On 17/02/2015 23:05, Paul Bivand wrote:
A small story about this:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31117763/history
Laurie Gray Avenue, Bluebell Hill, Kent, used to have a street sign saying
Laurie Gray.
Various council documentation and OS locator referred to the 'Avenue' form.
After two
A small story about this:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31117763/history
Laurie Gray Avenue, Bluebell Hill, Kent, used to have a street sign saying
Laurie Gray.
Various council documentation and OS locator referred to the 'Avenue' form.
After two discussions an openstreetmap mapper asked
On 17/02/15 10:03, Colin Smale wrote:
It's only correct because that's the frame of reference you have
chosen in this case. The local authority decides what a street is
officially called. How that is transposed to signs sometimes
introduces errors, and these errors are sometimes volatile.
I've seen numerous examples of this in OS OpenData, including fields
marked up as woodland (which aren't on their paid paper maps), also
they move things out of the way, e.g. buildings and drains to make way
for the roads. Also, if anyone has used the OS VectorData to any
extent, they'll notice
On Mon Feb 16 23:35:41 2015 GMT, Pmailkeey . wrote:
On 16 February 2015 at 15:51, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
In these cases you should check the name on the signs and if osm is wrong
correct it. I my experience osm is often right and os opendata is
incorrect, in these
A better paradigm is that the data should be independently verifiable
from open sources. If the sign is wrong, it is wrong. Propagating that
error does not change that by magical thinking.
Ground truth is of course no good if there is nothing on the ground -
such as boundary lines, postcodes
What does resolve mean with respect to these notes? I could obviously
re-map where new housing developments have been built - but is the idea
to also put additional text into the note to say what you have done and
whether you think the issue is all resolved?
In these cases you should
On 10/02/15 15:56, Brian Prangle wrote:
RobJN has added a bunch of Notes for Rotherham where we already have
had a mapper step forward to try to resolve some of them, and Rob's
tweeted the local Scouts. I've added a bunch of Notes for Liverpool
(feel free to tweet anyone relevant - I'm not a
RobJN has added a bunch of Notes for Rotherham where we already have had a
mapper step forward to try to resolve some of them, and Rob's tweeted the
local Scouts. I've added a bunch of Notes for Liverpool (feel free to
tweet anyone relevant - I'm not a twitter user)
Let's see if our little
9 matches
Mail list logo
