Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-10-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping >party? I might be interested depending on the type of mapping. Not so interested in addressing etc, but if it's road surveying/naming I'd be tempted. ATM can do any weekend except 12/13th. Nick __

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-10-31 Thread Shaun McDonald
Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping party? On Mon, October 31, 2011 1:45 pm, Dan Karran wrote: > Good point, that works better. > > > On 31 October 2011 13:05, Shaun McDonald > wrote: >> On Mon, October 31, 2011 11:52 am, Dan Karran wrote: >>> On 29 October 201

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-10-31 Thread Dan Karran
On 29 October 2011 10:52, Shaun McDonald wrote: > Is anyone interested in heading down to Brighton for a mapping party before > the end of the year? > > Place your name down here so that we can choose the best dates. > > http://doodle.com/xcyq94nknb2nsnw9 It looks like 19th or 20th November wou

[Talk-GB] Blog post: "Why we need an open-source geocoding alternative to Google" (discusses Nominatim)

2011-10-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
Someone better qualified than I might like to comment on the OSM section of: -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk __

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
Yes, I mourn the day when The Times abandoned -ize for -ise (a decade or so ago, I think)! Given that there are two alternative spellings in British English, one of which is the only spelling in American English, I think the spelling that is valid in both forms of the language (-iz-) should be

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

2011-10-31 Thread Barnett, Phillip
On the other hand, Cambridge University Press and Fowlers Modern English (my personal bible) prefer -ise, as does the entire British newspaper/mass media industry. Scientific and academic publications seem to prefer -ize. So I guess the question is whether OSM wants to aspire to 'academic' cre

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-10-31 Thread Andy Robinson
Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] wrote > Sent: 30 October 2011 20:43 > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK > > Brian Prangle wrote: > > what do you call places where they make cider/perry? > > "awesome" > I was going to suggest "under pressure