Re: [Talk-GB] UK coastline data

2019-07-11 Thread Edward Catmur via Talk-GB
Tricky - it appears to be a rule that all the famous sea caves are accessible by foot at low tide (there's probably a geological reason, like why sea cliffs tend to have a ledge below exposed at low tide). That said, some sea arches have inward-sloping sides - e.g. Stair Hole

Re: [Talk-GB] UK coastline data

2019-07-11 Thread Colin Smale
On 2019-07-11 22:45, Borbus wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:19 PM Colin Smale wrote: >> * Coastal admin boundaries (the "Extent of the Realm") are usually MLWS, >> but there are such things as "seaward extensions" which extend the >> "realm" further into the water. Check out for example

Re: [Talk-GB] UK coastline data

2019-07-11 Thread Colin Smale
Good point. Do you know of one? Let's have a look at how the OS deal with it. On 2019-07-11 22:52, Edward Catmur wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:19 PM Colin Smale wrote: > >> * Where the coastline is essentially vertical (harbour walls, steep cliffs) >> MHWS and MLWS can coincide in OS

Re: [Talk-GB] UK coastline data

2019-07-11 Thread Edward Catmur via Talk-GB
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:19 PM Colin Smale wrote: > * Where the coastline is essentially vertical (harbour walls, steep > cliffs) MHWS and MLWS can coincide in OS data (sharing nodes but not ways), > but of course low water can never be landward of high water. > Is this necessarily the case?

Re: [Talk-GB] UK coastline data

2019-07-11 Thread Borbus
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:19 PM Colin Smale wrote: > I would recommend you don't refer to "the two coastlines" as this will > just lead to confusion. The one true coastline is the high water line, > taken to be MHWS (in England and Wales). The low water mark is also > useful because that is where

Re: [Talk-GB] UK coastline data

2019-07-11 Thread Colin Smale
Hi, Great! Don't worry about having "too many nodes" - the OS data is already generalised a bit (I think they target 1:1) so it could be a lot "worse". I spend a lot of time curating the admin boundaries; occasionally I will update a bit of coastline from OS data when I am "in the area".

Re: [Talk-GB] UK coastline data

2019-07-11 Thread Ed Loach
You'll probably get comments about import guidelines but I did similar for Tendring about 9 years ago before there were any. I think your use of the word import in this scenario may be misleading as you're not bulk importing the whole coastline but selectively improving sections of coastline by

[Talk-GB] UK coastline data

2019-07-11 Thread Borbus
Hi, I've recently done an import of coastline data from OS VectorMap into OSM around The Wash. I did this because I'm interested in coastal regions and the coastline was a complete mess in that area. I'm sure it's similar in other parts of GB as well. The mess often happens because mappers don't

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging a St John's Ambulance base

2019-07-11 Thread Ben Proctor
Thanks both On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 21:53, Peter Neale via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > ...Or, looking at their website, it is a charity, so perhaps that makes it > a "social facility"? > > Oh BTW, it is "St John Ambulance", not "St John's Ambulance" (I don't know > why, but it