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66736699 almost 7 years ago

Many thanks for the link; I live quite near the other Moira (in Leics). You may not know but the OpenStreetMap Irish community have a couple of useful resources for local historians: old maps (mainly 1:25k maps made by the British Military Survey just before WWII by photo reducing old 6 inch maps http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/oocmaps.html). Also there is a website covering all Townlands in Ireland https://www.townlands.ie/down/moira/).

Thanks also for highlighting missing baptist churches. I made a start up around Magherafelt & Cookstown, but got distracted by looking for fire stations too.

66567103 almost 7 years ago

The Beeston unparished area clearly includes separate places Bramcote, Toton, Attenborough, Chilwell & Beeston itself. These are different places, they may have once been in the same Urban District in the past (But I think it was Beeston & Sandiacre). Making them all Beeston not only fails the test of what someone living there would say, but creates issues with, for starters, Meadow Lane, Attenborough and Meadow Lane, Beeston.

66451704 almost 7 years ago

No, that's incorrect, you are misreading addr:state which refers solely to US States like Alaska. For addr:country you should use the full word. In practice I would recommend not adding addr:country as it can easily be inferred from the country geometry itself

48730957 almost 7 years ago

Nope, they are different in that a beer garden is always an ancillary amenity of a pub, whereas amenity=biergarten implies that it's a pub of a particular kind. You can see that this causes issues on things like cycle.travel https://cycle.travel/map?lat=51.5613&lon=-0.9328&zoom=14 which was showing 2 pubs, when there is only one. I've reverted the edit.

48730957 almost 7 years ago

Hm, have you visited the Rainbow Inn, did you find lots of young women in dindrl serving foaming Maß? I suspect not, this is an English beer garden not a German one, and we use a different tag.

66645742 almost 7 years ago

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=horses+head+gate+finial&qpvt=horses+head+gate+finial&FORM=IGRE

and yes the man_made tag is mis-spelt

66683087 almost 7 years ago

Long time ago, but does the bus loop past the Hotel Villa Margharita to drop skiers at the Vajolet 1 base station? Memory tells me it did back in 2007. Similarly think the bus goes to base of Col Rodella lift, and that there is a pick up at base of Pozza lift.I don't think you or anyone else has these. Unfortunately my visit was 2 years before I started with OSM.

66736699 almost 7 years ago

No, I'm afraid that one looks like one of Bing's sources, and I doubt they'll respond as quickly.

The OSM data should appear eventually in quite a range of maps & tools (Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook - but possibly not UK), but it can take a while

I take a slight proprietary interest in the area I had the pleasure of staying overnight in Moira 15 months ago and did a bit of mapping before breakfast on a bright October morning (in the aftermath of Storm Ophelia),

66736699 almost 7 years ago

Many thanks for adding the details of your church. I've made some minor alterations (mainly because the building was already mapped as a church & it was showing up twice). The significant things are: I added the car park; I changed "Baptist" to "baptist" (all tags other than names are in lower case); and I altered the service times to the general (but less-humanly readable) format. You can see here on OpenStreetBrowser how the data you added can already be used https://openstreetbrowser.org/#map=17/54.48035/-6.21902&categories=religion (I'm not sure if this does service times).

This query shows other Baptist churches within about 25 miles which are already on OpenStreetMap: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/FD8. I can see that there must be quite a few missing. I'll have a go at finding some more.

51069071 almost 7 years ago

Actually not a change but an addition on Clumber Street Nottingham (since corrected)

66361106 almost 7 years ago

If you're doing more edits in the area it's worth keeping an eye out for missing hamlet & small settlements. There seem to be quite a few missing. Also I think a couple of the unclassified (notably the one which goes over the hills to Pennant may be tertiaries)

66366451 almost 7 years ago

Another thing I noted: line without tags way/663837573

51112756 almost 7 years ago

A lot of these tree rows look like ordinary hedges to me.

66361106 almost 7 years ago

This way is shown as a track way/663786546, but on OS SV it is shown as an unclassified road. Also this one way/388898889/history#map=16/52.5825/-3.7757.

Presence of a casing on roads on OS StreetView is generally a pretty reliable indication that they are a metalled public road. Personally in the absence of a ground survey I'd trust this rather than views on aerial imagery.

66518138 almost 7 years ago

Welcome to OSM,

Sorry I jumped the gun & added some stuff when you were going to do it anyway. Far better that someone who knows an area does the edits (I only used to pass through years ago on a long commute to Northampton).

Best wishes,

Jerry aka SK53

34419262 almost 7 years ago

I've now tried to make the golf course cover most of the area which belongs to it including the club house. There are lots of areas of chalets around here which make it a little difficult to separate stuff out.

34419262 almost 7 years ago

Fixed, I abhor landuse=grass in this situation (or leisure=pitch etc, golf=hole as a line). Any golf=* tags with the exception of bunker & hazards should be treated as default surface=grass. There's no harm in rendering fairway & green in different greens from the leisure=golf_course of course.

51069071 almost 7 years ago

Late to the day, but you also changed shop=mobile_phone to office=telecommunication which is just wrong.

66303796 almost 7 years ago

Yeah, it has another meaning: trees where the leaves go brown but are not dropped. This is a classic example a Beech hedge, but there are forests of this type (e.g., Pyrenean Oak in Spain). Wikipedia has a write up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcescence (and I must check the spelling). I noticed that there were documented tags for semi-deciduous and semi-evergreen but not for this rather more precise term, so I though this hedge was time to introduce it.

65283870 almost 7 years ago

Hi Richard,

Around Nottingham we use shop=vacant and old_shop=xxx (partly because disused:shop=xxx doesn't discriminate between an ancient corner shop which has been someone's front room for 30 years and a shop which is between tenants for a couple of weeks). I also like it because it makes calculating vacant shop rates quite easy which in the current world is, I think, something of interest. We've also found it useful to have old shop/amenity names in the data ("the place next to where the Co-op used to be").

The actual FHRS Ids shouldn't change because they are (supposed) to be permanent identifiers of a combination of business/premise/management)., but not every council has got the message.

As for adding addressess that's excellent: it's really one of the reasons why I adovated using these in the first place.

Keep up the good work,

Jerry