Re: [Talk-GB] Virgin Train Traces (Richard Mann)

2009-09-29 Thread Nick Barnes
Richard Mann wrote: > If you want drivers, then their union is the association of locomotive > engineers and firemen (ASLEF) Doh! Good point. Well presented. Nick. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/li

Re: [Talk-GB] Virgin Train Traces (Richard Mann)

2009-09-29 Thread Nick Barnes
John McKerrell wrote: > I've now emailed, no idea if they'll come back with anything, I think > it's a case of this guy goes to the marketing department and they say > "how much press could we get off this and how much effort would it > take". As the amount of press is probably minimal I'm no

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Thread Nick Barnes
I've been thinking about this for a while. Is he doing anything (legally) wrong? Is he always connecting from the same IP address? Can the login script be amended to point suspect users to a "You've been dicking about with the map - we're going to let you continue in the hope that at some point

[Talk-GB] UK government postcode/geolocation/nhs information leaked

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Barnes
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_government_database_of_all_1,841,177_post_codes_together_with_precise_geographic_coordinates_and_other_information,_8_Jul_2009 Shame we can't make use of it! Nick. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http:/

Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Barnes
Chris Hill wrote: > What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language > conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. Well, there is the issue of some very strange regional accents and dialects. ;-) Nick. ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 again

2009-08-07 Thread Nick Barnes
Frederik Ramm wrote: > No, millions of Wikipedia contributors think it is a good thing (and > they even allow edits from people without an account) ;-) Point taken, but Wikipedia isn't trying to position itself as a viable and reliable alternative for a mission critical commercial solution (I'm t

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 again

2009-08-07 Thread Nick Barnes
Tom Hughes wrote: > Well it will have to go to the WG for that. They will doubtless start by > sending him a direct email. Is it just me who thinks that having a wiki which is open to everybody and doesn't have any controls over who can do what is utterly ludicrous? Yes, I'm a trusting soul, but

Re: [Talk-GB] not_in_map_features

2008-09-24 Thread Nick Barnes
Ed Loach wrote: > Silly me. I thought all those proposed features pages, and request > for comments on features pages and voting on features pages were the > only way to get stuff officially added to Map Features. Tsk tsk tsk. Not enough smilies or tags! Nick. ___