Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Hi, yes was about to suggest map warper (warper.geothings.net) it can handle oblique photos, given enough control points (which you'd need for a desktop equivalent) However, the server it's running on is crappy and shared and stingy on processes that need some power, so I've had to restrict it so

Re: [Talk-GB] Generating Mapnik Images to epsg:27700 (British National Grid) Projection

2009-04-24 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
please correct me, I want to be wrong, I heard yesterday that by projecting any data into OSGB, the OS has copyright / dominion over it, since they "own" that coordinate system. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetma

[Talk-GB] Pateley Bridge mapping party 7th June 2009 with the AGI Northern Group SIG

2009-04-24 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Hi Folks, been on the cards for a while, but we've decided on a location, Pateley Bridge, in North Yorkshire, a nice little place, with the UK's oldest sweet shop, apparently! All welcome, the more the merrier. The surrounding area needs mapping too, and there should be excellent walks nearby.

Re: [Talk-GB] Wincanton streets in the news

2009-04-07 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
2009/4/7 Peter Childs : > I notice this week that Wincanton has a new house estate and the > streets are getting named after Ankh-Morpork (If any one is going to > map that I'm not sure where we put the data :) > > Is there a way to tag towns with there twin town. > > Oh where is Peach Pie Street a

Re: [Talk-GB] Route planner using UK OSM data

2009-03-22 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Hi Andrew, This is really neat. it's good to see a few excellent routers occuring because of OSM. I think your one is quite powerful for the ability to customise the weighting, nice! Also, any plans to release the source for the router available so we can play too? Tim 2009/3/22 Andrew M. Bisho

[Talk-GB] OSM & Guardian Open Platform, press

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Guardian release new API http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/guardian-open-platform Gives a nice sizeable shout out towards the project. OSM are partners in the launch with Stamen, apparently. "Other partners for the launch of the service include web design firm Stamen and OpenStreetMap,

Re: [Talk-GB] Large format scans, A0

2009-03-03 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
couple of ideas, in case you don't get access to an A0 scanner (local copy shop charges quite a lot for one scan)... With a project I'm working on at the moment, the old maps have been photographed from above rather than scanned. You could scan / snap smaller areas of each map and ask the commun

Re: [Talk-GB] Oxford UK 1:2500 O/S maps from 1958: copyright status of in-house copies?

2009-02-14 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
2009/2/14 Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) : > Thomas Wood wrote: >> I've begun rectifying some of them by eye, but it really should be >> possible to transform them, since they are maps with a grid in a known >> projection (OSGB36, I assume).. >> All we theoretically need to do is map the image pix

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham Apostrophes

2009-01-31 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
was also in the Guardian and the Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5614962.ece ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Northern Meet-up, Leeds - Sunday 25 Jan at the Scarborough Hotel pub , 3pm

2009-01-20 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Hi, In what I hope will be the first of many regular meet-ups throughout the North, just a little reminder about the upcoming meet-up at the Scarborough Hotel, in Leeds, at 3pm this Sunday the 25th Jan. Look out for geeks with GPS units and maps! The pub is located just outside the train station

Re: [Talk-GB] OT: Britglyph project

2009-01-08 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Ben Ward wrote: > Hi folks, > > Sorry for the off-topic here, but there's a small project going on at > the moment to make a "glyph" across the UK > > http://britglyph.com > > Effectively it's a bit like geocaching except you take your own stone > and photograph it

[Talk-GB] talk-gb-thenorth list for The North & get together in January.

2008-12-18 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
a new list for The North region http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-thenorth We'll be having the first regional social get together with tea, cake and/or beer which I've pencilled in for Sunday 25th January in a location somewhere in Leeds, West Yorkshire Sign up to the list, and let

Re: [Talk-GB] Request for UK address lists for postcode extraction

2008-12-05 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
forgot to reply-to-all :)... you can probably get some addresses from the OS sample page: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/osmastermap/layers/addresslayer2/sample.html data in gml and csv which has over 2K of addresses in each of their sample files. Most of the addresses are po

Re: [Talk-GB] Some thoughts

2008-09-07 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
On 9/3/08, Ed Loach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I often consult map features to work out which I should be using. Perhaps > with a bit more practice I'll know them all. But for consistency and to help > new users (I count myself in that group), would it be an idea to have say a > UK page in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
On 8/29/08, 80n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He didn't need to ask permission either. The Ordnance Survey Act of 1841 > gives him the right to "from time to time, after notice in writing of the > intention ... to enter into and upon any estate or property of any county > ... for the purpose of ma

Re: [Talk-GB] Calling all mappers - Bradford really does need you. Bradford Mapping Party 27/28 September 2008

2008-08-26 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Are you allowed to use http://www.npemap.org.uk/ it may help somewhat - a lot of the city hasn't changed that much tim On 8/26/08, Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well it is the weekend after I plan to go back to Durham, so it's a > possibility. I may even get a new bicycle by then, otherwis

[Talk-GB] 2nd Leeds Mapping Party

2008-07-23 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Hi folks, OK, we've had a few micro mapping parties, and mapping pub crawls since the 1st Party, but this one should be a big 'un. It's part of the 2 day BarCamp Leeds, and should see sizeable parts of the city being filled in. The Saturday is mainly devoted to BarCamp, but we could see mapping p