Ed Avis wrote: > Bob Kerr <openstreetmapcraigmil...@...> writes: > > >> I can easily understand that apostrophes and the name bypass are annoying, >> however I think there is an opportunity here. >> >> For example, bypass or by-pass. This highlights an inconstancy in the OS >> data, >> which will be useful for them to correct and standardise. >> > > Perhaps, but it will take them at least six months to do this (I believe the > OS Locator data is updated on that schedule), and probably longer. In the > meantime we'd like to get on with adding the missing streets and names. > > I expect we all agree that while standardizing apostrophes, Saint/St, and so > on > between OS and OSM may be a worthwhile goal, it is a much lower priority than > completing the map. So for now it would help us more to ignore such > discrepancies in the Locator-comparison tiles. It might however be worth > making > a separate 'pedantic' version of the tiles in which every small difference is > highlighted. > If I'm going out to check some anomalies, it would be very annoying to have to go out to the same area again in six months time to repeat the process because apostrophes or some other extra anomaly type suddenly appeared. I would like to see as much as possible for an area so I can clean it up all at once. There's nothing to stop anyone else ignoring some elements for now.
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