Phase 1 Review Meeting 11th April 2012

=OSM-GB Phase 1 Project Meeting=

Teleconference, 11th April 2012 Attendees - Jeremy Morley, Amir Pourabdollah, Tim Downs, Tracey Mooney, Steven Feldman

Agenda
•	Review AP’s Phase 1 Report

•	Sign off completion of Phase 1

•	Review Early Adopters and Steering Group List

•	Outline Phase 2 objectives

•	AOB

Review Phase 1 (see AP report previously circulated)
•	Main focus was to establish infrastructure which has largely been completed

•	Challenges

•	Load OSM into Oracle – solved using Snowflake GoLoader (avoids any changes to schema applied in producing Cloudmade shape files)

•	Outstanding items

•	WMS – a basic WMS (BNG) will be available by end April. Consideration of usage of tiles or direct connection to database and usage of BNG and Web Mercator projections in next phase

•	Connect output from Radius Studio on OSMGB1 to PostGIS database on OSMGB3 in schema that Mapnik can generate tiles (current tiles are from an unprocessed one time load of OSM) Snowflake Go publisher may offer a solution.

•	Workflow to refresh the PostGIS repository after processing differential changes with Radius Studio

•	Search feature – suggest postcodes, streets and towns

Phase 1 sign off was agreed with the outstanding items above noted.

Early Adopters and Steering Groups
SF explained the purposes of the two groups

•	Early adopters would be people who either personally could make use of OSM-GB services or could influence their uptake within their organization. They will be asked for feedback on usage, performance and proposed features/specs

•	Steering group members had been selected for their ability to offer guidance on future phase objectives. They need not also be early adopters.

•	A list of proposed invitations was shared and after discussion approved

•	SF to issue invitations to both groups.

•	Proposed date for first steering group meeting in Nottingham – Friday 4th May, 10.00am

Phase 2 Objectives
•	Assumed that completion of WMS will precede other objectives

•	Top priority is to build and test rules within RS

•	Suggested that we start by recreating the various QA rules built by GeoFabrik for OSM

•	Review other OSM rules and consider implementing

•	Seek feedback from Steering Group on other potential rules

•	Interest in rules that combine geography and attributes

•	Check with RC what rules are already written for other 1Spatial projects that might be reused

•	Publishing bug reports

•	Essential that we are able to publish errors, changes and potential errors (but not yet changed) on OSM-GB web maps so that users can understand what we are achieving. Will need to consider cartography to display dependent upon type of error, density and ease of accessing attributes

•	Expose bugs as a WFS for consumption within desktop clients

•	Determine way of sharing bug report with OSM community via one of the established bug reporting tools. This will prompt a detailed conversation with some of the OSM community and sysadmins before we start flooding them with “possible” errors

•	Devise, test and implement a workflow that allows OSM-GB to

•	 ingest differential changes from OSM, •	apply rules and actions to them (and possibly to the whole dataset when we define a new or edited rule) •	load into the OSM/Mapnik schema on PostGIS database and •	regenerate tiles (BNG and Web Mercator) •	UK Location Program/INSPIRE •	Set up metadata server •	Populate metadata and link to Data.gov.uk	•	Publish view services

AoB – None

Next meeting – Steering Group in Nottingham 4th May