Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Hill
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > * though with NPE the reasonably large area is pretty clearly going to > be talk-gb, not talk :p Ok, good point :) - Steve xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a malefi

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Hill wrote: > * the changes cover a reasonably large area and thus a large number of > editors are affected and may wish to contribute to the discussion. * though with NPE the reasonably large area is pretty clearly going to be talk-gb, not talk :p Seriously, it wasn't solely directed at

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Barnett, Phillip wrote: > From my local knowledge of some parts of Wales, I'd agree strongly > that NPE names are _frequently_ incorrect compared with modern > labelling of towns/villages and other features, and are hence Not To > Be Trusted Though if you understand something about Welsh

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Hill wrote: > Something that would be very useful in Potlatch would be the ability to > have the background zoom beyond it's highest resolution and just get > interpolated to fit - the yahoo images are virtually unusable in Wales and > over-zooming them might make them a bit more useful. Th

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Hill
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: > * you suspect that the criticism you have is not shared by everyone > so you want to give them a chance to voice their opinion; > * you think that whatever you're unhappy with is not only done by one > mapper, but general practice (or might become genera

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Hill
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Chilton wrote: > As Andy notes it is not always easy to see small sections of data at z14 > in Potlatch (which you have to use for NPE work). No problem - I just thought I'd mention that some on-the-ground review is needed for these waterways at some point (although it

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Barnett, Phillip
>From my local knowledge of some parts of Wales, I'd agree strongly that NPE >names are _frequently_ incorrect compared with modern labelling of >towns/villages and other features, and are hence Not To Be Trusted Eg The mid-Wales town called Dolgelley from NPE and Dolgellau in Real Life I'm n

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > On a slight etiquettey note I'd suggest that using the messaging > system, rather than public lists, is a really great way to get in > contact with people about their mapping work. Unless of course * you suspect that the criticism you have is not shared by everyone so you want to give th

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
> [snip] On a slight etiquettey note I'd suggest that using the messaging system, rather than public lists, is a really great way to get in contact with people about their mapping work. Steve Chilton wrote: > Finally, it is my view that source=NPE is implicitly tagging "for > review". +1 c

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Chilton
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Sent: 23 July 2008 11:50 To: 'Steve Hill'; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways Steve, Steve Chilton has been adding all those welsh streams, p

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Hill >Sent: 23 July 2008 11:40 AM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways > > >I noticed that a lot of waterways have recently been added with >source=NPE.

[OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Hill
I noticed that a lot of waterways have recently been added with source=NPE. Were these traced, or was this an automated import? It seems that some of the existing (surveyed) work has been either ignored or broken in the process. i.e.: An existing section of stream with a bridge over it has b