[Talk-ca] [bot] Proposal to fix issue with duplicated inner polygons in Canada

[Jeff McKenna]

A big thanks to Paulina & team!

Please keep us posted for the rest of Canada also.  Thanks again!

(from a Nova Scotia person, but with roots in Southwestern ON)

-jeff



-- 
Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/



On 2021-12-16 9:09 a.m., OSM wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Bonjour à tous,
> 
> I am happy to announce that the planned test run was executed successfully!
> 
> We were able to fix 748 cases in Southwestern Ontario over the course of 
> 26 minutes (total run time).
> 
> Also, during this first run we have encountered cases of duplicated 
> polygons where the geometry is more than doubled (e.g. tripled). Such 
> situations shouldn't be repaired automatically (the intention was to 
> handle "double" polygons, as logged in Osmose, other cases might require 
> manual review), so we have modified the code for now to find and skip 
> such cases.
> 
> You can see all the details about the run on our wiki (along with the 
> links to the particular changesets): 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits/TTmechanicalupdates/Fix_issue_with_duplicated_inner_polygons_in_Canada#Outcome 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits/TTmechanicalupdates/Fix_issue_with_duplicated_inner_polygons_in_Canada#Outcome> 
> 
> 
> Based on our analysis, the bot is working correctly, but we encourage 
> you to verify the output as well, as per the Automated Edits code of 
> conduct.
> 
> Next we will start processing the whole of Canada (in iterations, as 
> described here: 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits/TTmechanicalupdates/Fix_issue_with_duplicated_inner_polygons_in_Canada#Bot_runs 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits/TTmechanicalupdates/Fix_issue_with_duplicated_inner_polygons_in_Canada#Bot_runs> 
> ).
> 
> Do not hesitate to reach out with questions or comments!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Paulina
> 
>