[HOT] Bug in HOTOSM export

Brian O'Hare bjohare at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 11:57:25 UTC 2015


Hi Claire,

I've added an issue to github which we can use for discussion.
Alternatively, we could add a page to the wiki.

https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool2/issues/105

cheers,

Brian.

On 3 December 2015 at 11:44, Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is due to the fact that the exact same attribute table is exported
> whatever the thematic layer chosen.
> Lots of unnecessary fields could be removed, but important ones should
> really be added (name, being only one of them...).
> Is there already a bug filed or a shared file for discussing the
> attributes which should be exported for each data type?
>
> Cheers
>
> Claire
>
> Claire Halleux
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> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Severin Menard <severin.menard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I also noticed the thematic layers are full of unnecessary (because
>> empty) fields that it would be good to remove. Eg if you check the
>> attribute table for the building shp layer.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Severin
>> Le 3 déc. 2015 12:30, "Brian O'Hare" <bjohare at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi Blake, John,
>>>
>>> I think the issue here is that there is a great degree of overlap
>>> between the HDM and OSM models. The thematic layer generation looks for a
>>> subset of tags and sorts them thematically. Because of the overlap between
>>> the two models its very likely that choosing either of the models will
>>> result in the same attributes being exported in the thematic shapefile,
>>> making it seem as if there's a bug in the link code. The thematic layer
>>> generation stuff could probably do with some refinement to account for the
>>> differences in the export models.
>>>
>>> Hope that makes sense!
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Brian.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 December 2015 at 02:19, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the feedback.
>>>>
>>>> I will take a look at it. I am not sure the thematic version takes the
>>>> tags from the tag selection tree into account at all as I originally
>>>> developed the thematic versions outside of the export tool and just
>>>> suggested my ogr2ogr scripts to Brian so we could also offer that thematic
>>>> breakout as part of the export tool.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we could talk directly so I could better understand how we could
>>>> create the thematic layers based on the tag selections and have it still be
>>>> useful to you as a user of the export tool and shapefiles.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Blake
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/2/2015 4:33 PM, John Gordon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have been using the  HOTOSM export utility ( export.hotosm.org ),
>>>>> which I find extremely useful, however, I think I have come across a
>>>>> bug
>>>>> while downloading shapefiles.  I download in both the Esri SHP (OSM
>>>>> Schema) and Esri SHP (Thematic Schema)  file formats and in both the
>>>>> Humanitarian Data Model and OSM Data Model tree tags.  Using the OSM
>>>>> schema I get the expected unique downloads using the different Tree
>>>>> Tags
>>>>> but when I use the Thematic Scheme I get what appears to me to be
>>>>> identical downloads from both the Humanitarian and OSM Tree Tags (I
>>>>> believe it is the OSM  download).  It looks like someone has mistakenly
>>>>> entered the wrong link for the Humanitarian tree tag.
>>>>>
>>>>> John Gordon
>>>>>
>>>>> 1506—350 Queen Elizabeth Drive
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