[OSM-talk-be] Test website for OSM streets

[Luc Van den Troost]

Hi Kenny,


Here in Antwerpen I did a similar job, comparing streetnames in OSM with the
'officiele stratenlijst' from the city.

However, this was done on names/postcode only, and the 'officiele
straatnamenlijst' is a public document that is maintained by the city
council.

You seem to go beyond that and seem to be comparing/linking to maps that are
copyrighted. Doing that in a systematic way probably gives copyright issues!
I cant really check it now, as the gis-vlaanderen site seems under
maintanance right now.

I am afraid you can not go beyond a 'streetname list' to do your checks, if
you do not want to end up with copyright issues.

If you want to see how I did it for Antwerpen see
http://www.bb2000.be/stratenzoeker/state.html
Will do an update on that one later today. Updates got less frequent as most
streets have been entered over time.

Luc / Speedy


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Kenny Knecht <kenny.knecht at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I've been doing a little programming and I would like to share the results
> with you: if you go http://users.edpnet.be/kknecht/ you arrive at a
> website where you can find the state of the OSM maps for some municipalities
> in the neighbourhood of Gent.
> In detail you can find
>
>    - the missing streets, which are in official lists (these can be found
>    in general at municipality websites, often reading the HTML source of the
>    streetmap website)
>    - the streets in OSM NOT in the official list: personally I think these
>    are the most important,because that way we can clean our database!
>    - some history shots where the coverage per km^2 on a three-monthly
>    basis (this is just some graphic sugar, but it is nice to see your work
>    evolve isn't it?)
>
> Now the good news is that it's a piece of cake to do this for ANY Belgian
> municipality, so if you want yours added, all you have to send me is a text
> file just containing all the official street names, each on a separate line,
> and I add the info soon... if I have time ;-)
>
> If you have comments or suggestions: just let me know.
>
> So long,
>
> Kenny
>
>
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