[OSM-talk-be] Blackspots

[Jan-willem De Bleser]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 18:48, Ben Abelshausen
<ben.abelshausen at gmail.com> wrote:
> We use a matching algorithm that still recognizes streets with small
> spelling errors and takes into account derivations like st. and straat.
> Spelling shouldn't be a problem.

Ah, ok. But you also said earlier that:

> If no street with the same name can be found the closest street is taken.

...which I understood to mean that if  you have an address, say 123
Fake St, and Fake St is missing but this address happens to be within
50m of Main St, it will not be marked with a black spot?

>
> I'll see if I can prepare the data in a good format for you. Also an update
> mechanism would be nice. After updating osm blackspots should dissappear!
> :-)
>
> The updates will be max daily.
>
> If you can do all this that would be great! It's not that urgent so take
> your time!

I'll do my best. I don't have anywhere to run a full slippy map, but
if we make it easy for people to generate the heatmaps themselves it
should already be helpful.

Cheers,
Jw