Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread David Woolley
On 15/11/17 13:18, Adam Snape wrote: Interesting, but if your interpretation of the law regarding red/green distinctions is correct, why do the majority of road road atlases on sale and most maps (both open and proprietary) supplied by Ordnance Survey maintain the red/green colouring? OS

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread Adam Snape
Interesting, but if your interpretation of the law regarding red/green distinctions is correct, why do the majority of road road atlases on sale and most maps (both open and proprietary) supplied by Ordnance Survey maintain the red/green colouring? Incidentally, my father is red/green colour

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread Dave F
On 15/11/2017 12:15, Dave F wrote: I thought the French rendering showed an aligned zebra crossing, but it appears to have been rescinded. Anyone know why? Correction, it does. Two in fact. The grey zebra (uncontrolled & the man crossing a zebra to the left on Corn St.(traffic_signals)

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread Dave F
On 15/11/2017 11:25, Andy Townsend wrote: (somewhat belatedly, re crossings) On 02/11/2017 15:42, Dave F wrote: Apologies, forgot to permalink. Try: https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=20=51.3779057=-2.35836 Yes, the way these are shown is a bit rubbish. I'm assuming

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread David Woolley
On 15/11/17 01:53, Gervase Markham wrote: Can we please have blue motorways and green A-roads?:-) Or do people not like green A-roads because so many other things are green? Whilst the OSM map renderings probably fall in a grey area, between public services and private hobby, for any map

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread Andy Townsend
(somewhat belatedly, re crossings) On 02/11/2017 15:42, Dave F wrote: Apologies, forgot to permalink. Try: https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=20=51.3779057=-2.35836 Yes, the way these are shown is a bit rubbish.  I'm assuming that it's not possible to render a symbol for

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread Andy Townsend
On 15/11/2017 07:48, Adam Snape wrote: Most map users don't understand the distinction between primary (green) and non-primary (red) A-roads so I understand why not all maps use it. Since OSM makes this distinction anyway it makes sense to use the standard uk green/red colour scheme in the UK

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-15 Thread Lester Caine
On 15/11/17 07:48, Adam Snape wrote: > Most map users don't understand the distinction between primary (green) > and non-primary (red) A-roads so I understand why not all maps use it. > Since OSM makes this distinction anyway it makes sense to use the > standard uk green/red colour scheme in the

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-14 Thread Adam Snape
Most map users don't understand the distinction between primary (green) and non-primary (red) A-roads so I understand why not all maps use it. Since OSM makes this distinction anyway it makes sense to use the standard uk green/red colour scheme in the UK map. Adam On 15 Nov 2017 1:54 a.m.,

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-14 Thread Gervase Markham
On 30/10/17 01:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Would also be good to see a few suggestions for features. Can we please have blue motorways and green A-roads? :-) Or do people not like green A-roads because so many other things are green? Gerv ___

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-02 Thread Andy Townsend
On 11/02/17 14:21, Dave F wrote: On 02/11/2017 13:25, Andy Townsend wrote: On 11/02/17 13:02, Dave F wrote: It's great pedestrian crossings are rendered, but the icon gets swallowed by the road way. I'd probably need to see an example of that - any chance of a permalink?  It's

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map: abandoned railways may still have bridges.

2017-11-02 Thread Paul Berry
Michael, Yes, I stand corrected: the tracks have been lifted here but everything else is very visible. The old (< 2015) rendering of the Standard Layer (which was until recently available on http://tile.openstreetmap.fr and perhaps still is elsewhere) did show this feature. Andy, I'm loath to

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-02 Thread Dave F
On 02/11/2017 13:25, Andy Townsend wrote: On 11/02/17 13:02, Dave F wrote: It's great pedestrian crossings are rendered, but the icon gets swallowed by the road way. I'd probably need to see an example of that - any chance of a permalink? It's supposed to render on top (albeit small),

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map: abandoned railways may still have bridges.

2017-11-02 Thread Michael Booth
Assuming you are talking about this way: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/201674137 Nothing to do with disused=yes - it's not rendered because it's marked as railway=abandoned, which is the correct way to tag a former railway line where the tracks have been lifted but the route is still

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map: abandoned railways may still have bridges.

2017-11-02 Thread Andy Townsend
On 11/02/17 13:43, Paul Berry wrote: Thirded. Examples abound but an egregious one, in this context, is the south side of Leeds City Centre where you have the Holbeck Viaduct with its 92 brick arches 3 stories high marching across the urban landscape. An extremely visible structure in

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map: abandoned railways may still have bridges.

2017-11-02 Thread Paul Berry
Thirded. Examples abound but an egregious one, in this context, is the south side of Leeds City Centre where you have the Holbeck Viaduct with its 92 brick arches 3 stories high marching across the urban landscape. An extremely visible structure in reality but rendered invisible on all the main

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map: abandoned railways may still have bridges.

2017-11-02 Thread Philip Barnes
On 2 November 2017 13:23:53 GMT+00:00, ael wrote: >On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:02:13PM +, Dave F wrote: >> > >> > o Another is railways - I'm guessing you'd want to remove the >rendering >> > of dismantled railways, and also possibly abandoned ones, > >But please

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map railway bridges

2017-11-02 Thread ael
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:02:13PM +, Dave F wrote: > > of dismantled railways, and also possibly abandoned ones, > > I agree with removing all of the above, except where they're co-tagged with > objects which still exist ie disused bridges: >

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-02 Thread Andy Townsend
On 11/02/17 13:02, Dave F wrote: It's great pedestrian crossings are rendered, but the icon gets swallowed by the road way. I'd probably need to see an example of that - any chance of a permalink?  It's supposed to render on top (albeit small), but it may be I've missed something and

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map: abandoned railways may still have bridges.

2017-11-02 Thread ael
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:02:13PM +, Dave F wrote: > > > > o Another is railways - I'm guessing you'd want to remove the rendering > > of dismantled railways, and also possibly abandoned ones, But please render existing bridges: these are quite common in Cornwall and are highly significant

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-02 Thread Dave F
On 30/10/2017 17:34, Andy Townsend wrote: On 30/10/2017 08:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote: As you may know, the plan is to produce a UK specific OSM mapping site. A start on this has been made here: http://www.free-map.org.uk/osmuk/ using a fork of SomeoneElse (Andy)'s cartography with one

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-02 Thread Andy Townsend
On 11/02/17 10:32, David Woolley wrote: On 31/10/17 19:04, Bob Hawkins wrote: 2. Permissive paths: I do not understand “/permissive paths need showing/ I hope this means distinguishing from public ones, rather than that they are currently not rendered! They'll currently appear like the

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-02 Thread David Woolley
On 31/10/17 19:04, Bob Hawkins wrote: 2. Permissive paths: I do not understand “/permissive paths need showing/ I hope this means distinguishing from public ones, rather than that they are currently not rendered! Almost every path in a council or Royal park is a permissive path, even if

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-11-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
926=-0.9845 If you look at Butser Hill (the area round the 270m summit) there are various paths rendered in black dashed lines; all these are tagged as permissive. Nick From: Bob Hawkins <bobhawk...@waitrose.com> Sent: 31 October 2017 19:04:55 To: talk-gb@openstreet

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map - signed walking routes

2017-11-02 Thread Andy Townsend
On 11/02/17 03:31, Andrew Black wrote:  My request. Signed walking routes such as http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6084014 There's logic in the style that has been forked to handle those: https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=17=51.424012=-0.06819 There's obviously a

[Talk-GB] The OSM UK map - signed walking routes

2017-11-01 Thread Andrew Black
My request. Signed walking routes such as http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6084014 Can i ask about context. Are we talking abou a layer or a website that could potentially have optional overlays. If the latter could routes be such an overlay. I appreciate they ate not everyones taste. >

[Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-31 Thread Bob Hawkins
I wish to add my own pennies’ worth from a walker’s and mapper’s perspective on three matters: 1. The portrayal of barriers: we know kissing gates are not rendered in OSM but are rendered in Andy Townsend’s map. In neither case, though, do barriers stand out strongly enough, in my opinion. I

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> Sent: 30 October 2017 17:34:11 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map On 30/10/2017 08:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote: As you may know, the plan is to produce a UK specific OSM mapping site. A start on this has been made here:

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-30 Thread Dave F
On 30/10/2017 08:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Would also be good to see a few suggestions for features. A few of mine; on the cartography side: - add contours (I have done this on Freemap so I should be able to figure out this) - hill shading (not had any experience of this though I know

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-30 Thread David Woolley
On 30/10/17 12:05, Lester Caine wrote: Yep ... fixmystreet is not working with the right authorities and is a pain to find the right location anyway. Looking to overlay the website location map with the sort of facilities a parish council looks after. I'm not aware that any of the council

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/10/17 11:32, David Woolley wrote: > On 30/10/17 10:37, Lester Caine wrote: >>   What >> I'm looking at here is reports of fly tipping, dog mess, and so on;) > > > > However, note that some councils are insisting

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-30 Thread David Woolley
On 30/10/17 10:37, Lester Caine wrote: What I'm looking at here is reports of fly tipping, dog mess, and so on;) However, note that some councils are insisting that only their own web site be used to report

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/10/17 08:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > As you may know, the plan is to produce a UK specific OSM mapping site. > A start on this has been made here: > > http://www.free-map.org.uk/osmuk/ > The test site covers Hampshire only due to server constraints. It would perhaps be useful to have a

[Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Much of this is being discussed in Loomio but was having a discussion over the weekend with a fellow mapper and we thought that it might be valuable to mention it on the mailing list too. As you may know, the plan is to produce a UK specific OSM mapping site. A start on