Thanks Dan,
Great suggestions. I have corrected what I've done to follow.
Stephen
On 11/22/2013 4:45 AM, Dan S wrote:
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:
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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
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