This is a more fundamental problem than which source is the correct one --
names aren't properly defined to begin with.
The source for most of these names is simply what locals referred to things
as 100 years ago, and what managed to stick when some bloke on a horse with
a clipboard asked them.
?
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*From:* talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:
talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org] *On Behalf Of *John Robert Peterson
*Sent:* 22 June 2010 21:33
*To:* talk-gb OSM List (E-mail)
*Subject:* [Talk-GB] Reference points for total station
I have managed to gain
I have managed to gain access to a total station (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_station) for doing a survey of a built up
university campus. The goals of the project are 2 fold:
1) learn some new skills
2) get some decent data for OSM of the area.
Now for anyone that doesn't know about
On 1 June 2010 12:18, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
I have sometimes used incorrect_name for noting mistakes in street names.
The intention was that if somebody tagged it wrongly, it's likely that
somebody could also do a search for the incorrect name. OSM search engines
might want to
I hate to sound pesemeistic, and may have missed somthing, but...
Do we have any gaurentee that this inacuracy isn't some messed up copy
protection/obfucation/deliberate error/easter egg thing introduced by OS? I
know they shouldn't have, but they are a relitivly clumsy organisation, and
I'm sure
(mostly useless comment...)
I have a good mind to wire up an Arduino http://www.arduino.cc/ to a
microswitch and a network adaptor to change the tagging on OSM every time I
open/close my driveway gate.
This does however bring up the point that these factors can be quite
volitile, and that it may
I agree in principal with what you are saying, and most of this email
will boil down to semantics, but I think that what I'm saying is at
least valid technically.
You say local authorities don't buy rubbish!! -- this is a pretty
rash assumption -- I personally know instances that disprove this
By the looks of the imagery edges, it's made up out a of a huge number
of small images that seem to have very odd alignments.
I would guess form my experiance that the imagery has a general error
where there is an offset that covers the whole set, or large swathes
of it, caused by GPS drift, or
Couldn't agree more. Serial deletionism is a concept that I just don't
understand, I'm sure it's well intentioned, but I can't see where it's
coming from.
On to technical details:
There is however a dificulty in distinguishing between when somone
moves somthing because it was previusly mapped at
This may be tantamount to hijacking a perfectly good forum post, and
for that I apologise, but how's this for an idea:
Form a mapping taskforce -- a group of dedicated seasoned mapping
party attendants. When an area is put forward for requiring imediate
attention (workington being a suitable
Put differently -- can anyone think of any specific reason why we
can't start tracing?
The only thing I can think of is to make sure that we are very careful
to include:
source=os_meridian2
source=os_streetview
source=os_etc
Or whatever the particular dataset you are using is, on each way (or
Please slap me if I'm either jumping the gun, or duplicating here, but
I don't think anyone has covered this publicly already.
I have had a quick poke around, and the meridian2 data seems to use a
UID called OSODR (Ordnance Survey Oscar Database Reference). After
some further poking around, it
We should try to get this large redundancy when flying again
So what you are saying is that I should take *more* photos ... noone
has ever said that to me before ... there is always a first for
everything.
The outcomes that I'm hearing from this is -- higher altitude; more
image overlap; the
2009/10/15 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
Ed Loach e...@... writes:
As only Sealand recognise Sealand and no
UN member does (from the wiki article you quote), I can't see the
claim that the sea boundary of England is wrong can be justified.
Who would have expected an edit war in the English
peerja...@googlemail.com
wrote:
John Robert Peterson wrote:
Do we have anything that will draw map tiles of the trace data? (I'd
like
this for another project anyway: checking whether traces exist for an
area
when out with a mobile device)
if it's a public gpx, then look
it's an eliptiacal galaxy viewed edge on with no bulge...
JR
2009/9/18 Matt Williams li...@milliams.com
2009/9/18 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net:
Does it need a checkbox for sheep?
Damn! I knew I'd forgotten something :)
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Matt Williams
http://milliams.com
I'd join too -- but I doubt I would be of all that much help.
JR
2009/9/17 Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk
Peter Miller wrote:
The other question though:-
1) Would you support the existence of such a list?
2) Would you join it?
Yes, I'd join.
I'm pretty sure I heard from somewhere that the post code associated with
the post box is actually a post code assosiated with the collection office,
and that a house next to it can have a totally different post code.
JR
2009/9/17 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net
Ciarán Mooney wrote:
Hi,
We may not be able to use it but mabee we can use it to highlight
inacuaracies in our data, how do the legalities stand whith that sort of
thing? that could clean up the postcode data awesomly.
Would this be a good time to petitioning the government to give us access to
this data, after all, I'm
As for plans for how -- I sent an email to the OAM list for advice, and
haven't gotten a reply.
As for hosting, that's even more of a mystery.
I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr
would be able ot hold all 10GB of data, it would be an almost imposable ot
:)
Cheers.
Tim
http:thinkwhere.wordpress.com
(sent from a phone)
On Sep 13, 2009 4:04 PM, John Robert Peterson jrp@gmail.com wrote:
As for plans for how -- I sent an email to the OAM list for advice, and
haven't gotten a reply.
As for hosting, that's even more of a mystery.
I'm
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