Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Tom Chance
On 26 March 2012 14:29, Barry Cornelius barrycorneliu...@gmail.com wrote: Although I'm only a lurker on openstreetmap and talk-gb, my understanding is that the DfT did not do this and that whoever did add HS2 to OSM would probably not want it deleted. If this is right, then maybe somebody who

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Andy Allan
On 26 March 2012 14:51, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: I'm trying to explain it all to the group members, it might help if the route were named 'Proposed HS2 route' or similar. Well, it would help if the standard layer only showed names for thing that it was otherwise drawing. But in

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Allan wrote: I'm trying to explain it all to the group members, it might help if the route were named 'Proposed HS2 route' or similar. Well, it would help if the standard layer only showed names for thing that it was otherwise drawing. But in general, I would expect to find anti-HS2

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Andy Robinson
I added the data as a proposed rail route using the DfT's published info. It's unfortunate that Mapnik renders the name on the route which is why it shows up on the default map. My original Changesets were as below: #1048624024 January, 2012 17:15 Proposed HS2 rail route (Data provided

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Andy Robinson
Thanks Tom. I've now added a note on the Facebook page too. Changing the name Tag might quieten things a bit. Better still would be not have Mapnik display the name tag at all (since its not displaying the route otherwise) so we could just move the name to another tag? Thoughts anyone?

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Andrew
Andy Allan gravitystorm@... writes: If anyone wants to investigate the changesets so far, then these two users are involved, perhaps others too: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/GMetcalfe http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/HAHS2 And http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Say%20no%20to%20HS2

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 March 2012 18:43, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tom. I’ve now added a note on the Facebook page too. All comments relating to OSM have now been deleted from the group, which carries a message saying: DO NOT add members whom you do not know or are not referred by other

Re: [Talk-GB] People wanting to remove the route of the HS2 from openstreetmap

2012-03-26 Thread Andy Robinson
User Say no to HS was just a rename from the original GMetcalfe. I've now reverted the 5 changesets from these two accounts. I'll look at changing the name tag on the HS2 data when I get a moment to avoid problems in the future. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Andrew