[OSM-talk] OSMF Strategic Planning 2023

2023-05-05 Per discussione Craig Allan
OSMF Strategic Planning Team Craig Allan, Sarah Hoffmann, Allan Mustard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2018-08-10 21:06, Simon Poole wrote: While the goals sound worthy, it is unclear if any of the grid systems (w3w, plus codes and so on) deliver on their promises and have any traction outside of people in countries with established addressing systems trying to push them as solutions for

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Per discussione Craig Wallace
, then set 'OLC'. Then it will display Plus codes for any location on the map that you pick. It works fine for any object on the map, or even blank spaces if you want. No need for any specific tags. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-in] tasks.openstreetmap.in is down

2018-08-08 Per discussione Craig Dsouza
Yep, I'm having the same issue at login On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:25 PM Nikhil VJ wrote: > Hello, > > Apologies if this is a repeat post.. I'm not seeing these mailing lists > often. > > The India HOT Tasking Manager site http://tasks.openstreetmap.in is not > working when we try to login.

Re: [Talk-GB] Implicit speed limits: What to tag in built-up areas?

2018-05-02 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2018-05-02 11:53, Jez Nicholson wrote: Oh, this is fun. So, correct me if i'm wrong: a "20 mph zone" doesn't have/need repeaters because it is not actually the legal speed limit. It is advisory to travel at that speed because traffic calming makes it hard not to. A 20 sign with a green

Re: [OSM-talk] How to teach novices about optimal changeset size?

2018-01-20 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2018-01-20 14:36, Gaurav Thapa wrote: Yes, I am aware of these buttons. Do you mean that we do Ctrl+S frequently in order to do partial saves? I feel this might allow for greater chance for conflicts to occur rather than uploading frequently. In JOSM, click on the Upload button. Then in

Re: [Talk-GB] Mistagging of old telephone boxes

2017-12-23 Per discussione Craig Wallace
thing to the CC licence, so its not required to give attribution for data derived from Mapillary photos etc.  https://www.mapillary.com/legal Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Mistagging of old telephone boxes

2017-12-23 Per discussione Craig Wallace
ific tag for telephone_box or something? It would also be useful to tag that it is a classic red phone box, even if you don't know what exact model it is. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Watch

2017-12-23 Per discussione Craig Wallace
necessary. And probably more accurate - should be a bigger antenna, and it can use GPS, GLONASS and Galileo. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] 'permanent' mobile caterers

2017-02-26 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2017-02-26 11:24, Dave F wrote: Hi I'm still working through the FHRS database for my local authority. There section 'mobile caterers' where some they have a goecoded location. These are mobile vans which get towed away at night but have a regular pitch during the day. Often to be found in

Re: [OSM-talk] Untagged Nodes and Ways

2017-01-31 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2017-01-31 18:02, Andreas Vilén wrote: I always have all checks activated so it seems it just misses stuff sometimes... Could the issue be that I never reinstall Josm when I update but just overwrite the josm-tested.jar file with the new one? Sounds like you have told JOSM to ignore an

Re: [Talk-GB] beetroot or beet

2017-01-09 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2017-01-10 01:20, David Groom wrote: Although "beet" could also refer to "sugar beet" Or "fodder beet" (aka mangelwurzel). I think it is rather similar to sugar beet, not sure if you could tell the difference in the field. It seems they are all the same species (Beta vulgaris), but

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping dangerous - but valid - routes

2016-12-06 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-12-05 16:12, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Greetings At Stirling Corner, on the A1 in Barnet, there is a cycle way (hence also available for pedestrians) that goes around the outside of the roundabout (http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/78315291). A cursory glance at satellite mapping shows it

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-09 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-11-09 13:47, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El onsdag 9. november 2016 13.36.11 CET Craig Wallace escribió: Is it just for streets? Or can you add photos of footpaths, cyclepaths, railways, rivers etc. Or any other feature you can travel along. Why not have a name with less focus on streets

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-09 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-11-08 15:34, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, A few months ago, we started with OpenStreetView, the free and open street level imagery project made 100% for OSM with apps for Android and iOS. Since then, we not only have collected almost 30 kilometers of coverage, but also received a

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

2016-09-23 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-09-23 19:15, SK53 wrote: Hi Paul, I'd be very interested in this providing it has a decent licence. AFAIK Vision of Britain has a restrictive licence which means that I have spent some time recreating small parts of their data on OHM (e.g., London Boroughs of the LCC). There's still a

Re: [OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

2016-09-10 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-09-10 21:23, john whelan wrote: I'm not sure that it is an issue. If the lat and long can be extracted in the way that Nomination can handle it isn't an issue. The bigger issue at the moment is how do you extract the lat and long easily? Downloading a bit of OSM into JOSM, saving the

Re: [Talk-GB] Rare postboxes no longer so rare?

2016-09-03 Per discussione Craig Wallace
Box Study Group probably have a list, but only available to paying members. Currently 141 mapped in OSM. Of those, 138 are tagged as pillar, and 3 wall. And no disused EVIIIR postboxes mapped yet? Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-08-30 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-08-30 18:24, Colin Smale wrote: I am going to say this very quietly what3words Which forces you to use the what3words website, or an officially licensed app. If you want to use a postcode/coordinate system, there are plenty of better options. eg Open Location Codes (Plus

Re: [Talk-GB] Defibrillator Mapping

2016-08-18 Per discussione Craig Wallace
have surveyed a few of the local ones, and added them to OSM. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Does "Great Britain" need a relation with "place=island" on it?

2016-08-18 Per discussione Craig Wallace
sections? The Garmin maps is another question. They seem to label the whole area with the island name, which is often unhelpful and confusing, even for smaller islands. Probably better just to have a label in the middle of the island, or on the coast. Craig

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-05-11 06:44, Richard Fairhurst wrote: On 10/05/2016 20:59, Eric Grosso wrote: What do you think? Do we, OSM contributors, tag all the highways part of a NCN as cycleways? What to do when in some cases, a highway is both part of a NCN route and a hiking route (e.g the John Muir Way)?

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicycle GPS traces - more opendata

2016-04-25 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-04-25 21:55, John Whelan wrote: Apols it looks as if only pact of my message got sent. My local city is purchasing bicycle GPS track data from a company that has a fitness app. Apparently many cities would like this sort of data. However it doesn't capture those who don't have a

Re: [Talk-GB] OSGR & OSM

2016-04-05 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2016-04-05 14:59, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Is there a site or tool somewhere where I can click on a point on an OSM tile and get back the OSGR? I want the quality of OSM, but need OSGR unfortunately. Thanks Stuart You can use Where's the Path. http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm It can

Re: [OSM-talk] Issue-Tracker for http[s]://www.openstreetmap.org

2015-07-16 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2015-07-16 14:22, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote: Hi, Is there an issue tracker for http[s]://www.openstreetmap.org or have there ever been any plans for such a useful and straightforward way of introducing improvements (it'd be not exposed in a mail list archive reachable by a search engine,

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project All things delivery-related - an update

2015-05-06 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2015-05-06 21:09, Philip Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 19:47 +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: That's interesting. Have just tried the app out. It gives you the postboxes in OpenStreetMap but not the ones that are missing (as shown by blue markers on Robert's comparison tool:

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project All things delivery-related - an update

2015-05-06 Per discussione Craig Wallace
to actually find the postbox. And there are a few on the Royal Mail list that have now been removed, or where the number on the box doesn't match the list. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] bicycle=no and cycleway=lane conflicting?

2015-04-09 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2015-04-09 14:00, Phil Endecott wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: I came across this example [1] where a way has bicycle=no and cycleway=lane. IMHO these two tags are also conflicting and the bicycle=no should be removed. Any thoughts? Cycle lanes that you cannot, either practically or legally,

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2014-12-01 13:57, Richard Mann wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk mailto:li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote: Usage of adjacent seems to be fairly localised in the UK: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6k7 Yeah, probably just me (maybe nobody else feels

Re: [Talk-GB] ooc.openstreetmap.org

2014-11-06 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2014-11-06 17:26, Ed Loach wrote: Steve asked: Has this service been discontinued? Or is there just a temporary problem with it? According to the wiki, faffy has a problem http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status I believe os.openstreetmap.org was temporarily pointed elsewhere

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

2014-10-24 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2014-10-24 15:35, Steve Doerr wrote: On 24/10/2014 15:13, Dan S wrote: Co-operative - not clear to me why you choose to drop The from this one, since it's included in the branding? You choose to keep it for The Co-operative Food. +1: see http://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/ Also note

Re: [OSM-talk] GoPro video traces?

2014-10-23 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2014-10-23 11:20, David Cuenca wrote: There are many people who record both a gps trace and a video of their itinerary. Do you think it would be viable to use these videos as a sort of street view by associating the frames to a location? When there is no gps trace, it could be done by

Re: [OSM-talk] GoPro video traces?

2014-10-23 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2014-10-23 16:59, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 23/10/2014 15:00, Craig Wallace wrote: taking a photo every second, or maybe every 5 or 10 seconds, depends on what you are surveying and how fast you are moving. Do none of those cameras offer the logical alternative to timelapse

Re: [Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

2014-08-31 Per discussione Craig Wallace
vehicles down, eg speed bumps, or chicanes. Or street furniture, ie trees, bollards, benches on the road. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Own wikipage for every single speed limit??

2014-08-28 Per discussione Craig Wallace
to the value. But there's nothing wrong with redirect pages on the wiki anyway. It helps people find the correct page, and avoids creating duplicates. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

2014-08-03 Per discussione Craig Wallace
as motor_vehicle=private (or motor_vehicle=no). In Scotland, you would generally have a right to walk or cycle there etc, so should also be tagged as foot=yes, bicycle=yes. Not sure about the legality in England and Wales. Craig ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.

2014-06-11 Per discussione Craig Wallace
visited these. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with May 2014 OS Locator data

2014-05-15 Per discussione Craig Wallace
. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Indoor walkways

2014-04-04 Per discussione Craig Wallace
://www.frankieandshadow.com/xref/covered2.jpg I wouldn't tag those as tunnels, because they are open at the sides. More useful to tag them as covered. ie covered=yes, or maybe covered=arcade or covered=colonnade. See this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:covered Craig

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare and OSM Note Instructions

2014-03-28 Per discussione Craig Wallace
. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-15 Per discussione Craig Wallace
of interwiki links as they keep the connection protocol. Interwiki links to Wikipedia work fine. Just use something like [[wikipedia:OpenStreetMap]] or [[w:OpenStreetMap]] Or specify the language, eg [[wikipedia:de:OpenStreetMap]] Craig ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Power portal

2014-02-06 Per discussione Craig Wallace
termination tower or maybe terminator. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Element on OSM which don't exist in real life

2013-12-02 Per discussione Craig Wallace
on finding is elements on OSM which don't seem to exist in reality. For example: Some useful guides on the wiki about fixing TIGER and GNIS: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_GNIS Craig ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-09 Per discussione Craig Wallace
. But they are very incomplete/inconsistent, and often accidentally edited or broken etc. And probably out of date if the official boundaries have changed anywhere. So generally not as useful or reliable as just using the OS OpenData. Craig ___ talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Names on Power Lines

2013-10-13 Per discussione Craig Wallace
on the ground, during construction/refurbishment works. I would agree that things like the operator or voltage shouldn't be tagged as the name, you can use the specific tags for these. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] Wish LIst for Mapnik Stylesheet (overmapping of private features)

2013-09-10 Per discussione Craig Loftus
#tackle-the-backlog-v3x I am appreciate that the patches welcome response is not tremendously positive, but, culling issues from trac and transferring them over to the github issue tracker would be a quick and easy way to help getting the issues you care about fixed. Regards, Craig On 8

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-21 Per discussione Craig Wallace
of places may be used for a wide variety of events, so may be known by different names. eg might be used for conferences, exhibition, live music etc. I think a more generic tag for an event hall would be useful. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Per discussione Craig Wallace
. Or use the revert scripts. Some details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Change_rollback Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Finding Unmapped public rights of way

2013-07-27 Per discussione Craig Wallace
it with a command like this: java -Xmx1500M -jar josm-tested.jar That would allow it 1500MB. Or for merging large files, you could use Osmosis. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis ie use a command like this: osmosis --rx file2.osm --rx file1.osm --m --wx merged.osm Craig

Re: [OSM-talk] Power generation refinement approved

2013-07-07 Per discussione Craig Wallace
. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Question: Assessing Quality of Map Coverage in SA?

2013-04-29 Per discussione Craig Leat
the question to rather look at suitability for a task and then define the task. Craig ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard OSM map refreshing

2013-04-22 Per discussione Craig Wallace
based maps may take much longer to update, eg the cycle map sometimes takes a few weeks. See this question and answers for more details: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/102/i-have-made-edits-but-they-dont-show-up-on-the-map Craig ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation Boundaries

2013-04-20 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 2013-04-20 19:24, Paul Johnson wrote: OK, but would you apply this to Scotland and Wales? Because that's an analogous situation in the UK. Not really. Scotland/England/Wales are clearly administrative boundaries, and they are tagged as such in OSM. And they fit in the hierarchy of admin

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway bridge numbers

2013-04-09 Per discussione Craig Wallace
is signposted can vary. Sometimes its just a painted number, sometimes its a proper plate, including the line reference. Do you include the line reference as part of the bridge reference? I think its a good idea to do so, when its known. eg tag as something like bridge_ref=ETN/1601 Craig

Re: [Talk-GB] help with rights of way and core paths in Scotland

2013-03-11 Per discussione Craig Wallace
this. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

2013-02-23 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 23/02/2013 19:28, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: On 22 February 2013 15:25, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: at least one localized name to be equal to the name attribute, mappers will either be offended and leave the project or they will find a solution, imagine

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-13 Per discussione Craig Wallace
this seems somewhat pointless, as the fact that its a crossroads or T-junction should be obvious from the geometry of the ways. highway=junction would conflict with other highway tags. eg many T-junctions or crossroads are also tagged with highway=traffic_signals. Craig

Re: [OSM-talk] Is osm.org broken on mobile phones for you?

2013-01-22 Per discussione Craig Wallace
. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Updated CD:NGI Aerial Imagery Now Available

2013-01-10 Per discussione Craig Leat
:( Regards, Craig ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Guidance for adding PRoW to OSM: prow_ref=

2013-01-01 Per discussione Craig Loftus
than the alternative colon separated versions. This seems like an appeal to popularity; one could point to tree:ref or some other *:ref. Craig On 31 December 2012 22:27, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 December 2012 16:38, David Groom revi...@pacific

Re: [OSM-talk] House Numbers

2012-12-30 Per discussione Craig Wallace
around here have house names instead of numbers (or house names as well as numbers). Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mobile unnamed roads and more layer

2012-12-29 Per discussione Craig Wallace
://tile.poole.ch/noname/${z}/${x}/${y}.png;. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem in getting high resolution details on some maps

2012-12-18 Per discussione Craig Wallace
maps, or try producing some maps yourself. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Open Maps now has proper state shields

2012-12-13 Per discussione Craig Hinners
I like the fact that they took some artistic license and used "stylized", or "iconified" shields, rather than trying to do a perfect pixel-per-pixel resize of the prototype shields. The latter method does not necessarily produce good on-screen results.(Which is to be expected, given that the

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual maps demo

2012-12-01 Per discussione Craig Wallace
it still has railway stations labelled with the default name, even if they do have a name in the specified language. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Errors with addresses in OSMI

2012-09-25 Per discussione Craig Wallace
Terrace is an alternative name for that section of OSM Road, so tag it as alt_name. Or possibly name:left / name:right, if it is just one side of the road. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Quick Preview of CD:NGI aerial imagery

2012-08-16 Per discussione Craig Leat
the world files. Regards, Craig ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

Re: [OSM-talk] Royal Mail Incorrect OSM Usage

2012-08-03 Per discussione Craig Wallace
Wiggins postbox is listed as Markey Street, Chorley, but the map seems to be pointing to Adlington, a few miles away. And the one for Westminster Abbey is marked at Trafalgar Square. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-04 Per discussione Craig Loftus
railway, that have since been split by modern developments? As an aside, how would one map a dismantled railway bridge? And, how would one map an intact but disused bridge from which the railway tracks have been removed? Craig On 3 July 2012 22:47, Donald Noble drno...@gmail.com wrote: As someone

Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?

2012-07-03 Per discussione Craig Wallace
tried using it for FIT files from my Forerunner 110. Or you can download from the Edge into Garmin Training Center or BaseCamp, then export as GPX. Though that's probably not very convenient for a lot of files. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-30 Per discussione Craig Wallace
On 30/05/2012 16:11, Jason Cunningham wrote: This suggests the original Boundary Line data is superior, but would need to be compared to 2012 releases to check boundaries have not moved. Does anyone have the original Boundary Line release? and would they be able to make them available? The

[Talk-GB] OSM use on ITV in Lewis

2012-05-26 Per discussione Craig Loftus
). Pretty much everything west of Woodstock Road up to Port Meadow has been invented [4]. [1] http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=317466 [2] http://craigloftus.net/tmp/lewis/1.jpg [3] http://craigloftus.net/tmp/lewis/2.jpg [4] http://osm.org/go/eutD0~iS Craig

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-15 Per discussione Craig Wallace
as disused=yes. Which is clearly incorrect, the stations are definitely still open and in use. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Post boxes!

2012-05-11 Per discussione Craig Wallace
( http://www.lbsg.org/ ), though it seems the database is only available to paid-up members. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-08 Per discussione Craig Hinners
Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com: It seems to me that network=US:US:Business:MD is the logical extension of a scheme that has US:US and US:US:Business. My initial reaction is that this goes too far in mixing geographic, classification, and rendering concepts, which has a bad smell: * It forces one

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-08 Per discussione Craig Hinners
Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com: modifier=* would represent MUTCD-type banners attached to the shield This is the first I've heard of this tag. I don't recall it being discussed when we were hashing ideas around on this last summer. (Not that that is reason to discount it.) But what came out

Re: [Talk-GB] London 2012 tourch relay route

2012-04-07 Per discussione Craig Loftus
mentioning OS and Navteq as map providers. Regards, Craig On 7 April 2012 18:19, TimPigden tim.pig...@optrak.com wrote: While it's clearly ephemeral, in the sense that it is of limited duration - so is much geographical data. Weather, for example. In this case if you were trying to make deliveries

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Per discussione Craig Hinners
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: It seems that many people see the network tag as not representing a network but a shield design. Does this sound accurate? No, because, where shield designs differ by agency for the same logical network classification, the network tag does not change,

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing Images

2012-03-24 Per discussione Craig Loftus
This one is at least twice as good. http://binged.it/GPumvM Craig On 9 March 2012 14:26, Mike Valiant mike_vali...@hotmail.com wrote: The node below it should be tagged as:  under_flight_path=yes! From: h...@cantab.net To: nick.w.aus...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:33:30 + CC

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-24 Per discussione Craig Loftus
posters, looked at the history of every way I touched, and actually spent quite a bit of time re-mapping many ways I came across. Cheers, Craig On 23 March 2012 13:14, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2012 12:58, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Incidentally

Re: [Talk-GB] Un-relicensable roads - now with secondary roads included

2012-03-23 Per discussione Craig Loftus
I've been working down the list in ID order (though you can sort the columns if you want) And some. I ordered by type and randomly clicked on a dozen and haven't found one you haven't already squashed. I have better luck finding things using badmap. Craig On 23 March 2012 08:51, e

Re: [Talk-GB] Un-relicensable roads - now with secondary roads included

2012-03-23 Per discussione Craig Loftus
in situations like the Ed's list [2] does not work or throw any error at all. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=55.9567019lon=-3.1310164way=32795934zoom=16 [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?way=32795934 Craig On 23 March 2012 12:34, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-23 Per discussione Craig Loftus
if it is just a highway=footway and you know it exists there shouldn't be a problem. Craig On 23 March 2012 12:58, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Incidentally, is just knowing the footpaths evidence enough to tag with odbl=clean? Or is there the risk that the footpath

Re: [Talk-us] Route Relations and Special (Bannered) Routes

2012-03-15 Per discussione Craig Hinners
This was discussed in the August 2011 thread, Use of ref-tag on state highways. At the time, a number of people seemed to be on board with the network-classification-per-banner scheme, as in: network=US:US:Alternate ref=1 Or, something similar at the state level: network=US:VA:Secondary

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping disused railway lines

2012-02-26 Per discussione Craig Wallace
=18 That bridge is tagged as bridge=generic bridge. If it is a generic bridge, then just tag it as bridge=yes. Then it will be rendered correctly on Mapnik. Plus I'd agree with what Chris says - if its possible to walk/drive along it, then also tag it as a path or track etc. Craig

Re: [OSM-talk] Creating a subset of OSM and storing it in Postgis tables

2012-02-25 Per discussione Craig Wallace
extract from Geofabrik. It includes all of England, Scotland and Wales, so you won't need to download them separately then merge them. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-10 Per discussione Craig Wallace
highlighting missing streetnames. eg OSM Inspector (with highways view): http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ Or Yet another validation tool: http://beta.letuffe.org/ They seem to be updated frequently. Craig -- Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class

Re: [Talk-GB] Island in lake ...

2012-01-28 Per discussione Craig Loftus
the case, but I don't think it is now. I think the direction only matters for coastlines, islands in the sea, which do not make use of relations. Craig On 28 January 2012 22:01, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: OK how

Re: [Talk-GB] (still editing) 10335460

2012-01-08 Per discussione Craig Wallace
the changeset. In Potlatch 2, you can press C after saving to close the changeset. Or the changeset will automatically close after an hour. So I don't think it really matters if you actually press the button to close the changeset anyway. Craig ___ Talk

Re: [Talk-us] Medians and reverts

2011-12-24 Per discussione Craig Hinners
[Richard] Clearly these evil paint-separated commuter lanes are a gateway way to one-area-per-lane micro-mapping. [...] [Paul] I'm not seeing how the slippery slope argument applies [...] Nor am I. Choosing to model distinct, disparate, and incompatible traffic flows as a single flow when

Re: [Talk-us] Medians and reverts

2011-12-22 Per discussione Craig Hinners
What to model as discrete ways has always struck me as a gray area in the OSM model. I'm of the opinion that,at locations where traffic maynot or cannottransfer from one linear flow to another, the flows should be modelled as discrete ways. Thereason for the inability to transfer between flows

Re: [Talk-us] Medians and reverts

2011-12-22 Per discussione Craig Hinners
Paul Norman penor...@mac.com I would not separate a road with a double-yellow in the middle into two separate ways And millions of miles of two-lane roads with opposing flows have been modeled in OSM as single ways. But why? I'd submit that it's because the current de facto usage of ways is

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing Imagery update

2011-12-19 Per discussione Craig Loftus
of Middlesbrough and in the Whitby area. The resolution isn't all that great, which seems a little strange. Craig On 19 December 2011 13:53, Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap@earth.li wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:05:43PM +, Robert Norris wrote: Not sure how widespread the update

Re: [Talk-GB] Further Detail on Open Data Measures in the Autumn Statement 2011

2011-12-01 Per discussione Craig Loftus
be really nice is if the OS would just ask all councils permission to release the data and then just release it all. Perhaps by April 2013? Craig On 1 December 2011 10:24, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: There are more words about the OS being committed to changing its derived data

[Talk-GB] Further Detail on Open Data Measures in the Autumn Statement 2011

2011-11-30 Per discussione Craig Loftus
delivery models such as turning any of its member Trading Funds into Companies Act companies. Craig ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-27 Per discussione Craig Loftus
aren't tied in a traditional sense? My feeling is to just use operator=* and brewery=* as it is unrealistic represent it in more detail? Craig On 27 November 2011 11:05, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 18 November 2011 12:39, Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-27 Per discussione Craig Loftus
to refer to real ale from the decades-long activities of CAMRA which was never called CAMRAB - this is splitting hairs It is only splitting hairs if your beer horizon extends no further than the channel. Craig On 27 November 2011 20:18, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: But it's common

Re: [Talk-GB] Naptan Imports

2011-11-23 Per discussione Craig Loftus
on the ground. The NaPTAN import guidelines are that if a NaPTAN node is not physically present on the ground but you have knowledge that it is used as a stop then: Add a physically_present=no tag [, and] Add a highway=bus_stop tag, i.e., it needs a survey to confirm its status. Craig On 22 November 2011

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-22 Per discussione Craig Loftus
exclusion rules if a pattern emerges from the entries being marked. Craig On 22 November 2011 19:43, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 November 2011 09:02, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: Is there a way to flag false positives? Well, I don't have one at the moment.   I was thinking

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-18 Per discussione Craig Loftus
overloading real_ale (real_beer), with 'draught' and 'bottled' values. Craig On 17 November 2011 21:48, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 November 2011 20:55, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 17 November 2011 19:59, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote

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