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

2015-03-18 Thread Brian Prangle
Well done Jonathan! You've motivated me to go out and survey the remaining 4 roads in Dudley so we can have 100% coverge of the West Midlands. Does anyone else have any tales of what the Quarterly Poroject motivated them to do? Next Q's project will be all things Delivery or Logistics. This

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] 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

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

2015-01-13 Thread Brian Prangle
Thanks for your interest .A quarterly project is what it says on the tin: a project which lasts for a quarter of a year i.e 3 months. Beware! All the sources you list are copyrighted andd therefore NOT suitable as a data source for OpenStreetMap. Leave the Dudley roads as I'm planning a survey

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

2015-01-13 Thread Brian Prangle
We're two weeks in to this experiment and it would be good to hear any feedback. In the West Midlands since we started this project in this quarter we've completed Wolverhampton Walsall and Sandwell. Wolverhampton was done by contacting a user on the ground to check a road name, which they did.

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

2015-01-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
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 to enthuse mappers on the ground in the past but

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

2015-01-13 Thread Pmailkeey .
I'm not sure what a Qarterly Project is but... On 13 January 2015 at 15:26, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: We're two weeks in to this experiment and it would be good to hear any feedback. In the West Midlands since we started this project in this quarter we've completed