[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Thursday

2011-02-02 Thread Iain Simpson
Sorry I won't be able to attend. I'm having fun with Maperative - easy to use and good looking results Iain ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-02-02 Thread Grant Slater
On 26 January 2011 18:02, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 26 January 2011 17:58, m902 m902@gmail.com wrote: http://os.openstreetmap.org/data/ is timing out for me. This has happened frequently over the past couple of weeks. Then an hour or so later it's OK again.

[Talk-GB] pay_scale_area

2011-02-02 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi, I am presently doing some tracing in Dumfries and there is a way which is marked public_transport=pay_scale_area. It is part of a Naptan import. The area seems to be vague and is cutting across a number of areas where I am doing some detailed work. Is there a good reason that this should

Re: [Talk-GB] pay_scale_area

2011-02-02 Thread Ed Loach
Hi Bob, I’ve a similar one around here – I just ignore it, though the rendering of the name at random places in Mapnik is a minor annoyance, and that the side which should follow the coast is a straight line so cuts off much off the actual area makes it seem less than useful. Presumably

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-02-02 Thread Gregory
It looks like you cleaned up the server room too. ;) http://opengeodata.org/mapquest-supports-openstreetmap On 2 February 2011 10:30, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 26 January 2011 18:02, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 26 January 2011 17:58, m902

Re: [Talk-GB] pay_scale_area

2011-02-02 Thread SK%3
The pay-scale areas are in principle useful, but their quality varies significantly. Mostly they correspond to the area used with the PlusBus scheme (add on day bus tickets which can be bought with a train ticket), but the ones I'm familiar with correspond to general day ticket zones. The

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-02-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/02/11 13:45, Chris Moss wrote: I've been finding that the data presentation when editing with Potlach2 has been very variable in the last 2 or 3 days and it's continuing. On a number of occasions certain ways have not been downloaded for 10 or even 30 minutes. Consequently I've added

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Moss
Thank you Tom, can you tell me a little more as I'm a newbie. The only thing I can find on the wiki is the developer's FAQ: I've been blocked from the API for downloading too much. Now what? Our API is mainly intended for the use of map editor software. It is not suitable for

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-02-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/02/11 15:31, Chris Moss wrote: Is this what you're referring to, or something else? What is time limit on it? 1 hour, 24 hours, what? It's essentially a rate limit - it allows you to download data continuously at a certain rate, but with an ability to burst for a period of time.

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-02-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/02/11 15:50, Tom Hughes wrote: On 02/02/11 15:31, Chris Moss wrote: Is this what you're referring to, or something else? What is time limit on it? 1 hour, 24 hours, what? It's essentially a rate limit - it allows you to download data continuously at a certain rate, but with an

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-02-02 Thread Grant Slater
On 2 February 2011 15:31, Chris Moss mosch...@googlemail.com wrote: Thank you Tom, can you tell me a little more as I'm a newbie. The only thing I can find on the wiki is the developer's FAQ: I've been blocked from the API for downloading too much. Now what? Our API is mainly intended for

[Talk-GB] Reminder West Mids OSM social tomorrow (Thur)

2011-02-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Reminder that our next West Mids social in Birmingham is tomorrow night (Thur 3rd Feb) at The Bull. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia for details. We had an excellent showing last month so hoping to see everyone again tomorrow, oh and I'll try to remember to turn up on time ;-)

Re: [Talk-GB] pay_scale_area

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Miller
I see little value in keeping this data. As people have already said the quality is poor and relevance to osm is limited. If people want it for a specialist application then they can integrate it separately into their final application. Indeed, I wonder if anyone has every used this data as it

Re: [Talk-GB] pay_scale_area

2011-02-02 Thread Kevin Peat
I don't think this data serves any useful purpose. The polygon for my area cut right across the middle of arbitrary areas so I deleted it a long time ago. I've never had any feedback on that so assume no-one was using it. Kevin On 2 February 2011 10:40, Bob Kerr

Re: [Talk-GB] pay_scale_area

2011-02-02 Thread Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM
On 02/02/2011 13:39, Richard Mann wrote: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:51 PM, SK%3 sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk mailto:sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ... this information is needed and is currently poorly communicated: see if you can obtain a leaflet showing the edge of the fare zone with any

Re: [Talk-GB] Waterways Map (was invisible)

2011-02-02 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Folks, Thanks to Chris for reminding me, I have updated my canals / waterways map - it should now be up to date as of the early hours of this morning ( http://maps.webhop.net/canals). It looks like good progress from the last update - much more like a network now, but there are still some

[Talk-GB] Adding a further 250,000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Miller
ITO have been offering a service to compare osm road names with os locator road names for a while now[1] which has encouraged a lot of activity - and has even led to Andy to obsession.[2] I have also suffered from a bout of urgent mapping myself while completing all of Suffolk to 95% in the past