[Talk-GB] Miniature railway or minimum gauge?

2019-05-18 Thread Rob via Talk-GB
Why not use the tag 'gauge' (as well as the tag 'railway'), which enables you to be more explicit than 'minimum'? It has getting-on-for 2 million uses. Presumably 'minimum' will vary across the globe anyway. (Sorry if this doesn't reply to the thread. It's my first post. If it doesn't I'll have

Re: [Talk-GB] Miniature railway or minimum gauge?

2019-05-18 Thread Mark Goodge
On 18/05/2019 16:35, Martin Wynne wrote: Wikipedia suggests that a "miniature railway" is one using rideable *models* of real railways, which is not the case for the RVLR:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-gauge_railway Should I change the tag to railway=minimum_gauge, bearing in mind

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 152, Issue 26

2019-05-18 Thread Simon Ritchie
I'm going. I went last year and t was fascinating. Drones, Lidar equipment, GPS devices etc, mostly hideously expensive but very impressive. There were all sorts of companies offering services such as equipment hire and surveys. Also, the OS, the Environment agency and the Land Registry all had

[Talk-GB] Miniature railway or minimum gauge?

2019-05-18 Thread Martin Wynne
I refer to the Rhiw Valley Light Railway: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.61639/-3.26766 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5712937 This is a private 15" gauge railway which holds regular open days for the public: http://rvlr.co.uk/ It is currently tagged as railway=miniature. Bu

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #460 2019-05-07-2019-05-13

2019-05-18 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 460, 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/12108/ Enjoy! Did you know that you can also submit messages for the weeklyOSM? Just log in to ht

Re: [Talk-GB] GeoBusiness 2019 - Next Tue-Wed

2019-05-18 Thread fitzsimons via Talk-GB
I'm planning to go along on Tuesday afternoon. If anyone else is going perhaps we could meet. Regards, Jack -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Great-Britain-f5372682.html ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.opens