Re: [OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

2008-11-02 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi, We have other nav data - contributing it to OSM...hrm. http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/FileDef.htm My immediate concern would be: the data is all GPL last I checked. Now..I have no idea what it MEANS when you have GPL on a non-code work (which I think is the main reason why GPL !=

Re: [OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

2008-11-02 Thread OJ W
How about this for a link showing some of the features displayed on typical charts? http://www.avn.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/online/aero_guide Does X-plane/flightgear have any radionavigation data they could add to the chart? OSM itself only has airports+runways at the moment. On Sat, Nov 1,

Re: [OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

2008-11-01 Thread spaetz
- Somehow add visual feedback to the final map renders to validate user data. Since our data is appropriate to aeronautical maps this wouldn't necessarily fit well with existing infrastructure. an aeronautical layer via the [EMAIL PROTECTED] infrastructure?

Re: [OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

2008-11-01 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Sábado, 1 de Noviembre de 2008, spaetz escribió: - Somehow add visual feedback to the final map renders to validate user data. Since our data is appropriate to aeronautical maps this wouldn't necessarily fit well with existing infrastructure. an aeronautical layer via the [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

2008-10-31 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 31 de Octubre de 2008, Ben Supnik escribió: Now I am looking at the problem of error detection. [...] it's a long cycle. How long? - Somehow add visual feedback to the final map renders to validate user data. Since our data is appropriate to aeronautical maps this wouldn't

Re: [OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

2008-10-31 Thread Ben Supnik
Thanks everyone for the pointers - I'll have a look at these existing facilities...for the cycle, we dont' know yet, could be weeks, months, a year? Long enough that the author of the erroneous data may have moved on to other projects. :-( cheers Ben Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Viernes,

Re: [OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

2008-10-31 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 31 de Octubre de 2008, Ben Supnik escribió: for the cycle, we dont' know yet, could be weeks, months, a year? Long enough that the author of the erroneous data may have moved on to other projects. :-( You should try to keep the cycle as short as one week. In other words, set up

Re: [OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

2008-10-31 Thread Tom Hughes
Ben Supnik wrote: - Put validation features into the existing editors (JOSM), etc. Is there existing infrastructure for this? For example, I saw that one site culls the whole-earth export for unofficial tags...does JOSM know the approved schema and tell users when they haven't done what