[Talk-GB] More mindless drudgery...

Paul Berry pmberry2007 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 12:57:31 UTC 2023


All fixed now. (Some ways have had their second revision in as many days.)

Regards,
Paul

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 23:27, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alas,
>
> I've found another class of imported data not covered by the previous
> overpass query.  I spotted this at
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1046339418/history .  It's not included
> in the previous query because it was edited by another mapper since the
> original import.  This other mapper just removed "operator:wikipedia"**.
>
> The new Overpass query is https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1rmf .
>
> Some of those were already fixed by the original importer before
> "operator:wikipedia" was removed (for example,
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1046322839/history was one of those),
> but many were not.
>
> Again, I'm sharing this just because I know that sometimes people "like
> stuff to fix" so if anyone fancies a go, feel free.  Like before, if not,
> no problem - I'm sure I'll get round to finishing them off at some point!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> ** I'm not sure why; I wouldn't have added that myself in the first place
> but it seems pointless to remove it when not doing any other edits
>
>
> On 14/02/2023 11:59, Paul Berry wrote:
>
> 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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