Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

On 17/11/2020 22:34, Jez Nicholson wrote: From my change request discussion it appears that the UPRN appeared on the road as part of a test of Robert's Mathmos matching. The USRN and the UPRN tags showed the same number, I believe. The UPRN tag has now been removed leaving only the USRN, but t

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

On 31/10/2020 08:04, Martin Wynne wrote: The NLS historic 25" georeferenced map first looks on the server for tiles from the County Series maps. If that returns a 404 Not Found error (presumably because the sheet wasn't available when the rest were scanned), it then looks on the server for

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

On 13/08/2020 13:06, SK53 wrote: This location on Robert's site shows several UPRNs on streets: * 10009154384 on Averton Square That's a link to openstreetmap.org, not to something called 'Robert's site'. -- Steve -- This emai

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

Could they perhaps be 5.5 to distinguish them from regions? Steve From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] I favour admin level 5 too. On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 23:52, Colin Smale mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> > wrote: The LAs of which the CAs are composed are sometimes Metropol

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

On 10/07/2020 11:27, Mark Goodge wrote: So, it seems that Fairfield [Road] isn't known to either OS or Google. It is shown (in abbreviated form) on streetmap.co.uk, but at that zoom level, in London, that's based on the Bartholomew A-Z maps rather than OS. For what it's worth, I also found it

Re: [Talk-GB] "secret" site

On 29/06/2020 22:56, Colin Smale wrote: It was completed in 1964 as the GPO Tower. The GPO became the Post Office in 1969, at which time the tower was also renamed. I stand corrected - partially. It seems to have been referred to in pariament as the Post Office Tower as early as 1963: https://

Re: [Talk-GB] "secret" site

On 29/06/2020 08:20, Ken Kilfedder wrote: The GPO Tower (AKA Telecom Tower AKA BT Tower) only started to appear in public maps in 1984 I don't remember it ever being called the GPO Tower. It was always the Post Office Tower. -- Steve -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast anti

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone in South-West London?

Is this relevant/ https://ecoworldlondon.com/places-to-live/current/verdo-kew-bridge Steve On 30/03/2020 18:58, Andy Townsend wrote: I've sent another "message to be read before continuing to edit" https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/3592 . It'd be good if everyone could have a look

Re: [Talk-GB] Map with AI comes to the UK

On 11/01/2020 12:41, Rob Nickerson wrote: In JOSM add it using: wmts:https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/robjn/ck59jksa71nym1co31kr8mulb/wmts?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoicm9iam4iLCJhIjoid0dYNkY1QSJ9.A-0lzQOawGYICYPfURsjDA And in iD Editor add it using: https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/robjn/ck59jksa

Re: [Talk-GB] Neighbourhood/LSOA Names

On 15/11/2019 18:38, Owen Boswarva wrote: Hi Steve, Do you mean this? https://visual.parliament.uk/msoanames Recently completed, but the House of Commons Library did request suggested names back in January when it was in draft. Owen Yes, that looks like it could be it. I have been looking

[Talk-GB] Neighbourhood/LSOA Names

Does anyone recognize this? A few months ago, I remember visiting a website that was looking to crowdsource meaningful names for neighbourhoods. I think it was based on Census Output Areas, probably at the LSOA level. It had a map showing the boundaries of the areas, and they had preloaded sugg

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way vs. tracks

On 29/09/2019 21:58, Edward Bainton wrote: > running from 511,025.344 298,855.444 Meters to 510,856.672 298,723.814 Meters > > I don't recognise that coordinate system: is it any help for OSM? It's a millimetre-precision version of the Ordnance Survey grid reference. For conversion, see e.g.

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of Argos stores

On 10/03/2019 15:15, David Woolley wrote: Concessions aren't limited to Argos and have existed for decades, at least, in department stores. Note that Argos is now a subsidiary of Sainsbury's. Wikipedia even states that 'Sainsbury's intend to close most if not all separate Argos shops and i

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible Unattributed Map on Labrokes Website

On 07/02/2019 17:59, talk...@manet-computer.co.uk wrote: Not sure if this is the right place to ask but is there anyone who can look at https://thegrid.ladbrokes.com/en/shoplocator to see if they are using OpenStreetmap data without proper attribution? Looks like they are. Housenumber informa

[Talk-GB] Facebook Map Query - Thames rendered as Thanames

A user on the Facebook group 'UK Places Editors' has commented on the fact that some maps on Facebook pages in the vicinity of Putney Bridge (London) show the River Thames as 'Thanames'. See, for example, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Putney-Bridge/103150243057869 A bit of browser debugging

Re: [Talk-GB] What was the outcome of the discussion about C class roads with ref tags?

The same thing, by the looks of it: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Buckinghamshire_Council#Classified_Unnumbered_.28Class_III.29_and_Unclassified_Roads Steve On 24/09/2018 09:34, Stuart Reynolds wrote: [Side question, albeit not totally off-topic] Out of curiosity, I un

Re: [Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

On 19/09/2018 16:04, Andrew Black wrote: There is a very big difference - ceremonial counties exist now and so are in scope for OSM.  As you say here are differences between them and admin counties when unitary authorties are involved  - traditional counties are an attempt to recreate the pas

Re: [Talk-GB] un-named roads in UK

On 30/08/2018 22:26, Mark Goodge wrote: It was incredibly confusing to visitors, as the hamlet was nowhere near the post town. So we inserted "near [parish name]" as the second line, when giving the address. Off-topic, but the Royal Mail have long discouraged the use of 'Near', but they do

Re: [Talk-GB] un-named roads in UK

On 30/08/2018 17:40, Ed Loach wrote: I missed the start of this thread as I was away, but there are some unnamed roads in England with houses on that just have a postal address in the format house name, hamlet name, parish name, postal town or at least there is the one where I commented on

Re: [Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - mapper required

Do they not have any architects' drawings they could share? Steve On 14/07/2018 12:11, talk...@manet-computer.co.uk wrote: Is this something that could be done over a series of evenings and a couple of afternoons or is it a larger task? Bing has some images, not sure how old they are. *

Re: [Talk-GB] Nottingham Cottage, Kensington

On 22/05/2018 19:22, Andy Mabbett wrote: Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace, is in the news as the new home of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Prince Harry & Meghan Markle). Not particularly new, as I believe they've lived there since their engagement. It doesn't seem t

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 04/05/2018 12:52, Lester Caine wrote: it's not helped when postoffice.co.uk don't list the independent post offices in there search results! According to them Broadway does not have a post office ;) It comes up for me at Russell Square, Back Lane, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7AP. I sea

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

On 29/01/2018 11:36, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Ah, I see that tagging would create a lot of false positives in my tool and make it much less useful! My understanding is that addr:postcode should be used only as part of an address. So if you want to put a postcode on a street (or part

Re: [Talk-GB] Hull road renamed after rugby league star - BBC News

On 27/01/2018 13:21, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 27 January 2018 at 09:51, Colin Spiller wrote: I see malcolmh has already renamed it. Cool, but my question was "Does anyone have the coordinates, or the ID of the way, please?" To which the answer, I think it's safe to say, is 'yes'. -- Steve -

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

On 03/11/2017 10:59, Ilya Zverev wrote: 3 нояб. 2017 г., в 13:21, Andy Townsend написал(а): Last time you proposed this it took only a few seconds to identify problems with the data. It's the same this time - at least some of the changes that your map suggests you're proposing to import h

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

On 19/10/2017 12:42, Dave F wrote: Where did you get that address? Their website shows it as: Spring River, Talbot Lane, Ebbsfleet, DA10 1AZ I got the address from a till receipt the first time I ate there, and also checked the Royal Mail site. Which bit is Talbot Lane; it's not tagged.

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

On 10/10/2017 19:07, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: It doesn't seem to have been mentioned here yet, but this quarter's UK mapping project is to improve addresses and postcodes: https://osmuk.org/uncategorized/jump-in-to-our-quarterly-mapping-project/ It would be useful to have some guid

Re: [Talk-GB] "an extraordinary quirk in the UK address system"

On 13/09/2017 11:29, SK53 wrote: Unfortunately reading the comments I noticed a remark about a No. 441A and I realised my interpolation must have had an error. On checking I found that I'd placed the known address one house over. This means that continuing the interpolation means that the las

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the Historic Boundaries of Wales: Commotes and Cantrefs

histo...@openstreetmap.org might also be interested in this. On 19/05/2017 17:39, Andy Mabbett wrote: [cross-posted] FYI: https://rcahmw.gov.uk/mapping-the-historic-boundaries-of-wales-commotes-and-cantrefs/ "The Royal Commission [on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales] has develope

Re: [Talk-GB] Legible London signs - tagging suggestions

On 10/01/2017 07:54, Robert Skedgell wrote: ref=legible_london I don't understand the rationale for this as a 'ref'. Refs are normally unique identifiers for a particular object (unique within a particular domain, that is). Thus each sign would have a different ref, if there were in

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

Great. Thanks. Obviously the first priority is to get a UK-friendly slippy map up on the front page: blue motorways, green trunks, clear differentiation between A, B, C, and other roads, postcode and OSGR lookups, etc. Steve Sent from my iPhone > On 1 Jan 2017, at 13:38, Rob Nickerson wro

Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

There's a cupcake business locally which I suspect is a home business (as the streets in that area are only residential AFAIK). I haven't actually been there to check it out. Steve On 22/11/2016 15:54, Dave F wrote: I think they're misusing 'private' where they mean 'personal' I've only come

Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

On 22/11/2016 15:22, Dave F wrote: Are you now suggesting the electoral roll should be hidden? Please don't assume duplicating freely available data in OSM makes it 'personal' or somehow tainted. It is possible to be 'ex-directory' in relation to the electoral register. -- Steve --- This

Re: [Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

On 13/11/2016 10:49, Dave F wrote: Could you clarify how the 'distant matches' are calculated? I'm confused by a couple of the errors it's thrown up: http://gregrs.dev.openstreetmap.org/fhrs/district-270.html 'Sam Wellers', 'Longvernal Primary School' (at the very bottom). Their fhrs:ids matc

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

On 09/11/2016 07:36, Greg wrote: I’ve now implemented Steve’s request for more clickable links in the overview map for each district at . In addition to opening the web page for each FHRS establishment, you can now open the OSM page for each relevant

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

On 17/10/2016 21:47, Greg wrote: I think the most useful link would probably be one that loads the OSM node/way in JOSM using the remote control function in the same way that the suggested matches map links do. Obviously you’d have to put the address details into JOSM manually, but you could u

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project - taginfo tracker

Thanks for providing this tool, Greg. I've found it very useful so far for adding address information based on the possible matches identified on the second map, where most of the dots have a link both to OSM and to the FHRS entry. However, I've now reached the stage where I need to look more

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging redevelopment and closed roads

On 20/09/2016 10:38, Derick Rethans wrote: If the items no longer function as how they are described, and not will come back, I would delete them right away. I disagree. Any feature in the landscape should remain mapped until it has actually disappeared. In the mean time, the 'disused:' names

Re: [Talk-GB] Rare postboxes no longer so rare?

On 03/09/2016 00:23, Rob Nickerson wrote: I thought these postboxes were supposed to be really rare. Seems like loads have been added this year: There are supposed to be about 130 of them(*), of which OSM has 140. (*) http://inamidst.com/topic/edwardboxes Steve --- This email has been ch

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapbox imagery update

On 26/04/2016 20:08, Rob Nickerson wrote: Worth checking your local area: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/three-million-km/ Nope, still no sign of the wind turbines at Tilbury. -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016

On 01/04/2016 11:51, Ed Loach wrote: With noon rapidly approaching I'll withdraw my earlier suggestion regarding deleting sadly-lacking-in-information buildings as part of a future project. LOL. Brilliant! Took me in. -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus s

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

Looks like there is some open data available including 2012 districts (I think these are the 'super councils' referred to): http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/information-and-services/property-and-housing/your-neighbourhood-roads-and-streets/ordnance-survey-of-northern-ireland/product-range/digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Wales data

On 19/01/2016 15:55, Bogus Zaba wrote: On 19/01/16 14:58, Lester Caine wrote: http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/edubasealldata20160119.csv 36Mb, and a little slow downloading, but has all the data and seems to be updated regularly even if it still has old website url's and other content ;) L

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project : Schools - Multiple Schools on one site

On 17/01/2016 13:14, Lester Caine wrote: Situations where a school has a secure play area which is used by Nursary and first school pupils at different times is not unusual One possible approach is simply to draw each school's boundary so as to include the shared area (i.e. overlapping). If t

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

On 17/01/2016 12:55, Lester Caine wrote: On 17/01/16 11:08, Edward Betts wrote: This is the list of Wikidata tags that I actually plan to add: https://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/west_midlands/matches_2016-01-16.txt Please remove the School list from this. We are currently adding the edubase

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E&W in Potlatch & iD

On 30/12/2015 18:31, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 18:26, Steve Doerr wrote: On 30/12/2015 18:09, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 17:04, Steve Doerr wrote: On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: They changed the URL for that layer recently when they merged the separate England+Wales and

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E&W in Potlatch & iD

On 30/12/2015 18:09, Tom Hughes wrote: On 30/12/15 17:04, Steve Doerr wrote: On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: They changed the URL for that layer recently when they merged the separate England+Wales and Scotland layers for the 2nd edition 6 inch maps into one layer. I've update

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E&W in Potlatch & iD

On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: They changed the URL for that layer recently when they merged the separate England+Wales and Scotland layers for the 2nd edition 6 inch maps into one layer. I've updated the wiki, but this should work: tms:http://nls-{switch:0,1,2,3}.tileserver.com/os_6_

Re: [Talk-GB] ITO World - OSM OS Locator Analysis

I think the URL may have changed. Try http://product.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main Steve On 10/12/2015 22:34, Robert Neil wrote: ITOWorld OSM / OS Locator missing street analysis has been off for a couple of weeks with page not found. Anyone know what is happening with it? R

Re: [Talk-GB] traffic calming

On 22/11/2015 19:37, Chris Hill wrote: Mechanical edits need to be discussed. He then indicated that he would discuss the tags on tagging@ - indeed he suggested leaving his edit and discussing it on tagging@. I wanted also to make it clear that tagging@ is not the best place to discuss mechanica

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

On 01/11/2015 17:41, Marc Gemis wrote: Are those diary entries * http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/35565 * http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/35586 * http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/3 of any help ? Perhaps there

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

Lester, In the short term, would substituting http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/ solve your rendering problems? Steve On 31/10/2015 02:09, Lester Caine wrote: OK ... what do we need to do to get a working UK map again? Bing and Google are almost useless, and the new indistinguishable rendering p

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Romantic London' - reusing Horwood's 1790's map

motco.com is very good as well, specifically http://motco.com/map/ Steve On 27/10/2015 14:41, Stuart Reynolds wrote: For those of you interested in old maps generally, you may already be aware of the site http://www.mapco.net/ which has a wide selection of freely-viewable historical maps of Lo

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E&W in Potlatch & iD

On 26/08/2015 21:58, Tom Hughes wrote: On 26/08/15 21:35, Steve Doerr wrote: Anyone know if there's a tms address for the imagery set shown here: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=8&lat=51.6206&lon=-0.1766&layers=176 ? Oohh... That's new... Yes, there is but as

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E&W in Potlatch & iD

On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/01/15 17:05, Steve Doerr wrote: I'm sure I've used the National Library of Scotland's set of 6-inch OS maps for England and Wales (1888-1913) as a background layer in Potlatch 2 before now, but at the moment I can't seem to get i

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Open Names

On 03/06/2015 18:57, Chris Hill wrote: You can use the tiles in JOSM and P2 using the url below[2] [2] http://www.raggedred.net/tiles/opennames/{z}/{x}/{y}.png For Potlatch 2, I think it needs to be http://www.raggedred.net/tiles/opennames/$z/$x/$y.png.

Re: [Talk-GB] Issue with Changeset

Look here instead: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#17/50.0553/-5.6555&num=4&mt0=mapnik&mt1=google-map&mt2=bing-map&mt3=nokia-map Steve On 15/05/2015 10:44, Paul Sladen wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2015, Jason Woollacott wrote: Looks like there has been an issue with changeset 30821940 Which seems to h

Re: [Talk-GB] Road-name oddity in Bath

See also the Comments section here: http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/8203-Victoria-Bridge-passageway-close-weeks/story-23347562-detail/story.html#comments Steve On 04/05/2015 00:37, Dave F. wrote: Hi Andy While what was there before certainly wasn't correct I don't believe Nick Austin's recent

Re: [Talk-GB] What was the outcome of the discussion about C class roads with ref tags?

I once saw some friends on Facebook discussing the state of a road local to them in Dorset, and they referred to it by its C number throughout. Personally, I quite like the fact that our map has C numbers on where other maps don't. What I don't like, though, is seeing U numbers for unclassified

Re: [Talk-GB] GB postcodes

On 25/03/2015 18:40, Chris Hill wrote: On 25/03/15 17:55, Steve Doerr wrote: Surely the Royal Mail copyright precludes us from using these datasets? Steve The data are based on data that RM owns, but RM has chosen to release these data under the Open Government Licence (OGL), both via ONS and

Re: [Talk-GB] GB postcodes

On 25/03/2015 21:22, Pmailkeey . wrote: I can't imagine anyone using postcodes for routing. Seriously? Try googling "satnav ref". -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ___ Talk-GB m

Re: [Talk-GB] GB postcodes

Surely the Royal Mail copyright precludes us from using these datasets? Steve On 25/03/2015 17:43, Mick Orridge wrote: On the subject of postcodes, I have generated approximate regions from the ONS postcode data for postcode areas, districts and sectors which can be downloaded as shp files her

Re: [Talk-GB] Road Names Quarterly Project

On 17/02/2015 23:05, Paul Bivand wrote: A small story about this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31117763/history Laurie Gray Avenue, Bluebell Hill, Kent, used to have a street sign saying "Laurie Gray". Various council documentation and OS locator referred to the 'Avenue' form. After two

Re: [Talk-GB] Disclaimer

On 28/01/2015 01:13, Neil Matthews wrote: [snip] I guess we might need to be a little careful: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/one-spelling-error-costs-companies-house-up-to-9-million-after-being-sued-for-ruining-business-10007372.html -- Steve --- This email has been checked f

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E&W in Potlatch & iD

On 03/01/2015 17:47, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/01/15 17:05, Steve Doerr wrote: I'm sure I've used the National Library of Scotland's set of 6-inch OS maps for England and Wales (1888-1913) as a background layer in Potlatch 2 before now, but at the moment I can't seem to get i

[Talk-GB] NLS OS 6in E&W in Potlatch & iD

I'm sure I've used the National Library of Scotland's set of 6-inch OS maps for England and Wales (1888-1913) as a background layer in Potlatch 2 before now, but at the moment I can't seem to get it to work. I've also tried unsuccessfully in iD. I'm probably doing something very simple wrong. C

Re: [Talk-GB] Allegedly named motorways

On 18/11/2014 23:06, SomeoneElse wrote: There's a similar issue a bit further out, the "Slough-Maidenhead By-Pass": http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/81517663 http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?osl_id=18177 Again that sounds like a description; I've never seen that sign on t

Re: [Talk-GB] NLS Historical Maps

I've been using the town plan layer in Edinburgh and the detailed plans for old bits of town are really lovely. Cheers Chris On Thu Nov 13 2014 at 1:37:45 PM Steve Doerr <mailto:doerr.step...@gmail.com>> wrote: I know we have access to some of the National Library of Scotlan

[Talk-GB] NLS Historical Maps

I know we have access to some of the National Library of Scotland's historical map layers, e.g. OS one-inch and 1:25000. What about this layer: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=6&layers=171 ? -- Steve --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast

[Talk-GB] ooc.openstreetmap.org

It occurs to me that this is perhaps more relevant to Talk-GB than to Talk. Steve Forwarded Message Subject:ooc.openstreetmap.org Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 01:09:45 + From: Steve Doerr To: t...@openstreetmap.org Has this service been discontinued? Or is

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

On 01/11/2014 09:15, Ed Loach wrote: > On 1 November 2014 01:06, Lester Caine > > wrote: > > Brantano (UK) Limited shops are all branded 'Brantano Footwear' > that is > > their shop 'Logo' The logo is the symbol at the top, the shop name is Brantano Footwear,

Re: [Talk-GB] addressing (was addr:place)

On 27/10/2014 09:24, Andy Robinson wrote: Are the postal towns not the town that is represented by the first part of the postcode? So CW for Crewe for instance. No: a postcode alpha prefix will typically cover several post towns. My parents live in Swaffham in Norfolk but Royal Mail have the

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

On 24/10/2014 15:13, Dan S wrote: "Co-operative" - not clear to me why you choose to drop "The" from this one, since it's included in the branding? You choose to keep it for "The Co-operative Food". +1: see http://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/ -- Steve --- This email is free from viruses

Re: [Talk-GB] LEZ get this completed?

On 15/10/2014 09:53, Philip Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 09:17 +0100, Antje (OpenStreetMap) wrote: I live in London, so I could figure out a small part of the boundary based on the fact that it doesn’t go outside London for obvious reasons, and on the basis of a number of past surveys a

Re: [Talk-GB] Solarium vs. Sunbed Salon vs. Tanning Salon

I agree, but of the three I'd plump for 'tanning salon'. Steve On 16/07/2014 19:09, SK53 wrote: I think all are acceptable. FWIW I've always followed Harry Wood's dictum and lumped these in as shop=beauty (aka Beauty Salon) possibly with a sub-tag beauty=tanning. But given the paucity of usage

[Talk-GB] name=Flooding

Is this an appropriate use of the name tag? http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Flooding%2C+Burrowbridge Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail & Parcelforce delivery offices

On 17/01/2014 18:18, John Aldridge wrote: 'Regular' post office branches (as currently run by Post Office Ltd) are the only things which should be tagged 'amentity=post_office'. The 'operator=*' tag is not required for these (and perhaps better omitted, since the name of the company keeps chan

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM in Linux Format magazine

On 17/01/2014 08:17, Bob Kerr wrote: Also in the Guardian an article http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/14/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap See also Adam Smith Institute reaction here: http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/why-are-the-concepts-of-competition-and-mono

Re: [Talk-GB] Royal Mail & Parcelforce delivery offices

On 16/01/2014 10:03, John Aldridge wrote: Heh... that definition excludes 'regular' (Post Office Ltd) post offices, though! If you try to send a letter at one of those, they tell you to put it in the (Royal Mail) post box outside. Not if you ask for proof of posting. -- Steve _

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

On the contrary, I use openstreetmap.org all the time. Whenever I encounter a place I'm unfamiliar with, I look it up on openstreetmap.org. I almost never look at renderings of OSM data through another web-site. In Facebook postings and emails, where I want to link to a map it's invariably to o

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap Birthday meet in London

Great idea! Can you remind us nearer the time? Steve On 09/08/2013 15:33, Grant Slater wrote: Hi Talk-GB, There is an OpenStreetMap birthday meet in London tomorrow (Saturday)... all are welcome. All the juicy details are here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London/Summer_2013_events#Open

Re: [Talk-GB] Gaping hole in New Forest District

On 07/06/2013 09:52, Colin Smale wrote: Since February the New Forest District admin boundary relation [1] has been sporting an exclave in the form of Ironshill Lodge [2]. I couldn't find anything on the internet about this, only about the various Inclosures in that area but nothing to indicat

[Talk-GB] Govt Consultation Uses OSM Mapping

I see that today's announcement of a government consultation on the options for a new Lower Thames Crossing (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/options-for-a-new-lower-thames-crossing) makes use of OSM mapping (duly attributed) for the base map showing the various options under conside

Re: [Talk-GB] New OS Locator (201305) out, Musical Chairs updated

On 04/05/2013 21:44, Robert Scott wrote: Just in time for your May day bank holidays, which I'm sure you're all going to be spending mapping, the new OS Locator release is out and I've updated Musical Chairs[1] with it. Thanks, Robert, for this excellent resource (though I admit I've mostly

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] Fwd: Aerial Photographs

. I'm expecting them to be mostly boxed sets and the coverage mainly focussed on northern England. Useful to know about your Bodelian experience. Cheers Andy *From:*Mikel Maron [mailto:mikel_ma...@yahoo.com] *Sent:* 05 April 2013 16:20 *To:* Steve Doerr; histo...@openstreetmap.org; Ta

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

On 28/02/2013 12:27, Aidan McGinley wrote: 12 of these buildings only have the first part of the postcode. All of these partially match what is output by the script, for example way 5042255 is tagged in OSM as SW15 and the script identifies it as SW15B2U. Hopefully that's a typo for SW152BU?

Re: [Talk-GB] Fw: Fowey estuary coastline problem

That's how it appears on OS maps, e.g. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=286849&Y=54821&A=Y&Z=115 Steve On 30/01/2013 10:46, Jason Woollacott wrote: Hi Kevin, Agreed, it looks wrong... The data came from the OS Boundary Line data, which I took from the gpx trace from Colin's site, http:

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM mapping parties/events in London in November

On 31/10/2012 14:45, Kathleen Danielson wrote: Are there any meetups or mapping parties planned, or would anyone be interested in meeting up for a drink then? One thing that I know for certain I'll be doing is heading to SoHo to check out the [site of the] Broad Street pump and the John Snow pu

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

On 31/10/2012 11:54, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:51, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Is that in there? I believe it is in

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Is that in there? -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

Can we get this data into Nominatim? Steve On 31/10/2012 11:07, Andy Robinson wrote: We are back on for postcode interpretation and addition to buildings again. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [mailto:o...@raggedred.net] Sent: 30 October 2012 19:25 To: Talk GB Subjec

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

On 22/10/2012 09:36, Matt Williams wrote: On 21 October 2012 23:53, Philip Barnes wrote: What is the language code for Anglo-Saxon? 'ang' (ISO 639-2) And they do have a Wikipedia: http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afods%C4%ABde -- Steve ___ T

Re: [Talk-GB] Have I corrupted something?

On 23/09/2012 15:13, Steve Doerr wrote: As part of an exercise to try to derive a boundary for the suburb of Thornton Heath in Croydon, I created a relation to which I added a number of streets: see http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2431100/history. And actually, that relation was

[Talk-GB] Have I corrupted something?

As part of an exercise to try to derive a boundary for the suburb of Thornton Heath in Croydon, I created a relation to which I added a number of streets: see http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2431100/history. And actually, that relation was based on one I created a couple of days ag

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

Thornton Heath was always part of Croydon parish, so you can't look at old maps for a parish boundary. It may correspond to a ward or wards within the London Borough of Croydon, if you can find a source for ward boundaries which is unencumbered by copyright issues

Re: [Talk-GB] Channel Tunnel Routing

If it's of any comfort, TomTom treats the channel tunnel as a ferry as well. -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] "Sur de Edimburgo" ?

Probably corresponds to what's shown as 'South Side' on recent OS maps? http://magic.defra.gov.uk/website/magic/opener.htm?startTopic=maggb&xygridref=325848,672919&startScale=4000 Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southside,_Edinburgh#Southside Steve

Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone in Sidcup/Bexley?

Is there any reason we shouldn't just take OS StreetView's word for it and remap accordingly? Steve On 08/08/2012 22:19, Colin Smale wrote: It looks like the A222 (Hurst Road?) has fallen victim to the bot between Bexley and Sidcup. It has been summarily relegated to an anonymous unclassifie

Re: [Talk-GB] UK redacted

On 17/07/2012 08:40, Richard Fairhurst wrote: London's finally complete: http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php But Paris has errors. (I know, off topic.) -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Redaction progress

Interesting. I see that a number of redaction edits have been made in northern France, so maybe the mappers in those areas should be made aware. Steve On 12/07/2012 17:36, Richard Fairhurst wrote: After a couple of delays earlier today caused by technical issues (with the setup, not with data

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