[Talk-us] Tracking Deleted Streets and Comparison Tools

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-02-18 16:03, Humphries, Grant wrote:
>I am attempting to track deleted streets and other changes that have 
>significant effects on routing between versions of OSM data that are 
>approximately one and two months apart ... the purpose of this effort is 
>to ensure the integrity of the data each time we update, which happens 
>every several weeks.

How about: move along each way, printing a list of intersections (nodes 
that are shared with other ways) as pairs of names. Diff this against the 
new version to see where changes are. If you want to include changes in 
distance, include the intersection coordinates.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>