[Talk-ca] OSM PEI Canada

[Robert Shand]

Hi Danny,

The apps you mention could be doing a variety of things with the data…. they may have old data, and as you say they may only be rendering certain things to their tiles (I'm assuming that they're rendering their own tile data).  The beauty of OSM is that the data can be there in the OSM db - but you get to pick and choose what to render for your use case.

PEI is probably missing lots of data, which could equally be true for any other location.  That's part of the the fun  - adding useful stuff to it.

I'm not aware of great tools for Android - but JOSM ( http://josm.openstreetmap.de ) on a PC/Mac is a great tool for seeing what's actually available in the OSM data.  It can be fairly complex.

As for the province having lots of data - yes it does.  But we have to be careful what data we import into OSM - that's a fairly complex thing.  I wouldn't go importing things into the database until the community has reached a consensus on the data you wish to import.

It's great that you want to get involved, and it's great that you're asking questions.

Perhaps we could go for a coffee and I can help point you in the right direction for a bunch of OSM stuff.

Best wishes

Bob

On 2012-12-03, at 8:44 PM, Danny Lane <lane.dj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks
>  
> I'm new to the OSM - using my Nexus 7 Android device I find that depending on the program you use, you get different results. All these programs are using the Open Street Map - some have no POI, City name, etc while others appear to be better. My observation are for Prince Edward Island, Canada.
>  
> Free Android Apps
> NavFree - with OSM Canada 2012 & Postcodes Canada
>  -Is really poor, few city name's, no POI, missing lots of streets, etc
>  
> OSMAnd - using OSM prince-edward-island northamerica OSM map
> - has alot of POI, street names, etc...
>  
> So my assumption that OSM for PEI Canada was missing alot of data may not be correct - just that some companies maybe using only a subset of the available data.
>  
> What is the best tool on Andriod or Windows to do some verification of the OSM maps for Prince Edward Island? The Province has alot of GIS data that could be imported into OSM - but they use a different format ie: NTX and I don't know how to convert NTX to OSM format?
>  
> Danny
>  
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