[Talk-GB] Fix the road name! Progress Report

2015-01-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Jo, Sorry to hear that you feel that way. The Fix The Road Name initiative comes from Mappa Mercia - an OpenStreetMap group in the West Midlands. It is the first of our quarterly projects that are designed to promote OSM and attempt to grow a bigger and better community in the UK (similar to

[Talk-GB] Unsigned road names (was Fix the road name!)

2015-01-24 Thread SomeoneElse
Hijacking the thread somewhat, but something that I was wondering about recently... There are many roads that are signed, and we can add them to OSM. Great! There are some roads that are signed, and the sign differs from what the local authority thinks that a road is called (usually just

Re: [Talk-GB] Unsigned road names (was Fix the road name!)

2015-01-24 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 24 January 2015 at 20:33, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote: However, there are names where the name in OSM is what the local authority uses, and what local people would agree that it is called, but there's no sign on the ground. How do we reflect that? I just wanted to add that

Re: [Talk-GB] Unsigned road names (was Fix the road name!)

2015-01-24 Thread David Woolley
On 24/01/15 20:33, SomeoneElse wrote: However, there are names where the name in OSM is what the local authority uses, and what local people would agree that it is called, but there's no sign on the ground. How do we reflect that? It's useful to know from a I suspect the local authority take

Re: [Talk-GB] Fix the road name! Progress Report

2015-01-24 Thread Jo Walsh
Okay, borrowed a public keyboard for a ten minute ration so i'll try to outline a bit better. Frederik Ramm had the perfect keyphrase when he described osm as a community of makers. Authentic community meetups, for some value of authentic which means self-motivated and group-motivating

Re: [Talk-GB] Unsigned road names (was Fix the road name!)

2015-01-24 Thread SK53
I have always assumed that your usage is fine, although I have not tagged this information myself. However, today chasing up one of the missing locator streets (one I knew had been built, but had not bee in the area for a while) I found that the road is completely lacking any street name signs.