[Imports] Arkansas address point import
Mike N
niceman at att.net
Thu Jan 27 00:56:04 GMT 2011
On 1/25/2011 12:14 PM, Nathan Mills wrote:
> I propose to import the situs address points available from Geostor
In considering future synchronization cycles with point data,
several cases can be seen:
A. Mapper deletes an address node.
B. Mapper moves an address node.
C. Mapper creates a new address node.
D. GeoStor data deletes an address node
E. GeoStor data moves an address node
F. GeoStor data creates an address node
G. A street is renamed
For case A, you would not want to have the address node pop up again
from a future update.
For case B, you would not want to re-place a node in the old location.
For case C, you would not want to place a duplicate address node from
GeoStor
Case D should result in removal of the address from OSM
Case E should relocate the node in OSM.
Case F should upload the new node.
So how can this be accomplished? For case A, you have a node that
isn't found in OSM's database, so it should be uploaded, but there is no
way to know that the node was actually deleted. To handle this, the
previously uploaded dataset can be used to determine a delta.
Future update cycles might be -
Create Geostor delta consisting of adds, deletes, and moves since the
previous upload.
Adds which are not a duplicate of existing OSM (houseNumber+StreetName)
will be uploaded.
Deletes will be removed from OSM if found. A question is whether to
also automatically delete mapper-created addresses by matching
houseNumber+streetName
Moved nodes will be relocated if the original node has not been moved.
The street rename case just involves updating changed information for
the matching OSM (houseNumber+streetName) node, which might have been
originally created by Geostor or a mapper.
The Geostor object ID could be useful for matching objects between
the databases.
It would seem that it is useful to retain the last uploaded dataset
somewhere. Does Geostor retain an archive of all previous versions of
datasets?
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