On 2 Jun 2010, at 17:36, Sam Larsen wrote: >> >> From: Andrew Ainsworth <andrew.ainswo...@gmail.com> >> To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >> Sent: Wed, 2 June, 2010 16:57:48 >> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] >- Map layer with OS Locator comparison from >> ITO >> >> >> Could I just make a silly suggestion that no one seems to have >> talked about yet. If we find an error in OS Open Data, rather than >> tag our own data to say someone else has got it wrong, why not just >> report it to OS. After examining the postcode data for my area >> recently I found a couple of errors, reported them to OS who have >> replied saying there is indeed an error and they will send someone >> out to re-survey the street. >> >> We're now able to get a lot of data for free from OS, I don't think >> it's unreasonable to report the odd error back to them so they can >> improve their map. >> > > +1
+1 Just to say that I was in discussion with the research guys at the OS about this last week and the status reports which we hope to have online next week will include a section of 'not:name's for each district which they have expressed interest in reviewing. The only small issue could be over licencing, however I don't believe that they would ever want to act on a report in OSM without checking it first on the ground so it will purely be treated as a clue for their purposes. As it happened I met the local OS Surveyor (who covers Ipswich and Suffolk Coastal) and I was able to give her a few reports verbally which she entered on her tablet!. Given that the surveyors cover districts then the proposed district level reports could work really well - the OS would just need to alert their surveyors to the place to look for problems. We may even be able to give the district level RSS feeds which would be the icing on the cake. Until the problem is fixed we keep the not:name tag in the OSM DB. When it is fixed I guess we could remove the not:name tag for tidiness. I should have mentioned that we got some funding support for the OS Locator tiles from our research project, Ideas in Transit with support from the DfT and the Technology Strategy Board. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ideas_in_Transit Regards, Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
