On 11 June 2011 14:22, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Miller wrote: >> >> Fyi we are doing some investigation in ITO into adding OS >> VectorDistrict 'road missing' data on the OS Locator tiles or possibly >> onto an alternative map layer. The aim being to make tracing of roads >> easier > >> [...] >> At a later stage one might consider extending the bot to also add road >> geometry but this is significantly more difficult. > > No need to bother with either. :) > > The current Potlatch 2 codebase (not deployed yet) can pull vectors directly > out of VectorMap District shapefiles. Just load the shapefile in the > background, alt-click, and the road comes through.
Sounds great. So the only significant job for the bot is to snap road names onto these vectors (together with suitable 'surveyed' tagging). I assume that the person doing this will have to be careful to stitch these new ways into the existing road network correctly? > If you wanted to do something helpful towards this, a mirror of the unzipped > shapefiles, perhaps with a nice index, would be really useful. ITO are probably not the best people to set up maintain simple mirrors of existing content. Are there not 100 sites where a mirror could be set up and maintained? Why is the OS site not sufficient anyway? >> Regarding documentation, my contribution is to put a lot of effort >> into the wiki to improve some of the tag pages in particular to >> marine/harbours and electricity supply. Hopefully someone will do work >> on the Potlatch documentation. > > It's not "Potlatch documentation" we're lacking, it's OSM documentation for > the new user who doesn't even know what Potlatch is. Playing with > marine/harbour tag pages, or indeed anything on the wiki, is a bit > deckchairs-on-the-Titanic to be honest. Possibly we should ban all marine edits (and indeed any other additions of frivolous content) until we have recruited enough new editors to complete a ground survey of all UK roads and paths ;) Regards, Peter > > cheers > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
