On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:39:56 +0530 > Arun Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is quite painful to see that countless hours of effort has been > > deleted for no fault of my own. Is this just the result of the osm > > data model where tags cannot exist without geometries, or were these > > tags considered as being dirty and were legally supposed to be erased? > > I think the former is correct. > This is good news for a start. We essentially have a UI problem, and if solved, will help getting back the most useful bits of the lost data back into osm. > > If you go through the history planet file and create a list that goes: > > "somewhere in the world there is a way that has the properties > name=Bingbong Street, maxspeed=30" (provided that both these properties > were added by agreers) then it would be ok to publish that list and > even use it to add to OSM. I don't see how it can be much help though, > especially if it contains info like "somewhere in the world there is an > object with wheelchair=yes and opening_times=so-and-so" ;) > The most easily identifiable data that I see are those that have name tags. What if you have a list view alongside a map, which is populated based on your current view and zoom level? For ways, this can have additional information like the length of the way and orientation to assist mappers who lost their tags to identify where the original way was. For POIs, you could have the name of the street beside which it was located and also distance and orientation from the nearest place=* node There are probably better ideas, but its an absolute shame that clean and extremely valuable data is lost because the data model does not support its existence. > > Bye > Frederik > -- j.mp/ArunGanesh <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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