Re: [OSM-talk] Canadian OSM POI quality

2014-06-09 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2014-06-08 21:57, Paul Norman wrote: Inconsistent tagging was observed with some shops, such as variability between amenity=restaurant and amenity=fast_food. This should reflect differences between locations but may not. Inconsistent names were also observed, such as Walmart, Wal-mart, and

[OSM-talk] Canadian OSM POI quality

2014-06-08 Thread Paul Norman
I was curious how complete OpenStreetMap shop data was, so decided to do an analysis for some Canadian chains. The results were mixed. Starting with a Canada extract, I processed the data into PostGIS and ran queries against name, brand and franchise for objects where amenity, office or shop was