As Jerry says, the key feature was that it compared OS road names to OSM and highlighted the differences.
The Microsoft Open Data Team recently analysed streets-with-no-name-but-lots-of-houses which threw up positive hits, and some potentially false positives of new housing estates which do not have road names yet and auxiliary service roads. I'd like to see a new tool be built....i'd also like someone to fund it being built and sustain it either through a grant or donated work. On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 10:28 AM SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote: > The big difference of the old Locator layer from ITO is that it displayed > the name. The other tool which used OS locator is Robert Scott's OSL > Musical Chairs <https://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map>. > Both suffer because OS Locator was last released in 2016. > > One way to get potentially missing names is to use OS Open Roads. These > are big shape files, so its probably best to cut them down using something > like ogr2ogr, or QGIS. The file can be pulled in as a custom layer in iD, > Potlatch and as a standard layer in JOSM. > > A more elaborate approach is to grab the OSM roads in an area (e.g., with > an Overpass Turbo query), pull them in to QGIS, buffer by 25 m & use the > buffered layer to find any roads in OS Open Road which are outside the > buffered area. This in turn can be saved in a form for use as a custom > layer in editors. With JOSM & Potlatch 2 (I think) you can use this as the > basis of a to do list to check each missing road. > > Obviously webhosted layers would be more convenient for the average mapper. > > Jerry > > > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 10:02, Paul Berry <pmberry2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Does anyone know the best, or suitable alternative, tool that replaces >> their analysis tools for the missing road names? >> >> http://qa.poole.ch/ is your friend and guide. >> >> Regards, >> *Paul* >> >> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 21:12, Guy Collins via Talk-GB < >> talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: >> >>> Apologies if this has already been announced. ITO! World have stopped >>> supporting their very helpful set of OpenStreetMap tools. Please see the >>> announcement here: >>> https://www.itoworld.com/ito-openstreetmap-tools-announcement/ >>> >>> Does anyone know the best, or suitable alternative, tool that replaces >>> their analysis tools for the missing road names? Their tools also >>> highlighted road coverage by local authority which was helpful. >>> >>> Guy >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-GB mailing list >>> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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