In an ideal world, we would be able to snap our fingers and have Geobase and other data sets merged into OSM in a magical way that allows future updates, maintains community contributions, and fights climate change. We don't live in that ideal world, and snapping my fingers hasn't done the job. So it will probably need some code and elbow grease.
There are different types of things that we would like to merge. Perhaps some of them are easier than others? Does it help the coders to list some of these things? Mostly I have questions, but here are some possible categories of merges. OSM ways with better / more data. Some OSM ways have names in places where Geobase has no street names. We'd want to preserve the street names. OSM data that has no Geobase equivalent. Cycle paths, pedestrian paths and boardwalks aren't in Geobase are they? Hopefully we could hang on to that data, even if we were to strip and replace the road data around it. POI. Does Geobase have pubs? Think of the pubs. Please think of the pubs. Can we save the pubs? Granted, pubs may have the highest mapper per address of any business, put still... (oh, and hospitals too. What ever.) Relations. Some relations are appearing for transit routes cycle routes and lakes with islands, etc. Is that something that we can save / merge? Other categories or sub-categories? Or is this worth pursuing? Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
