[OSM-talk] First OpenGeoDB Import is done

[Sven Anders]

Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 22:05 schrieb Jannis Achstetter:
> Rob Reid schrieb:
> > Sven Anders wrote the following on 20/01/2008 09:56:
> >> Hi,
> >> today from 17:16 UTC to 20:53 UTC OpenGeoDB was imported to
> >> OpenStreetMap.
> >>
> >> Please have a look at the newly created data. I hope you enjoy the work.
> >> If there is corrupted data, please reporte soon. I have made a backup
> >> and hope that I could fix it.
> >
> > Just had a look at one of the tiles I was rendering for T at H home as I
> > noticed a lot of place names overlapping.
> >
> > The import seems to have created duplicate nodes with differents tag.
> >
> > If you have a look in JOSM  at :
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.9&lon=13.45&zoom=12&layers=0BFT
> > Validate picks up a stack of 7 duplicate nodes and another stack of 6
> > duplicate nodes.
> > If you look at the 6 duplicate nodes there is one node named Powang and
> > 5 named Oberleiten.
> > If you look at the 5 Oberleiten nodes they have the same place=hamlet
> > and population=17 tags, but different is_in and OpenGeoDB:postal_codes
> > tags.
> >
> > Is this what you were expecting to happen?
>
> I got pretty much the same here:
>
> http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=50.002206784996226&lon=9.055237124779579
>&zoom=12&layers=B000F000F (Seligenstadt is on the map twice, so is
> Aschaffenburg and Babenhausen) and here:
> http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=50.100306186757365&lon=8.714661026671264
>&zoom=12&layers=B000F000F (Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach)
>
> just to mention some places in the region I live in.
>
> Shall we all fix them manually (and if: how to do this best so that it
> won't be overriden / created again on next "update") or will this be
> reverted (since it really shouldn't stay like this)?

Please read the FAQ on:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenGeoDB#FAQ

Only fileds which are found in openGeoDB:auto_update will be overwritten.
Perhabs we can check this in a personal mail, instead of using the 
mailinglist?

Sven