[talk-ph] [Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby] Collecting news from the ground and more involvement by local mappers

2014-12-07 Thread maning sambale
Dear everyone, As the Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby continues to pass through central Philippines we are actively mapping areas where we expect will most likely have great damage. The tasks are available in the wiki [0]. Note that our priority is to improve basemap information. There are other groups

[talk-ph] Trainers Needed: OSM Workshop Dec 13-14

2014-12-07 Thread Celina Agaton
Hello OSM Philippines! I recently helped organize OSM's 10th Anniversary event http://www.eventbrite.com/e/openstreetmaps-10th-anniversary-tickets-14599456367 at Mind Museum. With Typhoon Ruby underway, and the anniversary event generating interest in OSM, I wanted to reach out and ask for

[talk-ph] Free OSM Training Dec 13-14

2014-12-07 Thread Celina Agaton
We have a few spaces left for our OSM Train the Trainer workshop in Taguig this Saturday, December 13 to Sunday, December 14 10am-4pm. If you or someone you know with GIS experience would like to attend, please fill out this survey!

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Jachtpaden are not cycleway Highway (path along the rivers)

2014-12-07 Thread Glenn Plas
I would suggest this tagging scheme because access = private is wrong : access:conditional=yes @ permit_holder bicycle=yes description=Jaagpad highway=track mofa=yes source=survey surface=unpaved tracktype=grade2 traffic_sign=BE:C3,BE:Type-IV vehicle=no

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Jachtpaden are not cycleway Highway (path along the rivers)

2014-12-07 Thread Jakka
highway=service service=towpath access=private jaagpaden tekst vermeld met nadruk met vergunning acces= permissive nederlandse item keuze Algemene toegang=met vergunning of zou deze service=towpath te niet doen? bicycle=yes foot=yes surface=asphatl/earth/ maxspeed=30 Marc Gemis schreef

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Jachtpaden are not cycleway Highway (path along the rivers)

2014-12-07 Thread Glenn Plas
No, Met vergunning, than the best choice is what I suggested and it's legit OSM tagging: access:conditional=yes @ permit_holder It covers it all. Simple, elegant and readable. Permissive doesn't cover it. I haven't seen service=towpath being used on a jaagpad yet, but that kind of makes sense

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Jachtpaden are not cycleway Highway (path along the rivers)

2014-12-07 Thread Sander Deryckere
But vehicle= is more specific than access=. This holds even for tags extended with conditionals (else the bicycles would need a permit). So, since a car is a vehicle, it would have not access at all. 2014-12-07 11:12 GMT+01:00 Glenn Plas gl...@byte-consult.be: No, Met vergunning, than the

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Jachtpaden are not cycleway Highway (path along the rivers)

2014-12-07 Thread Glenn Plas
Well, that was covered as well in my full copy/paste access:conditional=yes @ permit_holder bicycle=yes description=Jaagpad highway=track mofa=yes source=survey surface=unpaved tracktype=grade2 traffic_sign=BE:C3,BE:Type-IV vehicle=no website=http://www.wenz.be/nl/burger/Jaagpaden/ It's a one

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Jachtpaden are not cycleway Highway (path along the rivers)

2014-12-07 Thread Marc Gemis
What about horses ? I know several places where they come on the Jaagpad, especially where there is no asphalt. I don't know whether they are legally allowed to do so. m On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Glenn Plas gl...@byte-consult.be wrote: Well, that was covered as well in my full

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Jachtpaden are not cycleway Highway (path along the rivers)

2014-12-07 Thread Glenn Plas
Ok, thanks. Some valid points. But highway=track tag does allow implicit access I figured. I can't seem to find it in the wiki what is allowed for track. I do read for highway=track what 'can' : Roads for agricultural or forestry uses etc, often rough with unpaved/unsealed surfaces, that can

Re: [talk-au] Railways

2014-12-07 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Matt White mattwh...@iinet.net.au wrote: This particular thing really annoys me. Fair enough if the track is still in place - go nuts mapping it - but there are disused rail lines marked up even when the track hasn't been in place for 30 years, and it's only

[talk-au] Cycling network tag

2014-12-07 Thread Frank
Hi, The network tag used on cycling routes .. is for example National Cycling Network (ncn) as in from one country to another In Australia we may not use this tag as per the definition .. but the length of the route may mean that in Europe it would be an ncn. So should 'we' adopt the

Re: [Talk-de] Screencast-Programm

2014-12-07 Thread Peter Schmidt
Hey, es geht nicht darum, dass das Programm die Aufnahme filmt, sondern darum, dass dann das Fenster als weißes Feld angezeigt wird. Du kannst ausserdem die Aufnahme während dessen nicht anschauen und Änderungen vornehmen. Das Video ist echt beeindrucken. Gruß Am 05.12.2014 09:19 schrieb chris66

Re: [Talk-de] Abbiegespuren mit Fahrradspur

2014-12-07 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Am 5. Dezember 2014 um 16:10 schrieb Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: Am 05.12.2014 13:19, schrieb Martin Vonwald: Vom Prinzip her ist bicycle:lanes=...|designated|... und cycleway:lanes=|lane| identisch. Welche Variante besser ist, kann ich sagen. Ich tendiere eher zu

Re: [Talk-de] Abbiegespuren mit Fahrradspur

2014-12-07 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Am 6. Dezember 2014 um 02:04 schrieb 715371 osmu715...@gmx.de: Was ist eigentlich mit solch einem Problem: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Bremen_street_with_cycleway_lane_between_car_lanes.jpg turn:lanes=left|through|cycleway:through|right ? Bitte fangt nicht an, die

Re: [Talk-de] Abbiegespuren mit Fahrradspur

2014-12-07 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Am 6. Dezember 2014 um 10:36 schrieb Tom Pfeifer t.pfei...@computer.org: turn:lanes=left|through|cycleway:through|right ? Auch ein guter Vorschlag, hier kann der Renderer sich auf die Bezeichner konzentrieren die er kennt, und alle Spuren ignorieren, die ihm unbekannt sind,

Re: [Talk-de] Abbiegespuren mit Fahrradspur

2014-12-07 Thread Tobias Knerr
Am 07.12.2014 19:19, schrieb Martin Vonwald: * Können auch Parkspuren und Gehsteige in die lane-Liste eingebaut werden? Wenn ja, wie? Parkspuren theoretisch ja, auch wenn ich kein Freund davon bin. Gehsteige würde ich nein sagen, da es ja keine Spuren für irgendwas sind. Bei Gehsteigen

[Talk-de] OSM-Vortrag auf dem 31C3 :-)

2014-12-07 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Hallo, für aller Interessierten: der OSM-Vortrag von thomersch auf dem 31C3 wurde angenommen: 10 Jahre OpenStreetMap Wir leben noch und zwar sehr gut. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6255.html Gemäß Twitter will er ihn zusammen mit ubahnverleih halten =

Re: [Talk-it] Tag per CAF?

2014-12-07 Thread Matteo Quatrida
Il 06/12/2014 23:52, John Doe ha scritto: È adatto per definire un centro di assistenza fiscale il tag office:accountant? ___ Talk-it mailing list Talk-it@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it Ciao, io ho usato quel

Re: [Talk-it] Mancanza attribuzione

2014-12-07 Thread Matteo Quatrida
Il 07/12/2014 00:05, Max1234Ita ha scritto: Mi chiedo se OSM non possa pensare di aggiungere alle immagini che rilascia come tile (almeno a quelle) un watermark, un po' come fa Google: non puoi muoverti di mezza schermata senza imbatterti in un Google stampigliato da qualche parte sullo

[Talk-it] (senza oggetto)

2014-12-07 Thread Flavio marconato
Salve. Vorrei avere una info. Come ppsso vedere le mappe su basecamp con mappatura openmatmap con sfondo verde come classico delle cartografie? ___ Talk-it mailing list Talk-it@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it

Re: [Talk-it] Mancanza attribuzione

2014-12-07 Thread Volker Schmidt
Io sarei dell'opinione che ci vuole una lettera standard (ovviamente con uno spazio per descrivere eventualmente i dettagli) che si manda in modo quasi-automatico. Il testo della lettera dovrebbe essere stilato con l'aiuto di un avvocato (sono sicuro che almeno un mappatore italiano fa l'avvocato)

Re: [Talk-it] Mappe Basecamp con sfondo verde.

2014-12-07 Thread girarsi_liste
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 07/12/2014 10:56, Flavio marconato ha scritto: Salve. Vorrei avere una info. Come ppsso vedere le mappe su basecamp con mappatura openmatmap con sfondo verde come classico delle cartografie? Scrivo per correggere il titolo in oggetto della

Re: [Talk-it] (senza oggetto)

2014-12-07 Thread Volker Schmidt
open ... what?...map ? Il giorno 7 dicembre 2014 10:56, Flavio marconato flaviomarcona...@gmail.com ha scritto: Salve. Vorrei avere una info. Come ppsso vedere le mappe su basecamp con mappatura openmatmap con sfondo verde come classico delle cartografie?

Re: [Talk-it] Mancanza attribuzione

2014-12-07 Thread Matteo Quatrida
Il 07/12/2014 11:00, Volker Schmidt ha scritto: Io sarei dell'opinione che ci vuole una lettera standard (ovviamente con uno spazio per descrivere eventualmente i dettagli) che si manda in modo quasi-automatico. Il testo della lettera dovrebbe essere stilato con l'aiuto di un avvocato (sono

Re: [Talk-it] (senza oggetto)

2014-12-07 Thread Michele Iw1gfv
Ciao Forse intendi openmtbmap. Se e così durante l'installazione puoi scegliere il file .typ che vuoi usare, è bene usare un tile .typ adatto al gps che hai, anche sacrificando un po la visione su basecamp. Il 07 dicembre 2014 10:56:28 CET, Flavio marconato flaviomarcona...@gmail.com ha

Re: [Talk-it] Conversione Coordinate Geografiche

2014-12-07 Thread Marco Predicatori
Pratosmart wrote on 07/12/2014 01:07: Ciao a tutti... nel sito degli opendata della regione Toscana ci sono dei dataset che hanno coordinate geografiche che indicano NORD e EST ad esempio http//mappe.regione.toscana.it/db-webgis/luoghispettacolo/example_postgis.jsp?format=csv come si

Re: [Talk-it] (senza oggetto)

2014-12-07 Thread scratera
Flavio marconato wrote Salve. Vorrei avere una info. Come ppsso vedere le mappe su basecamp con mappatura openmatmap con sfondo verde come classico delle cartografie? ___ Talk-it mailing list Talk-it@

Re: [Talk-it] Conversione Coordinate Geografiche

2014-12-07 Thread Paolo Monegato
Il 07/12/2014 13:48, Marco Predicatori ha scritto: Pratosmart wrote on 07/12/2014 01:07: Ciao a tutti... nel sito degli opendata della regione Toscana ci sono dei dataset che hanno coordinate geografiche che indicano NORD e EST ad esempio

[Talk-it] maps.me

2014-12-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
Segnalo che, a seguito dell'acquisto da parte di mail.ru da qualche giorno MAPS.ME, l'applicativo mobile che fa anche routing offline, diposnibile per android e ios è diventato gratuito. http://maps.me/en/download -- -S ___ Talk-it mailing list

[Talk-it] Aggiunte dell'utente Simone Alesi

2014-12-07 Thread Marcello
Vorrei segnalare che da alcuni mesi in zona Umbria/Marche/Abruzzo l'utente Simone Alesi sta inserendo molti percorsi sempre etichettati come footway quasi sempre in corrispondenza di percorsi path o track esistenti, generando nella validazione di JOSM una moltitudine di avvertimenti per percorsi

Re: [Talk-it] Aggiunte dell'utente Simone Alesi

2014-12-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
2014-12-07 19:30 GMT+01:00 Marcello arca...@gmail.com: Gli ho scritto un messaggio più di un mese fa spiegando che footway non è il tag indicato per quei tipi di percorso e prima di inserire verificare se c'è già il percorso ed eventualmente correggerlo se ritiene che ci siano degli errori,

[Talk-it] Tag per negozio compro oro?

2014-12-07 Thread John Doe
Come potrei taggare i negozi compro oro? ___ Talk-it mailing list Talk-it@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it

Re: [Talk-it] Aggiunte dell'utente Simone Alesi

2014-12-07 Thread Leonardo
Il 07/12/2014 19:34, Simone Cortesi ha scritto: 2014-12-07 19:30 GMT+01:00 Marcello arca...@gmail.com: Gli ho scritto un messaggio più di un mese fa spiegando che footway non è il tag indicato per quei tipi di percorso e prima di inserire verificare se c'è già il percorso ed eventualmente

Re: [Talk-it] maps.me

2014-12-07 Thread Germano Massullo
Appena finito di provare su Android. Ha una velocità di renderizzazione dei dati vettoriali nettamente superiore ad altri programmi concorrenti. Tuttavia trovo l'interfaccia molto limitata, spero migliori in futuro. ___ Talk-it mailing list

Re: [Talk-it] Hackathon sulla mobilità

2014-12-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
2014-11-25 13:25 GMT+01:00 Fabri erfab...@gmail.com: Dovrebbe essere questo l'evento a cui erano stati invitati gli osmer http://www.mobihack.it/ non ricordo. a cosa fai riferimento? c'e' una mezza polemica in corso, di fatto non usano osm all'hackahton, c'e' tomtom come sponsor e non

Re: [Talk-it] Tag per negozio compro oro?

2014-12-07 Thread Alberto Nogaro
From: John Doe [mailto:theguest...@gmail.com] Sent: domenica 7 dicembre 2014 19:48 To: OSM Talk-it Subject: [Talk-it] Tag per negozio compro oro? Come potrei taggare i negozi compro oro? Interesserebbe pure a me. Quando mi è capitato ho usato shop=trade + trade=gold. Ma non è diffuso (usato

[Talk-it] Quake-Catcher Network Sensor Monitoring

2014-12-07 Thread Matteo Quatrida
Ciao, secondo voi abbiamo qualche speranza di redimerli verso OSM? http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor/ -- Matteo Quatrida GNU/Linux User #498939 OpenStreetMap Contributor since 2009 «Be GREEN and keep it on your SCREEN!» ___ Talk-it mailing list

[Talk-it] Si possono scegliere dei percorsi da OpenStreetMap per usarli in Runtastic?

2014-12-07 Thread Daniele Forsi
Ciao, sapete se è possibile pianificare un percorso da seguire con Runtastic basandolo su way esistenti in OSM? Magari importando il GPX da OSRM? sto cercando di aiutare un nuovo utente che si è registrato per questo motivo) -- Daniele Forsi ___

[Talk-it] Asilo nido

2014-12-07 Thread Gianluca Boero
Ciao... dovrei inserire un asilo nido nel mio comune. E' una struttura privata. La scuola dell'infanzia pubblica l'ho già inserita come amenity=kindergarten. Per questa struttura privata vale lo stesso tag o si potrebbe pensare amenity=nursing_home ? Anche se secondo me tale tag dovrebbe

Re: [Talk-it] Asilo nido

2014-12-07 Thread Mauro Costantini
Direi sempre https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dkindergarten «This tag is also currently used for establishments where parents can leave their young children but which provide no formal education.» Nursing_home ha un significato totalmente diverso «A home for disabled or elderly

Re: [Talk-it] Hackathon sulla mobilità

2014-12-07 Thread Fabri
Mi riferivo a questo http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Talk-it-lazio-Hackathon-sulla-mobilita-td5822416.html avevo fatto fwd in talk-it non conosco le polemiche ma mi sa che gli amanti di opensource hanno fatto un altro #boicotcodemotion :) On dom  7 dic 2014 20:27:08 CET, Simone Cortesi

Re: [Talk-it-trentino] incontri con sezioni CAI SAT

2014-12-07 Thread michele zanolli
Ciao a tutti, Sono Michele della SAT, Commissione Sentieri (CSE). Sicuramente come SAT siamo interessati a riproporre un corso all'uso del GPS ed OSM, come è già stato fatto l'anno scorso. Aggiungo questo: visto che per la fine del 2015 è prevista la pubblicazione del volume n. 3 dei sentieri del

Re: [Talk-ca] RIP CanVec

2014-12-07 Thread Bruno Remy
J'approuve également! À noter que des outils comme KeepRight et Osmose sont dores-et-déjà utlisés dans la région de Québec pour palier à des erreurs de géométrie, routage, polygones non fermés...etc Bruno Le 5 décembre 2014 09:30, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com a écrit : J’approuve!

[Talk-ca] Imports de la ville de Lévis (QC)

2014-12-07 Thread Bruno Remy
Bonjour à la communauté OSM, et plus particulièrement à la communauté locale (province de Québec) La ville de Lévis s’apprête à vaste opération d'harmonisation des adresses: Nombre de rues problématiques : 744 Nombre de changements de noms : 511 Nombre de changements de numéros de porte : 4 950

Re: [Talk-cz] Osmose Česká republika

2014-12-07 Thread Michal Pustějovský
Když jsi na stránce s mapou a jsi přihlášený, tak za jménem máš v závorce tvůj počet chyb. Jdou i krásně zobrazit na mapě ;-) Bude se nějak vrtat do nastavení chyb? Některé jsou vtipné, z cca 3000 chyb je necelých 2000 v chybějících mostech a propustcích (to beru) a dalších 500 typu železniční

Re: [Talk-cz] Osmose Česká republika

2014-12-07 Thread Marián Kyral
Dne 7.12.2014 17:32, Michal Pustějovský napsal(a): Když jsi na stránce s mapou a jsi přihlášený, tak za jménem máš v závorce tvůj počet chyb. Jdou i krásně zobrazit na mapě ;-) Aha díky. No 942 - čekal jsem to horší :-D Bude se nějak vrtat do nastavení chyb? Některé jsou vtipné, z cca 3000

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Besoin d'aide pour faire avancer Switch2OSM en français

2014-12-07 Thread f . dos . santos
Bonjour, Sauf erreur de ma part switch2osm est de la responsabilité du Communication Working Group [1]. Par conséquent un mail 'officiel' à communicati...@osmfoundation.org pour que l'internationalisation du site soit prise en compte me semble indispensable. Le CWG est surement en sous-effectif

[OSM-talk-fr] Qualification des erreurs en lien avec FANTOIR

2014-12-07 Thread Donat ROBAUX
Bonjour, Je passe beaucoup de temps sur Bano mais je n'arrive toujours pas à savoir quoi mettre dans la fameuse page de la liste noire des code Fantoir. C'est un peu confus. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_France/WikiProject_Base_Adresses_Nationale_Ouverte_(BANO)/Liste_noire Si

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Qualification des erreurs en lien avec FANTOIR

2014-12-07 Thread Yves Pratter
On 07 Dec 2014, at 13:32, Donat ROBAUX dona...@gmail.com wrote: Bonjour, Je passe beaucoup de temps sur Bano mais je n'arrive toujours pas à savoir quoi mettre dans la fameuse page de la liste noire des code Fantoir. C'est un peu confus. Je comprends que BANO doit ignorer ces codes

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] OSM.org dev/sys admins (était : Besoin d'aide pour faire avancer Switch2OSM en français)

2014-12-07 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Tant pis si je fais ma langue de pute, mais à un moment il faut bien se rendre compte qu'il y a un problème, et réussir à dire qu'il existe sera déjà un grand pas en avant avant de trouver des solutions pour le surmonter. ThomasG wrote Mon contact technique est l'un de ses admin mais je

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] BANO FANTOIR : Libellé dans la couche Bano absent de la liste FANTOIR

2014-12-07 Thread Vincent de Château-Thierry
Bonsoir, Le 07/12/2014 08:44, Yves Pratter a écrit : Il semble s’agir d’une adresse (n° 11 Amancey) avec le nom de la ville : 25015B002M http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/~cquest/leaflet/bano.html#19/47.03626/6.07259 Et rien ici : http://cadastre.openstreetmap.fr/fantoir/#insee=25015 Tu peux

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Qualification des erreurs en lien avec FANTOIR

2014-12-07 Thread Vincent de Château-Thierry
Le 07/12/2014 14:10, Yves Pratter a écrit : On 07 Dec 2014, at 13:32, Donat ROBAUX dona...@gmail.com wrote: Je passe beaucoup de temps sur Bano mais je n'arrive toujours pas à savoir quoi mettre dans la fameuse page de la liste noire des code Fantoir. C'est un peu confus. Je comprends que

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Qualification des erreurs en lien avec FANTOIR

2014-12-07 Thread Mathias Jérôme
Bonsoir, l'idée même de blackliste est à manipuler avec précaution de mon point de vue. Autant elle peut être légitime pour un désignant d'un objet disparu (par exemple une usine, une barre rasée). Si effectivement l'usine X n'existe plus autant ne plus avoir X dans les fichiers (même si ça

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] BANO FANTOIR : Libellé dans la couche Bano absent de la liste FANTOIR

2014-12-07 Thread Yves Pratter
Merci pour les explications et le lien sur la liste brute :) Tu peux voir ici : http://cadastre.openstreetmap.fr/fantoir/liste_brute_fantoir.html#insee=25015 que ce code correspond à un lieu-dit (type_voie = 3), Je n’ai pas été clair : ce lieu-dit “Amancey” est en fait le nom du village

[Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Do Google know something we don't? Just noticed a new city called Avon somewhere between Swindon and Bath. Bug or secret new city only Google are party to? ;-) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6066769,-2.1135816,8z

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 07/12/2014 12:17, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Do Google know something we don't? It also appears on Yahoo maps and Apple maps, in both cases as small place only visible at high zooms. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Ian Caldwell
It's in OSM http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/413600880 as a hamlet. Ian On 7 December 2014 at 12:39, Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com wrote: On 07/12/2014 12:17, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Do Google know something we don't? It also appears on Yahoo maps and Apple maps, in

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 07/12/2014 12:39, Malcolm Herring wrote: It also appears on Yahoo maps and Apple maps, in both cases as small place only visible at high zooms. ... and on our map! http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/413600880 ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread David Woolley
On 07/12/14 12:51, Ian Caldwell wrote: It also appears on Yahoo maps and Apple maps, in both cases as small place only visible at high zooms. At that level of details, all the mappers rely on OS Data. Google do allow some cloud sourced input, but the fact the other have the same

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Colin Smale
It appears to actually exist; postcode SN15 4LS gives several addresses in Avon, Chippenham. Maybe Google are matching that hamlet to the ceremonial county of Avon and getting it wrong? Colin On 2014-12-07 13:51, Malcolm Herring wrote: On 07/12/2014 12:39, Malcolm Herring wrote: It

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Dave F.
On 07/12/2014 13:06, David Woolley wrote: On 07/12/14 12:51, Ian Caldwell wrote: It also appears on Yahoo maps and Apple maps, in both cases as small place only visible at high zooms. At that level of details, all the mappers rely on OS Data. Google do allow some cloud sourced

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun Dec 07 2014 12:51:32 GMT+ (GMT), Malcolm Herring wrote: On 07/12/2014 12:39, Malcolm Herring wrote: It also appears on Yahoo maps and Apple maps, in both cases as small place only visible at high zooms. ... and on our map! http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/413600880 Its on

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Dave F.
On 07/12/2014 13:10, Colin Smale wrote: It appears to actually exist; postcode SN15 4LS gives several addresses in Avon, Chippenham. Maybe Google are matching that hamlet to the ceremonial county of Avon and getting it wrong? Colin You wouldn't believe how many letters I receive still

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
So while it's a place, for some reason iGoogle seem to think it's as big as Bath and Swindon! A search for Avon new town doesn't seem to reveal anything though, so presumably not a new town site? Nick From: Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk Sent: 07

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Sorry just seen some of the other replies. Could be something to do with Avon but that doesn't seem to exist as a ceremonal county: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 07 December 2014 13:53 To:

Re: [Talk-GB] Signup bug corrected (Re: Update to Freemap)

2014-12-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Sorry! not my weekend obviously. Another bug has come to light as a result of over-zealous search-and-replace to correct the first bug. Due to a change in directory structure I replaced all 0.7s with fm, and the result was that the default longitude -0.72 was replaced with -fm2, oops!

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps: the city of Avon

2014-12-07 Thread Colin Smale
You are right, Avon is not a Ceremonial County as I said but it has gone the way of Middlesex - only existing in an archaic form of postal addressing. It is a former postal county according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom Colin On 2014-12-07

[Talk-GB] Apple trees around Cambridge

2014-12-07 Thread Dan S
Hi all, I heard of something that will be fun for someone who likes mapping trees! There's a project in Cambridge that is planting many apple trees, one of each variety, in a pattern centred around the south of Cambridge. It's said to be an art project called Cambridge Community Collection:

Re: [Talk-GB] Apple trees around Cambridge

2014-12-07 Thread Dan S
Jerry, Yes, I bet it is difficult! If it's any consolation, apparently they're planting the trees in alphabetical order of the variety name, so mapping the trees will be like solving one big word-puzzle... Dan 2014-12-07 21:41 GMT+00:00 SK53 sk53@gmail.com: Hi Dan, I've had enough

Re: [Talk-us] Updating tagging of public transport

2014-12-07 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
Part of the problem between the tagging schemes and the rendering is that it's a chicken-and-egg problem; a new tagging scheme is created, but rendering support isn't there yet (partly because it's a somewhat complex structure), so people might not use that scheme. However, if there were many

Re: [Talk-us] Updating tagging of public transport

2014-12-07 Thread stevea
Saikrishna Arcot wrote: Part of the problem between the tagging schemes and the rendering is that it's a chicken-and-egg problem; a new tagging scheme is created, but rendering support isn't there yet (partly because it's a somewhat complex structure), so people might not use that scheme.