Re: [HOT] an in your spare time project. Cleaning up the imports.

2017-04-13 Thread Andrew Buck
Replying to my own message to add this... Instead of adding code to the TM or overpass to change xyz into lat-lon someone with some apache or other web server experience could set up a really simple "proxy" service that accepts a url with xyz coords in it and uses url-rewriting rules to redirect t

Re: [HOT] an in your spare time project. Cleaning up the imports.

2017-04-13 Thread Andrew Buck
This is an interesting idea, go over the whole continent and do a very rough QA process. Only clean up the most egregious problems like vmap0 roads that are only accurate to 1 km; buildings mapped as area=yes; and a run through the josm validator to get the biggest problems resolved. (Note that th

[HOT] an in your spare time project. Cleaning up the imports.

2017-04-13 Thread john whelan
This is not for beginners and its much more something to think about first before rushing in. I've been looking over bits of Africa and one thing that stands out is the large number of imported highways. Unfortunately they don't always align to the imagery. Well they can be within a km or two of