[Talk-GB] MapThePaths downtime

2020-12-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
. Thanks, Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application -- -& server

2020-12-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
which I am prepared to meet in the short term, I will also give accounts to trusted members of the community on request to work on the project should they wish. Nick From: OSMUK Sent: 13 December 2020 18:36 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Cc: Nick Whitelegg

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
Hello Martin/Nick, Perhaps the combination of highway, surface and designation will cover many of these use-cases? e.g. a service road that looks like a track but is a service road, and has bridleway rights, could be tagged as: highway=service; surface=unpaved; designation=public_bridleway

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick
I will throw something in the pot, apart from using the "Cycle map" solution what do people think of Overlapping ways i.e. one is a road and a duplicate is a bridleway? Not elegant and something I would not normally suggest but... On 13/12/2020 13:00, Martin Wynne wrote: As the OP on this,

Re: [Talk-GB] map styles on osm.org; other sites (was: Re: driveway-becomes-track)

2020-12-13 Thread Nick
Totally agree that openstreetmap.org isn't supposed to be a "general public" map destination but without knowing user journeys, I assume that is where most people land. Options could be that openstreetmap.org provide alternative links based on locality and/or develop robust (N.B. tiles from

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick
to find. To my mind this is where more options from the worldwide map fail to deliver and is a bigger issue that can be resolved by understanding the 'customer' journey better? On 13/12/2020 10:28, Nick Allen wrote: Hi, I tend to think of tagging more in terms of 'who will use this?' I know my

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
Hi everyone, I notice I'm being CCed in quite a bit here. Just to make it clear, there are at least two "Nick"s on the thread. I just made the comment about Noverton Farm - it's another Nick who has made most of the contributions. It's an interesting thread but just want to make s

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Allen
actually find that https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa explains it better. Regards & Happy Mapping / Surveying Nick(Tallguy) On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 10:08 +, Edward Bainton wrote: > > https://85a.uk/noverton_farm_1280x800.jpg > > > > It seems daft t

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths downtime next weekend Dec 19/20

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
be used for experimenting with creating an OSM UK walkers' map. I will be willing to give shell accounts to trusted members of the OSM UK community (people I know personally or mailing list regulars). More on that later. Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
proved since.. Nick From: Martin Wynne Sent: 12 December 2020 14:30 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track On 12/12/2020 13:15, Andy Townsend wrote: > > Ultimately, if "something needs doing", "someo

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-12 Thread Nick
ure type = Bridleway? Cheers Nick On 12/12/2020 17:37, Andy Townsend wrote: On 12/12/2020 13:59, Nick wrote: I had to check the Council GIS - so the designation is Bridleway. Because of the complexity, if this was tagged something like 'Bridleway=Yes' and get that displayed on maps of footpaths

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-12 Thread Nick
Hi Martin I had to check the Council GIS - so the designation is Bridleway. Because of the complexity, if this was tagged something like 'Bridleway=Yes' and get that displayed on maps of footpaths, surely that would solve the problem? Nick On 12/12/2020 13:41, Martin Wynne wrote: On 12/12

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-12 Thread Nick
For this particular example it is clearly complex as it was shown as a 'permissive' footpath (other non vehicular access was along the designated bridleway). As this is in England and given that the driveway seems to have just been changed to 'designated', I assume the change made to the map

Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track

2020-12-12 Thread Nick
Would changing this to Tag:highway=bridleway be a starting point? On 12/12/2020 13:03, Nick wrote: For this particular example it is clearly complex as it was shown as a 'permissive' footpath (other non vehicular access was along the designated bridleway). As this is in England and given

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application -- -& server

2020-12-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
Hello Seán, Thanks for that, sounds a great idea! Would be a great addition to any UK countryside map once you have opened your API. Nick From: Seán Lynch Sent: 11 December 2020 21:03 To: Nick Whitelegg Cc: Andy Townsend ; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application -- -& server

2020-12-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
necessary to develop an interactive POI map. We'd also of course need people with strong web design and UX skills - alas, mine are not so great! As for other points - things like https cert renewal seem easy with Let's Encrypt; have been using that succesfully for a while now. Nick Nick Whitel

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application -- -& server

2020-12-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
g this) but I'll leave it up to others to do serious cartography work, and of course web design. Or, we could even use client-side rendering, Tangram is pretty powerful, have had a play with it. Would be a great project for the community to work on. Nick From: To

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway across field

2020-12-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
route that people actually use! Nick From: nathan case Sent: 08 December 2020 15:11 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway across field That's a fair viewpoint and I'm open to changing my method. But what would you suggest

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
)? Thanks, Nick From: Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB Sent: 04 December 2020 15:40 To: Talk-GB Subject: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application Hi, Just floating an idea for a possible OSMUK site, namely an OSMUK 'semi-official' web application for walkers

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
I - adopted by all councils for problem reporting would be a great thing to have. Nick From: David Woolley Sent: 04 December 2020 16:49 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application On 04/12/2020 16:38, Nick Whitelegg

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
I was just thinking it might be a nice idea to have a completely open path problems API that could be used not only for councils but also third party applications. However as you say council take up could be problematic. Maybe we could provide a link to FixMyStreet? Nick

[Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-04 Thread Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB
in existence, maybe a semi-official OSMUK walkers' map with added functionality would have greater traction and it's something that could be launched as a project on GitHub? Thanks, Nick Disclaimer<http://www.solent.ac.uk/disclaimer/disclaimer.a

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-26 Thread Nick Allen
Hi Jez, Try amenity=recycling Regards Nick Tallguy On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, 13:08 Jez Nicholson, wrote: > I'm planning some work with Household Waste Recycling Centres and > Recycling Points during the Code The City OSM hack weekend this Sat/Sun > (which you are very welcome to joi

Re: [Talk-GB] different post codes within single block of flats

2020-11-05 Thread Nick
The 'shell' of the building is not normally addressable so it would not have a postcode allocated. I guess this has occured as postcode areas normally would cover up to 100 properties. I note that the response in the discussion seems to have come from a councillor at Peterborough City Council

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-09-26 Thread Nick
That is a good point and if the councils agree to publish under OGL, that would be ideal. Perhaps need to consider what data should be requested as a standard submission? For example, apart from the UPRN related data (i.e. whether parent/child, historic, provisional) the request could perhaps

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-09-26 Thread Nick
The update on the FOIA request https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lists_of_historic_and_parent_upr is worth a read!! Makes you wonder at the value of releasing open data that has limited value to the public? On 01/08/2020 20:24, Nick wrote: As a follow up, Robert Whittaker also

Re: [Talk-GB] Overpass query strangeness within iD

2020-09-16 Thread Nick via Talk-GB
Hi Gareth It was just a thought if that might have been the source Cheers Nick On 16/09/2020 10:12, Gareth L wrote: Hi Nick, Not in the example I cited. Gareth On 16 Sep 2020, at 10:03, Nick wrote:  Just out of curiosity, were these all mapped with the new version of the RapiD OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Overpass query strangeness within iD

2020-09-16 Thread Nick
Just out of curiosity, were these all mapped with the new version of the RapiD OSM editor https://mapwith.ai/rapid-esri? On 16/09/2020 08:18, Gareth L wrote: Morning Mateusz, You’re right, it’s not encountered in edit mode. 4: 1. “en-GB en” 2. “en-GB” 3. System Locale:

Re: [Talk-GB] man_made=survey_point

2020-08-23 Thread Nick
0 at 15:13, Nick <mailto:n...@foresters.org>> wrote: My thinking was that most people surveying would not use accurate and precise systems such as differential GPS and/or RTK. So if these systems were used to accurately and precisely locate distinct local markers (i.e. trig

Re: [Talk-GB] man_made=survey_point

2020-08-23 Thread Nick
rather than generic improvement of feature alignment. Regards, Jerry On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 10:05, Nick <mailto:n...@foresters.org>> wrote: I have been looking at what is recorded under this tag in my area. I see that there aren't that many and those that are on OS

Re: [Talk-GB] New Forest Panorama Mapping Party - September 13th 11.00

2020-08-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Sorry, got Dave's email wrong - damn typo! dgreenw...@trekview.org Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 23 August 2020 13:43 To: Talk-GB Subject: New Forest Panorama Mapping Party - September 13th 11.00 Hello everyone, Some of you are aware of this, but we

[Talk-GB] New Forest Panorama Mapping Party - September 13th 11.00

2020-08-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
details. Thanks, Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] man_made=survey_point

2020-08-23 Thread Nick
I have been looking at what is recorded under this tag in my area. I see that there aren't that many and those that are on OSM refer to trig points (see also http://trigpointing.uk/). My thinking is that if these are accurate and precisely marked on OSM then perhaps they could be used for

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

2020-08-13 Thread Nick
:30, Nick wrote: On delving deeper, it looks as if my comment is a load of rubbish. UPRNs that are listed do include huge numbers of adopted roads - so if we could have a list of these and other 'non-addressable' UPRNs, it would help users identify relevant ones How are you identifying

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

2020-08-13 Thread Nick
On delving deeper, it looks as if my comment is a load of rubbish. UPRNs that are listed do include huge numbers of adopted roads - so if we could have a list of these and other 'non-addressable' UPRNs, it would help users identify relevant ones On 13/08/2020 14:08, Nick wrote: Lester makes

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

2020-08-13 Thread Nick
Lester makes a very valid point - the UPRNs relating to roads/streets are probably not adopted (certainly the example that I cited in Fife is not adopted) On 13/08/2020 11:21, Lester Caine wrote: On 13/08/2020 10:55, SK53 wrote: That was me too, I would have added the USRN if I'd had it

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

2020-08-12 Thread Nick
UPRNs are applied to street records (e.g. 320276457 is a street record in Fife, I am sure there are many more). Perhaps all these non-addressable UPRNs should be identified as part of the open data? Related to this is the FOI request that Robert Whittaker made re "list of all UPRNs that are

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-08-02 Thread Nick
Hi Jez You can limit the number of requests to a specific URL (or set of URLs) by IP address - so polling "every available UPRN" would not be an issue (e.g. can limit the number of requests from a given IP over a given time period). Cheers Nick On 02/08/2020 11:58, Jez Nicho

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-08-02 Thread Nick
I have no problem with licencing but the UPRN and related data is managed by Authority custodians - do they not retain ownership of that data? If the authorities sell it to OS, then should this be raised with The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP (he owns 100% of the shares of OS)? N.B. there are some

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-08-02 Thread Nick
ack of trust On 01/08/2020 21:19, Mark Goodge wrote: On 01/08/2020 20:24, Nick wrote: As a follow up, Robert Whittaker also submitted an FOI asking for "... a list of all UPRNs that are classified as 'historic', and a separate list of all those classified as a 'parent' ". the

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-08-01 Thread Nick
from the commercial value, this is unlikely to be published as apparently this might be misleading due to the randomness of the data and likely to be out of date quickly. So much for the potential for collaboration with the various authorities. On 06/07/2020 15:10, Nick wrote: Hi Jez To

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-30 Thread Nick
Save the file as an XML file on your computer or wherever then in JOSM: Edit>Preferences>Map Display>Tagging presets - then click the + sign and add the file. On 30/07/2020 16:08, Andy Mabbett wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 15:36, Tony OSM wrote: I did know of that plug-in so i created my

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-30 Thread Nick
Hi Tony I had contacted one of the authors but also did wonder if it was better to make my own - thank you so much for sharing your version :-) Cheers Nick On 30/07/2020 15:36, Tony OSM wrote: Hi I did know of that plug-in so i created my own http://josm.openstreetmap.de/tagging-preset

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-30 Thread Nick
for the NHLE heritage listings? Taking this further, should the preset also have a drop down for Listed Building listed_status? On 23/07/2020 15:12, Nick wrote: Out of interest, I note that in England the 'List Entry Number' appears to be simply numeric, which does not appear to give

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
oJSON data and MapCSS compiled into JavaScript. Nick From: Mark Goodge Sent: 24 July 2020 14:41 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings On 24/07/2020 13:20, Martin Wynne wrote: > > but most people I know are

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-24 Thread Nick
'volunteers', OS and other agencies strikes me as a possible win-win?.. but I suppose that is me going 'a step too far' On 23/07/2020 10:55, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB wrote: Jul 23, 2020, 11:49 by for...@david-woolley.me.uk: On 23/07/2020 10:12, Nick wrote: Do we actually

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-23 Thread Nick
Out of interest, I note that in England the 'List Entry Number' appears to be simply numeric, which does not appear to give an indication of the type of designation. Perhaps I have not picked that up correctly. N.B. in Scotland, designations have a code + numeric listing e.g. HMPA2 (which is

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-23 Thread Nick
My apologies, I have just realised this discussion only relates to english tags. Is it worth discussing in tandem what happens in other parts of GB (separate thread)? for example, in Scotland the "Garden & Designed Landscape" designation don't have individual grades (category) but are

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-23 Thread Nick
easily. So the purpose here may need to be different (e.g. more detailed mapping,  link to other local data)? Do we actually know what the general public use OSM for? On 22/07/2020 22:13, Dave Love wrote: On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 11:29 +0100, Nick wrote: Dear all I have been mapping a few properties

Re: [Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-22 Thread Nick
if the quality is good, that people might use OSM as the map to go to e.g. for Planning applications? Cheers Nick On 22/07/2020 13:20, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB wrote: Jul 20, 2020, 12:29 by n...@foresters.org: Dear all I have been mapping a few properties using Bing maps with local

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-21 Thread Nick
Could the data be included in https://osm.mathmos.net/survey/ ? On 21/07/2020 22:42, Colin Smale wrote: On 2020-07-21 22:54, Mark Goodge wrote: It's the errors which are more of a problem, because it's generally better not to map something than to map it wrongly. This is a difficult point.

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN tag proposal page

2020-07-21 Thread Nick
Hi Lester Rob has suggested a matching USRN tag You make a good point regarding upper and lower case. Perhaps the tag should be ref:GB:UPRN in line with normal convention of referring to UPRN in upper case? Nick On 21/07/2020 10:34, Lester Caine wrote: On 20/07/2020 22:11, Rob Nickerson

[Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

2020-07-20 Thread Nick
perceive as the purpose of mapping (hope I have not opened a can of worms). Any thoughts/suggestions gratefully received Nick P.S. I am aware of some documentation e.g. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Accuracy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-16 Thread Nick
elements. Tony On 16/07/2020 13:42, Nick wrote: listed_status:website - URL seems to have changed from http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1409803 to https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1409803 On 16/07/2020 10:51, SK53 wrote: It looks

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-16 Thread Nick
listed_status:website - URL seems to have changed from http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1409803 to https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1409803 On 16/07/2020 10:51, SK53 wrote: It looks that for listed gardens we've used a combination of

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-15 Thread Nick
Just a thought, is there any value aligning with Wikidata ('heritage designation') https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1435 or at least have links? On 15/07/2020 11:16, Brian Prangle wrote: I use listed_status =Scheduled Monument On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, 10:19 Tony OSM,

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-15 Thread Nick
Not sure if this is of help - in Scotland there is this link https://www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support/listing-scheduling-and-designations/scheduled-monuments/types-of-scheduled-monument/ which translates to 'Category' (e.g. Roman: camp) in the gis data set. On 15/07/2020 10:18,

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths on Wimbledon Common

2020-07-11 Thread Nick
certainly help land managers and users. Imagine if this was in place for Covid restrictions. Nick On 11/07/2020 11:37, Dan S wrote: Is there anyone here who is competent to write some kind of summary guidance on the wiki? Ideally one reflective of the approximate consensus? It would be super helpful

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths on Wimbledon Common

2020-07-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
there is no explicit 'This is a permissive path' notice. Certain paths are closed from time to time, usually due to forestry operations. Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 11 July 2020 10:11 To: Talk GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Paths on Wimbledon Common I would probably add

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths on Wimbledon Common

2020-07-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
'. I tend to use: designation for rights of way; foot=permissive for explicit or implicit (as above) permissive paths; foot=yes for urban paths; access=private for those with an explicit 'Private/Keep Out' sign. Nick From: Adam Snape Sent: 11 July 2020 06:20

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-10 Thread Nick
Hi Lester I think there needs to be some thought as to the "proper channel to feed corrections to the 'data officer' responsible". It took me months to get a 'data officer' to correct the location of a single UPRN, so my thought is that this needs to be a 'public' (open) channel that shows a)

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-10 Thread Nick
Hi Mark Brilliant comment - "because the people who are most likely to spot errors - members of the general public with local knowledge - tend not to have easy access to the data". Now we need the evidence (errors) collated centrally (OSM?). On 10/07/2020 11:27, Mark Goodge wrote: Apologies

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-06 Thread Nick
). That allowed me to have details, which in this instance I then checked property sites (e.g. ESPC) to verify the 'likely' error. If you want more details of the example, let me know and I can put a bit more detail together. Cheers Nick On 06/07/2020 12:34, Jez Nicholson wrote: Sorry, i mean

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-06 Thread Nick
sts of anomalies to demonstrate this to government. On 06/07/2020 12:09, Nick wrote: I went for the crude approach as my computer is not that powerful, so I split the CSV into chunks and imported batches into QGIS with county/postcode boundaries as my interest is trying to understand how the UPRNs h

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-06 Thread Nick
I went for the crude approach as my computer is not that powerful, so I split the CSV into chunks and imported batches into QGIS with county/postcode boundaries as my interest is trying to understand how the UPRNs have been batched. Not elegant but means that I now can focus on our area and

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-04 Thread Nick
Hi Mark I was wondering in the future if street names etc. could be derived from Mapillary (attribution source=Mapillary) where images exist? Cheers Nick On 04/07/2020 12:02, Mark Goodge wrote: On 04/07/2020 06:16, Kai Michael Poppe - OSM wrote: So, a few months ago I stumbled upon

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN & USRN Tagging

2020-07-03 Thread Nick
Hi Mike I tend to agree in terms of consistency. Looking at the results for https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=usrn - the key 'ref:usrn' dominates so to me makes sense to use 'key:uprn'. Searching on UPRN reveals the lack of clarity. Cheers Nick On 03/07/2020 17:47, Mike Baggaley

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-03 Thread Nick
if in the future, if calling for emergency services people will be asked to give their UPRN. I actually think that at the root of the problem is the "philosophy of what is an address" so that I know how I can add address data to OSM - I am happy to acknowledge the source on OSM. Ch

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-03 Thread Nick
address data - I do that by also checking the Roayl Mail address finder. Perhaps you can shed some light on the tangle of relevant licensing? Cheers Nick On 03/07/2020 10:07, Russ Garrett wrote: Just to emphasise that the output from your script is not suitable for use in OSM - the osg.scot

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-02 Thread Nick
he concept you can use Python (a friend has done some preliminary work) or similar. This is not elegant but is perhaps a first step in enabling a whole lot of development? Cheers Nick On 02/07/2020 18:38, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote: Hi Robert, Many thanks for producing that map. I was ab

[Talk-GB] Virtual meeting: New open data and towards more UK addresses

2020-06-30 Thread Nick
work well for me but happy to fit in with others. Cheers Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Updated MapThePaths app - with tagged GPS traces

2020-05-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
the polygon was appearing. I have now fixed this so only ways with specified values for the 'designation' tag, i.e. the allowed values for rights of way, are retuened. Nick From: Roger Calvert Sent: 23 May 2020 13:07 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re

[Talk-GB] Updated MapThePaths app - with tagged GPS traces

2020-05-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
, to alert experienced users of any new traces in their area. I have also added a new option to turn off the 'snap map to current GPS location' feature, allowing users to pan the map around. Any further thoughts, please let me know. Thanks, Nick Nick Whitelegg Senior Lecturer in Computing

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
to go. Thanks, Nick From: Gareth L Sent: 14 May 2020 09:56 To: Tony OSM Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!) I wonder if it would be possible to use the GPS trace feature on OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
s web app. (I am possibly thinking of adding way creation into the MapThePaths web app anyway, time depending)." Nick ____ From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 13 May 2020 18:08 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcom

[Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
a JOSM plugin - or even directly in the MapThePaths web app. (I am possibly thinking of adding way creation into the MapThePaths web app anyway, time depending). Any thoughts? Thanks, Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

[Talk-GB] City centre landuse tagging

2020-05-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
or city. Not looking for administrative boundaries - but the actual physically built-up area. Thanks, Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] New, hopefully improved Freemap

2020-05-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
features such as walking-route sharing did not attract as much interest as I had hoped and consequently remain withdrawn. Any suggestions for rendering improvements are welcome! Thanks, Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] CWGC: worldwide, war graves

2020-04-25 Thread Nick Allen
than that. Regards Nick On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 19:21:13 +0200 Daniel Pocock wrote: > Hi all, > > We were discussing[1] this on talk-au recently as today is Anzac Day > > I sent a request to CWGC asking if they will make their list of > cemeteries available under either t

Re: [Talk-GB] prow_ref format for Dorset Public Rights of Way

2020-04-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Based on this, my preference would be to standardise on the "SE4/22" >style format for the prow_ref in Dorset, and convert any other >instances found to this. What does everyone else think? I'll invite >Nick Whitelegg (who developed the "map the paths" site) and

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths editing bug - fixed

2020-04-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
in MapThePaths. Nick From: Martyn Evans Sent: 07 April 2020 12:08 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths editing bug - fixed Good Job! I'd only tried to use it yesterday after my approved 'exercise'. One extra possible addition

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths editing bug - fixed

2020-04-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
which corrupted the JSON returned - and highlighting a bug. This bug is now fixed, and MapThePaths editing appears to be working again now. Sorry for the downtime if anyone was trying to use it recently. Thanks, Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Freemap' - partial reprieve

2020-03-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Martin, OK - yes, sorry. http://www.mapthepaths.org.uk/freemap Getting some subtleties with dealing with the trailing slash, which I'll need to investigate. Seems to be a bit more subtle to deal with than just adding it as an optional character in a regex pattern. Nick

[Talk-GB] 'Freemap' - partial reprieve

2020-03-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
as an alternative mode (in addition to the existing 'standard' and historic maps mode) will considerably save on the maintenance effort, particularly as they both have the same back-end. Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths: possible interrupted service this week

2020-02-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
... sorry for all the emails: but further update - it's now up, but running HTTP not HTTPS (as it used to). Hopefully HTTPS will be enabled very soon. Thanks, Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 12 February 2020 09:59 To: Talk-GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths: possible interrupted service this week

2020-02-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
the certificate from being installed. Apologies for the ongoing downtime, hopefully this will be resolved in the next day or so. Thanks, Nick From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 10 February 2020 11:21 To: Talk-GB Subject: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths: possible interrupted

[Talk-GB] Freemap (free-map.org.uk) - potential shutdown

2020-02-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
including MapThePaths and Hikar, however, will remain up (albeit on a different server). Thanks, Nick Disclaimer<http://www.solent.ac.uk/disclaimer/disclaimer.aspx> ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetm

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths: possible interrupted service this week

2020-02-10 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Just a heads-up: I am transferring MapThePaths to the same server I use to run my other projects, Hikar and OpenTrailView, this week. This means that there may be interruption or unavailability in service, starting today. Thanks, Nick

Re: [Talk-GB] Panorama Mapping Party with TrekView - May 23 - Ashurst, New Forest, UK

2020-02-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Jez, I think it probably would, as it would be of interest to open mapping enthusiasts, aims to collect open panoramic data, and OSM is used to connect the panoramas together - so I don't see why not. I'll put it up when I have a chance. Nick From: Jez

[Talk-GB] Panorama Mapping Party with TrekView - May 23 - Ashurst, New Forest, UK

2020-02-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
, or if you have your own device, please bring it along. Thanks, Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Soild fuel

2020-02-03 Thread Nick Allen
be difficult, add they mover on after a few days, but the Chandler's, and petrol stations that supply the boaters could do with a consistent tagging scheme. Nick (Tallguy) my phone is responsible for any spelling mistakes! On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, 13:49 SK53, wrote: > There's one <

[Talk-GB] MapThePaths - now with way-splitting functionality

2020-01-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
improvements, or any bugs. If you encounter a bug please give me the precise location (lat, lon, OSM way ID) and what actions you took, so I can try to replicate it. Thanks, Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] Which paths are shown on this OS 'Standard' render

2019-12-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
This reminds me of the old First Series maps last published around 1958-ish. Looking at an area I'm very familiar with: it does not show public rights of way; it merely seems to show paths which are physically present on the ground. Some of these are rights of way, and some are not. Nick

Re: [Talk-GB] Roundabouts one piece or segregated

2019-12-23 Thread Nick Allen
Hi, Yes, but the way it is currently mapped is the way I would chose, and have utilised on many roundabouts for public transport & cycle routes. Has something changed? If so I wasn't aware? Regards NickTallguy On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 18:28 +, David Woolley wrote: > On 23/12/2019 18:1

Re: [Talk-GB] Roundabouts one piece or segregated

2019-12-23 Thread Nick Allen
Hi, I may be missing something here, but https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/477263099 looks okay to me. The wiki at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Public_transport_routes didn't give me any clues either. Regards Nick (Tallguy) On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 14:08 +1100, Warin

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way layer - raster and vector tiles

2019-11-12 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Rob, Glad you're finding MTP useful! Incidentally the way-split functionality has been on the MapThePaths 'todo' list for quite some time. I will try and get round to it as soon as I can - probably the Christmas break now. Nick From: Rob Nickerson

Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
, be tagged with a designation (unless they are legally re-opened) but if there is evidence of use, they could certainly be added as a highway=footway at the very least. Nick From: David Woolley Sent: 01 October 2019 13:56 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re

[Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-09-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Obviously it's perhaps not the best time of year to launch an outdoor project - but the next few months would be a good time to develop the project ready for use in the spring. Anyone keen to work on this? Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/nickw1/mapthepaths/ Thanks, Nick

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: OSMTracker for Android - detailed survey of paths & tracks layout

2019-08-23 Thread Nick Allen
is available using the settings for my repository; Github username = Nick-TallguyRepository Name = osmtracker-android- layoutsBranch name = detailed-tracks Any problems or suggestions, please get back to me. I've submitted a pull request for the set to be included within the standard list as I think

[Talk-GB] Fwd: OSMTracker for Android - detailed survey of paths & tracks layout

2019-08-18 Thread Nick Allen
slightly different buttons on each - but if there is a reason for more than one set, I'll do my best. Please get back to me Mark, and anyone else having problems with the icon size - I'm no programmer, but I do have a couple of things more that I could try that might help. Regards Nick OSM

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