>
>
> Bing has some images, not sure how old they are.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* David Earl [mailto:da...@frankieandshadow.com
> ]
> *Sent:* 13 July 2018 17:11
> *To:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* [Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - m
The University of Northampton is opening a new campus very soon between between
Bedford Road and New South Bridge Road. They would like to get a detailed
campus map onto OSM as soon as possible, ideally by August 1. I haven't
looked but I'm assuming this would have to be a ground survey as it is al
I also marked some cycle crossings as hazardous, but perhaps with a certain
amount of official legitimacy, in that I was preparing the data to use in
cycle maps for Cambridgeshire County Council, and the ones I marked were
ones they had provided but *they* recognised were not satisfactory: marking
Fwiw, there is the exact same situation in Ely:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.40627/0.25878
David
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 at 19:19, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 06/10/16 18:56, Christian Ledermann wrote:
> > How to map this?
> The staring point is if you can identify separate buildings. I've ma
As I said, I think the upward compatible change for this is to use a tag
with the unique ID of whatever operator (and I think URL would be a good
one, not as a link, but an ID, since two people can't have the same one,
and all orgs we'd be interested in would have one). That way operator
remains th
se not
all operators are companies and it'#s UK specific. A URL as an ID might be
OK though, as those must belong to the organisation in question. Though
they are always subject to change.
On Sat, 23 May 2015 at 13:36 David Woolley
wrote:
> On 23/05/15 12:02, David Earl wrote:
> > T
h the details then. Reorganising it dramatically four years on for
the sake of it would probably mean U of C abandoning OSM as being too
costly to maintain.
On Sat, 23 May 2015 at 12:43 Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 22 May 2015 at 14:58, David Earl wrote:
>
> > Yes, the operator tags are th
ch to indicate just the
> pitches (ie the white lines of a football pitch). Currently there are
> situations with two 'pitches' on top of each other.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.40868/-2.37860
>
> David Fox
>
> On 22/05/2015 14:58, David Earl wrote:
&
gt;
>
>1. Add operator tags to existing amenity=university elements
>2. Develop some consensus ideas about mapping of university hospitals
>& multi-hospital campuses
>3. Think about some tags to manage federated bodies (perhaps just
>federated_operator
s involved. But not today!
On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 14:49 Andy Allan wrote:
> On 22 May 2015 at 14:27, David Earl wrote:
> > Andy, the operator tags are all the same, not the building names.
>
> No, they really aren't.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/148247775 - &
Andy, the operator tags are all the same, not the building names.
But also the assertion "within a few dozen miles" is wrong, as for
Nottingham in China.
On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 14:23 Andy Allan wrote:
> On 22 May 2015 at 14:03, Christopher Baines wrote:
> > On 21/05/15 22:39, Dan S wrote:
> >>
he
university map is that when you get a search hit where the result blobs are
overlapping they should be merged into one. This is very hard to do, so it
will cost a lot.
On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 12:40 Dan S wrote:
> 2015-05-22 12:33 GMT+01:00 David Earl :
> >> to render a map using
ve?
On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 12:30 David Earl wrote:
> Does the main OSM rendering understand building=university?
>
>
> On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 12:27 Dan S wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Thanks for the detailed info. My main concern is in terms of the
>> conseque
s/universities/whatever-we-agree-it-should-be-on - would that work
> for you? My quick overpass check suggests that would address about 800
> of the 1200 objects.
>
> Best
> Dan
>
>
> 2015-05-22 11:54 GMT+01:00 David Earl :
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Yes, Philip's
though that feels
> wrong, since the colleges are independent entities). It's *not* a candidate
> for a relation because there are no geographical relationships between the
> components.
>
> Richard
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:54 AM, David Earl
> wrote:
>
>>
On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 11:54 David Earl wrote:
> The "schema" for tags that make the University map work is at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cambridge/University_of_Cambridge
> (I've just realised I haven't updated that page with a recent, unrelated
> new
bits, and bear in mind this
has a direct financial cost to me as a freelancer supporting the University
map, and that the University has been a big benefactor for OSM, even though
they get the rest of the map back in return, so you really don't want to
give them a slap in the face for doing s
On 16/06/2014 12:04, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:05:34 +0200
Andreas Goss wrote:
Hello Andreas,
Is life ring how it is commonly referred to in British English. Just
Always been referred to as lifebelts wherever I've been in England.
Lifebuoy immediately makes me think of soap
If you want to know population, we should use a population tag. Given
its history, much as we might like to pretend otherwise, place=city etc
really *is* no more than an arbitrary hint to the renderer, and not much
good either because it doesn't reflect the other criteria that would
determine h
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
http://www.frankieandshadow.com/xref/covered
On 04/04/2014 19:40, Dudley Ibbett wrote:
I visited the NEC this week and tried using Osmand to navigate between
Birmingham International Railway Station and the Hilton Hotel. Whilst
the map was very helpful and has lots of detail, the suggested route
took you via roads. How might you map the w
On 25/02/14 13:07, Philip Barnes wrote:
> That is absolutely my point, we should tag the facts and leave it to
> different renderers to then use those facts in the way that best suits
> their users.
The question that needs to be answered is what "fact" does place=city
represent in UK
place=city, contrary to various differing cultural uses of the word
City, used to be somewhere over a certain population, 100K IIRC.
However, it appears the definition on the wiki has been substantially
relaxed, as has town. Nevertheless it is still defined by size, albeit
woolly: "The largest
I think it would be useful to have a means of indicating road closures etc
which are different from simply pretending the road doesn't exist or doesn't
allow certain users for a while. This would allow renderers to mark closures
rather than just gaps or not visible at all, so people see there is
link.
Or http://Blogs.OpenStreetMap.org gets you there too of course
Cheers
Andy
*From:*Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 02 December 2013 16:17
*To:* Talk GB
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website
Where do I find community blogs now?
On 2 December 2013 16
link.
Or http://Blogs.OpenStreetMap.org gets you there too of course
Cheers
Andy
*From:*Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 02 December 2013 16:17
*To:* Talk GB
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website
Where do I find community blogs now?
On 2 December 2013 16
Andy Robinson wrote:
But how do I get the box back now that I’ve closed it ;-)
Both the links it provided are duplicated in the banner anyway (Learn
More == About and Start Mapping == Sign Up), it was always only
signposting these more prominently.
David
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Excellent, the close has been added. Thank you to whoever did that -
thanks for listening.
I also noticed on my rail journey yesterday that the GPS also tracks
location on the main map, which I think is a really nice touch.
David
On 02/12/2013 13:17, Philip Barnes wrote:
Not sure if its be
On 15/11/2013 20:15, Rob Nickerson wrote:
(The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to
the
OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback)
One other thing... notes are really helpful, and not immediately new
though they were introd
On 15/11/2013 20:15, Rob Nickerson wrote:
(The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to
the
OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback)
I very much like the fact it is responsive on small screens.
Would it be possible to have a
On 12/10/2013 21:00, Philip Barnes wrote:
I came across an odd situation where a road is on way, except for cycles
and vehicles over 13'3" high. Its a residential area of Shrewsbury which
would be a useful rat run, hence the oneway. But to make it complicated,
there is are industrial units, and a
On 16/09/2013 17:35, Adam Hoyle wrote:
On 16 Sep 2013, at 16:14, Andy Allan wrote:
Err, no. That's not how the law works - either on copyright or on
database rights.
Lol, good point - perhaps I should ask if any of them can attribute a
license to the locations on their sites - what would be t
Bournemouth (01202)[1] and before long Brighton and Hove (01273),
Aberdeen (01224), Milton Keynes (01908), Bradford (01274) and Cambridge
(01223) which are all running short of numbers[2], require or will
require the 'area code' to be dialled as part of the number, even if you
are inside the ar
On 09/05/2013 13:30, Oliver Jowett wrote:
If there's a better way to represent this while keeping enough
information to be able to route sensibly, how should it be done?
You can set up turn restrictions with relations where necessary. But as
John said, it doesn't do much for pedestrians (or cy
On 09/05/2013 12:56, Jason Cunningham wrote:
UK legislation is fairly clear that Traffic Islands (with or without
hatched markings before are after) are not considered to create two
carriagways. We're not mapping legislation, but nethertheless I wouldnt
create two carriageways for a traffic islan
On 01/05/2013 09:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
if someone comes with an
alternative proposal for tagging those reference numbers on more minor
roads (i.e. a specific key to use), which gains widespread support in
the UK, I'd be happy to go along with that.
According to http://wiki.ope
On 28/04/2013 15:21, Andrew wrote:
David Earl writes:
In general, it shouldn't be necessary to
have a node and an area which
represent the same thing.
In this case the nodes and areas do not
represent the same thing. The areas are
the local government districts called
Leed
On 28/04/2013 13:57, Dave F. wrote:
General point: Please don't attach place tags onto other way/polygon
objects. They often get deleted when the ways are unpicked then re-added.
Indeed. And I would say don't try to use nodes or ways for multiple
purposes at all. So putting a node at the tiown
On 28/04/2013 09:49, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Hi,
I've noticed (through doing nominatim searches) that a small number of
UK cities (i.e. Manchester and Leeds) do not appear to have a place=city
node, only an administrative boundary.
Is this deliberate? I've tried other large UK cities and all of t
On 20/04/2013 13:58, Kevin Peat wrote:
I am not that familiar with NCN signage. Why are the route numbers
sometimes shown in brackets and sometimes not?
Just as with ordinary road signs in the UK, the number in brackets means
"this is the way to route N" rather than being route N itself.
Dav
On 20/03/2013 09:25, Brad Rogers wrote:
Both those links are the same, and both seem to point (for me anyway)
to the original "except buses" junction.
It's not just you, Andy. I got the same result and thought it "must be
me".
Sigh. I corrected them immediately afterwards.
_
On 19/03/2013 20:34, David Earl wrote:
On 19/03/2013 20:10, Simon Blake wrote:
Could I ask the panel about http://goo.gl/maps/y9Zj3 ? If you look
towards the road to the right (Parliament St, Gloucester), there are No
Entry signs with no exceptions signed, but on the road it says "Buse
On 19/03/2013 20:10, Simon Blake wrote:
Could I ask the panel about http://goo.gl/maps/y9Zj3 ? If you look
towards the road to the right (Parliament St, Gloucester), there are No
Entry signs with no exceptions signed, but on the road it says "Buses
and taxis only". Equally, the sign under the gre
On 19/03/2013 14:04, David Fisher wrote:
Hi Shaun,
I take it you're referring to Ipswich? In which case, I can sort of see
the logic. It's not "one-way", it's "no entry", so when the excepting
conditions are satisfied it becomes two-way. In Croydon's case there's
that "no motor vehicles" sign
Do you know about openheatmap (http://www.openheatmap.com )? Basically
you can supply spreadsheets of locations vs data and it will do the
graphics for you. It doesn't know about postcodes, but if you have the
means to get locations for postcodes you don't have to do any of the rest.
David
On
On 06/01/2013 14:02, SomeoneElse wrote:
I recently deleted a doodle in Hay-on-Wye, but after doing so noticed
that to there northwest there seem to be a cycle path and a footpath
_very_ close together:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.073537&lon=-3.130221&zoom=18&layers=M
I guess that this
On 11/12/2012 12:29, Andy Robinson wrote:
From: Dave F. [mailto:dave...@madasafish.com] wrote:
Sent: 11 December 2012 12:16
Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn
Statement in OSM
On 11/12/2012 11:18, John Sturdy wrote:
Yes --- administra
On 31/10/2012 15:29, Andy Robinson wrote:
Shaun McDonald [mailto:sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk] wrote:
Sent: 31 October 2012 15:21
To: Matt Williams
Cc: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign
On 31 Oct 2012, at 14:49, Matt Williams wrote:
On 31 October 2012
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Chris Hill wrote:
> On 25/07/12 22:16, Chris Baines wrote:
>
>> I have been playing around with OSM on my university's campus [1], I
>> have most of the buildings and their names on OSM, but not the
>> numbers. My university are quite good with data, you can see the
>>
On 28/06/2012 11:41, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
On 28/06/2012 11:32, David Earl wrote:
Might this be of help, if the info were included with the station. It
seems to be "official":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_railway_station_categories
If I could find the actual *i
Might this be of help, if the info were included with the station. It
seems to be "official":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_railway_station_categories
David
On 28/06/2012 11:15, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
tl;dr: Please tag your local station(s) with platforms=n where n<>2
I had a c
On 20/06/2012 14:57, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote:
Merging this data I see that some ways that just lead to an NCN route (but
are not actually part of the continuous route) are still marked with the
ncn=yes;ncn_ref=xx tags for the route the lead to.
What's the feeling on this? I'm a bit torn:
On 23/01/2012 20:21, Jason Cunningham wrote:
Good to see the data being released,
But I don't believe this "proposed" route should yet be added to OSM.
You'll regularly here the phrase "map what's on the ground", but we
all(?) accept upcoming changes to "what's on the ground" can be mapped,
a
I bet you this is liam123 in a different guise. He's editing in the same
area doing quite similar things.
David
On 13/01/2012 13:41, Andy Allan wrote:
Anyone fancy dealing with http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kane123 ?
All of their changesets so far are bogus, and need reverting.
Cheers,
An
On 10/01/2012 16:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
David Earl wrote:
Why does pressing the keys make any
difference whatsoever? The original contributor doesn't own the
copyright in the name, only their contribution, and by marking it
odbl clean I'm making an alternative contribution whi
On 10/01/2012 14:53, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
On 01/10/12 15:37, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Yes, the trouble is when Frederik pointed this out and referred to the
page, it says it is for cases where the suspect edit has been wiped out,
not simply verified from other sources. How can you change the na
On 10/01/2012 13:46, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Michael Collinson wrote:
+1 to Richard's suggestion odbl=clean
Just a tiny little clarification - this isn't something I've dreamed up,
it's a real live tag with 9,000 occurrences in the database already, and
which is being used by status visualisa
On 10/01/2012 11:44, Peter Miller wrote:
Is there no way in this case to formally 'claim' the IPR for this
features on the basis that we have moved them and edited all the
surrounding features?
Exactly the question I raised on talk on Monday. I don't think you even
need to have moved anything,
On 06/12/2011 12:54, Stephen Gower wrote:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 05:44:48PM +, David Earl wrote:
I was appointed to the project from that [...]
Congratulations!
Thank you!
and also published the tagging schema I'm working to (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Camb
You may remember the announcement of the University of Cambridge's
OpenStreetMap project back in July (
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-July/012067.html ).
I was appointed to the project from that and I have now written up a bit
about what I'm doing on my OSM diary (
htt
On 05/07/2011 12:28, Nick Austin wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, David Earl wrote:
To take a different example, the Royal Mail (still) claims database
copyright over the PAF (postcode address file) database. Would crowd
sourcing the address vs postcode data by each individual putting
On 05/07/2011 11:26, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
David Earl wrote:
Even then, to infringe database copyright under UK law you would have to
copy a "substantial" part of the database. Checking or obtaining a few
names against such a list isn't database copyright infringement
Oh,
On 05/07/2011 10:51, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Exactly that.
If you want a very very broad rule of thumb, you could ask "am I checking
these contact details against a database of contact details?".
If so (e.g. tesco.com list of their stores, beerintheevening.com list of
pubs, etc.), then don't d
On 09/06/2011 17:36, Ed Avis wrote:
What stops more people using OSM?
While I agree with your other points, even before you get to the data, I
think the first reason is people don't know about it.
And for most people, why would you not just use Google maps even if you did?
David
_
On 15/04/2011 19:50, David Earl wrote:
there's various lane indications such as
cycleway=lane
...
PS if you want examples, Cambridge and the surrounding area is
particularly dense with all the variations of these all over the place.
there's various lane indications such as
cycleway=lane
cycleway=opposite_lane
cycleway:left=lane
cycleway:right=lane
for various configurations of lane.
For separate from road, generally this is done similar to carriageways
of dual carriageways, with a separate way, tagged highway=cyclew
On 03/02/2011 14:30, Tom Hughes wrote:
I wonder how much of that jump was people blindly copying names from the
OS anywhere it showed a difference...
That's exactly what happened round me. I had started work on surveying
the differences to determine which was correct when another contributor
cam
On 21/01/2011 10:10, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 21/01/11 10:02, Kevin Peat wrote:
So I should delete the various admin boundaries in the db then as they
cannot be viewed on the ground?
They may not be viewable on the ground, but they are real in the sense
that somebody has defined them by reference
On 21/01/2011 10:02, Kevin Peat wrote:
So I should delete the various admin boundaries in the db then as they
cannot be viewed on the ground?
Well said. I absolutely agree admin boundaries have the same kind of
status as postcodes.
I think there is value in visualising postcodes, and while y
On Sunday, 26 December 2010, Richard wrote:
> My personal opinion is that "Signed on the ground" should always take
> precedence.
+1
But you can always use alt_ name where there is another variant (or
even completely different name).
David
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Talk-
On 01/11/2010 19:36, David Earl wrote:
>
> On Monday, November 1, 2010, Andy Allan wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Colin Smale wrote:
>
> On 29/10/2010 22:22, thomas van der veen wrote:
> You might like to take note that nothing is implicit in OSM. There are no
&
On Monday, November 1, 2010, Andy Allan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Colin Smale wrote:
>> On 29/10/2010 22:22, thomas van der veen wrote:
>
>> You might like to take note that nothing is implicit in OSM. There are no
>> "defaults" as renderers or other consumers of the map data are
This reached me via a roundabout route about an event on Thursday late
afternoon. Is anyone from OSM involved? Is anyone going? Is someone in
the London area able to go? Looks light up our street, so to speak.
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk
and in particular:
http://www.mappingforchange.or
On 06/04/2010 17:51, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
> A lot of stuff nowadays is done from aerial imagery, but they can still drop
> back to traditional surveying methods if required.
It was a strange coincidence that I met an OS surveyor, theodolite in
hand, doing just that when I was o
On 05/04/2010 18:41, Graham Jones wrote:
> I would like to see a plugin for josm that takes a raster input
> (landsat, yahoo, StreetView) and processes it into 'draft' ways around
> areas of constant(ish) colour - the user then tidies it up and tags it
> before uploading (ie I would be very wary of
I thought it was very interesting to look at the OS and OSM overlaid on
each other on the WMS link someone posted.
1. I was very impressed with how really accurate OSM is compared to OS
where I know it has been done systematically
2. I was disappointed to see how out of date the OS data is - st
On 25/03/2010 14:10, Tom Chance wrote:
> We only do it for public services, otherwise OSM gets into the business
> of promoting particular companies.
I'm not particularly advocating that we do this, but is that really so?
As long as we were even handed about it surely that wouldn't be
promoting
On 25/03/2010 13:36, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Wow, good work. I suppose this will start a flood of localisation
> requests for other metro systems, this will probably be a good thing -
> it'll force our mapnik localisation to be made better! (maybe I could
> target it as a GSoC project for myself...)
tions on the map were we to ask them, as
essentially free advertising, and I do hope TfL might be able to take
that position also. Many thanks, David Earl
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On 09/03/2010 11:29, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> I'm currently trying to form a sort of consensus as to the best way of
> defining the classes of highway in the US, and a bit of information
> about the UK would help. I know about the definitions used
> (trunk=primary route network, primary=A roads, s
Does anyone know what happens to ncn11 south of Stansted Mountfitchet?
I mapped it through to there a few months ago and then went back to
take it further but couldn't find it on the ground. I'd assumed it
followed the Lea valley maybe via Bishops Stortford and Harlow, but
the signs just se
On 17/02/2010 18:07, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
> The residential areas and suburbs of *any* town aren't places you'd
> normally go unless you had to, but we do to map them.
I started getting nervous in King's Lynn when I found ordinary
residential streets, albeit very shabby looking, were being mon
On 17/02/2010 12:11, Andy Allan wrote:
> I think it would be great[1] if we had at least two dozen mapping
> parties this summer around the UK.
We'll certainly be doing more round Cambridgeshire in the coming months.
A group of us has been collectively plugging away at Wisbech and NE
Cambs and t
On 14/01/2010 18:27, Dave F. wrote:
> Andy, The taxpayers have already paid for it, many times over. I resent
> having to pay £7.50 for a map I've already financed to construct.
> As I've paid for it, I think it should be given to me free of charge.
For a paper map, I think not. You've helped pay
On 03/01/2010 11:36, Colin Smale wrote:
> While searching the internet for arbitration in a case where "local
> wisdom" appeared to conflict with OSM data I came across the Kent County
> Council Highways Gazetteer. It contains a "complete" list of roads in
> Kent, including their reference, road nu
There was an item on this lunchtime's You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 (a
consumer magazine programme) about mapping, Ordnance Survey and satnav,
which also mentioned OSM.
It's 35:30 minutes in at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00p4l7x
David
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On 11/11/2009 12:44, Peter Childs wrote:
> OSM also has the advantage that you can render your map your self, If
> you want Yellow Primary Roads, London Transport Symbol for train
> stations etc etc then go ahead, If you infridge copy right on your own
> rendering its not in the OSM data so OSM can
On 11/11/2009 12:40, Peter Miller wrote:
> I do also agree with Richard in that there are numerous possible map
> styles emphasising many different sorts of features in a lot of
> different languages
Sure, but there are some that are so iconic they are the expectation.
And as others said and h
that e.g. Starbucks would be more than
happy for us to use their logo to show their store locations on the map
were we to ask them, as essentially free advertising, and I do hope TfL
might be able to take that position also.
Many thanks,
David Earl
_
On 11/11/2009 10:39, Richard Mann wrote:
> I found this a useful summary of the UK copyright position:
>
> http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p09_fair_use
That's about the general concept.
> This was the reason for my comment that our use on a street map would be
> akin to news report
On 10/11/2009 19:35, Peter Miller wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2009, at 19:05, Tom Chance wrote:
>> We get permission from TfL, or we seek costly legal advice.
>
> I agree that the cautious approach would be to ask. I was wondering if
> we could use the argument that it is in the background (as is a photo
On 10/11/2009 15:02, Richard Mann wrote:
> But simply reproducing their name or logo to represent them is just free
> advertising, and they'd be laughed out of court.
Rubbish. It's their property and they can decide who uses it and where.
They may well not have any objection, but if they did, yo
ks" on
> the map? I say put it on, and take it off if they complain.
>
> Richard
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:22 PM, David Earl <mailto:da...@frankieandshadow.com>> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/2009 13:21, Peter Miller wrote:
> > On 10 Nov 2009, at 12:
On 10/11/2009 13:21, Peter Miller wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2009, at 12:41, Ed Avis wrote:
>
>> Are we legally permitted to use the Underground roundel and national
>> rail arrows?
>
> No idea! It would seem totally bizarre if we were not, but it might
> well be the case - it could even have a trade
On 15/10/2009 11:02, Ed Avis wrote:
> Ed Loach writes:
>
>> As only Sealand recognise Sealand and no
>> UN member does (from the wiki article you quote), I can't see the
>> claim that the sea boundary of England is wrong can be justified.
>
> Who would have expected an edit war in the English Ch
I'm planning a mapping party for the weekend of 14/15 November to map
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and environs. Anyone fancy a weekend in the Fens?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fenland/WisbechMappingParty2009-11
David
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On 07/10/2009 14:07, David Earl wrote:
> On 07/10/2009 12:28, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
>> Which NPE WMS are you using. Is it by any change the "nick" version on dev?
>
> Indeed it is. That's presumably the setting I've had all along.
>
>
On 07/10/2009 12:28, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
> Which NPE WMS are you using. Is it by any change the "nick" version on dev?
Indeed it is. That's presumably the setting I've had all along.
> I get a much better alignment for that area with the re-rectified NPE tiles
> from TimSC's s
NPE maps have always had major alignment problems which have seemed to
me to be worse in the eastern side of the country. There's also a new
problem, but I don't know whether it is in the JOSM WMS plugin, the tile
server or what.
Consider three JOSM screenshots:
http://www.frankieandshadow.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/royal_mail_ernest_marples_postcodes/
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