Hi, Thanks for the feedback, that’s what we were hoping to hear.
Silent Spike, in answer to your questions – we’ve been told by the council that it is quite accurate, although with a dataset of 3000+ bins there is likely to be minor mistakes. Visually, the locations look sensible, which is reassuring. Here’s the method we planned to use: * There is definitely some bins which are already on OSM, so to avoid adding duplicates I took the locations of existing bins on OSM and the dataset from Leeds council, and created a distance matrix. My thought was, I would separate any bins in the LCC dataset which are less than 15 metres away from the nearest bin already on OSM, as they’re potential duplicates. I could then inspect these manually in JOSM and decide which ones to add (if any) * For the rest of the bins, we’ll convert the GeoJson to OSM format using one of the tools listed here<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Converting_map_data_between_formats> (probably osm-and-geojson<https://github.com/aaronlidman/osm-and-geojson> as I’ve tested this). My colleague Stuart has a good knowledge of OSM so he’s identified which tags we’ll use – I will post a list of these to get feedback before we upload anything. * I will use the bulk_upload.py tool<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bulk_upload.py> to upload the osm file. This seemed like a good choice but please let me know if there’s a better one. The whole process will be tested with the dev server first, just to be safe. Tony, thanks for the advice – I’ll have a look at the West Midlands stuff yes. The verification tag & date seems like a really good idea too – we hadn’t thought of that. Cheers, Patrick From: Tony OSM <tonyo...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 12:18 To: "talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Adding Leeds Bins to OpenStreetMaps Agree with Silent Spike. This has a lot of similarities with NaPTAN bus stop imports - conflating and verification/validation are the difficulties there - looking at the West Midlands notes may help. For Leeds with a workforce regularly checking/cleaning bins then perhaps the tool you are planning to build could add a verification tag & date for completion on the first visit after an upload. TonyS999 On 24/03/2020 12:02, Silent Spike wrote: Hey, I think this seems like a well planned and researched proposal. Personally would be happy to see such an import - especially since you've already got buy-in from the council. Only really have two questions: - Has the accuracy of the council data been evaluated at all? I'm personally of the opinion that mostly accurate data is better than no data so this is more just a curiosity. - Could you specify those steps you'd be taking for conflation? I don't doubt the ability to do so (this seems like a very competent proposal), but just for transparency of the process. On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:44 AM Patrick Lake <patrick.l...@odileeds.org<mailto:patrick.l...@odileeds.org>> wrote: Hi, At ODI Leeds<https://odileeds.org/> we’re working with Leeds City Council to create an up-to-date, open dataset of bins and recycling points. Different parts of the council have different datasets about bins and recycling points – e.g the bins around Leeds market are maintained by a different department. Nobody has a full, exhaustive list of all of them, so we’d like to get them all in one place. We think Open Street Maps would be perfect for this, as it’s ‘open by default’. We’re building them a tool using the API & OAuth so that council workers will be able to quickly add bins (amenity=waste_basket and amenity=recycling) from their phones. We’d also like to add their existing dataset<https://datamillnorth.org/dataset/litter-bin-locations>, which is published under OGLv3, to Open Street Maps. We have buy-in from Leeds City Council but under the import guidelines<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines> we also need community buy-in, and we’d really like some feedback from the OSM community. Here’s a quick map we made<https://mapper.odileeds.org/?10/53.85050/-1.47903/datamill-38356ad9-a184-44c1-a4f0-055ac71356ec;osm-leeds-waste_basket> comparing the Leeds City Council dataset of bins (yellow markers) to the OSM amenity=waste_baskets for Leeds (black markers). We’re aware that there is probably duplicates so we’ll be taking steps to remove those. We’d appreciate any comments or feedback. Cheers, Patrick Lake ODI Leeds patrick.l...@odileeds.org<mailto:patrick.l...@odileeds.org> _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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