[Imports] Import of addresses in Poland
Johan C
osmned at gmail.com
Tue Feb 4 22:59:55 UTC 2014
2014-02-04 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> As you probably know, OSM doesn't value data over community. Where
> imports are concerned, we usually look at whether there's a local
> community to "digest" the data that has been imported, to fix it where
> it's wrong, to update it in the future.
>
I think a strong community is extremely beneficial to OSM. The attendants
of the workshop 'Road map to the future' at SOTM Birmingham wrote down
their following, diverse, dreams for OSM in 2020:
1. People: end-user
- Useful car navigation in all first world countries
- Be embraced by the open source software community
- Have a business model that supports the OSM ecosystem and at the same
time provides a good end-userexperience
- Ease of use (data). My gran can create a map in 10 minutes
- An easy and 'default' place for people to find options to a specific
need
- For the general public to understand the possibility of different map
styles (and power it gives)
- User selectable rendering
- It should be open gl
- To be able to select features much more dynamically than today. That
the map can be a street map, orienteering map, cycle map or powerline map
without having a specialized project making tiles for it
- That people or organizations have the tools to make the maps they need
using OSM
- Enthusiastic embrace of multiple projections and warps. Warps to match
OSM with historic maps that you don't want to distort, or diagrammatic
distortions eg one-dimensional maps.
2. People: community
- SOTM's everywhere
- Local chapter growth
- Community specific groups
- Not a single map on osm.org (sign-up should make clear that OSM is
much more than a single map like Gmaps)
- Put a map of meetings on the frontpage, including conferences, SOTM,
HOT, pub meetings.
3. Technique: editing/tools/quality
- Focus on routing particularly during editing. Height, weight, turn
restrictions (+ view)
- Ease of use (editing). Mobile: place + label within 2 minutes. All
maps have an 'edit me' buttonk
- Easy for non-techies to add data
- High quality data
- Automatic collection of data from non-technical peoples devices to
enhance quality (people not interested to be mappers)
- Consistent tagging format or rules (described)
- No federated tagging / worldwide consistency / no federational mappers
- Polygons on as polygons. Treat them as their own type
- Customized tools for interest groups (hike, tree, walking)
- Ability to move on from poor initial tagging conventions
- Niche/long tail mappers/users: a. Custom map display showing a1. Task
based custom editor a2. Stored in global OSM DB (problems)
4. Competitive advantage
- OSM should be the default map everywhere
- OSM gps units
- All imagery should come directly from DigitalGlobe in the highest
quality and accuracy and cut out the "middle men" aka Micro$oft, Google,
Govt etc.
What is the right way to get to Rome (that is in my opinion: lots of
end-users and a big 'alive and kicking' community in each country)? I would
prefer to have thousands of people per country helping to improve OSM.
Preferrably by ground truth editing. But in ten years of OSM no country has
created a community large enough to create a reliable database of addresses
(and POI's) by ground-truth editing. Is going on with addresses like in the
past ten years the best and only approach to travel to Rome?
I think OSM should take open data as a chance. And use as many local
community members as possible to import this data. But just having lots of
data in a database is not enough to get to Rome. Maybe Steve Coast will hit
the right chord and figures out a faster way to get to Rome with the combi
Telenav/Skobbler, and hopefully builds an easy-to-use app which encourages
end-users to improve the OSM database by ground truth editing...
Cheers, Johan
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