[Talk-GB] Map of Trace data, was: Re: Stitching Aerial Photographs (John Robert Peterson)

2009-09-21 Thread Phil James
John Robert Peterson wrote: Do we have anything that will draw map tiles of the trace data? (I'd like this for another project anyway: checking whether traces exist for an area when out with a mobile device) +1 for that; it's a real pain when people don't include source data, especially for rura

Re: [Talk-GB] Stitching Aerial Photographs

2009-09-21 Thread Matt Williams
2009/9/21 Axel Jacobs : > I know the Hugin community is a very friendly crowd. With some > funding/help/sponsorship/encouragement it might be possible to implement a > geo-mode for aerial photos: Instead of showing two images in the Control > Points panel, it could be one image plus a slippy map

Re: [Talk-GB] Stitching Aerial Photographs

2009-09-21 Thread Matt Williams
2009/9/20 John Robert Peterson : > I learned from some attempts at making panoramas (using hugin) in the past, > that it's good to have a wide overlap, I always try for a little more than > 50% so that if one image fails, the 2 next to it can fill in the gap at a > pinch. Yes, this has certainly h

[Talk-GB] Number10 petitions response... Will nothing ever change?

2009-09-21 Thread Christopher Woods
Yet again, uk.gov has confirmed that the old state of affairs is to largely stay put. Their response: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20555 Does anybody use any of the free experimental datasets? Could they be used to verify OSM features? ___ Talk-GB m

[Talk-GB] Social Meetup in Edinburgh, Naptan, 3D Buildings

2009-09-21 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, Just a quick reminder that we will be having a social meeting for openstreetmap tommorow at the Guildford Arms http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events Edinburgh has nearly all the streets named now, and people are starting to but in address numbers and details for places

[Talk-GB] FreeMaps petition

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Hill
Oh dear, is it me or have the government managed to *completely* miss the point: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20555 Shame the petitions website doesn't provide any sensible method to respond to the government's response and open a dialogue with them. -- - Steve xmpp:st...@nexusuk.org