I've now used the OS Locator data to create a table (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Derby/Abbey Ward) to detail the progress in mapping the roads in an area and use it to help identify the roads which are not mapped.
I don't know whether this has been done anywhere else, but others might find such a table to be useful in their local area. It can be used to help keep track of not just which streets are mapped and which are not, but also whether amenities and shops etc and addresses have been mapped on any particular street, and recording when they were last mapped or checked to see how up-to-date the OSM data is. Creating the table of street names is fairly quick if you do it by importing the OS Locator data, though checking which streets have been mapped is more time consuming. To do this I followed the instructions on the wiki page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#OS_Locator) to create a spreadsheet of the local OS Locator data. I edited the spreadsheet to remove unwanted columns and add columns for information I wanted to add. The spreadsheet was then sorted by ward area followed by street name (I decided to split the data by ward, as otherwise the table would be huge!). To put this into the wiki I used the Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter website (http://excel2wiki.net), which also works with OpenOffice.org Calc, to create a table and simply pasted the wiki code into the OSM wiki on a subpage of my city. I'm thinking of creating these pages for each ward in Derby, (after waiting to see if there are any comments on the first page I created). Cheers Paul (Paul The Archivist) On 22 April 2010 09:57, Ed Avis <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Scott <li...@...> writes: > >>>I've been playing with the OS OpenData Locator dataset, which contains >>>the XY coordinates for the ends & midpoint of many of the UK's roads. > >>We could probably quite easily generate a comparison between OSM and OS >>streetnames, matching similarly named streets within the same vicinity in both >>datasets. This could pick up quite a few useful things like disagreements >>between spelling. > > Yes, and also a list of missing streets in OSM. (Once an area is 95% mapped, > finding the last few missing streets is hard.) > > -- > Ed Avis <[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
