[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Success story

2012-09-27 Thread Big Fat Frog
Hi all, Wanted to share this brief success story for OpenStreetMap. I was marshalling at a 40 mile walk/run around Birmingham's canals the other weekend and the start/end was at Ackers: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.45905lon=-1.85263zoom=17layers=M Apart from spending the quiet

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Success story

2012-09-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Glad to hear the map being actively used on the ground. I agree that it would be nice to link in with live timetables but this requires developers who have the right skills to expose the data in a nice interface (and then ideally we need it to be adopted on the main website). All volunteers

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

2012-09-27 Thread Philip Barnes
I would not consider a roundabout or a slip road to be any different to that signposted. Whilst exceeding 60 on a roundabout is unlikely, I would consider the limit to be that of the road it is joining. In the days before the chopsticks signs on motorways, and still in Scotland, the 70 sign

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

2012-09-27 Thread Jason Cunningham
As I mentioned earlier on it was speed limits for roundabouts along a dual carriageway that led to me doing a bit of research on UK speed limit legislation. My 'notes' are below http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Jamicu/UK_Speed_Limits A roundabout does not meet the given definition of a

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2013

2012-09-27 Thread Tim Waters
Hi On 17 September 2012 18:00, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote: Just to throw another venue idea into the mix, how about Warwick University? Advantages: it keeps winning awards as one of the best conference venues in the UK, and can offer a very full-service event where the venue

[Talk-GB] UK Open Data User Group asks what data do you want

2012-09-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Just a quick heads up that the Open Data User Group (supported by UK Government) as asking what data do you want. If interested there are details of the initiative and a simple form to fill out: http://www.data.gov.uk/odug/overview http://data.gov.uk/node/add/data-request Cheers, Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Data User Group asks what data do you want

2012-09-27 Thread Richard Mann
I've asked for Network Rail's Sectional Appendices (track layout diagrams and lots of other goodies) to be available in PDF form. Richard On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, Just a quick heads up that the Open Data User Group (supported by

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Data User Group asks what data do you want

2012-09-27 Thread Shaun McDonald
PDF isn't necessarily the best format if you want to process the data with some other program. It's great for presentation, but as soon as you want to push it around and mix it with things, and do interesting things it's much less useful. Shaun On 27 Sep 2012, at 23:19, Richard Mann

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Data User Group asks what data do you want

2012-09-27 Thread Richard Mann
It's not geocoded, so it'll need human interpretation. Richard On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.ukwrote: PDF isn't necessarily the best format if you want to process the data with some other program. It's great for presentation, but as soon as you want