Martijn - Again, fantastic stuff. I'm hooked.
Do you have any stats on the tool's usage that you can publish? On Aug 31, 2012, at 11:17 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to add The Remap-A-Tron to the ever growing list of tools > designed to support the ongoing remapping effort. > > http://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/remap/ > > Although this tool currently only covers the US, it would be > relatively straightforward (given proper server resources) to deploy > it for other regions or even worldwide, which is why I include talk@ > as well. > > What it does is pretty straightforward - at least for the user. It > serves up a Mapnik map with an overlay showing one redaction-deleted > major road (motorway - tertiary). By looking at the Mapnik map you > should be able to quickly determine whether that way has already been > remapped. If it is, hit the 'flag as remapped' button and you're on to > the next deleted way. If it isn't, you can either remap it straight > away - there's links for JOSM as well as Potlatch - or skip it and > leave it for someone else. There's buttons as well as shortcut keys to > make cycling through the deleted ways as efficient as possible. > > The selection of deleted ways is pseudo-random so you might find > yourself looking at the same way twice in one session. > > But wait - all deleted ways? Aren't many of them already remapped? > Yes, they are. This is where my Fairy Dust alogorithm comes in. It > detects with some accuracy if a way has already been remapped so you > should see mostly non-remapped ways. If enough people (currently 3) > agree that a way has already been remapped, it won't show up again. > > Some more background on this tool is here - > https://oegeo.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/remapathon/ > > In the two days since I first soft-launched this through my blog, IRC > and twitter, the number of non-remapped major class ways in the US has > gone down from 1863 to 1692, and my hope is to get that number down to > zero in a number of days. If and when that happens, I can easily tweak > the tool to include non-major roads (there are some 15K of those not > remapped in the US alone, or so Fairy Dust tells me). The tool can > also be repurposed for other (re-)mapping tasks altogether - let me > know your ideas. > > Let me know if it's useful / how it can be improved. The code will be > on github soon but I can tell you now it's not very pretty. > -- > martijn van exel > http://oegeo.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > t...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
