Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
On 01/11/14 01:45, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On the whole the changes seem logical, but I'd rather they were applied manually than setting a precedent to allow changes that may not ACTUALLY apply as some small outlet is being a little economic with the name they are using ... I would guess

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Ed Loach
On 1 November 2014 01:06, Lester Caine mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Brantano (UK) Limited shops are all branded 'Brantano Footwear' that is their shop 'Logo' Matthijs: We currently have 116 times Brantano and 12 times Brantano Footwear in the UK. I

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Colin Smale
To paraphrase a well-known saying: Quality is in the eyes of the consumer. How long do you think we can survive with this policy of refusing to acknowledge that there is such a thing as good data and bad data? Interpretation of the definition of the name tag (and many others) is incredibly

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Steve Doerr
On 01/11/2014 09:15, Ed Loach wrote: On 1 November 2014 01:06, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Brantano (UK) Limited shops are all branded 'Brantano Footwear' that is their shop 'Logo' The logo is the symbol at the top, the shop name is Brantano

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread John Aldridge
On 31/10/2014 22:51, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Dear all, Voting is now open for the proposal to unify the names of chain shops within the UK by renaming them. I'm genuinely not sure about this proposal. Philosophically, I think OSM is a *mapping* project (duh!), and so the correct name is

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Will Phillips
On 01/11/2014 09:15, Ed Loach wrote: The logo is the symbol at the top, the shop name is Brantano Footwear, the operator is Brantano (UK) Limited. This is (was) the shop sign at the one I mapped (as Brantano Footwear, as that is the name on the sign):

[Talk-GB] Consolidated views of notes, fixmes, musical chairs, etc. (was: OpenStreetMap ten years on, and why it's time for a fresh slate)

2014-11-01 Thread David Woolley
On 27/10/14 21:52, Tim Saunders wrote: What would suit me is an Android app that allowed me to see what needs to be fixed in a particular area, so that I could check some things out if I had a spare half hour in the area…..so Notes, FixMes, Musical Chairs, OSM Inspector and other GB specific

[Talk-GB] Mapping weekend Aberdeen

2014-11-01 Thread Fozy 81
Hi, You are all invited to join the Aberdeen hack weekend 22-23 November: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aberdeen/MapHack/2014-11 Your chance to meet some other mappers, pick up a few mapping tips and share your knowledge. Join us, Tim

Re: [Talk-GB] Consolidated views of notes, fixmes, musical chairs, etc.

2014-11-01 Thread SomeoneElse
On 01/11/2014 12:04, David Woolley wrote: A very recent, topical, case is that Matthijs has added map notes for a lot of premises that he assumes are shops of a particular brand suggesting that they may need tagging in a particular way. This has completely negated the purpose of using the

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dan S wrote: Also, Matthijs sent out an RFC email proposing this whole process - he got lots of feedback (which he has taken into consideration), but no-one objected to the voting mechanism. It's not your fault if you only just noticed this happening, of course Indeed, which I only just

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
On 01/11/14 13:36, Dan S wrote: Also, Matthijs sent out an RFC email proposing this whole process - he got lots of feedback (which he has taken into consideration), but no-one objected to the voting mechanism. It's not your fault if you only just noticed this happening, of course, but it's a

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Dan S
Chris, I appreciate what you're saying - except for one point: 2014-11-01 15:35 GMT+00:00 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net: [...] to what is on the ground, I'll revert it and ask for Matthijs to be blocked from editing, as I would any other vandal. Please can we all stop using the word vandal to

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Chris Hill
On 01/11/14 15:39, Dan S wrote: Chris, I appreciate what you're saying - except for one point: 2014-11-01 15:35 GMT+00:00 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net: [...] to what is on the ground, I'll revert it and ask for Matthijs to be blocked from editing, as I would any other vandal. Please can we

Re: [Talk-GB] Consolidated views of notes, fixmes, musical chairs, etc.

2014-11-01 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 1 November 2014 13:52, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: It's not his fault if an armchair mapper appears to engage editor before brain and applies changes suggested by notes. In order to try and avoid people being overcome by temptation, I very often** say needs survey in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-01 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 1 November 2014 10:50, Will Phillips wp4...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a survey photo of mine, which is similar to the ones Ed posted: https://www.flickr.com/photos/97133921@N03/15494864347/ We should be using the name displayed on the sign, which in the examples above is clearly 'Brantano

[Talk-GB] Notes (was Consolidated views of notes, fixmes, musical chairs, etc.)

2014-11-01 Thread SomeoneElse
On 01/11/2014 20:08, Matthijs Melissen wrote: I in fact even proposed incorporating a system that makes this explicit in the notes API: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-August/070423.html Unfortunately, my suggestion in that thread didn't gain traction. It's great to have

Re: [Talk-GB] Consolidated views of notes, fixmes, musical chairs, etc.

2014-11-01 Thread David Woolley
On 01/11/14 20:08, Matthijs Melissen wrote: I in fact even proposed incorporating a system that makes this explicit in the notes API: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-August/070423.html Most people in the field who don't know how to map also don't know how to specify new