Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-27 Thread Dave F.
On 27/09/2010 19:18, Tom Chance wrote: On 27 September 2010 17:41, Dave F. > wrote: On 27/09/2010 17:16, Tom Chance wrote: On 27 September 2010 16:34, Dave F. mailto:dave...@madasafish.com>> wrote: Hmm... Mapping from Yahoo without ground knowled

Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-27 Thread Tom Chance
On 27 September 2010 17:41, Dave F. wrote: > On 27/09/2010 17:16, Tom Chance wrote: > > On 27 September 2010 16:34, Dave F. wrote: > >>Hmm... Mapping from Yahoo without ground knowledge is legitimate. >> Tagging the source as Yahoo implies that it maybe out of date & another, >> more accura

Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-27 Thread Dave F.
On 27/09/2010 17:16, Tom Chance wrote: On 27 September 2010 16:34, Dave F. > wrote: Hmm... Mapping from Yahoo without ground knowledge is legitimate. Tagging the source as Yahoo implies that it maybe out of date & another, more accurate survey, should

Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-27 Thread Tom Chance
On 27 September 2010 16:34, Dave F. wrote: > Hmm... Mapping from Yahoo without ground knowledge is legitimate. Tagging > the source as Yahoo implies that it maybe out of date & another, more > accurate survey, should be carried out in the future but that shouldn't > hinder adding the data. > > I

Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-27 Thread Dave F.
On 27/09/2010 14:52, Tom Chance wrote: On 27 September 2010 12:04, Ed Avis > wrote: Tom Chance writes: >If you have the time, it would be good to have buttons to say: >* "this allotment doesn't exist on the ground" >* "our name is correct" Also,

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Richard Palmer
Dear Lester, > start_date and end_date exist, But are not used as much SHOULD be. > http://www.slideshare.net/frankieroberto/mapp-history-on-open-street-map was > presented last year and gives a nice summary ... I was sure somebody would have done this before!. I'll ask Mr Roberto if he pursued

Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-27 Thread Tom Chance
On 27 September 2010 12:04, Ed Avis wrote: > Tom Chance writes: > > >If you have the time, it would be good to have buttons to say: > >* "this allotment doesn't exist on the ground" > >* "our name is correct" > > Also, "survey required" (about 60% of missing allotments can be traced from > Yahoo

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Palmer wrote: On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: > > I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London > > (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce a 'animated' map > > showing the changes along it from the C18th onwards. I

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread SomeoneElse
On 27/09/2010 12:02, Dave F. wrote: I've an abandoned railway in my area where sections of it are now invisible having been completely leveled & used as agricultural land. Someone's tagged these as railway=abandoned. I don't think they should. I'd agree with that. I think that what happene

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Richard Palmer
Dear Dave, > On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: > > I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London > > (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce a 'animated' map > > showing the changes along it from the C18th onwards. I've had a go at > >

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Ian Spencer
Dave F. wrote on 27/09/2010 12:02:  On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: Dear all, I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do i

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread 80n
In my opinion historical data is definitely an important part of OSM. Yes it will get cluttered, but better tools will deal with that when it becomes a problem. Short term chronological data is beneficial anyway. For future events, new roads etc, they can be surveyed and added ahead of their off

Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-27 Thread Ed Avis
Tom Chance writes: >If you have the time, it would be good to have buttons to say: >* "this allotment doesn't exist on the ground" >* "our name is correct" Also, "survey required" (about 60% of missing allotments can be traced from Yahoo photos). -- Ed Avis _

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Dave F.
On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: Dear all, I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce a 'animated' map showing the changes along it from the C18th onwards. I've had a go at

Re: [Talk-GB] Hunt the London allotments - with wiki page

2010-09-27 Thread Tom Chance
On 22 September 2010 23:37, Robert Scott wrote: > The musical allotments branch now has a simple comments system. You can add > comments to a particular datastore allotment, d.s. allotments with comments > are filled in yellow (think post-it notes). > > Please don't abuse it - comments can't be d