I've been paying a bit more attention to OSM-GB because I caught one of their recent blog posts which indicated that a road name nearby was incorrectly named (Gregory Street in Lenton), see http://www.osmgb.org.uk/blog/?p=338.
Accordingly I've spent a bit of time checking my original sources for mapping this street as Gregory Street versus Lenton Lane (as in OSGB VMD). I've now checked a number of sources, as well as my own mapping base data, and am satisfied that I am correct (the main case is address numbers). Similarly, at the North edge of Nottingham there is a mismatch between OSGB & OSM for Queen's Bower Road. Again addresses (not on OSM) and NaPTAN data support the OSM view. (Will probably post on Maps Matter about this in detail). If OSM-GB is truly "to allow the improvement" of OSM data it needs to do a few things: - Recognise that OSM might from time-to-time be better than OSGB (this is after all one reason why councils might want to use OSM). - Provide information which is easily used by the OSM Mapping community (more below). - Engage with the OSM mapping community more directly. The last minutes on their website have apologies from A. Alan (I presume this is Andy Allan) representing OSM. I have been playing around with OSM-GB's web services (mainly WMS & WFS). I've failed to get anything back from some of the WFS bug services, and the WFS polygon bug service works but has very little information as to what they think the polygon bug is. I've cross-checked against OSM Inspector to look for geometry errors for a selected range of polygons. One or two polygons with errors are building polygons with highways through them (in the cases I've checked perfectly valid OSM mapping: although we still haven't got a good way for doing this kind of mapping neatly. The WMS bug service is not really useful. Bugs really need to have a decent typification (as in OSM Inspector), so I won't want to invest effort to find out why OSM-GB thinks something is wrong. At the moment OSM Musical Chairs, ITO OSM products and OSM Inspector seem more useful for identifying and fixing bugs. Harry has altered our wiki to keep the subject of an OSM-GB chapter separate from the OSM-GB service. Perhaps we could add their blog to the blog aggregator which might improve dialogue. I know James Rutter and Tom Chance make use of these services and may know more about how they work. The branding issue is something else again. Does anyone else have any thoughts? Jerry Clough SK53
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