[HOT] Conflating island names from topographic maps

[Andrew Buck]

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Hello Everyone,

I got a request for better island name coverage in the OSM database
for our coverage of the Philippines.  Since there are dozens of small
islands in the area, it is important for people using nominatim to be
able to find islands easily and accurately.

We have an imagery layer of scans of US Army Topographic maps from
1955.  You can see the map layer online below using the first link, or
put the second into josm to view it as a background layer there.

http://mapwarper.net/layers/111

tms[14]:http://mapwarper.net/layers/tile/111/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png

I would appreciate it if one or a few people could go through these
maps and check all of the small islands to make sure each is properly
named in OSM.  I would recoomend using the 'Mirrored Download' plugin
in josm and then checking the names of each island.  Please add
alt_name for minor spelling variations, or old_name for completely
different names listed on the map and put 'source=US Army Topo Map' on
any objects you add a name for.

Send a short mail to the list announcing your intention to work on
this so others can avoid that area and lets see what we can get from
these.  I expect there will be quite a few small islands we can name
this way, but I do not know for sure.

- -AndrewBuck
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