Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-14 Thread Dan S
Andy Townsend wrote: (6) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SomeoneElse/Your_tiles_from_osm.org Interesting hack Andy, thanks 2015-07-14 6:18 GMT+01:00 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Unfortunately I suspect what I'd choose works well for a certain type of countryside, but

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dan S wrote: Sounds good. Mind if I ask how it is done? (i.e. rendering rules for rural vs town) Post-import, I run a couple of queries along the lines of UPDATE planet_osm_point SET urban=true FROM built_up_areas WHERE ST_Contains(built_up_areas.geom,way) using a pre-existing

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

2015-07-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I agree; I don't really see what harm a UK group would have; after all, there are local OSM groups in other countries, so why not here? No-one's being asked to stump up money for servers etc just yet; it's just an initial survey. Nick From: Chris Hill

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-14 Thread Mark Goodge
On 13/07/2015 18:14, Andy Allan wrote: On 13 July 2015 at 14:34, Mike Evans mi...@saxicola.co.uk wrote: It seems to me that the viaduct and the railway are two separate entities and should mapped as such. Just because an abandoned railway happens to run on the top of the viaduct is irrelevant

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-14 Thread SK53
Actually creating built-up areas from OSM data is fraught with problems: the basic one, being that OSM landuse/landcover is too fine-grained for identifying built-up areas. This is one of the examples in my category of 'emergent data': data which is sort of there, but is actually quite hard to

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

2015-07-14 Thread Harry Wood
Well done setting up the survey Rob. Good to see something happening. I think we should get our asses in gear and start forming some sort of organisation. I was surprised your survey didn't have a question What d'you think the organisation should be called?, because this is the question which

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 13 July 2015 at 08:53, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The significant (and massive) disused railway viaduct near Thrapston: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/264894970 does not render on our default map However, this viaduct of comparable size, does:

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-14 Thread Andy Robinson
We could take that line of thought further. A viaduct/bridge etc actually has nothing to do with a railway per se. It’s a structural object in its own right. What we should be doing is rendering the bridge structure first and then if appropriate putting a way over the top if the structure is in

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-14 Thread Andy Robinson
Actually it was pmailkey who changed the tags on that structure a few months back and did other incorrect changes to what's left of the viaduct. I've now reverted. -Original Message- From: Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 July 2015 22:24 To: 'Andy Townsend';

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

2015-07-14 Thread Paul Sladen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Andy Robinson wrote: I've now reverted. I fear that unless the render starts rendering bridge={viaduct,yes,etc} such re-tagging is likely to continue---or at least highway=track; access=private getting added to more things. Is

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

2015-07-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Thanks to those 65 people who have responded to the survey so far. I want to address a few of the comments on the mailing list. The idea of a group has been discussed many time before but it has never progressed. I believe that this is because it has never been clear what the group