Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
Ed Loach wrote: It's kick self time. I know some people who live in Milton Keynes that I invited to join us, but they couldn't as they were due to leave for holiday last Friday. What I forgot to do is look up where in MK they live before the weekend so I could map their area for them, and I

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Ed Loach
I notice that Colchester has recently 'graduated' from UK Mapping Priorities due to the large effort that is currently going into the place. I have added a 'graduate' section to the UK Mapping Priority page for a list of towns that no longer warrant inclusion in the list (and have put

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
Ed Loach wrote: I did 29 and I think Ollie was doing 28 yesterday, unless he changed his mind about what to do? I just had a quick look and Potlatch doesn't show any GPS traces for their area in 28 yet. I did notice you've drawn a way nearby in 29 with no tags (I'd guess highway=service?):

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Tom Hughes wrote: Sent: 18 May 2009 10:34 AM To: Ed Loach Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party Ed Loach wrote: I did 29 and I think Ollie was doing 28 yesterday, unless he changed his mind about what to do? I just had a quick look and Potlatch doesn't show

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm expecting to organise another 6 parties through the rest of this year so people's preference for locations please shout up again. Scotland! I was just browsing around on z10 (i.e. the last

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 32, Issue 5

2009-05-18 Thread Oliver O'Brien
I ended up doing 22+23 instead - I did cycle through area 28 on Saturday evening, to find the concrete cows, so they are now properly on the map, along with a couple of Redways. Ollie Message: 2 Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:09:26 +0100 From: Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] MK

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Childs
I get the message, clearly our Scottish folk are feeling unloved too ;-) I think its more of a problem that the Scores are done Per Head Population Rather than land area. Its just important that The Highlands and Dartmoor get mapped as it is that London or Birmingham get done, In just as much

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Andy, I'm expecting to organise another 6 parties through the rest of this year so people's preference for locations please shout up again. From that list: Poole (as it's localish to me), and ideally over the summer (ie June/July/Aug) (but not between July 11-26) as that part of the

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Russ Phillips
2009/5/18 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: Stoke needs work but a party will probably happen there in July, watch the wiki for that. I live in Stoke-on-Trent, but don't have a great deal of time to spend mapping, so I'd love to see a mapping party there. I don't know

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:33 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: I also think we need to decide where tertiary should be used, as there's quite a difference between different blocks at the moment - most don't have any but some have loads. My personal opinion was that we should use tertiary for any

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/18 Bruce Cowan li...@bcowan.fastmail.co.uk: On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:33 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: I also think we need to decide where tertiary should be used, as there's quite a difference between different blocks at the moment - most don't have any but some have loads. My personal

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
Bruce Cowan wrote: The way I understood things, primary/trunk = A roads, secondary = B roads, tertiary = C roads. Yes, I know that C roads aren't usually put on signs, but they can be usually identified by the fact that they have broken white lines down their centre unlike unclassified

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Tom Hughes wrote: I normally just use tertiary for roads which are not A/B but are significant through roads of some sort. +1 -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/05/2009 16:28, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: I normally just use tertiary for roads which are not A/B but are significant through roads of some sort. +1 +1 also The C classification is just not available on the ground, and is in practice only of use to highway

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Tom Hughes wrote: I normally just use tertiary for roads which are not A/B but are significant through roads of some sort. +1 My criterion is normally that a tertiary road is a rural road too busy to comfortably walk along. Most use of tertiary I've seen corresponds to this, though there