'Cos I was just playing! ...and it was late...
The other reason for not counting was that my search was too simple - as
well as the abbrev 'mus' you get loads of names containing mus.
You are welcome to have a go - I think the web interface is still working.
Graham
Graham J
I was disappointed with "***some word***" - only **some number**! (you do
> get a few more with **some abbreviation**, but not a lot)
>
When people say that, it seems they have also searched for the abbreviation.
Why doesn't anyone give a number of abbreviations they found?
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Gregory
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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Gazetteer
Ah yes - I hadn't tried 'Fm' - that does give a lot.
I was disappointed with "Museum" - only 16! (you do get a few more with
'mus', but not a lot).
Maybe I will try a compa
Ah yes - I hadn't tried 'Fm' - that does give a lot.
I was disappointed with "Museum" - only 16! (you do get a few more with
'mus', but not a lot).
Maybe I will try a comparison with OSM - will just be a bit tricky with the
abbreviations.
Graham.
On 1 April 2010 23:16, Peter Reed wrote:
> A
On 1 April 2010 22:40, Graham Jones wrote:
> I have been playing with the Ordnance Survey 50k gazetteer to see if it
> looks useful (very simple search tool
> at http://maps2.webhop.net/openos/gaz/www/doSearch.php).
> As a 'point of interest' database it does not have anywhere near as much in
> it
A lot more farms are there as ". Fm"
"It can't be that all farms are listed
as running the query only reveals 372
points with farm in the title.
Probably not enough to get too excited
about, maybe just deal with them manually?"
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>boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Graham Jones
>Sent: 01 April 2010 10:40 PM
>To: OSM Talk-GB
>Subject: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Gazetteer
>
>I have been playing with the Ordnance Survey 50k gazetteer to see if it
>looks useful (very simple search tool at
>htt
I have been playing with the Ordnance Survey 50k gazetteer to see if it
looks useful (very simple search tool at
http://maps2.webhop.net/openos/gaz/www/doSearch.php).
As a 'point of interest' database it does not have anywhere near as much in
it as OSM does, which is quite nice really, so it is le
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