A Israel bot to standarize OSM data

Communities ישראל (Israel)
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We should take care of very important things instead of running through the map and doing a copy of name to name:he.

So I would like to suggest a kind of bot that is taking care of some things in Israel and doing some automatic fixings:

Suggestions:

  • adding “name:he=…” if the name tag already exists and if its in Hebrew only.
  • adding fixings of brand vs operator all over Israel
  • fixing the shortcuts of street, footway etc. Currently we have sometimes written a shortcut, and sometimes the long version.
  • Logging of changes into a wiki page, to see if the bot goes wild and changing wrong things.
  • Bot will only start every X weeks and it is announced before it starts its job :slight_smile: Maybe twitter ?

TalKat has run once a script fixing all name:he values.
But this is a while ago and he is not answering anymore regarding the OSM project :frowning:

@yrtimiD: You asked how to create such a bot. Here are some links:

I’m not able to program such a bot by myself but if the connections are existing I’m willing and able to configure or adjust things.

Anybody interested in this kind of project?

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Currently i’m quite busy on another osm-related project, but soon i’ll be abble to check this.

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Is exists any method to extract only data within Israel borders?

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good question… experiencing the same problem.
Streets from Jordan, Syria and Libanon are in the Geofabrik export named Israel/Palestine…

Can’t we use the israel.poly from this Cloudmade?
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/asia/western_asia/israel

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Just checked it and the output has half the size:

osmconvert israel_motorway.o5m -B=israel.poly --csv=“@id @lon @lat highway ref name name:en” -o=israel_motorway.csv

In my first overview there are really only israeli roads included.

And if you want to start with one small area only you can use the extracts for:

  • Golan
  • Hadarom
  • Haifa
  • Hamerkaz
  • Hazafon
  • Jerusalem
  • Tel Aviv
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Niiiice! Thanks!

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I saw that the Israeli Poly file includes the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Area between Syria and Israel that is controlled by Syria.
So you will have strange results… I opened a issue at cloudmade and ask to change it (http://developers.cloudmade.com/issues/show/1177).

Beside that a tip:
You should also include the westjordanland *.poly in your query as I expect Israel to be taking care of the streets there:
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/asia/western_asia/palestina/west_bank

Gaza should be not part of our business :slight_smile:

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Yesterday I used israel.poly to process all gas stations and I think it was successful.

I see we just need to define our poly of region we want to manage. Does anybody know any comfortable tool to create poly files?

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There seem several tools outside… never tested it.

Check out the section “Converting to/from POLY format” from the following wiki page.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Polygon_Filter_File_Format

Here is one example:
http://www.geocaching-dresden.de/tools/gpx-to-poly
or this Perl Script: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boundaries.pl

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Just a reminder, you should read http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy might also be useful