Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-25 Thread Ian Spencer
Brad Rogers wrote on 25/08/2010 11:30: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:57:23 +0100 Ian Spencer ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Ian, suggested, there are no sources quoted on the ways typically, and a very high number of ways simply do not join although keepright

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-25 Thread Dave F.
On 25/08/2010 11:30, Brad Rogers wrote: Finally, it strikes me as odd that some sort of checking isn't done at mapping time (I use Potlatch, ATM) to help eradicate some of the errors. This is a good point. A test to check if the way isn't joined to anything else should be fairly easy to

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:33:49 +0100 Ian Spencer ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Ian, It is a tricky one in that if you can't tell how they interact with OSM you don't know whether the person is being wilful or not. I always True. I tend to assume that user is doing accidental 'damage',

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-21 Thread Ian Spencer
Sorry for not checking the link, thanks for Jerry for picking out a good example. I agree that there is the right thing to do to let people know about the need to link as it is not apparent when something looks right. I did have a look at some way histories and the

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-21 Thread SomeoneElse
On 21/08/2010 10:01, Ian Spencer wrote: I suspect that it is an area where it has never been done properly, so there hasn't been an example to follow. It's also a between other mappers area - north of the West Midlands, a bit west for me and a bit SE for mikh43. The initial ways I

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-20 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi, I have come across a few mappers in the past who have put in a huge amount of effort to map their town, but were not aware of the connectivity or the importance of. When I have explained it to them and shown them some routing service that they hadn't come across before, they are generally