Re: [Talk-GB] oscompare

2010-11-05 Thread Kevin Peat
It gets updated most days but from my observation is a day or two behind in picking up changes. Kevin On 5 November 2010 15:03, Nikolay Metchev wrote: > I have only recently found the oscompare website as a result of > joining this mailing list. > http://oscompare.raggedred.net/ > I was wonder

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO -apostrophes

2010-11-05 Thread Kevin Peat
On 5 November 2010 12:38, wrote: > Aren't there two separate issues here:- > > 1) Disagreements between OS and OSM, > > 2) Representation of those disagreements in the tools. > > I'm quite happy with the ITO tools as they are but if they had the resources to render another map layer without the a

[Talk-GB] oscompare

2010-11-05 Thread Nikolay Metchev
I have only recently found the oscompare website as a result of joining this mailing list. http://oscompare.raggedred.net/ I was wondering if that gets updated and if so how often. I corrected one mistake on OSM and its still showing up in the compare website. _

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO -apostrophes

2010-11-05 Thread kevin
Aren't there two separate issues here:- 1) Disagreements between OS and OSM, 2) Representation of those disagreements in the tools. I don't think anyone is disagreeing that all disagreements in should be ideally resolved. Ed's suggestion related to the tools such that certain differences were

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes

2010-11-05 Thread Ed Avis
Chris Hill writes: >I map what's on the ground, apostrophes and all. Good for you. But there are tens of thousands of missing streets. Entire villages and even towns are still entirely missing. Then there are plenty enough cases where OSM and OS have quite different names for the same street.

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes

2010-11-05 Thread Chris Hill
Ed Avis wrote: Kevin Peat writes: Three-quarters of the differences reported here are in the presence or absence of a single apostrophe. This masks the more important discrepancies and makes the report less use

[Talk-GB] adworks, OSM, copyright

2010-11-05 Thread ael
A company in Oxfordshire has used at least one OSM map without attribution in publications using the name adworks. In case anyone else notices this, I have contacted them, pointing to our copyright page. They have apologised, and have said they will include attribution/credit in future. They have

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison f rom ITO - apostrophes

2010-11-05 Thread Ed Avis
Kevin Peat writes: > >Three-quarters of the differences reported here are in the presence or absence >of a single apostrophe.  This masks the more important discrepancies and makes >the report less useful. >Ed - I thi

[Talk-GB] ITO analysis Totals

2010-11-05 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi I just did a quick totals on the ITO analysis page Total roads in OS locator 849338 Total roads missing from OSM 295123 Missing change last 30 days -13909 average percentage complete 64.52 cheers Bob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetm

Re: [Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits

2010-11-05 Thread Richard Mann
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Ed Avis wrote: > Similarly, maxspeed=30mph would be a useful tagging if you have spotted a > 30mph > speed limit sign on the ground, or to flag explicitly the point at which some > different speed limit stops applying. I agree: we probably need to put maxspeed=30

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes

2010-11-05 Thread Kevin Peat
Post to list as well -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Peat Date: 5 November 2010 09:27 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes To: Ed Avis On 4 November 2010 14:23, Ed Avis wrote: > I am sorry to reopen this topic but I think it

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes

2010-11-05 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi,  I have found Musical chairs to be good to solve that problem http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OS_Locator_Musical_Chairs/FAQ Cheers Bob --- On Thu, 4/11/10, Ed Avis wrote: From: Ed Avis Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes To: talk-gb@openstre