Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed Bdgs map on Mapbox

2012-11-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
More heads does indeed make for faster learning, and I would certainly be interested in this idea. As for the blue plaques, I agree that a picture of the person (or even the building) would be more personal than an image of the plaque itself. I guess we might be able to find some photos on wikipedi

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed Bdgs map on Mapbox

2012-11-27 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Stuart Glad you like the map. The English Heritage data is a bit flaky. I've been working from a pdf list prepared by BCC some time ago which is much more accurate - also the layer in the self-service planning map(only for checking purposes of course!) which I guess comes from the same list M

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed Bdgs map on Mapbox

2012-11-26 Thread Andy Robinson
Stu, I had missing Local view tiles at full zoom last week. Just in some areas, pan the map and elsewhere they were present. I was looking in the Four Oaks area at the time. Cheers Andy From: stules...@gmail.com [mailto:stules...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of stuart lester Sent: 26 November

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed Bdgs map on Mapbox

2012-11-26 Thread stuart lester
Hi Brian, Really liking the map. I too have played with TileMill and Leaflet, doing some self hosting similar to what Andy has done. I'd be interested in trying to catch up with Rob and yourself so we could share ideas and experiences. I appreciate I'm pretty flaky for getting to OSM meetings, I

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Listed Bdgs map on Mapbox

2012-11-25 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone Well, having worked some more on cleaning and populating the data - guess what? The data is by no means complete or accurate. It's pretty good - probably about 95% complete and 95% accurate. It's just the usual annoying "almost perfect but not quite there" that we come to expect from g