[Talk-GB] Change to event calendar: Midlands meet this Thursday, 31 July

2014-07-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, The "Mappa Mercia" group holds monthly meetings in the West Midlands on the first Thursday of every month. This month we will break the rule. Our next meeting is therefore this Thursday, 31st July in Shenstone, Staffordshire. Details at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Nex

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk Roads and Cycle Navigation

2014-07-28 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 28 July 2014 14:07, Dave F. wrote: > I must be missing something in your question, because what's wrong with > adding the sub tags bicycle/foot = yes/no? Some users have been adding > bicycle=no to UK motorways for this specific reasons. Agree. I think renderers and routers should not need to

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk Roads and Cycle Navigation

2014-07-28 Thread Dave F.
Hi I must be missing something in your question, because what's wrong with adding the sub tags bicycle/foot = yes/no? Some users have been adding bicycle=no to UK motorways for this specific reasons. General comments: Something that's said many times before, but needs to be repeated: There i

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk Roads and Cycle Navigation

2014-07-28 Thread ianmspencer
David, I’ve acknowledged this elsewhere and understand the problem better. I only had the perspective from having been hit by this problem from several sources over a number of years. I now realise it is a more general problem and am better armed to help point the producers in the right direct

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk Roads and Cycle Navigation

2014-07-28 Thread Stuart Reynolds
I absolutely agree that this has to be down to the users of the data to sort out. Here at traveline south east, we have just started using OSM for our GIS data and we map bus routes and route pedestrians on the GIS. We have had to take on board all sorts of "quirks" - three different ways (so fa

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk Roads and Cycle Navigation

2014-07-28 Thread David Woolley
On 27/07/14 22:26, ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: So there should be a clear tagging that is distinct for the meaning of “trunk (UK sense)” vs “trunk (International sense) The logical conclusion of this would be that there would have to be a different tag for every jurisdiction. In this context

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-28 Thread Dan S
You are! Or someone else. :) Are you in a position to help? Please add target press to the document if you have any suggestions. I wonder if UCL press office would be interested, since Steve Coast was at UCL when it started, and UCL has been supportive of OSM over the years. Is there a UCL+OSM per

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-28 Thread Brian Prangle
Who's going to draw up the target list of press platforms to send this to and more importantly discover the correct contact? Regards Brian On 27 July 2014 23:20, Dan S wrote: > Grant, > > Yes! Thanks for starting this. I've taken the liberty of being very > bold. I've changed the tone to how