[Talk-GB] ITO! World Tools

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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.

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.

A more elaborate approach is to grab the OSM roads in an area (e.g., with
an Overpass Turbo query), pull them in to QGIS, buffer by 25 m & use the
buffered layer to find any roads in OS Open Road which are outside the
buffered area. This in turn can be saved in a form for use as a custom
layer in editors. With JOSM & Potlatch 2 (I think) you can use this as the
basis of a to do list to check each missing road.

Obviously webhosted layers would be more convenient for the average mapper.

Jerry



On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 10:02, Paul Berry <pmberry2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  Does anyone know the best, or suitable alternative, tool that replaces
> their analysis tools for the missing road names?
>
> http://qa.poole.ch/ is your friend and guide.
>
> Regards,
> *Paul*
>
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 21:12, Guy Collins via Talk-GB <
> talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> Apologies if this has already been announced. ITO! World have stopped
>> supporting their very helpful set of OpenStreetMap tools. Please see the
>> announcement here:
>> https://www.itoworld.com/ito-openstreetmap-tools-announcement/
>>
>> Does anyone know the best, or suitable alternative, tool that replaces
>> their analysis tools for the missing road names? Their tools also
>> highlighted road coverage by local authority which was helpful.
>>
>> Guy
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