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

Srihari Thalla thallasrihari at gmail.com
Sat May 27 07:30:47 UTC 2017


Hey Chetan,

Have you started working on them? I'd like to join with you.

On Thu 25 May, 2017, 09:54 Chetan H A, <chetanha91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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