Thanks for this Warin. I've been fixing a few things and buildings in Bangalore. If it helps, you should try the to-fix utility - http://osmlab.github.io/to-fix/
Cheers, Sajjad. (on the go) On Nov 8, 2014 12:20 AM, "Warin" <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm an Australian looking at a holiday in India. So I downloaded a map of > India (OSM sourced of course). I was dissapointed by the auto routing .. so > I looked at the OSM source to find that quite a few roads were not > correctly connected. So I've been doing some 'editorials' or 'housekeeping' > as I call it. Basicly connecting roads together, adding bridges (using bing > to check them first of course). > > For 'error' checking/indication I use > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?lon=75&lat=28&zoom=6 .. you have to use > the left side box to check various things .. it comes up in default as > 'geometry' .. 'routing' is what I use .. it is not infallable but a good > indication. 'Highways' is also usefull. I use JOSM as my editor and use its > validator to obtain the places where things are not connected or crossing. > > --------- > I also looked at the Red Fort in Agra .. one contributor has used one > offset in their mapping, while another has used a different offset > (comparing using bing). I do realise that there is a shadow effect due to > the side ways look of bing there. But even so they don't match up. I'm > thinking of trying to tide it up. Unfortunatly neither contributor has > detailed the source of their information so I cannot judge which is better. > Thus I'm inclinde to simple go with Bing .. with no offset. > > I've made few additions in places of interest to me. One road I have > deleted -- it was not conneted on eitehr end and went through some tall > buildings .. an obvious error. But mostly connectinmg roads and adding > brigdges. Oh .. and a few railway crossings. > > Thanks for you work to the OSM map > Warin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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