2009/9/18 Lindley Bowers <lindleybow...@gmail.com>: > I spent a bit of time driving around Gatton the other day. There are > some roads there now and because it was night, I didn't catch many > street names. This is the first town I've done from scratch so I > don't know if I've done ok or done a royal mess. Anyway, I'm being > bugged by the roundabouts which don't seem to cooperate for me in > potlatch, josm nor Mercator. If someone would like to fix anything > I've broken in Gatton including a few missing roundabouts that'd be > great, especially as I'm away from home and my computer for a bit. > > If this is helpful, I might pop in a few more missing towns in my area > as I come across them (can't always guarantee all street names).
I added my thoughts to a wiki page on this topic about importance for areas that don't have sat imagery and are more or less a blank canvas. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Starting_with_a_Blank_Map I came to the conclusion that putting streets in, even without names is very valuable because other people with local knowledge can fill in the blanks without needing a GPS, at least that's how it'd work in theory :) As for roundabouts, they're a bit of hassle and I'd love for JOSM to do it better but any way as things are I either draw a square and then add mid points between the 4 corners to turn it into a roundabout, or I draw a triangle and hit shift+o, neither is perfect but perfection isn't generally achievable anyway. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au