Re: [OSM-talk] Tools for a better tomorrow

2011-02-22 Thread Lester Caine
Serge Wroclawski wrote: Idea 4: Better comparison tools. A common concern by those wanting to do imports is we lack good comparison tools. While the problem is several orders of magnitude greater, the facilities provided by VCS systems would seem to be an obvious base to work from. I look at

Re: [OSM-talk] Tools for a better tomorrow

2011-02-22 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's been a useful discussion in the other thread for ideas which might help the project move forward, and so I'm going to lay them out and hopefully we'll have a more focused discussion. Idea 1: Better

Re: [OSM-talk] Tools for a better tomorrow

2011-02-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/22 john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com: We need better tools for validating tags.  Give something the wrong tag and it doesn't ever appear in a render. +1 I found 4 nodes today which had population tags but no place tag. When looking at the history I found that all of them (in distant

Re: [OSM-talk] Tools for a better tomorrow

2011-02-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/22 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2011/2/22 john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com: We need better tools for validating tags.  Give something the wrong tag and it doesn't ever appear in a render. I found 4 nodes today which had population tags but no place tag. When looking at

[OSM-talk] Tools for a better tomorrow

2011-02-21 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I think there's been a useful discussion in the other thread for ideas which might help the project move forward, and so I'm going to lay them out and hopefully we'll have a more focused discussion. Idea 1: Better collaboration, especially regarding changes people make. This is something that

Re: [OSM-talk] Tools for a better tomorrow

2011-02-21 Thread john whelan
I think you have to accept that many imports come through JOSM, the incident that initiated this thread wasn't an import problem as such just an incorrect selection and hitting the delete key too quickly in JOSM. Given the turn over of new people collaboration will always be a problem especially