Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Undeletion needed

2021-11-08 Thread Alan Mackie
If it's that recent then finding the changeset will probably be easiest through osmcha.org filtered by your username and a rough bounding box. Alternately as you may know a time and narrow bounding box where it definitely existed you might be able to pick the deleted way from and Overpass Turbo

Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-21 Thread Alan Mackie
I struggle with what to call the in that example. A recent suggestion for named terraces was to use addr:street= and addr:parentstreet=, but if the relates the whole building to to parentstreet, then reconstructing an address seems impossible. The closest existing tag seems to be

Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-20 Thread Alan Mackie
That still doesn't answer the addr: tag question. I don't think we'd normally expect consumers to need to do such detailed geometry parsing for address to interpretation. I think we need a firmer scheme for divisions of privately managed stuff e.g. business parks apartment 'complexes' and the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-20 Thread Alan Mackie
I'm also unclear how to tag numbered houses in named terraces. addr:housename doesn't seem appropriate if they are shared along an entire row and addr:street already has a value. I've also run into this for blocks of flats. "Block B" doesn't seem like a housename either? The addr:block tags

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Alan Mackie
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 11:14, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > I run into from time to time and was unsure how to tag this. > > On the other hand highway=track is supposed to be used on > roads used to access fields/forests (often unpaved and of low > quality,

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a building that's two connected separate buildings

2020-10-12 Thread Alan Mackie
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 18:58, Jez Nicholson wrote: > Ah yes, a bit like when a hospital or school has a 'corridor room' (for > lack of a better term) joining two separate buildings. I'd go for three > joined buildings myself. > > And that newer building has been extended a bit more hasn't it?

Re: [Talk-GB] New Bing Imagery

2020-08-19 Thread Alan Mackie
On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 14:52, Jass Kurn wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 13:58, Colin Smale wrote: > >> Possibly even better that StreetView imagery is data that has been >> imported directly from OS, such as OS Boundary-Line for the admin >> boundaries. This is probably the closest we can get

Re: [Talk-GB] New Bing Imagery

2020-08-19 Thread Alan Mackie
On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 10:51, Alan Mackie wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, 10:13 Stephen Colebourne, > wrote: > >> So, I followed the links below and added an offset. But this simply >> isn't a viable solution to the problem because it only works for JOSM >

Re: [Talk-GB] New Bing Imagery

2020-08-19 Thread Alan Mackie
On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, 10:13 Stephen Colebourne, wrote: > So, I followed the links below and added an offset. But this simply > isn't a viable solution to the problem because it only works for JOSM > and not iD. > > I managed to convince one mapper to type in the offset manually in iD > every

Re: [Talk-GB] Proposal: Import EV charging point data

2020-08-18 Thread Alan Mackie
On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 09:09, Rob Nickerson wrote: > For me, once licencing issues have been fully resolved, it comes down to > accuracy of data. > > For example the TfL cycle data is great as it has been collected by ground > survey and with two photos of everything. Some other third party data

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fingerposts

2020-07-16 Thread Alan Mackie
Maybe: tourism=information information=guidepost ? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:information%3Dguidepost I don't know a way of recording the directions they point save via destination_sign relations. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:destination_sign On Thu, 16 Jul 2020,

Re: [Talk-GB] Documenting tagging practice for place nodes in London

2020-06-30 Thread Alan Mackie
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:56, Russ Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:20, Andy Townsend wrote: > > Quite a lot of stuff of the placename info on OS StreetView probably > > _shouldn't_ be in OSM. Leaving aside farm and house names, the where I > > used to live in Derbyshire is according

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] "Thank you NHS" sculpture in Lightwoods Park, Smethwick

2020-06-29 Thread Alan Mackie
Not to be callous, but if it's described as temporary and looks that flimsy, is it worth mapping given the breeze forecast for next week? On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 21:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Is anyone kindly able to supply coordinates for this artwork: > > >

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Alan Mackie
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 15:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > Feb 4, 2020, 16:37 by talk-gb@openstreetmap.org: > > >> (Ironically, the current tagging makes it hard for me to search to see > >> if there's a "proper" amenity=university in there somewhere,

Re: [Talk-GB] Increase of mail size limit

2019-06-02 Thread Alan Mackie
> > It's quite normal to include attachments in line with communication (e.g > an attachment in an email or an attachment in a chat/instant message > program). It is, but those tend to be a little more point-to-point rather than send-to-all. I think most newsletter type things tend to link rather