Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-13 Thread ael
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 03:07:38PM -0700, Dyserth wrote: > > With regards to deleting the areas mapped by Sam888 all over Wales I frankly > did not want to block out or delete these areas as I felt it would have > meant modifying the map data too extensively, been very time consuming, and This is

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-13 Thread Andy Townsend
On 13/02/2017 18:19, Marco Boeringa wrote: But I will leave this to all you now to decide. Just for info, I'm currently going backwards through the relevant changesets by the same user* in north Notts in areas that I'm (very) familiar with and am fixing or removing "obviously wrong landuse"

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-13 Thread Brian Prangle
Marco thanks for all your efforts on this issue. I've continued to edit and comment dubious landuses (and reverse some cliffs to get left on the top) based on my knowledge of the hills in Snowdonia.and confirmation from bing. In my opinion, there's definitely a need for a community project over a

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-13 Thread Marco Boeringa
Hi all, Since there was no more real discussion, I have decided to also revert the other two changesets. This means all the heath should re-appear on the map as it used to be before, except for the single edit by Brian based on his local knowledge of Snowdonia. I think the suggestion by one

Re: [Talk-GB] Traditional/Historic Counties

2017-02-13 Thread Adam Snape
I've had a play around because I noticed that someone has added lots of redundant administrative boundaries in Dublin complete with slightly dubious names eg. http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6114262 . Trying searches it seems that Nominatim is sensible enough to not include the boundary=hist

Re: [Talk-GB] Traditional/Historic Counties

2017-02-13 Thread Adam Snape
Hi Paul, Thanks, that's a good point. I wasn't planning on adding subdivisions such as the Ridings (it opens the floodgates for the Sussex Rapes and the Hundreds of other counties and I'm not sure how relevant they are to people in the modern day). So, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire wouldn'

Re: [Talk-GB] Traditional/Historic Counties

2017-02-13 Thread Paul Berry
> Any thoughts? If there is a way of tagging these so they're ignored by Nominatim etc so address/location searches only show up modern counties, unless specifically searched for, and no occlusion occurs, then yes. Otherwise, you might get the following results: Sheffield South Yorkshire West Rid

Re: [Talk-GB] Traditional/Historic Counties

2017-02-13 Thread Adam Snape
Thinking about points raised by a couple of respondents. Firstly, the thorny issue of whether to record features which no longer exist; secondly, whether it is actually possible to give precise boundaries to historic/traditional counties and, thirdly, the source(s) which could be used for informati

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-13 Thread Jez Nicholson
Welcome to Talk-GB Dyserth. Please stick around and use this experience to help change things so that we can fix this systemic problem with OSM. OSM UK has just been formed, so now is the time for change. Regards, Jez On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 22:37 Warin, <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: