chains may describe themselves in a way that allows
them to get permission to operate on cheaper industrial
estates rather than more expensive retail parks. I don't
think that's very useful information for map users. The
important things are what they sell, and whether they will
sell t
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I certainly like the idea of a London meeting, it is relatively easy to get to
from most places and looking at rail prices my concern about 8th was probably
unfounded.
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On Monday, 18 March 2019, Gregory Marler wrote:
> I (somewhat in the capacity as an OSM UK director) h
It could make reasonably priced trains hard to come by.
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On Thursday, 14 March 2019, Tony Shield wrote:
> FYI
>
> Saturday 8 June is the Queens Birthday - Trooping the Colour occurs.
> Don't know London well enough to know if this could be disruptive.
>
> T
s for a bridleway in the UK or in my experience England and Wales
should be horse=designated, foot=designated and bicycle=designated. As Andy
mentioned the important tag is designation=public_bridleway.
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to someone
else.
HTH Phil (trigpoint)
On Friday, 8 March 2019, Dave Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm quite new to OSM, and am wondering how I might go about mapping new
> housing plots in my area.
>
> In general, there is nothing on the imagery - I know I can walk the new
> streets
I have downloaded the spreadsheet and split the lat/lon column into two numeric
columns so that I can apply bounding boxes to see what there is within the
areas I have knowledge of.
Ran out of time but should get to have a look later.
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On Friday, 8 March 2019, Andy Robinson
usly it is
tagged as disused:shop.
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>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:24 David Woolley, wrote:
>
> > On 07/03/2019 09:47, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> > >
> > > Near where I am are some mapped businesses properties which have closed,
> > > primarily shops, b
Shropshire Council use GetMapping on their PROW map. It is very clear and
recent.
I would find it very useful as a mapping source.
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> Even before the Belgian local chapter was formed, some community
> member(s) wrote to AIV (F
DigitalOcean.
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t picks up anything with "school" in the name, but fails to
mark most of the city landmarks - things that are shown in their older "Street
View" data. So yes, it might work for schools - but not much else.
Cheers, Phil.
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outline.
I can also imagine looking at the distribution of heights within the
building outline and working out if it is a flat or a pitched roof.
And maybe working out which direction the ridge runs in i.e. which
wall it is parallel to.
Cheers, Phil
Chris Hill write:
On 24/09/15 18:41, Phil Endecott wrote:
Chris Hill wrote:
Suitably processed this could provide a source of building outlines.
Yes, I think it could be very useful for that. I've had a play
and rather than doing shaded relief I've just converted the height
directly
people find this for tracing compared to photo imagery?
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ng building profiles was not the objective - but
you never know how something could be re-purposed!
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They look connected, probably a school.
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not a good one.
More here
http://www.ramblers.org.uk/get-involved/join-the-big-pathwatch.aspx
Key squares here, only visible if not logged in
https://bigpathwatch.ramblers.org.uk/map-of-sample-squares
Please do sign up, and complete some squares and add to OSM at the same time.
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On Mon Jul 13 19:07:35 2015 GMT+0100, Dave F. wrote:
Curious: Why don't you think blue for motorways is acceptable?
Blue is the correct colour for motorways, I was referring to the coming carto
change where they will become orange.
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On Thu Jul 2 09:50:12 2015 GMT+0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
I’ll probably do some in Oakengates in the afternoon. I’ll know where Brian
has been by then so as not to conflict.
One thing to remember is Oakengates carnival, we will be ok in the morning but
the afternoon could be busy.
Phil
A slight correction, my number is 07983 459 531.
I will pm the Shropshire regulars who may not be on the mailing list and invite
them to join us.
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On Tue Jun 23 09:09:44 2015 GMT+0100, Brian Prangle wrote:
Hi everyone
This month's meeting will be on Saturday 4th July, so
On Wed Jun 10 20:11:31 2015 GMT+0100, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Apple collecting images for a street view competitor? Details:
http://maps.apple.com/vehicles/
I did see a tomtom streetview car in Edinburgh last August.
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under 'addr:place'?
I would say yes, people navigate by county so it is helpful. Official is just
royal mails means of delivering the mail.
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geometry
(which I don't think Open Names has).
In other respects I find Open Map Local inferior to the old
Street View map, e.g. its important buildings are very
oddly chosen.
I think the best thing in this latest release is the simplified
license.
Cheers, Phil
We can fix it, if someone hasn't beaten me to it I will fix it when I'm home.
Only have a phone right now.
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On Wed May 27 21:29:53 2015 GMT+0100, thomas van der veen wrote:
Hi,
I just did a quick update to a path in Newbury and goes through a tunnel in
a building... but my
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The quoted source of these refs is no longer available, so no easy way to
check validity.
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On Tue May 12 10:11:46 2015 GMT+0100, SomeoneElse wrote:
On 12/05/2015 09:52, Bob Kerr wrote:
On residential roads where there has been a ref= added is being
rendered
are labeled franked mail only, can you put print postage at home stuff
in a franked only box?
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, at 03:19 PM, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
On 13 April 2015 at 12:22, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote:
Came across 2 postboxes today, side
in an admin_ref tag, a sat nav
instruction to 'turn left into the U666' is very unhelpful.
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in the UK where the mapping
culture is to walk/cycle and just go and have a looksee. Well that applies to
UK culture in general, choosing to walk is not viewed with suspicion.
Imho notes offer an easy to see/navigate to and are visible in osmand.
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staff that that Castle Donnngton, Kegworth,
Measham, Moira are in Leicestershire.
Its a shame grid references are not taught in schools, they are as simple to
use and remember. They give geographic meaning, I can see instantly that SK53
lives in an area 100km east and 10km north of me.
Phil
Brian, see this thread, think it is a broken coastline.
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-August/070493.html
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On Mon Aug 18 2014 19:33:04 GMT+0100 (BST), Brian Savidge wrote:
Looking around a bit more, it looks like Stroud is also suffering problems
where
can't find an example, but I am sure there are some)
Paris (France) is Parijs in Dutch
Paris (Texas) is Paris (as far as I know)
regards
m
Newport, South Wales is Casnewydd in Welsh. Newport, Pembrokeshire is
Trefdraeth.
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Neil Pilgrim wrote:
I've used fhrs to add some data and wondered about this, though in Scotland
they didn't seem to have a rating.
My understanding is that in Scotland is it Pass / Fail, rather than stars.
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back to WGS84 when you
enter a grid reference. As a consequence, if you display their
summit positions on a not-reprojected OS map, they will be in the
wrong places.)
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if the disgnation=public_footpath/bridleway
tags on existing paths could be tidied up at the same time. Last time
I looked,
too few had these tags to be able to use them exclusively to identify footpaths,
and the other tag combinations tend to have many false positives.
Regards, Phil
that postcodes are a very goog way of delivering the mail and
are totally useless for any other purpose.
If we need a shortcode for entering an address how about a good old fashioned
grid-reference?
Phil
On 12/03/2012 10:50 Dan Avis wrote:
Hi,
Without wishing to descend into a license debate
developed a complex style to revert to a
lowest common denominator.
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, making the upstream valley a depression as far as Styal.
Unfortunately, the runway was built after the OS OpenData contours were
frozen. But maybe there are some other places like this?
Any other examples?
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Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Around
Easter 2010, IIRC, I surveyed what appeared to be a footpath in good faith:
I was then given a hard time by the landowner
about trespassing etc.
The landowner has told you that it is not a footpath. Please delete
it. (Or re-tag as private.)
Regards, Phil
) in
Ireland would cost about $6 per month for 2 hours per day.
See http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
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refs and other formats, or draw a grid over their
own maps? That sounds like legal paranoia to me (and normally, I think
I'm more cautious than most about such issues).
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map, perhaps as a bridleway, and not roadside paths
that would not be shown separately from the road itself.
One option is to look only for the footpath/bridleway tags, but that
does seem to miss some things.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Phil
criteria to distinguish these
from cross country cycle paths.
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Luke Smith wrote:
Hi Phil,
What did you use for the 3D render?
That's a screenshot from my 3D Lake District iPhone app.
The maps I've put together aren't using the VectorMap raster, so I have
the roads rendered above the paths - otherwise I'm sure things would be
all over the place
Mike Harris wrote:
What is needed in OSM for walkers - but how to
do it? (thanks to Nick and others for great work) is (a) contours and
(b) field boundaries.
Contours (nominally at 1:50,000) are included in OS OpenData.
Regards, Phil
://www.ordnancesurveyvectormap.com/meetingYourRequirements/
Styles
Black and White, Streetview, 1:10 000 Scale Raster, Standard Style 1,
Standard Style 2, Standard Style 3
What that means in terms of open availability I don't know.
Phil
OSM contributors or anyone at the O.S., anyway...)
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- Discard all edges whose ends have different heights.
- The remaining edges are the new contours.
Has anyone here ever tried to do anything like this?
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OK, I've got my tin hat on: standing by for incoming... ;-)
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, bridleway, path or track.
What can I do to improve on that?
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in practice, but I bet someone else has already found the right way
to parse these things...
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Can't quite make that one .. but it sounds great. Any chance of a YouTube'd
version appearing?
Phil
On 11 May 2010 09:51, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
Hello everyone,
In case of interest here:
There is a British Computer Society talk given by a couple of guys from
I would go the route of contacting them, and saying : Hey, have you heard
of OSM? Why don't you stick up proper streetmapping on your website showing
the routes, for free? If you donate your route data it will get added to the
map and ... ect.
I've learned that a reciprocal relationship like
I'd echo that sentiment, and say this:
Streetview is a product designed to show *streets. *Anything else is just
detail to show these in context.
It would be a huge mistake for anyone to trace topo details from StreetView
into OSM, for these reasons and more!
I do think though, that it is an
) and get some detail on, but use the best source for
tracing available; which at the moment is OS1:25k First Edition.
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The streetview announcement is FANTASTIC news for OSM in the UK - as the
database is pretty much exactly what is being built - roads / streets /
names , etc.
We can surely get this as a backdrop layer, like the Yahoo imagery?
A bulk import wouldn't be possible, as this is raster data. (Though
.
Phil
On 1 April 2010 00:47, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
On 01/04/10 00:06, Phil Monger wrote:
The streetview announcement is FANTASTIC news for OSM in the UK - as the
database is pretty much exactly what is being built - roads / streets /
names , etc.
StreetView is horrible
?) of actually getting GPS traces themselves. I wonder
if other operators would be as helpful?
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traces).
if there is a way to reveal the ID, please let me know.
Thanks,
Phil James
OJ W wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Phil James peerja...@googlemail.com wrote:
John Robert Peterson wrote:
Do we have anything that will draw map tiles of the trace data? (I'd like
this for another
for rural areas, and whilst it is possible to view the traces (if any) in
potlatch, it's a long winded way of finding out what still needs surveying.
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some of the 'new' (!974, FGS!) North Yorks/ Cumbria boundary, using the
old district boundaries - might not be perfect, but if someone knows
different...
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