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

Srihari Thalla thallasrihari at gmail.com
Sat May 27 10:08:49 UTC 2017


I just noticed that several banks have translations in other languages too!
I guess we need to address them, maybe after this sprint of changes? An
automated script might be preferred as all these banks are just names the
same!

On Sat, 27 May 2017 at 13:17 Chetan H A <chetanha91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Srihari, I'm uploading the changeset with the comment:
> "change of merged bank names to SBI
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2017-May/002888.html ",
> Let me know if you need any help.
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Chetan H A <chetanha91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sri Hari, I started fixing from the top of spreadsheet. Please join
>> from the bottom of it.
>>
>> On 27 May 2017 1:02 p.m., "Srihari Thalla" <thallasrihari at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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