[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: This Is Then - music project in need of a map

2013-10-02 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone - I've responded to this guy and offered him our help. Regards Brian -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:07 AM Subject: Re: This Is Then - music project in need of a map To: marko ma...@thisthen.co.uk Hi

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: This Is Then - music project in need of a map

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
I think we can manage this :-) I would suggest just using one of the existing map tiles such as toner as a starting point. Plenty to keep us going post sotm!! Rob On 2 Oct 2013 10:09, Brian Prangle br...@mappa-mercia.org wrote: Hi everyone - I've responded to this guy and offered him our help.

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-10-02 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 30 September 2013 08:12, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 29 September 2013 10:05, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: How about saying that 70mph can only be valid on a way tagged as one-way? In a word, I believe the answer is 'no'. I say that because the legal

[Talk-GB] Guardian gives Google credit for OpenStreetMap data!

2013-10-02 Thread Ian Caldwell
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/oct/02/live-london-bus-map quote Using Google Maps and data from Transport for London, Matthew Somerville has created this live London bus tracker But the map itself says map data by OpenStreetMap. Ian caldwell

Re: [Talk-GB] Chiddingfold/Dunsfold Footpath Mapping

2013-10-02 Thread SK53
I'd be interested if enough advance notice is given! Where would the likely starting point be (I'd be coming by public transport)? Jerry On 2 October 2013 00:16, Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote: I would be, however I'd be more keen to take my mountain bike out - there's seems to

Re: [Talk-GB] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

2013-10-02 Thread SK53
I think what is best is a 'world file'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file. I dont quite know what technology wikimedia are using, but there are some experienced wikimedians in the OSM community: Susanna Anas from Helsinki has been driving a lot of activity about using old maps from

Re: [Talk-GB] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

2013-10-02 Thread Steven Horner
I think what is best is a 'world file'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file. Apologies I sent an email earlier but had not copied into the list, I mentioned I had tested using the World file. Copied my email below. Hello, I haven't had a lot of time the last few days to look at these

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-10-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 October 2013 10:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 September 2013 08:12, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 29 September 2013 10:05, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: How about saying that 70mph can only be valid on a way