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

[Jez Nicholson]

Great...then as far as Northern Ireland is concerned then I think that the
Community Index has it right already. It allows for the overlap or OSMUK
and OSMIE, Talk-GB and Talk-IE

I've been looking at IoM, Jersey, and Guernsey which AFAIK have no coverage
in the Community Index. As you say, it uses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 country codes via the
countryCoder so I'm expanding coverage to ["gb", "gg", "je", "im"]. I
believe that there may be an issue in how Community Index calls Country
Coder and have raised
https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/issues/333

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:32 AM Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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