[Talk-GB] JOSM Plugin for the FHRS API

2020-06-25 Thread Kai Michael Poppe - OSM
Good morning everyone, I built a plugin for JOSM that allows you to merge data from the FHRS API into OSM with a few clicks. I'd love to find some people that would be willing to test the 0.1.2 version and report bugs they found and/or comment on the user experience. Just throw me a line at

Re: [Talk-GB] Documenting tagging practice for place nodes in London

2020-06-25 Thread Russ Garrett
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:20, Andy Townsend wrote: > Quite a lot of stuff of the placename info on OS StreetView probably > _shouldn't_ be in OSM. Leaving aside farm and house names, the where I > used to live in Derbyshire is according to OS StreetView composed of 5 > different "villages".

Re: [Talk-GB] Documenting tagging practice for place nodes in London

2020-06-25 Thread Russ Garrett
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 12:51, Michael Booth wrote: > It seems like a number of those hamlets could be changed to something else. > > Also worth having a look at place=locality nodes, to see if they can be > tagged as another place type (if it's a populated place - e.g. >

Re: [Talk-GB] Documenting tagging practice for place nodes in London

2020-06-25 Thread Andy Townsend
Just to pick up on one point: On 23/06/2020 22:30, Russ Garrett wrote: * The presence of a few archaic place names which were presumably derived from NPE or other historic maps but are generally out of use now. * A surprisingly large number of place names present in OS StreetView are unmapped

Re: [Talk-GB] Documenting tagging practice for place nodes in London

2020-06-25 Thread Michael Booth
It seems like a number of those hamlets could be changed to something else. Also worth having a look at place=locality nodes, to see if they can be tagged as another place type (if it's a populated place - e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4678882808) or the name added to a feature.