Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New BING imagery

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Thanks for letting us know. Based on the progress of the Coventry public realm improvements and this cross-reference photo [1], I would date the imagery as circa 27th March 2012. In Coventry, as with the previous imagery, there may be a small offset. If you use Ordnance Survey data released

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New BING imagery

2013-03-01 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 17:25 +, Rob Nickerson wrote: Thanks for letting us know. Based on the progress of the Coventry public realm improvements and this cross-reference photo [1], I would date the imagery as circa 27th March 2012. I am in North Shropshire, it certainly looks like this

Re: [Talk-GB] Dartmoor needs fixing (heath area missing a chunk)

2013-03-01 Thread Kevin Peat
On 28 Feb 2013 23:08, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: ...looks excellent as a get away from it all destination... Bring some good boots as it's pretty muddy after 6 months of rain. Kevin ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Dartmoor needs fixing (heath area missing a chunk)

2013-03-01 Thread Dudley Ibbett
Looks like I'm missing something here as I always assumed Dartmoor was a moor, given its name. Is there a reason for moors being tagged as heaths? There are some moors, in name, locally which need mapping. Dudley Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: On 28 Feb 2013 23:08, SomeoneElse

Re: [Talk-GB] Dartmoor needs fixing (heath area missing a chunk)

2013-03-01 Thread Kevin Peat
On 1 Mar 2013 13:48, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote: Looks like I'm missing something here as I always assumed Dartmoor was a moor, given its name. Is there a reason for moors being tagged as heaths? http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUcode=UK0012929

[Talk-GB] TNDS and NaPTAN data

2013-03-01 Thread Oliver Jowett
Hi Has anyone looked at using TNDS (http://traveline.info/tnds.html) as a basis for importing bus routes into OSM? I've had a quick look at the data and it looks like it would be possible to extract at least the stop ordering for each route. In theory it can also have the road routes between

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-03-01 Thread Aidan McGinley
* How accurate is the data already in OSM? Interesting question Rob, as of today there's approximately 200,000 ways or nodes tagged with postcodes in OSM, this is made up of about 29,000 unique postcodes. Those numbers are not 100% accurate as my bounding box for getting the data overlaps a bit

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
That's an interesting list for anyone who is concerned with data cleansing! Some of the results are because only the first part of a postcode has been entered, however even these have numerous formats (e.g. CV3, CV3 ???, CV3 ///). For the other errors, it tends to be typos (e.g. CO!6 7BJ, where !

Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign

2013-03-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 31 Oct 2012, at 16:02, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 31/10/2012 15:29, Andy Robinson wrote: Shaun McDonald [mailto:sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk] wrote: Sent: 31 October 2012 15:21 To: Matt Williams Cc: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous