[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Richard Fairhurst]

Peter Miller wrote:
> Fyi we are doing some investigation in ITO into adding OS
> VectorDistrict 'road missing' data on the OS Locator tiles or possibly
> onto an alternative map layer. The aim being to make tracing of roads
> easier
 > [...]
 > At a later stage one might consider extending the bot to also add road
 > geometry but this is significantly more difficult.

No need to bother with either. :)

The current Potlatch 2 codebase (not deployed yet) can pull vectors 
directly out of VectorMap District shapefiles. Just load the shapefile 
in the background, alt-click, and the road comes through.

If you wanted to do something helpful towards this, a mirror of the 
unzipped shapefiles, perhaps with a nice index, would be really useful.

> Regarding documentation, my contribution is to put a lot of effort
> into the wiki to improve some of the tag pages in particular to
> marine/harbours and electricity supply. Hopefully someone will do work
> on the Potlatch documentation.

It's not "Potlatch documentation" we're lacking, it's OSM documentation 
for the new user who doesn't even know what Potlatch is. Playing with 
marine/harbour tag pages, or indeed anything on the wiki, is a bit 
deckchairs-on-the-Titanic to be honest.

cheers
Richard