[HOT] Conflating island names from topographic maps

[Noel Ballantyne]

Hi all,

I will work in this area
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/11.0187/120.9574.

Noel


On 21 November 2013 19:12, Andrew Buck <andrew.r.buck at gmail.com> wrote:

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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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