Re: [Talk-GB] Implicit speed limits: What to tag in built-up areas?

Am I missing something? The 20 mph signs are the same as all speed restrictions signs are they not? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me From: Tobias Zwick Sent: 01 May 2018 10:45 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Implicit speed limits: What to tag in built-up areas? This tag is

[Talk-GB] Universal Credits Map

The Dept of Work and Pension is using OSM for its map of Universal Credit areas: http://dwp-stats.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=1713828f61dc4c01a98eb9df1dcc5ab9 Nice to see Gov finally seeing the light. Jonathan -- http://bigfatfrog67.me

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

I've made that mistake in the past, it's not the most intuitive of layouts. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me From: Phillip Barnett Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎12‎ ‎December‎ ‎2015 ‎09‎:‎55 To: Shaun McDonald Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sorry, my bad. I wasn't fully un

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

Wow! Thanks for that. Very interesting. http://bigfatfrog67.me On 02/11/2015 10:02, Paul Sladen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Lester Caine wrote: On 01/11/15 07:22, Ed Loach wrote: It very simple, the colours should match the road sign colours: Blu

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

+1 http://bigfatfrog67.me On 01/11/2015 16:59, Mark Goodge wrote: On 31/10/2015 22:27, Chris Hill wrote: We should all keep in mind that the standard map on the OSM website is not OSM. It is just a single render as an example of what is possible. There are thousands of renders out there (I mu

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

+1 http://bigfatfrog67.me On 01/11/2015 16:53, Mark Goodge wrote: On 01/11/2015 09:46, Stuart Reynolds wrote: I don't like it for the simple reason that I think it will fail to win over new Uk users. There are plenty of people who just want to use default tiles to show a location on - sports p

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

Form over function, the scourge of modern society. http://bigfatfrog67.me On 01/11/2015 10:18, tony wroblewski wrote: The current problem I see with the new default style is that it's very very difficult to now plan routes on a zoomed out map. I can't clearly see, for example, what is or isn't

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

+1 http://bigfatfrog67.me On 01/11/2015 09:46, Stuart Reynolds wrote: I don't like it for the simple reason that I think it will fail to win over new Uk users. There are plenty of people who just want to use default tiles to show a location on - sports pitch, scout hall, whatever - and those

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

It's a requirement because this is a UK list, the roads are in the UK, the UK signs have always been coloured that way. When British people are navigating they immediately recognise these colours. But hey, if you like pink then fine let's keep the Barbie look. Jonathan http://bigfa

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

I don't like it. It very simple, the colours should match the road sign colours: Blue, Green, Red! Anything else is just form over function. Stop playing with aesthetics and concentrate on functionality. Jonathan. http://bigfatfrog67.me On 31/10/2015 21:37, Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap)

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

I went through the new station last week and used it various times during construction work and saw/can see no evidence to changes at platform level except cosmetics. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me From: Andy Robinson Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎28‎ ‎September‎ ‎2015 ‎10‎:‎46 To: Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] Labelling a greasy spoon caff

e of a tag, it is the use of a tag that tells us exactly what we can expect to be served there. In my opinion, 4 examples of excellence in OSM, a case of “just map what you see on the ground” Jonathan --- http://bigfatfrog67.me From: Bryce Nesbitt Sent: ‎Satur

Re: [Talk-GB] Canal & River Trust maps

You'd almost think she's getting a kick back from Google! 😉 Jonathan --- http://bigfatfrog67.me From: Dave F. Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎2‎ ‎April‎ ‎2015 ‎13‎:‎45 To: Lester Caine, talk-gb@openstreetmap.org On 02/04/2015 12:41, Lester Caine wrote: > On 0

Re: [Talk-GB] Road works

Not very helpful. Jonathan --- http://bigfatfrog67.me From: Dave F. Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎1‎ ‎April‎ ‎2015 ‎21‎:‎26 To: pmailkeey ., talk-gb@openstreetmap.org On 01/04/2015 20:51, pmailkeey . wrote: > > Can we please discuss and wikify ? What makes you th

Re: [Talk-GB] GB postcodes

+1 on collection times and Postcodes for routing. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me From: Pierre Riteau Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎26‎ ‎March‎ ‎2015 ‎09‎:‎08 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org On Wed, 25 Mar 2015, at 09:22 PM, Pmailkeey . wrote: What use are post box ref numbers ? Who is

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK Qarterly Project: Fix that Road name!

more newly built residential streets that are as yet unknown to OS locator and the famous web search engines. The quarterly project thing helped motivate me, any ideas on what next quarter's project is going to be? Jon. -- Dr Jonathan Harley Spiffy

Re: [Talk-GB] Proposed import of approximately 6 bicycle repair tool stands in the UK

On 04/03/2015 22:59, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > Ok, last call for comments. I don't see a huge amount of support for automatically importing these from the GB community. If there's such a small number, why not just list them on this mailing list and local mappers can check the accuracy before mapping

Re: [Talk-GB] Road Names Quarterly Project

y the most practically useful thing to have on a map. J. -- Dr Jonathan Harley SpiffyMap Ltd j...@spiffymap.net www.spiffymap.com The Venture Centre, Sir William Lyons Road, Coventry CV4 7EZ, UK _

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Underground services

On 20/01/2015 22:34, David Woolley wrote: > That information would be extremely valuable to terrorists. I suspect > that it would allow a small group of people to disrupt phone, mobile > phone and internet communications over large parts of the country for > many days or weeks. Oh no. I guess if

Re: [Talk-GB] Totesport

On 21/12/2014 14:39, David Woolley wrote: In my view, they are not really bookmakers. For fixed odds, bookmaking requires no skill and for the horses, I imagine that all the bookmaking is done at head office. I'm not sure this detail is really relevant to us. Apply the Duck Test -- you go th

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-3 Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

On 18/12/2014 12:05, Ed Loach wrote: Perhaps just posting Overpass links and locals manually making the changes would be better? I think Ed has hit the nail on the head here. All your mechanical edit does is correct one tiny part of the mapping, and possibly to no great effect - it's just th

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

I totally agree with Rob, we are tied by the law. The OS need to realise that the data they hold was paid for by us and to restrict its use by Govt is plain wrong. The HA should understand this so they can pressure their Ministers to open things up. http://bigfatfrog67.me On 05/07/2014 21:19

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.

world isn't great so I'm probably wrong... Nowhere in Britain is more than 70 miles away from the coast (Coton in Derbyshire is the furthest), and some lighthouses are not especially close to the sea - there are some near tidal rivers. So 61 miles is very plausible.

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: New Contributor: YvetteE90

*From:*SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] *Sent:* 23 April 2014 09:18 *To:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: New Contributor: YvetteE90 jonathan wrote: I hate to do this but I don't have time to look in to this for ages. This new user has made one

[Talk-GB] Fwd: New Contributor: YvetteE90

hanks Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me Original Message Subject:New Contributor: YvetteE90 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:28:30 GMT From: New Contributor: YvetteE90 *Username:* YvetteE90 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/YvetteE90> *Mapper since:* 2014-04-22 13:0

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery

Any updates on this, I'm still experiencing it all over Redditch and surrounds? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 04/03/2014 22:26, Andy Robinson wrote: I think we need to be careful when comparing what might be visible via the bing map website and what's available to our editin

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery

Yes, I was seeing that Steve. I assumed it was due to local caching by JOSM, you see your old version briefly before the newer tile is dragged down into the cache. I'm guessing but seems likely? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 02/03/2014 15:39, Steve Brook wrote: I am getting a st

Re: [Talk-GB] name=Flooding

ing just as has been done in many other parts of the World. I'm beginning to think we are not stepping up to provide this unique mapping requirement that no other mapping service is providing. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 10/02/2014 17:29, Steve Doerr wrote: Is this an appropriate

Re: [Talk-GB] name=Flooding

On 10/02/2014 17:29, Steve Doerr wrote: Is this an appropriate use of the name tag? No. J. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Please don't edit Dawlish

On 06/02/2014 19:25, jonathan wrote: Too late: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20413392 Has been edited by a User called Daleks with just 5 edits experience. Do we reverse? I'll get DWG to revert it. The username and changeset comment make me think it's more about mis

Re: [Talk-GB] Please don't edit Dawlish

Too late: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20413392 Has been edited by a User called Daleks with just 5 edits experience. Do we reverse? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 06/02/2014 12:54, Richard Symonds wrote: You're sure we can't just change the track to "b

Re: [Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding

x27;t care about transient closures can ignore it and map it as normal but routing systems can take it into account. If such a tagging scheme was agreed then it could apply in many instances not just road closures. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 06/02/2014 14:46, Laurence Penney wrote: I

Re: [Talk-GB] Please don't edit Dawlish

ndation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 6 February 2014 09:57, Jonathan Bennett <mailto:jonobenn...@gmail.com>> wrote: Based on the

Re: [Talk-GB] Please don't edit Dawlish

I agree. http://bigfatfrog67.me On 06/02/2014 09:57, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Based on the Somerset Levels thread, I've realised someone will probably try to edit the railway line, station and other bits of Dawlish based on the storm damage. Please don't. Apart from the temporary

[Talk-GB] Please don't edit Dawlish

Based on the Somerset Levels thread, I've realised someone will probably try to edit the railway line, station and other bits of Dawlish based on the storm damage. Please don't. Apart from the temporary nature of the damage (Network Rail are predicting a few weeks to fix the line) there's no

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of leisure=sports_centre at Silverstone etc

On 01/02/2014 21:38, Kevin Peat wrote: Only for helicopters on race weekends and for sightseeing trips, the runway was repurposed a few years ago. To complicate things further there is a new university building on the site so you could add campus to the list of possible tags. You're all wro

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

an attribution to OGL! Otherwise when we receive our Oscar instead of just thanking our Parents and God, we'd have to thank our parents and grand-parents and great gran-parents and great great grand-parents ad infinitum and God! Which means we'd never get to thank God! Then where w

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

Rob, I think you just did ;-) Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 25/01/2014 16:58, Rob Nickerson wrote: Any volunteers? Regards, Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

+1 http://bigfatfrog67.me On 24/01/2014 17:53, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I think some unambiguous consensus on this needs to be made clear by the OSMF or whoever - as everyone seems to say different things which leaves many confused. I will still admit to having no idea as to whether I can use th

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

ts to give them away, that's their problem. We acted in good faith that the OGL was valid. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 24/01/2014 11:00, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: On 24 January 2014 07:29, Bernard Moore wrote: Norfolk County Council offer Public Rights of Way data on

Re: [Talk-GB] Bitcoin business listings

Just looked at the bitcoin map for near me and noticed: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2541566146 Again, someone just listing their business as a node, no physical presence indicated on the map though. He's just trying to get his website linked from OSM! Jonathan http://bigfatfrog

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

Thanks Brian, excellent resource. Runs out halfway over Redditch! :-) Dang. Need to get Worcs CC to invest in the same. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 14/01/2014 10:43, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi everyone Warwickshire County Council have released 3 sets of aerial imagery under OGL

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

OGL. I recommend that mappers DO NOT use the imagery until usage of the imagery has been out-of-band confirmed as permissible for mappers. It has, Jonathan Moules of Warwickshire County Council came to a midlands OSM meet on Saturday and told us about it, and subsequently confirmed in email to

Re: [Talk-GB] Magistrates and Crown Courts listings as open data – hack event coming…

Was that a serious suggestion? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 15/12/2013 13:36, Tim Waters wrote: I wonder if court listings also has the addresses of those involved / defendants? A further source of addresses and postcodes On 9 December 2013 17:16, Andy Mabbett <mailt

Re: [Talk-GB] Hants CC - Open Government Licence & use of data

On 03/12/2013 21:36, Robert Norris wrote: Normally I visually compare Hants KML (and indeed West Sussex) vs OSM tile images to identify missing ROWs and then make that a basis to include in a route for a days out walking or cycling. This might help: http://bl.ocks.org/Jonobennett/raw/7152386

Re: [Talk-GB] Hants CC - Open Government Licence & use of data

lawsuit if we were to indicate a PRoW across private land on the back of "we surveyed it with GPS and everyone else is walking that way so that's why we mapped it"? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 03/12/2013 19:32, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi, The Hants data was one of the fir

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

Well done Tom & Roger on tracking that one down. Those can be a real pain to find. But surely www.openstreetmap.org redirects to index.html at least that's the Apache default? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 03/12/2013 19:41, david wrote: I've been working with Roger o

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

I agree Tom, I don't think the end result would have been different. Personally I'm not bothered but I can see why some may want to "know" when things are about to change. Is there some place we weren't looking that lists upcoming changes and time scales? Jonatha

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

Or at the very least choose one spelling and stick with it! http://bigfatfrog67.me On 01/12/2013 18:51, Richard Mann wrote: At least they could have the grace to spell licence correctly. On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Brian Prangle > wrote: +1 for a close but

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

But Brian, why aren't you logged in? It's not there then. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 01/12/2013 18:45, Brian Prangle wrote: +1 for a close button. That box just screams at me to be closed - my brain wants to see what's behind it! Not sure what communication went

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

y if you don't like their rendering! Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 01/12/2013 18:03, ael wrote: In regards to the comment about wanting a [x] button on the welcome text, it does disappear for logged in users and small screen devices. As for non Now it has gone live, I have to say that

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

people of the Philippines are very grateful for us armchair mappers. :-) Ground surveying is good, [caveats here]. But the huge percentage (based on bytes, changesets or manhours) of what is being added to the map going forward is not from GPS. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 18/11/201

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

on but the bulk is armchair. I'm not ashamed of armchair mapping and all power to those who have the time and resources to go and survey on foot but the vast percentage of my mapping time is spent online. If I do ground survey it's when I'm somewhere for work. Jonathan http://

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

Well yes and that would fall under the data side, but are traces really that important now? They have some uses but the bulk of sources now and going forward are from other methods? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 18/11/2013 10:16, SomeoneElse wrote: Jonathan wrote: I can almost see

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

tures, and the other half concentrating on the data side, such as editing, data structure, integrity, imports and exports? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 18/11/2013 00:45, David Woolley wrote: On 17/11/13 21:47, Jonathan wrote: I don't believe OSM is about rendering maps, isn&

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

some holy grail. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 17/11/2013 21:42, Rob Nickerson wrote: On 17 November 2013 21:14, Oliver Jowett <mailto:oliver.jow...@gmail.com>> wrote: Is the response to "Here's a usability issue with the proposed changes" really "us

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

artographic database? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 17/11/2013 21:14, Oliver Jowett wrote: On 17 November 2013 15:06, Rob Nickerson <mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>> wrote: To use the map I'd prefer not to have that signup box floating around all the time (I am

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

The Welcome box doesn't linger once you've logged in, so in a way having it in the way may encourage some to join and login? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 16/11/2013 18:01, ael wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 01:36:40PM +, David Earl wrote: On 15/11/2013 20:15, Rob Nicke

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

g. BTW, since complaining about the PITA comment I've had other, shall we say, "non-friendly" off-list comments. So a big thank you to those of you who have kept their comments on-list and in public, especially those of you who have agreed with me, at least in part. Now, I

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk? PITA?

nk/Primary debate and will think twice about any future questions to these lists. If anybody wants to see OSM flourish and bring in new participants from other walks of life and grow to be a well respected global organisation then think again, some may need to leave before others feel they may

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

affic flow. A Trunk road that is a dual carriageway with a maxspeed of 70 mph is very different to a Trunk road that winds around fields and has a maxspeed of 50 mph or less! Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 03/11/2013 00:14, Tom Hughes wrote: On 02/11/13 18:47, Jonathan wrote: I'm

[Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

I know of many "Green" "A" roads that aren't much more than country lanes, they are definitely not "high performance" and I don't feel they should be "Trunk" roads, I feel they should be "Primary&

Re: [Talk-GB] Notes feature

Yes, I like this, very simple. I guess it just adds a POI? Who's behind onosm.org? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 27/10/2013 16:21, Rob Nickerson wrote: Great idea. I spotted http://onosm.org/ the other day. Perhaps this could be used to capture the details.

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping climbing routes/areas.

OK, thanks for that. http://bigfatfrog67.me On 23/10/2013 12:14, Derry Hamilton wrote: Hi Jonathan, I think that was exactly the basis of BMC vs Rockfax. The BMC author had put up and named several routes specifically for the guide book, and there was no other original source for those

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping climbing routes/areas.

, surveys and climbs their own route and then uploads to OSM then that would be fine. On a further note, I don't know how you map a vertical route on a flat map? Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 23/10/2013 11:54, Derry Hamilton wrote: Hi Jonathan, I believe the lack of copyright on rou

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping climbing routes/areas.

their intellectual property to name it as they have in their guide??? I don't know, just surmising. Just like you can download and compile your own version of Firefox but you can't distribute it as Firefox with their permission! Hence Iceweasel :-) Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 23/10/2

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping climbing routes/areas.

Hi Derry, I'm no lawyer, but if the route name was first used in a copyrighted publication and never used before that publication then they *may* have claim to it. Bear in mind that while a route name may not be covered by copyright it may be covered by a trademark!? Jonathan

[Talk-GB] Geological Data

So was wondering what people thought about it? Jonathan -- http://bigfatfrog67.me ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Probation offices

On 07/08/2013 13:47, Steven Horner wrote: > Thanks I will go with office=probation unless others disagree. No disagreement, but *please* document what you've used the tag for on the wiki. Don't bother with the "approval" process, but do give a brief description of what a probation office does and

Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

On 25/04/2013 16:23, John Baker wrote: > > There are always more suitable tags than natural=grass, landuse=grass > being the most obvious Are you claiming that the land *is used for* grass? That the purpose man has put that piece of land to is just "grass"? surface=grass yes, landcover=grass mayb

Re: [Talk-GB] Highways Leading to Farms and single residential properties in rural areas

while vehicles continue to use it (which in some ways implies it's unfenced), whereas an unsurfaced/dirt service road has been constructed in some way, even if it's not been sealed or metalled. Does that help? Jonathan ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Invisible/impassable rights-of-way

t occasionally, I suppose, the landowner can't be tracked down. The local authority still has to keep PRoWs open. Also you don't need to figure out, yourself, who the PRoW officer is - just contact the highways department of the local authority. J. -- Dr Jonathan Harley : Mana

Re: [Talk-GB] Pronunciation of place names

On 10/01/2013 13:30, John Sturdy wrote: > We could have a keyword convention for indicating the pronunciation > (in various languages) using the International Phonetic Alphabet; for > example, we could supplement name:=* with > name::IPA=* I did this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1816

Re: [Talk-GB] Telegraph releases Green Belt data

information in OSM, it could even become the de facto source of information for community planning activities. Worth a shot, no? J. -- Dr Jonathan Harley :Managing Director: SpiffyMap Ltd m...@spiffymap.com Phone: 0845 313 8457 www.spiffymap.com The Venture Centre, Sir William

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2013

On 27/09/12 20:27, Tim Waters wrote: Hi On 17 September 2012 18:00, Jonathan Harley <mailto:j...@spiffymap.net>> wrote: Just to throw another venue idea into the mix, how about Warwick University? Advantages: it keeps winning awards as one of the best conference venues

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2013

around (putting up signs etc). I work within walking distance and could act as venue liaison. Coventry isn't far from Nottingham which will host FOSS4G. Takes just over an hour on the train from London and is in the centre of the motorway network too. Jonathan. -- Dr Jonathan Harle

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2013

re * The University of Surrey is an established conference venue, with low-cost accommodation on-site * The town & campus are already well-mapped * Alan Turing used to live here * There's some *fantastic* cycle routes around here... Thoughts? -- Jona

Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps using Sustrans Cycling data

On 23/07/2012 23:17, SomeoneElse wrote: but I'm not actually a cyclist - Burn the heretic! ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

On 28/06/2012 17:19, Tom Chance wrote: According to Wikipedia's actual page on the station it has 8 platforms. [citation needed] ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

On 28/06/2012 11:32, David Earl wrote: Might this be of help, if the info were included with the station. It seems to be "official": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_railway_station_categories If I could find the actual *information*, yes! However, it's UK-only, and platforms=* can

[Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

tl;dr: Please tag your local station(s) with platforms=n where n<>2 I had a conversation with Andy Allan, ooh, ages ago (it was probably at WhereCampGB in Notts) about his lovely transport layer (http://osm.org/go/euup98?layers=T) and mentioned it would be great to see station names at lower z

Re: [Talk-GB] How to work with Government Open Data (e.g. Boundaries, Rights of Way)

f vegetation to a width of 1 metre if crosses a field or 1.5 metres if it goes round the edge. Jonathan. Which frequently they don't Indeed they don't - and that's to say nothing of replacing stiles with unclimbable fencing or even putting electric fencing across the line of a R

Re: [Talk-GB] How to work with Government Open Data (e.g. Boundaries, Rights of Way)

tre if crosses a field or 1.5 metres if it goes round the edge. Jonathan. -- Jonathan Harley: Managing Director : SpiffyMap Ltd Email: m...@spiffymap.com Phone: 0845 313 8457 www.spiffymap.com Post: The Venture Centre, Sir William Lyons Road, C

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

r way to go than laying down rigid rules for mappers, or running bots that try to bash OSM into the shape needed by a particular consumer. Jonathan. -- Dr Jonathan Harley :Managing Director: SpiffyMap Ltd m...@spiffymap.com Phone: 0845 313 8457 www.spiffyma

Re: [Talk-GB] Designation: should we begin using prefixes

the problem is something like "how to identify tag usages within a specific country", build a tool that knows how to search a specific country, rather than placing the burden on mappers. Jonathan. -- Dr Jonathan Harley :Managing Director: SpiffyMap Ltd m...@spiffymap.com

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Vandalization - No Bere Forest?

On 16/04/2012 12:26, Barnett, Phillip wrote: Off -topic --- Apparently it's not been a good year for bluebells - wrong kind of spring. The ones in my garden have flowered for the first time in years! ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

iant on OS data to fill in some gaps. Jonathan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Using Bing in hilly areas (was: GB License Change Readiness)

use a combination of sources and some judgement. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] License change & anonymous edits

The licence change process hasn't been elegant, and no-one's pretending it's perfect, but that's not a reason to try to find a way forward. Again, thanks. Jonathan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Dorset County Council maps now offer OSM Mapnik as default base layer

On 19/12/2011 00:31, Nick Austin wrote: 1) Judging by the status message that Firefox produces they are using the OSM tile server. Is that allowed? Yes, and it won't cause a problem. Browser-based applications like this only request a small number of tiles at a time for the area the user is v

Re: [Talk-GB] LCN - Local Cycle Network

On 28/11/2011 18:29, SomeoneElse wrote: The problem with "proposed" routes is that they don't exist yet and so the usual "on the ground" check is difficult. Then don't map them. Seriously, if these networks aren't at the implementation stage, there's little point in adding them to OSM. Even w

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

asn't necessarily referring to colons and namespaces as being easy to use, just generally hand-waving about what you should or shouldn't consider when creating a new tag. "Easy for mappers" is probably "use your editor's presets/templates" anyway. -- Jonathan (J

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

On 07/11/2011 16:58, Jonathan Bennett wrote: misunderstanding of the situation. I think *any* new tag added to osm.xml results in an extra column, whether it has a colon or not. By osm.xml, I did of course mean default.style ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Equally the opposite may happen. For information, I'm assured that extra columns produce next to no performance degradation anyway since osm2pgsql started using hstore. Jonathan. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.o

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey Cycleway

On 03/11/2011 14:22, Ed Loach wrote: Wasn’t Ted Pottage out of Postman Pat? No, that's Ted Glen. I'll get me coat. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Aligning buildings in JOSM

On 23/09/2011 13:22, thomas van der veen wrote: Is there a good trick I am missing? Yes. Merkaartor's "Axis align" tool. :) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Routing and other problems west of Uttoxeter

On 08/08/2011 16:06, Tom Hughes wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/blocks/64 First changeset after expiry: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8976461 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/list

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

hat's before you consider the coffee shop aficionados, hardened cider drinkers and public convenience frequenters. Surveying gets you all these things. Importing and tracing *without surveying* gets you none. Jonathan ___ Talk-GB mailing li

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

ors than who want to contribute brand-new content. I suspect if OSM did more to attract "gardeners" as someone else put it, there could be a big, largely untapped source of contributors out there. Jonathan. -- Jonathan Harley: Managing Director : SpiffyMap Ltd Email: m.

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

We're an un-funded (as yet) startup, so we can't afford to give stuff away at this point - but if someone had a way of paying for our server costs we'd be very happy to host these kinds of specialised views of OSM data. Jonathan. -- Jonathan Harley: Managing Directo

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