I went out at the weekend to resurvey all the highlighted roads in this district (Tendring, Essex - about 38 IIRC). Many of these were apostrophe related and I was beginning to think that the district had a policy of not including apostrophes on street signs until I came to one where they had. While entering the notes from my survey I noticed that Streetview and Locator disagreed on apostrophe usage in places, too. Anyway, I have the name as entered on the signs in OSM, and if it differs from the OS Locator tiles I've put the version with apostrophe in the not:name tag with a not:name:note (as suggested here at some point) that there is no apostrophe on the street sign. If these then feed back to OS they can choose whether they care or not. But surely whatever is on the ground *is* the name of the street, however anyone else punctuates it.
Anyway, I think that this district is sort of road and name complete now (after a check this morning to see which of my survey info I had omitted to enter on Saturday), though I have emailed ITO to ask them to consider (if they don't already) highway=track, highway=service, old_name, alt_name and to look into a couple of cases where the road had the right name originally but was slightly misaligned (by both Streetview and uploaded GPS traces), and just nudging a couple of nodes doesn't seem to have been spotted as a correction (which I could perhaps rectify by adding a new node to the ways in question). Future surveys I do in the area will have to include any roads with source=OS*, source=NPE, or source:name=OS* just so I can be happy that they are correct. Yesterday I had to walk a footpath which went through a rectangle in the middle of nowhere, just so I could add a not:name tag (as it turned out the rectangle related to the driveway to a farmhouse on only one side of a parish boundary, which the footpath followed for a short way, and was the name of the road where the driveway eventually came out in the adjacent parish). Ed _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
