Re: [Talk-GB] When is a hedge a wood?

Hi Martin, 1) The boundary is is clearly a fence. Thats what stops you just walking across. You can map the trees as several natural : tree or a tree_row depending on how long the row is I guess. Certainly not a hedge or wood. 2) The road is a highway, the grass is a verge.. the wiki suggests

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

On 26 Mar 2018, at 13:04, Gregory wrote: > > The OpenStreetMap rule for all time has been "what's on the ground is what we > use", in the case of names that would be what's on the road signs. > > I was in Wales last week and saw a mix of road names (I didn't focus

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

, unequivocally, yes you can. Good news indeed! Thank you all for your efforts! -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

it seeing as phase 4 is about to begin. I'm also waiting for this... I've no real issues with the new terms, but cant accept them until this issue is resolved. It seems a bit backward to block my new contributions just because nobody got around to talking to the OS folks yet... -- Chris Jones, SUCS

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

it seeing as phase 4 is about to begin. I'm also waiting for this... I've no real issues with the new terms, but cant accept them until this issue is resolved. It seems a bit backward to block my new contributions just because nobody got around to talking to the OS folks yet... -- Chris Jones, SUCS

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

On 10/06/11 11:28, Peter Miller wrote: On 10 June 2011 11:20, Chris Jones roller...@sucs.org wrote: On 08/06/11 07:58, Peter Miller wrote: Warwickshire is the biggest gainer/looser with 33 new names; over half of the districts have got at least one new road and there are now only 8 places

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

the English name was used in the name tag. Often the welsh name is there too but in the 'name:cy' tag. Would it be possible to include 'name:cy' (and also 'name:gd' for Scotland) in your algorithm? Thanks! -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org

[OSM-talk] BBC News Coverage of Map Kibera

BBC News Coverage of Map Kibera - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12164081 -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Postgres table sizes

storage at intervals, but I would suspect that's already happening. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of OSM data by the military and/or intelligence services

of getting bombs to the intended targets says otherwise... -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

a list of equivalent k=v pairs and use that when you pre-process to normalise data for your application. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] New (better?) source of contours

Just spotted this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8126197.stm More - http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ - this seems to be dead at the moment mind... -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin eTrex Vista HCx - maps from openstreetmap

that be done? See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat Navs to stop working?

in orbit plus 2 spares. 24 are needed for full global coverage so there's plenty of leeway yet. And with any luck Galileo should be up and running in a few years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Lundy Island Completed

On 19 May 2009, at 22:06, Guy Collins wrote: As the first, and only?, UK marine nature reserve exists around the island this may appear later There are also marine nature reserves around Skomer and according to wikipedia Strangford Lough. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org

Re: [OSM-talk] authorization to import Lombardy data in OSM

that whatever has that user as the last author hasn't been changed this would also help with copyright issue Why not just use the changeset ID... that's what its there for after all. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Persistent troubles downloading Planet

the Range header, but still. Try rsync, it does at least resume more reliably than http rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/ -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] How to set up a localized mapnik + slippy map web server

important: does it cost any money and a rough estimate of the cost if it's not zero. Maybe it's possible to add what we need to an existing osm server? Its all free software... See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org

Re: [OSM-talk] extracting an area from country osm and saving as a separate osm

-- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenLayers_Simple_Example The example you pointed to uses TMS. Can I use WMS and mapnik? I'm sure you can, but you will probably have to run it yourself. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org

Re: [OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

would have thought the vast majority of driveways were private and would thus use highway=service or highway=drive -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM users will love this feature

, becomes a new node. This makes refining existing ways so much easier. Just get josm-latest to use it. (It can be deactivated in preferences.) That's fantastic! It makes the whole process massively less painful. Thanks to all involved! -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

simply want someone else to implement and maintain it so your application becomes easier to code. Have you considered processing the Mapnik or Osmarender style rules to decide what to include/exclude at each scale? -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

for a dictionary containing the true value. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/ dm-0605ahuja/index.html explains the idea better than i do. I would expect its only a matter of time before such features appear in the open-source database engines. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

to average Jo Mapper if you suggest he tags stuff as foo=bar bar=value or foo:bar=value Just my 2p... -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on factory Macs

as on any other platform. There is very little that wont work, just remember ctrl+click = right click -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Recruitment/Community Poster.

to enable people to easily add welsh language names to existing objects. http://brasskipper.org.uk/cyosm/test - lookups only at the moment, works upto z13, UK only. It will slowly improve as I find time. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering with mapnik, what do I need?

the traffic to limit it and make my own internet connection still usable. With a 2 Mbps upload you should be able to serve about 40 tiles per second -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering with mapnik, what do I need?

the mapnik database useing them though. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering in a non-default language

:) -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Welsh Map

Tom Higgy wrote: Chris Jones wrote: Just a quick email to announce a Welsh Language render of the UK. Excellent! I've started adding Welsh names of places I know. There's a lot of 'name:cym' keys. Is it possible to change these all at once in the DB or shall I continue seeking them out

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Welsh Map

Tom Higgy wrote: Chris Jones wrote: Just a quick email to announce a Welsh Language render of the UK. Excellent! I've started adding Welsh names of places I know. There's a lot of 'name:cym' keys. Is it possible to change these all at once in the DB or shall I continue seeking them out

Re: [OSM-talk] z12 bounding box

and lat values would be for the tile? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Slippy_map_tilenames should tell you all you need to know. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Geolocation photos - what software/hardware do I need?

for? I use gpscorrelate to tag my photos. It takes a gpx file and a bunch of jpeg files on the command line and does its stuff. I expect there are numerous other Free or free options. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk