Re: [Talk-GB] London Datastore, public data and OSM

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Chance
On 25 February 2010 12:21, Peter Miller wrote: > I would be happy to do so (assuming no diary clash - confirmation of that > later). I would need to know a time and a place and a brief on what they > might or might not already know and how long I would have. I suggest that I > talk offline with T

[Talk-GB] London Datastore, public data and OSM

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Miller
On 25 Feb 2010, at 11:17, Tom Chance wrote: Hello, I've been starting some discussions with the people behind the London Datastore - Emer Coleman and the GLA's GIS Manager Gareth Baker. We have talked about making public data available for OpenStreetMap, about entering OSM data sources i

[Talk-GB] London Datastore, public data and OSM

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Chance
Hello, I've been starting some discussions with the people behind the London Datastore - Emer Coleman and the GLA's GIS Manager Gareth Baker. We have talked about making public data available for OpenStreetMap, about entering OSM data sources in the Datastore, and collaborating where public author

Re: [Talk-GB] Looking for places to map?

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Miller
On 24 Feb 2010, at 01:16, Peter Reed wrote: > Steve, > > It needn't be parishes. For population data it looks as though I can > get > down to ward level with up-to-date numbers from ONS. > http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=13893 > > Looking at the ONS lists there are about

[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Consultation in Plain English

2010-02-25 Thread Brian Quinion
This may be of some interest to people, although I suspect many will already have waded through the actual consultation paper. An attempt to translate the consultation paper into 'plain english': http://www.simplyunderstand.com/2010/02/ordnance-survey-options-for-change-or.html http://understood.

Re: [Talk-GB] Looking for places to map?

2010-02-25 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Peter Childs wrote: >Sent: 25 February 2010 7:53 AM >To: peter.r...@aligre.co.uk >Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Looking for places to map? > snip > >Thinking about this probably the best way to collect this data is to >map who has there rubbish collected on which day of