Welcome to the list, and a special welcome from me as I notice you're doing quite a lot of work in Bristol - I recently wrote about the number of 'missing' roads in Bristol in OSM - have a look through the archives, and then see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Tiiiim#Bristol_-_Missing_Roads. PM or email me if you have any questions about this or OSM in general....
For more information about all of the clever stuff behind the musical chairs script, go to: http://humanleg.org.uk/code/oslmusicalchairs/ Tim On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, a_snail <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm new to all this, only joining the group yesterday, so I > think I'm positing to the discussion correctly. If not, let me know. > > That aside, is the aim to investigate all red boxes and typically add the > road? > > Also, with regards to the green boxes that show near matches, any chance > you > could say why it's a near match i.e. is it the spelling of the road name, > classification, or possibly the location of the road. > > A_Snail > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Scott > Sent: 04 August 2010 16:17 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates. > > On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Tim Francois wrote: > > My question still stands about the fact that there are LOADS of roads > with > > the same name in OSL and OSM but are being flagged by a bright green > > rectangle. Why is this? > > In many cultures, green is considered a sign of "good", "OK", or > "everything's fine". You can see this usage for instance in our traffic > lights. Hence a green OSL entry -> one that's fine. > > Facetiousness aside, I am going to add a non-authoritative mode which shows > bad matches first, but I still think it's important to show _all_ OSL > entries in authoritative mode. I have tried to tone down the "near perfect" > matches to be less "bright green" but they can still appear quite bright > when there are many overlapping. > > > Also, how often is this data updated these days? > > Nightly with the odd extra update in the daytime if I want to try something > out. > > > robert. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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