[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Nominatim results

2015-01-14 Thread Ed Loach
I've been looking at Tipton since it got a mention in #osm-gb IRC channel for a note being added near Staffordshire. http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=114798 Nominatim is using old county place nodes which pre-date the boundary relations to determine the county. Some

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Nominatim results

2015-01-14 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Ed Thanks for your hard work here - we need to get cracking on this locally. How to proceed? People nominate an authority and fix the relation? Regards Brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK Qarterly Project: Fix that Road name!

2015-01-14 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Andy Jonathan from spiffymaps has volunteered to start mapping these - let's leave it to him until he shouts for help Regards Brian On 14 January 2015 at 11:09, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 13 January 2015 at 15:26, Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: What are you mapping and have you fully though through the implications of bad data ?

2015-01-14 Thread David Woolley
On 13/01/15 22:23, Pmailkeey . wrote: Making large numbers of points all at once will almost certainly result in people latching onto just a few, even when you spread them over multiple postings. Also, many of these are not UK specific. It's annoying to add things to the database and find

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: What are you mapping and have you fully though through the implications of bad data ?

2015-01-14 Thread Andy Robinson
OSM's model of creating objects is somewhat different from traditional map making, drafting and cartography (and the data that nowadays creates these). Whereas OSM started by creating feature centrelines and defining a width etc at the render stage most traditional mapping and cartography

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK Qarterly Project: Fix that Road name!

2015-01-14 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 13 January 2015 at 15:26, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Coventry still has 38 names to go and has proved a perennial challenge to us - none of the regulars at our mappa mercia meeting lives or works there and it's proven difficult