On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:56, Russ Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:20, Andy Townsend wrote:
> > Quite a lot of stuff of the placename info on OS StreetView probably
> > _shouldn't_ be in OSM. Leaving aside farm and house names, the where I
> > used to live in Derbyshire is according
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:20, Andy Townsend wrote:
> Quite a lot of stuff of the placename info on OS StreetView probably
> _shouldn't_ be in OSM. Leaving aside farm and house names, the where I
> used to live in Derbyshire is according to OS StreetView composed of 5
> different "villages".
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 12:51, Michael Booth wrote:
> It seems like a number of those hamlets could be changed to something else.
>
> Also worth having a look at place=locality nodes, to see if they can be
> tagged as another place type (if it's a populated place - e.g.
>
Just to pick up on one point:
On 23/06/2020 22:30, Russ Garrett wrote:
* The presence of a few archaic place names which were presumably
derived from NPE or other historic maps but are generally out of use
now.
* A surprisingly large number of place names present in OS StreetView
are unmapped
It seems like a number of those hamlets could be changed to something else.
Also worth having a look at place=locality nodes, to see if they can be
tagged as another place type (if it's a populated place - e.g.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4678882808) or the name added to a
feature.
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 09:19, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> I take it that these names are used by Nominatim to assist with search. I
> know it's another form of tagging-for-the-renderer, but do you know
> how/whether changes affect it?
I'm not especially familiar with the internals of Nominatim but
I take it that these names are used by Nominatim to assist with search. I
know it's another form of tagging-for-the-renderer, but do you know
how/whether changes affect it?
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:31 PM Russ Garrett wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> By way of lockdown procrastination, I started looking
Hi folks,
By way of lockdown procrastination, I started looking at place nodes
in London. The main things which were annoying me are:
* The presence of a few archaic place names which were presumably
derived from NPE or other historic maps but are generally out of use
now.
* A surprisingly large
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