[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Amey Birmingham Highway Assets Import

[Rob Nickerson]

Brian,

As mentioned in person, there is a (python?) script called OSM Conflate
that might help here.

I am without my laptop until Monday but will look then.

Rob

On 3 Mar 2017 10:06 a.m., "Brian Prangle" <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> Following on from our discussions at last night's monthly meeting can I
> propose the following as a way forward?
>
> Traffic Signals
>
> Import as nodes and then gradually transfer relevant data to adjacent
> traffic signal nodes,then deleting the import node as and when folk are
> editing in the area. I think the only data we need to add is the usrn
> number. At the time of import we add a FIXME note with instructions on what
> to do on each node
>
> Trees
>
> We do this on an area by area basis, deleting the existing tree nodes
> along highways and replacing with Amey data. The data looks good as far as
> positional placement goes and the other data looks pretty comprehensive.
> Jerry, who des have some expert knowledge in this area, has suggested this
> approach supplemented with a survey to check the accuracy of the species
> description. I don't think we have either the human resources or expertise
> to do the follow-up survey and I think we'll have to rely on the accuracy
> of Amey.
>
> Overall this approach will be slower and more human-intensive but works
> around our lack of programming skills to do a mass extract compare delete
> import
>
> On both issues I'll contact Amey as to how they propose to release data
> for additions and deletions.
>
> Regards
>
> Brian
>
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