[Talk-us] Visualizing TIGER expansion bot impact

[Martijn van Exel]

We probably need something dynamic, ITO-style, that lights up the ways
as they are touched by the bot. I don't know how to make things like
that. Anyone with Processing-skills in the house?

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Serge -
>>>
>>> Have you thought of simple ways of visualizing the bot changes? Would be awesome to have a map of that, no? How would we go about this? Will the bot produce a list of way id's that have been changed? Or would we just extract them afterwards by looking at changeset comments?
>>
>> Well as a quick hack I ran the Kansas extract from Geofabrik through
>> the bot and then put all the modified ways on a map. I just reused the
>> style from my post-redaction-bot "missing highway" map so it could use
>> some tweaking but as a rough first draft:
>>
>> http://ni.kwsn.net/~toby/OSM/maps/expansion-bot.html
>>
>> Obviously Kansas was already expanded so not very many ways are going
>> to be affected by the new bot. I guess I might try to add a state out
>> east although I imagine it will just be a solid sea of red and not
>> that useful without some additional tweaking.
>>
>> After the bot runs, it should be possible to make a similar map based
>> on actual changeset data.
>
> Well, just for giggles I added Maine. As expected, it is a giant red
> slab. I don't think this particular visualization has much use,
> really. Thoughts?
>
> Toby
>
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