Re: [OSM-talk-be] Blackspots

2011-10-18 Thread Ben Abelshausen
We have purchased this data and yes I believe it is goverment data. We will never be allowed to anything more with it then this quality check however so let's not even go there. Let there not be any doubt that we are NOT using this data to import stuff into osm!! On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:03 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Blackspots

2011-10-17 Thread Marc Coevoet
Op 14-10-11 18:16, Ben Abelshausen schreef: It's nog exactly as you are describing it. I have a dataset of addresses (geocoded with lat/lon) covering almost all of Flanders. Then we use our software to find the closest street with the same name. If no street with the same name can be found the

[OSM-talk-be] Blackspots

2011-10-14 Thread Ben Abelshausen
Hello, I have this data I would like to share with the Belgian mappers: http://www.14k.be/node/179 ! Anyone have any ideas on how to do this? And is it even usefull to share this? Regards, Ben Abelshausen ___ Talk-be mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Blackspots

2011-10-14 Thread Jan-willem De Bleser
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 16:10, Ben Abelshausen ben.abelshau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have this data I would like to share with the Belgian mappers: http://www.14k.be/node/179 ! Hi Ben, Fascinating idea. If I understand correctly, you have a (confidential) list of addresses and are

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Blackspots

2011-10-14 Thread Jan-willem De Bleser
I think I understand :) On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 18:16, Ben Abelshausen ben.abelshau...@gmail.com wrote: ...If no street with the same name can be found the closest street is taken. This all returns a distance and then we filter all these that have distances higher than let's say 50m. This

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Blackspots

2011-10-14 Thread Ben Abelshausen
We use a matching algorithm that still recognizes streets with small spelling errors and takes into account derivations like st. and straat. Spelling shouldn't be a problem. I'll see if I can prepare the data in a good format for you. Also an update mechanism would be nice. After updating osm

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Blackspots

2011-10-14 Thread Jan-willem De Bleser
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 18:48, Ben Abelshausen ben.abelshau...@gmail.com wrote: We use a matching algorithm that still recognizes streets with small spelling errors and takes into account derivations like st. and straat. Spelling shouldn't be a problem. Ah, ok. But you also said earlier that: