[Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
(The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback) (I posted this email to the "talk" mailing list last Tuesday. Since then we had some great feedback and changes have been made to the desig

Re: [Talk-GB] OSSV impact on OSM GB

2013-11-15 Thread Andy Robinson
Probably one of the best example areas is Lincolnshire which was very poorly mapped indeed prior to OS Opendata or Bing imagery being available. Afterwards there was a push by some to at least get the road network in by armchair mapping. Any analysis like this needs to consider the timing of data r

Re: [Talk-GB] OSSV impact on OSM GB

2013-11-15 Thread Borbus
On 15/11/13 14:08, Abhishek wrote: > - what explains certain regions getting a lot of new highways while > other not? I'm talking about areas like Suffolk (but not Norfolk), > Lancashire but not North Yorkshire? There are many such examples. Norfolk just didn't have any active mappers at that time

[Talk-GB] OSSV impact on OSM GB

2013-11-15 Thread Abhishek
Hi, I've been working on trying to understand what impact OS OpenData had on OSM in the UK. As a first cut, I looked at all objects with the following properties in the gb history extract upto 2012: - version = 1 - name not equal to blank - highway = residential, footway, service, unclassified, t