Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread John Robert Peterson
2009/9/16 Robert Naylor > > I'll be switching to using kerb=raised now. Although I assume if they've > altered the kerb that they buses serving the route would be low-floor > buses. > not necisarilly a good assumtion -- there can be 2 diferent companies running busses to the same stop, one usi

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Robert Naylor
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:58:09 +0100, Christoph Boehme wrote: > Robert Naylor wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:15 +0100, Christoph Boehme >> wrote: >>> Robert Naylor wrote: How about adding an option to set wheelchair=yes to mark the new higher kerbs that are suddenly

Re: [Talk-GB] What's in a name

2009-09-16 Thread WessexMario
'name' should, where available, contain the official place name. If a common name like 'Hull' is in use, then that's what the 'alt_name' tag is for. One problem in using other names would be that you wouldn't be able to reliably correlate different geoname resources. The mkgmap mailing list only

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Boehme
Thomas Wood wrote: > 2009/9/16 Andy Allan : >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Christoph Boehme wrote: >>> >>> Robert Naylor wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote: How about adding an option to set wheelchair=yes to mark the new higher kerbs that a

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Boehme
Robert Naylor wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:15 +0100, Christoph Boehme > wrote: >> Robert Naylor wrote: >>> >>> How about adding an option to set wheelchair=yes to mark the new higher >>> kerbs that are suddenly appearing everywhere (at least round here >>> anyway) >>> >>> http://www.flickr

Re: [Talk-GB] What's in a name

2009-09-16 Thread Mike Collinson
At 08:19 PM 15/09/2009, Chris Hill wrote: >I live near Hull, its proper name of course is Kingston upon Hull. It >has the long name on the map, but everyone knows it as Hull. I think it >would be better to use the shorter name and adding the long name as >alt_name. Any comments? > >Cheers, Ch

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 15 Sep 2009, at 08:50, Peter Childs wrote: > 2009/9/15 Peter Miller : >> >> On 15 Sep 2009, at 08:27, Brian Prangle wrote: >> >> Hi everyone >> >> Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement >> as to >> whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or not. For two reasons:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK government postcode/geolocation/nhs information leaked

2009-09-16 Thread John Robert Peterson
We may not be able to "use it" but mabee we can use it to highlight inacuaracies in our data, how do the legalities stand whith that sort of thing? that could clean up the postcode data awesomly. Would this be a good time to petitioning the government to give us access to this data, after all, I'm

[Talk-GB] UK government postcode/geolocation/nhs information leaked

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Barnes
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_government_database_of_all_1,841,177_post_codes_together_with_precise_geographic_coordinates_and_other_information,_8_Jul_2009 Shame we can't make use of it! Nick. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http:/

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Thomas Wood
2009/9/16 Andy Allan : > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Christoph Boehme wrote: >> >> >> Robert Naylor wrote: >>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle >>> wrote: >>> Hi everyone Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to whether a b

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Robert Naylor
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:15 +0100, Christoph Boehme wrote: > Robert Naylor wrote: >> >> How about adding an option to set wheelchair=yes to mark the new higher >> kerbs that are suddenly appearing everywhere (at least round here >> anyway) >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pobice/3925707792/

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Christoph Boehme wrote: > > > Robert Naylor wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone >>> >>> Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to >>> whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or n

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Boehme
Robert Naylor wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle > wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to >> whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or not. For two reasons: >> indication of a shelter is a representatio

Re: [Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

2009-09-16 Thread Robert Naylor
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote: > Hi everyone > > Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to > whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or not. For two reasons: > indication of a shelter is a representation of what's present on the > gro