Hi everyone, I initially got interested in OpenStreetMap because I was looking for sources of info about UN LOCODEs and ports and geographical information. Unfortunately OSM did not seem to have much in the way of the sort of port info I wanted (when I initially looked) and so it all got postponed. But now our company has been managing updating port (and other) LOCODEs and I thought I'd see how OSM might make use of this info. It seems OSM does not have much in the way of LOCODE information.
So right now I am trying to get oriented on what to do and how to get this metadata (not map info) into OSM - Openseamap seems like a logical consumer of port LOCODE data. But it is metadata and not really map type data, and I was informed there is something of a debate about dealing with metadata because then it has to be periodically updated from whatever authoritative sources there are and that is not really a general community type of task... management questions. what is Openseamap's position on this? I would think UN LOCODEs for the ports in OSM would be useful for Openseamap, but what is the best way about dealing with the data? Should Openseamap merge OSM data with another source - and so LOCODE metadata shouldn't go into OSM? What have you done in previous situations like this? and how to deal with the periodic updates the UN publishes? I can adapt a script I have for automatically processing UN updates, but then who and where might that be run? The second thing is port terminals - not piers but shipping container terminals. These things are starting to get their own LOCODEs by the UN. Again, our company has info, gleaned from public data, and OSM / Openseamap seems like a good place to stick it all. I am always worrying about data updates, so it is clean data. As far as I have been able to ascertain, port terminals are not even in OSM, so I was going to propose a new tag or subtag. any reactions? The last thing is harbours / ports - the UN data is a bit flaky but if it says something is a port, there are probably commercial shipping operations there as well as a pier etc. I was going to do a compare of the UN data against OSM to see how many place/harbour type nodes are completely missing. Any thoughts? From there, we could get an idea about how incomplete the OSM data is. e.g. the last time I looked, Long Beach CA didn't have a harbour tag even though it is a major shipping port. Or it might have been Los Angeles. thanks doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Openseamap-maps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openseamap-maps
