Andy wrote:
I've just checked a few well-mapped areas - Tendring, Hull and
Edinburgh - and the not:name is running at 2%, 3.1% and 1.9% of
all
the roads.
I'm just catching up as I was out all of yesterday (always seems to
be loads of emails when I'm not keeping current) so this may have
been
Hi,
I would back the use of such a bot but in area's that could do with the help
and there are only a few of these now. There are a couple of small towns in
Aberdeenshire that could do with a little boost. Just be careful. The rest will
follow with a little patience
I think it is a skill that
I agree with you 100% on this. I think if OSM is street-level complete
(preferably with postcodes as well) then it will be picked up by a lot more
developers for their iPhone and Android apps and the amount of feedback we
could get would be a 100 times greater than now. A standardised, OSM hosted,
I have created an initial wiki page for a proposed 'OS bot' [1]. I have
tried to present all the views and ideas expressed on this list in the past
day in the article - if you don't think I have got it right then please
update the article. I have indicated that it won't be welcome everywhere but
I would agree with this too; A fuller map will greatly increase usage and
visibility. However I don't think that a bot is necessarily the way to go.
What would be useful is a simple way for users to specify a bounding
box/polygon and download an OSM file with the OS data (or OS updates to OSM
On 4 February 2011 10:58, Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.ukwrote:
Hi,
I would back the use of such a bot but in area's that could do with the
help and there are only a few of these now. There are a couple of small
towns in Aberdeenshire that could do with a little boost. Just be
Peter Miller peter.miller@... writes:
I am aware that we still have many place names missing (available as open data
in the NatGaz file released by Traveline/DfT).
Place name nodes are a useful thing to have for address searches and should not
raise any objections about messing up existing data,
Ed Avis wrote:
This is the one thing that perturbs me too about using the OS data. Back
in
the days when we only had Yahoo, I would not tag the name on a way until
I had walked all the way down it checking for footpaths. If I'd only
explored
part of the way, I would tag the name on
Peter Miller wrote:
To be clear, I have no idea who might write this bot or when
So I propose we call it Bot Nukem Forever. :)
Why isn't the UK complete yet? Amazingly, in a worldwide community of
350,000 registered users (with thousands in the UK), we have:
- just three people working
Hi,
On 02/04/11 13:32, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Why isn't the UK complete yet? Amazingly, in a worldwide community of
350,000 registered users (with thousands in the UK), we have:
... a two-digit number of helpful individuals on this list telling you
what ought to be done!
Bye
Frederik
I couldn't agree more with Richard that there is no co-ordinated effort to
build a true community of occasional mappers, encouraging those who are not
and do not want to be hard-core map geeks, or to publicise what we are doing
to attract more developers and mappers and co-operation from data
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:18:19AM +, Peter Miller wrote:
I use the following method.
If the OS name is different from the streetsign and general usage I put it
in not:name
If it is apparently a valid alternative I put it on alt_name
I am not clear why anything else is required.
What
On 4 Feb 2011, at 12:55, Stephen Gower wrote:
What do you do when a road has completely gone? Mascall Avenue in Oxford
has completely gone. There's a new housing estate, with a road network that
doesn't match what was there before, so there's no way to mark with old_name
or not:name or
On 4 February 2011 12:55, Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap@earth.liwrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:18:19AM +, Peter Miller wrote:
I use the following method.
If the OS name is different from the streetsign and general usage I put
it
in not:name
If it is apparently a valid
Richard Fairhurst richard@... writes:
If we import OS OpenData into OSM, then OSM becomes national *but* is
no longer rich.
I can't agree with that at all. A blank area is not any more 'rich'
than one with basic details complete. We do not improve the map by
leaving blank bits.
There are
Brief expansion of previous point:
Ed Avis wrote:
So I did hesitate about adding name=Newton Road to a street which I had
not visited. But then I considered the folk living on that street typing
its
name into Nominatim and getting no results.
Let's see what Wikipedia does (and when you
Richard,
I don't think we need a bot for this as the current tools seem quite
adequate to me. If the missing streets are added this year then that would
be great.
Building a community is ideal but I think outside the successful parts of
the country we are not going to get a lot of people wanting
Peter Miller peter.miller@... writes:
What do you do when a road has completely gone? Mascall Avenue in Oxford
has completely gone. There's a new housing estate, with a road network that
doesn't match what was there before, so there's no way to mark with old_name
or not:name or anything.
I
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:25:31PM +, Ed Avis wrote:
I would suggest that whoever removed Mascall Avenue from the map should have
mapped what replaced it - a brownfield site or whatever - to avoid future
confusion.
For what it's worth, we did - there's now a landuse=residential;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12360687
The lack of good turn-restriction information can be lethal. (Of course, this
news story proves that people should keep looking at the road signs even when
using sat-nav. It also proves that sometimes they do not.)
Perhaps we need an explicit
On 04/02/2011 13:48, Ed Avis wrote:
I have sometimes wondered whether harvesting GPS traces would help with this
task. If every trace shows turning left at the junction, flag a warning for
somebody to check whether a turn restriction needs to be added. But to do that
we would need a bigger
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
(I've asked MapQuest to work on tutorial videos because, guess what, none
of you lot have had the
imagination to think if I were a new user, what would help me most?.)
Funny you should mention that. In the spirit of the do-ocracy I got started
on what I envisage
On 4 February 2011 15:43, davespod osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote:
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
(I've asked MapQuest to work on tutorial videos because, guess what, none
of you lot have had the
imagination to think if I were a new user, what would help me most?.)
Funny you should mention
davespod wrote:
I’ve created a first attempt at a short tutorial video for
adding POIs using Potlatch 2.
That is absolutely _brilliant_!
My faith in human nature is restored. :) Do you have a file you could e-mail
me? If so I'll embed it into P2 this weekend.
Now off to look at Tom's
On 4 February 2011 12:52, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps this is why we need a UK chapter?
There has been past interest in having a UK chapter, but no interest so far
in setting one up or meeting up to specifically talk about the possibility
of one.
--
Gregory
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