Hi Marc, Thanks for the reply. I'll make it my task to find an out of date copyright map that brings the full name, wherever I might find it :)
Have a great weekend! Kai Am 4. Juli 2020 13:02:59 MESZ schrieb Mark Goodge <m...@good-stuff.co.uk>: > > >On 04/07/2020 06:16, Kai Michael Poppe - OSM wrote: >> >> So, a few months ago I stumbled upon a note >> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/2158104#map=19/51.49829/-0.32762) >> that StreetComplete left saying, that the street couldn't be given a >> name because there's none shown. >> >> Back then, I used streetmap.co.uk >> (https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=516161&Y=179063&A=Y&Z=106) in >> hopes to finding something - but only got "FAI RD." which - to me - >> makes no sense. >> >> Also, using https://os.openstreetmap.org/ makes it look like that's just >> an access path to houses around it, which is (IMHO) not entirely true as >> the way directly linking Southdown Av. and Boston Rd. clearly is >> publicly accessible. >> >> Now, using the above mentioned map >> (https://osm.mathmos.net/addresses/uprn/#19/51.4983/-0.3279) I now know, >> that this street has the UPRN ID 12145988. > >That may not be the UPRN of the path or street. It may be the UPRN of >the open space that the path runs through. The path is more likely to >have a USRN (unique street reference number) than a UPRN. > >To find the USRN of the path, you need to use the lookup tables supplied >by OS. Doing that, we find that the associated USRN is 20602512. > >Now, there's no open data source which will directly tell you the name >of a USRN (at least, not until we start putting them into OSM). The long >way of doing so is to find the matching LineString in OS OpenMap Local, >and see what name it has there. > >However, it can be done directly via a non-open source. If you go to >https://www.findmystreet.co.uk/map and zoom in on the location, then >click the street to bring up the USRN details, it will give the name >(and also confirm that the USRN from the OS lookup table is correct). Or >use the search box and search for USRN 20602512. > > From an OSM point of view, that would normally be a dead end. Even if >you can view the information on a non-open source, you can't incorporate >it into OSM. However, in this case, we already have an abbreviated name >from an open source. So all we are learning from the closed source is >the full text of the abbreviation. Whether that makes it acceptable to >include the full name into OSM is a matter of debate. I'll leave that >decision up to others, but, for reference, the name of the street is >Fairfield Road. > >Mark > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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