[Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

[Peter Miller]

On 3 February 2011 08:47, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:

> On 2 February 2011 21:10, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
>
>> It could do the following:
>>
>> 1) Add names to existing roads in osm where there is a single un-named
>> ways in osm with a bounding box which matches that of a single entry in os
>> locator.
>>
>> 2) In addition...  it might be able to also add roads to osm from os
>> vector district, snapping them into existing roads as required where the
>> existing roads align neatly with os streetview. It would only do this if
>> there were no ways close by on either side.
>>
>> Complex situations will be left to humans. Humans could also sometimes
>> prepare an area for analysis by the bot, splitting ways as appropriate,
>> adjusting alignment of existing roads and dealing in advance with situations
>> we know the bot will have difficulties with.
>>
>> Edits would be made as individual changesets, referenced to the mapper
>> operating of the bot. Each edit would be 'signed off' by the mapper who
>> would be able to see the proposed changes visual prior to accepting them.
>>
>>
To be clear, ITO are not proposing to write this bot but we would be happy
to encourage and support it to happen if there is a general mood that it
would be useful and achievable.


>
> I'd be happy to review a few of these edits for Gwynedd, I've no objection
> if it works.
>
> On another ITO-analysis note, Peter you are driving me slightly potty
> because new road "errors" keep popping up. I presume this is because of new
> OS data? Just when I thought I had all of Southwark bar the north east ear
> sorted, another six errors pop up. Grr.
>

Don't worry - this will only happen once every three months when the OS
publish an updated OS Locator file. We updated to the latest OS Locator
version (dated November 10) last night, hence a few places have fallen off
their '100% perch'! We should be due another one reasonably soon I guess and
may get it up sooner.

In time I hope that we will find that some of our 'not:name' reports will
have been fixed by the OS. I hear that the OS is getting much more receptive
to this whole Open Data thing. One layer I would like ITO to produce would
be the reverse OS Locator view, which would be for the OS's use (and our
amusement!). It would show all the named roads that are in OSM but which are
not in the OS. They would then need to research why that is the case and
update their own products (without compromising our license).



Regards,



Peter


> Tom
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