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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ooops – sent to wrong group.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Ed Loach [mailto:ed@loach.me.uk] <br><b>Sent:</b> 23 October 2011 13:08<br><b>To:</b> 'Gareth Illmann-Walker'<br><b>Cc:</b> Talk-gb-midanglia@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think Brian is quoting Walsall as an example of an authority that publishes text descriptions of their routes – as far as I can tell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/gritting">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/gritting</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>suggests Walsall has already been done, and you can see the results on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml">http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Gareth Illmann-Walker <a href="mailto:[mailto:subscribe@illmann-walker.com]">[mailto:subscribe@illmann-walker.com]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> 23 October 2011 11:47<br><b>To:</b> talk-gb-westmidlands<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sandwell Gritting Routes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<br><br>As I'm a councillor in Walsall and just happened to be on the Winter Planning Sub-Committee, I'm more than happy to ask for the routes (for Walsall) on your behalf, can't think of any reason they'd not give them me.<br><br>However as I've been out with the gritters you should note that the routes start and stop quite a lot so they're not like one continuous route. This is because there is crossover in terms of the routes the drivers have to take to get to the roads they actually have to grit.<br><br>Gareth<br><br>On 22/10/2011 14:55, Brian Prangle wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks to Andy Mabbett for showing us where these files are located. I went to start editing one of the gritting routes today and discovered that the pdf files are all crown copyright maps derived from the OS so are in fact useless for our purposes- what we need are text-based descriptions - ideally the actual routes given to the gritting drivers as published by Solihull, Wolverhampton and Walsall; or a list of streets as published by Birmingham<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Brian<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org">Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>