Re: [Talk-GB] U-Turn guidance in London

2024-09-25 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
On 25/09/2024 22:24, Tom Hughes via Talk-GB wrote: On 25/09/2024 21:44, Chris Pankhurst via Talk-GB wrote: I am looking at a junction in London where I am not clear whether a u- turn is allowed or not.  The location the junction between Edgeware Road and Praed Street and Chapel Street

Re: [Talk-GB] U-Turn guidance in London

2024-09-25 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
nding on the city, region, etc. I can't think of any reason why city or region would make any sort of difference - traffic rules are the same everywhere and any local traffic order prohibiting u-turns would have to be reflected in standard signage to be effective. Tom -- Tom Hughes

Re: [Talk-GB] Nominatim oddity

2020-12-07 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
e: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=N&osmid=21279378&class=place Well it doesn't for me. Do you have your browser languages set to prefer Latin or something (that's the name:la for the UK relation). Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@c

Re: [Talk-GB] High quality NLS imagery of buildings and HOUSENUMBERS (!) available in London (and Scotland). Create a tasking manger to add this?

2020-12-01 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
Tue, 1 Dec 2020, at 9:41 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: If we assume that a new copyright is created by the scanning (which is a complicated question) then there is no way it expires next year. What exactly do you think the term is for this copyright and when do you think it starts from? I don't

Re: [Talk-GB] High quality NLS imagery of buildings and HOUSENUMBERS (!) available in London (and Scotland). Create a tasking manger to add this?

2020-12-01 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ _

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

2020-10-03 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
less the start or end point is on the flare why would a router do that over the shorter route on the roundabout... I mean maybe there are a few cases where the flare is shorter somehow? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Tal

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

2020-10-03 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
inst anybody turning off which should exclude it from any consideration by a router? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Overpass query strangeness within iD

2020-09-16 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
Hopefully I've fixed them on TW for the next update. Tom On 16/09/2020 12:44, Tom Hughes via Talk-GB wrote: That would be because somebody on TranslateWiki has added a bunch of bogus strings to the en-GB translation: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/c

Re: [Talk-GB] Overpass query strangeness within iD

2020-09-16 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
streetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Flatholm Island Boundary Problem

2020-09-12 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
nto the harbour: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0278/1529/products/OCB-1179.jpg Mark ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ __

Re: [Talk-GB] Pedestrian priority and highway=cycleway

2020-09-03 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
hway-code BCC to DWG because of the impact in cycle routing. -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] List moderator - volunteers needed

2020-03-14 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
On 14/03/2020 11:37, Dan S wrote: Op za 14 mrt. 2020 om 11:20 schreef Tom Hughes via Talk-GB : On 14/03/2020 11:13, Rob Nickerson wrote: As may have seen in Simon's response it sounds like we currently lack list moderators. If this is something you would like to do please email this ma

Re: [Talk-GB] List moderator - volunteers needed

2020-03-14 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
wner and discuss the situation with them before attempting a putsch. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Laura Ashley - looking for tagging consensus

2019-12-20 Thread Tom Hughes
__ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___________ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

2019-12-03 Thread Tom Hughes
sts.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Valuation Office Agency council tax data (was postcode mapping (was Re: Automated Code-Point Open postcode editing (simple cases only))

2019-07-30 Thread Tom Hughes
; says "open data" to you? What it says to me is "copyright for 50 years from the end of the year when it was published" so unless there is some license allowing it's use then no, it can't be used. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ _

Re: [Talk-GB] Ground truth v legal truth

2019-07-19 Thread Tom Hughes
On 19/07/2019 14:17, David Woolley wrote: On 19/07/2019 13:37, Tom Hughes wrote: I would say the logical consequence of that argument is that no road should be mapped as tertiary, as, unless taken from OS, it is a subjective judgement and can't be consistently verified. That doesn

Re: [Talk-GB] Ground truth v legal truth

2019-07-19 Thread Tom Hughes
ed between tertiary, unclassified and residential on a more subjective basis. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-06-11 Thread Tom Hughes
istinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] London venues

2019-03-14 Thread Tom Hughes
Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Microsoft missive jammed in the system?

2019-03-07 Thread Tom Hughes
o post. Could someone with moderator abilities take a look please? Done, but for future reference he will find it works a lot better if he subscribes to the list first... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB maili

Re: [Talk-GB] Checking UK Towns

2019-01-30 Thread Tom Hughes
tham Cross should be somewhere below Cheshunt and west of Waltham Abbey. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging post towns and other addressing issues in the UK

2019-01-28 Thread Tom Hughes
ap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Ta

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging post towns and other addressing issues in the UK

2019-01-28 Thread Tom Hughes
outlandish ideas I've heard in OSM tagging circles, and that's saying a lot. To be fair "addr:city=Chipping Norton" would be outlandish even for an address *in* Chipping Norton... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___

Re: [Talk-GB] OS National Grid References

2019-01-22 Thread Tom Hughes
is a simplified algorithmic transformation but a fully accurate conversion requires the OSTN02 data. I'm not sure what the current status is but they certainly used to claim various IP rights over it. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering Problems

2019-01-18 Thread Tom Hughes
On 18/01/2019 09:49, Brian Prangle wrote: Has anyone else noticed problems with edits failing to render?. Stuff I did 2 days ago still not showing up Replication had stalled on one of the render servers - it is catching up now but will take a few hours to get everything. Tom -- Tom Hughes

Re: [Talk-GB] account disabled due to bounces

2019-01-14 Thread Tom Hughes
er area that is OSQA. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] account disabled due to bounces

2019-01-14 Thread Tom Hughes
mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Property extents

2019-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
r this will have any correlation with Land Registry. I'm guessing .gov isn’t that joined up. Cheers Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@comp

Re: [Talk-GB] Guildford Blackwell Farm redevelopment

2018-11-21 Thread Tom Hughes
s ago). I solicited some local intelligence: https://twitter.com/jonobennett/status/1065232930883145728 Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Durham City Congestion Charge

2018-11-15 Thread Tom Hughes
and that is marked: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/25365715 Because that is the only vehicular access to the area it has the effect of controlling traffic in the whole area. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing l

Re: [Talk-GB] Spam GPS traces

2018-11-14 Thread Tom Hughes
__ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes

2018-11-09 Thread Tom Hughes
it's a stupid idea, so please don't... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes

2018-11-09 Thread Tom Hughes
ode a particular building has. I am not bulk adding these (I do not have the technical knowledge or time) I am just adding postcodes to properties as I add them. So how are you working out which postcode to use? Sometimes it is fairly obvious from the centroid location but it often isn't. Tom --

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline confusion

2018-11-03 Thread Tom Hughes
On 03/11/2018 15:50, Colin Smale wrote: The coastline ways with source=PGS are really old and inaccurate. I am not sure of their exact provenance but I think they were traced from some primitive aerial imagery. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:source%3DPGS Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

Re: [Talk-GB] Wickham Market, Suffolk

2018-09-07 Thread Tom Hughes
f on the edge but I think that village is what I would probably go with. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Bartholomews, Brighton

2018-07-26 Thread Tom Hughes
t have the "Avenue" at all: https://maps.compton.nu/view#18/50.82039/-0.13968/os2500 https://maps.compton.nu/view#18/50.82039/-0.13968/os1250 Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-21 Thread Tom Hughes
aking an object worse. That's what makes it so hard. That said I will certainly agree that what you're doing is far better than what many companies trying to get their clients locations into OSM have done in the past. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ _

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Hughes
real world they are often anything but. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-18 Thread Tom Hughes
#x27; page) is there any reason we can't do such imports without discussion with/permission from the company concerned? Just a small thing called copyright and/or database right. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Tal

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] "Secret" nuclear bunkers under London and Birmingham

2017-12-17 Thread Tom Hughes
tps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands> ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___

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

2017-10-19 Thread Tom Hughes
stcode has been invented by using some algorithm to draw a polygon that happens to encapsulate all those delivery points. Depending on the algorithm that may or may allow for overlapping polygons and in general you may get different answer depending on the details of the algorithm used. Tom -

Re: [Talk-GB] Queensferry Crossing

2017-08-30 Thread Tom Hughes
On 30/08/17 10:26, Tom Hughes wrote: As best I can tell from wikipedia the new bridge is the M90 and under motorway conditions with the old bridge presumably expected to carry non-motorway traffic as the A9000. So from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41086779 it

Re: [Talk-GB] Queensferry Crossing

2017-08-30 Thread Tom Hughes
ected to carry non-motorway traffic as the A9000. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread Tom Hughes
responses. Mostly these seem to be id edits so I'm guessing perhaps a University course or something. I suspect Pokemon Go is a more likely explanation. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstre

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

2016-09-24 Thread Tom Hughes
el. Yes I was just saying earlier today at SotM that I'd dearly love to get hold of the historical boundary data that Vision of Britain has but chooses for some reason only to make available to people with an academic affiliation Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@comp

Re: [Talk-GB] Text entry option vanished when uploading traces?

2016-06-27 Thread Tom Hughes
instead of just entering the file name. It is very irritating and demotivating :-( Editing OSM already takes too much of my time. I think it is your browser that has changed, not us. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org

2016-06-15 Thread Tom Hughes
Who can be contacted to see if this can be reinstated? I think Grant is already aware if you're talking about URL parameters. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstre

Re: [Talk-GB] Purton Hulks

2016-06-01 Thread Tom Hughes
? How should they be tagged? I suggest barge=concrete ;-) Not that I had any trouble believing you could make ships out of concrete or anything when I first heard about them as a teenager. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [Talk-GB] UK government to spend £5 million rebuilding postcode data it sold off in 2013

2016-03-19 Thread Tom Hughes
5 million is just to work out what they might do not to actually do it ;-) Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-12 Thread Tom Hughes
towns and villages without any town or parish council. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] The Park, Nottingham

2016-01-28 Thread Tom Hughes
there to which he and possibly some other OSMers gave evidence. Certainly in general we have a particularly active community in the Nottingham area so it's always worth talking to them about any local issues. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compt

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

2015-12-30 Thread Tom Hughes
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 Scotland layers for the 2nd edition 6 inch

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

2015-12-30 Thread Tom Hughes
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 updated the wiki, but this should work: tms:http:

Re: [Talk-GB] Secondary, tertiary and unclassified

2015-11-04 Thread Tom Hughes
n some way. If we did try and map it to sub-B classifications then we would probably have to do it on a per-authority basis as each authority has it's own classification scheme below B. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___

Re: [Talk-GB] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-01 Thread Tom Hughes
treatment I wonder? Should we have a French style and a US style and a Chinese style and... I mean how exactly do you propose to decide which national styles should get special treatment? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/09/15 11:24, Lester Caine wrote: On 14/09/15 11:11, Tom Hughes wrote: Broxbourne, Wormley and Turnford don't really have significant centres and historically would likely have been considered villages. Broxbourne is now a town in wikipedia with a population of over 13 thousand whil

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/09/15 10:39, Lester Caine wrote: On 14/09/15 09:51, Tom Hughes wrote: Hell, try http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1009 where I now live which wasn't even a parish in it's own right until 1844 but was almost certainly considered a town before that, as a coaching stop o

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Tom Hughes
t between the parishes of Broxbourne and Great Amwell, neither of which has a significant high street, while it has has a market charter wince 1253 and has a high street which clearly dates back some centuries. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ __

Re: [Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-13 Thread Tom Hughes
d half of the 20th century without necessarily growing in other ways. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2015-08-26 Thread Tom Hughes
/{z}/{x}/{y}.png http://geo.nls.uk/mapdata2/os/25_inch/surrey/{z}/{x}/{y}.png http://geo.nls.uk/mapdata2/os/25_inch/sussex/{z}/{x}/{y}.png http://geo.nls.uk/mapdata2/os/25_inch/buckingham/{z}/{x}/{y}.png http://geo.nls.uk/mapdata2/os/25_inch/london/{z}/{x}/{y}.png Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton

Re: [Talk-GB] Openstreetmap Foundation Charity Number

2015-08-18 Thread Tom Hughes
company number https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page Does anyone have any suggestions or will I just have to pay the VAT OSMF is not a charity, so there is no charity number. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Fiction

2015-03-22 Thread Tom Hughes
t we normally use to record names erroneously asserted in official sources. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-19 Thread Tom Hughes
nally be able to find postcodes when I type them in? Why would it make any difference? As far as I know Nominatim already uses the Codepoint Open data? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Ta

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

2015-01-03 Thread Tom Hughes
L 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_inch_gb/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg Tom -- Tom Hu

Re: [Talk-GB] Different styles of annotation.

2014-11-13 Thread Tom Hughes
On 13/11/14 09:52, Tom Hughes wrote: On 13/11/14 09:42, Lester Caine wrote: Silly question ... Just been looking at a local note and I'm a little curious as to what differentiates text appearing with a purple dot on a building and the more normal brown text on surrounding buildings?

Re: [Talk-GB] Different styles of annotation.

2014-11-13 Thread Tom Hughes
ering, this is confusing things at times. Well if you told us where on the map you were looking so that we could see for ourselves then it would be a lot easier to comment... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Tom Hughes
Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2014-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
e "outward postcode" and "inward postcode" and the outward postcode combined with the leading digits from the inward give you a "postal sector". Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mail

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

2014-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
post town is Crewkerne. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2014-10-24 Thread Tom Hughes
st 24 hours are anything to do by: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Math1985/history Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Hughes
a but I don't think they should be included in everyday renderings - they are something that belong on specialist renderings for specialist uses of the sort you mentioned. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Tal

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Hughes
k the data to make it do what you want. Aside from anything else it might affect other apps routing decisions in entirely different ways. There is a well defined meaning to trunk/primary/secondary for UK roads so please use it. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-12 Thread Tom Hughes
g Name and probably: addr:street=Something Technology Park assuming that the technology park is actually a road, or collection or roads, that comes off Other thing Road. eg http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/123243789 Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.n

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of private roads

2014-08-03 Thread Tom Hughes
On 03/08/14 17:02, Tom Hughes wrote: See, for example: http://www3.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/atoz/a_to_z/service.asp?u_id=1065&tab=3&siteid=5409&pageid=29027&e=e http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/sn00402.pdf is also informative. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

2014-08-03 Thread Tom Hughes
tmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list t...@openstreetmap.org <mailto:t...@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@op

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Tom Hughes
twenty years now and to date nobody has managed to come up with an answer that makes everybody happy so I suggest we don't try and do so here and now. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Ta

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
On 08/06/14 23:11, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 8 June 2014 22:49, Tom Hughes wrote: There's an almost infinite number of things we could add, but if nobody ever uses them, is the time take do so wasted? Why do you (apparently) suppose they will not be used? I don't suppose one way or

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
. I was taking the question of accuracy as a given. My point was not whether we can accurately add the right tags, but rather whether doing so is actually useful. There's an almost infinite number of things we could add, but if nobody ever uses them, is the time take do so wasted? T

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
could then be replicated for more topics; and in other territories. What would you consider a "demonstration of success" exactly? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap

Re: [Talk-GB] UK postcodes on each side of the road

2014-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
treet has three postcodes. One covers both sides for about one third of the length and the other two each cover one side for the other two thirds. Postcodes are part of an address and belong to a building, not a street, so that is where they should be tagged. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@c

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-30 Thread Tom Hughes
the splits are. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Hughes
er: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing li

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City (again, sorry!)

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Hughes
inately though, the "Should normally have a population of at least 100,000 people and be larger than nearby place=towns" rule. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org ht

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City (again, sorry!)

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Hughes
f "for the renderer" going on here too. Well there is a close correspondence between the agree meaning of city as the largest/most important places and what places people would expect to show up first on the map so while it may be mapping

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Hughes
be similar across the globe so we need to find a local way in each area to define what a tag means so that meaning does not deviate too much across the globe. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstr

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Hughes
interpret tags literally against local legalites. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Glasgow Open OS Data for Open Street Map

2014-02-09 Thread Tom Hughes
/DrBobBarr/status/431830942144299008 Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2013-12-03 Thread Tom Hughes
On 03/12/13 16:44, david wrote: On 03/12/13 14:22, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/12/13 14:08, Roger Calvert wrote: On the new front page, the search button seems to have a broken link - if you type in a place name (I tried 'Kendal' and 'Barrow') it goes to http://www.openstreet

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

2013-12-03 Thread Tom Hughes
. What browser are you using? How exactly are you performing the search when it errors - do you enter return after typing? or click the search button with them mouse? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB

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

2013-12-01 Thread Tom Hughes
unced it would go live at 11am yesterday what things would you have done differently as a result? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2013-11-16 Thread Tom Hughes
is people that want to signup and contribute. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2013-11-16 Thread Tom Hughes
s that they need to login to enable it? In any case, if it isn't a regression then it's out of scope as a bug report against the redesign. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing l

Re: [Talk-GB] Moderation (WAS: Primary or Trunk? PITA?)

2013-11-04 Thread Tom Hughes
t short I guess, but the vast majority of my email was explainging the rationale behind the tagging. Lessons: * We should be able to explain the reasoning behind our tagging if asked. Absolutely, and I believe I did so. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) ht

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-03 Thread Tom Hughes
On 03/11/13 19:41, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/11/13 19:07, Jonathan wrote: What we should be mapping is reality, so that people can use that data to build on. Whether a road is signed in Green, Pink or Purple tells a user nothing, it may have a legal definition but that is all. The tag we give

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-03 Thread Tom Hughes
in green rather than orange. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Tom Hughes
Roads => highway=trunk White Signed A Roads => highway=primary B Roads => highway=secondary Hopefully that will explain everything ;-) Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Notes feature

2013-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
uot; place your business/event here" and one for "map improvement needed here" Why? Both are calls for the map to be improved surely, even if one is phrased slightly oddly. We certainly don't want to maintain a permanent POI layer spearate from the main data if that's wh

Re: [Talk-GB] bing image alignment

2013-09-13 Thread Tom Hughes
AUTHORITY["EPSG","4277"]], PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"], PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",49], PARAMETER["central_meridian",-2], PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996012717], PARAMETER["false_easting",400

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Tom Hughes
practice. On top of which 0203 is now in use as well... That said I see little benefit in a mass edit, especially in cases which just amount to inserting or moving whitespace. Then again I see little benefit in adding phone numbers to OSM in the first place. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu

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