[Talk-GB] Anyone fancy a bit of mindless drudgery?

[Paul Berry]

All fixed now.

Regards,
Paul

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 11:00, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suspect that "place/STW" is just a copy and paste from the spreadsheet
> that the original mapper used.  Handily, that formatting allows a web
> search to find the data:
>
>
> https://www.yorkshirewater.com/media/f10fpjkw/yky-bioresources-market-information-2020.xlsx
>
> Personally, I'd have omitted the "/STW" part (likely as per the sign)
> since that formatting appears to be just for Excel's benefit.
>
> In that version there's no off by one error so Flaxton is at
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/54.04490/-0.96097
>
> which is correct.  Someone was asking for the source data - perhaps
> web.archive.org has an earlier version of Yorkshire Water's website
> without the off-by-one error in it?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> PS: Overpass says down to 35 now: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1oyq
>
>
> On 14/02/2023 10:23, Philip Barnes wrote:
>
> Thank you Russ
>
> I had assumed it was the operator, but it does illustrate perfectly why
> abbreviations should be expanded as you cannot assume it will be
> interpreted the same way by different people.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
> On 14 February 2023 10:10:51 GMT, Russ Garrett <russ at garrett.co.uk>
> <russ at garrett.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 10:08, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Main error is they have included (STW) in the name. This is not part of the name but the operator which was already included.
>>
>>
>> I suspect STW here stands for Sewage Treatment Works, not Severn Trent
>> Water. I'd argue that it should be part of the name, but the
>> abbreviation should be expanded.
>>
>>
>>
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