I created a list on the Mappa Mercia wiki page to log our resolutions for the discrepancies. The link is:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/OS_Locator_Bugs Cheers, Christoph "Andy Robinson \(blackadder\)" <blackadder...@googlemail.com> schrieb: > Tom Hughes has just added the ITO World Locator tiles overlay to his > map browser, which makes it a lot easier to browse around the region > and find the difference between OSM and the OS OpenData StreetView. > > http://maps.compton.nu > > Just click the overlay at the bottom of the layers panel. > > Be warned though, not all difference are down to errors in OSM, but > just difference in the way labels are done in the OS dataset. For > instance, Birmingham and other LA's don't generally nowadays put > apostrophes in street signs, but the OS data set often will have them > for the same street. As always with OSM, stick to what's on the > ground. If we record discrepancies on the Mappa-Mercia page on the > wiki we can keep an eye out for differences that we know of and what > a resurvey on the ground tells us. It also means we can revert easily > if someone blindly uses the OS mapping as "fact". > > You will find that the number of discrepancies in Birmingham isn't so > great, they are infrequent and spaced about with just the odd one > here and there in each locality. However slide yourself across the > Black Country and it's a different story. Because a lot of mapping in > the Black Country has been hit and miss to date there are lots of > locations needing attention. > > Happy mapping > > Cheers > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
