On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Roy Jamison <xtee...@googlemail.com> wrote: > then these could probably just be ignored instead of having > millions of not:* tags for all the possible permutations that *could* be > entered incorrectly by an end user.
I think you've misunderstood the issue under discussion. We're not discussing "millions" of tags, and we're not discussing "all the possible permutations" of names. We're discussing the occasional situation where OS Locator disagrees with OSM, and where the OS Locator turns out to be wrong. Exaggerating the situation doesn't help sensible discussion. I believe we need to track these false positives. If Ipswich is any guide, and there is about a dozen errors per town, then there is going to come a point where we are all repeatedly examining the same false positives trying to track down the remaining few actual mistakes in OSM. So we need to track them, and we want to make sure that mappers notice that someone else has already marked the false positives. How do we make sure that such record keeping works with ITO, and Robert Scott's tool, and any other tool that compares OSM and OS Locator? How do we make sure that all the mappers are aware of the situation, whether they are using potlatch or JOSM (or merkaartor, or potlatch2, or osm2go, or mapzen, or...). The simple, effective way that we can use right now is by tagging the OSM data. We could build another system, and change every editor and the relevant processing tools to support and use such a system, but since that doesn't actually exist yet I struggle to see how anyone could use it right now. Anyway, the whole discussion is detracting from getting on with stuff. For example, we have 98% of street names missing in Oswestry. 98%!! Half the regions in Peter's CSV have less than half the streets named. Let's focus our discussions on fixing the map rather than discussing the rare edge cases. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
