[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Worcestershire Public Rights of Way - OGL

2012-08-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I am happy to confirm that I have received confirmation that the PRoW data held at [1] is available under the OGL licence. This data is the digitised Definitive Map, and is provided as a WMS map service. This can be viewed online (through [1] or [2]), alternatively it can be opened in

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

2012-08-03 Thread Stuart Harrison
Hi all, Good to see those who came to the social in Coleshill last night. As I mentioned, I've got the locations of all the postboxes and post offices in the UK (taken from this FOI requesthttp://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/postbox_data_in_central_collecti_2) in Scraperwiki here:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

2012-08-03 Thread Andy Robinson
What licence is the data under? Cheers Andy From: Stuart Harrison [mailto:pezho...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 August 2012 11:26 To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes Hi all, Good to see those who came to the social in Coleshill last night.

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

2012-08-03 Thread Ed Loach
Looking at the FOI request: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/119687/response/296922/attach/ 5/attachment.txt Ed From: Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 August 2012 11:37 To: 'Stuart Harrison'; talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Worcestershire Public Rights of Way - OGL

2012-08-03 Thread Big Fat Frog
Excellent, thanks a lot for that, very useful. Jonathan On 03/08/2012 11:09, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi All, I am happy to confirm that I have received confirmation that the PRoW data held at [1] is available under the OGL licence. This data is the digitised Definitive Map, and is provided as a

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

2012-08-03 Thread Alison Smith
Hi Sorry to miss the social meet last night hoping to be at next one. I think it was at local gov camp recently someone mentioned that Royal Mail were documenting not only every post box but also the location of letterboxes on every house ... With scraperwiki could link that to what

[Talk-GB] Worcestershire Public Rights of Way - OGL

2012-08-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I am happy to confirm that I have received confirmation that the PRoW data held at [1] is available under the OGL licence. This data is the digitised Definitive Map, and is provided as a WMS map service. This can be viewed online (through [1] or [2]), alternatively it can be opened in

[Talk-GB] Use of place=town

2012-08-03 Thread Richard Mann
Is it me, or have people been a bit over-enthusiastic with the use of place=town in parts of north London? I'd have thought town should be more restricted to definite centres, with place=suburb quite sufficient for the rest? Market towns used to have a rule that they only got a charter if they

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of place=town

2012-08-03 Thread Richard Mann
Sorry; meant to include a permalink: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.58lon=-0.122zoom=11layers=M On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: Is it me, or have people been a bit over-enthusiastic with the use of place=town in parts of north