[Talk-GB] Bristol - a quick (and surprising?) statistic...

[Dave F.]

  On 08/08/2010 14:01, Craig Wallace wrote:
> On 03/01/2006 00:37, Dave F. wrote:
>>   On 07/08/2010 19:34, Richard Moss wrote:
>>>
>>> I take data from OS as evidence that there is a name for a 
>>> road/track etc.
>>>
>>> I'm happy with that where I know a road exists, and I have added names
>>> to the farm tracks around the village.  But putting roads on OSM
>>> without actually verifying that they exists, that's another debate :)
>>
>> Personally I'd take OS as evidence of the existence of a road as well.
>> Obviously it would be good to have travelled it as OSL isn't the most
>> accurate for location & direction, but at least we know it's there.
>>
>> It was concluded in a previous discussion that OS didn't put 'easter
>> eggs' into their data.
>>
>> Do you have any examples of roads not being on the ground?

Correction: When I said OSL above, I meant OSSV

>
> A 'road' of some sort yes. But the OS Streetview maps sometimes aren't 
> clear whether its an unclassified road, a residential road, a driveway 
> or farm track or a path etc. Plus a few roads which are still under 
> construction.

True, on ground verification is often needed, but it's still evidence 
that it exists.

>
> Anyway, isn't this thread is about names from OS Locator, not names 
> from OS Streetview.

Well, not really, it was about adding roads to the map for which OSSV is 
being used. OSL was used as a statistical tool.
I see the OS data release as one set of data from one source & all 
manifestations of it (OSL &OSSV) should be used in conjunction with each 
other.


>
>
> PS: your clock is rather wrong.

Thanks. I had a BIOS battery failure & for some reason it's not finding 
a 'RPC server' to auto update it.

Cheers
Dave F.