On 9 July 2012 10:34, Myfanwy Nixon <[email protected]> wrote: > Now, using source data from Open Streetmap, we've extended the service to > cover the whole world. It's part of mySociety's remit to make it easier to > build civic and democratic websites anywhere, in any country. >
Hola a) There are places where OSM data is next-to-worthless for our intended use cases. I mention this because I live in one of them. I fully grant this is entirely OSM's fault, but we just made it partly our problem. b) MaPit has countries in its models. This data does not - everything at every level internationally seems to be in one country called 'G'. c) (Related) (feature request) Even if B gets fixed there'd be no way to show me (eg) "OSM admin level 7 in Canada" and not "OSM admin level 7 in the entire world" because that's a JOIN and the API doesn't have those d) There's no list of area types, unlike the UK version Actually on balance the short version of this is "some of the data is epicly awful and can we talk about that?", and all the bugs I can see could be expressed together as "I don't think many people will be able to actually use this for anything unless the web UI makes the data browseable, and right now it is not, and can we talk about that too?". Failing that, will it have a "Global"-only bug list? Yours, feeling rather more crotchety than usual for going to the problems instead of recognising what a massive PITA this must have been to actually construct (Bravo!), jh
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