On 08/08/2010 19:18, Brian Prangle wrote:
Existence of a street/road in OSSV/OSL doesn't always mean that the
road is there. I've come across 2 examples in Birmingham where the
road indicated in OSSV/OSL has disappeared under the developers
bulldozer.
Regards
Brian
What time scale are we
On 08/08/2010 14:01, Craig Wallace wrote:
On 03/01/2006 00:37, Dave F. wrote:
On 07/08/2010 19:34, Richard Moss wrote:
I take data from OS as evidence that there is a name for a
road/track etc.
I'm happy with that where I know a road exists, and I have added names
to the farm tracks arou
On 03/01/2006 00:37, Dave F. wrote:
On 07/08/2010 19:34, Richard Moss wrote:
I take data from OS as evidence that there is a name for a road/track etc.
I'm happy with that where I know a road exists, and I have added names
to the farm tracks around the village. But putting roads on OSM
with
Dave F. writes:
>Personally I'd take OS as evidence of the existence of a road as
>well.
Yes. A name is a social construct, not a physical thing that can be measured
on the ground, so if it appears in the Ordnance Survey map - which is pretty
much
the definitive(*) map in this country
On 07/08/2010 19:34, Richard Moss wrote:
I take data from OS as evidence that there is a name for a road/track etc.
I'm happy with that where I know a road exists, and I have added names
to the farm tracks around the village. But putting roads on OSM
without actually verifying that they exi
On 3 August 2010, Dave Fox wrote:
To check, are the OSM names corroborative with the Royal Mail list?
It's mixed. The Royal Mai list I have is something they put on their
website when they changed all our postcodes a few years ago. It doesn't
have the qualifiers like 'The Doles (East)' it
If you do find mistakes in the OSL data (and any other OS OpenData
products), please do let OS know - email
customerservi...@ordnancesurvey.co.uk. In addition, add the entry to the
Catalog of Errors: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Catalog_of_Errors.
As for your point: "Tim's analysis is very u
-boun...@openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Ed Avis
Sent: 03 August 2010 09:01
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bristol - a quick (and surprising?) statistic...
Dave F. writes:
>Yes. Often in rural areas you will find local people refer to particul
Dave F. writes:
>>You could then note that there are various farm tracks outside the village
>>which have names in OSL, missing on OSM and not in the Royal Mail postcode
>>list: Long Lane, Ouse Fen Road or Bank, Long Holme Drove, Long Drove.
>>There is no evidence for these names on the ground.
>
On 02/08/2010 22:15, Richard Moss wrote:
On 23 July 2010, Tim François wrote:
...
More info here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Tm#Bristol_-_Missing_Roads
Perhaps the figure won't be surprising to many, but I thought it was pretty
large! Is this representative of other simila
On 23 July 2010, Tim François wrote:
...
More info here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Tm#Bristol_-_Missing_Roads
Perhaps the figure won't be surprising to many, but I thought it was pretty
large! Is this representative of other similar sized cities/towns? (I know OSL
isn't 'pe
.
Tim
--- On Sat, 24/7/10, SomeoneElse wrote:
From: SomeoneElse
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bristol - a quick (and surprising?) statistic...
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Date: Saturday, 24 July, 2010, 16:26
On 24/07/2010 15:16, Dave F. wrote:
> That link sends me back to the homepage & I&#x
On 24/07/2010 15:16, Dave F. wrote:
That link sends me back to the homepage & I'm unable to find the
summary page. Do you have another link?
I think that that's a bit of a feature of the way that the site works -
if you're logged in and aren't signed up to "OSM Analysis" that seems to
be what h
Hi Ed/Tim
On 23/07/2010 18:43, Ed Avis wrote:
Tim François writes:
So, I recently moved from Bath to Bristol. Looking at the map, I thought
Bristol was relatively complete. Last night I ran a few passes over Bristol
using oslVosm, and here's a shocker (?):
37% of the roads in OS Locator do
SomeoneElse writes:
>I wish that there was a better way of saying "all of the streets named
>in OS Locator are also named in OSM" than "complete". It seems to
>suggest that all OSM is is a streetmap (OK, so perhaps the name doesn't
>help in this regard...) and not a map for cycling, skiing o
On 23/07/2010 18:43, Ed Avis wrote:
Tim François writes:
So, I recently moved from Bath to Bristol. Looking at the map, I thought
Bristol was relatively complete. Last night I ran a few passes over Bristol
using oslVosm, and here's a shocker (?):
37% of the roads in OS Locator do not appea
Tim François writes:
>So, I recently moved from Bath to Bristol. Looking at the map, I thought
>Bristol was relatively complete. Last night I ran a few passes over Bristol
>using oslVosm, and here's a shocker (?):
>
>37% of the roads in OS Locator do not appear in OSM.
>Is this representative o
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