Hi - 2013/11/22 Stephen Ficklin <[email protected]>: > I'm working here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/10.1737/124.4260 > > I'm a bit new to this. In one case I found the island was spelled > differently on the US Army maps than what was in OSM (at this location: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/10.1765/124.4637). I added the alt_name > with the different spelling but there was already a 'source' key with the > value 'Landsat' I edited it to be 'Landsat / US Army Topo Map'. Is this > acceptable?
People normally use semicolons to separate multiple items, not slashes. For the alt_name I would have added a separate tag "source:alt_name=US Army Top Map". > Also, is there a way to temporarily tag an island we've already checked? You mean tag it as having been checked? There's no official way of doing that, but no-one can stop you adding a "note:name" or some other tag... Dan > Stephen > > > On 11/21/2013 2:12 PM, Andrew Buck wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I got a request for better island name coverage in the OSM database >> for our coverage of the Philippines. Since there are dozens of small >> islands in the area, it is important for people using nominatim to be >> able to find islands easily and accurately. >> >> We have an imagery layer of scans of US Army Topographic maps from >> 1955. You can see the map layer online below using the first link, or >> put the second into josm to view it as a background layer there. >> >> http://mapwarper.net/layers/111 >> >> tms[14]:http://mapwarper.net/layers/tile/111/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png >> >> I would appreciate it if one or a few people could go through these >> maps and check all of the small islands to make sure each is properly >> named in OSM. I would recoomend using the 'Mirrored Download' plugin >> in josm and then checking the names of each island. Please add >> alt_name for minor spelling variations, or old_name for completely >> different names listed on the map and put 'source=US Army Topo Map' on >> any objects you add a name for. >> >> Send a short mail to the list announcing your intention to work on >> this so others can avoid that area and lets see what we can get from >> these. I expect there will be quite a few small islands we can name >> this way, but I do not know for sure. >> >> - -AndrewBuck _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
