[OSM-talk] British stations in Wikipedia vs. OSM

[Peter Miller]

> On Friday 09 November 2007 13:10:31 Edward Betts wrote:
> > Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
> > > Incidentially there are also articles for mainline railway stations
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manningtree_railway_station
> >
> > I wrote some code to compare the British stations in Wikipedia with the
> > ones in OSM. Right now we have 60.8% coverage. There are a few disused
> > stations incorrectly included in the Wikipedia data. Sometimes the names
> in
> > Wikipedia and OSM don't match.
> >
> > Take a look at http://edwardbetts.com/osm/stations.html
> >
> > Green means the station is OSM, red means it isn't.
> >

Thanks, I will do some sorting out in Suffolk and other parts of east anglia

Re Liverpool Street Station. I added a building but overlooked the fact that
there wasn't a station! (there is a tube station in OSM but that is
different)

Regarding Stations, I think it would be good to have a relation to bind the
station, its entrances and potentially platforms together into one entity
and link that to wikipedia etc. It will get a little weird where there are
combined tube and mainline railway stations, or indeed combined
airport/tube/coach/bus/underground/main-line stations such as Heathrow. I
wonder how long one would be left in peace in Heathrow walking around all
over the place taking photos and talking into a Dictaphone; I got picked up
within 10 minutes taking photos and surveying outside the local hospital!


Do you re-run to script on a regular basis or was it a one-off?



Peter



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