Couldn't agree more with Jerry's post which shows a pragmatic and real
world view (also Richard F's elsewhere). To me what this highlights is the
need for a more organised and diplomatic approach to promoting OSM in the
UK. Also the need for a whole host of internal housekeeping tasks.
Regrds
On 03/04/15 13:43, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
Should everything be
amenity=post_office, or would it be better to have different tags for
sorting offices / distribution warehouses and also for parcel
collection points?
Different. In particular, if it is not open to the public, I would
A while back I did have a go at doing delivery offices (using
amenity=delivery_office) because a) these are often in funny places and b)
finding the local one which is the parcel collection point was non-trivial
(so useful map feature).
I started because I noticed that some places have masses of
On 03/04/15 16:04, David Woolley wrote:
On 03/04/15 15:29, pmailkeey . wrote:
Delivery offices are open to the public.
I was thinking of sorting offices, which are not, although may be
co-sited with a delivery office.
Also, the actual public amenity tends to be a small cubbyhole at one
So now instead of having two versions of the name (1. according to the
council and 2. according to the sign) we are to have a third version,
according to OSM? I am also thinking of our conventions with regard to
punctuation and abbreviations (not to mention capitalisation), which
lead to
2015-04-03 19:01 GMT+01:00 John Aldridge j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk:
On 03/04/2015 18:49, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Hi,
I've noticed recently that postbox references have started appearing
with a D on the end (same ref as before just with a D added to the
end). This seems to be in areas where RM
On 3 April 2015 at 16:57, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote:
Robert presumably you can give us some regular metrics along the way to see
if having a quarterly project actually impacts mapping behaviour?
I've got some historical progress data that I've been recording for
Post Boxes and Post
On 03/04/2015 18:49, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Hi,
I've noticed recently that postbox references have started appearing
with a D on the end (same ref as before just with a D added to the
end). This seems to be in areas where RM have updated the collection times.
Does anyone know what the D means?
Hi,
I've noticed recently that postbox references have started appearing with a
D on the end (same ref as before just with a D added to the end). This
seems to be in areas where RM have updated the collection times.
Does anyone know what the D means?
Does RobW's tool allow for this D (as in
On 03/04/2015 15:55, Colin Smale wrote:
So now instead of having two versions of the name (1. according to the
council and 2. according to the sign) we are to have a third version,
according to OSM?
That's not what I meant, unless I've misunderstood you.
There's the definitive name according
On 3 April 2015 at 16:49, ael law_ence@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:43:35PM +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
wrote:
For anyone interested in mapping Royal Mail Post Boxes, or Post Office
Ltd Post Office branches, you may find the tools I run at
On 3 April 2015 at 16:49, ael law_ence@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:43:35PM +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
For anyone interested in mapping Royal Mail Post Boxes, or Post Office
Ltd Post Office branches, you may find the tools I run at
On 3 April 2015 at 17:55, John Aldridge j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk wrote:
On 03/04/2015 15:55, Colin Smale wrote:
According to the National Street Gazetteer, the official source of
street names is the local authority in their Local Street Gazetteer
which they have to feed into the NSG. Is this
Wow! What a fantastice resource. There'll almost be no time this quarter to
do anything else but postboxes. There's masses to do within just 2 miles of
where I live and I thought I'd got most of them. Might be the same for
others too - a great incentive to resurvey areas that might not have been
On 03/04/2015 14:59, Colin Smale wrote:
Why not tag both spelling variants? They are both correct in their own
frame of reference.
If it differs to what is on the ground, we can use official_name=* for
the name given by the local authority, warts an' all.
I wouldn't have a problem with this
On 03/04/15 14:38, pmailkeey . wrote:
OSM's actually global, Brian.
And other countries handle their area of the map with a lot more active
support. All we are talking about here is UK data on the UK list.
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On 3 April 2015 at 13:49, David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote:
On 03/04/15 13:43, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
Should everything be
amenity=post_office, or would it be better to have different tags for
sorting offices / distribution warehouses and also for parcel
On 3 April 2015 at 14:41, John Aldridge j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk wrote:
FWIW, the previous editor had used St Bedes Gardens, which seemed not
unreasonable given the range of possibilities, so I left it like that and
just added a not:name tag to shut the validator up.
It's likely the right
On 03/04/2015 13:43, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
While I'm here, one thing it might be good to discuss in relation to
this project is how best to tag some of the different types of
delivery/collection infrastructure...
I had a go a while ago at working out what the consensus was on
Why not tag both spelling variants? They are both correct in their own
frame of reference.
If it differs to what is on the ground, we can use official_name=* for
the name given by the local authority, warts an' all.
Even council employees and contractors make mistakes occasionally.
Should
On 3 April 2015 at 14:41, John Aldridge j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk wrote:
On 02/04/2015 10:42, Brian Prangle wrote:
Our first attempt at a quarterly project has just finished, where fixing
road names was the target.
This may entertain you...
This email reminded me that I'd meant to check
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:43:35PM +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
For anyone interested in mapping Royal Mail Post Boxes, or Post Office
Ltd Post Office branches, you may find the tools I run at
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/ useful. Amongst other things,
This seems to
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:31:32 +0100
pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello pmailkeey,
It's likely the right version - as without punctuation is Royal Mail
preferred and it's a new street.
Royal Mail don't decide the correct spelling/punctuation, the relevant
Local Authority does(1).
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