Re: [Talk-GB] Nominatim oddity

2020-12-07 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
On 07/12/2020 17:23, Mark Goodge wrote: This may be a dim question, and this may possibly be the wrong place to ask it. But, at the risk of being both dim and out of place... Why does Nominatim return "Britanniarum Regnum" as the country name for objects in the UK? For example:

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
So that can't possibly be when the copyright expires, rather it's a question of contractual provisions in a license agreement between them and NLS not copyright as such. Of course it's only claiming they do have a copyright that they can make such a license necessary. Tom On 01/12/2020 09:49,

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
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 think it's relevant anyway as I thought NLS had given

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

2020-10-03 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
On 03/10/2020 16:57, Philip Barnes wrote: They are intended to stop this type of routing https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car=52.64994%2C-1.20491%3B52.64983%2C-1.2049 Which is techincally not illegal and in real world usage is not going to happen. But unless the

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

2020-10-03 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
On 03/10/2020 14:05, Brian Prangle wrote: There seems to be a predilection for adding turn restrictions , either no right rurns or no U turns at the exit flares of roundabouts to prevent turning back into the entry flares where there are no explicit signed restrictions. I suspect this is

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/config

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

2020-09-16 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
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/config/locales/en-GB.yml#L621 Tom On 16/09/2020 12:00, Paul Berry wrote: Sorry, I wasn't in edit mode so nothing to do

Re: [Talk-GB] Flatholm Island Boundary Problem

2020-09-12 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
If you think Bristol or Aberdeen are mad then try Norwich: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/172506 Again presumably due to Norwich's history as a port and therefore having control of the river. Tom On 12/09/2020 22:53, Russ Garrett wrote: Yeah, I assume what happened is that the City

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

2020-09-03 Thread Tom Hughes via Talk-GB
I suspect that the real clue is in the changeset tags: resolved:outdated_tags:incomplete_tags=10 So the iD validator has presumably claimed that the tagging of those paths was "out of date" in some way and this was likely a misguided attempt to fix that. Of course that was likely based on

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 mailing

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

2020-03-14 Thread 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 mailing list. Likewise we probably need to think about the criteria of what makes a good list