On 18/11/2020 11:10, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
It could well vary by local authority, but looking at the pattern of
URPNs near where I live, it certainly seems that there is one assigned
to every public road. There is consistently exactly UPRN at one end or
the other of each road. Th
Hi
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10kw
Anybody know what featdesc & featcode refer to? Local authority
references? Appears to be only rivers & woods.These are the only
examples in the UK
The contributor who added them hasn't responded.
DaveF
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Hi,
I have a feeling it might be related to OS OpenData, perhaps from importing
without deleting the original tags.
Good luck,
George Honeywood
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, at 4:24 PM, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
> Hi
>
> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10kw
>
> Anybody know what featdesc & featcode refer
On 19/11/2020 16:35, George Honeywood wrote:
Hi,
I have a feeling it might be related to OS OpenData, perhaps from
importing without deleting the original tags.
Yes, if memory serves it's from the now defunct OS 50k gazetteer.
Mark
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On 19/11/2020 16:24, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
>
> Anybody know what featdesc & featcode refer to? Local authority
> references?
Hi Dave,
Sorry about poor formatting, copied from:
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/os-vectormap-district-product-guide.pdf
OS VectorMap District techni
Thanks for that.
I'm struggling to see the benefit of this in OSM, & given only one
contributor has added them I presume I'm not alone.
The codes appear to be another company's database reference system, of
which OSM has its own.
OSM should not become a dump for external databases. Anyone with
Hi Dave,
The wood/forest and water ones I've seen are entirely useless in OSM as the
relevant natural tags represent exactly the same information.
For some external sources imported to OSM retaining the original codes is
useful when there is not a precise 1:1 correspondence to tags, but that is
n
Dump for external databases? Surely not! FHRS? UPRN? USRN? Edubase?
Regards
Brian
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 19:09, Dave F via Talk-GB
wrote:
> Thanks for that.
>
> I'm struggling to see the benefit of this in OSM, & given only one
> contributor has added them I presume I'm not alone.
> The codes
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020, at 8:57 PM, Brian Prangle wrote:
> Dump for external databases? Surely not! FHRS? UPRN? USRN? Edubase?
>
Haha. Yes, these tags are useless. I have accidentally added some in the past
when working with OS OpenData and I think deleted them soon after. UPRN and
USRN aren't g
On 19/11/2020 20:57, Brian Prangle wrote:
Dump for external databases? Surely not!
FHRS?
Well that's why I've been trying to clean up FHRS tags.
The only tag that should really exist is the ID code which refers /back/
to the external database.
UPRN? USRN?
I'm struggling to see the b
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