On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Ilya Zverev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > Together with the NavAds company, we plan to import a thousand Shell fuel > stations to the United Kingdom. The source is official, which means, Shell > company specifically shared the dataset to put them on maps. Do you have > any objections or questions? > > The import is done with the OSM Conflator script. It matches dataset > points to all amenity=fuel nodes and polygons inside a 50 meter radius. If > found, the object is not moved, but tags are updated from the dataset. The > object gets correct opening hours, uniform brand and operator tags, and so > on. If there is no fuel station in OSM there, it is created as a node. > > Check out the resulting visualization here: http://bl.ocks.org/d/ > 70742fe51e281cb2cd5a80b8eb1e8e11 (markers are clickable; blue means > modified object, green — new one). Can you find anything wrong that we can > fix? > > You might prefer opening http://bl.ocks.org/anonymous/raw/ > 70742fe51e281cb2cd5a80b8eb1e8e11/map.geojson in http://geojson.io or iD > editor to see the data on top of a satellite imagery layer. > > Every object is given a "ref:navads_shell" tag with an identifier, which > will later be used for updating the data. > > After this import there will be others of similar nature and quality. > Uploading will be done with a dedicated account (not created yet). The > NavAds company specializes in putting businesses on maps, and we are > helping them to include OpenStreetMap in their choice of target maps. I > hope you are okay with this. > I'm interested in doing something like this with lots of US chains (see https://github.com/iandees/all-the-places), so it's good to see you get started here. Can you point to the conflate script you used?
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