Hi Chris, Chris Hill wrote:
I've been looking at OS Open Names
I've also had a look at Open Names, but looking at everything except roads and postcodes. My conclusion was that it is not a useful replacement for the old "1:50k gazetteer" because it doesn't contain names for any natural features. On the other hand, the new "Open Map Local" does include names for those features. So I think one could create a more useful gazetteer by extracting just the names from that map. And of potential interest here, road names extracted from the map can include multiple segments and non-straight-line geometry (which I don't think Open Names has). In other respects I find Open Map Local inferior to the old Street View map, e.g. its "important buildings" are very oddly chosen. I think the best thing in this latest release is the simplified license. Cheers, Phil. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
