Re: [OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-02-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
This would fit in very well with the annotation system discussed in the 'Recent Edits' thread not too long ago. -- martijn van exel -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/ Op 3 feb 2008, om 20:16 heeft Dirk-Lüder Kreie het volgende geschreven: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-02-03 Thread Martin Trautmann
Chris Morley wrote: I have started a new thread with a measure for completeness in the title because this is an important topic for OSM. But the response to the recent posts quoted above, and my raising of it last July, has been only luke-warm. I've added

[OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-18 Thread grungelborz
Some comments regarding the completeness thread: For Munich we currently use wiki pages to track the completeness: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Landkreis_M%C3%BCnchen (in German but Google translates it quite ok). Wiki pages were used because they are simpler to set up than anything

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-16 Thread Gregory
What about one indicator of completness being automatic: How many key/value pairs per way or node. So you have the standard: this is claimed to be 80% complete by user:Bob (or this is validated to be 75% complete/accurate by user:Fred) Then you have addtionally: this as information to a level of

[OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-12 Thread Chris Morley
David Earl wrote: I've said before and I'll say again: we need a way of asserting this area is complete (for one or more definitions of completeness). Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: The only way that we are going to individually or collectively state the completeness of a specific

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-12 Thread 80n
On Jan 12, 2008 3:48 PM, Chris Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Earl wrote: I've said before and I'll say again: we need a way of asserting this area is complete (for one or more definitions of completeness). Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: The only way that we are going to

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-12 Thread Dair Grant
Chris Morley wrote: I have started a new thread with a measure for completeness in the title because this is an important topic for OSM. But the response to the recent posts quoted above, and my raising of it last July, has been only luke-warm. I also think completeness is a very important idea

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-12 Thread Freek
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Tom Evans wrote: David Earl wrote: I've said before and I'll say again: we need a way of asserting this area is complete (for one or more definitions of completeness). Chris Morley wrote: A possible detailed approach is as follows. A completeness boundary

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, OSM really needs a measure for local completeness to demonstrate its progress externally. I hope enough people can be roused to discuss, and hopefully agree, the principles, before deciding on an implementation. I'm all for it but I would really try to deduce this completeness from

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

2008-01-12 Thread Dair Grant
Frederik Ramm wrote: There are places in OSM where there is no data; these are obviously incomplete. How would you know ;-) there are places which are complete with nothing on them! Good point! Which makes it all the more important to have a mechanism for marking it as such, if only to reduce