Ed Thanks for the clue - I was wondering why it wasn't making a lot of sense to me (as an IE8 user by default) - I will try it in Firefox then.
As for Apostrophes, there is not right or wrong on this - NPTG is supposed to use them where they are in popular use, but there is no absolute criterion (and some which appear to be logical possessives, and therefore should have an apostrophe, have good historical reasons for not having the apostrophe - or even having it after rather than before the s). Is Kings Heath the heath of a King, or of Kings ... or neither (it appears to come from Kings Norton, nearby - and it clearly is well established as being without an apostrophe if you look at various sources on the internet). As for locations - NPTG requires the centre of the locality (its coordinates) to be "at the business centre of the locality, on a road open to normal traffic and close to the most central public transport stops" (or some compromise between these three criteria where they don't clearly push to a single point). NPTG localities are NOT administrative areas - they are NOT parishes, for instance. They are about the community that lives/works/plays in the locality of that name. Best wishes Roger -----Original Message----- From: talk-transit-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-transit-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Ed Loach Sent: 17 August 2009 10:24 To: 'Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics' Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] NPTG locality viewer > Additionally to the old url the NPTG-Viewer can now be found > on: > http://www.mappa-mercia.org/nptg-viewer/ > > I think the tool is handy to find places which are not yet > mapped. It > may also be helpful to spot spelling errors. > > There is one issue with genitives being spelled with > apostrophes in > NPTG but without in OSM (e.g. Kings Heath in Birmingham). That's perhaps because Birmingham banning apostrophes is fairly recent: http://is.gd/2kSAe (story at Metro.co.uk). In case it helps anyone else, the tool doesn't seem to work for me on IE8 but does in Firefox. In both I can zoom in on say central Birmingham, but only in Firefox to letters on coloured backgrounds appear to allow me to select a locality. I note around here that where a Parish is named after the village, the Nptg LocalityName seems to be located near the OSM village-of-the-same-name node, rather than where the parish name renders in the centre of the admin boundary relation area. Still working out what I can do with it though. Ed _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit