Just read through a short discussion about differences in street names in
OSM and 'OS Locator', and problems caused by differences in names given
The classic problem is where the road street sign says something like 'Dukes
Drive' but OS locator states Duke's Drive.
Noticed that common view was OSM
I'm not really answering your question here, but thought I'd add in my two
pennies: I use OSM data as the map in Navit, a sat-nav program. From my
personal point of view, I find it very handy for the sat-nav to direct me to
roads which have the same name as the road signs, irrespective of what t
Jason Cunningham wrote:
Just read through a short discussion about differences in street names
in OSM and 'OS Locator', and problems caused by differences in names given
The classic problem is where the road street sign says something like
'Dukes Drive' but OS locator states Duke's Drive.
Noticed
On 06/08/10 14:36, Lester Caine wrote:
The councils will be be working to the street table in their LLPG data,
and it is that which is supplied TO OS as the 'correct' local
information. There is even a mechanism for advising changes and new
streets in the update format.
Which doesn't explain w
Tom Hughes wrote:
On 06/08/10 14:36, Lester Caine wrote:
The councils will be be working to the street table in their LLPG data,
and it is that which is supplied TO OS as the 'correct' local
information. There is even a mechanism for advising changes and new
streets in the update format.
Whic
Hello all,
Not sure if this has been mentioned on the lists:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/viewer/
Note the boundary layer tab in the top-right.
I was only aware of http://os.openstreetmap.org/
Cheers,
Ben
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On Fri, August 6, 2010 13:33, Jason Cunningham wrote:
> The classic problem is where the road street sign says something like
> 'Dukes Drive' but OS locator states Duke's Drive.
> Has anyone heard of how this problem is dealt with by authorities
Would stripping punctuation (and perhaps white sp
Hello.
I notice that a number of motorway junctions near me have been tagged
with rather large names.
For example, the name tag for M4 J16, normally referred to locally as
"Swindon West" is:
"A3102 Swindon West, Wootton Bassett, RAF Lyneham, Calne"
Should this be simplified in some way?
This is a more fundamental problem than "which source is the correct one" --
names aren't properly defined to begin with.
The source for most of these names is simply what locals referred to things
as 100 years ago, and what managed to stick when some bloke on a horse with
a clipboard asked them.
Andy Sinclair writes:
>I notice that a number of motorway junctions near me have been tagged
>with rather large names.
>
>For example, the name tag for M4 J16, normally referred to locally as
>"Swindon West" is:
>
> "A3102 Swindon West, Wootton Bassett, RAF Lyneham, Calne"
>
>Should this be s
Ben Pollinger writes:
>Not sure if this has been mentioned on the lists:
>
>http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/viewer/
Those little mortar-board icons that appear for schools are fun.
I wonder if they could be bulk-imported into OSM as amenity=school source=OS?
At least in the c
I recall an intriguing case from one of the very first mapping parties in
Rutland.
The mapping party was held at Oakam Museum in Catmos Street. It's always
been called Catmos Street. It's referred to as Catmos Street in a Francis
Frith photo from the 1950s and it was still called Catmos Street i
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