Re: [Talk-GB] Ward Boundaries

2010-05-04 Thread wynndale
> > Both started with ways tagged as boundary=administrative admin_level=10, > but I changed at least some of the Broxtowe ones to boundary=political as > I know of at least some ward boundaries which are NOT contiguous with > Civil Parish boundaries. > Is it more useful to define constituency an

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward Boundaries

2010-05-04 Thread Tom Hughes
On 04/05/10 19:04, Chris Hill wrote: > The BoundaryLine electoral boundaries are out-of-date. The new > boundaries will be published just after the current election - another > example of the helpful OS. They've been released actually, though not announced - that may be because of the election i

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward Boundaries

2010-05-04 Thread Chris Hill
James Rutter wrote: > ...been tidying up the Surrey Heath district boundary now that we can > do what we want with Boundaryline. Anyone got any advice for ward > boundaries...can't find much at all on the wiki? What's the > admin_level for ward or has it not been defined yet? What's the deal >

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward Boundaries

2010-05-04 Thread Jerry Clough - OSM
are of some use. Cheers, Jerry From: James Rutter To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tue, 4 May, 2010 17:34:46 Subject: [Talk-GB] Ward Boundaries ...been tidying up the Surrey Heath district boundary now that we can do what we want with Boundaryline

[Talk-GB] Ward Boundaries

2010-05-04 Thread James Rutter
...been tidying up the Surrey Heath district boundary now that we can do what we want with Boundaryline. Anyone got any advice for ward boundaries...can't find much at all on the wiki? What's the admin_level for ward or has it not been defined yet? What's the deal with the left and right tags I'm s

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

2007-11-28 Thread Abigail Brady
On Nov 28, 2007 11:25 AM, Stephen Gower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried taking a trace of St Michael at the Northgate's ceremony > this year, but since we spent much of the time walking through > buildings (pubs, Marks and Spencer, Colleges), the trace itself > wasn't up to much! > > > ht

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

2007-11-28 Thread Stephen Gower
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:00:27PM +, OJW wrote: > > A related question might be: what if you followed some procession around the > boundary that is intended to be public... > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A805871 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_the_bounds I tried taking a trace

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

2007-10-29 Thread OJW
On Sunday 28 October 2007 15:49:51 Tom Higgy wrote: > I'm about to go out and help deliver some neighbourhood forum leaflets > in our ward. Although my dad is using the maps, I'm not and am going on > where he says the boundaries are. If I use the trace (filtered, of > course!) to see where our war

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

2007-10-28 Thread Tom Higgy
I think they are, Steve. I'm about to go out and help deliver some neighbourhood forum leaflets in our ward. Although my dad is using the maps, I'm not and am going on where he says the boundaries are. If I use the trace (filtered, of course!) to see where our ward boundary is, does that consti

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

2007-10-18 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Coast wrote: > no No to which parts? I expect you mean "No we can't use the maps", not "no the maps are not copyright". :-) I expect that the best way for us to get ward boundaries is if we ask councils for lists of roads / houses in each ward.

Re: [Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Coast
no they're probably from http://www.election-maps.co.uk/ On 18 Oct 2007, at 13:05, Tom Higgy wrote: > Hi folks, > > For my dad's campaigning for the local branch of a certain major > political party, he has maps of local Birmingham ward boundaries. > > I've asked him about these and he says th

[Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

2007-10-18 Thread Tom Higgy
Hi folks, For my dad's campaigning for the local branch of a certain major political party, he has maps of local Birmingham ward boundaries. I've asked him about these and he says the maps themselves are copyrighted but the ward boundaries are public since "people need to know them." Is this