Robert Whittaker wrote:
> On the basis that it's a required part of each address, I
> would recommend that we do store the post town in OSM
> addresses. There are significant advantages to storing it
> in a consistent way, and the best existing tag to do this
> would be addr:city. (We wouldn't want
Andrew Hain wrote:
> What distinction would you make between this and the cycle
> route over steps that was discussed recently or the
> signposted cycle route past cycle barriers in Barnes,
> London?
"Cycle routes" as a distinct concept don't have any legal force, other than
authorised forms of s
Neil Matthews wrote:
> Looks like there's been an attempt to remove all stiles from
> bridleways
Um, no there hasn't?
The changeset you've pointed to (which is one of mine) has a single stile moved
to the side of a bridleway. I've done this a handful of times in the past, too,
usually where the
Andy Mabbett wrote:
> Should we have an automated edit to update all instances of "British
>Waterways"?
Scotland's canals are still run by the British Waterways Board (trading as
Scottish Canals), so any edit would need to be geographically constrained.
TBH there's only 170 operator=British Wat
Could I suggest that, rather than second-guessing what some putative router
might or might not do, people actually try these scenarios with one of the many
real-world routers to see if they actually happen?
I see an awful lot of "may" and "might" in this thread, together with a liberal
sprinkli
[apologies for broken threading, Nabble is still down]
Jon Pennycook wrote:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2821036 and
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2821037 (claiming to be
> National Cycle Network Route 231 and 235) have been listed on
> OpenStreetMap for some time. They appe
Robert Whittaker wrote:
> Sustrans' NCN data is available from
> http://livingatlas-dcdev.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/54a66fa3c15d4e118e085fbd9b141aae
> as vector tiles under the ODbL. However, note that the "removed"
> sections mostly won't be reflected on the ground yet. Also, the
> dataset isn'
Hi all,
As some of you may be aware, Sustrans has embarked on a project to review and
improve the National Cycle Network.
As part of this, sections of routes which Sustrans thinks have no realistic
prospect of being brought up to a minimum standard in the near future are being
either removed f
[apologies for broken threading, Nabble appears to have fallen over]
Chris Fleming wrote:
> We also have copyright of the route itself, Cycling UK do seem
> to assert copyright and therefore we probably do need them to
> ask them.
I did ask that very question at a recent Facebook webchat with CUK
Hi folks,
You’ll remember that a couple of weeks ago I posted about the work I’m doing to
look at getting the relevant bits of Transport for London’s openly licensed
Cycle Infrastructure Database into OSM.
I’ve now pushed the in-progress code to github:
https://github.com/cyclestreets/tflcid-c
Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets wrote:
> Richard will be doing the bulk of the scripting work, and is working
> on converting each of the sections of data. This will naturally be
> published on Github openly, as will the outputted data. This is
> reasonably complex work given the number of att
Jothirnadh Guthula wrote:
> With a team of mappers @Amazon we are planning to improve
> missing roads in UK using Facebook detections as a source. Please
> let us know if you have any ongoing projects using this data source.
> While adding missing roads, we will be adding all the associated
> a
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> I am proposing shutting down my (very old) England and
> Wales footpath mapping site Freemap (free-map.org.uk).
Wow, there's a blast from the past!
Freemap was of course one of the very first grassroots mapping sites (2004),
together with my geowiki.com (2003 [1]), Jo and
Dave F wrote:
> CU wanted a new site map. They paid someone to provide it for
> them. Which is fine, but please don't suggest they're
> contributions are superior to those of any anybody else.
> Especially when they decided to knowingly go against accepted
> tagging procedures.
I think that's
DaveF wrote:
> This OS map render only shows a selection of paths. Does anyone
> know what criteria OS used to decide which to render?
I suspect "only those which OS have got round to digitising". OS have
digitised all paths in National Parks and appear to be gradually digitising
others. But cert
Peter Neale wrote:
> I would love to amend the Route Relation, but have no idea how to
> go about it.
Brilliant. Thanks for taking this on!
You can do it from iD - no particular need to use JOSM for this. Essentially
the trick is, for each way that needs to be removed from the relation,
select i
Edward Bainton wrote:
> Is there any reason why OSM can't set up a user co-op (for instance)
> that would offer a paid tileserver service?
It's an idea that's been thrown around now and then. In OSM, of course, "why
can't OSM..." is usually best rephrased as "hey, let's...". First person
plural.
Twopenn'orth and not particularly a reply to any single message:
1. I'm not against them being in the OSM database, mostly for the reason
that it's unrealistic to expect every single app to do additional processing
for all 195 countries in the world. Sure, it would be nice if Osmand and
maps.me an
Martin - CycleStreets wrote:
> What are people's thoughts about these suggested new tags?
This is great - thanks for putting in the hard yards on the tagging. A few
comments:
> A new tag, asl_position={left|right|center} is proposed.
Yes, although the lingua franca of OSM is British English so i
I was in holiday in North Wales last week and mapped the biggest
remaining gap, east from Aberdaron:
https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#?map=13!52.8079!-4.6498
That leaves three smaller gaps around the central Cardigan Bay
coastline, between Barmouth and Borth:
https://hikin
Tom Hughes wrote:
> That doesn't follow - in the UK we have always (with very rare
> exceptions like Oxford High Street) mapped secondary, primary
> and trunk to the official status of the road.
It's slightly more nuanced than that - we have always mapped secondary,
primary and trunk to the _obse
Hi all,
I've put together a simple tileset showing greenspace areas from Ordnance
Survey's recent OS Open Greenspace release. The data is released under the
standard OS open licence therefore suitable for tracing in OSM.
Many features are already in OSM, but not all, and in addition the names m
Peter Neale wrote:
>So how should they be tagged for access? I believe it should be:
> highway=path (but I see several tagged as highway=cycleway and both are
> shown in the Wiki
> at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=cycleway)
> foot=designated
> motor vehicle=permit (to allow the e
I'm not quite sure what you've done with the quoting but you've attributed me
as writing your reply, which evidently I didn't. :)
Will Phillips wrote:
> I really don't see what is outlandish about using post towns as a
> guide for what goes in the addr:city tag. Royal Mail might be becoming
> le
Colin Smale wrote:
> As you will know RM have their own particular ideas of the
> geography of the UK, all done for their own convenience. It
> would certainly avoid some confusion if we used addr:posttown
> instead of addr:city.
Fully agree.
The notion that I should tag addresses in Charlbury
Brian Prangle wrote:
> Are these covered by copyright?
The National Grid per se is not covered by copyright.
The newer transformations used to produce highly accurate grid references
may be, but in fact OS has licensed the most recent (OSTN15) under the
permissive BSD licence:
https://www.ordna
TonyS wrote:
> Lot of the obscurity is caused by the contracts from Department
> For Transport. Merseyrail is both a train operating company
> and a commuter rail network in and around Liverpool City Region
Indeed, and it's actually even more nuanced than that.
Merseyrail is not a franchise lik
Stuart Reynolds wrote:
> I propose that we refer this to the OSM UK Directors and ask
> them to review the arguments for both sides and come to a
> firm decision. That’s what we elected them for, after all. Then
> they publish it, and that is what we all agree to accept,
> whether it matches ou
Frederik Ramm wrote:
> But we are not fundamentalists, and we do allow exceptions. One
> obvious exception is current administrative boundaries; they are
> not easily verifiable on the ground but we're making an exception
> because of their undoubted usefulness.
From 1974 to 1997, the county of
Toby Speight wrote:
> That's why we have
> rendering rules - if you don't like the rendering, change the rules.
What you're suggesting would imply that every worldwide site using OSM data
to display a consumer-facing map, or provide routing, needs to write a
special exception for Great Britain. Wi
Brian Prangle wrote:
> I suggest at the very least that the change is reverted for NI.
The edit did not take place in Northern Ireland, as Dave stated
unequivocally in his original mail: "Note I didn't include Northern Ireland"
(https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2018-August/021690.
webmas...@killyfole.org.uk wrote:
> As it has been pointed out to me on IRC that GB doesn't include
> Northern Ireland, and I should keep my opinions to myself.
No-one told you to keep your opinions to yourself; I simply suggested you
start a separate Northern Ireland-centric discussion (beginnin
Toby Speight wrote:
> Who is responsible for coordinating the related changes to software -
> editors, renderers, converters and QA tools - that are required? I
> see no sign of any of this having started.
No changes are required to core OSM software, but if your own niche requires
a map on which
Philip Barnes wrote:
> Recently new blue branded co-op shops have started to appear,
> some have changed and at least one has opened in direct
> competition with an existing Mid-counties.
Midcounties are also adopting the "new" cloverleaf Co-op logo in many
places, while their Chipping Norton sh
Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> Perhaps an operator=* tag would help, if we knew which
> Co-Op groups still had pharmacies...
A quick flick through their various websites suggests only:
Midcounties: https://www.midcounties.coop/stores/
Lincolnshire: https://www.lincolnshire.coop/storefinder
Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> First there's a new set of objects in my "Ghosts" tool at
> https://osm.mathmos.net/ghosts/. There are 162 still-mapped
> "Co-Op Pharmacy" branches, which should have been rebranded
> to become "Well Pharmacy" branches now.
Not necessarily!
As you say, "The
Martin Wynne wrote:
> Google publishes a map for profit.
> Worcestershire County Council is paid for by me. And a few others.
Sure. The point is that copyright automatically subsists unless expressly
disclaimed.
WCC has not expressly openly licensed this data. You can't just say "it's
publicly fu
Martin Wynne wrote:
> Worcestershire County Council publishes PDF text lists (no mapping)
> of classified and unclassified roads.
Google publishes a map, but that doesn't mean it's an admissible source for
OSM. :)
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Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Dave can you do the D class roads too. Someone has added these -
> e.g: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.21554/-1.87663
That reminds me - there's some weird ones in Hillingdon too:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.5603/-0.3943
Can anyone think of a locat
Killyfole and District Development Association wrote:
> So I hear a urgent traffic update on the radio that there was a forest
> fire
> on the C425 Eshnadarragh Road and that the Fire Service have closed
> the road due to the pumping equipment needed to fight the fire.
Dave originally wrote "Not
Dave F wrote:
> However this task was never undertaken. I decided to grab the bull by the
> horns.
Bravo!
Killyfole and District Development Association wrote:
> Surely we map for what is there on the ground, not how it renders?
Right. C road numbers are not on the ground. (With the exceptio
Mike Thacker wrote:
> Yes, a threshold on getting the data via an API, but true Open
> Government Licence doesn't limit the amount of data used (as
> far as I know) so it should be possible to build up a fill picture
> as open data.
The transaction-limited versions don't appear to be being rele
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> I realise this is going a bit OT for OSM but wondering if this data,
> together with the newer historic maps from the earlier part of the
> 20th century, could be used to build a platform for the purpose of
> finding these lost paths? Had a quick look yesterday and there
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Basically we have point data of historic footpaths (some 300k points) and
> I think it would be amazing to compare this to OSM to see if we can find
> more footpaths to map.
Very cool. Could you post the data somewhere?
Richard
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Philip Barnes wrote:
> I wouldn't invent a type tag, it's maxspeed = 20 mph
> because that's what the sign says. There is nothing special
> about these areas.
No, 20mph zones and roads with 20mph limits are different legal concepts and
are signed differently. A 20mph zone must have physical traf
Dave F wrote:
> To double check - CC BY-SA 2.0 is compatible with OSM?
It isn't, but in this case it doesn't matter: this is what's sometimes
described as a "thin copyright". Reproducing the photograph itself is an act
restricted by copyright, but deducing information from it isn't. (Of course,
s
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> A few months ago I spotted an edit where a company employee was
> moving height restriction data from nodes to ways. This in itself is
> not wrong
Absolutely - the restriction is much better tagged on the way. It's a
property of the road just like a speed limit or surface,
Andy Mabbett wrote:
> Can that tool not be repurposed, and thereby avoid the friction
> that imports like this seem sadly to cause?
It was implemented as part of Potlatch 2, so sadly probably not appropriate
for general consumption in a post-Flash age:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch
Ilya Zverev wrote:
> Please help me review the data. Here is the updated map:
> http://bl.ocks.org/Zverik/raw/ddcfaf2da25a3dfda00a3d93a62f218d/
Eek, this still looks a bit sketchy.
Choosing one of the two nearest affected petrol stations to me, the one on
Woodstock Road, Yarnton looks like it wou
Matt Ellery wrote:
> I agree with the idea that living_street isn't appropriate for the
> town centre roads identified here. I did notice that New Road
> in Brighton (mentioned in the shared space Wikipedia article)
> has also been changed to living_street by Pete Owens, although
> he has added
On 14/08/2017 14:47, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo wrote:
I do not agree your change of the Wiki. You should ask before to do it.
I'm documenting the existing practice in Wales.
If you want to change existing practice, the onus is on you to justify
your changes and get agreement.
Richard
I've fixed the wiki to reflect Chris's comments, given that he's a resident
of Wales and has a long pedigree in creating the Welsh-language rendering so
is better qualified than the rest of us to pronounce on this.[1] The much
shorter text should hopefully also be easier for new mappers to follow.
Brian Prangle wrote:
> You have raised a subject which needs attention but we don't
> have an active community in Wales, just individual mappers
I don't find that a helpful distinction. Aside from a few places (London,
Birmingham, Edinburgh, the North-East Midlands), OSM in the UK doesn't have
lo
Hi Manfred,
Maybe
http://maxheight.bplaced.net/overpass/map.html
can help. ;-)
It can indeed - I mentioned it in my diary entry! :)
cheers
Richard
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Hi all,
It would be great to get bridge height data into OSM, to stop those
embarrassing truck-vs-bridge-deck interface moments.
It turns out that with the advent of open street-level imagery (e.g.
Mapillary, OpenStreetCam, and of course Geograph) it's really easy to
find and tag bridge heig
Ilya Zverev wrote:
> I think that would fall into the "fair use" clause.
There is no "fair use" clause in UK copyright law, which is important not
just because OSM is hosted in England & Wales but also because this is
presumably a dataset in part containing materials with an E&W copyright
holder.
On 19/03/2017 21:29, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
Or is your post simply a request for all people to follow *your* rules?
Wow. Stay classy.
I'm not sure why I'm even bothering to reply to that, but there's an
extensive debate about that sentence in the mailing list archives a
propos of the Frenc
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Mailing list posts drift off topic way too easily any it's never clear
> when "consensus" is found. Richard F did the right thing in 2013
> when he quit them and I encourage others to do the same
However, just because I no longer spend my time batting back and forth to
eve
Marco Boeringa wrote:
> There may be more... All of these "users" are prolific, leave almost
> no changeset comments, and seem to be editing all day. It seems
> to me these are editors working professionally for some OSM
> related company.
Thanks for the detective work and for persisting with t
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> If anyone is holding off from doing something just because the OSM UK
> company is "coming", please don't. For one, you can make a great start
> before OSM UK, but also there is no guarantee that OSM UK will work
> on your specific idea.
The main issue is that there are a
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> No, the first steps are to get people signed up as members (more
> shortly when I have had a chance to speak with Gregory) and then
> to host a first meeting.
I see your point and it's great that so much work has gone into pre-thinking
the incorporation and such like... bu
Andy Mabbett wrote:
> I'd like to float the following ideas for quarterly projects, and see
> what folk think.
> [...]
> What are your thoughts?
I'll throw one in early for Q2: campsites, hostels and bunkhouses. OSM
coverage is oddly patchy and it would be great to encourage better coverage
at th
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> I understand this to be "easy" for data consumers
It is indeed easy. There are 442,133 instances of foot=* in the UK and 748
of access:foot=*. That makes it a nice easy decision for the data consumer
not to bother supporting access:foot. ;)
cheers
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David Woolley wrote:
> So I would say that highway=path was equivalent to highway=path;
> foot=yes; bicycle=yes; horse=yes; motor_vehicle=no (spellings may
> be wrong). highway=footway would imply yes to just foot. Renderers
> and routers will, I think follow this policy.
I can't speak for any
Frederik Ramm quoted Mr Angry:
> "NONE of the paths indicated on the map that proceed north through
> Upper Booth Farm are public footpaths"
And indeed they're not tagged as such: they are tagged as the perennially
useless highway=path, some of them with highway=permissive, while the
Pennine Way
Andy Townsend wrote:
> ** many "names" on OS OpenData aren't names at all (for example,
> search for "poultry houses" in OSM and you'll get lots of things
> "named" that).
On the hillside above the Crawnon Valley (up from Llangynidr in the Brecon
Beacons) OS StreetView has helpfully marked "Shee
Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> it would be interesting to know what routers make of highway=no.
From
https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/blob/master/profiles/foot.lua:
elseif access and access_tag_whitelist[access] then
-- unknown way, but valid access tag
result.forwa
Luke Smith wrote:
> If anyone has comments or advice for us, it would be gratefully received.
This is terrific. I've been waiting to see what you do with this since you
first posted some sample images in 2011, so it's good to see it finally come
to fruition. Lovely clear cartography and a convinci
Andy Townsend wrote:
> What does everyone else think?
I would tend to think that if - 12 years into the life of a project that was
started in Britain and much of which is still run out of Britain - you are
radically changing the way Britain is tagged, you should probably reflect on
why no-one has
Colin Smale wrote:
> I was hoping that we could find some middle ground by allowing
> the relations to persist but outside the admin boundary regime
Yes, I would agree with this. If there's no administration then they're not
admin boundaries.
> If I'm honest I am beginning to doubt whether the e
David Woolley wrote:
> For canal towpaths, bicycle=designated is misleading, as it tends
> to imply a public right of way, whereas these are normally
> access=permissive, and privately owned by the Canal and River
> Trust.
Again, Scotland is different. :)
Scotland's canals didn't go to CRT: th
Craig Wallace wrote:
> Maybe the consensus in England.
> In Scotland, where paths can be used on foot, bicycle, horse etc,
> then highway=path makes sense. And that is how they are
> generally tagged in OSM.
Yes, access laws are indeed different in Scotland to England & Wales.
However, the poin
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)?
Please don't use highway=path:
http://www
David Woolley wrote:
> I'm not sure of the likely sources (assuming they have missed
> the reference in the existing mapping) but Sustrans have a no
> commercial use restriction, that is incompatible with OSM.
I wouldn't assume bad faith in this or indeed any NCN-related case. As I
thought was f
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> The poll we did last year (?) suggested that the OpenStreetMap UK
> community want to be involved in decision making. My suggestion is
> that, if this is the culture we want to breed then the Articles should
> reflect this.
I'm the chairman of a community-owned non-profit
Rob Nickerson wrote:
1. Would there be any cases where merging open data in OSM would reduce
end user challenges (e.g height restrictions on bridges, traffic
calming, cafes from the food hygiene data*)?
End-user merging any of those is reasonably easy - these datasets are
point data, which are
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Is it OK to leave it to the data users to merge the open data with OSM
> or is that burden too large for them to bother (at which point the
> pressure of OSM in the UK reduces)?
>
> The reason I ask is because I don't have the answers. Hoping some
> of the data users on t
Colin Smale wrote:
> As we are not copying the content from Wikipedia/Wikidata, but just
> a reference
Unfortunately it's not quite that simple.
The matching is done by co-ordinates. The co-ordinates in Wikidata could be
held to be information copyrighted by Google. Consequently you could argue
Hi all,
Without wanting to be a rotten party-pooper, could I just raise the licence
issues with this?
Wikidata co-ordinate information is chiefly sourced from Wikipedia, which
claims to be CC-BY-SA licensed.
Wikipedia co-ordinate information is chiefly sourced from Google Maps[1].
Google expres
sk53.osm wrote:
> We are meeting at Ipstones because the lunch spot Black Lion pub is deep
> in the valley of the Churnet and reached by a rather tortuous road.
Quite a direct canal, though. Unfortunately it's a bit of a long way from
Worcester or I'd use it to join you...
cheers
Richard
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Jerry Clough wrote:
> However, when it's end comes it's likely to be swift as flash gets
> eliminated by major browsers.
I think that remains to be seen. There's a number of alternative options for
running Flash apps, either in-browser (Shumway, FlexJS) or on Mac/Windows
desktop (AIR). There's als
Hi all,
I was slightly surprised to find that bus lane tagging in London is very
patchy!
Bus lanes are easy to spot, even from imagery:
1. They are on roads with bus routes (see Andy's Transport map)
2. They have thick white lines separating them from the general lanes
3. They are often paint
Andy Mabbett wrote:
> David Woolley wrote:
> > Are you really asking if anyone is prepared to fund the tile server,
> > and donate time to any georeferencing needed?
> I'm asking what the *potential* is for that, or any other necessary
> steps, to be done.
For individual sheets like this, I think
Dave F. wrote:
> I've always read the brackets to mean 'leading to' or 'via' not as being
> shared. From the Highway Code: "Motorways shown in brackets can
> also be reached along the route indicated."
Yes, exactly. Because they're just numbers, not routes, the brackets simply
mean "if you want
Colin Smale wrote:
> Where two roads are multiplexed, it looks like one of the refs is
> the primary and is shown without brackets, and the other is shown
> within brackets, such as the A22 near Uckfield which multiplexes
> with the A26. It is shown as "Eastbourne A22 / Lewes (A26)".
> Is this
Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap) wrote:
> I will support adding an alternative layer to the
> main site that uses the “British” colours
I would suggest that is a pretty daft idea.
There are many people, myself included, who have the technical knowledge and
resources to set up a UK-only render, updated
Lester Caine wrote:
> while switch2osm may well produce a working system for
> some ... I have to also support current paying traffic on the
> hardware and that prevents running too many different
> competing web services.
You can run a tileserver for the UK on a £10/month virtual machine. If yo
Slightly surprised this hasn't appeared on OSM yet...!
Richard
Original Message
Subject: TfL Press Release - First section of Mayor’s North-South Cycle
Superhighway opens
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:52:39 +
From: TfL Press Office
To: undisclosed-recipients
Manfred A. Reiter wrote:
> The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 271
Weekly OSM is brilliant. Thank you.
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Richard Symonds wrote:
> Perhaps it would be better to, instead of having a hierarchy based
> on definitions, instead having a hierarchy based on pure population
> size.
That's what the population= tag is for. :)
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Lester Caine wrote:
> The other area that I am looking to roll back
First, I wouldn't think in terms of "rolling back" at all.
Cartography for a UK tileset could and should be designed from scratch. If
you really want to start with an existing tileset then use OSM Bright, not
osm-carto, but I'm n
Dan S wrote:
> Sounds good. Mind if I ask how it is done? (i.e. rendering rules
> for rural vs town)
Post-import, I run a couple of queries along the lines of
UPDATE planet_osm_point SET urban=true FROM built_up_areas WHERE
ST_Contains(built_up_areas.geom,way)
using a pre-existing 'built_up_are
Andy Townsend wrote:
> OSM's "standard" map is currently trying to be "the primary
> feedback mechanism to mappers" but also have "clear
> design" (1). I genuinely don't believe that you can do both
> well in one map style.
I think you can, but it requires serious cartographical chops, and - i
David Earl wrote:
> Can you put that on a different thread.
David - could you trim messages before replying? 1 line of message for 100
line of quote isn't good. Thanks.
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Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Are what's presently tagged "elsan_point" *both* walk up toilets *and*
> CDP chemical holding tank emptying points?
No. A toilet is tagged as a toilet. An Elsan point, where you can empty your
Elsan or equivalent, is tagged as an Elsan point.
> And do they welcome waste or
Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> What can we assume the UK tag "waterway=elsan_point" means? One or more
> of:
>
> 1) Walk up toilet
> 2) Cassette dump for boats
> 3) Cassette dump for motorhomes
> 4) Pump out
Very firmly and unambiguously 2.
> I propose making the assumption the present elsan_point t
I'm on the other side of the world at the moment so this is only a brief
sketchy reply. My background in this is that I'm doing a little freelance
work for CRT helping them improve their website maps. I've been working on
canal maps in one form or another for 15+ years, long before OSM was
founded.
Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> I therefore think inviting list members to vote in order to make
> the position of the community explicit - in addition to taking
> comments on the mailing list into account, not as a replacement
> of it - is the safest way to proceed.
On reflection, it would be more
Dan S wrote:
> Also, Matthijs sent out an RFC email proposing this whole process -
> he got lots of feedback (which he has taken into consideration),
> but no-one objected to the voting mechanism. It's not your fault if
> you only just noticed this happening, of course
Indeed, which I only just
Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> Voting is now open for the proposal to unify the names of chain
> shops within the UK by renaming them.
No, it isn't.
Mechanical edits stand or fall by their own merits. They cannot be ok-ed by
a vote.
From the Automated Edits Code of Conduct: "We do not require or re
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