----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Avis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB]Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes
> > At the risk of reopening the apostrophes war, my point is that issues such > as > Saint vs St, or Queen's Drive versus Queens Drive, are not ones that can > be > resolved by survey. They are merely orthographic conventions. Similarly, > we > do not report a mismatch between High Street and HIGH STREET, even though > the OS > map and data uses upper case, and most councils use it for street signs. > > However, I've changed my mind - we might as well clear up apostrophes and > abbreviations at the same time as other things, it's not an obstacle to > fixing > the more serious discrepancies. So I'm happy for them to be flagged. > > Rather than simply deciding should these be flagged / should these not be flagged, would it not be simpler if where the difference between OS Locator and OSM were just an apostrophe, then the map tiles used just one specific colour (and maybe in particular one of the pale colours). Then everyone should be happy :) All differences are flagged, but it's much easy to spot (and ignore) the apostrophe difference. David _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
