Hi Andy Try OS Open Roads <https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-roads.html>
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 10:16, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/03/2019 13:56, Gregory Marler wrote: > > 1) Can you elaborate on the source(s) of suspected road names? > > 2) It would helpful if each of us could look at your list in a more > > localised aspect. Either including county would be more helpful, or at > > least having latitude and longitude in separate columns makes it > > easier to use in other tools usually. > > 3) There's some obvious reasons why some of those aren't in OSM just > > by looking at the first 5. > > 3a) One was on a caravan park, so it might not have an official name > > or even a sign (again I would like to question the source). > > 3b) A way was about 3 metres to connect one road to another, it's > > debatable whether it should be named itself but could be fixed without > > a survey. > > 3c) There are lots of abbreviated names in your spreadsheet, even > > "Clos" which I presume is a strange shortening of "Close". > > > > A Maproulette challenge might tempt people to copy the names from your > > spreadsheet (the legality and suitability of that is very unknown!). > > > +1 to all of that. Without knowing the source of these names any > spreadsheet containing "missing names" is going to be very > problematical. If a missing name isn't signed on the ground, then > what? If an unsigned name's "correct" (e.g. it's available from OS > OpenData or another similarly admissible source) I'd typically add it > and then add "name:signed=no" to indicate that it's not useful for > giving directions. In this case we've got a list of names which mostly > probably won't be signed on the road (caravan parks, buildings, etc.) > > OS Locator is/was a good source of those missing names, as shown in > "Musical Chairs" here: > > > https://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?zoom=16&lat=53.19551&lon=-1.38645&layers=B0TT&view_mode=pseudorandom > > but as the OS have been playing "musical chairs" with their open data > offerings it may be that there isn't a more recent open OS source (that > example shows some missing new build roads). > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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