<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:26, SK53 <<a href="mailto:sk53.osm@gmail.com" class="">sk53.osm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">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 <a href="https://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map" class="">OSL Musical Chairs</a>. Both suffer because OS Locator was last released in 2016.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>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.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:30, Jez Nicholson <<a href="mailto:jez.nicholson@gmail.com" class="">jez.nicholson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">As Jerry says, the key feature was that it compared OS road names to OSM and highlighted the differences.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">We at Ito are also hopeful that the community would implement new more up to date tools with a more modern look.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Shaun McDonald</div><div class="">Ito World</div></body></html>