[OSM-talk] Way/segment naming and other things

[Dean Earley]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Hello Dean,
> 
> You're from Hants LUG I believe?  I gave the talks on AJAX and Freemap 
> recently, and am responsible for all the data in the Southampton area 
> except the motorways :-)

Yep :) Unfortunately I missed the talk though :(

>>I was looking to add/update data for the Hedge End (Hampshire, UK) area
>>and came across several named segments. Should I reset these to blank
>>when I join them all up in a Way and name them?
> 
> It's up to you. On the one hand that would be replication of data, on the 
> other hand some renderers do not deal with ways at the moment (e.g. the 
> new renderer at nick.dev.openstreetmap.org) will be able to understand 
> them. I'd probably leave the names in and also name the way. Which editor 
> are you using?

Currently JOSM.
I started with the Java applet and it was too clunky/slow, I then tried 
OSMEditor (on windows) and didn't get on very well at all :)

I am thinking of writing a COM wrapper to OSM, possibly with a nice 
AutoRoute style interface :)

Is there any anonymous access to the underlying data?

-- 
Dean Earley, Dee (dean at earlsoft.co.uk)

irc:    irc://irc.blitzed.org/
web:    http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk
phone:  +44 (0)780 8369596