On 1 Apr 2010, at 01:16, Phil Monger wrote:
Hi Tom,
Not sure I agree that Streetview is 'horrible' - as a free base map it will
rival or beat any of the others I have seen. This is even more true for rural
areas.
I am aware most of the raster stuff got left out, but streetview *is*
The problem with Meridian 2 is that it's a sampled set, so it's not as
spatially accurate as we would like. The objects are present, but we can do
better with shape if we wait, as TomH says, till the Vector Map District. We
know that with lots of high quality GPS traces we can get very close to
On 01/04/10 01:16, Phil Monger wrote:
Not sure I agree that Streetview is 'horrible' - as a free base map it
will rival or beat any of the others I have seen. This is even more true
for rural areas.
Well the cartography is horrible - the data is fine I'm sure. There just
isn't much detail
There's lots of interesting discussion about what we might do with the
opened Ordnance Survey data, but I think we need to get one thing straight
immediately: what do we tell the outside world if anyone asks, does this
mean OSM is redundant?
A very simple line, something like:
The OS data could
As Andy says, I say we start with getting boundary data fixed up from
Boundary Line and then look at Vector Map District in a month's time and
decide what the next step is
I agree with this; especially as boundary data is hard to come by any other
way
In the mean time, can't we just import
On 1 April 2010 09:25, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Gregory wrote:
Without restrictions? Does that mean no attribution, it sounds like PD.
Or does it mean they haven't told us the exact license yet but it will
be nice?
The latter, I think.
Off the top of my head:
- A wide collection of existing tools (rendering, checking, visualisations,
etc). Actually I see you said toolchain.
- Still up to date, potentially within minutes. The OS data can help us get
to a 'finished' point, and focus on updating. Especially with changing
things
On 01/04/10 09:39, Richard Bullock wrote:
You could have a database with all of the vector data - which gets
rendered - and is displayed as a different layer along with the OS raster
stuff. Could use those as a WMS layer for JOSM/Potlatch etc. The data itself
could be accessible via an API.
And again, I sent this to Richard instead of Talk-GB
On 1 April 2010 09:44, Russ Phillips r...@phillipsuk.org wrote:
On 1 April 2010 09:25, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Gregory wrote:
Without restrictions? Does that mean no attribution, it sounds like PD.
Or does it mean they
On 1 April 2010 00:47, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote:
is encourage people to rapidly trace this to form a base map, then set upon
the task of checking it for accuracy.
But I want to go out on my bike and map, I spend enough time at the
computer as it is, without sitting
Someone helpful at MySociety has published a mirror of the open data:
http://parlvid.mysociety.org:81/os/
Martin, ** CycleStreets - For Cyclists, By Cyclists
Developer, CycleStreets ** http://www.cyclestreets.net/
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Martin - CycleStreets wrote:
Someone helpful at MySociety has published a mirror of the open data:
http://parlvid.mysociety.org:81/os/
and it's now also at:
http://data.gov.uk/data/publicbody/Ordnance%20Survey
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Regarding the OS datasets, here is a suggestion: use it is to update the
name tag and fill in the missing gaps in attributes. For most of the
datasets, the quality of the positional information (that's the
geometry) is lower than that of OSM and it will make much more sense
just to identify
Meridian covers the countryside - but the data is derived at lower
resolution than in urban area, and some small roads are missing.
Muki
On 01/04/2010 12:16, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
From the grough site:
http://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2010/04/01/no-change-for-walkers-maps-as-os-frees-data
Does that mean there's nothing at all for countryside users in the OS
data being released? Or does Meridian have it?
Sorry to follow up my own post - it would appear not.
A real shame about the lack of countryside data in this free OS dataset.
The Meridian data doesn't really contain anything
I'm not sure the OS has reliable footpath data for the countryside anyway.
Last time I chatted with the OS about this they were interested in whether
OSM could work with them to update rural ROW footpaths because they don't
survey them anymore.
Cheers
Andy
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From:
Hi Andy,
I'm not sure the OS has reliable footpath data for the countryside
anyway.
Last time I chatted with the OS about this they were interested in
whether
OSM could work with them to update rural ROW footpaths because they don't
survey them anymore.
Really? - that's interesting. Do you
Hi,
The Ordnance Survey OpenData released today contains a dataset called
Code-Point Open giving the coordinates of about 1.5 million postcodes.
I've added a layer onto the postcode area map to show this data in the
same way it's been showing NPE, OSM and FreeThePostcode data for some
time.
Go
Looks really nice, with the colours as well!
Looking at the Thames east of London, the boundary down the river
between Kent and Essex looks rather suspicious. There seem to be bits of
Essex with a Kent postcode and vice versa. Is this a function of
clipping to the coastline that you mention? I
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 12:22 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Does that mean there's nothing at all for countryside users in the OS
data being released? Or does Meridian have it?
Sorry to follow up my own post - it would appear not.
A real shame about the lack of countryside data in this free
Tom Hughes [mailto:t...@compton.nu] wrote:
Sent: 01 April 2010 3:06 PM
To: Kai Krueger
Cc: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists); 'talk-gb'
Subject: Re: Ordnance Survey
On 01/04/10 14:42, Kai Krueger wrote:
Perhaps even easier and a bigger win, would be to import the postcode
data. It is only
The Kent / Essex thing is simply an artefact of deriving the areas from
known points. The boundaries shown are in effect we know based upon the
surrounding points that the boundary is approximately here.
I must say that I'm surprised at how well bits of OpenStreetMap's CT and
Code-Point Open's CT
For anyone wanting to hack the OS data released today, I've posted a
very brief tutorial on extracting data from Meridian2 with Perl:
http://www.systemeD.net/blog/?p=182
cheers
Richard
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A lot more farms are there as . Fm
It can't be that all farms are listed
as running the query only reveals 372
points with farm in the title.
Probably not enough to get too excited
about, maybe just deal with them manually?
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On 1 April 2010 22:40, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have been playing with the Ordnance Survey 50k gazetteer to see if it
looks useful (very simple search tool
at http://maps2.webhop.net/openos/gaz/www/doSearch.php).
As a 'point of interest' database it does not have
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