<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Very Cool,<div><br></div><div>I think it would be worth going over this at the next meeting, maybe we could put up a wiki page with the roads that are missing and plan the mapping party for areas that are particularly bad.</div><div><br></div><div>Excellent work</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Bob<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 23/3/10, Chris Fleming <i><me@chrisfleming.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Chris Fleming <me@chrisfleming.org><br>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] [Edinburgh] Road Names<br>To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br>Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 0:29<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>Cool I've hooked up a script to do a comparison with the street names in <br>OSM and have put the results up at:<br><br><a
href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah4ejhysSkMOdDktM0Jyb3Z5TGFQTjZkOHJ4RHlnVGc&hl=en" target="_blank">http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah4ejhysSkMOdDktM0Jyb3Z5TGFQTjZkOHJ4RHlnVGc&hl=en</a><br><br>Overall on the first pass we match about 75% of the road names, although <br>there are lots of 'Z' Class roads that we don't have.<br><br>I have also done a area by area comparison and have included this on the <br>second tab of the spreadsheet some area's look very good and some quite <br>poor. I hope to spend some time looking at an area and figuring out <br>where we don't match in order to get any bugs out, but if anyone wants <br>to make any comments then the spreadsheet *should* be writable.<br><br>Also let me know if there are any other fields that it would be useful <br>to pull out of OSM.<br><br>Cheers<br>Chris<br><br><br><br>On 18/03/10 23:14, Dair Grant wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> At this week's Edinburgh meet-up we
discussed the Council's public road name<br>> list, and how to cross-reference it with OSM to check coverage/identify<br>> missing roads.<br>><br>> Unfortunately the council data is only available as a set of tabular PDFs,<br>> which is hard to do anything useful with, so I've converted them into a<br>> single csv file:<br>><br>> <<a href="http://bit.ly/99py7c" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/99py7c</a>><br>><br>> I won't have time to do anything with it for a while, but have put it up in<br>> case anyone else from Edinburgh wants a go (the script is on github in case<br>> other councils have a similar problem).<br>><br>><br>> Sorry for spamming all of -gb, as this is pretty local to Edinburgh, but<br>> there's no talk-scot and everyone is on talk-gb.<br>><br>> Having said that, we also discussed having a mapping party in/around<br>> Penicuik on April 10th, so for anyone in
central Scotland/visiting the area<br>> then I think Bob will be sticking the details for that on the Edinburgh page<br>> on the wiki.<br>><br>><br>> -dair<br>> ___________________________________________________<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:dair@refnum.com" href="/mc/compose?to=dair@refnum.com">dair@refnum.com</a> <a href="http://www.refnum.com/" target="_blank">http://www.refnum.com/</a><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Talk-GB mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br>> <br><br><br>-- <br>e: <a ymailto="mailto:me@chrisfleming.org"
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