[Talk-GB] UK "road name" coverage now over 80%

[Peter Miller]

On 29 June 2011 17:37, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) <graham at dalmuti.net> wrote:
>
> I just noticed that todays
> http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main ITO Analysis Summary
> shows we are now over 80% for "road name completion" (i.e. OSM road names
> compared to the OS Locator data).
>
> I think all UK contributors should buy themselves a pint for that. Top
> effort.

Will do that tonight with pleasure!

Thanks for pointing this important milestone out to us. Lets in
particular recognise the huge amount of work going on in Scotland and
Wales.

> We also now have 115 areas over 95% and 263 over 75% - this can only be a
> good thing for building confidence in the reliability of the map,
> particularly amongst users that are using the map data in car sat navs etc.
>
> The only black spot is that there are still 23 areas that are less than 50%
> road name complete, with the worst offender now being Easington with just
> 37.25%
>
> It's be great to get everywhere over 50% as ultimately we'll always be
> judged by our worst coverage.

I have also been very impressed with the initial results from the
visual comparison of OSM and OS Vector map district as well. We seem
to have an much to help the OS improve their data as the other way
round!

We also have railway and electricity comparison layers in preparation
which will also show OSM in an even better light compared to the OS
(the electricity data in VDM is very poor indeed and the railway data
isn't that good either - both are much worse than the OS roads data).

What I am less happy about is the reliability  of ITO's OSM services
over the past week. True, we have added lots of stuff to ITO Map but
in the process we left OSM Analysis statistics frozen for about week
due to a stupid oversight and when we did a major code update to ITO
Map yesterday to allow us to show other datasets such as Vector Map
District which seems to have destroyed its performance.

We will be spending some time on ITO Map this evening and see what we
can sort it out and may need to roll the code back one version. If so
then we will loose VMD roads layers for a few days.


Regards,


Peter Miller
ITO World Ltd



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