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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

"*bicycle_tool_stand *or* bike_self_repair_tools* might have been less
confusing." - in that case maybe name should be changed?
This tag is still new and rarely used so it is still possible.

2015-03-20 2:38 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>:

> 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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