Re: [Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names

2012-10-02 Thread Andy Robinson
.com] > Sent: 30 September 2012 10:59 > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names > > I would appreciate some opinions on acceptable data sources for road names > when out surveying, particularly thinking about new housing develo

Re: [Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names

2012-09-30 Thread Paul Bivand
Small cautionary note on Housing development sales boards. Development names may well be different from local authority final names. In my patch we have had a development known as Capstone Heights with that name on all the development signs including maps. However the local authority allocated

Re: [Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names

2012-09-30 Thread Lester Caine
Donald Noble wrote: I would appreciate some opinions on acceptable data sources for road names when out surveying, particularly thinking about new housing developments here, but could apply elsewhere too. Of the six data sources below, the first and last are pretty black and white OK and not OK

Re: [Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names

2012-09-30 Thread Borbus
On 30/09/12 10:59, Donald Noble wrote: > And one other that doesn't fit on this continuum is asking a local > resident what the name of the new road is. This seems completely obviously ok to me, why would you think otherwise? I too have wondered about signs with maps on them. The thing is, you c

[Talk-GB] Acceptability of data sources for road names

2012-09-30 Thread Donald Noble
I would appreciate some opinions on acceptable data sources for road names when out surveying, particularly thinking about new housing developments here, but could apply elsewhere too. Of the six data sources below, the first and last are pretty black and white OK and not OK respectively, but what