[OSM-talk] Data Quality and Mapping for the renderer.

Mon Aug 22 11:40:33 UTC 2016

Now the idea of something that picks up a POI such as a shop for review
every x months is interesting and its not impossible to build a suitable
tool.  I wonder who I can chat to.

Thanks John

On 22 August 2016 at 06:56, Svavar Kjarrval <svavar at kjarrval.is> wrote:

> I agree the online tools can't help (much) regarding spelling errors...
> yet. A similar error when some stores in a chain have shop=yes and the
> others have a more detailed tag (or even different tags). That being
> said, I too am interested in data quality enhancements, especially when
> it comes to information maintenance and consistency.
>
> The country where I am (Iceland) is sparsely populated outside the
> capital area (bar a few small-ish areas). The distribution of OSM
> volunteers around the country is not in favour of good overall
> information maintenance and going to each municipality every year or two
> to review the information locally would be too expensive. Sometimes we
> in the community know some people in various parts of the country who
> are interested but are not so ready to commit to use a dedicated editor
> (or even iD) on their desktop. Then there is the increasing flow of
> tourists and some of them (thankfully) contribute corrections.
>
> The problems start to occur when the area seems complete and/or has "too
> much information". How can one know a POI has been reviewed recently
> (enough) or not? If I were to walk through a shopping street to verify
> POIs on the way, how could I be fairly sure I wouldn't be duplicating a
> similar effort made by another user just the day or week before? Or if I
> were to enter a small town in the country and have some spare time to
> review the area.
>
> One QA tool I would really like is a smartphone app which would offer an
> interface where people can verify that the information associated with
> the POI is still correct or, if it isn't, either correct the information
> in the app or mark the place as such for someone else to do it. After a
> certain time interval, the POI is marked again as pending review. Then
> one would only need to convince someone local to install that app and
> check it a few times a year while in their town (or even when they
> travel to the neighbouring towns).
>
> - Svavar Kjarrval
>
> On mán 22.ágú 2016 00:26, john whelan wrote:
> >
> > Whilst the on line tools are useful being able to review the tags in a
> > spreadsheet I found very useful.  The online tools aren't quite so
> > good at picking up four different ways that a car rental company's
> > name has been spelt.  The other part is to do with local knowledge.
> > Often knowing the area gives you an edge when looking over things from
> > the data quality side.
> >
> > Having said that the online tools help enormously to pick out the errors.
> >
> > Thanks for the input
> >
> > Cheerio John
> >
> >
> > On 21 Aug 2016 8:02 pm, "Svavar Kjarrval" <svavar at kjarrval.is
> > <mailto:svavar at kjarrval.is>> wrote:
> >
> >     There are also online QA tools which display certain types of errors,
> >     for example Osmose [1] and Keep right [2]. The users who don't
> >     have much
> >     computer memory installed could use those types of sites instead.
> >
> >     [1] http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/
> >     <http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/>
> >     [2] http://keepright.at/
> >
> >     - Svavar Kjarrval
> >
> >     On sun 21.ágú 2016 17:18, john whelan wrote:
> >     > Yes I know we shouldn’t but just sometimes it’s nice to think about
> >     > the people who use the maps.  Can we make life a little easier
> >     for them?
> >     >
> >     > This post is aimed purely at 64 bit Windows users.  The tools
> >     may work
> >     > on other operating systems but I haven’t tried them.  There are
> >     other
> >     > tools around.
> >     >
> >     > These days end users like to type something in on their
> >     smartphone or
> >     > other device and have something display.  It maybe they are looking
> >     > for a hardware store so what could go wrong?
> >     >
> >     > Locally a mall was mapped on the building outline and the stores
> >     were
> >     > added store1=store name, store2 etc.  If you type store1=xyz it
> will
> >     > be found.  Problem is most users won’t know this and the renderers
> >     > will omit non standard tags.  My preference would be nodes with
> >     > shop=hardware name=xyz and simply adding these to the mall makes it
> >     > all much more usable.
> >     >
> >     > Another example is a double space in a name.  Makes it difficult to
> >     > find but JOSM will warn about this.  Locally a car rental
> >     company had
> >     > its name spelt in four different ways, one of which was the same as
> >     > the company’s web site.
> >     >
> >     > How do we find them in our local city?
> >     >
> >     > Step one is download the relevant part of OSM,
> >     download.geofabrik.de <http://download.geofabrik.de>
> >     > <http://download.geofabrik.de> is one place to find it.
> >     >
> >     > Then we need to cut out just the bit we are interested in.
> >     > osmconvert64 can do this but unless you have lots of memory and
> time
> >     > I’d first convert the .pbf file to an .osm file.
> >     >
> >     > You need the longitude and latitude of the area you’re after.  The
> >     > easy way is start JOSM and use the slippy map to define the
> >     area.  You
> >     > aren’t going to try to download it, it will be too large.  Click on
> >     > the bounding box tag and that will give you the minimum and maximum
> >     > longitude and latitude you need for osmconvert64.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert#Clipping_
> based_on_Longitude_and_Latitude
> >     <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert#Clipping_
> based_on_Longitude_and_Latitude>
> >     >
> >     > If you get a 1k file you’ve probably got the min and max values the
> >     > wrong way round.
> >     >
> >     > This local file can be loaded into JOSM.  It will probably take
> time
> >     > to load.  Most cities will load with 64 bit systems these days.
> Now
> >     > run the validator.  If you’re lucky there will be no warnings or
> >     errors.
> >     >
> >     > The ideal way is to use the JOSM todo plugin and look at each
> >     error or
> >     > warning individually.  Remember the map you’re looking at is
> >     probably
> >     > a day old so for some errors you may wish to download that bit
> again
> >     > on a new layer before correcting.  Save the file.
> >     >
> >     > Now load the file into Maperitive.  Use the command export-tags to
> >     > export a list of tags in CSV format.  Load this file into a
> >     > spreadsheet and look through the sorted tag values.  You may find
> >     > addr:streetnumber rather than addr:housenumber, government misspelt
> >     > etc.  Once you know what to look for then you can use JOSM to
> search
> >     > for the tag and correct.
> >     >
> >     > Have fun
> >     >
> >     > Cheerio John
> >     >
> >     >
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