Re: [OSM-dev] Programatic reconstruction of postal code areas

2017-03-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, interesting work. Maybe there's a way you can automate that and offer it as a module for Nominatim so people who would like to use "guesswork postcodes" as a better-than-nothing alternative could activate that in Nominatim. Similar things have been done before e.g. for the UK

Re: [OSM-dev] Programatic reconstruction of postal code areas

2017-03-28 Thread Simon Poole
Speaking on the Swiss situation, there is an open access postal area dataset available on a wonky licence, depending on what you want to use it form it may be OK. See https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/amtliches-ortschaftenverzeichnis-mit-postleitzahl-und-perimeter1 Originally at least it was

Re: [OSM-dev] Programatic reconstruction of postal code areas

2017-03-28 Thread Tom Hughes
On 28/03/17 22:24, Alex K wrote: Basically I'm using a semi-automatic process which takes all the know data points (e.g. buildings/nodes with an explicit postal code tagged to them) in OSM, generate voronoi cells and then merge them to larger regions. Then I do manually editing and clean up in

[OSM-dev] Programatic reconstruction of postal code areas

2017-03-28 Thread Alex K
Hi all, I'm working on programatically generating postal code areas to improve reverse geocoding quality for Switzerland, Austria, Italy and some other European countries where there is no or only insufficent postal code relations. Austria and Switzerland sometimes have postal code tags on their

Re: [OSM-dev-fr] [OSM-talk] landuse=farm bientôt retiré du rendu standard

2017-03-28 Thread Philippe Verdy
Cela concerne aussi place=farm qui est une alternative à place=isolated_dwelling pour les lieux-dits ? Sachant qu'on peut mettre un place=* sur une surface, cette surface pourrait aussi être un landuse=farmyard, mais qui n'a pas nécessairement un nom de lieu-dit, alors qu'un place=* a

[OSM-dev-fr] [OSM-talk] landuse=farm bientôt retiré du rendu standard

2017-03-28 Thread althio
Le tag landuse=farm sera bientôt retiré du rendu standard de openstreetmap.org [openstreetmap-carto sur GitHub https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto] Il est maintenant suggéré de choisir un des tags plus explicites, typiquement landuse=farmland ou landuse=farmyard ou autre landuse=*

Re: [OSM-dev] Spatial road network data sets and implementation using API

2017-03-28 Thread Andrew Byrd
> On 28 Mar 2017, at 15:16, Debajyoti Ghosh <4u.debajy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1] Can u specifically refer a site for data where from i can dwnld & > visualize in triplet format and n POIs is > ? In which editor i'll be able to see ? OpenStreetMap data is good for

Re: [OSM-dev] Spatial road network data sets and implementation using API

2017-03-28 Thread Andrew Byrd
> On 28 Mar 2017, at 14:46, Debajyoti Ghosh <4u.debajy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need spatial data sets in this format > for each POIs need Both types of data are available in OSM. If the (start node, end node, distance) tuples you want are for individual edges in the

Re: [OSM-dev] Spatial road network data sets and implementation using API

2017-03-28 Thread Andrew Byrd
Hi Debajyoti, I think you’ll need to provide more detailed information on your goals and the problems you are encountering for people to help you. Below I’ll list some of the questions that came to my mind in hopes that it will help clarify things, as well as some suggestions. > On 28 Mar