[Imports] For comment: import of 532 bicycle repair station locations

[Bryce Nesbitt]

It's now possible to evaluate these issues.

The import has moved into the synchronization phase. A few dozen imported
locations have been located on the ground by mappers, and shuffled to their
exact position.

The final choice on fuzzy match has been a simple 90 meter proximity
search.  So far all stations searched for have been found.

The biggest problem came from out of the blue: there have been a dozen or
so unique mappers using the tag to mark a bicycle shop,
or in one case "a guy who fixes bicycles".  In retrospect the tag name
*bicycle_tool_stand
*or* bike_self_repair_tools* might have been less confusing.


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

>  On 1/22/2015 2:27 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>
>  For your comment:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Dero_Bike_Repair
>
>
> This is an interesting proposal
>
> *Legal*
> As ODbL, the data is obviously compatible and compatible with the
> contributor terms. It would be good to get something on the record from
> Dero that the license is ODbL, either an email or something public would
> work.
>
> *Tagging*
> The tagging looks okay, but it's a bit of an interesting case - bicycle
> repair stations are clearly of interest to mappers, but for various reasons
> there aren't many tagged.
>
> Dero seems to use "Dero" for their branding instead of "dero", so
> brand=Dero would probably be better. I would add details about the
> changeset tagging you're proposing on using to your proposal.
>
>
> *Data Quality *There are some duplicate stations in the data - downtown
> Vancouver has an example of two at the exact same location with different
> operators. Outside Seattle at Bellevue College is another example which is
> possibly duplicates.
>
>
> *Fuzzy Matching *It's hard to comment on this. What ever matching is used
> will undoubtedly need tweaking, both after importing reveals problems and
> as bike repair stations become more common, both as street furniture, in
> Dero's database, and in the OSM database.
>
> How will it be handled if a station is imported, then a subsequent import
> run finds it has been deleted?
>
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