[Talk-GB] OS Opendata names copied in Harrow

2011-05-18 Thread Andrew
An editor has cleared the OSL difference analysis in the London Borough of Harrow (http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/area?name=Harrow) with the unusually low score of 5 not:names out of 1800. As someone who used to live in the area, I find some of the names that were put onto

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata names copied in Harrow

2011-05-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 18 May 2011 13:01, Andrew andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: An editor has cleared the OSL difference analysis in the London Borough of Harrow (http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/area?name=Harrow ) with the unusually low score of 5 not:names out of 1800. As someone who used

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata names copied in Harrow

2011-05-18 Thread Ed Avis
Andrew andrewhainosm@... writes: An editor has cleared the OSL difference analysis in the London Borough of Harrow (http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/area?name=Harrow) with the unusually low score of 5 not:names out of 1800. Do you mean that names have been entered where none

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata names copied in Harrow

2011-05-18 Thread Ed Avis
Steve Doerr doerr.stephen@... writes: It may be because I am a linguist, but I cannot bring myself to declare such forms as ST JOHN'S ROAD to be incorrect when they make much more sense grammatically. ...unless they are St Andrews Road or St Albans Road. Often if you look hard enough you can

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata names copied in Harrow

2011-05-18 Thread Steve Doerr
On 18/05/2011 13:51, Ed Avis wrote: Do you mean that names have been entered where none existed before - or do you mean changing already-mapped names to agree with OS? In the case of Paine(')s Lane, it seems to have been changed from name=Paines Lane source:name=street signs to