Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-21 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
within addresses. In any case, if OSM is going to be a useful source of addresses for businesses and the public, we need to replicate the official addresses that everyone is currently used to using. On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 16:19, Chris Hill wrote: > How are they verifiable? There is no open sou

Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-21 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 12:02, Alan Mackie wrote: > > I struggle with what to call the in that example. > > A recent suggestion for named terraces was to use addr:street= > and addr:parentstreet=, but if the relates the > whole building to to parentstreet, then reconstructing an address seems

Re: [Talk-GB] Anglican churches

2020-12-21 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) via Talk-GB
ps at e.g. https://osm.mathmos.net/nameless/amenity/place_of_worship simply denote the type of OSM object: node, way or relation. Robert. -- Robert Whittaker ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-21 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
IP postcode, despite being in Norfolk and closer to Norwich (NR) than Ipswich.) On the basis that it's a required part of each address, I would recommend that we do store the post town in OSM addresses. There are significant advantages to storing it in a consistent way, and the best existing

Re: [Talk-GB] Anglican churches

2020-12-18 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 18:05, Sean Blanchflower wrote: > In case anyone's interested I set myself the lockdown project of ensuring all > the active Anglican churches in England are mapped consistently in OSM, and > have gotten as far as I realistically can for the moment. > >

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway across field

2020-12-08 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 13:18, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote: > > https://snipboard.io/scrm5R.jpg > > There you go, free of any supposed copyright infringement. Not quite. Before we're able to use any third-party data in OSM, we need to verify that it is available under a suitable licence.

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway across field

2020-12-08 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 12:37, Dave F wrote: > On 08/12/2020 12:08, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 09:39, Mark Lee via Talk-GB > > wrote: > >> Hello. I've just added a missing public bridleway > >> (https://www.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridleway across field

2020-12-08 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
agging. Do you have permission to use information from the Definitive Map in OpenStreetMap? Generally these maps have lines drawn on top of Copyrighted Ordnance Survey base-maps, which means they're off-limits for use in OSM. Digitised Public Rights of Way data (without the base-map background

Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application

2020-12-05 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 15:29, Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB wrote: > A shame really, an open, standard API - and accompanying open source clients > to the API - adopted by all councils for problem reporting would be a great > thing to have. It would indeed be great. An open standard for this

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 Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
These restrictions will last > > for > > another couple of years – until the end of 2022 – which I know might seem a > > long > > way off, but hopefully will pass quickly. Then we’ll be happily able to > > share > > them with the OSM community, along with the

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-28 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 12:35, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB wrote: > 28 Nov 2020, 10:48 by robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com: > > I guess the problem is that recycling_type=container is being used > both for individual containers and for mini sites with a group of > containers. > > Is it really a

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-28 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 09:42, Jez Nicholson wrote: > Agreed, "point" sucks as a value, I won't use itmy fundamental reason for > it not being a 'centre' was size, but a Recycling Point _could_ be seen as a > mini Recycling Centre that only accepts recyclable waste. You can see a >

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-18 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 10:42, Jez Nicholson wrote: > My personal opinion is that UPRNs never apply to a road or road section. They > apply to something that you cannot see, like a grit bin that is no longer > there. It's definitely possible for UPRNs to be assigned to streets. I think you can

Re: [Talk-GB] "Survey Me" Tool Update

2020-11-07 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 13:02, ael via Talk-GB wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 12:11:42PM +, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > > For anyone who's interested, I've just updated my "Survey Me" tool at > > https://osm.mathmos.net/survey/ . > > I took a l

[Talk-GB] "Survey Me" Tool Update

2020-11-07 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
For anyone who's interested, I've just updated my "Survey Me" tool at https://osm.mathmos.net/survey/ . It now includes food retail chains where OSM mapping doesn't agree with the "Retail Points" dataset from Geolytix ( https://blog.geolytix.net/tag/retail-points/ ). Th

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK's first tile layer

2020-10-17 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 00:22, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Just in time for the AGM, I have just published OSM UK's first tile layer. No > don't get too excited it is not a full map render. Instead I have produced a > very simple tiling of the Land Registry polygon data now that this

Re: [Talk-GB] Q4 2020 Quarterly Project: Defibrillators

2020-10-12 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
n Great Britain. Reading > https://cesafety.co.uk/list-of-public-access-defibrillators-across-the-uk > from August 2019 reports that there are 5304 defibrillators in London alone. I've got the AED data from all the Ambulance Services in the UK apart from Northern Ireland and London in m

Re: [Talk-GB] Eat out to help out data

2020-08-20 Thread osm
> Too transient/inaccurate for me, personally. Even my local LA can't > publish an accurate list. Seeing that the list gets changed almost every day leads me to believe they have the same problem. Also 440+ entries are duplicates so no, a correct list right from the start seems to be too much

Re: [Talk-GB] Eat out to help out data

2020-08-20 Thread osm
So, if the FHRS rating is say, from 2017, the information could be out-of-date - but there's no way of knowing without a survey. Anyway, I was aming for matching the data against fhrs:id because that is the only really unique thing that could be associated with EOHO and OSM. Or am I missin

Re: [Talk-GB] Eat out to help out data

2020-08-19 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
(1.7 %) ... checking those data against the FHRS-OpenData would be relatively easy and very quick to implement and would allow for 96.5% of the entries to be checked. Once one has the FHRS data finding an appropriate OSM object becomes easier. Someone™ would have to do the coding and once licensing

Re: [Talk-GB] New Bing Imagery

2020-08-19 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
lised. Perhaps this is what's causing the following problem for me then. I GPS-surveyed a lot of the roads on my estate a few years ago when aerial imagery wasn't so good. I've got GPS traces in OSM that consistently follow the pavements on each side of the road and will line up nicely with the aerial

Re: [Talk-GB] National Cycle Network removal/reclassification

2020-08-13 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
> > It's not currently released under an open licence so not suitable for direct > inclusion into OSM. I will see if I can get permission for the data to be > used. Sustrans' NCN data is available from http://livingatlas-dcdev.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/54a66fa3c15d4e118e085fbd9b1

Re: [Talk-GB] Street-name toids

2020-08-13 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
> name. I'd tend to see the TOIDs are just an internal ID used in OS MasterMap and not something that there's much value in adding to OSM. I'd have thought that that USRN should be a sufficient unique reference number for highways. (Everything in OS MasterMap has a TOID, and actually I think

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-30 Thread Tony OSM
g. HMPA2 (which is a Historic Marine Protected Area). This makes it easier to identify by the listing as to the type of heritage designation (suggest that code references/descriptors could be included on a wiki for ref:hs=*) On 23/07/2020 11:39, Tony OSM wrote: Hi When I started mapping these

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-23 Thread Tony OSM
and Monuments Commission for England (commonly known as //Historic England <https://historicengland.org.uk/>//) has given permission for the //National Heritage List for England <https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/data-downloads/>//(NHLE) to be used in OSM und

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-22 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 23:12, Nick wrote: > Could the data be included in https://osm.mathmos.net/survey/ ? I had a quick look at the National Charge Point Registry data a while ago. I got as far as plotting a map showing both the OSM charge points and those from the Registry: ht

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-22 Thread Tony OSM
, Mark Goodge wrote: It's the errors which are more of a problem, because it's generally better not to map something than to map it wrongly. This is a difficult point. Data is never 100% complete, and frequently not 100% accurate. At what point it becomes better not to have the thing in OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-21 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Again, this sounds like a perfect job for MapRoulette where the NCR goes into a GeoJSON and people get to work on that data with what's in OSM already - the part that requires effort is to correct what's bogus ;) K Am 21. Juli 2020 18:30:25 MESZ schrieb Mark Goodge : > > >On 21/07/2

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-21 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Is the National Chargepoint Registry data open for OSM now? If not somebody should write a nice enough letter? Kai Am 21. Juli 2020 17:16:59 MESZ schrieb Mark Goodge : > > >On 21/07/2020 12:58, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote: >> 1538 nationwide. > >Which is a long way short

Re: [Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

2020-07-21 Thread osm
ben: > > > Do we map electric vehicle charging points? If not, should we? > > None of the ones in my town are on OSM, at the moment. I could add them, > but it seems a bit pointless if they're not generally mapped. > > Mark > >

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN tag proposal page

2020-07-21 Thread Tony OSM
Thanks for the effort. No problem to vote for this, no "red flags" for me. Tony On 20/07/2020 22:11, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi all, As discussed at the State of the Map online workshop, I took away an action to draft a proposal page for ref:GB:uprn. This page is now up online.

Re: [Talk-GB] POI files of Pub/Restaurant chain

2020-07-20 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Hi Rob, thanks for the nudge, they have a nice amount of brands, it would be great to be able to use their data freely :) @all, where would I document the request (and the eventual permission) in the Wiki? It seems that under https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Permissions#Europe there's no

Re: [Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-16 Thread Tony OSM
#map=18/52.97843/-1.15535>. Mapping listed sties was a particular interest when Will & Richard Phillips created Evesham Mapped <http://www.evesham-mapped.org.uk/map/?z=17=-1.92185=52.11616=OSM,1,16=listedbuildings>, so buildings and gardens are covered at least. Jerry On Wed,

Re: [Talk-GB] POI files of Pub/Restaurant chain

2020-07-16 Thread osm
not go and start adding data to OSM just yet, please. Kai > Dave F via Talk-GB hat am 16. Juli 2020 um 14:53 > geschrieben: > > > Hi > Did you obtain them from their website? If so, could you post the link? > What's the content? Just location co-ordinates? > > DaveF

[Talk-GB] POI files of Pub/Restaurant chain

2020-07-15 Thread osm
sking them if this data could be used to check all the places against OSM data and, if needed correct and/or create them, right? K ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Scheduled Monument

2020-07-15 Thread Tony OSM
Whilst mapping some of my local historic places I have found Scheduled Monuments. They are described in the Historic England list as Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument and has a List Entry Number. Building are listed as Heritage Category: Listed Building , Grade: (I, II*, II) and a list

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-15 Thread osm
> I've made an FOI request yesterday and am awaiting a reply. What we could > also do is find a local mapper to answer what he knows about the street. Getting back to something fun, this is what turned up yesterday: *** Your request: In the ELTHORNE ward, SOA E01001248, there’s a small

Re: [Talk-GB] Call to action: Translators needed

2020-07-14 Thread osm
> I've been asked to clarify this as it might come across as a personal > attack which was not intended, sorry. Apology accepted, but ... > The, very well funded, organizations in OSM space that claim > "Humanitarian" for themselves, market themselves mainly by having a

Re: [Talk-GB] Call to action: Translators needed

2020-07-12 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
nly today discovered that there's a JOSM team and an OSM organization. It might be worth checking whether the projects could be moved to the OSM org. Kai ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Call to action: Translators needed

2020-07-12 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Good evening list! During last week's Missing Maps London event I got to know the mobile App "MapSwipe". This app is used to identify Imagery Tiles with specific features like buildings, roads, etc. in countries with low map coverage (i.e. developing/least developed countries). It is a

Re: [Talk-GB] Great North Trail MTB Route

2020-07-12 Thread Tony OSM
mplies that it is, then unless a route is on their website or literature it is not part of the NCN. OSM does not have the right to make a decision like that no matter how good the intentions. So please do not tag as ncn; but please keep as a route. As the route is tagged mtb I think that

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-11 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
t; >We could do the same. If we don't know whether it is permissible to tag >it Fairfield Road in OSM, and there is no actual sign on it, we could >call it Fairfields Road. > >Martin. > >___ >Talk-GB mailing li

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-10 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
: >> >> To find the USRN of the path, you need to use the lookup tables supplied >> by OS. Doing that, we find that the associated USRN is 20602512. >> >> Now, there's no open data source which will directly tell you the name >> of a USRN (at least, not until

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-05 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
On 05.07.2020 18:45, Kai Michael Poppe - OSM wrote: > On 05.07.2020 17:51, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> Naive question - can that be added as a layer in JOSM? If so, how? > I'll have to check whether I can manage that anyway with the new server > now. Will come back to this. Meh. 3

Re: [Talk-GB] USRN data in JOSM as a background layer

2020-07-05 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Good afternoon everyone. > Additionally, I'll try to setup a server in my small farm to host this > for everyone. If I could manage this, I'll write to the list again. Please find every information you need to add the USRN to your JOSM here:

[Talk-GB] USRN data in JOSM as a background layer

2020-07-05 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Good morning list! Whilst investigating another matter I found, that you could host your own WMS (Web Map Service) Server with the cross-platform software GeoServer and then add this to your JOSM as a background layer. Now the USRN Geopackage from OS only contains the ref:GB:usrn (is this

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-04 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Hi Marc, Thanks for the reply. I'll make it my task to find an out of date copyright map that brings the full name, wherever I might find it :) Have a great weekend! Kai Am 4. Juli 2020 13:02:59 MESZ schrieb Mark Goodge : > > >On 04/07/2020 06:16, Kai Michael Poppe - OSM wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-03 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
On 03.07.2020 12:57, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> https://osm.mathmos.net/addresses/uprn/ (zoom in to level 16 to show the >> data) > > Thank you. Great tool! So, a few months ago I stumbled upon a note (https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/2158104#map=19/51.49829/-0.32762) that StreetComplete left

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN & USRN Tagging

2020-07-03 Thread Tony OSM
Agree with ref:GB:uprn and ref:GB:usrn. Yes we do need to understand the data. If a usrn is given to a road, then the road is extended is the extension included in the original usrn or given a new usrn. Plenty of scope for decisions when using in OSM. T On 03/07/2020 16:55, Robert Skedgell

[Talk-GB] UPRN & USRN Tagging

2020-07-03 Thread Tony OSM
As we have access to the data and Robert Whittaker has produced a great UPRN locations map, how are we planning to tag OSM objects? ref:UK:uprn and ref:UK:usrn have been suggested as tags - I think this is the way to go. There is also Key:ref:NPLG:UPRN:1 in the wiki. Question: Should uprn

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-03 Thread Tony OSM
11:23, Tony OSM wrote: There was a reference to £1000 worth of data being made free each month to individual users - can't find out how this works yet. This may allow us as individuals to populate OSM and OSM essentially aggregates the data - rather like postcode data. Generally reconstr

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-03 Thread Tony OSM
Thanks Russ - didn't know about https://os.openstreetmap.org/ Free beer or free speech -  I'm looking at. T On 03/07/2020 11:35, Russ Garrett wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 11:24, Tony OSM wrote: There was a reference to £1000 worth of data being made free each month to individual users

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-03 Thread Tony OSM
I spent part of yesterday navigating the relevant OS and LandRegistry sites and trying to figure out what we can do. We can basically put UPRN and USRN into OSM freely - the license is written to enable that.  OS have also separated out the ability to match UPRN and USRN to address and street

[Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

2020-07-02 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
I'm not completely sure if/how we can best make use of the new OS OpenData (UPRNs, USRNs and related links) in OpenStreetMap, but as a first step I've set up a quick slippy map with the UPRN locations shown: https://osm.mathmos.net/addresses/uprn/ (zoom in to level 16 to show the data) The UPRN

Re: [Talk-GB] M58 / A49 Link Road Wigan - Open - MAPPED

2020-07-01 Thread Tony OSM
2020, at 6:25 PM, Tony OSM wrote: Reported in Local Newspapers https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/long-awaited-20m-road-linking-18495724 the road has opened. Can anyone point me to a definitive line to allow me to map it, or does anyone else want to map it corre

Re: [Talk-GB] Virtual meeting: New open data and towards more UK addresses

2020-06-29 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Rob I think a meeting this weekend is a good idea. Even if a basic discussion of what we understand is available and the creation of an agenda of how to use the data. Tony Shield On 29/06/2020 20:37, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi all, The new open data comes out on Wednesday this week (land

Re: [Talk-GB] Virtual meeting: New open data and towards more UK addresses

2020-06-29 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Hi Rob, I'd go for the week following - apart from Saturday being the 4th and Sunday the 5th of July :-) Kai On 29.06.2020 21:37, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > The new open data comes out on Wednesday this week (land ownership > boundaries, Unique Property Reference Number, etc). We are

Re: [Talk-GB] M58 / A49 Link Road Wigan - Open - Needs Mapping

2020-06-29 Thread Tony OSM
in this changset: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/68842940 --- https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain spiregrain_...@ksglp.org.uk On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, at 6:25 PM, Tony OSM wrote: Reported in Local Newspapers https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/long-awaited-20m-road

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-28 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
move the most glaring mistakes out of the way! Have a great evening! Kai On 26.06.2020 23:33, Kai Michael Poppe - OSM wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Version 0.1.3 is now available for download from > https://github.com/kmpoppe/fhrsPlugin > > Thank you all for being so

Re: [Talk-GB] "secret" site

2020-06-28 Thread Tony OSM
I question the meaning of the word 'secret' when used in a newspaper. My observations are that secret means the reporter didn't know about it. Tony On 28/06/2020 00:47, David Woolley wrote: On 27/06/2020 23:37, Dave Love wrote: I was going to map a covered reservoir round here that I've

[Talk-GB] M58 / A49 Link Road Wigan - Open - Needs Mapping

2020-06-27 Thread Tony OSM
proposed  in OSM  but I don't know enough to confirm that is the correct path. Tony Shield TonyS999 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Land Registry INSPIRE data - 1 July OGL release

2020-06-27 Thread Tony OSM
allow, so what will be policy of updating OSM data with new shapes from INSPIRE. Tony Shield TonyS999 On 27/06/2020 08:58, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 20:50, Rob Nickerson wrote: Looks like 1 July will be a big open data release day. Not only do we get the USRN

Re: [Talk-GB] Land Registry INSPIRE data - 1 July OGL release

2020-06-27 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
s > > Should we attempt to coordinate something to prevent a mixture of uses across > those OSMers who may want to do something with this date? I'm not sure about the INSPIRE polygons, but for USRNs and UPRNs, I'd imagine it will be useful to add these identifiers to the appropriate OS

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Hi everyone, Version 0.1.3 is now available for download from https://github.com/kmpoppe/fhrsPlugin Thank you all for being so active in helping with the development of this small part of the OSM bubble! Good n8! Kai On 26.06.2020 17:48, Tony OSM wrote: > Hi Kai > > Was

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Kai Was thinking that automatically selecting the first array element which will be highlighted in the display will solve it. My belt and braces is to catch that exception and display a suitable error message ( should never occur) Tony On 26/06/2020 16:35, Kai Michael Poppe - OSM wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
without the user having to select it. Kai On 26.06.2020 17:14, Tony OSM wrote: > > Hi > > I get that also. In my case its caused by not selecting an entry in > the table presented after the initial Search entry. I've reported this > issue & Kai is aware. > > Tony > &g

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread Tony OSM
Hi I get that also. In my case its caused by not selecting an entry in the table presented after the initial Search entry. I've reported this issue & Kai is aware. Tony On 26/06/2020 15:54, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote: I'm getting this after selecting the Search Entry option:

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread osm
will not return any result. This is why one of these is required. From what I understand, Dave was asking for a why to locate _any_ estabishment in the vicinity that hasn't got an ID, but should. Let's see if this is doable :) Kai Tony OSM hat am 26

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread Tony OSM
log appears offering which tags to be selected for adding to the OSM object including the FHRS:ID I've reported one issue, but otherwise I regards this as a great assistant. Tony Shield TonyS999 On 26/06/2020 12:02, o...@poppe.dev wrote: And of course, you're right Dave, it would be great to loo

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread osm
have FHRS info - searching through each and every one of them could take some time though. Kai Dave F via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> hat am 26. Juni 2020 um 12:39 geschrieben: As the OSM entity has to a

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread osm
:-) Kai Dave F via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> hat am 26. Juni 2020 um 12:39 geschrieben: As the OSM entity has to already contain the FHRS:ID tag it limits the usefulness of this plugin. Won't most have addres

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Kai I've looked at github and your OSM profile - impressive, more so than mine. Pleased to make your acquaintance. I will download the fhrs app and give you feedback. Regards Tony On 26/06/2020 10:45, o...@poppe.dev wrote: Hey Tony, as I'm from the other side of the Channel, I doubt

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread osm
Hey Tony, as I'm from the other side of the Channel, I doubt that there's someone from the UK community that knows me well enough to reassure you about my person (I could always ask people from the German Telegram group to tell you I'm not a lunatic *g*)

Re: [Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-26 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Kai I'd like to help as its a good idea - however I don't know you, so could you get some community people who are well known to vouch for you, its just that I don't want strange software on my machine. Regards Tony Shield TonyS999 On 26/06/2020 05:58, Kai Michael Poppe - OSM wrote

[Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-25 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Good morning everyone, I built a plugin for JOSM that allows you to merge data from the FHRS API into OSM with a few clicks. I'd love to find some people that would be willing to test the 0.1.2 version and report bugs they found and/or comment on the user experience. Just throw me a line at o

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle Track - part/soft protection tags - proposal

2020-06-17 Thread Tony OSM
Campaign on a project to bring data from the Transport For London Cycling Infrastructure Database to OSM. As part of this the question arose as to how to tag cycle facilities that are give more protection and comfort than a painted lane on the road but not as much as a fully protected

Re: [Talk-GB] Road closures/changes during Covid19

2020-05-24 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Yes a very good idea. I'm in  North West England - the main driver in this area is Manchester. I have seen social media  and news outlets showing photos of Deansgate, Manchester with expanded pedestrian areas and expanded cycle lanes; motor vehicles removed - but I don't know if there are

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread Tony OSM
Hi I had the Lancashire KML file handy (as you do),  looked up JOSM import and found the OpenData plug in. Dropped the KML file onto the plug in and it created a lancashire.kml layer with all of the ways on the layer and the kml fields as tags. When combined with OSM data and ESRI imagery

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread Tony OSM
ot; Nick *From:* Nick Whitelegg *Sent:* 13 May 2020 18:08 *To:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!) Hi, Just to continue with the theme of rights of way mapping, I've been

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 164, Issue 16

2020-05-12 Thread Tony OSM
as part of Leicestershire and Rutland Rights of Way Committee and we thought, different but it does make sense. On the whole I also prefer the use of names in identifiers stored on OSM. I suspect some of the completely numeric ones represent system specific keys. I suppose I am in a slightly

Re: [Talk-GB] PRoW archive

2020-05-11 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
//rowmaps.com That site is an excellent collection of all the data that's available, with the added benefit of having it conveniently transformed into a common format for downstream use. As far as OSM use is concerned are some licensing issues with some of the datasets there though, so

Re: [Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref format (Was: Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality)

2020-05-11 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
add an unmapped > path to OSM, the primary source for the prow_ref is the council’s map. Unless you've been given permission by the copyright holder to make use of a map like that, then it's off-limits for use in OSM. The map at https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/roads-parking-and-travel/public-ri

Re: [Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref format (Was: Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality)

2020-05-11 Thread Tony OSM
case, I think the use of the numerical ID in place of the parish name should be acceptable. The numerical parish ID is what is used on the council’s own PROW map – as well as the open data they released (and thus the easiest to import into OSM). It would be unrealistic to expect mappers to then cros

Re: [Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref format (Was: Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality)

2020-05-10 Thread Tony OSM
I agree with Adam. In the published path orders fixed to lamposts etc the written description includes parish, type, number. Sometimes in that order sometimes type, number, parish. There is no consistency. Parish, type, number is likely to be understood by every user of OSM and I have used

[Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref format (Was: Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality)

2020-05-10 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
This may have got lost in the discussion about highway=no, but I'd like to get some feedback on what prow_ref format is best to use in Lancashire. See my previous message below: On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 19:23, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > The format of the Right of Way numbers se

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality

2020-05-10 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 19:33, Mike Baggaley via Talk-GB wrote: > >Highway=no seems acceptable to me where a path is permanently physically > >blocked by a building or such-like. We're not serving anyone by directing > >people into wals. I do, however, disagree with its use to tag definitive >

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality

2020-05-05 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 11:54, Adam Snape wrote: > I'd consider this particular proposed use of highway=no to mean "there is a > public highway here but there's no visible path on the ground" to be a > somewhat country-specific and counter-intuitive tagging practice. It's > certainly being

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality

2020-05-04 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
ights-of-way/public-rights-of-way-map/ is a relatively recent innovation. (By the way, you shouldn't use that map for OSM mapping, as there's an OS-copyrighted backdrop, which you might inadvertently take information from, or use relative positioning information from.) The Council's online map u

[Talk-GB] COVID-19 Department of Health uses OSM

2020-05-04 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Noticed that the government website uses OSM on which to overlay coronavirus data. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/#local-authorities ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality

2020-05-04 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Nathan I've done some work on Chorley PROW's recently. Populated using the style Chorley FP 1; Lancaster area uses the numbering convention in MapThePaths eg 1-1 23. Fortunately I know the area well having lived in the vicinity for 30 years so I can do armchair mapping with some knowledge.

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality

2020-05-04 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
As a general principle, I think we should certainly map both (a) any physical paths on the ground and (b) the legal Definitive Line (though not necessarily as a highway if it isn't one). These might be separate ways if the two line differ, though they'd normally be one and the same. It would also

Re: [Talk-GB] CWGC: worldwide, war graves

2020-04-26 Thread Tony OSM
Found via a search for: site:lists.openstreetmap.org "talk-gb" "Commonwealth" Thanks for finding that so quickly Daniel, what is actually being proposed to be added to OSM? Is it a list of CWG cemeteries that could then be checked against the data we have in OSM? I remember se

Re: [Talk-GB] prow_ref format for Dorset Public Rights of Way

2020-04-18 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 15:34, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > I wasn't familiar with the situation in Dorset but MapThePaths uses the 'SE > 4/22' scheme (actually it appears as 'SE 4 22') so if people want to use MTP > as a source for prow_refs, then that would be the format to use. In general, I

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 Phase 1 Construction NTP

2020-04-17 Thread Tony OSM
a bit premature but then perhaps not. Cheers Andy *From:*Jez Nicholson [mailto:jez.nichol...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 16 April 2020 22:15 *To:* Andy Robinson *Cc:* Talk-GB *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 Phase 1 Construction NTP Thanks Andy, this is opportunity for OSM to be *the* best source of HS2 rails

Re: [Talk-GB] prow_ref format for Dorset Public Rights of Way

2020-04-16 Thread Tony OSM
reference is named parish, status and route number then that should be what is in OSM, using number references looks to me like an internal workaround for earlier computers and spreadsheets. Using named parish, status and route number also makes it easier to use on maps - eg Andy Townsends https

[Talk-GB] prow_ref format for Dorset Public Rights of Way

2020-04-16 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
of Way Numbers. We really need to just select one for the county in order to be consistent in OSM. One format has a parish code followed by a slash and then the route number within the parish (e.g. "SE4/22" for path number 22 in Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle parish). The other would be to us

Re: [Talk-GB] Q2 2020 Quarterly project GP Surgeries and health sites

2020-04-16 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 12:27, Peter Neale wrote: > I tried following the link to your proposed new source of “official” data, > but none of the 3 links to the data worked very well for me. > > Link 1: (API format) led to http 404 error. > Link 2 (CSV(TSV) format – led to http 404 error > Link

Re: [Talk-GB] Q2 2020 Quarterly project GP Surgeries and health sites

2020-04-15 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 20:40, Peter Neale wrote: > I looked up my 2 "wholesale" pharmacies on the list. Unfortunately, they are > both classed as "community", so will continue to be included in your checking > tool. > > So... ...should we: > a. Continue

Re: [Talk-GB] Q2 2020 Quarterly project GP Surgeries and health sites

2020-04-12 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
;list of registered pharmacies". As of today, I'm now just keeping those with a Type (the last column) of either "Community" or "Temporary - Community/Portacabin". I think doing this corresponds most closely to what we'd want to tag as amenity=pharmacy in OSM. For internal h

Re: [Talk-GB] Q2 2020 Quarterly project GP Surgeries and health sites

2020-04-12 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
ction iD wanted (brand=Boots shop=chemist). How should Boots be > tagged, and does iD need a fix? (I assume all Boots have pharmacies, > but maybe not.) As far as my tool at https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/progress/ is concerned, pharmacies are recognised as OSM objects tagged with

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