Re: [talk-au] LPI Base Map road names

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew Davidson
The one example I can remember is Frost Lane: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-33.70979/150.37546 Which is "First Lane" on the LPI map but the street sign at the end disagrees. On 22 Feb 2016 12:35, Mark Pulley wrote: > > Someone (thanks) has sent me a couple of links including Google  >

Re: [talk-au] LPI Base Map road names

2016-02-21 Thread Mark Pulley
Someone (thanks) has sent me a couple of links including Google streetview - looks like the name spelling is correct. I've been trying to think what the other examples I have seen were. I think in one case the word 'Crescent' was misspelt on LPI. On 21 Feb 2016 23:20, Mark Pulley wrote:

Re: [talk-au] LPI Base Map road names

2016-02-21 Thread Mark Pulley
On 21 Feb 2016, at 10:03 pm, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21/02/2016 8:49 PM, Mark Pulley wrote: >> I’ve been adding some names from the LPI base map. I was wondering how >> ‘accurate’ the names are. Most of the time the names look OK but I’ve >> noticed a couple of issues. >> >> 1

Re: [talk-au] LPI Base Map road names

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 21 February 2016 at 20:49, Mark Pulley wrote: > 2. Sometimes the name of the way on LPI is different to the existing name > in OSM. Most of the time this simply involves splitting the way where a > road name changes. I’ve noticed a few times when the road name on OSM is > very different to the

Re: [talk-au] LPI Base Map road names

2016-02-21 Thread cleary
Mark, I have also noticed this. In some cases, the LPI Map has an old name that has been changed by the local shire council but it has not been updated on the LPI Map. In some cases where there is a seriously different name already in OSM, I found that seriously different name was usually wrong an

Re: [talk-au] LPI Base Map road names

2016-02-21 Thread Warin
On 21/02/2016 8:49 PM, Mark Pulley wrote: I’ve been adding some names from the LPI base map. I was wondering how ‘accurate’ the names are. Most of the time the names look OK but I’ve noticed a couple of issues. 1. Occasionally the name of the street is mis-spelt. Sometimes it is an obvious mi

[talk-au] LPI Base Map road names

2016-02-21 Thread Mark Pulley
I’ve been adding some names from the LPI base map. I was wondering how ‘accurate’ the names are. Most of the time the names look OK but I’ve noticed a couple of issues. 1. Occasionally the name of the street is mis-spelt. Sometimes it is an obvious misspelling, but I’ve put a fixme tag on at le