Yes Warin61, this Tesco does have a toilet that can be used by customers. As it happens, there is a very large cemetery opposite the Police building, and the Police are next door to Tesco.

Oh gosh, @andy mackey, what a cruel link; you are saying that the non-show is all my fault, whilst yours shows wonderfully. Damn, damn, damn. Now I need to phone Severn Trent again to discover what the nature of the basin is. Ah well. Many thanks for your link.

It is “advice” & not “advises”; ‘advice’ is both singular & plural, all at the same time. But then again, according to you, Mr @BushmanK, that is just my personal rules.

Hi @BushmanK

Yes, well; I’m fully as capable of ultra exactness, if I want to be. However, the older I get, the more I begin to value my time, and my leniency grows.

1. I do not personally know whether the specific function is infiltration, detention or retention. You are welcome to contact a Severn Trent engineer to discover which it is, and add the tag accordingly. I’m not going to bother, and particularly as the basin does not even show on the map.
2. Oh joy! Changing all my phone numbers to International format. Oh! bounteous joy overflowing!
3. Description remains. I’m a “Belt ‘n’ Braces” man. My trousers very rarely fall down.
4. It did not have a name before I named it. I’m sorry that you do not like it, but I was the father, not you, so there. Oh! and “Flood Lagoon 5805” is as close as it gets to an ‘official’ name. In addition, try to use Capital Letters & proper curly quotes when you refer to my baby, if you do not mind.

You are welcome to survey the site & change the boundaries if you wish. Personally, and in particular, remembering that it does not even feature upon the map, I’m going to leave it exactly as it is.

Thanks for your interest and comments.

Thank you Simon & Andy. Checking Tag:landuse=basin seemed to hit the mark on the description, if not the tag value (‘basin’ is not exactly the obvious word to describe a Flood Lagoon):— > An area of land artificially graded to hold water.

On an inspiration, I left “Tag:ref=5805” in place and added: “Tag:name=Flood Lagoon 5805”. It now both shows in JOSM (though not in the standard map - boo!] and can also be searched for.

@escada: thanks, escada, my bad. I’ve changed it to the range, and it will be uploaded shortly with some more little amendments to the parking areas + recent discovery of a boys/girls football changing rooms.

In fact, with a little exploration you could have sourced my error yourself: the Sports Centre link has a mapilliary link and, following connections to that photo would have brought you to another photo with a schoolboy-error as I photograph the opening hours + myself + the rain (English June weather is almost permanently “sunshine&showers”, as the folks at Glastonbury Music Festival are discovering at this moment).

@Jean-Marc Liotier: what do they call these little figurines in France? I cannot seem to find any info on them.

@escada: thanks for your kind comments.

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I’m not sure of the actual z-level used, but the following link is a pdf that includes a current map derived from UK Ordinance Survey data:

Gedling Council Street Guide

Coincidentally, this link is included within my latest diary entry (posted the one before you!).

Hi Warin61

I’ll defer to what you say about clothes, and I’m sure that your words on acclimatisation are accurate. However, to talk about salt just in terms of ‘taste’ is truly to miss the point. There is a reason that Roman soldiers were paid in salt (Latin: ‘sal’, hence ‘salary’) and a reason that elephants travel miles up into the hills just to get minerals (salt) from some rocks because nothing in their diet provides it. Re-hydration with just water is worthless and, in some circumstances, can be harmful.

I’m content to let you have your wild extremes, Warin61. Living all my life in this little island I’ve been royally treated like the story of the 3 Bears: never too hot, never too cold, but nicely moderated. Suits me.

Hi EdLoach
This is classic use of Terracer for myself, and which results in JOSM throwing an exception when ‘OK’ is clicked:—

1. Use Building_Tools (press ‘B’) and draw a block for a house
2. Select both the house & the street
3. Use Terracer (press ‘Shift+T’ to receive the Terracer dialog)
4. Enter Lowest Number / Highest Number / Interpolation as appropriate
   (I have used Terracer to produce both detached, semi-detached + actual terraces of houses successfully in the past; all of those produce software-exceptions now)
5. ‘Segments’ will auto-represent the calculated number according to the previous options chosen
6. ‘Street name’ is also auto-selected with this sequence
7. ‘add to existing associatedStreet relation’ IS selected
8. I always got a software-exception if ‘keep outline way’ was NOT selected. That behaviour continues with the most recent release.
9. I get a software-exception if ‘keep outline way’ IS selected. That is new behaviour, only occurring with the most recent release.

My setup is Linux Debian 8.5; Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64

(correction:— Debian updated 4 June, but I updated my system on 5 June)

@Hjart:
“Hammering”? Am I not allowed to mention the fact if JOSM throws an exception when I use it? What strange use of language.

Hi Jerry

Thanks for the Wikipedia Map; I’ve also read the nottstalgia.com forum that it originally came from. Unfortunately, whilst the map shows Carlton Road (the large road running towards top-right) & the (now discontinued) NSR railway-line (vertical line on right-hand-side) and therefore the bottom of Porchester Road (where the black-line crosses Carlton Road) + Burgass Road (coming off Porchester & running parallel to Carlton Road) the map stops well below my recent surveys. In fact, I cannot yet find any mention of bombing damage in the Morley Road area.

Hi Martyn

Thanks for the link; an interesting read. However, I have a correction for you:

That house at 745 Woodborough Road is actually 752 Woodborough Road. Odd numbers are on the other side of the road.

Hi Warin61

“When you have the funds/inclination it may be a good idea to get a second PC as backup?”

As soon as I send the Crucial memory off to be replaced I will have the old PC as a replacement. In fact, even better, I have an old 1TB USB disk that I use as backup, and then a 400GB RAID-10 CentOS-5 server known as Olivia for even more backup (unfortunately, appallingly noisy as it is intel ISA with a SCSI card + discs, and the temperature-reactive disk-fan is operative only with the intel-SCSI BIOS).

Many thanks for your comments CloCkWeRX & Richard. I’m now going back to mapping.

Hi jonwit

I found that link to the Census Bureau Safety Tips really useful - thanks!

Hi Glassman

I’ve moderated my comment about his height, slightly.

I was a very short child, and was badly bullied as a consequence (until I punched a tormentor in the throat, and it stopped; I was aiming for his nose but wasn’t tall enough to reach it). That experience caused me to become a bully. By the time I realised it, I was no longer short, and it was all a touch dangerous.

You may be disappointed, but life is what it is, whether you like it or not.

A little comment on the photos + bandwidth:-
In the text I pointed out that for some days – including the 1st 3 days of May – I was using my personal site to provide the 13 photos featured in the body of the Diary entry, whilst Mapillary was used only as a link to each of the GPS-registered photos on their site. After the Bank Holiday I got a reply from Mapillary to my request for assistance, in which they pointed out that the “Photo Description | Download” menu item would give a link to a JPEG url that could be used for that purpose (Diary display). Hooray!

This afternoon (UK time, GMT +0100) I changed all the photo URLs from my personal site (altervista.org) to Mapillary (cloudfront.net).

Just now I got an auto-email from my personal site host:

Subject: Bandwidth usage (monthly estimation account etmg)
From: “AlterVista” nobody@altervista.org
Date: 04/05/16 03:06
To: (me)

Dear Webmaster,

your site has generated thus far more than 13 GB of traffic. At this rate the traffic generated will be over 132 GB by the end of the month, while your limit is 30 GB, so it is possible that your site will become unavailable for some days before the end of the month.

(whoops)

Those 13 jpegs total up 11.3 MB. That suggests 1,150 unique page-views to cause 13 gig of bandwidth, which is actually not much (I ran the website modem-help from 2003 until last year, and that had daily visitors of 5,000 minimum) (15,000 shortly after inception).

@Warin61: I’ve no problem with neighbourly concern – it is just what you want to deter bad lads in your own area – but individuals can take it to extremes. I’ve already had one incident whilst I was tracking with a man pushing his face into mine. I calmly asked him if he realised that his behaviour was intimidating, and after a couple of moments consideration he began to calm down (it probably helps that I was bigger than him, but I also had nothing to hide and do not panic easily).

I’m simply trying to give intelligence distilled from my own experience, hopefully leavened with a little humour, and designed for others entering the same territory. As the sergeant in Hill Street Blues said every episode: “Hey! Let’s be careful out there”.