Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Public Sector Mapping Agreement

2011-03-24 Thread James Davis
On 24 Mar 2011, at 13:56, Luke Smith wrote: As I understand it, there is both a written record of where the rights of way go and the definitive map is in addition, with the written record taking precedence? My experience is that it probably depends, and that the statement and map are very

[Talk-GB] Mapnik rendering of of aeroway=taxiway

2011-02-24 Thread James Davis
How do I go about asking for changes in rendering to be reverted? http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25298 I've left some comments, is that all I need do? Seems to have diverted quite widely from the documented use of this tag where it's clearly for ways only - and I presume that existing

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-04 Thread James Davis
On 4 Feb 2011, at 12:55, Stephen Gower wrote: What do you do when a road has completely gone? Mascall Avenue in Oxford has completely gone. There's a new housing estate, with a road network that doesn't match what was there before, so there's no way to mark with old_name or not:name or

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging open and closed parts of a campus

2010-08-10 Thread James Davis
Dave F. wrote: access=private is not restricted to roads. For the building (drawn as an area I presume), split it at the restrictions tag it as access=private. For external areas, is there a fence boundary or road barriers that define the area? I've split the area up into it's

[Talk-GB] Tagging open and closed parts of a campus

2010-07-23 Thread James Davis
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.57507lon=-1.31246zoom=15layers=M The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus consists of areas which are open to the public and others that are closed (the nuclear licensed section of the site for starters). They've recently started changing some of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging open and closed parts of a campus

2010-07-23 Thread James Davis
Tom Hughes wrote: Well adding access=private to the non-public roads would be a good start. It'd be a start, but in general I'm unable to confirm that these roads exist. Judging by the areas of the campus that have recently been opened up, the available data does not accurately reflect what is

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes on whois records?

2009-09-07 Thread James Davis
Gregory Williams wrote: I just happen to have looked up a whois record for a domain and it helpfully has the registrant’s physical address and postcode. OSM is always ticking away in the back of my mind, so I thought: I can physically get to that address quite easily for mapping purposes, so

Re: [Talk-GB] waterway=construction

2009-08-25 Thread James Davis
WessexMario wrote: I'll go through that stretch of the canal and tag it more appropriately, removing the parts that are only proposed, and putting more appropriate tags on the bits that are visible. Thank you :) I think it's fine to have the remaining and disused parts of the canal

[Talk-GB] waterway=construction

2009-08-24 Thread James Davis
There's a feature in my local area and I'm not sure it should be included - it's the proposed new cut of the Wilts Berks Canal, so that it can join the Thames at a new junction rather than the original junction which has been developed over. Whilst the actual junction has been completed, as far

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-17 Thread James Davis
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Someone probably needs to sort this out with a council. Maybe I'll get round to doing it with mine at some stage. I contacted my local council with a freedom of information request - asking if I could obtain vector information of particular rights of way from them. After

Re: [Talk-GB] Deriving data from aerial imagery

2009-08-07 Thread James Davis
Frederik Ramm wrote: No, that's perfectly ok. If you want to be extra safe, you might want to ask for permission to distribute derived mapping under the license choosen by the OpenStreetMap foundation, this will reduce problems if the license should be changed in the future. That's good to

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding unofficial cycle routes

2009-07-27 Thread James Davis
Jonathan Bennett wrote: If they've been published, that's actually a very good reason *not* to map them, unless there are signposts on the ground. It's a clear violation of copyright without specific written permission. I've obtained permission to publish the routes under CC-BY-SA. This