Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

2016-09-24 Thread Paul
Hi all You may notice that this project comes from the same teaM AS vision of Britain, so maybe lessons have been learned. Also OS were involved in Vision of Britain when they hadn't heard of open licences, before they fought openness. Paul On Saturday, 24 September 2016 15:53:57 BST, Tom H

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

2016-09-24 Thread Tom Hughes
On 23/09/16 19:15, SK53 wrote: I'd be very interested in this providing it has a decent licence. AFAIK Vision of Britain has a restrictive licence which means that I have spent some time recreating small parts of their data on OHM (e.g., London Boroughs of the LCC). There's still a tendency for

Re: [Talk-GB] Future quarterly project idea

2016-09-24 Thread Colin Smale
Over the last couple of years I have been slowly but surely working my way up the country with the civil parishes. I have South East England, South West England London, and East of England are just about complete. I am now working on East Midlands. North East England, North West England, Yorkshir

[Talk-GB] Future quarterly project idea

2016-09-24 Thread Philip Barnes
I have just been listening to Rory McCann talking about mapping Irish Townlands and the challenges they faced obtaining the data and tracing it from historic OS maps. The townlands are admin_level=10 relations, the same level as our civil parishes. Its a lot easier in the UK, we have a source of o