Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Ordnance Survey 1st series 1:10, 560 - a complete mid 19th century map of Britain

2017-09-14 Thread Adam Snape
Of interest, but - for osm purposes - don't we already have permission to use all of the National Library of Scotland's Ordnance Survey scans (which I think already include all editions of the 6-inch County Series)? Adam On 13 Sep 2017 7:33 p.m., "Andy Mabbett" wrote:

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #373 2017-09-05-2017-09-11

2017-09-14 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 373, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/9449/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Post box and war memorial

2017-09-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
Here's an oddity; a post box which is also a war memorial: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5106084752 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Post_box_B66_52 I've tagged it as a post box; I'm not sure how to add the memorial details. Suggestions? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of Way Data for Warwickshire

2017-09-14 Thread Chris Hill
On 14/09/2017 19:42, Philip Withnall wrote: On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 18:37 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: PS: To contrast with the good news here, East Riding of Yorkshire is being decidedly unhelpful at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_rights_of_way_gis_data_ 2 ,

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of Way Data for Warwickshire

2017-09-14 Thread Philip Withnall
On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 18:37 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > PS: To contrast with the good news here, East Riding of Yorkshire is > being decidedly unhelpful at > https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_rights_of_way_gis_data_ > 2 > , although they'll need to drag their feet for

[Talk-GB] Rights of Way Data for Warwickshire

2017-09-14 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
After over 2 years and two interventions from the Information Commissioner, Warwickshire County Council have finally backed down and agreed to release their Right of Way GIS data under the Open Government Licence -- so we'll shortly be able to use it in OSM. (Their email to

Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

2017-09-14 Thread Gregory
Hi Zoe, Thank you for having an interest in OpenStreetMap and letting us know on this mailing list! I hope you're aware of the big selection-bias by asking the demographics of users that read the talk-gb mailing list. Others have tried to look at OSM diversity in the past, and I'd (personally) be