[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis name tags

Tom Chance tom at acrewoods.net
Fri Jan 21 10:41:41 GMT 2011


Peter,

Thanks for the update & all the hard work. I'm not too bothered about the
speed of updates, just having a prompt to resurvey areas and a nice
dashboard to show local organisations is very helpful.

Tom


On 21 January 2011 10:33, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:

> Thanks for these examples. We are on the case and will let you know when we
> are running with the new code and monitors will the other name fields
> mentioned above.
>
> Do be aware btw, that it takes a day or two until the changes make their
> way into the analysis. I hope we will be able to make it all a bit snappier
> in time but I find it best to work in an area then wait for a couple of days
> and revisit it.
>
> We did also have a long outage over xmas and the new year of course.
> Apologies and we will to avoid a repeat. Fyi there were two issues. Firstly
> the DB had grown so much that it no longer fitted in the solid-state disk we
> use for holding it during processing and we needed to purchase a new bigger
> one. Secondly... when we had installed the new drive we found that the OSM
> nodes DB had just exceeded what could be represented in 32bit number format
> and we needed to move to 64bit format. All signs that we have a successful
> project on our hands and it should be a long time before we exceed 64bits!
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 21 January 2011 09:45, Bob Kerr <openstreetmapcraigmillar at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I would like to support the idea of name:gd=***** for Gaelic names.
>>
>> In Portree there are definitely two names in OS Locator for several roads
>>
>> an example is
>>
>>
>>    - *highway*: residential
>>    - *name*: Mill Park
>>    - *name:gd*: Pairc na Muilne
>>    - *source*: OS_OpenData_StreetView
>>
>>
>> at
>>
>> http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=18&lat=57.4161&lon=-6.19&layers=B0TF
>>
>> If there has not been an official vote on this type of tag then maybe a
>> decision should be made because it will affect a lot of people making
>> international language maps.
>>
>> for example
>>
>> http://osmalba.org/
>>
>> I would be willing to help with some wiki work if needed to set up voting
>> though I think a straight decision would be a lot easier.
>>
>> Nice work on the new OSM Analysis by the way. Any chance of  totals in the
>> table analysis page. It would give us a type of countdown clock for the uk
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 20/1/11, Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm>
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis name tags
>> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>> Date: Thursday, 20 January, 2011, 17:44
>>
>> On 20/01/2011 17:28, Peter Miller wrote:
>> >
>> > On 20 January 2011 17:20, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net
>> > <mailto:tom at acrewoods.net>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     How about dialects?
>> >
>> >     name:en
>> >     name:cy
>> >     name:gd
>> >     name:gv
>> >     name:sco
>> >     name:ga
>> >
>> >     Whatever other regional languages we have.
>> >
>> >
>> > we believe that the OS Locator content is always in English. In the
>> > Western Isles the name field for roads in OSM often holds the Gaelic
>> > version with the English in en:name hence our support for that tag. Do
>> > tell me if I am wrong on that.
>>
>> The OS Locator data does have Gaelic names in some places.
>> See for example Portree:
>> http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=15&lat=57.41533&lon=-6.20179&layers=B0TF
>> Also some parts of Stornoway:
>> http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=15&lat=58.21523&lon=-6.37094&layers=B0TF
>>
>> Though it is inconsistent, with English names for some roads, Gaelic names
>> for others. I have also noticed a few places where it seems to have both
>> languages, so it has a separate box for each.
>> For Stornoway, the Gaelic names are in the name= tag, with name:en for
>> English.
>> But for Portree it is mostly the English name in the name= tag, with
>> name:gd for the Gaelic names. Its debatable which one should be considered
>> the 'primary' name there.
>>
>> Craig
>>
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