Re: [Talk-GB] multiple GB lists

2019-04-06 Thread Tim Waters
Hi Jez, happy to stop talk-gb-thenorth and merge it but how would I do that? it would be nice if it was kept in archived form This one has not been used for several years now - it has 60+ subscribers. Tim On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 10:13, Jez Nicholson wrote: > Demonstrating my ignorance, I

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible Unattributed Map on Labrokes Website

2019-02-08 Thread Tim Waters
I think it's Blipstar - a UK company who provide store locator tools Looking at their example map https://blipstar.com/blipstarplus/examples it seems to be the default to hide the attribution (via CSS media query) on narrower window widths Tim On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 13:31, Robert Whittaker

Re: [Talk-GB] When is a hedge a wood?

2018-08-30 Thread Tim Waters
At first look I thought this was a once-hedge, a hedge that's been left to itself. But each tree is equally spaced, looks the same age, doesn't seem pollarded or coppiced as what you might expect a tree in a hedge to be, and so I don't think that's the case now. So to my mind now, it's a fence, wi

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping horse steps?

2018-08-30 Thread Tim Waters
efer "mount" to "dismount" and it might reflect the intended purpose of it, it's easier to fall off than climb on the beasts! Going back to the wikipedia page, these block steps are not only horse specific, but could have been used to get into carts and buggies, too.

Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

2018-06-14 Thread Tim Waters
I think master map buildings could be really good for use for imagery offsets and to effectively ground truth surrounding traced features. Just property extents: perhaps okay for positioning fences, walls etc? Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Night Time Aerial Imagery?!?

2016-07-11 Thread Tim Waters
cific towns and cities, and not others - or in other words, why they captured these images in the first place. Tim On 10 July 2016 at 22:45, Grant Slater wrote: > Hi OSM-GB, > > The Environment Agency recently release a massive trove of Open Data, > which I am slowly started to proces

Re: [Talk-GB] UK OSM final articles of association

2016-06-08 Thread Tim Waters
e the elections when they all resign and new ones are elected? Regards, Tim On 7 June 2016 at 22:42, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > As noted by Brian, please find the proposed Articles of Association for the > UK OSM company: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93bS

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project (Health): Pharmacies and Defibrillators

2016-05-17 Thread Tim Waters
Are the some hospitals that do not have pharmacies? Would these be the smaller clinics, or would they be tagged differently anyhow? Tim On 15 May 2016 at 21:51, Andrew Black wrote: > I notice the list of registered pharmacies includes hospital pharmacies. > Not sure these are worth add

Re: [Talk-GB] OSGR & OSM

2016-04-05 Thread Tim Waters
ossible to click on a point and get that point in whatever coordinate system you need. Cheers, Tim On 5 April 2016 at 14:59, Stuart Reynolds wrote: > Is there a site or tool somewhere where I can click on a point on an OSM > tile and get back the OSGR? I want the quality of OSM, but need OSGR

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

2016-03-22 Thread Tim Waters
enStreetMap Project as currently supported by the OpenStreetMap Foundation Ltd" perhaps? Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter: Who will be the "we"?

2016-03-22 Thread Tim Waters
Hi Dave, I think that the "we" would be the members of the organization. Tim On 21 March 2016 at 00:40, Dave F wrote: > Hi all > > OK, this a genuine, non rhetorical, non cynical question. > > I've loosely been following the discussions of setting up a UK:chap

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

2016-02-12 Thread Tim Waters
still encountering problems. regards, Tim On 9 February 2016 at 18:44, Richard Symonds wrote: > Tim, > > A lot of these maps won't rectify, even though I've completed all the > control points. The one I've just come up with is > http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/261 - can someo

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

2016-02-09 Thread Tim Waters
://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/4 The Tiles link is http://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/tile/4/{z}/{x}/{y}.png and the WMS details can be found at http://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/4#Export_tab and of course individual maps have their own WMS and Tiles endpoints too Cheers, Tim p.s. Note that loading up a map for the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

2016-02-01 Thread Tim Waters
as control points for the maps which could be added to the warper when ready (I'd have to double check on this point though). Regards, Tim > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 at 11:51 Grant Slater > wrote: > >> On 31 January 2016 at 20:04, Richard Fairhurst >> wrote: >> &

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

2016-02-01 Thread Tim Waters
e examples on the project page) When the map has been warped in the wikimaps warper, the wiki page is edited to update the bounding box and the warped status. I think these maps have the Map template, but they may need the "warped" parameter added to them. Regards, Tim On 31

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK group - Sign up to mail lists

2015-12-21 Thread Tim Waters
Sorry if it may seem like you would be repeating yourselves from previous discussions, but I feel it could be useful to get all potential interested members on board :-) Best regards, Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

2015-09-23 Thread Tim Waters
Could subtracting between the DSM and DTM where we have buildings already in OSM give the height of the buildings? On 23 September 2015 at 15:08, Chris Hill wrote: > On 23/09/15 14:18, Phil Endecott wrote: >> >> Has anyone reviewed how useful this LIDAR data would be for 3D city >> mapping? >>

Re: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

2015-09-22 Thread Tim Waters
Ahh correction, there *is* data at 25cm and 50cm in some areas (where flooding is a threat) but it looks as if the 1m and 2m covers the country. Chris has written a post here also: http://chris-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/more-lidar-goodness.html so we're already playing with it. Tim

[Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available

2015-09-22 Thread Tim Waters
m and 2m composite DTM and 1m and 2m DSM They do intend to release a Tiled version next, and I think 50cm and 25cm are coming also What can we do with it? Cheers, Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetma

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Underground services

2015-01-20 Thread Tim Waters
oads be used to help interpolation of positions? Could we develop hand held instruments to detect various things? Does dowsing work? Can we use the markings sprayed on the pavement by utility companies to identify what's there? Cheers, Tim ___ Tal

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap ten years on, and why it's time for a fresh slate

2014-10-27 Thread Tim Saunders
What would suit me is an Android app that allowed me to see what needs to be fixed in a particular area, so that I could check some things out if I had a spare half hour in the area…..so Notes, FixMes, Musical Chairs, OSM Inspector and other GB specific stuff (e.g. post boxes, cycle routes, land

Re: [Talk-GB] Update: Deploying our own version of NYPL Building Inspector

2014-06-02 Thread Tim Waters
penHistoricalMap/building-inspector as I think that's the best place for it (not sure why I didn't do that at first, tbh) cheers, Tim On 1 June 2014 18:25, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi All, > > An update on progress deploying our own version of NYPL's historic map >

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-21 Thread Tim Waters
would update me soonish. In the meantime I suggest we go ahead with the NLS maps and see if we can get our stack up and running with those maps? Cheers, Tim On 18 May 2014 23:01, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Nice work Tim.You're right about the traced and centroid JSON files.They > do indee

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-18 Thread Tim Waters
couple of maps for a pilot area to look at. Cheers, Tim On 16 May 2014 19:57, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Thanks for you help Tim, > > The NYPL code is here: > https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector/ > > I'm assuming it's rails as that's mentioned in some of

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-16 Thread Tim Waters
I might have some time this weekend to look at the Rails side of things (that is, if no one else has made any progress) Will ping back in a couple of days Tim On 12 May 2014 21:08, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Thanks for the offer of help. Yesterday I managed to get

Re: [Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Waters
FTF > > We have a pretty good relation with NLS. Is there any interest in our > community to enquire about working with them? > > Rob > > > On 30 April 2014 15:46, Tim Waters wrote: > >> Hi Rob, >

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

2013-12-16 Thread Tim Waters
dress exists, it can be contributed to. Assuming the licenses are compatible. Tim > 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 sour

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

2013-12-15 Thread Tim Waters
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 wrote: > From: > > > http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/magistrates-crown-courts-listings-open-data-hack-event-coming/ > > "Officials fr

Re: [Talk-GB] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

2013-10-07 Thread Tim Waters
ucible as possible. It's only just getting it's feet off the ground but it's an interesting discussion anyhow, please do join! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps cheers and happy mapping! Tim On 4 October 2013 23:59, Andrew Gray wrote: > The answer is "

Re: [Talk-GB] NPE data

2013-10-07 Thread Tim Waters
ag as well! Cheers and happy mapping! Tim On 6 October 2013 18:47, Barnett, Phillip wrote: > +1 > > > -Original Message- > > From: Philip Barnes [mailto:p...@trigpoint.me.uk] > > Sent: 06 October 2013 18:42 > > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > > Subject

Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

2013-07-16 Thread Tim Waters
Thought this would be a good place to plug mapwarper.net if folks have their own images and want to upload and georeference them online. Cheers, Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Orientation of buildings from OSM in the UK

2013-04-29 Thread Tim Waters
were totalled according to their orientation, and the result plotted" http://tlatet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/what-is-going-on-here.html Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Group of croatian mappers is visiting UK

2013-01-11 Thread Tim Waters
Hi Hrvoje, this sounds great, I hope that some local mappers can meet up (I'm a little bit far away). Could you tell us a little bit more about the project? Is it being held in other countries? Are they all using OSM? cheers, Tim On 11 January 2013 10:14, Andy Robinson wrote: > Fo

Re: [Talk-GB] Multiple postcodes with the same location? And what is a Post Office?

2013-01-10 Thread Tim Saunders
This building is Royal Mail's mail centre serving the AB postcode area (although it is semi-attached to the Parcelforce depot). I have added in a bit of detail including the proper postcodes for the two buildings. The postcodes you mention will, I am sure, be non geographic codes for sort

Re: [Talk-GB] Garmin eTrex 30 - just reduced on amazon

2012-10-10 Thread Tim Waters
Nuts, I just this week got a etrex 20 for a little bit less than this. Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Gibraltar - Mapping Party?

2012-10-04 Thread Tim Waters
On 2 October 2012 22:47, Andy Robinson wrote: > > Anyway, I'll come back with more once I catch up with Roger. In the > meantime, would this idea float anyone's boat > Sounds good - also, yes to advance notice for cheaper airfares etc Tim _

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2013

2012-09-27 Thread Tim Waters
y opinion makes it a more friendly affair. I'm not sure if this is set in stone, but I think we should be prepared to run everything ourselves. Also, you should factor this in when talking with spaces - some purpose built conference venues are not used to people running things themselves (includin

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

2012-07-01 Thread Tim Saunders
I wouldn't stop somebody from recording multiple tracks as individual ways as it does reflect what you see on the ground. In stations and other areas where there are complicated track layouts it is the right thing to do (and tracing from Bing is a great resource for this). However, elsewhere I

[Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread Tim Pigden
Certainly such an endeavour would be way beyond our budget. Tim -- Tim Pigden Optrak Distribution Software Limited +44 (0)1992 517100 http://www.linkedin.com/in/timpigden http://optrak.com Optrak Distribution Software Ltd is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Company Registration No

Re: [Talk-GB] The state of Bristol in OSM

2012-01-13 Thread Tim François
Oh bummer - didn't mean to send to Talk-GB, just the local Bristol mappers! Oh well, it's out there now... Tim From: Kev js1982 To: Tim François Cc: Simon Murphy ; "talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" ; Craig Ellis ; Paul Jaggard ; Da

[Talk-GB] The state of Bristol in OSM

2012-01-13 Thread Tim François
wn local knowledge mostly, andBing and OS OpenData where appropriate. Question: is anyone else doing this? Are people waiting until April 1st to fill the gaps? I look foward to the varied opinions! Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-11 Thread Tim François
;zoom=13 The entire process took a long, long time (we're talking many hours), as the OS data is all fragmented and needs joining up. (Thinking about it I think I also did the Avon from Keynsham, through Bath and out the other side. I had a lot of spare time back then...) Tim On Sun, Dec 11, 2011

Re: [Talk-GB] Revert my changeset please

2011-12-03 Thread Tim François
Pawel, You may have seen it already, but I found the following page very useful when importing boundary data for the Bristol area: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OS_Shapefiles#1._Extract_a_civil_parish_boundary_from_the_BoundaryLine_data_set Tim On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Pawel

Re: [Talk-GB] Looking For Unconnected Cycleways

2011-08-12 Thread Tim François
Hmm, actually, may not be what you're looking for afterall - perhaps the in-built error checking features of JOSM may be better: if I remember correctly, trying to upload a changeset with ways crossing but not connected flags up a warning... Tim --- On Fri, 12/8/11, Tim François wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Looking For Unconnected Cycleways

2011-08-12 Thread Tim François
203%2C204%2C205%2C206%2C207%2C208%2C210%2C220%2C231%2C232%2C270%2C281%2C282%2C283%2C284%2C291%2C292%2C293%2C311%2C312%2C313%2C350%2C380&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=1 Check out the list of 'errors' it displays on the left hand side... Hope it's helpful, Tim --- On Fri, 12/8/

[Talk-GB] Effect of ODBL on Bristol and surrounding areas

2011-08-11 Thread Tim François
s, so apologies if I'm missing something important) Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] OSM map in the wild in Bristol

2011-07-17 Thread Tim François
Meads railway station. The main map is OS StreetView, whilst the overview map is definitely OSM! Was anyone on this list involved with this map? Congrats to all the Bristol mappers past and present! Tim (user:tm) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Ta

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

2011-06-09 Thread Tim François
Just a simple message to say that I support this idea of a bot, for all the reasons stated by previous posters. Whilst I understand the reservations of those against the bot, I personally don't believe they are relevant to this particular bot as it is described on the wiki.

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

2011-03-17 Thread Tim François
> > > - Have you considered using the Code Point Open data as a fallback in > case the > > postcode is not in OSM? It would not allow an exact address to be > pinpointed > > but it could give a link to the right area of the map with a hint to get > to > > work populating it fully. > > Yup, this

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

2011-03-16 Thread Tim François
Good work! I just tried searching based on house number and street name, and it didn't work if I didn't capitalise the first letters of the street name. Is this a feature or a bug? Tim On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Tim François wrote: > Good work! > > I just tried searc

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Tim François
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Heathrow&aq=&sll=53.482836,-2.180099&sspn=0.080494,0.222988&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Heathrow,+Hounslow,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.495653,-0.450954&spn=0.022497,0.078964&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.495681,-0.451607&panoid=gjN7Vihx-29MP9zua

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-23 Thread Tim Saunders
h GPS). I also think there is a large community of railway enthusiasts out there who have the right mindset to be drawn into OSM, if they could be engaged with an easily accesible output. Regards (Nice but) Tim Sau

Re: [Talk-GB] Street name disagreement - whose right or wrong?

2010-12-26 Thread Tim Francois
As others have said, I use whatever is actually on the roadsign above anything else, even if a variety of other resources disagree. Reason? I use the maps for a sat nav, and actual real-world road names are far more useful... On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:19 PM, David Earl wrote: > On Sunday, 26 Dece

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 'sticking' in Bristol

2010-12-23 Thread Tim Francois
n Ubuntu 10.04, Chromium 8.0.552.224 and whatever the latest Flash is from the adobe flash player. Tim On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Dave F. wrote: > > It appears that it could be the volume of entities as when I pan in to >> the centre from more rural are

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 'sticking' in Bristol

2010-12-23 Thread Tim Francois
I've just had a go (I tend to use JOSM, but am in Bristol), and it sticks for me too. Vista with Firefox 3.6.13 Tim On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Laurence Penney wrote: > I've had exactly the same problem in Bristol recently. Latest Safari on > latest Mac OS. > > - L

Re: [Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits

2010-10-29 Thread Tim Francois
Thomas, Check out these links on the OSM maxspeed wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maxspeed#Services <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maxspeed#Services>This should help, I think... Tim On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:22 PM, thomas van der veen < th.vanderv...@gmail.com>

[Talk-GB] Volunteers wanted to lead mapping party with MapAction, Swindon, Nov 20/21

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Waters
Sent on behalf of the HOT and Mikel, we're looking for 2 people to go - this should be a great day, and useful for both us and them :) Hi Are you interested to lead an OSM mapping party with MapAction on November 20/21, at their weekend training near Swindon? MapAction is UK NGO that deploys GI

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] oslVosm, OpenData Locator 2010 data and not:name

2010-10-04 Thread Tim Francois
sm/ not_name.zip - I got grep to also provide the line immediately before and after the k="not:name" instance for some context.) Tim On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Peter Miller wrote: > great news. > > Regarding the not:name tag at the OS, I think we need to be a bit patien

[Talk-GB] oslVosm, OpenData Locator 2010 data and not:name

2010-10-03 Thread Tim Francois
use interface, use Robert's excellent Musical Chairs [2] web interface or ITOs slippy map layer in Potlatch or JOSM [3]. Cheers Tim [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OslVosm [2] http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map and http:/

Re: [Talk-GB] OS 10k file name problem

2010-09-23 Thread Tim Francois
I'm not sure I understand - most code languages allow some form of case-insensitive working, don't they? On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > Since it would seem that OS are not going to fix the file name problem with > the 10k image files, has anybody made a start on correctin

[Talk-GB] Volo TV in FGW trains with OpenStreetMap data

2010-09-12 Thread Tim Francois
omeone before them already has) - so if you have a stop every 5 minutes, they you're sorted!! Anyway, this isn't really much of an OSM type email - just thought some might be interested! Tim [1] http://opengeodata.org/openstreetmap-data-is-o

Re: [Talk-GB] Reporting Errors to OS - Feedback

2010-08-12 Thread Tim Francois
ight be too strong-a word, depending on how many people actually pass on errors to OS... Tough call... Tim On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Ed Avis wrote: > Tim Francois writes: > > >Just thought I'd share some feedback of my experience of reporting errors > in > >the OS

[Talk-GB] Reporting Errors to OS - Feedback

2010-08-12 Thread Tim Francois
to the OSM Catalog of Errors ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Catalog_of_Errors). However, now I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do anymore - once it gets fixed in OS, shouldn't we be taking down the error from the Catalog? Cheers Tim

Re: [Talk-GB] Data from http://www.cwgc.org/

2010-08-11 Thread Tim François
Marc - "agree to use for GPS" is niet hetzelfde als "agree to use for OSM". I would suggest that Ranald had no problem with you (or anyone else) uploading the data to a gps device. Unfortunately, this is not equivalent to a blanket permission to use the data in OSM. Tim

Re: [Talk-GB] Data from http://www.cwgc.org/

2010-08-11 Thread Tim François
hassling Ranald? Thanks,Tim --- On Wed, 11/8/10, Marc Coevoet wrote: From: Marc Coevoet Subject: [Talk-GB] Data from http://www.cwgc.org/ To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Date: Wednesday, 11 August, 2010, 9:23 Hello, One morning I went to the local office of CWGC in Ypres, and asked if they had loc

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-09 Thread Tim François
>>Dave F. said  >>And, as Tim F., points outs - there's no need to display correct info >>(green) at all. >I disagree and find these useful.  It is often the case that part of a road >has been named >correctly and parts incorrectly.  The green boxes are very >

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-09 Thread Tim François
correct' green squares/circles - surely that's just wasting resources for the average user? Obviously, if you're just aiming to reach programmers and power users, then leave as-is! Thanks Tim --- On Sun, 8/8/10, Robert Scott wrote: From: Robert Scott Subject: Re: [Talk-GB]

Re: [Talk-GB] Definitive source for UK streetnames? - OS, 'road name signs', or a council 'list'?

2010-08-06 Thread Tim François
ve of what the 'correct' name is. I've once come across two conflicting street signs at either end of the road, and decided to use the one which was the same as the OS Locator and StreetView data. What authorities do, I have no idea. As I say, I wasn't answering the question.

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Francois
Tm#Bristol_-_Missing_Roads. PM or email me if you have any questions about this or OSM in general For more information about all of the clever stuff behind the musical chairs script, go to: http://humanleg.org.uk/code/oslmusicalchairs/ Tim On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, a_snail wrote: > Hi everyo

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Francois
I kid!! On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Robert Scott wrote: > On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Tim Francois wrote: > > My question still stands about the fact that there are LOADS of roads > with > > the same name in OSL and OSM but are being flagged by a bright green > > rectangl

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Francois
adn't yet had time to disappear. My question still stands about the fact that there are LOADS of roads with the same name in OSL and OSM but are being flagged by a bright green rectangle. Why is this? Or is this part of the bug indicated in previous email? Thanks Tim On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Francois
ack to it and the small circles are turning into rectangles) Is there a page with a legend that I can refer to? Also, how often is this data updated these days? Thanks Tim On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Robert Scott wrote: > On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dave F. wrote: > > What&#

Re: [Talk-GB] Bristol - a quick (and surprising?) statistic...

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Francois
OSL data. So far, I've re-surveyed around 50 roads or so, and found all but 2 to be errors in OSM - I've logged the errors in the Catalog if anyone's interested. Thanks Tim On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Richard Moss wrote: > > > > On 23 July 2010, Tim François wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] Bristol - a quick (and surprising?) statistic...

2010-07-25 Thread Tim François
te if it aligns with the OSL data. However, I use the maps with Navit (for sat-nav), so having the streets and names in there are more important to me than perhaps to others. Each to their own! How about 'street-complete' for another term? That probably doesn't cut it either...

[Talk-GB] NaPTAN import for Bournemouth

2010-06-27 Thread Tim Waugh
aPTAN/Request_for_Import wiki page? Should I request active tagging? Not sure what the pros and cons are. I don't want to step on anyone's toes! Tim. */ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Comparing OS data

2010-06-15 Thread Tim François
--- On Tue, 15/6/10, Ed Avis wrote: ...If tracing them I will usually mark them as highway=unclassified or =residential (guessed based on surrounding area) and allow the nonames checks to pick them up for later surveying. You can kill two birds with one stone here: trace from the OS StreetView l

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes

2010-06-14 Thread Tim François
he street signs during a survey? Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes

2010-06-13 Thread Tim François
Agreed - might as well mop up the anomalies (St/Saint, apostrophes etc) as we go along this first time round. --- On Sun, 13/6/10, Chris Hill wrote: If I'm going out to check some anomalies, it would be very annoying to have to go out to the same area again in six months time to repeat the pr

Re: [Talk-GB] Contacting OS about errors in their data

2010-06-09 Thread Tim Francois
adding the anomaly to the wiki and marking it fixed will potentially be very long, but I guess it'll have to do for now! Tim On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 17:33 +0100, Peter Miller wrote: > On 9 Jun 2010, at 16:57, Craig Loftus wrote: > > > Perhaps OS would be good enough to edit th

Re: [Talk-GB] Contacting OS about errors in their data

2010-06-09 Thread Tim Francois
Thanks for all the responses guys. Here's what I did. 1) email OS [1] with details of the errors. 2.a) Add the errors to wiki [2]. 2.b) Included note in the description explaining that an email has been sent to OS. I'll update the note as and when I get information back from OS. Than

[Talk-GB] Contacting OS about errors in their data

2010-06-08 Thread Tim François
All, There was discussion recently about letting OS know when we find an error in their data. I fully support this, and have found a few errors already. Question: what's the best way to contact them? Do we have a contact within OS to which we can pass details to? Thank

[Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO

2010-06-07 Thread Tim Francois
discrepancies because it doesn't use the OSL bounding box, only the OSL road centroid. I'll be using both to mop up the area! Tim I've just been having a go with the ITO layer and the results from the oslVosm script, and there are some discrepancies between the two: namely, the ITO t

[Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO

2010-06-06 Thread Tim Francois
road names are in Bath). Is there a reason for these missing missing-roads? Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Project of the week - trace a village off of OSSV?

2010-06-06 Thread Tim François
If you are tracing from StreetView please, please, please properly source your ways: source=OS_OpenData_StreetView http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#Attributing_OS Tim --- On Sun, 6/6/10, Kai Krueger wrote: From: Kai Krueger Subject: [Talk-GB] UK Project of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Offsets between OS and OSM data (was Building with mapseg)

2010-05-30 Thread Tim François
So... I take that to mean that I should really be using the correct *.prj file, rather than gdal's inbuilt datum? Tim --- On Sun, 30/5/10, Jerry Clough - OSM wrote: From: Jerry Clough - OSM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Offsets between OS and OSM data (was Building with mapseg) To: ta

Re: [Talk-GB] Offsets between OS and OSM data (was Building with mapseg)

2010-05-30 Thread Tim François
By the way, which method are people using to re-project the VectorDistrict data? I'm using the inbuilt datum in gdal - is anyone using the correct *.prj file, and is there a difference? Tim --- On Sun, 30/5/10, Chris Hill wrote: From: Chris Hill Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Offsets between O

[Talk-GB] Offsets between OS and OSM data (was Building with mapseg)

2010-05-30 Thread Tim François
positions in StreetView by about 10 metres. I guess this is an expected artifact of the reprojection methods? Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View, with code

2010-05-28 Thread Tim François
Thanks for that - I don't use Potlatch, but the amazing array of shortcuts for everything astounds me every time: some good work by the author! --- On Fri, 28/5/10, Graham Stewart wrote: From: Graham Stewart Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View, with code To:

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View, with code

2010-05-28 Thread Tim François
p.org Date: Friday, 28 May, 2010, 11:31 Ask Richard F! From: Tim François To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org; Jerry Clough - OSM Sent: Fri, 28 May, 2010 11:20:10 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View, with code ...any reason why no underscores with Potlatch? --- On Fri, 28/5

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View, with code

2010-05-28 Thread Tim François
...any reason why no underscores with Potlatch? --- On Fri, 28/5/10, Jerry Clough - OSM wrote: From: Jerry Clough - OSM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View, with code To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Date: Friday, 28 May, 2010, 11:15 Potlatch's "b" option will place "source

Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View, with code

2010-05-28 Thread Tim François
For a final source tag (i.e. the verified buildings) shouldn't we be using source=OS_OpenData_StreetView as noted in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#When_tracing_over_OS_StreetView --- On Fri, 28/5/10, Roy Jamison wrote: From: Roy Jamison Subject: Re: [Ta

[Talk-GB] OS Locator - another comparison script

2010-05-21 Thread Tim François
OSLocator_Comparison Thanks, Tim P.S. If anyone was using my previous scripts which I'd put up on the wiki, I strongly recommend switching to oslVosm as it's far more robust! Up to you though...! ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator / OSM correspondence list generation

2010-05-14 Thread Tim François
For something that can be imported to editors, why not generate a GPX file? JOSM loads these natively. Or am I missing something...? Also, I'm interested in the speed of your script: how long does it take to process the entire GB.osm? Tim --- On Thu, 13/5/10, Robert Scott wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Locator / OSM correspondence list generation

2010-05-13 Thread Tim François
'd suggest copy/pasting your blog post into the wiki once the code is in a releasable state - I'm excited to see the results! Tim --- On Thu, 13/5/10, Robert Scott wrote: From: Robert Scott Subject: [Talk-GB] OS Locator / OSM correspondence list generation To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.o

[Talk-GB] Using OS Shapefiles

2010-05-11 Thread Tim Francois
Chris Any chance of providing some command snippets for using gdal's ogr2ogr for us plebs who've never used it? I do not understand the man page whatsoever!! Thanks Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstr

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping progress in Surrey Heath

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Francois
the area of my previous residence, adding some green areas and leisure facilities, and re-aligning some paths which I'd added from gps traces. No doubt the aerial imagery is a very useful! Tim _ From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Markers on StreetView maps

2010-05-06 Thread Tim François
hat point. Is there a way this can be done with the two sites above? Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=15&mlat=51.61547&mlon=-1.77658 Thanks Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView

2010-05-05 Thread Tim Francois
happy to stick with the rules! Cheers Tim -Original Message- From: craiglof...@gmail.com [mailto:craiglof...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Craig Loftus Sent: 05 May 2010 14:43 To: Tim Francois Cc: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView > Follow the street sign. Thi

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView

2010-05-05 Thread Tim Francois
Just to be clear, we were originally talking about St-as-in-Saint! Tim -Original Message- From: Richard Mann [mailto:richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com] Sent: 05 May 2010 12:17 To: Tim Francois Cc: Craig Loftus; talk-gb OSM List (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView

2010-05-05 Thread Tim Francois
neral consensus on this? Also, apologies for suggesting you walked anywhere...!! ;) Tim -Original Message- From: craiglof...@gmail.com [mailto:craiglof...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Craig Loftus Sent: 05 May 2010 11:56 To: Tim Francois Cc: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OS Open

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