[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Peter Miller]

On 11 June 2011 14:22, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds great. So the only significant job for the bot is to snap road
names onto these vectors (together with suitable 'surveyed' tagging).

I assume that the person doing this will have to be careful to stitch
these new ways into the existing road network correctly?

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

ITO are probably not the best people to set up maintain simple mirrors
of existing content. Are there not 100 sites where a mirror could be
set up and maintained? Why is the OS site not sufficient anyway?

>> 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.

Possibly we should ban all marine edits (and indeed any other
additions of frivolous content) until we have recruited enough new
editors to complete a ground survey of all UK roads and paths ;)


Regards,


Peter

>
> cheers
> Richard
>
>
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