[Talk-GB] Sheffield Pub Meeting June 2019

2019-03-19 Thread SK53
After a discussion in the pub tonight, we are proposing to return to Sheffield for a notional East Midlands pub meeting in June. The date will be Tuesday 18th June, venue to be determined. We will end up in the Sheffield Tap at the station to enable those of us from further South to have clean

Re: [Talk-GB] Measuring building height

2019-03-19 Thread Warin
On 20/03/19 07:51, Neil Matthews wrote: So, I just tried this and I think it has a reasonable chance of giving a reasonable result. Take a photo of a car outside the building. Measure number of pixels for the car and number of pixels for the building and the height can be approximated by:

Re: [Talk-GB] Measuring building height

2019-03-19 Thread Neil Matthews
So, I just tried this and I think it has a reasonable chance of giving a reasonable result. Take a photo of a car outside the building. Measure number of pixels for the car and number of pixels for the building and the height can be approximated by:     building_pixels / car_pixels *

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Summer programme of meetings

2019-03-19 Thread Brian Prangle
As usual we travel around the region in the summer, improving the map away from our usual haunts. April- usual evening - Alcester- Rob to find a pub May - usual evening - Coventry - Rob to pick an area June - Saturday TBA - Wombourne July- usual evening- Bromsgrove Aug- Saturday TBA- Southam Sep

Re: [Talk-GB] Measuring building height

2019-03-19 Thread Tony Shield
Hi Been figuring out how to do this for a while - my solution- rule - I used 30cm (aka 1 foot), calculator, known length of arm - in my case .6m, OSM map to measure distance from target. With hand holding rule vertically measure the target height against the rule for rule height, this is

[Talk-GB] Nottingham (& Edinburgh) pub meetings tonight

2019-03-19 Thread SK53
Just a reminder that we are in the Lincolnshire Poacher tonight. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup Jerry ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Measuring building height

2019-03-19 Thread Brian Prangle
There are also theodolite apps for smartphones On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, 00:17 Rob Nickerson, wrote: > For building heights why not try using a laser measure? Those with a > Pythagoras Measurement mode should automate the calculations for you. > > Price has fallen a lot over the years. Seems like