[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Coventry new edit

2013-02-27 Thread Andy Robinson
Coventry folks. Is this kosher? http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2177040650 Cheers Andy ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Coventry new edit

2013-02-27 Thread Matt Williams
On 27 February 2013 12:07, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Coventry folks. Is this kosher? http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2177040650 I'm fairly sure those are all just residential houses along Albany Road and so it's likely a 'joke' edit. Matt

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Coventry new edit

2013-02-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Deleted after survey. Thanks Rob p.s. Interestingly on the opposite side of the road I found a plaque on number 51: http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/image_galleries/2_tone_plaque_gallery.shtml?29 ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Andy Allan
On 26 February 2013 22:08, Aidan McGinley aidmcgin+openstreet...@gmail.com wrote: is the actual output that would get loaded onto OSM. Please don't load this data into OpenStreetMap. It's not a good idea. 1) The source data appears to be heavily overprocessed. Users should note that postcodes

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Kevin Peat
Aidan, On 27 Feb 2013 09:04, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Please don't load this data into OpenStreetMap. It's not a good idea. 100% agree with Andy. To be acceptable your script would need to do at least as good a job as mappers could do by hand which I don't think is possible

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Aidan McGinley
Thanks for the feedback Andy, I'll tackle each point below, @Kevin hopefully #3 should address your concerns about accuracy 1) The source data appears to be heavily overprocessed. This only applies to data other than the postcode centroids, such as the Census Output Areas and other

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Aidan McGinley
That's right Ed, if a building already has a postcode I won't be changing it. I'm actually outputting them separately and using them for some quality assurance. I'd be interested to know the two postcodes you are referring to just to check how they look in the source data. On 27 February 2013

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Kevin Peat
Aidan, On 27 February 2013 11:12, Aidan McGinley ... I've only included the highest quality data which is postcode centroids that fall within a building within the area of the postcode... Does that allay any concerns about the import? Does the centroid always fall within the postcode area?

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Aidan McGinley
Kevin, Yes, the centroid falls within the postcode area for the highest quality indicator by definition. To be marked in the highest quality data set, the centroid must fall inside a building within the postcode area (see the user guide that accompanies the data for more details). These high

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode data

2013-02-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, Aidan approached the talk-gb mailing list last month about this postcode idea [1]. A discussion was held, and from the back of this several changes were made (mainly related to reducing the size of the import to ensure that only the very best data was used, but also to ensure that QA was