[Talk-GB] London Calling

Nick Black nickblack1 at gmail.com
Sun May 4 15:03:33 BST 2008


On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes I think it would be more useful for those people that do Yahoo
> tracing to concentrate on parks, lakes and buildings.  At least then we'd be
> more motivated to go out and survey these areas on the ground.
>
>  And how do you tag a road that definitely does not have a name?  name=no
> seems wrong somehow.  noname=yes perhaps.

We were talking about this on Wednesday after the London mapping
party.  If the renders suddenly stopped rendering roads with no name
tag, it could shake things up a bit.

>
> 80n
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> > Dave has made this really nice map of london
> >
> >
> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/progress/london-noname-exsegs-080430-mapnik.png
> >
> > white is unnamed roads / roads with name:FIXME
> > purple is unwayed segments.
> >
> > So London needs quite some work yet.
> >
> > If you live near any of the areas please help fix them, every road
> > counts. Come to one of the London mapping parties
> >
> >
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon
> >
> > or set up one yourself!
> >
> >
> > Also if you're anywhere near Regents Park then there are areas just
> > East of it
> >
> >
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.52867&lon=-0.14189&zoom=16&layers=B0FT
> >
> > and just North
> >
> >
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.53558&lon=-0.16674&zoom=16&layers=B0FT
> >
> > and West
> >
> >
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.52483&lon=-0.17013&zoom=16&layers=B0FT
> >
> > that are quite incomplete.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Steve
> >
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