[Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

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Making the blobs go green seems the most straightforward objective.

For checking postcodes a simple cross-check that the place is indeed within
a decent distance of the postcode centroid (the location given by FHRS) is
usually adequate. Most are correct or have minor inaccuracies, such as
accidental swapping of the last two letters of the in-code.

Given that we have so few postcodes on OSM my feeling is that the risk of
adding a few erroneously located ones is low compared by the increased
number.

Jerry

On 11 October 2016 at 12:36, John Aldridge <jpsa at cantab.net> wrote:

> On 10-Oct-16 20:26, Dan S wrote:
>
>> Really sorry for the stupid question, but: what is a participant in
>> this quarterly project actually supposed to *do*?
>>
>
> I asked a similar question a week or so ago. From the responses I got, I
> don't think there is a single shared vision of the goals of this project.
>
> What /I'm/ doing is checking the Greg's map, and trying to make all the
> blobs round here go green :)
>
> In most cases that involves filling in addr:postcode and fhrs:id on
> existing OSM features. I'm not, however, trusting that the postcode
> recorded on FHRS is accurate, and I'm not setting addr:postcode unless I
> can find corroborating information (e.g. the establishment's web site).
>
> I'm definitely /not/ copying any other FHRS data into OSM tags. If people
> want to see the hygiene rating, they need to follow fhrs:id to the FHRS
> page, rather than looking at a stale OSM copy of that data which unlikely
> ever to be maintained.
>
> Which reminds me... Greg's tool seems to have recently added two local
> churches (which don't in fact seem to have FHRS records at all), so I must
> wander over there to see if I can find a postcode on the noticeboards,
> since there doesn't seem to be one on either of their web sites!
>
> --
> Cheers,
> John
>
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