Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Collaboration with shire tansport authorities

[Thomas Szabunia]

Hi Brian,

I'm good for the Stafford area down to Wolves if they've got anything that way.

Tom

On 23 Apr 2019, at 11:46, Brian Prangle 
mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org>> wrote:

Hi everyone
Mainly for west mids mappers but cross-posted to talkgb for a wider audience.
For some time I've collaborated with TfWM who make extensive use of 
OpenStreetMap. Together we've refreshed the entire NapTAN dataset for the West 
Midlands and we're engaged on an ongoing basis in solving data quality issues 
where the OSM data throws up errors with their bus routeing software.  Word 
spreads and at a regional meeting of  shire transport authorities there was a 
request for contact with local OSM volunteers in the following areas:
Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke, Telford, Warwickshire, 
Worcestershire
If anyone wants to volunteer please get in touch with me and I can put you in 
touch. It will mainly involve dealing with errors they spot such as 
missing/wrong roadnames, missing/wrong roads. With TfWM there's been an average 
of one of these week, sometimes bunched together followed by weeks with nothing 
- so not a heavy workload and worth the effort to improve the data.
If my experience is anything to go by, there'll be an initial peak and then 
they'll realise, with a little prompting, it's easier and quicker to fix the 
errors themselves. But it's good to have an initial period of handholding as  I 
think they are respectful  of causing any damage
Regards

Brian
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Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hamstead

[Thomas Szabunia]

Saw your email and went to reply only to notice that I got the same email 
earlier! Now just to inform some of the companies they've got the wrong address!

All the Google maps addresses appear to have updated now as well. Good job team!


From: Andy Mabbett 
Sent: 21 February 2019 20:23:23
To: talk-gb-westmidlands; Pigsonthewing
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hamstead

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 22:12, Andy Mabbett  wrote:

> I thought I would settle the matter by referring to the Royal Mail
> postcode database - and was surprised that they too have it as
> "Hampstead Industrial Estate" - try searching for "B42 1DU" at:

>https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode
>
> Has anyone had any luck, getting errors in the postcode database fixed?

Update: I have just had an email from Royal Mail, saying that they
have updated the PAF, though it may take a couple of days for that
change to filer though to their postcode finder.


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Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hamstead

[Thomas Szabunia]

(Apologies for the double email, this seemed to get lost as I was switching 
emails)


This is the sort of stuff I enjoy, this seems like the best point to contact 
them from, their link to the PAF Code of Practice is broken as well (reported 
that as well but be darned if I can find a proper contact form for web issues). 
 Maybe if they get a few reports of it it'll get fixed ,sent one myself but I 
don't know how seriously they'll take it when I'm not actually at the address.


https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4696


Funny thing is a few of the businesses on the estate list their address as 
"Hampstead" on their website too.


I did have a try and finding some reference to it on the Council's webpage or a 
street sign as some extra proof but I can't see anything currently.

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From: Thomas Szabunia 
Sent: 15 February 2019 10:37
To: Andy Mabbett; talk-gb-westmidlands
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hamstead

I've also just submitted edits to all the listings on Google Maps that are 
listed with the "p"

Thomas Szabunia

-Original Message-
From: Andy Mabbett [mailto:a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk]
Sent: 14 February 2019 22:12
To: talk-gb-westmidlands 
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hamstead

I noticed today that the BBC reported a road accident as:

   M6 in Hampstead Industrial Estate exit slip road
   partially blocked southbound at J7, A34 (Great Barr)

There is no "Hampstead Industrial Estate exit" at junction 7, and in any case 
the estate is "Hamstead Industrial Estate" (no "p"):

   
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.5284=-1.9260#map=15/52.5284/-1.9260

and so I told them this on Twitter.

Someone has argued that "Hampstead Industrial Estate" is correct, as that's 
what Google Maps calls it.

I thought I would settle the matter by referring to the Royal Mail postcode 
database - and was surprised that they too have it as "Hampstead Industrial 
Estate" - try searching for "B42 1DU" at:

   https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode

Has anyone had any luck, getting errors in the postcode database fixed?

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Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hamstead

[Thomas Szabunia]

I've also just submitted edits to all the listings on Google Maps that are 
listed with the "p"

Thomas Szabunia

-Original Message-
From: Andy Mabbett [mailto:a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk] 
Sent: 14 February 2019 22:12
To: talk-gb-westmidlands 
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Hamstead

I noticed today that the BBC reported a road accident as:

   M6 in Hampstead Industrial Estate exit slip road
   partially blocked southbound at J7, A34 (Great Barr)

There is no "Hampstead Industrial Estate exit" at junction 7, and in any case 
the estate is "Hamstead Industrial Estate" (no "p"):

   
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.5284=-1.9260#map=15/52.5284/-1.9260

and so I told them this on Twitter.

Someone has argued that "Hampstead Industrial Estate" is correct, as that's 
what Google Maps calls it.

I thought I would settle the matter by referring to the Royal Mail postcode 
database - and was surprised that they too have it as "Hampstead Industrial 
Estate" - try searching for "B42 1DU" at:

   https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode

Has anyone had any luck, getting errors in the postcode database fixed?

--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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