Re: [Talk-GB] streetmap.co.uk

2012-06-18 Thread Graham Jones
It is nice to see, but does show up my mapping of Hartlepool - as you zoom in you go from OS rendering that includes lots of crude outlines of buildings, garden boundaries etc., to OSM.which doesn't.I must try to interest some school children to do some tracing - I am far to lazy! Still, a

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Ed Loach
Rob wrote: > I don't see this. Right and Left tell you where the lane is, but it does not > tell a user (or routing software) which direction you can ride in. This > requires knowledge of which side of the road each country drives on > (or forward/backward tags). Ah, yes. I see your point. I

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Martin - CycleStreets
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Andy Allan wrote: On 18 June 2012 14:10, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote: > > Will the errors/discrepancies we identify be fed back to the DfT? Unless Martin knows more than I do, then in all honesty I doubt it. I'm hoping instead that whenever the DfT next want cycling d

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Martin - CycleStreets
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Tom Chance wrote: This looks like a great project. Can you clarify the situation in London? I don't really know what areas the "SuperLondonBorough" sets cover. I added some hints to the wiki as to where each of them open, then went from the one that starts in Sydenham

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Andy Allan
On 18 June 2012 10:58, Ed Loach wrote: > Also, I'm not up on cycleway lane tagging, and on a section where > there are lanes both sides, is cycleway:left=lane and > cycleway:right=lane correct, as per merge tool suggestions? Also, > the merge tool is showing a suggest of Lane with a capital letter

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Andy Allan
On 18 June 2012 14:37, Rob Nickerson wrote: > 'Left'/'Right' is then based on the direction of the > way, therefore you will need to make sure that OSM's and DfT's ways are > drawn in the SAME DIRECTION before merging! They should be. In some cases you'll find the DfT data tagged with "oneside" e

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Tom Chance
On 18 June 2012 14:35, Andy Allan wrote: > On 17 June 2012 18:30, Tom Chance wrote: > > It would be really helpful if the snapshot server could render a map > showing > > where the remaining unmerged data is located. > > That's a good idea, and it's something I've now added to the issues list. >

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Andy Allan
On 18 June 2012 14:10, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote: > > smurph wrote >> I've just been looking through the CUBA data and I think we need to show >> that a route is part of a relation (specifically NCNs - which are mostly >> done by relation in the Bristol area) to avoid someone retagging all of

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
>Also, I'm not up on cycleway lane tagging, and on a section where >there are lanes both sides, is cycleway:left=lane and >cycleway:right=lane correct, as per merge tool suggestions? Also, >the merge tool is showing a suggest of Lane with a capital letter, >which I think should be lower case. > >Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Andy Allan
On 17 June 2012 18:30, Tom Chance wrote: > It > would be really helpful if the snapshot server could render a map showing > where the remaining unmerged data is located. That's a good idea, and it's something I've now added to the issues list. https://github.com/gravitystorm/snapshot-server/iss

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Graham Stewart (GrahamS)
smurph wrote > I've just been looking through the CUBA data and I think we need to show > that a route is part of a relation (specifically NCNs - which are mostly > done by relation in the Bristol area) to avoid someone retagging all of > the ways as NCN when they are already part of an NCN relati

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] National Memorial Arboretum this Saturday

2012-06-18 Thread Andy Robinson
Phil, The more the merrier! Cheers Andy From: phil.pe...@gmail.com [mailto:phil.pe...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Philip John Sent: 18 June 2012 13:37 To: Andy Robinson Cc: talk-gb-westmidla...@openstreetmap.org; Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] National Memori

Re: [Talk-GB] How to work with Government Open Data (e.g. Boundaries, Rights of Way)

2012-06-18 Thread Gregory
How do footpaths work legally with textual descriptions? If a field has a stile/gate at opposite corners. The footpath may have originally cut across, legally the landowner has to allow access between the two gates, but can he make people walk round the edge of his field. Also in reverse, if the fo

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Mann
I'd be tempted to convert the cycleway=lane into cycleway:left=lane and cycleway:right=lane anyway, since (if I understand it right), it's relatively easy to tag-transform it back again, for data users who can only use symmetrical stuff. The capital letter is wrong though. Richard On Mon, Jun 18,

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Ed Loach
One last comment for now. When looking at a project page, such as: http://gravitystorm.dev.openstreetmap.org/cnxc-snapshot/projects/78/ tagged_ways It would be good to have a link to edit a relevant area, or failing that at least a latitude/longitude so you can find the way. I've followed the two

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] National Memorial Arboretum this Saturday

2012-06-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 18 June 2012 10:31, Andy Robinson wrote: > We have a micro mapping party proposed for this Saturday to the National > Memorial Arboretum [1] at Alrewas, Staffs [2]. > Our plan is to improve our own detail and get as many of the memorials on > OpenStreetMap as possible (there are hundreds!) S

Re: [Talk-GB] streetmap.co.uk

2012-06-18 Thread Dave F.
On 18/06/2012 11:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: www.streetmap.co.uk - one of the two first UK mapping sites (along with Multimap) - has started using OSM. Their 1:5k layer is now OSM-based outside London, where they still use A-Z. Custom cartography in quite an A-Z-like style! Good news. Do yo

Re: [Talk-GB] streetmap.co.uk

2012-06-18 Thread Barry Cornelius
They credit "Open Street Map" rather than "OpenStreetMap". -- Barry Cornelius http://www.northeastraces.com/ http://www.thehs2.com/ http://www.rowmaps.com/ http://www.oxonpaths.com/ http://www.barrycornelius.com/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@opens

[Talk-GB] Meet up Edinburgh at Guildford arms tomorrow Tues 19th June

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi we will be having a pub social in Edinburgh http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events We have been offered a photo lab with a wikipedia group, date still to be arranged. Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.or

Re: [Talk-GB] streetmap.co.uk

2012-06-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/18/2012 12:05 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: www.streetmap.co.uk - one of the two first UK mapping sites (along with Multimap) - has started using OSM. Their 1:5k layer is now OSM-based outside London, where they still use A-Z. Custom cartography in quite an A-Z-like style! Maybe they

[Talk-GB] streetmap.co.uk

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
www.streetmap.co.uk - one of the two first UK mapping sites (along with Multimap) - has started using OSM. Their 1:5k layer is now OSM-based outside London, where they still use A-Z. Custom cartography in quite an A-Z-like style! cheers Richard ___

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Ed Loach
Also, I'm not up on cycleway lane tagging, and on a section where there are lanes both sides, is cycleway:left=lane and cycleway:right=lane correct, as per merge tool suggestions? Also, the merge tool is showing a suggest of Lane with a capital letter, which I think should be lower case. Ed

[Talk-GB] National Memorial Arboretum this Saturday

2012-06-18 Thread Andy Robinson
We have a micro mapping party proposed for this Saturday to the National Memorial Arboretum [1] at Alrewas, Staffs [2]. I'm now available so will be able to make it and I'll do a little planning this week to smooth the day. It would be handy to get an idea of numbers who are planning to come along

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-18 Thread Ed Loach
Are there any notes I'm missing about how to access and deal with nodes in the DfT data? e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/edloach/7392860104/in/photostream Ed > -Original Message- > From: Martin - CycleStreets [mailto:list-osm-talk- > g...@cyclestreets.net] > Sent: 17 June 2012 12:44 > T