[OSM-talk] Multiple nodes for one country

[Peter Körner]

Peter Körner schrieb:
> andrzej zaborowski schrieb:
>> Hi Peter,
>> I don't think anybody has a reason to object to merging them.  At
>> least me and User:Mala have been merging some of these nodes last week
>> and we got no blackmail so far :)  I believe we went through all the
>> country nodes which didn't have a name:pl= or name:it= assigned yet so
>> out of your list at most 15 or so countries should still remain
>> duplicated.
>>
>> Cheers
> 
> The main problem is that I'm unable to produce an up-to-date list from 
> database since I don't have the resources to import an up-to-date dump.
> 
> I'll try to process an up-to-date planet.osm tomorrow to generate an 
> up-to-date list from it. It's a pity that cassini is not updated via the 
> diffs right now.
> 
> At the next step I'll generate a list for each wikimedia-language 
> containing all countries and their names in this language, so people can 
> correct the locale names more easy. It seems you've already done this 
> for pl and it -- I'm about to do it for de.
> 
> Peter
> 

I threw an nearly up-to-date planet.osm against a simple 
sax-parser-script in php and after it ran about 10 hours (such a 
planet.osm is a really big thing) it produced this table:

http://toolserver.org/~mazder/duplicate-countries/from-planet.osm/

Looks much better! Still 26 countries are duplicated, but this could be 
fixed manually, so I'll do that now.

On some time in the near future, when cassini holds an regularly updated 
gis-database we'll be able to track such duplications at 
http://toolserver.org/~mazder/duplicate-countries/

Peter