On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:19 +, SomeoneElse wrote:
SomeoneElse wrote:
I'm planning to remove names that I can't find evidence for
I think that it's clear from the replies to this that the general
concensus is in favour of not having these as names. I'll get on with
updating the
SomeoneElse wrote:
I'm planning to remove names that I can't find evidence for
I think that it's clear from the replies to this that the general
concensus is in favour of not having these as names. I'll get on with
updating the road, in each case moving the previous name to description.
Rovastar wrote:
Foston Hatton Hilton Bypass, etc don't as far I I know appear on
the ground however I think the some record should appear in
OSM. I am worried about the trend in this case of placing them
as the name of the road as what reference point would people
use for these.
I'd use alt_name. At least it's an established place to look for
alternative stuff.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
Rovastar wrote:
Foston Hatton Hilton Bypass, etc don't as far I I know appear on
the ground however I think the some record
'description' might be an appropriate tag - after all that is what the
phrase Foston Hatton Hilton Bypass actually is.
Roger
On 20/02/2013 08:30, Richard Mann wrote:
I'd use alt_name. At least it's an established place to look for
alternative stuff.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM,
about the trend in this case of placing them as the name of
the road as what reference point would people use for these.
Any thoughts?
John
From: rovas...@hotmail.com
To: li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:48:53 +
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names
of the road as what reference point would people use for these.
Any thoughts?
John
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From: rovas...@hotmail.com
To: li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:48:53 +
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere
@openstreetmap.org
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:48:53 +
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
The user looks like a troll. None of his/her/bot changesets have any comments.
And they bounce all over the world
I think he deleted the original roads on the 21 jan 2013
Chris Hill wrote:
How did the mapper get this info? What licence is it under? FoI for
example is copyright and so still needs to be released under a
suitable licence. AFAIK local authorities are responsible for naming
roads not the DfT.
(from OSM messages from the original mapper following
Philip Barnes wrote:
I did briefly discuss this with Andy on IRC and the other issue is
the insertion of soft-hyphens into the names so Hatton becomes
Hat-ton. Not sure why, is he trying to make a satnav pronounce
each syllable?
Or copied and pasted from a document?
cheers
Richard
--
SomeoneElse)
can talk sense to him.
John
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:42:03 -0800
From: rich...@systemed.net
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
Philip Barnes wrote:
I did briefly discuss this with Andy on IRC and the other issue
to him.
John
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:42:03 -0800
From:
rich...@systemed.net
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re:
[Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
Philip
Barnes wrote:
I did briefly discuss this with Andy on IRC and the
other issue is
the insertion of soft
@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
Aha, it's Mauls is it... He is indeed very prolific, and adds a lot of missing
details across the whole planet. However he never seems to disclose his
sources, either in the source tag or in changeset comments.
Colin
On 20 Feb 2013 19:38, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
...I certainly wouldn't defend his attitude...
I don't know Mauls from Adam but how would you feel if you had been
contributing to the project for five years and someone you'd never heard of
sent you an unfriendly message
On 20/02/13 20:15, Kevin Peat wrote:
On 20 Feb 2013 19:38, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com
mailto:dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
...I certainly wouldn't defend his attitude...
I don't know Mauls from Adam but how would you feel if you had been
contributing to the project for
On 20 Feb 2013 21:14, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
...He copied data from a local newspaper article to name a road
wrongly...
Mauls might be wrong in this case but the name of a road in the local paper
isn't copyrighted. It's a basic fact, the newspaper didn't create it and
they
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 15:01 +0100, Colin Smale wrote:
Aha, it's Mauls is it... He is indeed very prolific, and adds a lot of
missing details across the whole planet. However he never seems to
disclose his sources, either in the source tag or in changeset
comments.
I have spotted that Mauls
Richard Fairhurst richard@...
writes:
Philip Barnes wrote:
I did briefly discuss this with
Andy on IRC and the other issue is
the insertion of soft-hyphens
into the names so Hatton
becomes
Hat-ton. Not sure why, is he
trying to make a satnav pronounce
each syllable?
Or
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
The user looks like a troll. None of his/her/bot changesets have any comments.
And they bounce all over the world.
I think he deleted the original roads on the 21 jan 2013 as the history in OSM
says they are new roads.
Can someone
The user looks like a troll. None of his/her/bot changesets have any comments.
And they bounce all over the world.
I think he deleted the original roads on the 21 jan 2013 as the history in OSM
says they are new roads.
Can someone look at reverting them all.
I sent the user this PM.
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