[Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

2008-12-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
It is with great pleasure, and not just a little excitement, that I can announce that the mappers in Birmingham having set the task of completing the whole of the city by Christmas have achieved just that. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.4708lon=-1.8972zoom=12layers=0B00FT F Birmingham and

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

2008-12-23 Thread Gregory Williams
-Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy Robinson (blackadder- lists) Sent: 23 December 2008 09:37 To: t...@openstreetmap.org; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org; talk-gb- westmidla...@openstreetmap.org Subject:

[Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

2008-12-23 Thread Peter Miller
I am pleased to be able to announce that after discussions between various OSM contributors and the DfT / Traveline over the past months we are now able to make this announcement just in time for Xmas :) --- The UK Department for Transport, together with Traveline, is offering to make

Re: [Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

2008-12-23 Thread LeedsTracker
This is great news, well done to all involved. Even with some restrictions, makes a nice change from the ongoing Ordnance Survey arguments. Does this mean I can stop photographing bus stop signs around Leeds (and receiving pitying glances from folk waiting for their bus)? cheers, LT

Re: [Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

2008-12-23 Thread Chris Morley
Peter Miller wrote: The UK Department for Transport, together with Traveline, is offering to make available the bulk of the data from their NaPTAN and NPTG data sets to the OpenStreetMap project. Well done Peter Miller, this is very welcome and illustrates the importance of OSM having

Re: [Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

2008-12-23 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:48:24PM +, Peter Miller wrote: I am pleased to be able to announce that after discussions between various OSM contributors and the DfT / Traveline over the past months we are now able to make this announcement just in time for Xmas :) A lovely Christmas

Re: [Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

2008-12-23 Thread David Earl
On 23/12/2008 14:48, Peter Miller wrote: I am pleased to be able to announce that after discussions between various OSM contributors and the DfT / Traveline over the past months we are now able to make this announcement just in time for Xmas :) --- The UK Department for Transport,

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

2008-12-23 Thread Chris Morley
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: It is with great pleasure, and not just a little excitement, that I can announce that the mappers in Birmingham having set the task of completing the whole of the city by Christmas have achieved just that. Well done, a triumph for effort and

Re: [Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

2008-12-23 Thread Kyle Gordon
This is awesome news to hear! A big thank you to all those involved, in OSM and the DfT / Traveline. Kyle Peter Miller wrote: I am pleased to be able to announce that after discussions between various OSM contributors and the DfT / Traveline over the past months we are now able to make

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

2008-12-23 Thread SteveC
Seriously, super, awesome cool. On 23 Dec 2008, at 09:37, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: It is with great pleasure, and not just a little excitement, that I can announce that the mappers in Birmingham having set the task of completing the whole of the city by Christmas have

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

2008-12-23 Thread OJ W
Featured image please! pick a screenshot... and join cambridge, isle of wight, and anywhere near 80n in satisfying glow of success. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Larger places most needing map love in UK

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Chilton
Have put up a page which tries to identify/quantify larger places in UK that need much osm map love. See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Places_to_map_next#UK_Places_to_map_next Linked off UK project page Cheers STEVE ___ Talk-GB