Link to paper on installation of solar panels here.

Sorry unintentially did two separate changes in this changeset (adding cutlines in Owston, Leics, and adding an outdoor centre & archery butts near Llanwrtyd Wells

Took me a while to work out what I intended, but I was using Potlatch where one can copy the last used tags onto a new way & obviously accidentally had touched the wood not the cutline to the N of these too. Now corrected.

Thanks for asking: dont think it would be easy for anyone else to work out my intent.

It can go, must have just got left accidentally when I had to chop up the original nature reserve polygon & reassemble on it's much smaller new boundaries.

Thanks, indeed it is. I fancy I've been using cadw_ref for odd things and someone is silently changing them without pointing it out. A bit annoying that the key is formed in a different way to the equivalent key across the border in England.

I had been meaning to check what was used, but as these are mapped sporadically whilst doing something else where I need to complete a particular package of work it has always been overlooked.

Hi Will,

Are you sure the W-most trackway in Bagthorpe Gardens is "East Avenue"? Pretty sure I had this right first time with "West Avenue".

Jerry

If doing areas I first create the node, add direction to check I've got it right (the iD visual feedback is so useful) & then merge with the area: best of both worlds.

For direction it will be the direction of the downward slope of the roof in degrees. You can just have a look at this area where I've recently added a few: osm.org/edit?editor=id&node=29274677#map=19/52.27450/-3.00592.

iD shows a wedge in the direction from the node (my favourite one is mapping directions of a 4 sided clock: osm.org/edit?editor=id#map=19/51.66943/-3.36088. It's a great way of visual feedback, but in some ways too good because I originally was just going to use the 16 compass points, but then the "direction" tag looks a bit "off".

It also shows up with forward & backward in ways (e.g., give way signs)

Hi Groovebox,

Great to see you adding rooftop solar!

Can you also add location=roof when you add any more? It helps pick out the rooftop solar for QA purposes.

There are a couple of other tags which can be added too. "direction" (which iD shows nicely on nodes) and the somewhat cumbersome "generator:solar:modules" which iD autocompletes after 4 characters for the count of the number of modules. This latter is the best proxy we have for potential power rating. (Both these latter are nice to haves, but often easy to add when mapping buildings).

All are tracked at http://osm.gregorywilliams.me.uk/solar/index.html.

Many thanks,

Jerry aka SK53

The two pictures are a) close to the Kraspessee; and b) ~ 2800m on what was the upper part of the glacier.

No comments on the unconventional alpine equipment please :-).

Have sent you a link!

Very droll :-)

If you zoom in on ESRI Clarity the last few zoom levels were taken in Summer and the glacier looks as you describe, but compare with the Orthophoto and some obvious glacial features have disappeared.

Also there was a cross on the summit (perhaps the Nordgipfel according to Wikipedia) which I can't locate on imagery.

Just following up your remarks about the Karwendel & thought I'd look at the Kraspesferner as my father & I walked up it in 1976, when I think it extended to the Kraspessee. Looking at the AT orthophotos the two fragments directly under the N face of the Zwielbacher Rosskoegel have gone, leaving only the more sheltered part to the E of the summit.

Commons ceased to be rendered which led to some (possibly inappropriate) re-tagging in England. The tag is undoubtedly slightly problematic (too many meanings) but not totally useless. I think in E&W commons & village greens can be explicitly mapped using the designation tag because there are legal lists (e.g., changeset/68709230). I think there was a discussion on talk-gb about that time. I see no reason why the same couldn't be true in Scotland.

BTW, nice to see you mapping again Bob!

Common good is a specific Scottish legal term (http://www.andywightman.com/common-good) meaning the land is owned by the community; in practice the relevant local authority. I'm sure this is what Central America means. It may be possible to use the designation key (designation=common_good). There is a long history of misappropriation of common good land by others (see more detailed paper http://www.andywightman.com/docs/commongood_v3.pdf or "The Poor had no Lawyers" also by Wightman.

Hi mottiger,

You don't need to create a single relation for each group of panels, just tag them individually as solar panel.

Historically relations were used before the power=plant areas were introduced for solar farms.

Jerry

IIRC Richard found a similar pedestrian area glued to roads somewhere in this part of SE London, the glueing caused some oddities in cycle routing because of tags on the polygon. This would have been several years ago.

A really long shot, but do you have any recollection of the 'service road' to the S of way/135476622. It looks a bit fantastical to me.

It's not really a ridge. From recollection it's actually a glacial roche moutonee : my mother used to climb up it as a child & I've been up it in the distant past too. No idea if it is accessible anymore.

See https://e.n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly

There are various books on follies in Britain (this is a good overview http://follies.org.uk/index.php/books/), and it would be nice to be able to identify them. My favourite is the Pineapple at Dunmore https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/the-pineapple. Many follies are just landmarks like White Nancy, some are completely useless, but ornamental, others have some use, but are primarily there as "eyecatchers" (e.g., this was possibly a boathouse https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:False_Bridge,_Wollaton_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_874421.jpg). As they are so various they do not form any one building (or man_made) tag, but do recognisably belong to a particular tradition of creating artificial landscapes.