Import/New Zealand Place Names

New Zealand Place Names
Author:	Kylenz
License:	MIT License
Platform:	Web
Status:	Active
Version:	2.0.0 (2024-06-08)
Language:	English
Website:	https://osm-nz.github.io/place-name-conflation
Source code:	osm-nz/place-name-conflation GitHub
Programming language:	TypeScript
Compares place names with the NZGB, and reports missing places and names.
Features Feature Value Map Display Display map yes Map data Source Rotate map 3D view Shows website Shows phone number Shows operation hours Routing (Not set) Navigating (Not set) Tracking (Not set) Monitoring Monitoring Show current track Open existing track no Altitude diagram Show POD value Satellite view Show live NMEA data Show speed Send current position Editing Add POIs no Edit / Delete POIs no Add way no Edit geometries no Edit arbitrary tags of existing OSM objects yes Edit relations no View notes Create notes Edit notes Work offline Support imagery offset DB Upload to OSM yes Rendering (Not set) Accessibility (Not set)

Every week, a script automatically runs which compares place names in OpenStreetMap with the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Gazetteer.

The data is sourced from LINZ, see the main wiki page for LINZ for more information about the import process and which tags are used.

How to use it

Visit the tool to browse the list of issues.

Code & Data

The code for the tool is available from osm-nz/place-name-conflation ^GitHub. The data comes from LINZ's place names dataset, which is updated weekly and available under the same license as all other LINZ datasets that are used in OSM.

How it works

The tool extracts every feature that has ref:linz:place_id=* from the Overpass API, and compares them with the dataset from LINZ. This process takes about 2 minutes.

This script automatically runs on Thursday morning (NZ time), and uploads the result to the CDN. The website fetches the latest data from that CDN.