Re: [Talk-GB] Multiple coincident boundary nodes. Data quality issue ?

2017-08-11 Thread Warin
Basic agreement with Colin. The 'problem' is better described as 'data bloat' rather than 'quality' which implies inaccuracy. I add the following observation I am beginning to see that the ways should have a source tag. This then means that where ways are coincident that the sources

Re: [Talk-GB] Multiple coincident boundary nodes. Data quality issue ?

2017-08-11 Thread Colin Smale
Mike, not sure I would call it a real data quality issue, but it "could be better". There are two coincident lines, which share some nodes but do not share the majority of nodes, despite the fact they are coincident. One line represents the boundary of Great Britain, and the admin boundary

[Talk-GB] Multiple coincident boundary nodes. Data quality issue ?

2017-08-11 Thread Mike Parfitt
If I put Drimnin in the centre of my tablet's screen in an area of 780m EW and 515m NS (landscape) the land/sea boundary is marked (not always accurately) by a number of coincident way/relation/multipolygon items all of which pass through 49 things that look like nodes. There are actually 71

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #368 2017-08-01-2017-08-07

2017-08-11 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 368, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/9359/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

2017-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
On 11/08/17 11:44, Chris Jones wrote: > For OSM that would mean translating the website/interface, providing a > localised render (like cyosm did), and improving the name:cy coverage. > It does not mean shoving both English and Welsh version in the same name > tag to everybody's detriment. As

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

2017-08-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Brian Prangle wrote: > You have raised a subject which needs attention but we don't > have an active community in Wales, just individual mappers I don't find that a helpful distinction. Aside from a few places (London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, the North-East Midlands), OSM in the UK doesn't have