[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Completing the Black Country by tracing OSSV

2010-04-20 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Andy and I reckon it would be great to complete the Black Country taking advantage of the data available to us from OSSV. I'm going to tidy up the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/Black_Country#Introductionupdating the tables showing completion ( this might take

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Completing the Black Country by tracing OSSV

2010-04-20 Thread Ed Loach
Fine by me. I’ve not had chance to do any more recently (since Christmas, perhaps) and don’t know when I’ll get chance (we’re passing through mid-May but doubt I’ll have time to go out mapping). I’m currently using OSSV to draw building outlines in Clacton where I previously surveyed house

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Kidderminster

2010-04-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
Sorry I couldn't make it; sounds like you had fun. I've updated the Wiki page to use past tense; can someone please check the attendee list? On Mon, April 19, 2010 22:22, Christoph Böhme wrote: I'm done with my area. Looking forward to see a direct comparison of before and after! Best,

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Kidderminster

2010-04-20 Thread Mary Mooney OSM
Done and dusted Mary On 19 April 2010 22:12, Brian Prangle bpran...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi everyone Can you let me know when you've finished your edits so I can get an after map to go on the blog with the before map. So far it's lookinbg pretty good! Regards Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-20 Thread Ed Loach
But I see OSM goes with the administrative boundaries rather than traditional counties, I think in some places there are relations for both admin boundary and ceremonial county, if that is the same as traditional. Essex for example: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Essex currently has:

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-20 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Chris Hill wrote: I've been taking a look at the boundary data released as part of the OS bundle. I've put together a little script that will extract a named boundary as an OSM file ready for loading into JOSM. OS data uses the OS projection and we use the WGS84 projection. I used ogr2ogr to

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Chadwick wrote: I've had a degree of success with http://search.cpan.org/~toby/Geo-Coordinates-OSGB-2.04/ - I've used these packages in the past for rectification of OOC OS stuff and conversion of many-figure OS grid refs with a good degree of success. Chris knows this already

Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District: Completely crazy idea, maybe, but...

2010-04-20 Thread Henry Gomersall
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 07:13 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: The other activity around here is 'aerial', such as microlight and hot air ballooning, and in those cases CHANGES to fied boundaries - which these days are not as stable as even OS would seem to imply - are something that would be very

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-20 Thread Jerry Clough - OSM
Apologies for top posting. I've been experimenting with the Civil Parish boundaries with QGIS and ogr2osm.py (modified to keep ways below 500 nodes). QGIS seems rather temperamental about reprojecting shape files: there are a huge number of settings which seem to affect the base projection.

Re: [Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-20 Thread Ed Loach
Andy asked: Is there an easy way (a wiki page, perhaps; or some kind of category view) to see links to all such relations, and other such sets, as a list? I don't think there is a single wiki page that lists them. I think it was me added the second relation to the Cambridgeshire (some weeks

Re: [Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-20 Thread Craig Wallace
On 20/04/2010 13:42, Ed Loach wrote: Andy asked: Is there an easy way (a wiki page, perhaps; or some kind of category view) to see links to all such relations, and other such sets, as a list? I don't think there is a single wiki page that lists them. I think it was me added the second

Re: [Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-20 Thread Ed Avis
Andy Mabbett a...@... writes: I think in some places there are relations for both admin boundary and ceremonial county, if that is the same as traditional. I believe that ceremonial counties are defined by recent Act of Parliament, and are not the same as the traditional ones. For example there

Re: [Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-20 Thread Steve Doerr
From: Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com Perhaps the ABC http://www.abcounties.co.uk/ would be able to supply traditional county boundaries in a form suitable for importing or tracing. Their home page has a link to http://www.county-borders.co.uk/, which mentions a couple of file formats