[Talk-GB] Proposal: Import EV charging point data

Alan Mackie aamackie at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 14:28:00 UTC 2020


On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 09:09, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For me, once licencing issues have been fully resolved, it comes down to
> accuracy of data.
>
> For example the TfL cycle data is great as it has been collected by ground
> survey and with two photos of everything. Some other third party data has
> been less accurate. At this point it becomes tricky as we've no agreed
> threshold. We all know that OSM is not perfect but less clear on what level
> of accuracy we require for imports.
>

Wouldn't this be partially dependent on the level of mapping in the area in
question? In sparsely mapped regions even relatively coarse data might be
an improvement. In areas where individual gas lamps have been accurately
placed higher precision would be required to avoid misleading entries.

>
> As for tools, consider Ilya's OSM Conflator tool. Works well for node data.
>
> Rob
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