> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2018 3:00 PM > To: OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [talk-au] TMR Road Centerlines dataset > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 12:29, Joel H. <jo...@disroot.org> wrote: > > > > Thats pretty cool, I might compare a few of these roads. > > > > On 15/11/18 9:25 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > > I did some brief comparison it and there was at least one place > > > where it was better than what's in OSM currently (geometry). > > > > I find the a geometry of the government data to be less straight and > > more jittery, > > I would say unnecessarily over-sampled. >
Do we have any information as to the capture process, are they all from one run or do they have multiple different runs over the top of each other? > > the OSM data is perfectly OK in these cases. I have seen some rough > > geometry in OSM, but I think the best thing to do is to use GPX and > > make it ourselves. Could you please give me the name of the road where > > geometry on this dataset was better? I would like to take a look. > > https://osmcha.mapbox.com/changesets/64522779/ > > Original roads were edited in 2013 and imagery all showed this as a > roundabout, > as confirmed by the TMR dataset so I updated it from TMR. > > > On 15/11/18 9:25 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > I'm noticing that the dashes seem to be missing on a lot of country > > roads, I feel like we should trust OSM more but... > > > > In OSM we have: Esk Hampton Road > > > > In QSC we have: Esk - Hampton Road > > > > Esk and Hampton are town names so a dash makes sense. What does > > everyone think? > > If they are signposted with the dash in most cases then I think it's better > to go > for consistency and use the dash. The TRC (Council) mapping data also has these road types without dashes, I had a look at a few to see if there was a pattern. If you want a photo of that particular intersection and signage I might be able to get some tomorrow if the weather is fine. > On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 13:37, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is there any way of showing in OSM that "this" is a State road? Could we use > an "Operator" tag? > > > > I have sometimes wondered whether arterial roads around our area are > Council or TMR controlled, so I know who to complain to! > > +1 to the operator tag in this case. In fact that's something we could > use this source for, to add operator=Department of Transport and Main Roads + > operator:wikidata=Q1191482 to all of these roads. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
