[OSM-talk] Openstreetmap most up-to-date map

[Simon Hewison]

This morning, I passed a set of council workers, along with people-in-suits 
unveiling a new street name sign on a previously unnamed street.

Chaville Way, London N3.

This is now named as such in Openstreetmap, and is to my knowledge the first 
map to have that street named.

Even Barnet council's own GIS system doesn't have it named.
In fact, it looks like the council haven't followed their own procedure to 
advise the relevant organizations (Royal Mail, Ordnance Survey, Emergency 
services etc) of naming and numbering of streets.

I've recently also received a response from the local authority about 
notifications of new street naming and numbering decisions, for which they 
have been publishing them, but in a PDF-file per decision, in a 
human-readable form, with no map references or co-ordinates. There appears 
to be no standard way for local councils to publish these.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Potential_Datasources#Local_authority_street_naming_notifications

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Simon Hewison