[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tamworth Social

2010-08-25 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Cake is now on the wiki for you to grab a slice ( for those of you who are still able to come) Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre

2010-08-25 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone You might have notice a lot of editing activity recently in Birmingham City Centre. This is due to the arrival and loading of the aerial imagery we have been talking about for so long. Thanks are due to Andy for tiling the aerial imagery. Because of the licensing restrictions we (Andy

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre

2010-08-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 August 2010 10:33, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: You might have notice a lot of editing activity recently in Birmingham City Centre. This is due to the arrival and loading of the aerial imagery we have been talking about for so long. This is great news; congratulations on your

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham City Centre

2010-08-25 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Good news. Thanks Brian and Andy. Would it help if we had an editing day to get people together and update a lot in one go? It would share the work, and less experienced people could contribute and learn something at the same time. As Andy Mabbett says, once there are images from some example

[Talk-GB] highway=trunk

2010-08-25 Thread Ian Spencer
I came across a problem with Velomap, which I find is a good autorouting version of OSM for my purposes for cycling and still works fine for walking too. Velomap has made an assessment of the various tags to guess how best to route for bicycles on roads, tracks and

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-25 Thread Ian Spencer
Brad Rogers wrote on 25/08/2010 11:30: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:57:23 +0100 Ian Spencer ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Ian, suggested, there are no sources quoted on the ways typically, and a very high number of ways simply do not join although keepright

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-25 Thread Dave F.
On 25/08/2010 11:30, Brad Rogers wrote: Finally, it strikes me as odd that some sort of checking isn't done at mapping time (I use Potlatch, ATM) to help eradicate some of the errors. This is a good point. A test to check if the way isn't joined to anything else should be fairly easy to

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk

2010-08-25 Thread Jim Avery
On 25 August 2010 09:07, Ian Spencer ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: I came across a problem with Velomap, which I find is a good autorouting version of OSM for my purposes for cycling and still works fine for walking too. Velomap has made an assessment of the various tags to guess how best to

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:33:49 +0100 Ian Spencer ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Ian, It is a tricky one in that if you can't tell how they interact with OSM you don't know whether the person is being wilful or not. I always True. I tend to assume that user is doing accidental 'damage',

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk

2010-08-25 Thread Ian Spencer
Jim Avery wrote on 25/08/2010 12:36: Personally I think that explicitly tagging roads which are already by definition cycle-legal as bicycle=yes would be too onerous and not entirely helpful. There are quite a few roads which are legal but lethal for cyclists. I think

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk

2010-08-25 Thread Craig Wallace
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:41 +0100, Ian Spencer ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: I think already by definition cycle-legal is the very point I am querying. The trouble with the Bicycle restrictions section is that it falls at the first hurdle as nobody seems to have defined (on an international