Re: [Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States

[Aaron Lidman]

Hey guys,  

I‘ve tried to solve a mostly related problem in iD last month. I just blogged 
about it here: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/common-names-in-id/

You can try it out in iD here: http://openstreetmap.us/iD/master
Just add geometry, and search for a really common name, like K-Mart, McDonalds, 
etc.. iD should take care of it for you, using the most used tagging already in 
OSM.


For more detail. I made the name-suggestion-index: 
https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index which looks at which names/tag 
combinations are used most often and tries to promote the most used usage of a 
name. This stuff is more concerned about names, but we’re also merging together 
different tagging for features. So a place like Subway is used in both 
amenity=restaurant and amenity=fast_food, we’re looking at the most common 
usage and ignoring anything else. The ‘most correct’ list of names and tagging 
is here: 
https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/blob/master/name-suggestions.json

It’s not great right now but I’m still working on improving it to make iD 
smarter, and maybe it can be used elsewhere too. It’s mostly a manual process 
that I’ve been doing for now but I hope to automate it more, and update it with 
every planet update. Right now we’re only concerned with places with names that 
have been used more than 50 times, also mostly amenity=* and shop=* tags right 
now.

We had some previous discussions along these lines here:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2013-November/027519.html
https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1949
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Re: [Talk-us] Using MapRoulette for imports

[Aaron Lidman]

I've been working on something like this, while learning python, which I'm 
hoping to have done by the end of the year. Right now I'm refactoring and 
generally cleaning up my messy code and still testing things out. Here's what 
it looks like right now: http://i.imgur.com/H4srX.jpg It's just basic leaflet 
and geojson backed by sqlite from ogr2ogr from a shapefile that was cleaned up 
before hand. When a feature is loaded it pulls down osm from xapi and checks 
for existing features that will intersect based on predefined tags, in this 
case [leisure=park], [leisure=garden] and a few others. If it intersects it's 
skipped and the next one is fetched. Hopefully I'll have more to post here 
about it soon.
Aaron Lidman


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