On 2018-05-02 11:53, Jez Nicholson wrote:
Oh, this is fun. So, correct me if i'm wrong: a "20 mph zone" doesn't
have/need repeaters because it is not actually the legal speed limit.
It is advisory to travel at that speed because traffic calming makes
it hard not to.
A 20 sign with a green
On 2017-12-23 19:13, Dave F wrote:
Not an expert, but I'm surprised if that's true. Isn't BY attribution
the same that OSM asks of map producers?
I note Mapillary are also CC BY-SA
Mapillary have given special permission, to allow using the images to
contribute to OSM. This is a separate
On 2017-12-22 21:41, Dave F wrote:
Hi
FYI user Yorvik Prestigitator has been tagging telephone boxes across
Britain. He assumed some of these are working phones & tagged them as
such, when they're purely ornamental (the ones in my city are recent
additions & have flowers growing out of them at
On 2017-02-26 11:24, Dave F wrote:
Hi
I'm still working through the FHRS database for my local authority.
There section 'mobile caterers' where some they have a goecoded
location. These are mobile vans which get towed away at night but have a
regular pitch during the day. Often to be found in
On 2017-01-10 01:20, David Groom wrote:
Although "beet" could also refer to "sugar beet"
Or "fodder beet" (aka mangelwurzel).
I think it is rather similar to sugar beet, not sure if you could tell
the difference in the field.
It seems they are all the same species (Beta vulgaris), but
On 2016-12-05 16:12, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
Greetings
At Stirling Corner, on the A1 in Barnet, there is a cycle way (hence
also available for pedestrians) that goes around the outside of the
roundabout (http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/78315291). A cursory glance
at satellite mapping shows it
On 2016-09-23 19:15, SK53 wrote:
Hi Paul,
I'd be very interested in this providing it has a decent licence. AFAIK
Vision of Britain has a restrictive licence which means that I have
spent some time recreating small parts of their data on OHM (e.g.,
London Boroughs of the LCC). There's still a
On 2016-09-03 08:42, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 03/09/2016 00:23, Rob Nickerson wrote:
I thought these postboxes were supposed to be really rare. Seems like
loads have been added this year:
There are supposed to be about 130 of them(*), of which OSM has 140.
(*)
On 2016-08-16 09:35, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
Just to let you know, that I've now got another dataset in my
Defibrillator comparison tool at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/defib/
. East Midlands Ambulance Service has provided the locations of AEDs
that they know about, and these have
On 2016-08-18 13:51, Andy Townsend wrote:
This was prompted by a comment directed at me on
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37713755 , after I'd mentioned a
problem raised on the help site that might be related
On 2016-05-11 06:44, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
On 10/05/2016 20:59, Eric Grosso wrote:
What do you think? Do we, OSM contributors, tag all the highways part of
a NCN as cycleways? What to do when in some cases, a highway is both
part of a NCN route and a hiking route (e.g the John Muir Way)?
On 2016-04-05 14:59, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
Is there a site or tool somewhere where I can click on a point on an OSM
tile and get back the OSGR? I want the quality of OSM, but need OSGR
unfortunately.
Thanks
Stuart
You can use Where's the Path. http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm
It can
On 2015-05-06 21:09, Philip Barnes wrote:
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 19:47 +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote:
That's interesting. Have just tried the app out. It gives you the
postboxes in OpenStreetMap but not the ones that are missing (as shown
by blue markers on Robert's comparison tool:
On 2015-05-06 19:47, Rob Nickerson wrote:
That's interesting. Have just tried the app out. It gives you the
postboxes in OpenStreetMap but not the ones that are missing (as shown
by blue markers on Robert's comparison tool:
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/
I really do feel like we are
On 2014-12-01 13:57, Richard Mann wrote:
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk
mailto:li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote:
Usage of adjacent seems to be fairly localised in the UK:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6k7
Yeah, probably just me (maybe nobody else feels
On 2014-11-06 17:26, Ed Loach wrote:
Steve asked:
Has this service been discontinued? Or is there just a temporary problem
with it?
According to the wiki, faffy has a problem
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status
I believe os.openstreetmap.org was temporarily pointed elsewhere
On 2014-10-24 15:35, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 24/10/2014 15:13, Dan S wrote:
Co-operative - not clear to me why you choose to drop The from
this one, since it's included in the branding? You choose to keep it
for The Co-operative Food.
+1: see http://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/
Also note
On 2014-08-31 12:51, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Hi all,
I've see an increased use of block paving as a road surface on new
housing developments. Example image:
http://cms.esi.info/Media/productImages/38030_1338993270237_PF.jpg
How are people tagging these? At first I wondered about the
On 2014-06-08 16:28, Dan S wrote:
Hi all,
In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.
http://mcld.co.uk/feet-from-a-rat/pub.html
And luckily, in mainland Britain, you are never more than 30 miles
from a public toilet.
http://mcld.co.uk/feet-from-a-rat/public-toilet.html
On 2014-05-15 13:43, Philip Barnes wrote:
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 09:46 +0200, Marc Gemis wrote:
Left and right is decided by the direction of the osm-way. Not by
east/west/north/south.
BTW, in Brussels we have streets with 4 official names : left/right,
French/Dutch :-)
Rather than
On 2014-04-04 20:53, David Earl wrote:
On 04/04/2014 20:01, David Earl wrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/147456596
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/148248008
I'll post some photos of what these actually look like in a moment.
http://www.frankieandshadow.com/xref/covered1.jpg
On 2013-10-13 13:21, SK53 wrote:
This morning I came across a name tag on a power line
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.18607/-1.14961. I believe this
is now quite a common practice ( 8% of lines in an 3-month old
data-set). Personally I deplore it:
* I have never found a convenient
On 2013-08-21 10:53, Matt Williams wrote:
On 21 August 2013 00:00, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote:
I've come across a building that provides the sort of facilities that
one might find in some hotels for day time and evening functions
(weddings, posh birthday parties, etc.), but does
On 2013-08-05 12:20, David Woolley wrote:
An off list exchange suggests the problem could have been caused by
someone trying to declutter a map for private use without realising they
were making public changes. However, the problem still remains of how
to get it reverted, other than by
On 2013-07-27 13:11, Dudley Ibbett wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to make use of the row files on rowmaps for derbyshire and
staffordshire and and merging these with and osm map file to then
produce maps that can highlight which paths are and aren't mapped. I
can put the derbyshire file into JOSM and
On 2013-04-09 14:39, Andy Mabbett wrote:
All railway bridges (over- and under-) in the UK have a unique number.
often carried on a metal (more recently plastic) identification plate,
or painted on:
http://www.semgonline.com/structures/numbering.html
Among other things, these are used to
On 2013-03-11 10:12, Barry Cornelius wrote:
I think I understand what councils have to do for public rights of way in
England and Wales. However, I don't understand the situation concerning
rights of way in Scotland. I would like some help, please.
What kinds of paths are there in Scotland?
On 25/09/2012 10:34, Tom Chance wrote:
The first issue is that the tool flags up endpoint_wrong_format, which
the wiki says means one or other of the numbers in the housenumber
aren't integers. But they are!
Here's the OSMI view:
http://tiny.cc/kpp6kw
Here's an example way it is flagging up:
On 30/05/2012 16:11, Jason Cunningham wrote:
This suggests the original Boundary Line data is superior, but would
need to be compared to 2012 releases to check boundaries have not moved.
Does anyone have the original Boundary Line release? and would they be
able to make them available?
The
On 15/05/2012 20:16, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to
station nodes in the UK, seemingly made by people outside the UK and
using Wikipedia as a source.
I've reverted these (well, actually, at the time of writing the revert
is running!).
On 11/05/2012 14:24, Gregory wrote:
Royal Mail grid reference every post box
Erm, a request made under the Freedom of Information Act only returned
textual descriptions (usually names of roads, often a side road it is
'near'). I believe Hull has been very hard to find postboxes from this
list.
On 08/01/2012 19:59, Lester Caine wrote:
Took a little time to tidy up a few nodes hile I was reviewing things, but while
the update said it had saved, it's showing as still editing despite having
logged back out ... what happens to hanging edits nowadays?
It just means you haven't closed the
On 18/05/2011 12:44, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Kev js1982 wrote:
(And not all A roads are signed on the ground either)
That was the unspoken second half of my question. ;)
At, say, http://osm.org/go/eu2jYNcA-- , there's the A5189. Routing
software that says turn right here for the A5189 will
On 09/04/2011 12:00, dan...@daniel-watkins.co.uk wrote:
At the other end of the spectrum is screenshots and using the GIMP to draw
my route on (or using a mapping site like BikeRouteToaster to draw the
lines on, and taking screenshots of that). However, this seems really
lame (as you lose all
On 20/01/2011 17:28, Peter Miller wrote:
On 20 January 2011 17:20, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net
mailto:t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
How about dialects?
name:en
name:cy
name:gd
name:gv
name:sco
name:ga
Whatever other regional languages we have.
we believe that
On 17/01/2011 23:05, Chris Moss wrote:
I'm interested in the GB waterways and it seems there's quite a bit of
work done but it's totally invisible. Is anyone working on a layer like
the cycle map, which leaps out from the overlays as the only minority
interest yet developed?
It's not the only
On 01/11/2010 19:32, Colin Smale wrote:
So why not start documenting all these defaults or implied values?
Here's a few suggestions to get the ball rolling.
Implicit speed limits are documented on this page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed
Some other
, and if there's any gaps etc.
Craig
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On 12/10/2010 20:49, Chris Fleming wrote:
Quick question on this what are poeple doing with this data in cases
where a shop is showing correctly in the list and is on the ground but
isn't really a bike shop?
The example I found is TISO:
think it would be helpful if something like OpenCycleMap highlighted
roads tagged with bicycle=no - it would make the missing bits more
obvious, and might encourage people to map more of them.
Craig
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On 30/06/2010 16:01, Glenn Proctor wrote:
Hi
Near where I live there's a small stretch (about 100m) of the roadside
verge that has signs on it saying that it's a Site of Special
Scientific Interest.
It's only on one side of the road, and is about 0.5m wide for most of
its length, widening to
On 12/06/2010 22:37, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Firstly, while (I believe) you can walk just about anywhere in Scotland,
except during the stalking season, there are a number of waymarked
footpaths, waymarked similarly to England and Wales. I guess these have
no legal relevance but are merely
On 26/05/2010 12:12, Ian Spencer wrote:
Hi
I noticed that a local road which is private is designated as
access::private on OSM. My reading of that tag is that it implies users
need permission to use the road. However, in common with many private
roads, it is in private maintenance, but it
On 20/04/2010 13:42, Ed Loach wrote:
Andy asked:
Is there an easy way (a wiki page, perhaps; or some kind of
category view)
to see links to all such relations, and other such sets, as a
list?
I don't think there is a single wiki page that lists them. I think
it was me added the second
On 18/02/2010 17:06, Molescott wrote:
When you come up either of the curved cycle access paths to the bridge,
the cycle lane/track/path/way is the first thing you come across on the
bridge. This part is actually a fairly wide pavement with a standard
kerb, from which you can step down into
On 12/01/2010 19:04, Dave F. wrote:
Hi
I was told many years ago that there was no such thing as a natural wood
in the UK.
All areas of trees have, in some way been manipulated by man. Such as
planting, deforestation, pruning, being used to make garden furniture
for the middle classes.
I
On 08/01/2010 15:25, Dave F. wrote:
Hi
I'm aware that bus stop data is being mass imported but are there any
other similar data sets?
Such as post boxes public telephones etc?
For postboxes, see this website:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/
This is using a list from Royal
On 01/01/2010 22:01, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
brenda cameron wrote:
The reason involves openmtbmap and perhaps other bicycle oriented maps. It
currently blocks all trunk roads to autorouting, while allowing primary
roads. The author has indicated that he will include trunk roads if
tagged
On 08/11/2009 18:41, Ian Caldwell wrote:
On part of the Malvern Common there is a football pitch which is
notable as it flat and mowed, unlike the rest of the common but on
Mapnik they are shown as the same colour.
Any suggestions?
A pitch is rendered a different shade of a green to a
On 12/09/2009 11:29, David Earl wrote:
On 12/09/2009 11:21, Chris Andrew wrote:
Hi, all.
This morning, I mapped a Manor House here in Wiltshire. I have added
the perimeter to OSM, and marked it as a boundary. I just thought,
maybe this sort of tag is only for official boundaries, such
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