Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Shenstone done

2014-08-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
Nice one. I've added a few OSM Notes of things that caught my attention when checking with the geofabrik OSM Inspector tool. If you have time to stop by these, that would be great. Rob On 7 August 2014 22:12, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: I wrapped up the remaining main Shenstone

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-11 Thread Pavlo Dudka
2014-08-11 1:31 GMT+03:00 SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk: Taking for example Nottingham: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/24913081 What is the source of this data? Common knowledge. How can someone who's local to Nottingham actually verify that the name that you've added is

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road

2014-08-11 Thread Dave F.
On 05/08/2014 15:38, Andy Robinson wrote: Whether its legal is not our concern surely Not really true: So many of the tags used are based around legal regulations: access=* max_speed=* bicycle=no etc... etc... Dave F. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-11 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, SomeoneElse wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road

2014-08-11 Thread Colin Smale
In this case it is not our access to, or use of, the road which may be illegal (the landowner is giving us permission after all, once we hand over the two quid) but the very existence of the road, because it was constructed without the requisite planning permission. On 2014-08-11 11:10, Dave

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road (going a bit OT)

2014-08-11 Thread Dave F.
On 05/08/2014 15:00, Curon Davies wrote: On 5 August 2014 14:25, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com mailto:dave...@madasafish.com wrote: One reason I haven't added it is because it's illegal (AFAIK. The owners of the land local councillor failed to reply to my tweets) definitely has no

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road (going a bit OT)

2014-08-11 Thread david
I would hope so, for anyone who has ever been to a village fete and parked in the farmers field. Getting insurance is dead easy. These companies love being given money for old rope, (think of extended warranties for your big screen TV). Receiving a payout is another matter. Will _your_ policy

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road (going a bit OT)

2014-08-11 Thread David Woolley
On 11/08/14 10:33, Dave F. wrote: On 05/08/2014 15:00, Curon Davies wrote: On 5 August 2014 14:25, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com mailto:dave...@madasafish.com wrote: One reason I haven't added it is because it's illegal (AFAIK. The owners of the land local councillor failed to reply to my

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-11 Thread Philip Barnes
On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 06:55 +0200, Marc Gemis wrote: Can I apply this reasoning to English names for Belgian towns as well ? Where can I verify that the English name for Antwerpen is Antwerp ? What is the source of this data? Under which license was that made available ? How can someone

[Talk-GB] newbie alert - railways in North Kent

2014-08-11 Thread Colin Smale
Particularly if you have an interest in railway tagging (both stations and track) in north Kent you might want to keep a watch out for new mapper James Philips who joined us in July and has been unilaterally reworking some tagging. Unfortunately he has left several unconnected tracks, as well

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey National Grid maps of Edinburgh

2014-08-11 Thread Donald Noble
Thanks Rob, The alignment matches well with both bing and what is already on OSM (although this may largely be derived). Also pleasing to note that the addresses I have surveyed match those on the OS map - don't suppose they change all that often. Cheers, Donald On 10 August 2014 00:04, Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey National Grid maps of Edinburgh

2014-08-11 Thread SK53
I met Richard Rodger who is leading the MESH project at Edinburgh University. Addresses in central Edinburgh have changed so little in 200 years that they are able to use OSM to map where attorneys were located in the middle of the 19th Century. The historical addresses were acquired from Business