[Talk-GB] Export Cyclemap

2009-08-18 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, Is there any legal or other reason that there is not an option to export Opencyclemap tiles. In the 'format to export' opencyclemap is not there. Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Export Cyclemap

2009-08-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Bob Kerropenstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi, Is there any legal or other reason that there is not an option to export Opencyclemap tiles. In the 'format to export' opencyclemap is not there. http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1049 It's not

[Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread David Earl
I put a proposal on the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Proposed_Chapters for a central England OSM local chapter. Peter disagrees with the (too small) scale of this and wants to discuss it here. I have no huge feelings about this. I just felt that we have

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Hill
What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. Cheers, Chris David Earl wrote: I put a proposal on the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Proposed_Chapters for a central

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Barnes
Chris Hill wrote: What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. Well, there is the issue of some very strange regional accents and dialects. ;-) Nick. ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/08/2009 12:42, Chris Hill wrote: What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. The main reason is one of the reasons behind the idea of local chapters in the first place - to give an official point of

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Jonathan Bennett
David Earl wrote: On 18/08/2009 12:42, Chris Hill wrote: What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. The main reason is one of the reasons behind the idea of local chapters in the first place - to give an

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
My main comment was that the proposal didn't 'sit' well with the government regional structures. I do have to make the comment though that the government regional structures are rather arbitrary and do not reflect real cultural regions. Where I am in Southampton, I'm supposedly in the same

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. Cheers, Chris One need would be to organise and coordinate local mapping. For instance, in my area (the Solent area or central southern England for want of a better

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Black
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: David Earl wrote: On 18/08/2009 12:42, Chris Hill wrote: What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. The main

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 18 Aug 2009, at 14:08, Nick Whitelegg wrote: My main comment was that the proposal didn't 'sit' well with the government regional structures. I do have to make the comment though that the government regional structures are rather arbitrary and do not reflect real cultural regions.

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Also, the definitive map/statement is not even definitive! The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 set a cut off date of 2026 for all rights of way to be recorded on definitive statements or be lost, Going off the OSM subject, but: would presence on an NPE map as a black dashed line but

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Hill
Nick Whitelegg wrote: What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. Cheers, Chris One need would be to organise and coordinate local mapping. For instance, in my area

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Nick Blacknickbla...@gmail.com wrote: Focus.  OSM-F focuses on global issues, OSMF-GB focusses on local / national issues. That sounds like the need for a working group, not a separate legal entity. OSM-F Local * Local community building and outreach *

[Talk-GB] Fw: English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk 18/08/2009 17:08 To Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk cc talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter Nick Whitelegg wrote: What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language conversion issues,

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-18 Thread MarkS
James Davis wrote: Nick Whitelegg wrote: We may be underestimating the intertwined nature of the definitive map /statement and OS data. Here in Hampshire the council are actually quite good. The definitive maps are all online (and clearly say OS copyright on them). In addition the

[Talk-GB] Estimating coverage again

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Reed
I've uncovered and fixed a few errors in my previous estimates of the % of UK roads included on OSM. I discovered a few days ago that there were a few areas where different boundaries overlapped, with the result that I was double counting some roads in more than one local authority. The