[HOT] Conflating island names from topographic maps

[Dan S]

Hi -

2013/11/22 Stephen Ficklin <stephen.ficklin at gmail.com>:
> I'm working here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/10.1737/124.4260
>
> I'm a bit new to this.  In one case I found the island was spelled
> differently on the US Army maps than what was in OSM (at this location:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/10.1765/124.4637). I added the alt_name
> with the different spelling but there was already a 'source' key with the
> value 'Landsat'  I edited it to be 'Landsat / US Army Topo Map'.  Is this
> acceptable?

People normally use semicolons to separate multiple items, not
slashes. For the alt_name I would have added a separate tag
"source:alt_name=US Army Top Map".

> Also, is there a way to temporarily tag an island we've already checked?

You mean tag it as having been checked? There's no official way of
doing that, but no-one can stop you adding a "note:name" or some other
tag...

Dan



> Stephen
>
>
> On 11/21/2013 2:12 PM, Andrew Buck wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone,
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>> 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
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>> tms[14]:http://mapwarper.net/layers/tile/111/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png
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>> 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