Chris Hill wrote:
> I've been taking a look at the boundary data released as part of the
> OS bundle. I've put together a little script that will extract a
> named boundary as an OSM file ready for loading into JOSM. OS data
> uses the OS projection and we use the WGS84 projection. I used
> ogr2ogr
Miscellaneous extra unnamed hospitals, fire stations, scribbles, bonus
monuments with silly names, and an airport in the middle of a village
residential area. Not at all necessarily the "V" word at this stage: I
suspect it's merely a test account for a new user. I've sent a suitable
clue-in mes
Richard Mann wrote:
> *** I would like feedback/discussion on this particular point - whether
> urban made-up and rural unmade footpaths should be tagged distinctively ***
They should receive different _sets_ of tags. But they are both
instances of highway=footway if they happen to be signposted.
Richard Mann wrote:
> I'd conceived "highway=cycleway" meaning that the way was wide enough that
> pedestrians didn't need to use it (or there was an adjacent route for
> pedestrians). I think this is how it is in widespread use in the Netherlands
> / Germany.
Not sure quite what you mean here - a
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
>
> yeah, the tags landuse=industrial and industrial=brewing works for me
Works for me too. Also extends nicely to constructions like
building=industrial
industrial=brewing
operator=Duff Corp
name=Hop storage shed #6
for standalone bits. Of cours
Jason Cunningham wrote:
> I assume the OS grid reference scheme is out of copyright? Or does some
> different form of copyright apply?
It's an extremely well-known algorithm, and a widely implemented one.
One can translate between the two using something like
http://search.cpan.org/~toby/Geo-Coord
Christopher Woods wrote:
>
> Huh? Huh?! :D How cool would it be to live on Batman Close. (Please don't
> say they're all trap streets ¬_¬ )
Well, there's a Bateman Street near here that the locals seem to like
modifying. Should I tag it with a loc_name?
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Andrew Chadwick
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I'm giving a talk for Cyclox members telling them about OpenStreetMap on
the coming Thursday, handing out pencil-and-paper mapping packs with
SAEs. Given that we already have all of the streets, pretty much, we can
hopefully get the Cyclox people to tell us about all the cheats,
shortcuts and usefu
> As a result I thought I would open the debate up to the list to see if we
> can indeed get enough interest for Plymouth or whether others have better
> suggestions, and more importantly think we can get a decent show of
> participants.
Cheadle, maybe. Still quite a bit of dodgy-looking data in t
So far, it looks like Saturday the 25th of October is winning, but you
can still get your vote in:
http://www.meetomatic.com/respond.php?id=J1MIA7
Right now, I'm thinking the Tesco cafe
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.66764&mlon=-1.30814&zoom=15
# approximate
for the morning meetu
Abingdon in Oxfordshire is heavily infested with dragons. Would any
heroic .uk/.ie/.elsewhere OSMers out there be willing to help drive them
off, in principle?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Abingdon
http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=51.6775&lon=-1.28&zoom=12
The town seems to
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> Oxford is supposedly one of the better mapped cities in OSM, and looking
> at the map seems to agree, but a lot of problems show up when you try to
> route through it using Gosmore. See:
>
> http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/%7Elambertus/routing-world/?flat=51.752947&flon=
> Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
>
>> Did this happen / is it likely to happen next week? I haven't heard
>> anything about it since this e-mail from about 6 weeks ago.
I'd assumed lack of interest given lack of responses, which is a little
silly of me. Sorry for that.
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> I
Shaun McDonald wrote:
> Angela .E. wrote:
>>
>> I noticed when trying to upload data on the OSM i had the option to
>> make my data "public" or "private" - why do we have this option? I
>> thought the whole point of the map is to make it available to all.
>
> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/in
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Andrew Chadwick (list subscriptions) wrote:
>
>
> That would have been the Isis Boathouse, I think (Socks, you there?).
> Sounds good.
>
> There's a bit of an OSM tradition of going to the Jericho Tavern, too.
I like the sound of that place (now).
As for time, does
Would anybody be interested in an Oxford(shire) meetup this June or
July? Feel free to suggest a venue :)
--
Andrew Chadwick
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