Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Bivand
As this has dropped off the active thread list a bit. I'd broadly agree with this, though I'm more corporate sponsors than members. My feeling on responding with a greater emphasis on community rather than techy stuff was that those OSM discussions I've been to (mapping parties in Gravesend,

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-13 Thread Dudley Ibbett
scratch. Regards Dudley Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:18:50 +0100 From: bpran...@gmail.com To: rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com CC: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results Seeing as the survey put technical stuff like a new render low on the priority list ( it got

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-10 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 6 August 2015 at 22:07, Antje map...@minoa.li wrote: Forking the map style with stronger British road colours and then getting that forked road style onto the main site once the default style goes “international”. I think a UK-specific style should be a priority for a UK OSM group as

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
On 10/08/15 19:39, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: I think a UK-specific style should be a priority for a UK OSM group as well, and I'm a bit surprised it didn't get more support in the survey. I don't think it was very clear just what the problem was. I've got the database sync running

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-07 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/6/2015 2:07 PM, Antje wrote: Forking the map style with stronger British road colours and then getting that forked road style onto the main site once the default style goes “international”. After all, we didn’t call it “open” for nothing! I'd approach this with caution, for two reasons

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-07 Thread Mark Goodge
On 07/08/2015 10:02, Paul Norman wrote: On 8/6/2015 2:07 PM, Antje wrote: Forking the map style with stronger British road colours and then getting that forked road style onto the main site once the default style goes “international”. After all, we didn’t call it “open” for nothing! I'd

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-07 Thread Lester Caine
On 07/08/15 10:28, Mark Goodge wrote: Just an (anec)data point here. One of OSM's strongest selling points among the ordinary (non-map-geek) web community in the UK at the moment is the fact that, unlike Google, it uses the correct colours for roads. Google's own change to the orange-and-grey

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-07 Thread Dave F.
On 07/08/2015 10:02, Paul Norman wrote: On 8/6/2015 2:07 PM, Antje wrote: Forking the map style with stronger British road colours and then getting that forked road style onto the main site once the default style goes “international”. After all, we didn’t call it “open” for nothing! I'd

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-07 Thread Brian Prangle
Seeing as the survey put technical stuff like a new render low on the priority list ( it got one of the lowest strongly agree scores) lets refocus on the community stuff that the survey indicated should be more of a priority. A new UK render should be a separate task and discussion in my opinion.

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, It's been a few days since I posted the results of the UK OpenStreetMap group survey. If you've had any thoughts on what the first 100 days of this organisation would look like then I'd love to hear them. For example, what initiatives should we focus on first? How can we tackle those

Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-06 Thread Antje
Forking the map style with stronger British road colours and then getting that forked road style onto the main site once the default style goes “international”. After all, we didn’t call it “open” for nothing! Amaroussi On 6 Aug 2015, at 21:00, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:

[Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Thank you for taking the time to fill out the A UK OpenStreetMap group? survey. In the 3 weeks since the survey first opened we received a total of 101 responses. This is a great response rate and indicates that many people are interested in the prospect of such a group. So what do the