[Talk-us] Large-scale Data Imports and Tags on Nodes

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 01:38:34 GMT 2009


I cc'd to talk-ca list, as it's also relevant.

I do see our point Ian, as when i look through, south of the border, i have
no actual need to be seeing all these extra tags.
Yes, they are relevant, but only for the person(s) who are using those tags
for the update program.

So really, all that is needed is the tag that says it's source, and the NID
tag. ..  Since the python script only really needs to know weather or not
that point/way actually exists. .. from there, it compares to the OSM tags.
the tag "nrn:datasetName=Ontario" is that Really needed?

It's only at the GeoBase side that the tag would be useful. ... searching
for all the roads in the Ontario dataset of the National Road Network. ...
so the purpose of having this would be;
1 - if we wanted to remove all the data (from a planet.osm dump)
2 - if we wanted to replace this dataset with a new one, we would have a tag
to go by.

the tag "is_in=Ontario" would that not say the same thing?


So the arguments stated are;
1 - filling up the database with extraneous information
2 - increases the size of the file download

That brings us to an excellent point;
We must be sure to "clearly define" the purpose of adding each extra tag.
 If the tag only serves as a 'cosmetic' tag, it's not needed.

IMO Tags which get imported should do the following;
1 - tell the renderer what the data is and how it relates to existing OSM
Map Feature standards
2 - tell the OSM users WHO imported the data
3 - give the python script some cross-referencing tags to 'RoadMatch'
4 - be the same type of tags that the OSM user would place in otherwise, if
the imported data was NOT available.

IMO So far, i think the tags we have are fine, but it's worth some
discussions. :)

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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:34:49 -0600
From: "Ian Dees" <ian.dees at gmail.com>
Subject: [Talk-us] Large-scale Data Imports and Tags on Nodes
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I don't think it makes sense to put tags on nodes for mega-imports. This
adds tons of extraneous information that fills up the database quite
quickly. It also increases the size of OSM file downloads by a large margin

Is it really a good idea to attribute each node? Let's stick with
attribution on ways. If we're really worried about it, we could do mass
imports with a specific user and give that user a wiki page to describe
where the data came from.

...discuss...
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