[Talk-GB] "British Islands" (was "OSMUK-in-a-box")

[Andy Townsend]

On 07/02/2020 10:55, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> Personally, I interpret the coverage of Talk-GB and OSMUK to be the 
> same, i.e. Northern Ireland is officially under OSMUK, but for 
> practical reasons mappers may want to interact with OSMIE....and the 
> same for Talk-GB + Talk-IE.

I think that part of the reason historically was that older 
out-of-copyright maps (and things like townlands) were common across the 
island of Ireland.

Even if it was "overclaiming" I don't think that there would be a 
particular problem with talk-gb also being included on the list for NI 
at https://openstreetmap.community/ - the worst that could happen would 
be that someone would get an answer to their question (which might also 
include a mention of various IE resources).  I recently expanded the 
"East Midlands" coverage north a bit to reflect occasional meet-ups in 
Sheffield and the fact that we've had people attending from further 
north again.


>
> This could make the situation of gb geojson simpler. Do you know where 
> they've defined gb? I can't see it.

It uses the iD editor's country coder.  The documentation for that is at

https://github.com/ideditor/country-coder#readme

There's a list in there of what it does and what it doesn't do.

Best Regards,

Andy