[Talk-ca] Road Names from StatsCan

[Steve Singer]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Michel Gilbert wrote:

> 2009/3/29 Steve Singer <ssinger_pg at sympatico.ca>
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> I have done some spot checkings across the data set. The matching % of what
> have seen is very good. Your approach to use Stats Can to get road name
> where GeoBase hasn't shoyld be part of our import process. DO you think we
> should add a tag to specify the Stats Can source for names ?

I have:

Added a tag statscan:rbuid that points to the RB_UID from the statscan 
data.

Created a addnames_statscan.py script that will take an existing OSM 
format input file(with geobase:uuid values) and add the name as a tag. I 
think this is what your asking for.  I've also left the ability the calls in 
geobase2osm to do this as it generates the original way.

These changes are now checked into svn, but I haven't done a huge amount of 
testing.

I don't think it  would not be hard for someone to extend addnames_statscan 
to use the osm way_id to add statscan names to exisitng OSM unamed roads.

Some more testing has shown that 100m works much better than 50m when 
matching statscan to geobase roads.  In more rural areas many statscan roads 
are off by more than 50m.



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> Would it be better to separate the processes. Process #1- Geobase2osm with
> integration to osm, #2- Road name matching. That way, for the ones who use
> FME to perform Geobase2osm they will be able to use your road matching to
> get names if your input is osm files.
>
> Good work Steve.
>
> Michel
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