On 14 Jun 2010, at 15:11, David Groom wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Avis" <e...@waniasset.com> > To: <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 12:54 PM > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB]Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - > apostrophes > > >> >> At the risk of reopening the apostrophes war, my point is that >> issues such >> as >> Saint vs St, or Queen's Drive versus Queens Drive, are not ones >> that can >> be >> resolved by survey. They are merely orthographic conventions. >> Similarly, >> we >> do not report a mismatch between High Street and HIGH STREET, even >> though >> the OS >> map and data uses upper case, and most councils use it for street >> signs. >> >> However, I've changed my mind - we might as well clear up >> apostrophes and >> abbreviations at the same time as other things, it's not an >> obstacle to >> fixing >> the more serious discrepancies. So I'm happy for them to be flagged. >> >> > > Rather than simply deciding should these be flagged / should these > not be > flagged, would it not be simpler if where the difference between OS > Locator > and OSM were just an apostrophe, then the map tiles used just one > specific > colour (and maybe in particular one of the pale colours). > > Then everyone should be happy :) > > All differences are flagged, but it's much easy to spot (and ignore) > the > apostrophe difference.
Just to let people know that we are listening to the conversation even though I am not contributing today. I do get the impression that apostrophes are in more of a muddle across street signs/OSM and the OS than other aspects of the data and I do think that we should continue to record the name on the street sign as the primary name and highlight the differences between that and OS Locator. I suggest we continue to flag alternative versions for which there is no proven valid usage using not:name but where an alternative official name is found (ie in the legal name or a past name or even one in local usage) then we should put that in alt:name. One limitation from our side at present is that the primary author of the code is on holiday now and I would suggest that we sort out any changes that we would like to see ready for his return, possibly we could assemble these on the wiki. In summary. From the recent debate I believe we have the following so far which we will consider: 1) There is a proposal to mark apostrophe differences in a single colour. 2) There are some queries from Ed Loach, particularly about drive-ways which we may well be ignoring. Any more? Regards, Peter Regards, Peter > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
