[HOT] Conflating island names from topographic maps

[Stephen Ficklin]

Thanks Dan,

Great suggestions.  I have corrected what I've done to follow.

Stephen

On 11/22/2013 4:45 AM, Dan S wrote:
> 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,
>>>
>>> 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