Naturally, youâll need to follow the import guidelines. If you havenât already done so, please do read those and make sure that you do everything that you need to do.
I suspect that while lots of people will be in favour of this data being added in OSM, theyâd still want to see how youâd handle conflation - for example where an entrance node already exists but doesnât have the new tags, where it exists has and has tags that disagree, and where a POI exists but has no entrance node.
Perhaps, in addition to the stuff in the import guidelines, itâd be worth manually editing 2 or 3 POIs as you propose so that can people can see the effect?
Yes the conflation issue will be the hardest. We want to add the new data to existing buildings, but it is a lot of work to do this manual. We did a test in Lisbon city were we added some of the new tags: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7285983235
We payed someone who has a lot of OSM knowledge for this, but we will have to see if it is financial possible to do this for the whole dataset.
One thing I noticed, some values have units, others donât. It would be convenient to normalize those and maybe provide some guidance as to what values without units mean. Itâs quite common to write meters without units. Anything else should have a unit or be transformed to meters. But since you are introducing completely new tags, you can choose whatâs the default unit I suppose.
Would it be possible to add taginfo links for the usage of those? Have a look at another page to see how it is done. Usage may be low now, but as the discussion goes on, Iâd expect that it would go up.
An other user added the taginfo links I believe. Thank you!
How can we make this an official proposal? Now its a draft I believe.
How can we add the voting to this?
Somebody from the OSM community also made a script to change this to OSM json data, but there is also a lot of manual work to be done. For this we would like to get some help. Whatâs the best approach to find people for this?
door width, space side and space front are not only attributes of wheelchair toilets, they apply to normal toilets too. Itâs similar to elevator:door:width=*.
It seems that OnWheels has done a big part of their import by now.
It would have been nice if youâd have linked to this thread in your changesets, but that is not such a big issue. Iâve left a changeset comment on each of them as well.
Hi everyone, we managed to do the import where we just added our accessibility tags to the existing buildings in OSM. No OSM data was changed or deleted. Conflicting data or locations were not imported. More info about the tags we use and our app can be found here:
I will instruct our importer to add a source tag so itâs clear the dataset comes from On Wheels. We still have to do the disabled parking spaces, but we havenât found a good way to do it yet.
Thanks for letting me know about the double locations. It seams that some students didnât follow our rules very clearly and added new locations instead of editing the existing ones. We are also working on a bug were the app creates duplicates. I manually checked and fixed all locations from this student. Will ask the dev to put the created by tag on the changeset instead of location. Do you know how they have to do this? These fixes are coming in the next update next week:
deleting existing data when editing with the app
using capital letters in the answers box
we will only send the tag if the answer is yes (so no more tags with =no)
duplicates should also be fixed (had to to with server overload issues with pictures)
Good to hear that those changes are finally coming.
Are those students using the app? If they âhave to follow some rulesâ, then a non-affiliated user will make the same errors and the user-experience should be improved.
Yes I am thinking of how we can add some safety features to the app, so we can help people avoid making mistakes. You already have to make an OSM account, so we donât really have random people adding things now. But I also want to add like a short intro movie or some slides before you can start adding/editing. Or maybe a feature that checks if a location with a similar name already exists. We are also working on adding ways to the app, so building info in a way can be edited instead of people adding a node with the info. For the teambuildings I made a separate OSM account so itâs easier to check for mistakes afterwards. We will also ask students to use this account in the future.
