On 10 February 2012 14:13, John Sturdy <jcg.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've started to remap an area that I don't know from first-hand > experience, as it's got a particularly high concentration of data that > was mapped by a decliner. I'm remapping it from Bing (deleting old > data and re-tracing it) which means that I lose the road names. I > don't think this is particularly satisfactory, I'm just doing it so > there won't be a gap from the switchover date. > > I've realized from doing this (and from guessing I won't be the only > remapper working this way) that it might be worth re-instating the > "noname" option to the slippy map, for a period around the changeover > date (perhaps from around now, until remapping has largely been done). > > Any thoughts on this?
It is indeed a problem. However, you should be able to use OS OpenData StreetView [1] to get the names. Otherwise, in some cases you can use the name from the original way (probably assuming the way wasn't originally created or named by a decliner). [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#OS_StreetView -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
