Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
her natural or managed landcover. We can define landuse=park, but that park can have a lot of detail contained within it ... We are looking to render blocks of trees, grass, and other objects how ever created? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?p

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;) > > <https://osm.fixmystreet.com/around?latitude=52.949211;longitude=-1.14391=1> > > However, note

Re: [Talk-GB] The OSM UK map

2017-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
d bandwidth which WAS running a UK mirror, but the software had not been updated in some years and OSRM was no longer working, so I need to reinstate that. I will have a look at the github setup ... I'm only looking to mirror the UK but include Ireland in that until the great wall of brexit appear

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-25 Thread Lester Caine
ng is a clean set of guidelines for using any third party reference? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineer

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Schools with fhrs:id

2017-10-21 Thread Lester Caine
the higher level is what is >> missing? > > Would a site relation help? The way relations currently work ... no it's still not the right answer. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - ht

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Schools with fhrs:id

2017-10-21 Thread Lester Caine
ygiene link. We then define lookups from ref:xxx to the secondary dama on each of those database ... I don't think we need to add fhrs:authority everywhere. It's inherited from the ref:fhrs ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Schools with fhrs:id

2017-10-20 Thread Lester Caine
eparate objects where that is necessary and it would be nice if the larger operations such as Rugby School helped with detailed campus maps as many of the collage and university sites have been doing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=co

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-20 Thread Lester Caine
e addresses? If I add the names then the rendering becomes messy which is why I only added the house number. And I must update the postbox collection times ... that change some time back :( ... but if those details were pulled from a secondary source ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
ected 'Haydock' one would expect all the roads to be listed? Not sure how OSMAND is holding data, but a search on http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Wedge%20Avenue%20Haydock#map=13/53.4778/-2.4421=H fails ... this is not really even a 'post' problem, just finding directions. > On 2017-10-19 1

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
On 19/10/17 15:30, Colin Smale wrote: > It appears they don't even know/understand their own address... The post > town is not Ebbsfleet but Swanscombe. Not according to Royal Mail ;) But then that is no proof either, except that is where post will be delivered by them. -- Lester Caine -

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
On 19/10/17 14:31, Dave F wrote: > On 19/10/2017 12:04, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 19/10/17 11:35, Adam Snape wrote: >>> Doesn't its location within the UK make an explicit UK tag unnecessary? >> But when reading a single object tags do you know just where it is? Som

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
is correct. I'm sure manually top level sorting post, the post person will be looking at the postal town rather than the postcode, but on automated machines then only the name and postcode are relevant. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?p

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
ce for every property since it SHOULD be a freely available database that council tax payers have financed and councils are required to keep up to date. But it's a chargeable resource to use :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
lation. Properly handled 'relations' could allow all higher level data to be accessed in a simple data read ... something relational databases are good at. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

2017-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
10 1AZ so that one can pick up the correct secondary data easily ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Worksh

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
ich  Wikipedia articles does this object > represent, and offer some likely candidates, but it shouldn't be > automatic.  I think Mapbox was working on something like that? There are many lists of data which I now expect to appear in wikidata. If THAT is appropriate is not a question to answer here, b

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
t are doing the processing. The annoying thing here is that the hierarchy of places that wikidata provides could be useful to OSM searches ... but it still needs the likes of Nominatim and/or GeoNames to cross reference that data which provides an alternate secondary database. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
independent and unrelated project with it's own agenda ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.c

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
that overlays that, so OSM only needs to use the wikidata namespace for all of that material. I don't think that the idea of 'bot' space actually fits into that model as it is the unique ID that is fixed and 'bot' tags either need to be accessible in 'mapping' space, or remain in the se

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
lot of corrections made to get the right 'set' of data on a school object. While only a small number of objects were actually wrong, that is enough to justify needing a manual cross check of some sort. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?pa

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
emetery. wikidata should probably have an object for that with links to Highgate cemetery and OSM could have a complete set of all gravestones on the site, or link to an external copy of that list. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
as birth, death and activity locations that overlay all the objects I'm working with. Premises listed on the UK national census are a typical fairly reliable source I'm working with daily ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Cain

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
as the NSG's update reports adding new streets and changes to location hierarchy. But I should prefer that this layer is part of OSM rather than a third party service. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
why I think 'another' cross-reference tool may be more appropriate with OSM and wikipedia/wikidata simply being sources. THAT requires OSM to have a 'unique id' one can use to cross reference though :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
g the default desktop view) AH - so it's stripped when you grab a printed copy of the article :( There may be a link to Wikimedia Commons material, but not to wikidata material in external links ... that is where I expected to find it ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 16:48, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 16:06, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > >>> While it is not yet complete, in what way is Wikdiata failing to be >>> sufficiently reliable? >> >> Much of the work I did on wikipedi

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 14:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 14:28, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > >> wikidata provides a section which documents a range of LINKS which >> identify the same object on other databases. It would be nice if there >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
me a more reliable source of such data. Just a single link to a substantial set of additional data. So ... where does 'brand:' come from? Should this not simply be 'link:'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine El

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
to find the right location to see what data was in OSM for the collage and some material that has not yet made it into wikidata came up. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enquir

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
d dedicated sat nav did a good job as well as handling hands free calls on the N900 mobile. Modern options are going down hill fast and can't even do the basics! Simple reception of a signal would be nice to have once again ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
stest' route for UK rural areas - and get my blue motorway, green trunk and red primary road back :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Mod

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
k road :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
s to a halt. Stratford is just as bad and the new roads planned will make things even worse rather than helping. We don't stand much chance of designing a harmonized routing process when the planners can't even fix the problems they create :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
. what it should be using is a percentage, so 5% would be tidy and 10% pushing where a traffic camera would be 'within tolerance'. Since speedometers are only required to be 'within 10%' currently ... you get the idea ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
On 22/08/17 17:19, Philip Barnes wrote: >> called differently, but this is it: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical >> > Isn"t that going to be rather subjective? And will depend on 'time of day' ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [Talk-GB] Are Northern Ireland, Wales & England 'states'?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
complete a complete mirror of is_in: hierarchy which can be updated as changes appear in the ONS dataset and THEN associate boundaries as appropriate. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsce

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
route but then avoids the M5 as well :) Interesting ... checking OSRM is getting it right so I need to check OSMAND again on that. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
ting that gives problems, other routing engines are showing similar detours around local 'shortcuts' ... so even within a single country harmonization is a problem ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
a country or area need to cover the differences that apply in that area? Just as the routing rules need to know France is Left Hand and UK is Right ... with different default speed limits. > Le mar. 22 août 2017 à 11:16, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk > <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>&

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
epend on why you are using the road? Things like 'speed_limit' need to be handled before adding another 'classification' tag? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Are Northern Ireland, Wales & England 'states'?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
ally in the base dataset - something which the majority of users seems to have decided against :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model E

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

2017-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
he interface is essentially :en and requires each word translated to the alternate language, so a clean set of :en values makes that consistent world wide, while the 'name' element lacks any identification as to the languages used :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsce

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

2017-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
th the comment against 'name' being what I would consider a rule and the one I described ... except it misses the problem of case. < trim out of place stuff and sig should never be quoted! > -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

2017-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
s! OHM needs to be feed automatically with data that the general consensus deems not appropriate to retain in OSM and the evolution of things like names are simply part of that. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Se

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-london] New OSM London Meetup - Invite

2017-05-09 Thread Lester Caine
idingsToOsm. Not sure that there has been much progress with that. The open rail data is probably a source that we can use today, http://wiki.openraildata.com/index.php/File:TIPLOC_Eastings_and_Northings.xlsx.gz for example. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://l

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
een languages ... > On 22/04/2017 15:45, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 22/04/17 15:28, Dave F wrote: >>> As they're parameters, the format can be standardised for the end user & >>> any programme should be able to sort out syntax behind the scenes. >> Totally ag

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
een languages ... > On 22/04/2017 15:45, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 22/04/17 15:28, Dave F wrote: >>> As they're parameters, the format can be standardised for the end user & >>> any programme should be able to sort out syntax behind the scenes. >> Totally ag

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
hem to take box="w,s,e,n" as an alternative input. But the range of 'standards' for passing parameters is the problem here not simply what is being passed. With each OS and programming language having it's own style of working there is simply to many variables to create a single stand

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-21 Thread Lester Caine
idea what the tool is supposed to do :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Di

Re: [OSM-talk] it may be useful

2017-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/03/17 19:47, Lester Caine wrote: > On 30/03/17 18:38, Lester Caine wrote: >> Kind regards, Lester Caine > > *I* did not sent that email! Which is why it has another email address > since forging my own would fall fowl of my spf record! OK anybody know who to repor

Re: [OSM-talk] it may be useful

2017-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/03/17 18:38, Lester Caine wrote: > Kind regards, Lester Caine *I* did not sent that email! Which is why it has another email address since forging my own would fall fowl of my spf record! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=cont

Re: [Talk-GB] Reversing the flow of a one-way street

2017-01-13 Thread Lester Caine
them which direction a way has been input. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http:

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging a multilvel building

2017-01-12 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/01/17 10:07, Mark Goodge wrote: > 1. The entire building is "Evesham Town Hall". Mark - I have the same problem showing access to the Shopmobility office on the top floor of the car park ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
On 08/11/16 18:54, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > FWIW, I like the "-scape" suffix, e.g. OpenStreetscape: Get's my vote Capital 'S' though OpenStreetScape -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Se

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
the android phone, something that is becoming worse rather than better. Even driving down the M5 I get gaps in reception, so everything has to be local, which OSMAnd does a good job of for most things ... just not B/unclassified roads :( Docker is yet another infrastructure tool to get ones head arou

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
leave working systems alone ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/16 08:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk > <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: > > On 02/11/16 00:57, john whelan wrote: > > If OSMand etc treat them differently then we may not be show

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
simply wrong for the UK! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [Talk-GB] UK suburbs

2016-10-06 Thread Lester Caine
ically accessible, but http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats/united-kingdom/ is a good summary. Just missing the primary and secondary Building Name where flats are located within one of a number of buildings on a single street. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - C

Re: [Talk-GB] John Watson School, Oxford

2016-10-06 Thread Lester Caine
ame building for infants and junior with separate governance, but they time share the outside space. Not easy to map the third dimension on OSM, but each has to have it's own 'level' tag. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Ca

Re: [Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

2016-10-03 Thread Lester Caine
l". We can of course perform a service by reporting typos back. There are a substantial number of mistakes in the schools data. In these cases the OSM data is more accurate, but it would be nice if there was a consistent way of notifying these errors back to the original source.

Re: [Talk-GB] Upper Booth camp site, Pennine Way near Edale

2016-10-03 Thread Lester Caine
s' sign, but one would not remove it from the map, only add the restriction. The ramblers are probably the best for pushing the boundaries on just what are RoW and border line cases ;) But even on the ground, access rights are often not obvious. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
or GPS' is common in rural areas - and confuses things further. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
rates that paid for building the NSG (National Street Gazeteer), I see no reason that should not be downloadable data. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://e

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging redevelopment and closed roads

2016-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
raffic, they will reopen again once work is completed. Simply wiping an area and starting again with a clean sheet is losing useful material which HAS been fully mapped already. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Ca

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-05 Thread Lester Caine
data! But that is why I say some element of local knowledge to tidy up the detail is essential. Switching to osm and looking, the buildings need reworking anyway but a correct boundary needs local input ... the OS one is simply wrong. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact -

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-05 Thread Lester Caine
follow that convention than now rework all of the existing mapping? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
On 04/08/16 19:35, Lester Caine wrote: > On 04/08/16 19:13, Christian Ledermann wrote: >> If the consensus is that schoolgrounds which consist only of a single >> polygon (without holes) should be rather mapped as a closed way I can >> change this > > The vast major

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
S work a lot better than this example! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
multiple sites, each campus tends to have it's own name and often a different edu ref. The relation should only come in to join campuses that form the one educational entity, which may well be across several towns. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/w

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

2016-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
tion/6457274 . > I had a look at a few of these, and they seem to be simple shapes that > I'd normally tag on the ways (i.e. they are multipolygons with only a > single outer way). This seems strange to me - is it intended? Is it > desirable? Is this via schools.mapthe.uk ? --

Re: [Talk-GB] schools.mapthe.uk going live on Monday

2016-07-29 Thread Lester Caine
On 29/07/16 10:55, Lester Caine wrote: > On 29/07/16 08:33, Christian Ledermann wrote: >> As there were no objections on the talk-gb, imports mailinglist or in the >> wiki >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_schools >> >> schools.mapthe.uk will go live

Re: [Talk-GB] schools.mapthe.uk going live on Monday

2016-07-29 Thread Lester Caine
ped avoiding the low quality OS shape files! I spent a lot of time ensuring school grounds were correctly mapped in the counties I worked on ... rather than just fixing the nodes flagged by the comparison tools. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.u

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
gt; > How about musical notation? We could sing our parcels to their > destinations. ;-) Or even more radical ... just use numbers for time and location :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - h

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
as simple as identifying the local time given some sort of location identifier becomes unreliable when local variations of language and custom are added in. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
e stored in the database. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://r

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
oding system' for the physical location can be used to display the raw numbers? But for readability, just as OLC does, one uses the town and country and simply provide a GPS location limited to that area. A bit like 'national grid' in the UK > Cheerio John > > On 11 Jul 2016 2:36 pm, "Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
re elements may be additional to the postcode itself, so 10 characters is never enough. Open Location Code lacks the ability to handle multi-story housing. It only gets you to the apartment block. This is an area where OSM still needs some more work. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [Talk-GB] How to mark something as closed

2016-07-01 Thread Lester Caine
with it to mark it as > historic and remove it from the map? Depends what is left on the ground, but an 'end_date=' would be useful for historic reference even if it is then deleted for other reasons. This is an area where a better process needs to be laid down? -- Le

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-22 Thread Lester Caine
f the secondary tagging to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver and the like. But where lakes - natural and man-made - have navigation routes through many of the waterway tags also apply but this has been another area of discussion to map the actual routes across the water a

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
leisure=marina without any agreement as to just what area that should cover. It's the insistence that water only applies to natural elements which just does not fit properly, and man_made=reservoir while much more accurate does not fit in with a consistent landcover/landuse overlay? -- Lester C

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
atural=water should wrap what are quite clearly man made waterway features just reinforces that and while the effects are small, many parts of the world even 'coastline' is now a man made construction. But the 'tags' list is probably the place to open a discussion on this ... not that I b

Re: [OSM-talk] OT: How do you read OSM Emaillists?

2016-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
y fails to display properly ... but here is not the place to be complaining :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital W

Re: [Talk-GB] Mappa Mercia: Summer Programme

2016-05-10 Thread Lester Caine
e site would be a good start. There was too much work that need on site data when I did all the school sites ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolv

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

2016-03-14 Thread Lester Caine
has been properly tagged. The ons I had problems with often had no source, although NPE ones were fairly obvious when one zoomed out. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySol

Re: [Talk-GB] Pubs as areas: should be map the property or the building?

2016-03-14 Thread Lester Caine
ooking to update the site outline to match that planning application, but of cause the 'OS' factor comes into play :( But one can at least pick up dates of the buildings construction from the Listed Building registration. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces

Re: [Talk-GB] Pubs as areas: should be map the property or the building?

2016-03-14 Thread Lester Caine
which case the boundary may be difficult to identify fully, at which point the building boundary may well be the fall back 'amenity' boundary. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolv

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

2016-03-14 Thread Lester Caine
ply delete them, opting instead to push them to one side where the route was not actually detectable ... unless they run under the school buildings :) So is a more accurate set of data available for these? What other databases such as edubase are available? -- Leste

Re: [Talk-GB] Pubs as areas: should be map the property or the building?

2016-03-11 Thread Lester Caine
area within a larger building so having the same tags for amenity and building makes perfect sense. Now we just need the tools to add back in the links between the larger area amenity and it's components? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-10 Thread Lester Caine
On 10/03/16 17:46, Philip Barnes wrote: > You will also need to consider bus lanes as well. Complicated by selective operating times and contraflow problems :) I got caught out by that going to SOTM at Birmingham ... OSMAND was telling me where to turn ... -- Lester Caine - G8

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

2016-03-04 Thread Lester Caine
k this third party activity is helpful to > OSM! In the first instance I have no intention of contributing to > bitcoin since I think it's main reason for existence is to hid scammers > and until that secrecy is removed ... I will not be signing up ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

2016-03-04 Thread Lester Caine
first instance I have no intention of contributing to bitcoin since I think it's main reason for existence is to hid scammers and until that secrecy is removed ... I will not be signing up ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Cain

[Talk-GB] Think I've finished 'LD'

2016-03-02 Thread Lester Caine
and signage, should the name:en be added and the :cy actually the primary name :) It's interesting that adjacent schools can be 'all English' or 'all Welsh' on their websites despite a switch between languages being provided ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school - Status report

2016-03-02 Thread Lester Caine
ce access below the shops is also at that level. trying to show delivery drivers the correct level to use, and route disabled visitors to the mobility centre. But just showing the layers would be a start :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?

Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school - Status report

2016-03-02 Thread Lester Caine
floor of the complex :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school - Status report

2016-03-02 Thread Lester Caine
the 'education system' but are still colleges. Have the same problem with http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/118736391 which IS a college but obviously not a school system one. ( Must update the campus there .. I see someone extended the housing estate to the left which I started some time back, but t

Re: [Talk-GB] New users and P2

2016-02-25 Thread Lester Caine
t might be able to implement fairly > easily into P2. While I accept that P2 is falling a little behind on things like some of the tag templates, It is still a much better platform for new users than Id and certainly I use it to demo editing to my client base. -- Le

Re: [Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

2016-02-18 Thread Lester Caine
he unregulated ones around here are not schools but as I understand it they will become more regulated as a different sector ... just like collages. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces

Re: [Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

2016-02-17 Thread Lester Caine
by edubase. Since there are some 400 nursery entries it should be possible to tidy them up as a 'kindergarden' entries anyway? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

2016-02-15 Thread Lester Caine
cial channels :) The ONS statistics are the official reference to population, but even here just what is listed makes difficult reading. Some 'village' populations cover the entire parish or ward while others may be split between different parts of the same location. Again, no cons

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