[Talk-GB] London progress and unnamed roads

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

SteveC wrote:
>Sent: 31 January 2008 4:04 PM
>To: Dave Stubbs
>Cc: Talk GB
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] London progress and unnamed roads
>
>
>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
>

What! unnamed roads near SteveC. Shocking. I hope FEP doesn't find out. ;-)

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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/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>have fun,
>
>SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
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