On Wednesday 21 April 2010, David Dixon wrote: > I've been playing with the OS OpenData Locator dataset, which contains > the XY coordinates for the ends & midpoint of many of the UK's roads. > This gazetteer appears to complement the StreetView data - some (short) > streets whose names are absent from StreetView are included in OS > Locator. Conversely, some streets named in StreetView are absent from OS > Locator. > > I've come up with a relatively painless way of getting the midpoint data > into an overlay in JOSM - see the wiki for details: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#OS_Locator > > If anyone can't get this working, I might be persuaded to format a > county or two - do get in touch. I can't guarantee a quick turnaround > though!
We could probably quite easily generate a comparison between OSM and OS streetnames, matching similarly named streets within the same vicinity in both datasets. This could pick up quite a few useful things like disagreements between spelling. robert. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
