Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

A while back I played with trying to create watersheds using available OSM data. Each group of waterways which interconnect (note I used st_intersects() on osm2pgsql data, not the true topological relations in way_nodes) is given a different colour. The map gives a fairly

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

On 14/03/16 21:09, Andy Townsend wrote: > There is a real benefit of having OSSV streams, ditches and drains in > though - it's often clear that a watercourse hasn't moved for years, and > it can then be used to help align imagery and GPS traces. That would be useful where the source has been prop

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

On 14/03/2016 20:50, Rob Nickerson wrote: My concern with rivers is that we don't have tools to measure progress - taginfo gives a count of nodes/ways/relations whereas we'd want total length of features per region (in miles/km). I'd agree that tracking progress with that one would be tricky.

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

My concern with rivers is that we don't have tools to measure progress - taginfo gives a count of nodes/ways/relations whereas we'd want total length of features per region (in miles/km). Would anyone on this list be able to produce an online tracking tool? *Rob* On 14 March 2016 at 20:47, Rob N

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

Thanks Brian, I've also put this on Loomio [1] because at some stage we will need to decide and I find it difficult to interpret messages on talk-gb which often provide some pro, some cons but then don't say yes/no clearly enough to judge opinion. For those interested, the healthcare data is all

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

Anything covered by FHRS has decent Open Data coverage across the country: hospitals, care homes, pharmacies. Charity Care Commission Open Data has a significant overlap with doctors, dentists, care homes, clinics etc. Both contain postcodes so one can locate things approximately, but in many cas

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

On 13/03/16 17:31, Brian Prangle wrote: > Following the extraordinary success of the Schools project we need to > decide how to proceed with the next quarter's project. > > There is a view we shoud rollover the project for another quarter so as > to approach completion. Given that there is a cle

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

It might also be worth doing some kind of survey to see what motivated participants in teh Schools project, what they liked, what they didn't like, how we could improve, how they heard of the project (if indeed some of the single editors were even aware they were being counted as part of a proje

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

For the quarterly project, would you say that we're looking for something that does all of the following?: * include/attract lots of people * improve the UK map in either accuracy or coverage * attract outside attention * be sort-of interesting to us On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 at 17:33 Brian Prangle wro

[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

Hi everyone Following the extraordinary success of the Schools project we need to decide how to proceed with the next quarter's project. There is a view we shoud rollover the project for another quarter so as to approach completion. I favour rolling it into an ongoing UK national project (simil