Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread John Sturdy
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 10/12/2012 08:18, Kevin Peat wrote: On Dec 10, 2012 1:25 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote No. We should be mapping physical objects... There are plenty of non-physical objects mapped in OSM As primary

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread Dave F.
On 11/12/2012 11:18, John Sturdy wrote: Yes --- administrative boundaries, for example. __John Fine, but that's kind of missing the point. That boundary is physical in that it does actually exist in statute books maps. The proposed autumn statement developments aren't (and probably won't

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread Andy Robinson
From: Dave F. [mailto:dave...@madasafish.com] wrote: Sent: 11 December 2012 12:16 Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM On 11/12/2012 11:18, John Sturdy wrote: Yes --- administrative boundaries, for example.

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread Dave F.
On 11/12/2012 12:29, Andy Robinson wrote: http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a11-fiveways-to-thetford-impr ovement/ Great. Then tag the fencing, access tracks construction site. They're physical. ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
David Earl wrote: http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a11-fiveways-to-thetford-improvement/ Yes indeed, it's true, they have been clearing the trees through the forest alongside the existing road and levelling the ground. It's been closed overnight in sections to do this so I had to

[Talk-GB] NaPTAN Bus Stops

2012-12-11 Thread Donald Noble
Hi, I was considering trying to get all the NaPTAN bus stops around Glasgow into OSM as an armchair mapping task for the holidays if the weather is too bad to get out and do much surveying. I tried downloading the XML file from data.gov.uk, but when I opened[1] it the 500MB file was all on the

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN Bus Stops

2012-12-11 Thread Barry Cornelius
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Donald Noble wrote: I tried downloading the XML file from data.gov.uk: The XML file is mentioned at: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan and it is available as a zip file at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/NaPTAN/snapshot/NaPTANxml.zip I think it gets regularly updated. but

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-11 Thread Jason Cunningham
This subject kind of came up when the HS2 route was announced and made available as open data. I didn't agree with that proposed route being added to Openstreetmap, because I didn't feel the likelihood of it happening was high enough. Below is my, slightly amended, views on 'proposed' routes