Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread SomeoneElse
More info on this - it seems to be a bunch of people working for this company: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/%C3%96V_Firma_Mentz_Datenverarbeitung_GmbH I've had no reply from the mapper that I tried to contact (although they have fixed at least one of the problems that they created) so

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Andy Robinson
Yes, I looked at the first user in the list and the first page of changesets loaded with one close to me which is a railway platform apparently in the middle of a housing estate. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24439915 As it’s a U_Bahn entry I'm assuming its meant to be a platform on

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Richard Symonds
Interestingly, the source given is the German phrase for surveyed in the field... Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor,

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Greetings, all. Mentz (aka mdv) is a German company that provides the journey planner used by a number of the traveline regions, as well as for Transport for London. As you may recall from my previous posts, a number traveline regions are now using OSM as the GIS. We found a problem

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Andy Robinson
Here's just one example of an odd type of edit. Adding priority=yard to rail objects. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/96973880 I did not see anything on the schema page to suggest odd tags:

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
OK. I agree that it is odd, but my ability to influence them will be restricted to UK edits that they will have done (theoretically) to resolve issues that we have raised with them. I'll take a look at some of the other edits referred to in the trail below. Regards, Stuart -Original

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread SomeoneElse
On 12/11/2014 10:59, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Please pass the details back to me, and I will discuss it with them and also with the community if things need reverting. Thanks Stuart. All of my detailed comments so far have been on changesets. I went through

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Andy Robinson
According to http://hdyc.neis-one.org .The ÖV Firma Mentz Datenverarbeitung GmbH users that have edited in the UK are: tklug thomas-oliver-berlin mjessen Gavaasuren haytigran rotkelch taoxue I'm sure many edits are perfectly valid, but clearly there are concerns with some. Cheers Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Tom Hughes
On 12/11/14 11:40, Andy Robinson wrote: According to http://hdyc.neis-one.org .The ÖV Firma Mentz Datenverarbeitung GmbH users that have edited in the UK are: tklug thomas-oliver-berlin mjessen Gavaasuren haytigran rotkelch taoxue I don't see anything to link that last one to mentzdv? Tom

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Andy Robinson
taoxue is listed on: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/%C3%96V_Firma_Mentz_Datenverarbeitung_GmbH#Users_that_work_for_us Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Tom Hughes [mailto:t...@compton.nu] Sent: 12 November 2014 12:03 To: Andy Robinson; 'Stuart Reynolds'; 'SomeoneElse';

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Mdv tell me that they have replied to SomeoneElse - presumably privately, as I didn't see it on the list - and have withdrawn the editor in question. They will also send a response to the list. Regards, Stuart -Original Message- From: Andy Robinson [mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com] Sent: 12

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-12 Thread SomeoneElse
For completeness, I've also added a changeset discussion comment to: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26688781 Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from a bit of checking.

2014-11-08 Thread SomeoneElse
An anonymous note adder (http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/267719) and someone on IRC noticed some problematical railway edits near Sutton-in-Ashfield: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/311380489#map=15/53.1247/-1.2346layers=N It looks like an attempt to dual the Robin Hood line went a bit