On 3 February 2011 10:04, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Peter Miller wrote: > >> Don't worry - this will only happen once every three months when the OS >> publish an updated OS Locator file. We updated to the latest OS Locator >> version (dated November 10) last night, hence a few places have fallen >> off their '100% perch'! We should be due another one reasonably soon I >> guess and may get it up sooner. >> >> In time I hope that we will find that some of our 'not:name' reports >> will have been fixed by the OS. I hear that the OS is getting much more >> receptive to this whole Open Data thing. One layer I would like ITO to >> produce would be the reverse OS Locator view, which would be for the >> OS's use (and our amusement!). It would show all the named roads that >> are in OSM but which are not in the OS. They would then need to research >> why that is the case and update their own products (without compromising >> our license). >> > > Peter > In my own area there are not too many discrepancies, but some OS names ARE > wrong compared to the ground details. Have we got a way of flagging the > name:os so that we can identify these and flag them as 'different' rather > than 'missing' >
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. One other technique I have found useful which is worth mentioning is with A roads (such as the A14) where part of that are technically still Huntingdon Road (and I remember it as a kid when it was one lane in each direction with a chicken crossing over the A1). It isn't appropriate these days to have the A14 labeled as 'Huntingdon Road' however.... Huntingdon Road is not 'wrong' either. In these cases I put the name Hungingdon Road into alt_name and leave name empty. In this way it is cleared from the OS Locator comparison test but isn't rendered on the main map. Regards, Peter > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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