[Talk-GB] ITO! World Tools

[Shaun McDonald]

Hi Brian,

Unfortunately due to a combination of proprietary code, and linking of the code with some of other systems, releasing the code isn’t possible.

Shaun

> On 6 Dec 2019, at 13:18, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Shaun
> 
> Would it be possible for itoworld to let us ( the UK chapter) have the source code for the road names feature - we're keen to replicate it using the new source of OS road names from OS Open Roads and we're hoping that other than dealing with a new datasource the comparison logic and rendering backend could be re-used. It might lessen the development effort and it might be easier to get some volunteers.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 10:51, Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk <mailto:shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:26, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com <mailto:sk53.osm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> The big difference of the old Locator layer from ITO is that it displayed the name. The other tool which used OS locator is Robert Scott's OSL Musical Chairs <https://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map>. Both suffer because OS Locator was last released in 2016.
> 
> The OS Locator data having last been released in 2016, with no plans to update to the OS Open Roads mentioned below, and the majority of the UK having street names. Combined with no new streets ever going to come up, and demolished/removed street names needing to have the not:name forever more, a hardware failure, were all contributory factors for the service being discontinued.
> 
>> 
>> One way to get potentially missing names is to use OS Open Roads. These are big shape files, so its probably best to cut them down using something like ogr2ogr, or QGIS. The file can be pulled in as a custom layer in iD, Potlatch and as a standard layer in JOSM. 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:30, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com <mailto:jez.nicholson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> As Jerry says, the key feature was that it compared OS road names to OSM and highlighted the differences.
>> 
>> The Microsoft Open Data Team recently analysed streets-with-no-name-but-lots-of-houses which threw up positive hits, and some potentially false positives of new housing estates which do not have road names yet and auxiliary service roads.
>> 
>> I'd like to see a new tool be built....i'd also like someone to fund it being built and sustain it either through a grant or donated work.
>> 
> 
> We at Ito are also hopeful that the community would implement new more up to date tools with a more modern look.
> 
> Shaun McDonald
> Ito World
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