Re: [Talk-GB] Trig Point references

2019-07-15 Thread Simon Ritchie
> I've noticed that some trigpoints are tagged with a reference prefixed TPUK I should also have said in my first reply that the page for each trig on the trigpointing.uk website gives the source of the OS data that it uses and shows the OS names. For example http://trigpointing.uk/trig/4791

Re: [Talk-GB] Trig Point references

2019-07-13 Thread Gregrs
Hi all, On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:58:28PM +0100, Simon Ritchie wrote: Hmm. Good point. Most of the data in Ian's database is contributed by the trigpointers - reports of visits to the trigs. Most of the data about the actual trigs on the site (position etc) comes from the OS. See this

Re: [Talk-GB] Trig Point references

2019-07-12 Thread Philip Barnes
--- Original message --- > On Friday, 12 July 2019, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote: > > On 12/07/2019 21:19, Philip Barnes wrote: > > > Hi Brian > > > Each pillar has a plate with an OS reassigned reference, which is easily > > > on the ground verifiable. I believe that we should be using that

Re: [Talk-GB] Trig Point references

2019-07-12 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
On 12/07/2019 21:19, Philip Barnes wrote: Hi Brian Each pillar has a plate with an OS reassigned reference, which is easily on the ground verifiable. I believe that we should be using that rather than those randomly assigned by a 3rd party site of unknown origin. Hmm... Good job no one did

Re: [Talk-GB] Trig Point references

2019-07-12 Thread Gareth L
Adjacent to this query, there’s a Facebook group where people post photos of postboxes https://m.facebook.com/postboxcollection/ It would be very useful to be able to fill in the blanks, like royal_cypher and potentially collection times. Many postboxes have just the reference number on Osm.

Re: [Talk-GB] Trig Point references

2019-07-12 Thread Philip Barnes
On Friday, 12 July 2019, Philip Barnes wrote: > On Friday, 12 July 2019, Brian Prangle wrote: > > I've noticed that some trigpoints are tagged with a reference prefixed > > TPUK. This is a reference to the numbers assigned by the website > > http://trigpointing.uk/ which has the following text as

Re: [Talk-GB] Trig Point references

2019-07-12 Thread Philip Barnes
On Friday, 12 July 2019, Brian Prangle wrote: > I've noticed that some trigpoints are tagged with a reference prefixed > TPUK. This is a reference to the numbers assigned by the website > http://trigpointing.uk/ which has the following text as a footer: "The > TrigpointingUK database is owned and

[Talk-GB] Trig Point references

2019-07-12 Thread Brian Prangle
I've noticed that some trigpoints are tagged with a reference prefixed TPUK. This is a reference to the numbers assigned by the website http://trigpointing.uk/ which has the following text as a footer: "The TrigpointingUK database is owned and maintained by Ian Harris (Teasel)" That doesn't sound