And some with an apostrophe: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=Lloyd+TSB#values
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> Sent: 08 May 2018 00:19:36 To: Brian Prangle Cc: Talk-GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Toys R Us >Lloyds and TSB banks demerged 5 years ago - yet we still have 180 branches >with the old name. We also have 7 mapped as "LLoyds TSB", 5 as "Lloyds TSB Bank", 4 as "Lloyds TSB Scotland" 3 as (dubious) "Lloyds/TSB", 1 as "LLoyds TSB Bank", 1 as "Lloyds TSB" (double space), 1 as "Lloyd's TSB", 1 as "Lloyds TSB Bank Plc", 1 as "Lloyds TSB Bank PLC" and 1 as "Lloyds-TSB". But on the plus side... um, no, that's lost on me! Sigh. Rob On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 20:27, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com<mailto:bpran...@gmail.com>> wrote: The answer to the question I posed originally seems to be either "never" or "immediately". Maplin I understand waiting some more time for the liquidation process to complete. For clarity the mechanical edit would be shop=vacant and previous_name= whichever variant of the Toys R us name is present; which preserves the shop amenity with a change of use and preserves the "landmark" data, which I hope answers some of the concerns raised so far. Maintaining map data surely has to be a mix of automation and hand-crafted, not a zealot position of one to the exclusion of the other. If we know data to be inaccurate and there is an easy fix surely we're bounden to users of our map to make it the best we can. If we adopt Frederick's position(which I see, rightly or wrongly, as a quest for ideological purity) we put community before users, when I see it has to be a balance between the two. What's the point of building a map if we don't make it as accurate and complete as possible, as soon as possible? Otherwise it's in danger of becoming purely a thing of beauty hand-crafted by dedicated hobbyists, with no thought for all those who have decided to use our map. How long should we wait for a mapper to verify something that's changed? Lloyds and TSB banks demerged 5 years ago - yet we still have 180 branches with the old name. Likewise the Territorial Army changed name 6 years ago and we still have 27 instances of the old name. So how about volunteers for a campaign to contact local mappers and gently encourage them to update the map? Regards Brian On 5 May 2018 at 11:57, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com<mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>> wrote: And for the balance: I disagree with Frederik on this one. If we know the map is wrong we should fix it. We should not leave it just because it may encourage others to fix it and then go on to do other local edits. Frederik's view is that a crap map encourages more people to edit. I'm not convinced. A crap map could also put people off - "why bother, OSM is so far behind, I'll contribute to/just use Google maps instead" I agree that a blank map encourages new mappers, but that was 10 years ago! Less convinced that an out of date map does. At least not with our current homepage or if we do get a new mapper its most likely to be a single edit (maybe with MapsMe) rather than a new prolific mapper. So I'm happy with this mechanical edit (full removal preferred, but addition of disussed ok too). Rob P.s. Do we still have cases of Lloyds TSB in OSM? _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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