On 17 January 2011 20:31, Andrew McCarthy <m...@andrewmccarthy.ie> wrote:

> Are there any existing tools to spot overlapping polygons of a
> particular type in an OSM database? Something that could check for all
> conflicting polygons with "natural=*" (or whatever) would make the
> clean-up much faster. Some areas have quite a few bits of greenery
> tagged already:
>        http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.958&lon=-7.236&zoom=11&layers=M

JOSM validator is the crudest such thing - it will spot any
overlapping areas IIRC. Not sure about Keepright.

> A simpler option might be to add "unchecked=1" to the imported areas,
> which could be deleted when somebody has manually checked that it's
> okay.

We've discussed that and it may be an option. Keep in mind that lots
of Ireland has little or no land cover mapped, though water pushes
this up a bit. So one suggestion was to do what you describe within
areas known to have high detail.

> Roughly how many polygons are there in the import?

17k, give or take.

Dermot


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