SotM 2014. On 28 Oct 2014 01:53, Michael Kugelmann

[OSM-talk] Skybox release aerial imagery

. This is a great day :-) Best, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hockley Flyover art

I recognise that artist's work! He has a piece in Coventry too. I was pretty sure I'd mapped it and could just add the wikidata tags but turns out I was wrong. Anyway it's now mapped and includes wikidata tags and the English Heritage listed status tags:

Re: [OSM-talk] Applications to the Local Chapter Agreement

of :-) All the best, Rob *Jóhannes Birgir Jensson* *Thu Oct 23 08:47:05 UTC 2014* -- On behalf of the Icelandic applicants we are fairly sure that we are the only ones representing our area and we will strive hard to include others who will be or are interested in the area

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

seems to change all the time). As such I've added a link to the above page from the UK page and the UK tagging guidelines page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom#Find_Out_More http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines#See_also Regards, Rob

[OSM-talk] AGM announcements

, but in this case I feel we could have got an initial message out with the formal confirmation following. Best, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Simon Poole resigns

as heat of the moment messages can turn out to be very bad). Thank you Simon for your work and input into the OSMF Board. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] SotM 2014 program and AGM

this years program together, including all who submitted a talk for consideration, the evaluation team, and the local sotm team for putting the final program together (it's no small task to try to put talks of a similar theme together within the limits of time and available rooms). Best, Rob

[OSM-talk] Applications to the Local Chapter Agreement

local groups that feel they represent the geographic regions included in the first three applications. Also I'm curious :-) Best, Rob [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2014-October/002697.html [2] http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_OSMF_Chapters

[OSM-talk] A Better strikeMap\strike community

. (In regards to that last one I know I wouldn't be supported because I've raised it before and got nowhere. And getting a sotm banner on osm.org can be an uphill battle too!) Regards, Rob [1] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Communication_Working_Group ___ talk

[Talk-GB] Not long left to stand for OSMF board

there is little need to be knowledgeable in regards to the inner workings of the OSM data/site. A strong personality and persistence would be beneficial ;-) Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

adjustments based on a constructive review of his work. Assuming these are resolved then let's push forwards. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

earlier this year to give more time to work on securing a venue. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Confused over access...

subset of the tags). Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[OSM-talk] Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

are you still reading this, get bidding :-) Regards, Rob SotM 2013 (Birmingham) local team ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-GB] Updates from National Library of Scotlad

copied a recent email from Chris at NLS below. Regards Rob p.s. If you find these maps useful, please tell me how you're using them so I can feed this back to Chris at the NLS. --- We’ve put several thousand more maps online in the last few months – most notably of interest for the OSM community

[OSM-talk] How best to create a single point of interest online map with OSM data?

/extracting-centroids-from-openstreetmap.html Hope this helps. As for the issue of too many points, one option is to have uMap collect data dynamically (as per our guide) and restrict to only showing data when at a certain zoom level or above (with clustering at lower zoom levels). Best, Rob

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] October social

What's everyone's plans for food? Do we know if the place does food / there is somewhere nearby? If no then, not a problem, I'll just grab something before meeting. See you later Rob On 1 October 2014 09:48, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: A few suggestions: The new building

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes

On 24 September 2014 11:46, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Comments? Wow, that looks great. The light blue is tricky to see, but otherwise this looks fantastic :-) How long did it take you? I need to restart my attempt to add the Warwickshire data. Seeing this should keep me

[OSM-talk] The problem of mapping temporary features

and the data has been removed from OpenStreetMap [1]. This is a good example of why we need to be very careful mapping temporary features. Many data users update infrequently. Suggestions of how to get the balance right are welcome. Regards, Rob [1] http://osmapa.pl/#lat=51.0220lon=-2.8997z=10m=ms

[Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

these should be signposted and have special regulations: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=living_street I guess highway=residential and surface=paving_stones is most suitable unless someone has some better suggestions? Regards, Rob ___ Talk

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

this thinking need to be done sooner. We'll have to cross this question even if this import doesn't occur. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

tags in OSM, checking whether the script would add a wikidata tag to an object when there is already a different object in OSM with that wikidata tag, and a check on the 400m distance rule [2]. Are these things possible Edward? Regards, Rob [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

manually. At which stage you end up with some wikidata tags in OSM, an API based on Edward's work, and no doubt lots of overlap and wasted effort. In summary I'm not sure an API is a good strategy. Instead I support the proposed import. Regards, Rob P.s. I consider myself part of the UK local

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] September mapping party

Yeah I was thinking the same when I drove to work this morning. Shouldnt make a habit of it though :-p I'll put a tweet out. On 22 Aug 2014 15:06, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: As two of us are only available on 28 August and not on 4 September, I have decided to go ahead

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/08/14 01:58 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: It would be great if people would help fill in the blanks, or correct me where I might have misrepresented the discussion. The page asserts: Geocodes are a Produced Work by the definition of the ODbL

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] September mapping party

Hi Matthijs, Who else can't make September 4th in Coventry? I don't mind moving the date but only if it's causing a lot of problems and we know that the new date will be more popular. Regards, Rob On 15 August 2014 22:10, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: Dear all, It turns

[Talk-GB] C roads again

References beginning with three or more letters or containing a semicolon: Hi Andrew, Any with FP or RB in them are public rights of way. We've been mapping those to the prow_ref= tag. Best, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

, and the renderer all align. And as you pointed out so eloquently the best way to do this is by having a healthy community that talk and listen. :-) Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

On 12 August 2014 21:43, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 12/08/14 20:18, Rob Nickerson wrote: Example 2 6, The Hollies, Birmingham Road, Town, ... Hard to say without knowing what The Hollies is exactly, but this is probably a case that we don't have a good answer

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Shenstone done

Nice one. I've added a few OSM Notes of things that caught my attention when checking with the geofabrik OSM Inspector tool. If you have time to stop by these, that would be great. Rob On 7 August 2014 22:12, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: I wrapped up the remaining main Shenstone

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

Hi Matthijs, Spotted the following sign related to your tagging of private roads discussion the other day. Enjoy :-) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93beGxtSTVGeUR2aFRqQzdaYXNGR0d6WlBhQXFr/edit?usp=sharing Rob ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] State of the Map 2013 Birmingham

Mary, That was almost a year ago - I'd be surprised if anyone remembers!! In any case why would you like to know? Rob On 10 Aug 2014 05:55, mooney.osm mooney@gmail.com wrote: I vaguely remember someone asking if there was a spare delegate badge. I think his name began with a G. Does

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

Just a few of my thoughts: 1. Bus routes Stuart wrote: I will need to think what to do when a bus turns off halfway along a road that is mapped as one line Here in Coventry we have all the bus routes mapped in OSM (splitting the road as necessary). Check out the render on the Transport layer:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/07/14 08:46 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Il giorno 30/lug/2014, alle ore 16:44, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com mailto:a...@mapbox.com ha scritto: your lawyers did really say according to their understanding a pair of coordinates is

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

Looks like I'll tackle 3. I need something quick and easy as I don't think I'll have much time to map :-( Rob On 30 July 2014 21:29, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: I'll tackle 5 and 8 On 29 July 2014 11:00, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: On 29 July 2014 09:33

Re: [Talk-GB] New mapper has imported all Nottingham street lights

been open in the current session). Another small enhancement would be for JOSM to add the filename (test.shp in this case) to the upload changeset tags. Rob p.s. An import is not a simple thing to do, suggesting that any newbies than manage to work it out must have a reasonable technical

Re: [Talk-GB] New mapper has imported all Nottingham street lights

by the Local Authority, and know I couldn't maintain the data without such a tool. Having said that, I don't know the import policy inside out so cannot say that this import was wrong. Jerry, you know the data very well. What's the quality like? Rob ___ Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Change to event calendar: Midlands meet this Thursday, 31 July

#Next_meeting This a location to the north east of Birmingham so might be suitable for some East Midlands mappers :-) Everyone welcome. Rob p.s. This change is to make way for our OpenStreetMap 10th anniversary meeting on 9th August http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2014/07/openstreetmap-10th-birthday-party

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

photogenic if that was what they wanted. Alternatively think about the type of thing you struggle to map and target groups that will have more knowledge of those things. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] London (Was: osm 10th birthday: press)

Great work with the press statement. Can the London group please decide on a venue and update the OSM wiki page. I want to send out some tweets to UK organisations to invite them to attend one of the UK events. It would look better if there was an agreed venue for London. Cheers, Rob p.s. I'm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/07/14 04:38 PM, Jake Wasserman wrote: I agree that geocoded private data must be allowed to stay private. The ODbL goes to great lengths to explain that it only covers publicly released data. At a minimum, we need to find a way to say

[OSM-talk] UK public footpaths (was: Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes)

be a valid way of tagging (i.e. close off access to all transport types and then overwrite for people on foot, as per the access hierarchy) The exception to the rule is if you tag the route as highway=path. In this case access tags are required. Regards, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki translate extension

What we really need is people actually editing the Wiki in the first place and in my opinion the best way to get people to do so would be a better editor: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor There's an issue for this on trac [1] but the main problem is that the extension moved from

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki translate extension

, translations not updated, or a non-English page updated and not copied back to the English page (in any language). I'd encourage people to copy between the pages even if they just mark the text as needing translating. Regards, Rob [1] You could also copy it to other language pages, but at a bare minimum

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki VisualEditor (Was: Wiki translate extension)

to keep everything up and running and as such a stable version is a reasonable request. If anything it's the visualeditor developers who need to hurry up and stop pushing the requirements up - mw 1.22, mw 1.23, mw 1.24, ... when will it stop!! Rob ___ talk

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: OpenStreetMap 10th birthday Aug 9th

Hi Brian, Thanks. If you pull a list of organisations together then I'll produce a list of local contributors. Given that google drive worked well for SOTM, I will share the list there and then people can just tick off who they've contacted. Rob On 23 July 2014 19:43, Brian Prangle br...@mappa

[Talk-GB] Celebrating OSM's 10th year in Birmingham (Saturday, 9th August)

and there will of course be lots on offer from the café. Everyone is welcome to come along and we are hoping to see a lot of new faces. Registration is not required but you may want to drop us a message so we have an idea of how many people are coming. See you there, Rob [1] http

Re: [Talk-GB] The Public Data Group/Companies House

://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ppd/ppd Best, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aug 9th OSM 10th Birthday

://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.48162mlon=-1.89657#map=18/52.48162/-1.89658* *Best regards, * On 17 July 2014 15:52, Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org wrote: Hi everyone Thanks Rob for your tweet. I popped in to 6/8 Kafé today and secured us their basement room. I'm just awaiting email

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

Hi All, Our mappa mercia page on the OSM wiki tells me that we have arranged our August monthly meet up to be a week early (due to the 10th birthday event on August 9th). It's listed as being Tamworth/Shenston. Do folks still want to run this event, and if yes where shall we meet? Rob p.s. I'm

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Monthly meet up - Thursday 31st July

! Shenstone is quite small, but it has the advantage that we can map the entire village in one evening. Tamworth seems to be already quite well-mapped, are there any particular things we want to map there? -- Matthijs On 17 July 2014 21:24, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aug 9th OSM 10th Birthday

we should expect but I can help spread the word via twitter, the blog and the OSM message system. We should get the plan confirmed in the next couple of days though :-) Rob p.s. I need to check travel times, but at the moment I don't think I will make it up from Kent in time. On 15 July 2014 07

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

that displeases everyone equally. Luis mentioned that there's case law for the concept of substantial. There's no mention of this on the current Wiki page. I think it would be productive to seek that out next. - - Rob. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

changing the national tags to conform to the OSM norm? Rob On 11 July 2014 21:35, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: listed_status=local_grade_B; heritage=6; heritage_operator=Birmingham_CIty_Council. See tagwatch for other examples On 9 July 2014 22:08, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker

[Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

, Rob [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:listed_status ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Locally listed buildings

in Birmingham CC's administrative area? Rob On 9 July 2014 22:04, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: There's another option using the heritage http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/heritage tag, which is basically corresponds to an admin_level. Personally find it a bit clunky

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

. If they have any GPS data we would be able to use that too :-) Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

Thanks Phil, I agree that proposed highways should only be added (and tagged as proposed) when they are certain to get built, however, we're not talking about proposed highways here. We are talking about working with the HA to get dates of road completions. Rob p.s. OSMand rendering is a matter

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

, if they have maps that are based on OS OpenData (for example the OS StreetView maps) then I would love to see them. This is how we are working with Birmingham City Council to get maps of their proposed 20mph zones. Perhaps step one is to find out what they have. Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

I've had a couple of responses off list. These are: * Constructing the past * something with crowd in it? Thanks, for these good ideas. Any more suggestions? Rob On 18 June 2014 21:04, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: A few OSM members interested in historic maps are working

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

the name as things evolve. :-) Rob On 19 June 2014 23:13, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Open Historical Map which already has a website www.openhistoricalmap.org On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: A few OSM members interested

[OSM-talk] We need a name!

Outliner We're after your thoughts - which name works best? Is there some amazing name we haven't thought of yet? Best, Rob (RobJN) p.s. You're more than welcome to help in other ways. We're on the historic mailing list if you want to follow the progress

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

be a great start (one for maproulette?) but I'm hoping under tight controls we will find that the level of accuracy is high enough to consider automation. I'm not here to force automation on anyone so lets just focus on a script that flags potential matches for now. Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

some interest amongst osm developers. Rob On 17 Jun 2014 23:24, John Packer john.pack...@gmail.com wrote: To make this process smoother, it could be good to do things such as retrieve the target object location according to Nominatim and show the wikidata page or preferably the wikipedia page on X

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

. Regards, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

be a great start (one for maproulette?) but I'm hoping under tight controls we will find that the level of accuracy is high enough to consider automation. I'm not here to force automation on anyone so lets just focus on a script that flags potential matches for now. Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

some interest amongst osm developers. Rob On 17 Jun 2014 23:24, John Packer john.pack...@gmail.com wrote: To make this process smoother, it could be good to do things such as retrieve the target object location according to Nominatim and show the wikidata page or preferably the wikipedia page on X

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap-carto updates

popular this was (sorry for the room fiasco Andy) so I'm sure there will be a lot of other people who are equally delighted to see this latest update. Thanks to all involved. Best, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

greater prominence in the main editors Best, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

the general quality of public data. I unfortunately don't have the skills to help with editing, but support initial trials as a good step to working more closely with wikimedia commons. Best, Rob https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

store and links to the wikipedia articles in all languages), but I wouldn't complain if more wikipedia tags were added. Rob p.s. name=foo to all objects would be a type 2 fail. In the wikidata example you would want to add the wikidata reference to object foo only if name=foo in OSM (and geographic

Re: [Talk-GB] Update: Deploying our own version of NYPL Building Inspector

(and then just eyeball it ourselves for any new errors). So we can ignore the old github repo and use the new one then? I'm busy this week but will aim to look at the website from next week. If anyone has some good images we could use in place of the default NYPL ones then shout :-) Rob On 2 June

[Talk-GB] OSM session at Wikimania 2014

It's not all big projects - little ones are also much appreciated :-D Best, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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