[Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

[Robert Scott]

On Wednesday 04 August 2010, you wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why is it "important to show _all_ OSL entries"? Is there
> a way to not show the ones where OSL==OSM?

Well, it's certainly important for me to be able to see potential matching problems. An OSL street's match is influenced by its neighbours, so even if an OSL entry is matched perfectly, it can still have an effect on other entries.

> The reason I was confused was that it was showing as a bright green
> rectangle (which I correctly assumed meant that OSL matched OSM, as you've
> just confirmed), but when clicking on the rectangle it says "Near perfect
> match", even though the road names are identical (save for CAPS). Are we
> going for the 'nothing is perfect' approach here....?! :)

Capitalization, apostrophes and also street/st , road/rd , saint/st type situations are not distinguished between.

> Anyways, good stuff - just integrate into JOSM or Potlatch and we're
> done.... I kid, I kid!!

Muh. I would love it, but there's no standard way of doing this sort of thing.

I suppose someone could write a PL2 data layer :)


robert.