[OSM-talk] Data Quality and Mapping for the renderer.
john whelan
jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
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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