Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

On Friday, 24 July 2020 14:41:08 BST Mark Goodge wrote: > On 24/07/2020 13:20, Martin Wynne wrote: > > > but most people I know aren't aware of OSM. > > > > I've been trying to persuade country-walking groups to use OSM. There is > > a lot of useful stuff there not shown on OS Explorer --

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Stickers

On Monday, 3 February 2020 12:26:08 GMT Tony OSM wrote: [...] > Would it be possible to create stickers containing QR code for UK or > locations such a AGM in Leeds? Generate your own with qrencode [1] ... for URL also see attached. Andy. [1] https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging ad hoc parking places?

On Friday, 31 January 2020 11:41:41 GMT Martin Wynne wrote: > On 31/01/2020 11:13, ael wrote: > > OK. I agree that parking=layby is much better. > > Thanks for the comments. > But the places I was asking about can't really be called laybys, or car > parks. Somewhere that a car could be left for a

Re: [Talk-GB] Reference numbers for UK admin areas?

Great work Roland. I am beginning to understand what an amazing tool Overpass is. Andy. On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:17:31 GMT Roland Olbricht wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm at the moment writing a documentation for the Overpass API. > > The challenge was to get Overpass to return grit bins in

Re: [Talk-GB] Ground truth v legal truth

On Friday, 19 July 2019 13:30:48 BST Martin Wynne wrote: > On 19/07/2019 12:55, David Woolley wrote: > ... > > > (As a variation on the last point, one of my pet hates, these days, is > > how few houses now have house numbers in the UK. It make it difficult > > to give accurate locations for fly

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

On Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:22:58 GMT Mark Goodge wrote: > On 12/12/2018 23:11, ael wrote: > > This is perhaps slightly off topic, but this habit of some of sharing > > nodes causes me many problems. When I am updating roads and other > > features from fairly accurate gps surveys, I often

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

Hi Robert, > There's still a lot to do though. In particular, there are around 3800 > branches in the official list that are not currently mapped in OSM, > and around 1000 amenity=post_office objects that correspond to > branches that are probably now closed. How may of these can we survey > and

Re: [Talk-GB] Petrol stations again

On Friday, 9 March 2018 09:38:04 GMT Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > On 8 March 2018 at 21:28, SK53 wrote: > > You may not be aware of a new planned import of petrol stations by Ilya. > > > > The dataset is downloadable, but is large to deal with even in QGIS, and > >