Hi Shaun Would it be possible for itoworld to let us ( the UK chapter) have the source code for the road names feature - we're keen to replicate it using the new source of OS road names from OS Open Roads and we're hoping that other than dealing with a new datasource the comparison logic and rendering backend could be re-used. It might lessen the development effort and it might be easier to get some volunteers.
Regards Brian On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 10:51, Shaun McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:26, SK53 <[email protected]> wrote: > > The big difference of the old Locator layer from ITO is that it displayed > the name. The other tool which used OS locator is Robert Scott's OSL > Musical Chairs <https://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map>. > Both suffer because OS Locator was last released in 2016. > > > The OS Locator data having last been released in 2016, with no plans to > update to the OS Open Roads mentioned below, and the majority of the UK > having street names. Combined with no new streets ever going to come up, > and demolished/removed street names needing to have the not:name forever > more, a hardware failure, were all contributory factors for the service > being discontinued. > > > One way to get potentially missing names is to use OS Open Roads. These > are big shape files, so its probably best to cut them down using something > like ogr2ogr, or QGIS. The file can be pulled in as a custom layer in iD, > Potlatch and as a standard layer in JOSM. > > > > > On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:30, Jez Nicholson <[email protected]> wrote: > > As Jerry says, the key feature was that it compared OS road names to OSM > and highlighted the differences. > > The Microsoft Open Data Team recently analysed > streets-with-no-name-but-lots-of-houses which threw up positive hits, and > some potentially false positives of new housing estates which do not have > road names yet and auxiliary service roads. > > I'd like to see a new tool be built....i'd also like someone to fund it > being built and sustain it either through a grant or donated work. > > > We at Ito are also hopeful that the community would implement new more up > to date tools with a more modern look. > > Shaun McDonald > Ito World > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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