Oops, that weblink should be http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Derby/Abbey_Ward
On 25 April 2010 13:29, Paul Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
