On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:19 +, SomeoneElse wrote:
SomeoneElse wrote:
I'm planning to remove names that I can't find evidence for
I think that it's clear from the replies to this that the general
concensus is in favour of not having these as names. I'll get on with
updating the
SomeoneElse wrote:
I'm planning to remove names that I can't find evidence for
I think that it's clear from the replies to this that the general
concensus is in favour of not having these as names. I'll get on with
updating the road, in each case moving the previous name to description.
Rovastar wrote:
Foston Hatton Hilton Bypass, etc don't as far I I know appear on
the ground however I think the some record should appear in
OSM. I am worried about the trend in this case of placing them
as the name of the road as what reference point would people
use for these.
I'd use alt_name. At least it's an established place to look for
alternative stuff.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
Rovastar wrote:
Foston Hatton Hilton Bypass, etc don't as far I I know appear on
the ground however I think the some record
'description' might be an appropriate tag - after all that is what the
phrase Foston Hatton Hilton Bypass actually is.
Roger
On 20/02/2013 08:30, Richard Mann wrote:
I'd use alt_name. At least it's an established place to look for
alternative stuff.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM,
what you have done.
Can you explain what you are doing before we revert the changes and
look at getting you banned.
Cheers,
John
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:11:53 +
From: li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk
To: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50
. I take it there are no name signs for Foston Hatton
Hilton Bypass?
Colin in Bingley
- Original Message -
From: Chris Hill
To:John Baker ,
Cc:
Sent:Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:26:44 +
Subject:Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
How did the mapper get this info? What
:26:44 +
Subject:Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
How did the mapper get this info? What licence is it under? FoI for example is
copyright and so still needs to be released under a suitable licence. AFAIK
local authorities are responsible for naming roads not the DfT
Chris Hill wrote:
How did the mapper get this info? What licence is it under? FoI for
example is copyright and so still needs to be released under a
suitable licence. AFAIK local authorities are responsible for naming
roads not the DfT.
(from OSM messages from the original mapper following
Philip Barnes wrote:
I did briefly discuss this with Andy on IRC and the other issue is
the insertion of soft-hyphens into the names so Hatton becomes
Hat-ton. Not sure why, is he trying to make a satnav pronounce
each syllable?
Or copied and pasted from a document?
cheers
Richard
--
SomeoneElse)
can talk sense to him.
John
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:42:03 -0800
From: rich...@systemed.net
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
Philip Barnes wrote:
I did briefly discuss this with Andy on IRC and the other issue
to him.
John
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:42:03 -0800
From:
rich...@systemed.net
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re:
[Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
Philip
Barnes wrote:
I did briefly discuss this with Andy on IRC and the
other issue is
the insertion of soft
@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
Aha, it's Mauls is it... He is indeed very prolific, and adds a lot of missing
details across the whole planet. However he never seems to disclose his
sources, either in the source tag or in changeset comments.
Colin
On 20 Feb 2013 19:38, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
...I certainly wouldn't defend his attitude...
I don't know Mauls from Adam but how would you feel if you had been
contributing to the project for five years and someone you'd never heard of
sent you an unfriendly message
On 20/02/13 20:15, Kevin Peat wrote:
On 20 Feb 2013 19:38, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com
mailto:dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
...I certainly wouldn't defend his attitude...
I don't know Mauls from Adam but how would you feel if you had been
contributing to the project for
On 20 Feb 2013 21:14, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
...He copied data from a local newspaper article to name a road
wrongly...
Mauls might be wrong in this case but the name of a road in the local paper
isn't copyrighted. It's a basic fact, the newspaper didn't create it and
they
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 15:01 +0100, Colin Smale wrote:
Aha, it's Mauls is it... He is indeed very prolific, and adds a lot of
missing details across the whole planet. However he never seems to
disclose his sources, either in the source tag or in changeset
comments.
I have spotted that Mauls
Richard Fairhurst richard@...
writes:
Philip Barnes wrote:
I did briefly discuss this with
Andy on IRC and the other issue is
the insertion of soft-hyphens
into the names so Hatton
becomes
Hat-ton. Not sure why, is he
trying to make a satnav pronounce
each syllable?
Or
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
The user looks like a troll. None of his/her/bot changesets have any comments.
And they bounce all over the world.
I think he deleted the original roads on the 21 jan 2013 as the history in OSM
says they are new roads.
Can someone
Recently various sections along the A50 between Derby and Stoke have
grown names, for example here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/202232245/history
I've driven along that section of road many times, and I don't believe
I've seen a name on any of the new sections.
According to
what you are doing before we revert the changes and look at
getting you banned.
Cheers,
John
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:11:53 +
From: li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk
To: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)
Recently various sections
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