On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Jason Cunningham wrote:
We can't trace over google/bing satelite imagery because contract/terms of
use, but it is tempting use the google satellite images to check what can be
traced from the 1:25K (still the chance google is out-of-date!). This
doesn't appear to go
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Greg Stark wrote:
Fwiw even (1) isn't necessarily true. The Magic Roundabout famously
has a counter-clockwise loop in the centre. And there are other such
roundabouts where the central loop isn't even one-way.
I wouldn't really consider the magic roundabout to be a
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Nicholas Barnes wrote:
Should, for example, the component ways making up the roundabout be
grouped in their own I'm a roundabout relationship?
Do we need to be able to tell which ways are part of a roundabout anyway?
I mean, on the ground a roundabout is just a one-way
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Donald Allwright wrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.936219lon=-1.24996zoom=18layers=B000FTF
How about this one:
http://osm.org/go/0EFYMXaIH--
which fulfills all of the above 5 criteria, but just has a 'short-cut'
across one side. In this case, each 'junction'
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Jack Stringer wrote:
Something that tells you that trick.
I'm not sure that clicking on your browser's print button in order to
print the thing you're currently looking at in the browser qualifies as a
trick does it? Seems like SOP for anyone using a computer to me?
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On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, WessexMario wrote:
A lowest level postcode (SN13_2PQ) is not unique for a node, as multiple
dwellings will have the same postcode, so this leads to having multiple
tags for what is essentially a single data item, a postcoded area of land.
It should be unique to a way (or
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Jack Stringer wrote:
Going by that theory how do you post code 2 farms that are 1mile appart but
have the same postcode and are on different roads?
Tag both roads with the same postcode?
that set out to remove the extra data (scripted) and put in the ways but for
now we
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Bruce Cowan wrote:
Also, on the A816 between Lochgilphead and Oban, there is a duck warning
sign [2]. Surely this would be ducks=yes (or indeed hazard=ducks).
Surely ducks=yes should be interpretted like hgv=yes - i.e. ducks are
allowed to use the road (I'm not aware of
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Peter Miller wrote:
I am certainly not proposing separate ways for separate lines. I think
there should either be one way for a bunch of parallel tracks or
alternatively one way per track if people are getting nerdy (surely
not!).
Tracing individual tracks might make
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Chris Jones wrote:
And with any luck Galileo should be up and running in a few years...
They are still claiming they will have 30 sats up by the end of 2013...
assuming that includes the 2 test sats they have in orbit already, they
are going to have to launch 28
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Shaun McDonald wrote:
It's interesting to see that there is a moderator stating there have been
quite a few comments on
here about the availability of administrative boundaries.
I wonder if they will get enough people saying the same thing to change their
plans.
The
Thought this might be of interest - looks like OSM (and the cycle map and
piste map) got a brief mention in the spring British Mountaineering
Council Peak area newsletter:
https://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmcNews/media/u_content/File/your_bmc/newsletters/Peak%20Area%20Newsletter%20February%202009.pdf
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:
Ankh-Morpork (If any one is going to map that I'm not sure where we put
the data :)
You'd need a different projection since the disc is flat. :)
- Steve
xmpp:st...@nexusuk.org sip:st...@nexusuk.org http://www.nexusuk.org/
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Steve Chilton wrote:
Because I wanted to know, and as an exercise in OpenOverLayerIng, I
have produced a map combining the extent of Yahoo aerial imagery
coverage in GB with an overlay of the significant places calculated to
be in most need of mapwork (from
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, David Earl wrote:
In highway engineering terms in the UK a footway is always alongside a
road, and we don't tend to mark those separately anyway.
This is a slightly separate issue, but not marking them is a bit of a
problem in some cases because we end up with things like
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Ed Loach wrote:
I'm beginning personally to think that
highway=footway/cycleway/bridleway were all a mistake and that
highway=path and designation=public_footpath/etc, along with
suitable access keys (foot, bicycle, etc) would have been a better
starting point
I think
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, David Earl wrote:
FWIW, I agree largely with the specific points on your wiki page, but I don't
think it will happen because of the effort involved.
The wiki page wasn't really supposed to be a this is how it needs to be
solution - the hope was to get people talking about
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Donald Allwright wrote:
It would seem that being used as a basis for just
about everything means that no-one else can ever use those data without
paying the OS a fee.
Must be a nice little earner for them. Of course OpenStreetMap imposes
similar restrictions,
except
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Chris Andrew wrote:
I notice that people often mention the delay in map edits being
applied and made _live_.
On a related note...
For OpenPisteMap, I apply the diffs to the PostGIS DB every minute, so it
only lags behind the live data by a few minutes. However, it
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote:
google are saying is that if one places a layer of OS data on top of google
data then google don't claim ownership of that data
Is this actually different to the OS's rules? My take on the OS's
complaint was that the councils' data was actually
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote:
I have been working on adding wiki pages for every County and Unitary
Authority in the UK (there are 140 in total) so that we have a
consistent place to add this sort of information. There were articles
for some and there are about 19 added so far.
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Ed Loach wrote:
I'd like a cheap digital camera to use when I'm out noting things for
mapping purposes; our existing camera eats batteries.
I have an old Canon IXUS 400 that I picked up off ebay, which I find is
pretty reasonable as a simple and small point shoot for
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Tom Hughes wrote:
He was referring to a combine using a DGPS system which has a base
station at a fixed point on the farm whose location is well known. It
then compares that known location to one calculated from the satellites
in the normal and broadcasts the difference
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