Re: [Talk-GB] Bing Imagery update

2011-12-19 Thread Stephen Gower
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:05:43PM +, Robert Norris wrote: Not sure how widespread the update is, but certainly the Bing Imagery covering the Isle of Wight has recently been updated to imagery taken within the last few months. Goes off to check nearby Portsmouth Yay finally

Re: [Talk-GB] Project Drake - mapping the University of Cambridge

2011-12-06 Thread Stephen Gower
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 05:44:48PM +, David Earl wrote: I was appointed to the project from that [...] Congratulations! and also published the tagging schema I'm working to ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cambridge/University_of_Cambridge ) Can I pursuade you to remove the

Re: [Talk-GB] LCN - Local Cycle Network

2011-11-30 Thread Stephen Gower
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 05:11:20PM +, Richard Fairhurst wrote: - Local cycle networks with objective, on-the-ground evidence (usually signposts) are tagged as lcn=yes (and lcn_ref=..., lcn_name=..., or the relations equivalent) as at present. This sounds reasonable. Round here (Oxford),

Re: [Talk-GB] LCN - Local Cycle Network

2011-11-30 Thread Stephen Gower
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 02:05:52PM +, Ed Loach wrote: In your first example, they're all double-labeled, EG: http://cycle.st/p34892 Seems to be located on Northmoor Road according to the accompanying map, yet the route seems to be drawn on Charlbury Road. The geolocation was wrong -

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

2011-02-04 Thread Stephen Gower
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:18:19AM +, Peter Miller wrote: I use the following method. If the OS name is different from the streetsign and general usage I put it in not:name If it is apparently a valid alternative I put it on alt_name I am not clear why anything else is required. What

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

2011-02-04 Thread Stephen Gower
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:25:31PM +, Ed Avis wrote: I would suggest that whoever removed Mascall Avenue from the map should have mapped what replaced it - a brownfield site or whatever - to avoid future confusion. For what it's worth, we did - there's now a landuse=residential;

Re: [Talk-GB] Routing through Oxford

2008-08-18 Thread Stephen Gower
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:18:32AM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Oxford is supposedly one of the better mapped cities in OSM, and looking at the map seems to agree, but a lot of problems show up when you try to route through it using Gosmore. See:

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: BBC 'Britain From Above'

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen Gower
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:13:00PM +0100, Paul Jaggard wrote: Interesting clip from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7539529.stm It's a plug for a programme, 'Britain From Above', which starts 10th August, but the trailer alone is worth watching for some lovely GPS-derived

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford meetup

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Gower
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:01:36PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Did this happen / is it likely to happen next week? I haven't heard anything about it since this e-mail from about 6 weeks ago. I can't make the 19th now, but if anyone fancies this Thursday