I'm also wondering whether you should exclude Service Roads as it indicates an access road with no name, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/225081816
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 2:10 PM Jez Nicholson <jez.nichol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I randomly found 2 good examples: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/634592359 and > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/478481882 which are both new housing > estates....which would fit why a road with a lot of houses is unnamed. They > may have been mapped prior to them receiving official road names. > > The case that Greg already noted, mobile home parks, e.g. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/230945815 may have road names but are > sometimes private property and not accessible to mappers. > > Perhaps there is extra processing that could classify them? > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:57 PM Gregory Marler <i...@nomoregrapes.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Oisin, >> >> I've taken a very quick look at this spreadsheet (oops, getting >> distracted from work). >> >> 1) Can you elaborate on the source(s) of suspected road names? >> 2) It would helpful if each of us could look at your list in a more >> localised aspect. Either including county would be more helpful, or at >> least having latitude and longitude in separate columns makes it easier to >> use in other tools usually. >> 3) There's some obvious reasons why some of those aren't in OSM just by >> looking at the first 5. >> 3a) One was on a caravan park, so it might not have an official name or >> even a sign (again I would like to question the source). >> 3b) A way was about 3 metres to connect one road to another, it's >> debatable whether it should be named itself but could be fixed without a >> survey. >> 3c) There are lots of abbreviated names in your spreadsheet, even "Clos" >> which I presume is a strange shortening of "Close". >> >> A Maproulette challenge might tempt people to copy the names from your >> spreadsheet (the legality and suitability of that is very unknown!). >> >> All the best from Chester-le-Street, >> Gregory. >> >> >> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 13:38, Oisin Herriott (Insight Global Inc) via >> Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello again, >>> >>> Wondering if there was any discussion on the previously submitted >>> question, which is inline below? Happy to elaborate anyway I can where >>> there is any ambiguity 🙂 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Oisin >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From:* Oisin Herriott (Insight Global Inc) >>> *Sent:* Friday, February 22, 2019 12:47 PM >>> *To:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >>> *Subject:* Road name contradictions in the UK >>> >>> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> >>> >>> Our Open Maps team (https://github.com/microsoft/open-maps >>> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmicrosoft%2Fopen-maps&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C5f43e39d0d63417ee38408d68d2e9a4b%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636851628660533805&sdata=fQkRtSQ0jQaJ7s7fWg23NervMF7yX3SGJxEwANMTOIM%3D&reserved=0>) >>> has been continuing to work on analyzing OSM in the UK. Some of you may >>> have seen my session in Milan where we talked about Microsoft’s >>> ongoing OSM work in Australia. >>> >>> >>> >>> We’ve created a list of the top 1500 streets in the UK that appear to be >>> missing names along with the name that we *suspect* should be there. We >>> are not 100% certain if our suspicious are correct and, not being local to >>> these areas we are not remotely trying to fill these in. If there are folks >>> that know these areas we could use your help closing these gaps. >>> >>> >>> >>> The complete list is available here: >>> >>> https://1drv.ms/x/s!As04HHdPPfhgg4lYigS4IiWjp2JJiw >>> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F1drv.ms%2Fx%2Fs!As04HHdPPfhgg4lYigS4IiWjp2JJiw&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C5f43e39d0d63417ee38408d68d2e9a4b%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636851628660543799&sdata=mHI1fOL4xJFNZTL%2BRcpoVlsg5hFQHJSJUEwCaXjHmtY%3D&reserved=0> >>> >>> >>> >>> These are not major roads but they are associated with a large number of >>> residential addresses so end up having a big impact. We may also create >>> a Maproulette challenge for these as well if that is preferable? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Oisin >>> >>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/herriotto >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >>> Windows 10 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-GB mailing list >>> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >>> >> >> >> -- >> Gregory Marler >> No More Grapes >> 07939 689 691 >> i...@nomoregrapes.com >> http://www.nomoregrapes.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >
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