Re: [Talk-GB] Automating email alerts of mapping errors.

2009-11-11 Thread Ed Avis
Spamming random people is not a good idea, but I would love to be alerted if the particular change I'm about to upload will introduce (what look like) errors in the data. That would mean integrating keepright or similar code directly into the editor, or else adding a 'lint' API where the editor

[Talk-GB] Automating email alerts of mapping errors.

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Andrew
Hi, all. I was just thinking about the 'Keep Right' website that shows mapping errors on OSM and also, the ability to highlight roads that do not have names. Having this information available to us, do we have the capability to run a report/ script against this data, and then email the 3 (for

Re: [Talk-GB] Automating email alerts of mapping errors.

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Hill
Chris Andrew wrote: Hi, all. I was just thinking about the 'Keep Right' website that shows mapping errors on OSM and also, the ability to highlight roads that do not have names. Having this information available to us, do we have the capability to run a report/ script against this data,

Re: [Talk-GB] Automating email alerts of mapping errors.

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Andrew
Fair points. I discovered Keep Right by accident, I'm guessing many don't know it exists. I was just suggesting a possible proactive measure to improve data integrity. Thanks for responding, Chris. Chris. On 25 Oct 2009 17:04, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: Chris Andrew wrote: Hi, all.