Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2018-08-10 21:06, Simon Poole wrote: While the goals sound worthy, it is unclear if any of the grid systems (w3w, plus codes and so on) deliver on their promises and have any traction outside of people in countries with established addressing systems trying to push them as solutions for

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2018-08-10 20:11, Frederik Ramm wrote: The approach that I - and everyone else who applies the same logic - propose, is: 1. A zooms to their house on OSMAnd. 2. A clicks on the house to invoke the plus code computation function in OSMAnd. 3. OSMAnd displays the plus code. 4. A tells B the

Re: [Talk-GB] Implicit speed limits: What to tag in built-up areas?

2018-05-02 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2018-05-02 11:53, Jez Nicholson wrote: Oh, this is fun. So, correct me if i'm wrong: a "20 mph zone" doesn't have/need repeaters because it is not actually the legal speed limit. It is advisory to travel at that speed because traffic calming makes it hard not to. A 20 sign with a green

Re: [OSM-talk] How to teach novices about optimal changeset size?

2018-01-20 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2018-01-20 14:36, Gaurav Thapa wrote: Yes, I am aware of these buttons. Do you mean that we do Ctrl+S frequently in order to do partial saves? I feel this might allow for greater chance for conflicts to occur rather than uploading frequently. In JOSM, click on the Upload button. Then in

Re: [Talk-GB] Mistagging of old telephone boxes

2017-12-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2017-12-23 19:13, Dave F wrote: Not an expert, but I'm surprised if that's true. Isn't BY attribution the same that OSM asks of map producers? I note Mapillary are also CC BY-SA Mapillary have given special permission, to allow using the images to contribute to OSM. This is a separate

Re: [Talk-GB] Mistagging of old telephone boxes

2017-12-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2017-12-22 21:41, Dave F wrote: Hi FYI user Yorvik Prestigitator has been tagging telephone boxes across Britain. He assumed some of these are working phones & tagged them as such, when they're purely ornamental (the ones in my city are recent additions & have flowers growing out of them at

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Watch

2017-12-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2017-12-22 18:48, Mike Thompson wrote: I am looking at getting a GPS Watch. Does anyone have any advice?  My primary concerns: 1) Ease of getting GPX tracks out of the watch so they can be uploaded to OSM. Seems like a lot of the devices require you to first upload the track to their

Re: [Talk-GB] 'permanent' mobile caterers

2017-02-26 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2017-02-26 11:24, Dave F wrote: Hi I'm still working through the FHRS database for my local authority. There section 'mobile caterers' where some they have a goecoded location. These are mobile vans which get towed away at night but have a regular pitch during the day. Often to be found in

Re: [OSM-talk] Untagged Nodes and Ways

2017-01-31 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2017-01-31 18:02, Andreas Vilén wrote: I always have all checks activated so it seems it just misses stuff sometimes... Could the issue be that I never reinstall Josm when I update but just overwrite the josm-tested.jar file with the new one? Sounds like you have told JOSM to ignore an

Re: [Talk-GB] beetroot or beet

2017-01-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2017-01-10 01:20, David Groom wrote: Although "beet" could also refer to "sugar beet" Or "fodder beet" (aka mangelwurzel). I think it is rather similar to sugar beet, not sure if you could tell the difference in the field. It seems they are all the same species (Beta vulgaris), but

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping dangerous - but valid - routes

2016-12-06 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-12-05 16:12, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Greetings At Stirling Corner, on the A1 in Barnet, there is a cycle way (hence also available for pedestrians) that goes around the outside of the roundabout (http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/78315291). A cursory glance at satellite mapping shows it

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-11-09 13:47, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El onsdag 9. november 2016 13.36.11 CET Craig Wallace escribió: Is it just for streets? Or can you add photos of footpaths, cyclepaths, railways, rivers etc. Or any other feature you can travel along. Why not have a name with less focus on streets

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-11-08 15:34, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, A few months ago, we started with OpenStreetView, the free and open street level imagery project made 100% for OSM with apps for Android and iOS. Since then, we not only have collected almost 30 kilometers of coverage, but also received a

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

2016-09-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-09-23 19:15, SK53 wrote: Hi Paul, I'd be very interested in this providing it has a decent licence. AFAIK Vision of Britain has a restrictive licence which means that I have spent some time recreating small parts of their data on OHM (e.g., London Boroughs of the LCC). There's still a

Re: [OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

2016-09-10 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-09-10 21:23, john whelan wrote: I'm not sure that it is an issue. If the lat and long can be extracted in the way that Nomination can handle it isn't an issue. The bigger issue at the moment is how do you extract the lat and long easily? Downloading a bit of OSM into JOSM, saving the

Re: [Talk-GB] Rare postboxes no longer so rare?

2016-09-03 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-09-03 08:42, Steve Doerr wrote: On 03/09/2016 00:23, Rob Nickerson wrote: I thought these postboxes were supposed to be really rare. Seems like loads have been added this year: There are supposed to be about 130 of them(*), of which OSM has 140. (*)

Re: [OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-08-30 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-08-30 18:24, Colin Smale wrote: I am going to say this very quietly what3words Which forces you to use the what3words website, or an officially licensed app. If you want to use a postcode/coordinate system, there are plenty of better options. eg Open Location Codes (Plus

Re: [Talk-GB] Defibrillator Mapping

2016-08-18 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-08-16 09:35, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Just to let you know, that I've now got another dataset in my Defibrillator comparison tool at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/defib/ . East Midlands Ambulance Service has provided the locations of AEDs that they know about, and these have

Re: [Talk-GB] Does "Great Britain" need a relation with "place=island" on it?

2016-08-18 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-08-18 13:51, Andy Townsend wrote: This was prompted by a comment directed at me on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37713755 , after I'd mentioned a problem raised on the help site that might be related

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-05-11 06:44, Richard Fairhurst wrote: On 10/05/2016 20:59, Eric Grosso wrote: What do you think? Do we, OSM contributors, tag all the highways part of a NCN as cycleways? What to do when in some cases, a highway is both part of a NCN route and a hiking route (e.g the John Muir Way)?

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicycle GPS traces - more opendata

2016-04-25 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-04-25 21:55, John Whelan wrote: Apols it looks as if only pact of my message got sent. My local city is purchasing bicycle GPS track data from a company that has a fitness app. Apparently many cities would like this sort of data. However it doesn't capture those who don't have a

Re: [Talk-GB] OSGR & OSM

2016-04-05 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-04-05 14:59, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Is there a site or tool somewhere where I can click on a point on an OSM tile and get back the OSGR? I want the quality of OSM, but need OSGR unfortunately. Thanks Stuart You can use Where's the Path. http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm It can

Re: [OSM-talk] Issue-Tracker for http[s]://www.openstreetmap.org

2015-07-16 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2015-07-16 14:22, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote: Hi, Is there an issue tracker for http[s]://www.openstreetmap.org or have there ever been any plans for such a useful and straightforward way of introducing improvements (it'd be not exposed in a mail list archive reachable by a search engine,

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

2015-05-06 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2015-05-06 21:09, Philip Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 19:47 +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: That's interesting. Have just tried the app out. It gives you the postboxes in OpenStreetMap but not the ones that are missing (as shown by blue markers on Robert's comparison tool:

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

2015-05-06 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2015-05-06 19:47, Rob Nickerson wrote: That's interesting. Have just tried the app out. It gives you the postboxes in OpenStreetMap but not the ones that are missing (as shown by blue markers on Robert's comparison tool: http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/ I really do feel like we are

Re: [OSM-talk] bicycle=no and cycleway=lane conflicting?

2015-04-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2015-04-09 14:00, Phil Endecott wrote: 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,

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

2014-12-01 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-12-01 13:57, Richard Mann wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk mailto:li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote: Usage of adjacent seems to be fairly localised in the UK: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6k7 Yeah, probably just me (maybe nobody else feels

Re: [Talk-GB] ooc.openstreetmap.org

2014-11-06 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-11-06 17:26, Ed Loach wrote: Steve asked: Has this service been discontinued? Or is there just a temporary problem with it? According to the wiki, faffy has a problem http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status I believe os.openstreetmap.org was temporarily pointed elsewhere

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

2014-10-24 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-10-24 15:35, Steve Doerr wrote: On 24/10/2014 15:13, Dan S wrote: Co-operative - not clear to me why you choose to drop The from this one, since it's included in the branding? You choose to keep it for The Co-operative Food. +1: see http://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/ Also note

Re: [OSM-talk] GoPro video traces?

2014-10-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-10-23 11:20, David Cuenca wrote: There are many people who record both a gps trace and a video of their itinerary. Do you think it would be viable to use these videos as a sort of street view by associating the frames to a location? When there is no gps trace, it could be done by

Re: [OSM-talk] GoPro video traces?

2014-10-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-10-23 16:59, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 23/10/2014 15:00, Craig Wallace wrote: taking a photo every second, or maybe every 5 or 10 seconds, depends on what you are surveying and how fast you are moving. Do none of those cameras offer the logical alternative to timelapse

Re: [Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

2014-08-31 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-08-31 12:51, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi all, I've see an increased use of block paving as a road surface on new housing developments. Example image: http://cms.esi.info/Media/productImages/38030_1338993270237_PF.jpg How are people tagging these? At first I wondered about the

Re: [OSM-talk] Own wikipage for every single speed limit??

2014-08-28 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-08-28 11:20, Maarten Deen wrote: On 2014-08-28 12:10, Richard Z. wrote: Hi, noticed that there is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:maxspeed%3D20redirect=no and a few more speeds - does it make any sense to have such pages around? If you take a look at the what

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

2014-08-03 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-08-03 11:00, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Residential roads in the UK often seem to have 'private road' signs, such as: - 'Private road' - 'Private road no parking' - 'Private road no parking no turning' - 'Residents only no unauthorised parking or turning' How do people tag these roads?

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.

2014-06-11 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-06-08 16:28, Dan S wrote: Hi all, In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub. http://mcld.co.uk/feet-from-a-rat/pub.html And luckily, in mainland Britain, you are never more than 30 miles from a public toilet. http://mcld.co.uk/feet-from-a-rat/public-toilet.html

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with May 2014 OS Locator data

2014-05-15 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-05-15 13:43, Philip Barnes wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 09:46 +0200, Marc Gemis wrote: Left and right is decided by the direction of the osm-way. Not by east/west/north/south. BTW, in Brussels we have streets with 4 official names : left/right, French/Dutch :-) Rather than

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Indoor walkways

2014-04-04 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-04-04 20:53, David Earl wrote: On 04/04/2014 20:01, David Earl wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/147456596 http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/148248008 I'll post some photos of what these actually look like in a moment. http://www.frankieandshadow.com/xref/covered1.jpg

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare and OSM Note Instructions

2014-03-28 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-03-28 08:32, JB wrote: Err, some thoughts after some heavy note-closing in France. Le 28/03/2014 09:14, Peter Wendorff a écrit : Adding a note even as a personal note for adding it later is a valid action, if e.g. don't have the time to do more now or don't have an editor at hand -

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-15 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-03-15 19:04, colliar wrote: On 14.03.2014 19:12, Tobias Knerr wrote: On 14.03.2014 17:15, Tom Hughes wrote: I think most of those are already whitelisted aren't they? Unless I'm mistaken, these are the currently whitelisted URLs:

Re: [OSM-talk] Power portal

2014-02-06 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-02-06 21:51, François Lacombe wrote: Hi folks, I feel a bit disappointed with the power=portal tag, pretty widely used in Germany for instance. It seems to document start points of a power line in power substations. Have a look :

Re: [OSM-talk] Element on OSM which don't exist in real life

2013-12-02 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-12-02 19:12, Sebastian Arcus wrote: First off, I hope this is the right place to ask mapping questions - otherwise could you suggest the best mailing list please. I am doing some mapping along the Interstate 5 in California based on my own notes and data collected. What I keep on

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-11-09 15:25, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi All, A few days ago there was a thread about the pros/cons of moving admin boundaries to a new database. I'm not going to give my opinion on this as the thread has now fizzled out, but I will suggest that decisions like this should involve as many of

Re: [Talk-GB] Names on Power Lines

2013-10-13 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-10-13 13:21, SK53 wrote: This morning I came across a name tag on a power line http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.18607/-1.14961. I believe this is now quite a common practice ( 8% of lines in an 3-month old data-set). Personally I deplore it: * I have never found a convenient

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-21 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-08-21 10:53, Matt Williams wrote: On 21 August 2013 00:00, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote: I've come across a building that provides the sort of facilities that one might find in some hotels for day time and evening functions (weddings, posh birthday parties, etc.), but does

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-08-05 12:20, David Woolley wrote: An off list exchange suggests the problem could have been caused by someone trying to declutter a map for private use without realising they were making public changes. However, the problem still remains of how to get it reverted, other than by

Re: [Talk-GB] Finding Unmapped public rights of way

2013-07-27 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-07-27 13:11, Dudley Ibbett wrote: Hi 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. I can put the derbyshire file into JOSM and

Re: [OSM-talk] Power generation refinement approved

2013-07-07 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-07-07 19:55, Graham Jones wrote: Reading JOSM's defaultpresets.xml I found a comment about mixed-up voltage values in the preset. Could someone please tell me the major voltages in use. If someone knows the voltages in use for railways/busses I am interested, too I

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard OSM map refreshing

2013-04-22 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-04-22 21:39, Severin MENARD wrote: Hi, Leading the HOT Activation http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2013-04-10_hot_activation_in_central_african_republic for the Central African Republic http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic, I have edited data all

Re: [OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation Boundaries

2013-04-20 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-04-20 19:24, Paul Johnson wrote: OK, but would you apply this to Scotland and Wales? Because that's an analogous situation in the UK. Not really. Scotland/England/Wales are clearly administrative boundaries, and they are tagged as such in OSM. And they fit in the hierarchy of admin

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway bridge numbers

2013-04-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-04-09 14:39, Andy Mabbett wrote: All railway bridges (over- and under-) in the UK have a unique number. often carried on a metal (more recently plastic) identification plate, or painted on: http://www.semgonline.com/structures/numbering.html Among other things, these are used to

Re: [Talk-GB] help with rights of way and core paths in Scotland

2013-03-11 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-03-11 10:12, Barry Cornelius wrote: I think I understand what councils have to do for public rights of way in England and Wales. However, I don't understand the situation concerning rights of way in Scotland. I would like some help, please. What kinds of paths are there in Scotland?

Re: [OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

2013-02-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 23/02/2013 19:28, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: On 22 February 2013 15:25, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: at least one localized name to be equal to the name attribute, mappers will either be offended and leave the project or they will find a solution, imagine

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-13 Thread Craig Wallace
On 13/02/2013 15:03, AJ Ashton wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:56 AM, AJ Ashton aj.ash...@gmail.com mailto:aj.ash...@gmail.com wrote: Let's not add to the everything=yes approach to tagging but go with an existing key - highway seems appropriate. In fact highway=junction seems to

Re: [OSM-talk] Is osm.org broken on mobile phones for you?

2013-01-22 Thread Craig Wallace
On 22/01/2013 14:31, Pavel Melnikov wrote: Hello everyone. I've just noticed that osm.org http://osm.org stopped working correctly on Android's Opera Mobile. I cannot pan the map with finger anymore (meaning I cannot pan it at all), nor can I zoom in and out with double-tap and two-finger

Re: [OSM-talk] House Numbers

2012-12-30 Thread Craig Wallace
On 30/12/2012 21:53, Frederik Ramm wrote: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/housenumbers.html It would be great if you could find your name on the list and do a quick sanity check in your head whether this looks right or not. According to this list, 208 accounts have added more than 10k house

Re: [OSM-talk] mobile unnamed roads and more layer

2012-12-29 Thread Craig Wallace
On 29/12/2012 11:11, ciprian niculescu wrote: Hi, I'd like to have on my iphone or android, the Geofabrik Tools for corecting roads without names, or the fixme parts etc etc I searched for such an application but no luck. Do you know of one? Also one solution is to be able to get the layer, i

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem in getting high resolution details on some maps

2012-12-18 Thread Craig Wallace
On 17/12/2012 03:43, Andre von Biel wrote: Hi All , I am a newcomer to talk so please forgive any procedural errors. I live in Christchurch, New Zealand and my wife and I take frequent holiday trips to the Polynesian Islands and Australia. I use Garmin etex VISTA HCx and try to get OSM maps to

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual maps demo

2012-12-01 Thread Craig Wallace
On 30/11/2012 14:34, Jochen Topf wrote: Hi! I have been working on a multilingual OSM map, ie. a map where you, the user can decide in which language the labels should be. A demo of the system is now available at http://mlm.jochentopf.com/ . The tiles for this demo are rendered on

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors with addresses in OSMI

2012-09-25 Thread Craig Wallace
On 25/09/2012 10:34, Tom Chance wrote: The first issue is that the tool flags up endpoint_wrong_format, which the wiki says means one or other of the numbers in the housenumber aren't integers. But they are! Here's the OSMI view: http://tiny.cc/kpp6kw Here's an example way it is flagging up:

Re: [OSM-talk] Royal Mail Incorrect OSM Usage

2012-08-03 Thread Craig Wallace
On 03/08/2012 03:36, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote: I think it's nice that the Royal Mail have chosen to use OSM for the backdrop to their site for Great Britain Golden Postbox listings to celebrate Team GB successes in the

Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?

2012-07-03 Thread Craig Wallace
On 03/07/2012 16:16, Shaun McDonald wrote: The Garmin Edge 800 stores in some .fit format rather than GPX. I've still not found some tools to batch convert from that format to .gpx. The latest version of GPSBabel (v.1.4.3) claims to support FIT format. Though it didn't seem to work when I

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Wallace
On 30/05/2012 16:11, Jason Cunningham wrote: This suggests the original Boundary Line data is superior, but would need to be compared to 2012 releases to check boundaries have not moved. Does anyone have the original Boundary Line release? and would they be able to make them available? The

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Wallace
On 15/05/2012 20:16, Richard Fairhurst wrote: SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to station nodes in the UK, seemingly made by people outside the UK and using Wikipedia as a source. I've reverted these (well, actually, at the time of writing the revert is running!).

Re: [Talk-GB] Post boxes!

2012-05-11 Thread Craig Wallace
On 11/05/2012 14:24, Gregory wrote: Royal Mail grid reference every post box Erm, a request made under the Freedom of Information Act only returned textual descriptions (usually names of roads, often a side road it is 'near'). I believe Hull has been very hard to find postboxes from this list.

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping disused railway lines

2012-02-26 Thread Craig Wallace
On 26/02/2012 11:57, Philip Barnes wrote: My problem is that where one of these roads crosses the path of the disused Wellington to Market Drayton railway, there is a stone bridge over the road with a height restriction. For a working railway this is easy, but the disused railway tag seems to

Re: [OSM-talk] Creating a subset of OSM and storing it in Postgis tables

2012-02-25 Thread Craig Wallace
On 25/02/2012 04:19, mick wrote: I need to build a database of a subset of features from a specific area, storing them in a series of tables according to feature type (eg. natural, historic, waterway, ...) from predefined subsets of the planet file. In doing this I hope to minimise: 1 my

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-10 Thread Craig Wallace
highlighting missing streetnames. eg OSM Inspector (with highways view): http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ Or Yet another validation tool: http://beta.letuffe.org/ They seem to be updated frequently. Craig -- Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class

Re: [Talk-GB] (still editing) 10335460

2012-01-08 Thread Craig Wallace
On 08/01/2012 19:59, Lester Caine wrote: Took a little time to tidy up a few nodes hile I was reviewing things, but while the update said it had saved, it's showing as still editing despite having logged back out ... what happens to hanging edits nowadays? It just means you haven't closed the

Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect user when opening Open StreetMap

2011-11-06 Thread Craig Wallace
On 06/11/2011 13:54, Carsten Nielsen wrote: Hi I have uploadet a Trace and done some editing today, but at somepoint my account has been changed to user vbpohnfr I am user ablansinger but even after restarting firefox, and even after clearing the password for openstreetmap I keep loggign in

Re: [OSM-talk] tile downloads

2011-06-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 09/06/2011 20:10, Geza Gyuk wrote: Hi, I'm a little unclear if this is the method I should be using to ask about acceptable use of the tile.openstreetmap.org server, but here goes: The Adler Planetarium runs a high altitude ballooning program for kids and when we are out in the field

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads

2011-05-18 Thread Craig Wallace
On 18/05/2011 12:44, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Kev js1982 wrote: (And not all A roads are signed on the ground either) That was the unspoken second half of my question. ;) At, say, http://osm.org/go/eu2jYNcA-- , there's the A5189. Routing software that says turn right here for the A5189 will

Re: [OSM-talk] Building Equals Yes

2011-05-17 Thread Craig Wallace
On 17/05/2011 11:50, Pieren wrote: Nice site. But when I read the following at http://buildingequalsyes.spum.org/about/: Where did all the Where On Earth IDs come from? Flickr! Shortly, I hope to import them all back in to OpenStreetMap so that each building (specifically, each way tagged

Re: [Talk-GB] Publishing Self-Devised Walks

2011-04-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 09/04/2011 12:00, dan...@daniel-watkins.co.uk wrote: At the other end of the spectrum is screenshots and using the GIMP to draw my route on (or using a mapping site like BikeRouteToaster to draw the lines on, and taking screenshots of that). However, this seems really lame (as you lose all

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool in Potlatch 2 for areas that share a way

2011-01-30 Thread Craig Wallace
On 31/01/2011 00:32, John Goodman wrote: Thought I would announce a new tool that is now available in Potlatch 2 that makes it easier to draw ways that share nodes with another way: follow. This sounds great, especially for coastline work. I hope JOSM can get something similar. It seems

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis name tags

2011-01-20 Thread Craig Wallace
On 20/01/2011 17:28, Peter Miller wrote: On 20 January 2011 17:20, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net mailto:t...@acrewoods.net wrote: How about dialects? name:en name:cy name:gd name:gv name:sco name:ga Whatever other regional languages we have. we believe that

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-17 Thread Craig Wallace
On 17/01/2011 23:05, Chris Moss wrote: I'm interested in the GB waterways and it seems there's quite a bit of work done but it's totally invisible. Is anyone working on a layer like the cycle map, which leaps out from the overlays as the only minority interest yet developed? It's not the only

Re: [OSM-talk] surface=unpaved

2011-01-11 Thread Craig Wallace
On 11/01/2011 17:57, DavidD wrote: The mapnik layer already renders highway=track;surfaced=paved as a solid line and highway=track;surface=unpaved as a dashed line. An example http://osm.org/go/eutNf8ah-- That is rendering the different tracktype tags (grade1/grade2 etc), not the surface

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-11 Thread Craig Wallace
On 10/01/2011 18:52, Richard Fairhurst wrote: A cursory glance suggests Britain appears to have more highway=unsurfaced than other places, and even then there aren't that many. I will happily fix 200 of them _properly_ (i.e. with what the track actually is, not the cop-out of highway=road) if

Re: [OSM-talk] no map data available for chilean map

2011-01-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 09/01/2011 15:09, Felipe Edwards wrote: Hi I have a garmin 1490t with europe navteq map as default. I regularly use the chilean .img file from geofabrik. It let me route and search cities, but i can´t search for addresses. When i try a pop up message cames out saying no map data available can

Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?

2011-01-03 Thread Craig Wallace
On 03/01/2011 17:14, Steve Coast wrote: I’m curious. So here’s a little survey, people like you take a second to answer it; http://bit.ly/ii3cKg Specifically I’m wondering if everyone has androids because we’re all open source nuts or if it’s more balanced? Only the data will show. Somewhat

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim US places

2010-12-30 Thread Craig Wallace
On 30/12/2010 20:33, Richard Welty wrote: Unclassified RoadBiittig Road, Sliters, Saratoga, 12018, ニューヨーク州, United States of America http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-73.6051635742188minlat=42.612548828125maxlon=-73.5850830078125maxlat=42.6175994873047 I'm not at all clear on why Saratoga

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-22 Thread Craig Wallace
On 22/12/2010 09:02, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I would also point out that in the time of the Cold War the USSR completely mapped the UK from orthophotos, with a little ground work by the spy network.

Re: [OSM-talk] Beginners guide to mapping technique?

2010-12-21 Thread Craig Wallace
On 21/12/2010 23:07, Dave F. wrote: Hi Is there a guide, not so much for the mechanics like learning how to use a GPS upload data, but more about the technique etiquette of mapping such as map what you see on the ground etc. This page has some useful

Re: [OSM-talk] Google fumbles again in latin america

2010-11-05 Thread Craig Wallace
On 05/11/2010 16:54, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Apollinaris Schoellascho...@gmail.com wrote: I consider it improving osm by a human mapper according the spirit of the project instead a container full of imports with not much value. If a human surveys on ground

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-01 Thread Craig Wallace
On 24/10/2010 20:02, Gorm E. Johnsen wrote: There are now few, if any, ways with highway=ford left. They have all been changed to highway=whatever the connecting ways are + ford=yes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ford. Any suggestions on what to do with the 4800 nodes also tagged with

Re: [Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits

2010-11-01 Thread Craig Wallace
On 01/11/2010 19:32, Colin Smale wrote: So why not start documenting all these defaults or implied values? Here's a few suggestions to get the ball rolling. Implicit speed limits are documented on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed Some other

Re: [Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits

2010-10-29 Thread Craig Wallace
, and if there's any gaps etc. Craig -- Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] length of of a way

2010-10-20 Thread Craig Wallace
On 20/10/2010 12:37, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: Hey, I've been tracing rivers in the Philippines for HOT and was wondering if there's an easy way to see how many kilometers I've traced. Anyone know of a tool? Otherwise I will try to develop something. The JOSM Measurement plugin can tell you

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Bike Shop dataset obtained: please merge in locations in your area

2010-10-12 Thread Craig Wallace
On 12/10/2010 20:49, Chris Fleming wrote: Quick question on this what are poeple doing with this data in cases where a shop is showing correctly in the list and is on the ground but isn't really a bike shop? The example I found is TISO:

Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

2010-09-19 Thread Craig Wallace
On 19/09/2010 14:37, Nic Roets wrote: For example, much of this service road is cut off. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.2214151lon=18.7401969zoom=18 Part of the problem in this example, is that barrier=gate is tagged on the intersection. So its not clear whether the gate is across the

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Scheme Recommendations: highway=path, footway, trail?

2010-08-30 Thread Craig Wallace
On 30/08/2010 14:53, Steve Bennett wrote: So you could end up mapping highway=path; bicycle=yes; width=1; surface=dirt; in great detail, and totally miss the fact it's unrideable. Use mtb:scale and/or sac_scale, to tag how ridable/hikable it is.

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk

2010-08-25 Thread Craig Wallace
think it would be helpful if something like OpenCycleMap highlighted roads tagged with bicycle=no - it would make the missing bits more obvious, and might encourage people to map more of them. Craig -- Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging roadside verge SSSIs

2010-06-30 Thread Craig Wallace
On 30/06/2010 16:01, Glenn Proctor wrote: Hi Near where I live there's a small stretch (about 100m) of the roadside verge that has signs on it saying that it's a Site of Special Scientific Interest. It's only on one side of the road, and is about 0.5m wide for most of its length, widening to

Re: [Talk-GB] Scotland countryside mapping

2010-06-13 Thread Craig Wallace
On 12/06/2010 22:37, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Firstly, while (I believe) you can walk just about anywhere in Scotland, except during the stalking season, there are a number of waymarked footpaths, waymarked similarly to England and Wales. I guess these have no legal relevance but are merely

Re: [Talk-GB] Private roads that are private for maintenance but are publicly accessible

2010-05-26 Thread Craig Wallace
On 26/05/2010 12:12, Ian Spencer wrote: Hi I noticed that a local road which is private is designated as access::private on OSM. My reading of that tag is that it implies users need permission to use the road. However, in common with many private roads, it is in private maintenance, but it

Re: [Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-20 Thread Craig Wallace
On 20/04/2010 13:42, Ed Loach wrote: Andy asked: Is there an easy way (a wiki page, perhaps; or some kind of category view) to see links to all such relations, and other such sets, as a list? I don't think there is a single wiki page that lists them. I think it was me added the second

Re: [OSM-talk] Documentation on Editing Relations

2010-03-27 Thread Craig Wallace
On 27/03/2010 22:20, Graham Jones wrote: Hi, I have always tried to avoid using relations (never really accepted that is better than adding route= tags to ways, and they seem to complicate things quite a lot), but I am trying to tidy up some long distance footpaths that have been done as

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for walkers / hikers - getting it going!

2010-03-12 Thread Craig Wallace
On 12/03/2010 10:23, Nick Whitelegg wrote: (PS I used the S.O.S (Spawn of Satan) tag 'path' , so I'm not sure how many of my trails will work with other stylesheets) path isn't Spawn of Satan! ;-) What is Spawn of Satan, here in the UK at least, is foot=yes. ;-) This is completely

Re: [OSM-talk] Photo_mapping - How to put EXIF data into a jpg image

2010-02-22 Thread Craig Wallace
On 22/02/2010 09:04, Liz wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Jochen Plumeyer wrote: In our case of photo geo tagging this is no issue I think. Please tell me if I'm wrong here. For photo geo-tagging the main problem is that you can set the camera time to a resolution of one minute, not one second,

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycleway on a Bridge

2010-02-18 Thread Craig Wallace
On 18/02/2010 17:06, Molescott wrote: When you come up either of the curved cycle access paths to the bridge, the cycle lane/track/path/way is the first thing you come across on the bridge. This part is actually a fairly wide pavement with a standard kerb, from which you can step down into

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