On 17/08/2009, at 11:07 AM, John Smith wrote: > --- On Mon, 17/8/09, Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I guess the problems with this would be: >> * Duplication with public toilets that are already marked > > Only import toilets where there is no node=amenity within 250-500m, > throw them into an exceptions file for manual inspection/ > verification/insertion.
+1, that's what I was thinking if we did get access to the data. Assuming no-one has contacted them before, I'll send them an email sometime soon. >> Thinking about it, if the search was improved for OSM a bit >> (i.e. faster) maybe OSM could tender to host toilet map. I >> guess our base street map coverage is a bit thin in rural >> areas for that, but just a thought. > > A POI search in general would be good. I'll have a look around to see what's already been done for this, but it shouldn't be too hard to. If the search is of the form 'X near Y' then do a place lookup on Y, and if you find Y, then look for nearby nodes with: * X is of the form "some text", then look for name=some text * X is of the form a=b;c=d then look for those (as a power-user thing) * otherwise use a table of mapping, e.g. toilets -> amenity=toilet, lakes -> natural=water _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
