On 25 May 2011 16:59, TimSC <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll have a think about if I can do something about that. Apart from having > to modify the code, the main effort to making this type of data useful is to > do the comparison with OSM to find what is missing. The post boxes have an > obvious reference number physically written on them. Pharmacies don't have > an obvious unique code (I am referring to surveying in OSM, rather than > peeking in the database.). I found matches by doing a XAPI query and then > manually comparing the results. That probably won't scale up to the national > size database without other people helping. > > This tool is really great, you might like to also look at this tool by Robert Scott which looks for allotment objects in the vicinty of entries from another open data set. This way it picks up unnamed allotments.
http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/dsmusicalallotments/map http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London/Datastore_allotments As others have said, making a tool that would be easy to set-up, that could both compare a data set with OSM and make it as easy as possible to update OSM, would be really brilliant. Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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