<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2011 10:04, Lester Caine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk">lester@lsces.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Peter Miller wrote:<br>
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Don't worry - this will only happen once every three months when the OS<br>
publish an updated OS Locator file. We updated to the latest OS Locator<br>
version (dated November 10) last night, hence a few places have fallen<br>
off their '100% perch'! We should be due another one reasonably soon I<br>
guess and may get it up sooner.<br>
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In time I hope that we will find that some of our 'not:name' reports<br>
will have been fixed by the OS. I hear that the OS is getting much more<br>
receptive to this whole Open Data thing. One layer I would like ITO to<br>
produce would be the reverse OS Locator view, which would be for the<br>
OS's use (and our amusement!). It would show all the named roads that<br>
are in OSM but which are not in the OS. They would then need to research<br>
why that is the case and update their own products (without compromising<br>
our license).<br>
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Peter<br>
In my own area there are not too many discrepancies, but some OS names ARE wrong compared to the ground details. Have we got a way of flagging the name:os so that we can identify these and flag them as 'different' rather than 'missing'<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I use the following method.<br><br>If the OS name is different from the streetsign and general usage I put it in not:name<br>If it is apparently a valid alternative I put it on alt_name<br>I am not clear why anything else is required.<br>
<br>One other technique I have found useful which is worth mentioning is with A roads (such as the A14) where part of that are technically still Huntingdon Road (and I remember it as a kid when it was one lane in each direction with a chicken crossing over the A1). It isn't appropriate these days to have the A14 labeled as 'Huntingdon Road' however.... Huntingdon Road is not 'wrong' either. In these cases I put the name Hungingdon Road into alt_name and leave name empty. In this way it is cleared from the OS Locator comparison test but isn't rendered on the main map.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><br><br>Peter <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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