[talk-au] List of potential datasources

[James Livingston]

On 17/08/2009, at 11:07 AM, John Smith wrote:
> --- On Mon, 17/8/09, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I guess the problems with this would be:
>> * Duplication with public toilets that are already marked
>
> Only import toilets where there is no node=amenity within 250-500m,  
> throw them into an exceptions file for manual inspection/ 
> verification/insertion.

+1, that's what I was thinking if we did get access to the data.

Assuming no-one has contacted them before, I'll send them an email  
sometime soon.


>> Thinking about it, if the search was improved for OSM a bit
>> (i.e. faster) maybe OSM could tender to host toilet map. I
>> guess our base street map coverage is a bit thin in rural
>> areas for that, but just a thought.
>
> A POI search in general would be good.

I'll have a look around to see what's already been done for this, but  
it shouldn't be too hard to. If the search is of the form 'X near Y'  
then do a place lookup on Y, and if you find Y, then look for nearby  
nodes with:
  * X is of the form "some text", then look for name=some text
  * X is of the form a=b;c=d then look for those (as a power-user thing)
  * otherwise use a table of mapping, e.g. toilets -> amenity=toilet,  
lakes -> natural=water