Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

This resource from DEFRA shows 102,836 "holdings" in 2013. The Excel spreadsheet lists them by local authority. I haven't checked to see if it's OGL. If it is, is anybody up

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

On 30/06/2016 18:13, Brian Prangle wrote: ... some farms seem to be little more than caravan storage, some have transformed into equestrian centres, small industrial parks or become just residential ... Indeed, farms sounds like a good idea to me. Quite a few to the east of me seem to have

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

Ed Roughly what I do, but I separate the farmhouse by surrounding it with a landuse=residental way. I also usually tag buildings either agricultural or residential accordingly. Many can be listed buildings too so heritage tagging applies. I try to connect farmyards to the road network with a

[Talk-GB] OSM UK site

Hi Dennis, Don't worry about hosting issues when comparing the options. The group should probably get its own hosting anyway. The Mappa Mercia one is super easy to use and that's coming from somebody who is not techy at all. To set up the wordpress account all that was needed was to sign in to

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

BTW here are my notes from when I researched collaboration tools (focused on communication and decision making, rather than projects) https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Z9vCilV96Tah5ruGFTIaSGxojEC9pvHo48Sc4vw5_Y/edit?usp=sharing Feel free to add comments. *Rob* p.s. I'm aware that OSMF use

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

>I actually just created a poll for the most suitable web platform for OSMUK. > >- Community Blog (blogger) >- Static Webpage >- Wiki >- Loomio >- Slack (i don't really get it) >- Maillist (talk-gb) > Thanks Dennis, To be clear, I'm not saying that Loomio should be our only web presence - in

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

Are we going to need to discuss tagging? I tend to put landuse=farmyard on the way around the farmyard and name= I then put the address details on the farmhouse building, and just trace the other buildings and add a building tag (perhaps building=barn or building=stable if I know for

[Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

Hi everyone A new quarter starts tomorrow so we need a new topic. How about farms? Or more precisely landuse=farmyard. These are major landmarks in rural areas, often with sizeable buildings and usually named in OS StreetView. The only data I've found so far is that there are approx. 100,000

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

On 29/06/2016 19:57, Rob Nickerson wrote: So here is my 100 day plan (the first general meeting is a given so not included here): 1. Create a portal for discussion and decision making. I hate to tell you but talk-gb sucks. In fact mailing lists in general suck. They work well for techy people

[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 310

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #310, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the OpenStreetMap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7765 Cheers, Jinal Foflia