Hi Jake,

No, LCC haven’t told us that they’ll use the data for those sort of purposes. 
It wasn’t part of the specification, and to our knowledge they won’t be reliant 
on it – obviously with it being open data they’re free to use it for whatever 
they would like, but we’ve made them aware that OSM can be edited and things 
can be deleted by users.

We currently extract OSM data for different amenities West Yorkshire daily, 
including bins, and store it in a GitHub 
repo<https://github.com/odileeds/west-yorkshire-mapping/blob/master/data/leeds/leeds-amenities-waste_basket.geojson>.
 We plan to make a repo specifically for bin data – we’ll extract OSM data 
daily and compare it, updating the repo if necessary. This then means LCC, and 
others, will be able to look at the commit history to see what edits have been 
made across time, and revert them if necessary. We’re looking at using the 
GitHub API to integrate the commit history into the tool we’re building for LCC.

To differentiate between council and business’ bins, we’ll just use a tag – 
we’ll confirm what this will be before uploading. Also, the existing data we’re 
bulk importing has a LCC ID which will be included as a tag.

Cheers,
Patrick
From: Jake Edmonds <jake_edmo...@me.com>
Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 12:47
To: Patrick Lake <patrick.l...@odileeds.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Adding Leeds Bins to OpenStreetMaps

Hi Patrick
Are LCC staff planning to use the final dataset for various tasks, such as 
planning collection routes?

I’m sure you have good answers for my questions but I’m just interested in a 
practical sense.

What happens if a bin is accidentally/maliciously removed from OSM/moved?
How are you planning to differentiate between LCC bins and bins provided by 
businesses?

Thanks
Jake



On 24 Mar 2020, at 13:40, Patrick Lake 
<patrick.l...@odileeds.org<mailto:patrick.l...@odileeds.org>> wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback, that’s what we were hoping to hear.

Silent Spike, in answer to your questions – we’ve been told by the council that 
it is quite accurate, although with a dataset of 3000+ bins there is likely to 
be minor mistakes. Visually, the locations look sensible, which is reassuring.

Here’s the method we planned to use:

  *   There is definitely some bins which are already on OSM, so to avoid 
adding duplicates I took the locations of existing bins on OSM and the dataset 
from Leeds council, and created a distance matrix. My thought was, I would 
separate any bins in the LCC dataset which are less than 15 metres away from 
the nearest bin already on OSM, as they’re potential duplicates. I could then 
inspect these manually in JOSM and decide which ones to add (if any)
  *   For the rest of the bins, we’ll convert the GeoJson to OSM format using 
one of the tools listed 
here<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Converting_map_data_between_formats> 
(probably osm-and-geojson<https://github.com/aaronlidman/osm-and-geojson> as 
I’ve tested this). My colleague Stuart has a good knowledge of OSM so he’s 
identified which tags we’ll use – I will post a list of these to get feedback 
before we upload anything.
  *   I will use the bulk_upload.py 
tool<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bulk_upload.py> to upload the osm 
file. This seemed like a good choice but please let me know if there’s a better 
one.

The whole process will be tested with the dev server first, just to be safe.

Tony, thanks for the advice – I’ll have a look at the West Midlands stuff yes. 
The verification tag & date seems like a really good idea too – we hadn’t 
thought of that.

Cheers,
Patrick

From: Tony OSM <tonyo...@gmail.com<mailto:tonyo...@gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 12:18
To: "talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>" 
<talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>>
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Adding Leeds Bins to OpenStreetMaps

Agree with Silent Spike.
This has a lot of similarities with NaPTAN bus stop imports - conflating and 
verification/validation are the difficulties there - looking at the West 
Midlands notes may help.
For Leeds with a workforce regularly checking/cleaning bins then perhaps the 
tool you are planning to build could add a verification tag & date for 
completion on the first visit after an upload.
TonyS999
On 24/03/2020 12:02, Silent Spike wrote:
Hey,

I think this seems like a well planned and researched proposal. Personally 
would be happy to see such an import - especially since you've already got 
buy-in from the council.

Only really have two questions:
- Has the accuracy of the council data been evaluated at all? I'm personally of 
the opinion that mostly accurate data is better than no data so this is more 
just a curiosity.
- Could you specify those steps you'd be taking for conflation? I don't doubt 
the ability to do so (this seems like a very competent proposal), but just for 
transparency of the process.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:44 AM Patrick Lake 
<patrick.l...@odileeds.org<mailto:patrick.l...@odileeds.org>> wrote:
Hi,

At ODI Leeds<https://odileeds.org/> we’re working with Leeds City Council to 
create an up-to-date, open dataset of bins and recycling points. Different 
parts of the council have different datasets about bins and recycling points – 
e.g the bins around Leeds market are maintained by a different department. 
Nobody has a full, exhaustive list of all of them, so we’d like to get them all 
in one place.

We think Open Street Maps would be perfect for this, as it’s ‘open by default’. 
We’re building them a tool using the API & OAuth so that council workers will 
be able to quickly add bins (amenity=waste_basket and amenity=recycling) from 
their phones. We’d also like to add their existing 
dataset<https://datamillnorth.org/dataset/litter-bin-locations>, which is 
published under OGLv3, to Open Street Maps. We have buy-in from Leeds City 
Council but under the import 
guidelines<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines> we also need 
community buy-in, and we’d really like some feedback from the OSM community.

Here’s a quick map we 
made<https://mapper.odileeds.org/?10/53.85050/-1.47903/datamill-38356ad9-a184-44c1-a4f0-055ac71356ec;osm-leeds-waste_basket>
 comparing the Leeds City Council dataset of bins (yellow markers) to the OSM 
amenity=waste_baskets for Leeds (black markers). We’re aware that there is 
probably duplicates so we’ll be taking steps to remove those.

We’d appreciate any comments or feedback.

Cheers,
Patrick Lake

ODI Leeds
patrick.l...@odileeds.org<mailto:patrick.l...@odileeds.org>


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