[Talk-GB] Minutes and Actions: OSM UK group concall

Hi all, Circulation: "Announce", "Initial working group" and "talk-gb" We had our second OSM UK group concall today. Thanks to all who were able to join or share comments beforehand. Everything you need to is on the wiki [1] including the latest minutes and actions [2] Best regards, Rob

Re: [Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

Thanks for the offer Frederick. I'm sure we'll take you up on it. We'll collate a list of questions and nominate someone in the UK to be the sole point of contact Regards Brian On 27 January 2016 at 10:02, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/27/16 10:02, Jez Nicholson

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools project - update 3

>>* 1. Open Data Manchester *>>* Following a tweet Open Data Manchester have asked whether anyone can *>*> go and show them how to map. Looks like their next meeting is Monday *>*> February 1st, 6.30 – 8.30pm. Any volunteers? *>*> *>Have you any more information on this? I can get into Piccadilly

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

On 26/01/2016 17:19, Walter Nordmann wrote: Hi, any reason why there are only admin boundaries with admin_level=10 in Northern Ireland? No counties (AL6), no cities (AL8), no Suburbs(AL9) - nothing Ireland (the island) is normally handled as one entity in OSM, so tends to be covered by

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

Hi Walter, We don't actually have defined cities like in other parts of the world. In fact there are only 5 which are classed as cities. They are Armagh, Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, Lisburn and Newry. Historically, each city had its own council. But recently the councils have been merged

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

thx, Colin. But it can't be ok that there are no city boundaries in N-I any more. Ok, counties may be historic now, but Cities? see: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=belfast%2C ireland only result is a place-node. OMG Regards walter ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

Cities in the UK is a title awarded to a "place" by the Crown (formally). The status has to be awarded to some entity, which is usually an existing local government unit. Its boundaries are therefore inherited from the local government unit which holds the city status. Not to be confused with

Re: [Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

Does anyone know a friendly accountant? A CIC pays tax on profits just as any company does. You may have to pay corporation tax on membership fees, donations, etc. 'income' that isn't spent, aka 'trading profit'. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/ctmanual/ctm40145.htm On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 at 23:14

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

Am 26.01.2016 um 20:41 schrieb Brian Prangle: AL10 boundaries came from the OSM Ireland Project on Townlands rgds Brian No problem with this. But where are the Cities? very strange rgds walter ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: 27,232 matches found in England

Edward This looks good but doesn't seem to work well for Yorkshire and the Humber. West Yorkshire doesn't seem to be available at all, and when I select Schools (or anything else) i just get Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your

Re: [Talk-GB] Next UK chapter concall

Hi, On 01/27/16 10:02, Jez Nicholson wrote: > Does anyone know a friendly accountant? I'm sure the OSMF accountant would be willing and able to comment on these things (and as long as this just adds an hour or two to OSMF bill it would be totally ok to involve her). I can either forward a list

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

Looks like there is some open data available including 2012 districts (I think these are the 'super councils' referred to):

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools project - update 3

On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 19:38 +, Rob Nickerson wrote: > A third update on the quarterly project. > > 0. The what project? > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Projects > > 1. Open Data Manchester > Following a tweet Open Data Manchester have asked whether anyone can > go and show