[Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-31 Thread Bob Hawkins
I wish to add my own pennies’ worth from a walker’s and mapper’s perspective on three matters: 1. The portrayal of barriers: we know kissing gates are not rendered in OSM but are rendered in Andy Townsend’s map. In neither case, though, do barriers stand out strongly enough, in my opinion. I c

[Talk-GB] British National Grid coordinates in JOSM

2017-10-30 Thread Bob Hawkins
Stuart Choosing “East/North” tab from Tools>Add node and against “Projected coordinates:” inputting full coordinates from the BNG origin, such as “474795 178597” (Eastings metres before Northings) works, so far as I see. Anyone having 100-Kilometre two-letter grid references would need to use a

[Talk-GB] British National Grid coordinates in JOSM

2017-10-22 Thread Bob Hawkins
I have got round to resetting the map projection in JOSM to EPSG:27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid), finally. I am surprised to find northings before eastings in the bottom left-hand corner of JOSM, when we reference BNG positions eastings before northings. I wonder if this has somethin

Re: [Talk-GB] Barriers and PRoWs

2017-10-13 Thread Bob Hawkins
I thank Roland so much for taking the time to read my message and provide examples; I am indebted to him. Might I request just one enhancement: could the barrier locations be shown on the ways to which they relate in the case of > 1. to identify PRoWs having stiles? I fully accept I did not re

Re: [Talk-GB] Barriers and PRoWs

2017-10-10 Thread Bob Hawkins
Andy I thank you for your prompt reply; that is useful to know and I shall bookmark your link. It is pleasing to see my PRoW references being put to good use alongside the ways, too. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___

[Talk-GB] Rendering kissing gates in OSM

2017-10-10 Thread Bob Hawkins
I wonder why kissing gates are not rendered in OpenStreetMap – certainly in the Standard version? Their installation in place of stiles in my part of South Oxfordshire is increasing apace thanks to the work of the Chiltern Society. Are they a particularly GB or UK phenomenon and, as such, not

[Talk-GB] Barriers and PRoWs

2017-10-10 Thread Bob Hawkins
I record all barriers - gate, kissing gate and stile - as I walk every PRoW (Public Right of Way) in the Oxfordshire Chilterns parish by parish. I add them and prow_ref values in the form of "Checkendonh FP 12", for example, to OSM. I discovered three cases on my walk in Ipsden last week where

[Talk-GB] Barriers and PRoWs

2017-10-10 Thread Bob Hawkins
I record all barriers - gate, kissing gate and stile - as I walk every PRoW (Public Right of Way) in the Oxfordshire Chilterns parish by parish. I add them and prow_ref values in the form of "Checkendonh FP 12", for example, to OSM. I discovered three cases on my walk in Ipsden last week where

Re: [Talk-GB] Select and correct a discovered key duplication of sorts in JOSM

2017-10-08 Thread Bob Hawkins
I return to this thread because there is something I do not understand. I wish not to make an error undertaking the change I plan. I queried ‘ref:chiltern_society=* within South Oxfordshire in Overpass Turbo and exported the result to JOSM. Selecting all, and viewing the results I see in exce

Re: [Talk-GB] Portraying and labelling Countryside Access Map alignments and paths actually walked

2017-09-29 Thread Bob Hawkins
I apologise to everyone for making a mess of this thread’s title and replying twice with the same content. I shall give myself one hundred lines (for those who remember the punishment)! --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Talk-GB] Portraying and labelling Countryside Access Map

2017-09-29 Thread Bob Hawkins
both official and unofficial ways to be shown in appropriate circumstances (I appreciate not all will be appropriate). Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Portraying and labelling Countryside Access Map

2017-09-29 Thread Bob Hawkins
both official and unofficial ways to be shown in appropriate circumstances (I appreciate not all will be appropriate). Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Access and other tags for a particular Restricted Byway

2017-09-29 Thread Bob Hawkins
Byways, as in this case, where I judge that tag to be inappropriate, to say the least. Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] Access and other tags for a particular Restricted Byway

2017-09-29 Thread Bob Hawkins
David I should have made it clearer: the two signs of which I wrote are one above the other at the start of the one Restricted Byway – that, perhaps, is the complication. Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Talk-GB] Portraying and labelling Countryside Access Map alignments and paths actually walked

2017-09-29 Thread Bob Hawkins
the same attitude as for footpath 37. With regards Bob Hawkins --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Access and other tags for a particular Restricted Byway

2017-09-29 Thread Bob Hawkins
, often. The Way is 25506222. With regards Bob Hawkins --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-GB] Select and correct a discovered key duplication of sorts in JOSM

2017-08-19 Thread Bob Hawkins
My failing brain disturbs me at times: Edit>Preferences>Remote Control>Enable remote control! --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org htt

Re: [Talk-GB] Select and correct a discovered key duplication of sorts in JOSM

2017-08-19 Thread Bob Hawkins
Dan I am most grateful for your immediate and constructive reply. I am used to Overpass Turbo and think it is a brilliant resource but lack the knowledge to construct any but the simplest queries. I understand what you write about bulk uploading. I am confident that few, if any, entries will be

[Talk-GB] Select and correct a discovered key duplication of sorts in JOSM

2017-08-19 Thread Bob Hawkins
I discovered to my dismay yesterday while I was adding/updating Public Rights of Way in JOSM that I have been using a mix of initial upper case and lower case alone for a key I created: ref:Chiltern_Society and ref:chiltern_society. I have tried searches that will select Chiltern_Society, say,

Re: [Talk-GB] Shared Public Rights of Way

2017-07-04 Thread Bob Hawkins
semi-colon? Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Shared Public Rights of Way

2017-07-04 Thread Bob Hawkins
Ed I must not have made clear the situation: the bridleway is coincident with the borders of two parishes, carrying a route code for each parish, not a way crossing parish boundaries. Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Talk-GB] Shared Public Rights of Way

2017-07-04 Thread Bob Hawkins
David I thank you for your reply. I should be interested in further comments on prow_ref=Checkendon BR 28;Stoke Row BR 15. Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing

[Talk-GB] Shared Public Rights of Way

2017-07-04 Thread Bob Hawkins
I have discovered a situation in South Oxfordshire where a single bridleway has two route codes: 160/28/* and 368/15/*. The Definitive Statement Remarks read, “Also numbered BR 15 in Stoke Row” for Checkendon parish and “Also numbered BR 28 in Checkendon” for Stoke Row parish, which is borne ou

[Talk-GB] What to use to obtain OSM tag information in the field?

2017-06-22 Thread Bob Hawkins
I use Locus Map with offline OSM data loaded on my Android ‘phone when walking. The one feature lacking for checking PRoWs in the field, for example, is the capacity to view OSM tags. I am aware of Vespucci that will allow the immediate area to be downloaded and referenced, with which I have h

[Talk-GB] Registered users over 3 million

2016-10-13 Thread Bob
Though it doesn't necessarily mean much osm is now over 3 million registered users and has 40,000 contributers last month http://osmstats.neis-one.org/___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] bbc article

2016-06-08 Thread Bob
Openstreetmap on top http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2GtqdnR8RsttBv2jqR8kPzY/7-ways-to-volunteer-from-your-desk cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Radio 1 million hours volunteering

2016-06-07 Thread Bob
I saw this http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2GtqdnR8RsttBv2jqR8kPzY/7-ways-to-volunteer-from-your-desk cheers bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-08 Thread Bob
hi, my first question would be , do they know of the existance of cycle map and routing numbers, It sounds like there is passion but not enough direction cheers bob > On 7 May 2016, at 22:21, Donald Noble wrote: > > Hi all, > > I spotted in Edinburgh first, and across the

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative boundaries: polygons or polylines?

2016-01-17 Thread Bob Hawkins
software might be adversely affected by its absence. I thank you for your constructive input. With regards Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative boundaries: polygons or polylines?

2016-01-17 Thread Bob Hawkins
Colin I thank you for your prompt reply. I have been investigating further in the meantime to try to establish what makes a difference. I wondered if it lay with “type=boundary” or its absence but my relations I have checked all have type=boundary. I wonder if you have time to look at South Ox

[Talk-GB] Administrative boundaries: polygons or polylines?

2016-01-17 Thread Bob Hawkins
While running an Overpass turbo query recently I noticed a mixture of polygon and polyline admin_level 10, civil parishes in South Oxfordshire within the bounding box, but mostly polylines. Its neighbour, South Buckinghamshire, appears to contain civil parish polygons. I checked other, random

Re: [Talk-GB] The Chilterns AONB boundary

2015-12-16 Thread Bob Hawkins
lists!). The boundaries seem to be just what I was looking for. I should make clear: my use of The Chilterns AONB boundary is for my purpose only to assist the delineation of my area of interest. Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com

[Talk-GB] The Chilterns AONB boundary

2015-12-16 Thread Bob Hawkins
have searched the internet and cannot find such a file to download. I communicated with Lucy Murfett, Planning Officer at Chilterns Conservation Board and received this reply: Dear Bob, Thanks for your message and great that you are able to give your time to improving this map resource. I am

[Talk-GB] flyering for soup SOTMS 2015 fair

2015-09-29 Thread Bob
hi we could really do with some help with flyering tommorow , wednesday at our international development fair. We will offer soup and a roll for 30 mins or 60 flyers, please turn up between 9am and 11am , ask for bob or see the openstreetmap table. it looks like it is going to be a really

[Talk-GB] meetup edinburgh SOTMS 2015

2015-09-14 Thread Bob
Anyone interested in State of the map Scotland 2015 please meet at the guildford arms from 7pm https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events all the best bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

[Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland International Development Fair

2015-09-03 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, I am just putting out a request for volunteers for the Openstreetmap International Development Fair on Wed 30th September in Edinburgh. I could do with some help to host the Openstreetmap table and to help people with the projectors for talks. The details of the event which is the first day

[Talk-GB] Openstreetmap Foundation Charity Number

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Kerr
://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page Does anyone have any suggestions or will I just have to pay the VAT Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Cities: Skylines - Openstreetmap data

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Kerr
Has anyone played with this, It seems to be getting good press https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=416064574 Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Ref names on Residential roads

2015-05-12 Thread Bob Kerr
On residential roads where there has been a ref= added is being rendered on Mapnik. Is this something new since I have not been checking recently. This is all over the highlands https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/57.5695/-4.4282 Cheers Bob

[Talk-GB] Police Scotland

2015-04-07 Thread Bob Kerr
Police Scotland are using our map http://www.scotland.police.uk/your-community/edinburgh/ Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] state of the map 2015

2015-03-22 Thread Bob
Does anyone have any idea why this was cancelled and why other bidders arn't taking over. cheers bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] OS six-inch England ans Wales 1852-1952

2014-03-10 Thread Bob Kerr
This has been forwarded to me by Christopher Fleet from the National Library of Scotland They are in the process of georeferencing the images but I thought it best to let you know now Subject: New website - OS six-inch England and Wales, 1852-1952 We are very pleased to announce the availab

[Talk-GB] Crowdsourced boats to map the seas : BBC Article - video

2014-02-18 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, Short video on crowndsourcing using GPS and depth guages from the BBC, suggests they will release the data http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26231350 Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] Spread the OSM message (Steve Chilton)

2014-02-14 Thread Bob Kerr
etc and should be finnished by the summer, I shall forward the details of the conference to them. I would be willing to join up for some Glasgow mapping. Cheers Bob On Thu, 13/2/14, Fozy 81 wrote: Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Spread the OSM message

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-10 Thread Bob Kerr
I have sent a message as well Cheers Bob On Sun, 9/2/14, Donald Noble wrote: Subject: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Date: Sunday, 9 February, 2014

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM in Linux Format magazine

2014-01-17 Thread Bob Kerr
Also in the Guardian an article http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/14/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap Cheers Bob On Fri, 17/1/14, Paul Williams wrote: Subject: [Talk-GB] OSM in Linux Format magazine To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh Pub meeting Tuesday 10th

2013-12-09 Thread Bob Kerr
Tommorow Tuesday 10th there is a pub meetup in Edinburgh All welcome http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events There is a possibility next year to have a conference with OSM, the Open Knowledge Foundation,Wikipedia and National Library of Scotland Cheers Bob

Re: [Talk-GB] Notes feature

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Kerr
Maybe we could use it to make an note for mapping parties, social events and conferences too Bob > > From: Brian Prangle >To: Talk GB >Sent: Sunday, 27 October 2013, 16:15 >Subject: [Talk-GB] Notes feature > > > >It seems that s

[Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland 2013 - 6 days away

2013-10-05 Thread Bob Kerr
Counting down to State of the map Scotland 2013 wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2013 Please send out messages to your social media of choice Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

[Talk-GB] State of the Map Scotland 2013 October 11th-13th

2013-09-26 Thread Bob Kerr
location for State of the map Scotland 2014. Preferably a little more north. Please let me know. State of the map Scotland 2013  Details wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2013 Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] State of the Map Scotland 2013 October 11-12 - Speakers

2013-08-28 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, We are starting to organise speakers for State of the map Scotland. I know everyone will be busy with SOTM2013 but if there are people that would like to give talks at our event please let me know Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

2013-07-14 Thread Bob Kerr
Is there a web page that gives us a list of what is left to do. We are going to have a SOTM for Scotland in October and I would be happy to help out georeferencing the maps, I can also put it up for a SOTM-Scot project Cheers Bob From: Steven Horner To: Rob

[Talk-GB] UN uses OSM as background map

2013-07-02 Thread Bob Kerr
Not sure if anyone else has seen this but I thought I would post. UN uses OSM(Mapquestopen) as background for Global Risk Data Platform http://preview.grid.unep.ch/index.php?preview=map&lang=eng ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh Pub meeting tommorow

2013-06-17 Thread Bob Kerr
Everyone welcome http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Human Swarm 4od ITO Maps

2013-05-31 Thread Bob Kerr
Nice Seeing ITO maps including some with Openstreetmap attribution on Human Swarm last night http://www.channel4.com/programmes/human-swarm/4od The program is about how we make decisions depending on the weather.  You can see the first flash oh ITO within the first minute. There is more Cheer

Re: [Talk-GB] Tidying up some shop tags

2013-05-06 Thread Bob Kerr
I assume that this is for the UK shops and not world wide using the uk taginfo site http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/ cheers Bob From: sk53.osm To: "Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" Sent: Sunday, 5 May 2013, 14:25 Subject: [Talk-GB] Tidying up

Re: [Talk-GB] Writing a howto wiki page for mapping golf courses

2013-04-30 Thread Bob Kerr
just think that there is some documentation that needs to be done. So I am volunteering. Is there no precedent for HOWTO documents like there are with other  opensource projects? Cheers Bob From: sk53.osm To: Bob Kerr Cc: "talk-gb@openstreetmap.org&qu

[Talk-GB] Writing a howto wiki page for mapping golf courses

2013-04-30 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, I have been spending a lot of time looking at Taginfo and golf courses. I would like to layout the best way to map a golf course based on what I have found.  I was thinking of creating a page "HOWTO map a golf course 2013" This is not a proposal for tags, I would link to Taginfo pages of ta

Re: [Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-12 Thread Bob Kerr
would put my name up on the wiki page as adoptee. P.S. I like the lines on the pitches and the way that the trees are done too. Cheers Bob From: Dave F. To: "Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013, 15:59 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Ta

[Talk-GB] Taginfo Golf Tags

2013-04-05 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, I have been looking at TagInfo for  tags with golf=  There are a number of tags which are golf=Tee instead of golf=tee. Is there any easy way that I find out where these tags are located so that I can correct them. Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] State of the Map Scotland : Edinburgh: This Friday 19th -20th October

2012-10-17 Thread Bob Kerr
OK, We have an excellent venue We have 67 booked in and are expecting another 30  walkins. We have an amazing set of speakers that are coming to meet with Openstreetmap.org because they realise how important it is becoming and share a common interest in the upsurge of interest in GIS Speakers li

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh Pub meeting on Tuesday 18th Guildford arms

2012-09-16 Thread Bob Kerr
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Upcoming_Pub_Meetings We will be discussing among other things state of the map Scotland http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2012 Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2013

2012-09-13 Thread Bob Kerr
Would October be too late? If October is Ok and State of the map Scotland 2012 goes ok this year we may be able to put in a bid  here.   From: Richard Fairhurst To: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail) Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 21:54 Subject: [Talk-GB] SotM 2

[Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland - Speakers and Sponsors

2012-08-27 Thread Bob Kerr
like to speak please let me know. We are also looking for some small sponsorship to pay for Edinburgh University Staff who are needed to let us in. Cheers Bob Kerr___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland 2012 booking now open

2012-07-09 Thread Bob Kerr
Slight change of plans, Booking is now available http://sotms.eventbrite.com/ Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] State of the Map Scotland 2012 October 19-20th Initial Organisation

2012-07-09 Thread Bob Kerr
this time but will be available in a couple of weeks. Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Meet up Edinburgh at Guildford arms tomorrow Tues 19th June

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi we will be having a pub social in Edinburgh http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events We have been offered a photo lab with a wikipedia group, date still to be arranged. Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.or

[Talk-GB] Request from National Library of Scotland concerning OS 7th Series

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, I have been talking with Cristopher Fleet from the National Library of Scotland. He is keen to promote the mapping services of the library to the Openstreetmap Community and other groups that are interested. They have set up various services including the OS 7th Series which is overlayed wi

[Talk-GB] Social meeting Edinburgh tommorow

2011-12-12 Thread Bob Kerr
Next Social meeting Tommorow 13th December at the Guilford Arms http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Adopted Road list Scotland

2011-11-18 Thread Bob Kerr
I have spent some time compiling a list of Adopted Roads/Statutory list of Public Roads in Scotland by Region http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Scotland#Statutory_List_of_Roads From the links we can see the varied methods that the information is given out and how some have various copyrights

[Talk-GB] Administrative boundaries and parent/child relations

2011-11-14 Thread Bob Hawkins
I am interested to learn other contributors' thoughts on the benefits, or otherwise, of adding child relations to parents for hierarchical United Kingdom administrative areas as in county/local authority district/civil parish or unitary authority/civil parish, for example. With the recent benefi

[Talk-GB] Adding administrative boundaries to OSM Data Layer in JOSM

2011-11-11 Thread Bob Hawkins
he polygon area. It does not revert to a series of lines, or polyline. Copying the selection to a new layer, the boundary retains its infill, so I would imagine that would display as a coloured area if it was uploaded to OSM. Is there something I am missing

Re: [Talk-GB] Field Data Scotland

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Kerr
The data is recent because it was used to check farmers subsidies, and it does include boundary data, when I get it I would definitely break it down to much smaller areas. I'll find out more about the licence. Cheers Bob From: Dave F. To: ta

[Talk-GB] Field Data Scotland

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Kerr
I have recently been offered field data under the open knowledge licence from the Scottish Government. This is the first time I have interacted with the government and would like to make use of the data but at the same time not step on anyones toes. Although I have not yet seen the data I have b

[Talk-GB] How to use relations for The Chiltern Way and its extensions

2011-08-13 Thread Bob Hawkins
The Chiltern Way has a North Extension, a South Extension and, new in 2010, a Berkshire Loop. Perhaps this is true of some other long-distance paths. The Chiltern Way is shown at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Long_Distance_Paths as only 33% complete. As the So

[Talk-GB] Open Source, Geo & Health Workshop

2011-08-07 Thread Bob Kerr
There are still a few places available for this event in Edinburgh, http://open-geo-and-health.eventbrite.com/ Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey - State of the Map Scotland

2011-07-29 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, Is there anyone here that has connections with OS. We are hoping that we might get some representatives along to State of the Map Scotland. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2011 We are hoping that we can start a discussion on how to use the OS brand and   Openst

[Talk-GB] University of Cambridge OpenStreetMap project

2011-07-28 Thread Bob Dowling
xpect the consultant to have a familiarity with 1. OpenStreetMap 2. Linux server administration *Contact* Interested parties should contact Bob Dowling Head of Online Services for both formal and informal enquiries. Address: University Computing Service New Museums Site Pem

[Talk-GB] DevCSI / GECO Open Mapping Workshop Glasgow 25th August

2011-07-27 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, The day before the State of the Map Scotland conference there is a workshop which is being held at the same location http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/devcsi/open-mapping-workshop/ So if you are coming along for SOTMS then please check out the website Cheers Bob__

[Talk-GB] UK broadband map from Telegraph

2011-07-06 Thread Bob Kerr
I Thought this might be of interest to a few http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/8620931/UK-broadband-mapped.html I can't see any correlation between OSM uptake and broadband Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org ht

Re: [Talk-GB] Documentation and Visualisation

2011-07-04 Thread Bob Kerr
increasing the quality of our wiki/documentation Cheers Bob From: Andy Mabbett To: "talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2011, 21:29 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Documentation and Visualisation Have a look at how Wikipedia uses categories.

Re: [Talk-GB] Documentation and Visualisation Proposal = dead

2011-07-03 Thread Bob Kerr
We could add proposal= dead to the wiki page then we can filter all the dead pages so see all the things that have been proposed and see what has been done before Cheers Bob From: Bob Kerr To: woll ; "talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" Sent: Sunday, 3

Re: [Talk-GB] Documentation and Visualisation

2011-07-03 Thread Bob Kerr
Bob From: woll To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2011, 16:31 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Documentation and Visualisation Bob Kerr wrote: > > I would need to be able to zoom in on a proposal that has not be acted on > for a year so tha

[Talk-GB] Documentation and Visualisation

2011-07-03 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi,  I was thinking last night about the ITO Analysis heat map as a tool that motivates people to look into doing some mapping in different area's. http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/map_browser I was wondering what statistics are available that we could use to make an interact

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh pub meeting tomorrow

2011-06-13 Thread Bob Kerr
We are having a pub meeting tomorrow details here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events We hope to be discussing State of the Map Scotland http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2011 cheers  Bob ___ Talk

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-11 Thread Bob Kerr
So the question is, who is going to come forward and write the bot, and who is going to come forward to write documentation. Any takers Cheers Bob From: Richard Fairhurst To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, 10 June 2011, 20:09 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-10 Thread Bob Kerr
believe we can both encourage people to join us and use the a bot on small areas at the same time. Cheers bob From: Andy Allan To: sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011, 16:45 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:42

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Bob Kerr
rtant as a road map. Google example from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/jun/08/life-expectancy-uk-health-mapped Cheers Bob From: Peter Miller To: Brian Prangle Cc: "Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" Sent: Thursday, 9 Ju

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation

2011-06-07 Thread Bob Kerr
very few surveyors. My point though is that we do have some data available from the council, and if we can create a heat map that shows which councils are releasing data then it may encourage others to do the same. My question is would it be worthwhile doing. Cheers bob

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation

2011-06-07 Thread Bob Kerr
Do you think that a heatmap of the different formats released by the councils, with an indication from us of preferred formats be worth considering. I know that Edinburgh council uses pdf but I don't have an idea of the status of other councils cheers

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation

2011-06-04 Thread Bob Kerr
hould we make one? Cheers Bob From: TimSC To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011, 11:45 Subject: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation Hi all, Some stats on OSM coverage of Kent. I tried to pair the records of KCC OpenKent with th

[Talk-GB] User Stats over 400 000

2011-05-13 Thread Bob Kerr
See http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Things that aren't stations tagged railway=station

2011-04-19 Thread Bob Kerr
I agree Cheers Bob --- On Tue, 19/4/11, Andy Allan wrote: From: Andy Allan Subject: [Talk-GB] Things that aren't stations tagged railway=station To: "Talk-GB" Date: Tuesday, 19 April, 2011, 8:21 Hi All, In making my recent transport map[1] I've found there's a (re

Re: [Talk-GB] Open Data Challenge

2011-04-12 Thread Bob Kerr
Yep, same as http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2011 Cheers Bob ! --- On Tue, 12/4/11, Steve Doerr wrote: From: Steve Doerr Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Open Data Challenge To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Date: Tuesday, 12 April, 2011, 15:03 On 12/04/2011 15:15, Bob Kerr wrote

[Talk-GB] Open Data Challenge

2011-04-12 Thread Bob Kerr
A bit of cash maybe? http://opendatachallenge.org/ Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] SABRE Maps

2011-04-12 Thread Bob Kerr
I just heard about this, I don't know anything about the group but I thought I'd pass it on since it's using openstreetmap http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/ Cheers Bob___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/lis

[Talk-GB] Tracing/Mapping Party Peebles for Sunday 10th April

2011-03-29 Thread Bob Kerr
ch cycling, walking, canoeing, and Orienteering to do. So lots of tracing then getting out and about. We may even be featured in the local newspaper please see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh/MappingParty/2011-04-10 Cheers Bob _

[Talk-GB] Orienteering event map

2011-03-20 Thread Bob Kerr
I just saw this and I thought it was a good example of how to deal with future events http://sloweb.org.uk/ollie/map/index.php Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta

2011-03-19 Thread Bob Kerr
done Cheers Bob --- On Fri, 18/3/11, Peter Miller wrote: From: Peter Miller Subject: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta To: "Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" Date: Friday, 18 March, 2011, 14:12 ITO are pleased to announce a set of new 'overlay maps' for OpenStreetMap which

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh Pub meet up

2011-03-13 Thread Bob Kerr
There will be an Edinburgh pub meeting at 7:00pm on Tuesday 15th march in the Guildford Arms Please see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#News For Details Cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

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