Re: [Talk-GB] Bristol - a quick (and surprising?) statistic...

2010-08-08 Thread Ed Avis
Dave F. dave...@... writes: Personally I'd take OS as evidence of the existence of a road as well. Yes. A name is a social construct, not a physical thing that can be measured on the ground, so if it appears in the Ordnance Survey map - which is pretty much the definitive(*) map in

Re: [Talk-GB] Motorway junction naming

2010-08-08 Thread Dave F.
On 06/08/2010 15:49, Andy Sinclair wrote: Hello. I notice that a number of motorway junctions near me have been tagged with rather large names. For example, the name tag for M4 J16, normally referred to locally as Swindon West is: A3102 Swindon West, Wootton Bassett, RAF Lyneham, Calne

Re: [Talk-GB] Bristol - a quick (and surprising?) statistic...

2010-08-08 Thread Dave F.
On 08/08/2010 14:01, Craig Wallace wrote: On 03/01/2006 00:37, Dave F. wrote: On 07/08/2010 19:34, Richard Moss wrote: I take data from OS as evidence that there is a name for a road/track etc. I'm happy with that where I know a road exists, and I have added names to the farm tracks

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-08 Thread Dave F.
On 05/08/2010 23:05, Robert Scott wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dave F. wrote: Would it be possible to turn these circles off at lower zoom levels? Personally I like to double click on the map to zoom in at these levels as it centres the city I'm interested in so I can then use the bar

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-08 Thread Dave F.
On 08/08/2010 19:48, Robert Scott wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2010, Dave F. wrote: It's an improvement, but it tries to refresh on every click By refresh do you mean it tries to load the selected match details? It redraws all the different colour circles on the map (supposedly searching the

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

2010-08-08 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 08 August 2010, Dave F. wrote: It redraws all the different colour circles on the map (supposedly searching the database each time) list specific data on the right for the circle that was under the double click - pointless if you just want to zoom in. Oh! Yes - this is