[Talk-in] Change of merged bank names in OpenStreetMap

Chetan H A chetanha91 at gmail.com
Thu May 25 04:23:14 UTC 2017


Hi all,

Bharata, this workflow works good for most of users who use JOSM as editor.
Thanks for the help. Will work on weekends and knock them all. Anyone who
want to join is appreciated. :)

Chetan

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Bharata H S <bharatagubbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> In reference with [1
> <http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/sbi-five-associate-banks-bmb-merge-with-sbi/article17757316.ece>
> ], [2
> <http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/banking/finance/banking/post-merger-sbi-begins-operations-as-unified-entity/articleshow/57962972.cms>]
> and the earlier discussion in this thread, pulled out a list of bank names
> that needs to be renamed as State Bank of India.
>
> The steps followed were,
>
>    1. Overpass query <http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/oQt> with amenity=bank
>    for the geocoding area of India.
>    2. The raw data as .csv was extracted and imported to a spreadsheet.
>    3. Used simple filtering to classify the required banks that need to
>    be renamed. *Spreadsheet*
>    <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17VXVWQVF1rujmQiSQVrXiTOi2sRImh29I2JCGWCKaxc/edit#gid=1622201629>
>    4. There are 594 entries that needs to be fixed.
>    5. Created a JOSM link to assist the addition of modified name. This
>    adds
>       1. name=State Bank of India
>       2. short_name=SBI [short_name  -  Common abbreviation, useful for
>       searching (recognised by Nominatim). http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
>       wiki/Key:name ]
>       3. wikidata=Q1340361 (*Ref
>       <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340361>)*
>       4. wikipedia=en:State Bank of India (*Ref
>       <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bank_of_India>)*
>       5. website=https://www.sbi.co.in  <https://www.sbi.co.in>
>
>
>    1. There is also a link to open the feature and edit with *iD editor. *But
>    the tags mentioned above are not added automatically.
>    2. The feature corresponding to the bank could be viewed on
>    OpenStreetMap using the View in OSM link.
>    3.  Added a Status column and a progress tracker table to keep track
>    of the count.
>
>
> *Note*: The current list contains only features tagged as amenity=bank in
> OpenStreetMap and doesn’t include ATMs that are usually tagged as
> amenity=atm. The list also includes banks which are just named as *SBI *and
> doesn’t have the proper name as State Bank of India. The intention behind
> this was to standardise all State banks on OpenStreetMap.
>
> [1] - http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/sbi-five-
> associate-banks-bmb-merge-with-sbi/article17757316.ece
> [2] - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/
> banking/finance/banking/post-merger-sbi-begins-operations-
> as-unified-entity/articleshow/57962972.cms
>
> Share your thoughts on this and any suggestions are welcome on the
> approach.
>
> Link to Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/
> 17VXVWQVF1rujmQiSQVrXiTOi2sRImh29I2JCGWCKaxc/edit#gid=1622201629
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, muzirian <muzirian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ya many will will be shutdown, but all of them are working now, SBI have
>> announced changed branch names.I think i saw those name list on newspaper.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Srihari's suggestion of using overpass->JOSM is the easiest if we want
>>> to make such a change.
>>>
>>> > Meanwhile, we can just change bank name from associate to SBI.
>>>
>>> We should do this once the name boards on the ground start changing,
>>> otherwise this would cause confusion for those using the maps. Ganesh is
>>> there a deadline by which all the branches should update their signboard?
>>>
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