OpenStreetMap
I've now got a small file of house names created with tomtom adding the location as a poi, i have currently 303 house names listed and all except maybe one or 2 are extremely accurate, (those small few are ones which i forgot to zoom to the closest level in tomtom and are slightly out of place)
i've made some nodes with house names on open street map by just putting a green node down in potlatch then adding the name tag with the house name, this doesn't show up in the renderer and does show up in search results :) (which is very useful for me)
is there anyway i can import these nodes/waypoints into potlatch? i've tried using poiedit 2007 to convert them to a gpx file to load them in but that doesn't seem to work.
I realise a lot of people aren't interested in this, but for me it would be incredibly useful, google is horribly inaccurate, poi's on tomtom are not very useful for remote locations as they just try to point you to the nearest road, often quite quite far away, i'd like to be able to search for a house/building and see exactly ware it is on the map so I don't get lost and to help my co-workers
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Comment from robx on 13 June 2008 at 09:25
I know there's problems with uploading GPX waypoints, but I've also heard Potlatch can edit them if you do manage to upload it. The thing is that the GPX upload is designed for tracklogs; in particular, it requires timestamps on the waypoints. I'm not sure whether a GPX with just timestamped waypoints will upload, or whether you have to convert to a route first.
Once you have it uploaded, you'll have to load the GPX file into Potlatch directly. This works through the "edit" link next to the GPX file in your *list* of GPS traces, not the "edit" link on the page of that GPX file. The URL is like osm.org/edit?gpx=123456.
Hope this helps, and if it does work, could you put this in the Wiki?
By the way, I do think adding this information is useful. Some people have started to add house numbers, as well. It's just a huge amount of work.
Comment from IgnoredAmbience on 14 June 2008 at 12:50
Please be aware that if you've used the TomTom's basemaps as a source for the positioning of the POIs, then they could be classed as being derived from that map data (and thus incompatible with the OSM licensing).
A bulk-import would therefore be unlikely to be allowable. However, plotting the points in OSM (referring to Yahoo, and existing OSM data), and copying across your own data would be allowable.
Comment from Stead on 25 June 2008 at 16:05
ok, I shall at some point get around to doing it manually :)
what tags should i use? I was thinking of doing numbers as well for some, but i find it hard to find info on the wiki about how to do it, so far for the few houses i've put in, i've just put a name tag, and then they come up in the search results :) and not on the map, but for numbers I wasn't sure
could i use the name tag with the is_in tag and specify which street it is in for better search results?