[Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

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My personal rules on this have always been two independent sources of
information OR a survey. This is easy for schools, and harder for pubs just
using aerial imagery & data from FHRS and/or Edubase. Groups of shops can
often be identified from aerial imagery, and correctly associated with FHRS
data through postcode centroids. In this circumstance I would add the
retail area with the postcode, but not any of the retail units unless
additional info is available.

A useful dataset is the full Naptan bus stops: this will often have useful
corroborating information on (particularly) the locations of pubs & post
offices. Once one or two FHRS addresses have been accurately located it is
possible to use this information to derive more info about the immediate
area, which in turn may allow better interpretation of aerial imagery.

For me the key aspect of FHRS data is that it allows a lot of information
to be added from the briefest of surveys. Ideally it should be survey led.
At present of course we have a very large amount of data which can be
enriched from FHRS, which in turn enhances our ability to improve overall
address data.

FHRS data should contain full address details most of the time, so there
should be no need to add anything from the website other than the url. It
is not unknown for details on websites to be incorrect & FHRS data is as
prone to data entry slipups as any other.

Jerry

On 2 October 2016 at 10:56, John Aldridge <jpsa at cantab.net> wrote:

> On 02-Oct-16 10:32, Jez Nicholson wrote:
>
>> I have added the page
>> to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Project
>>
>
> I'm not quite clear what the concrete goals are here: is it just to add
> fhrs:id and addr:postcode tags to relevant establishments (and perhaps to
> map those establishments if they're not already there in OSM?)
>
> What degree of verification is expected on the part of the mapper? Is the
> existence of a (probably fuzzy) name match between an OSM feature and a
> nearby FHRS record adequate justification for adding the relevant tags, or
> is some local knowledge or survey expected?
>
> (On a related topic, suppose an establishment has a web site which
> includes useful information like address & postcode details. Would one be
> breaking rules to copy that information to OSM? After all, the text on the
> web site will be, AIUI, copyright.)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> John
>
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