Have the Bath Bristol folks picked up on this one?
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Toll-road-field-gets-drivers-A431-closure/story
-22064579-detail/story.html
Cheers
Andy
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On 4 August 2014 12:11, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote:
Have the Bath Bristol folks picked up on this one?
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Toll-road-field-gets-drivers-A431-closure/story
-22064579-detail/story.html
tag:
legality=none
insurance_validity=dubious
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Andy Mabbett
More info at
http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/streets-and-highway-maintenance/roadworks/major-transport-schemes/a431-kelston-road-council
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The Council has no details to confirm the toll road design meets safety
standards and no evidence that insurances are in place for any member of
the public
Temporary roads need planning permission - and although I'm not sure about
this, I imagine it would need public liability insurance etc too.
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On 04/08/14 12:32, Richard Symonds wrote:
The Council has no details to confirm the toll road design meets safety
standards and no evidence that insurances are in place for any member of
the public who use the private toll road.
Just been listening to the news report on the road. Anybody
Councils are hog tied by over zealous legislation (and in this case clearly
pissed that they are not getting the excellent publicity). I applaud the
pragmatism and the balls for those who have put their hands in their pockets
and found a temporary fix. It doesn’t have planning permission, and
On 01/08/2014 11:17, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
OK. Clearly I'm going to have to think on this for a bit longer. I
think looking at somewhere like Swanley is a good idea, and also at
somewhere like Derbyshire if the stops data hasn't been imported there.
If you want to test a merge/import in
Hi! I would like to add ukrainian names for cities of UK, but found that
SomeoneElse_Revert removed some of name:uk-tags in changeset 20757217 with
a comment reverting undiscussed Ukrainian translations including ones
for which there's nothing on the ground.
This is the list of cities I plan to
Since English has non-phonetic spelling (and some placenames are
particularly non-phonetic) there's no solid base for automatic
transliteration to something meaningful in another script, so I
think
it's reasonable to put the Ukrainian spelling in explicitly, for
places for which such a
I hadn't known (or remembered) that recommendation from the wiki; but
still, the Ukrainian spelling (resulting in a Ukrainian reader
understanding it as a reasonable phonetic imitation of the English
name) may often be very far from a transliteration (letter-for-letting
substitution) from the
On 04/08/14 16:15, Pavlo Dudka wrote:
Hi! I would like to add ukrainian names for cities of UK, but found that
SomeoneElse_Revert removed some of name:uk-tags in changeset 20757217
with a comment reverting undiscussed Ukrainian translations including
There might be some need to check that:
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On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 16:51 +0100, John Sturdy wrote:
I hadn't known (or remembered) that recommendation from the wiki; but
still, the Ukrainian spelling (resulting in a Ukrainian reader
understanding it as a reasonable phonetic imitation of the English
name) may often be very far from a
On 4 August 2014 17:11, David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote:
This is the list of cities I plan to modify:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4rF
Those look like the sort of major cities and towns that
would have foreign language names.
This sounds like (yet another) job for Wikidata.
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Andy,
Totally agree with you: however, it would be quite nice to have some kind
of demonstrator showing how to take an OSM extract enrich it with
wikidata values.
Arising out of this point, it is worth, at the very least ensuring UK
places have a wikipedia tag.
Jerry
On 4 August 2014 18:24,
On 4 August 2014 18:46, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
Totally agree with you: however, it would be quite
nice to have some kind of demonstrator showing
how to take an OSM extract enrich it with wikidata
values.
Briefly (I'm just about to go out), the technique is demonstrated at:
On 04/08/2014 18:08, Philip Barnes wrote:
The big problem with transliteration to help pronunciation is where do
you stop, Berlin for example has 194 name tags for different
languages, 84 of which just say Berlin.
Which gets straight to the nub of the problem. Berlin does _not_ need a
On 04/08/2014 16:15, Pavlo Dudka wrote:
Hi! I would like to add ukrainian names for cities of UK, but found
that SomeoneElse_Revert removed some of name:uk-tags in changeset
20757217 with a comment reverting undiscussed Ukrainian
translations including ones for which there's nothing on the
Ed Loach edloach@... writes:
There is a bit in the wiki which recommends avoiding
transliterations:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Avoid_transliteration
It was only put in recently and I personally find it unhelpful. Would anyone
object to removing it?
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Andrew
Andrew Hain wrote:
It was only put in recently and I personally find it unhelpful. Would
anyone object to removing it?
Yes.
Richard
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On 05/08/14 00:11, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Andrew Hain wrote:
It was only put in recently and I personally find it unhelpful. Would
anyone object to removing it?
Yes.
Ditto ... The alternate name tagging is designed where there are
alternate names in other languages. Simply writing a name
Hi,
On 08/04/2014 08:23 PM, SomeoneElse wrote:
To duplicate every name in OSM in every language (or even every
alphabet) is clearly ridiculous - and the but it's only for cities
argument is also not a good one, since what is done for cities will next
be done for towns, villages, village
On 28/07/14 14:07, Dave F. wrote:
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.
This would appear to be the right way to do it and my
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