Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-11-01 Thread Gregory
On 1 November 2011 00:18, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > Note that I plotted the toilet block separately, but didn't tag the > site as toilets=yes - I'm now wondering whether that would have been > useful also? > > One or the other please, or it is likely to be mistaken as two toilets. Something like a

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-11-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 1 November 2011 10:08, Ed Loach wrote: > Pedro's OSM map only shows named allotments A work-around would be to name them "Allotments" with a FIXME=check_name tag. Any arguments against doing that? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Ed So the search returns *named* allotments? That would explain why we could not find all the Manchester allotments on OSM although locations are published by the council. But fixable. Thanks. Andrew On 1 Nov 2011, at 10:08, Ed Loach wrote: It does look an interesting project. I did comment

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-11-01 Thread Ed Loach
It does look an interesting project. I did comment on the blog page (was pending moderation when I last looked) about how Pedro's OSM map only shows named allotments, as none of the ones I'd mapped around Clacton (and perhaps not the few I did in Wolverhampton) were shown. Fortunately the query use

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Thanks Andy. For the allotments open data project http://www.slideshare.net/Flygirltwo/growing-back-to-the-future-ogdcamp-farida-vis the immediate priority is just to make sure all allotments are on the map. I'm pretty confident about Birmingham. Manchester has an incomplete listing and the wh

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-10-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 31 October 2011 23:31, Andrew Mackenzie wrote: > There are some tagging questions: allotments are called community gardens in > Europe and how should prospective growing spaces be tagged? > I'm hopeful that MappaMercia people will be interested.  Maybe we could > discuss at Thursday meet? I'm

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Allotments, open data OpenStreetMap

2011-10-31 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Hi I was filming at Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw last week and we did a workshop on allotments and open data which used OpenStreetMap. Fortunately we had a developer there who produced a script which pulled in all the allotments in the UK from OSM. Farida Vis, who has got the projec