[OSM-newbies] Adding to OSM database from Streetviews

[Rob Nickerson]

Hi,

The diy-streetview idea sounds great. For those people (like me) who missed
the first few emails, you can view the thread at [1].

It seems to me that you want to create a tool for OSM contributors to view
these diy-streetview images and then be able to tag amenities that then get
added to the OSM database. As this requires manual intervention, I wouldn't
call it a "bot" (this will just get people worked up). It would be either a
plug-in for an existing editor, or a new map editor. Either way, the best
place for this is the dev mailing list [2]. I'm always surprised at the
level of content that is on the "newbie" list - often it's more complex
than the "talk" mailing list!!

A couple of initial ideas come to mind:

1. Using Google viewer to show your DIY images for the intention of editing
OSM may be against Googles Terms and Conditions (you would need to check),
but the other issue is that it has Google's logo in the bottom corner - we
don't want contributors thinking that they can copy data from Google Maps!

2. You would need to ensure that you are not duplicatiing data. Any editor
would have to download existing OSM data to see if the amenity is already
tagged.

Good luck,
Rob

[1] http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/LJOxH4xhoL56q7LJhmyI
[2] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
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