Re: [OSM-talk] Attributing others' errors to OSM data and what to do about it. Was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread Michał Brzozowski
100% true. Consumers don't respect (Polish word szanować beside to
respect means something like taking care of a thing, especially if
you got it from someone) our data. Most implementations are mediocre
to horrible. Main offenses are displaying irrelevant things, very
scarce tags support, partial and outright wrong translation of object
types, needless exposure of users to OSM data model (eg. directly
slapping raw opening_hours on the screen), and no understanding of
regional differences in address formats.

This sparked an idea in my mind some time ago. If anyone has
resources, they could make some sort of library/program (and maybe
distribute compiled data products) that does all these software has
to... cases, doing eg. access values inference and whatever the user
specifies, maybe normalization (conflating tags that mean the same, or
abstracting from tags whatsoever - example would be that shops come
with shop=* mostly, but some do with amenity=* - or that there are
services that are tagged as shop=*) or address/admin preprocessing
which apparently is SO tricky (people still often don't understand
that addr:place is there...)
Doing things once is beneficial, saving work and keeping bugs out.

Michał

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 4:46 PM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Totally agree - the oneway(=no) is being misinterpreted.

 OSM's BIG ISSUE is what to do about others misinterpreting OSM data and
 attributing the error to OSM.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Attributing others' errors to OSM data and what to do about it. Was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread Janko Mihelić
OSM should act as a consultant to data consumers. Whenever a mistake like
this is spotted, we should try to contact the data consumer and help repair
the misinterpretation. I think nothing more is needed.

We should also make it easier for data consumers to interpret data
correctly. I think we should have a machine readable list of tag
combinations wih their semantic meanings.

Janko

ned, 31. svi 2015. 16:50 pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com je napisao:

 Totally agree - the oneway(=no) is being misinterpreted.

 OSM's BIG ISSUE is what to do about others misinterpreting OSM data and
 attributing the error to OSM.

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 For all your info on Millom and South Copeland
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Re: [OSM-talk] Attributing others' errors to OSM data and what to do about it. Was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread pmailkeey .
Totally agree - the oneway(=no) is being misinterpreted.

OSM's BIG ISSUE is what to do about others misinterpreting OSM data and
attributing the error to OSM.

-- 
Mike.
@millomweb https://sites.google.com/site/millomweb/index/introduction -
For all your info on Millom and South Copeland
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*currently unavailable due to ongoing harassment of me, my family, property
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