I've sent a friendly message to the user, asking if they want any
help, that sort of thing. But regardless of whether these edits were
intentional or accidental, they are destructive, and I agree with Nick
that they should be reverted.
Greg,
On 12 June 2010 07:57, Greg Auger
Chris Hill o...@... writes:
I have found ITO World's layer of name anomalies rather useful, but I
could only see it in an editor, so I put together a comparison page,
using the techniques from the sautter.com transparent map.
http://oscompare.raggedred.net
Thanks, this will be very useful.
Could the OS versus OSM name comparison be changed to strip apostrophes from
both names before comparing?
See
http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=16lat=51.54886lon=-0.20997layers=B0TF
for example - neither OS nor OSM have any real consistency in whether to use
apostrophe or not.
I've no wish
Differences on the naming of sections of trunk road (Southern Bypass
vs Southern Bypass Road) are also a little distracting.
Richard
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
Could the OS versus OSM name comparison be changed to strip apostrophes from
both names before
Hi,
I can easily understand that apostrophes and the name bypass are annoying,
however I think there is an opportunity here.
For example, bypass or by-pass. This highlights an inconstancy in the OS data,
which will be useful for them to correct and standardise.
Apostrophes are the same, they
Nick Whitelegg nick_whitel...@... writes:
Firstly, while (I believe) you can walk just about anywhere in Scotland, except
during the stalking season, there are a number of waymarked footpaths,
waymarked
similarly to England and Wales. I guess these have no legal relevance but are
merely
Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@... writes:
I can easily understand that apostrophes and the name bypass are annoying,
however I think there is an opportunity here.
For example, bypass or by-pass. This highlights an inconstancy in the OS data,
which will be useful for them to correct and
On 12/06/2010 22:37, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Firstly, while (I believe) you can walk just about anywhere in Scotland,
except during the stalking season, there are a number of waymarked
footpaths, waymarked similarly to England and Wales. I guess these have
no legal relevance but are merely
Ed Avis wrote:
Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@... writes:
I can easily understand that apostrophes and the name bypass are annoying,
however I think there is an opportunity here.
For example, bypass or by-pass. This highlights an inconstancy in the OS
data,
which will be useful
Agreed - might as well mop up the anomalies (St/Saint, apostrophes etc) as we
go along this first time round.
--- On Sun, 13/6/10, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
If I'm going out to check some anomalies, it would be very annoying to
have to go out to the same area again in six months
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Firstly, while (I believe) you can walk just about anywhere in Scotland,
except during the stalking season, there are a number of waymarked
footpaths, waymarked similarly to England and Wales. I guess these have no
legal relevance but are merely recommended routes. Are
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