[Imports] Designing a node conflation tool (syncing data)

[Paul Norman]

I will be beginning some work on conflation with ogr2osm for my addresses in
Surrey later in the month when I have time and Surrey publishes updated
data. I'll be writing it in the form of a translation file for ogr2osm. The
code is looking to be fairly easy, I just have to sit down and work out
algorithms.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Doe [mailto:josh at joshdoe.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:40 PM
> To: OSM Imports List; josm-dev
> Subject: [Imports] Designing a node conflation tool (syncing data)
> 
> There's been a lot of talk about tools for merging/syncing/conflating
> data with OSM, so I thought it would be useful for us to discuss
> possible user interface designs for doing so. Because I'm somewhat
> familiar with JOSM, and nodes should be the easiest case (though not
> trivial), I've written up a short potential workflow for conflating
> nodes in JOSM. If we can't handle nodes then we'll have no hope for the
> much more challenging case of ways and relations!
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conflation/Nodes
> 
> I've never used a conflation tool before, so this might be an obvious
> approach to some, or perhaps an awful way to do it, but regardless I
> wanted to get it written down where others could improve upon it.
> 
> I'd like to keep this focused on discussing the design of a user
> interface and workflow, as well as the technical details.
> 
> -Josh
> 
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