[Talk-GB] London progress and unnamed roads

[SteveC]

On 31 Jan 2008, at 16:02, Dave Stubbs wrote:

> I was aiming more for a map of what's really there, rather than a map
> of what's not there.
> The tracing people haven't actually managed to do everywhere yet, so I
> thought it gave a slightly better impression.
> There's also the false positives, ie: residential streets that
> actually don't have a name... in a highlight mode these become more
> obvious than you really want them. In dehighlight mode they just
> vanish, and you don't notice.
>
> I did try all residential streets with no name bright pink, but it was
> kind of scary.
> But there's no reason I can't do that too... I'll play with some  
> style sheets.

Cheers - so my aim would be to clear all the unnamed roads near me,  
which somehting like I describe would be super helpful

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> On Jan 31, 2008 3:32 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Great stuff.
>>
>> Can it be like the tube maps of lines out? Or I'd like, say, a black
>> background everything with no name bright yellow and stuff with a  
>> name
>> some other colour... light grey or something?
>>
>>
>> On 31 Jan 2008, at 15:26, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've added a slightly modified London rendering to the progress  
>>> images
>>> I've been making.
>>>
>>> The rendering dehighlights parts of the data that have probably just
>>> been traced.
>>> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/progress/?region=london-noname
>>>
>>> There's nothing clever going on here, it just renders the following
>>> as dotted:
>>> - residential/unclassified/tertiary with no, or blank, name tag.
>>> - motorway/trunk/primary/secondary with no, or blank, ref tag.
>>>
>>> This makes it easy to spot areas of London where more work is  
>>> needed,
>>> and also makes it easier to spot where such work is happening and  
>>> the
>>> progress that's being made.
>>>
>>> If you want a close up view, I've found the maplint layer on the
>>> slippy map makes it relatively obvious where unnamed stuff is.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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>>
>> have fun,
>>
>> SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>>
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have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/