Hi! There are any number of tools doing more or less what you are proposing. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Quality_Assurance
Jochen On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Sandor Seres wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:41:57 +0200 > From: Sandor Seres <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OSM-dev] A OSM error correction model. Comments, suggestions? > > There are many of us doing OSM source data based mapping, routing, > navigation and similar activities. Although we are on the user side (and > often stamped as “passive members”) we are those exposing the enthusiastic > work of many, many active members/editors to the public. For this work we > frequently download the source data in certain form to update our local > data source versions. Now, during this update procedure, we inevitably > meet/detect many, many (thousands and thousands) errors that we try to > correct/repair. Although the error notion here (versus correct) is prone to > subjective factors, yet we have certain common feelings about them. For > example, while a wrong road connection or a wrong roundabout is irrelevant > for a raster mapping model, it may be decisive for a > line-following/routing/navigation system or for a vector based mapping > (service, transmission, rendering). So, the subject: > > If we already have detected so many errors, would it be of interest to > expose them on an easy accessible place and in an easily > understandable/visual form to the forum of active editors? > > I believe in this way the local people/editors familiar with the local RW > situation, could easily do the most correct judgment and correction. I also > believe that the model is rather general and valid for many (if not for > all) OSM object classes. Also, this type of corrections could radically > improve the source data quality and save lots of development efforts and > that is, of course, in our common interest. > > Based on some protocols from my frequently repeated data-preparation phase, > I made a white paper “OSM_DataErrorReduction_Model” with more details and > arguments. If interested, you can find it here: > > https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6qGm3k2qWHqWWdCTzMydVU2SEU > > The idea/motivation for the paper (though in bullets format), and for this > mail, was triggered by frequently asked questions on the help forum related > to the routing/navigation errors. > > Thanks for your attention. > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
