No that doesn't work! It's http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Derby/Abbey_Ward
On 25 April 2010 14:35, Paul Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
