Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-30 Thread Ed Avis
Graham Stewart (GrahamS graham@... writes: I just noticed that todays http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main ITO Analysis Summary shows we are now over 80% for road name completion (i.e. OSM road names compared to the OS Locator data). Is it possible to analyse how much of

Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
Ed Avis wrote: Even if you're in favour of armchair mapping, I think most agree that copying the names from the OS map is just 'phase 1', with the next and much more time- consuming step being to go out and resurvey to make sure. Many of the discrepancies around here need a close look on the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK road name coverage now over 80%

2011-06-30 Thread Graham Stewart (GrahamS)
Lester Caine wrote: there is little incentive to make changes since OSM IS correct ... so the 80% is probably a little low in reality. There is still benefit in tagging these discrepancies (where OSM is correct and OS is wrong) with the not:name tag - it maintains the accuracy of this