Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Hughes
On 25/10/11 13:22, Ed Loach wrote: So if I, or someone else, writes something that parses the car parks GML into OSM format tagging, is there someone and/or somewhere it could be uploaded it to for people to use, do you know? If so then I might look at a wiki page to discuss the mapping(s). They

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Ed Loach
> As for the potlatch 2 code, it's worth clarifying that both the > merging code (in potlatch2) and the serverside code for accessing it > per-bbox [1] only deals with OSM format data, not GML. The work > for > converting it from GML into .osm is contracted to the people who > actually understand t

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ed Loach wrote: >> I've been working on some features in Potlatch 2 so that we can >> inspect, consider and merge the cycling data attributes into OSM > on >> a >> street-by-street basis. > > I've just been looking at the cycle data. While the dataset is > licence

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 October 2011 12:11, Andy Allan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Loach wrote: > >> Is anyone looking at the car parks data in a similar method to the cycle >> data as mentioned in the cyclestreets blog post? I've downloaded it, but I'm >> guessing it needs something to parse it

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Hughes
On 25/10/11 12:12, Andy Allan wrote: Gah, now that I look at the actual carpark data instead of just looking at the telegraph's map, there's not actually any coordinates in the dataset at all. Silly me. Yes there are: Entrance 4

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Andy Allan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andy Allan wrote: > >> Not that I'm aware of. From the ones I've seen so far, the geocoding >> isn't exactly great for them, so I suspect they've been geocoded using >> the address or postcode. > > Gah, now th

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Ed Loach
> I've been working on some features in Potlatch 2 so that we can > inspect, consider and merge the cycling data attributes into OSM on > a > street-by-street basis. I've just been looking at the cycle data. While the dataset is licenced as OGL (or as the metadata says "Crown Copyright with data.

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andy Allan wrote: > Not that I'm aware of. From the ones I've seen so far, the geocoding > isn't exactly great for them, so I suspect they've been geocoded using > the address or postcode. Gah, now that I look at the actual carpark data instead of just looking a

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Loach wrote: > Is anyone looking at the car parks data in a similar method to the cycle > data as mentioned in the cyclestreets blog post? I've downloaded it, but I'm > guessing it needs something to parse it and reproject it. Not that I'm aware of. From the

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Ed Loach
Andy wrote: > Some of you might have seen mention of new datasets being > released > (today, apparently, but I can't find them yet) by the DfT > >