[OSM-talk-be] Re : Re: Meeting with SPW (some elements of the discussion may also interest Flemish people)

Julien Fastré julien at fastre.info
Sun Mar 24 19:22:30 UTC 2013


Yes, this is what we need!

Envoyé depuis mon téléphone

Renaud Michel <r.h.michel+osm at gmail.com> a écrit :

>On 2013-03-23 at 21:55, Julien Fastré wrote:
>> The SPW has also a request for our community (this is were flemish
>> people might be more interested !)
>> 
>> They would like to use OSM to track changes in Wallonia. They would like
>> to know where to send their teams, where there is some new roads, or
>> where the roads or elements are modified.
>> 
>> The problem is: how to track those changes ? If I add a new road in OSM,
>> is it a road build in the past month, or is it a road build years ago,
>> but which didn't exist in the osm'db ? And if I update a line "highway",
>> am I correcting some mistake, or adapting our map to some new reality ?
>> 
>> We thought about one solution: a tag "since" to object which are updated
>> or build in the reality and modified in the db. Example: if a road has a
>> new bike lane, I update the line with JOSM and add the tag
>> "since=2013-01-01" on the object. Within SPW, they track the tags
>> "since" and see where are changes.
>
>Don't re-invent the wheel:
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date
>
>
>-- 
>Renaud Michel
>
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