On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Ian Bruseker <ian.bruse...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings.
Welcome to OSM. > So, after having known about OSM for a while, I have now jumped in and made > my first (non-trivial) edit. I found a road that was just floating out in > nowhere, when I know for a fact that it does connect at both ends to other > roads. I did some reading before I did it to figure out how to work JOSM, > so hopefully I did it technically correct. But I also did some checking of > this list's archives and saw a few "hey, does anyone know who X is? Because > he's messing up the map" sort of posts. So, with that in mind, hello. :-) > If I mess up the map, now you know I'm here. And second, before I change a > ton of roads in the area that are all floating in the middle of nowhere, I > wanted to run my work past more experienced mappers. I'm not really a > "mapping guy" (yet), I'm more just a "hates incomplete data guy", so any > advice is welcome. This is the changeset: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4209232 > I connected the way at both ends, but then also combined that way, which > appears to have come from Geobase, to the same stretch of road to the south > but manually created by someone else, to create a single way. That seemed > to make sense to me. They are all one road after all. And I also deleted a > second, shorter version of the exact same road, also apparently from > Geobase. > I have a question on precision: The road actually has a boulevard down the > centre. It's not huge, but it would prevent a random u-turn by anything but > a 4x4 or someone who doesn't care about their car. Should that road be > drawn as two one-way ways? If it is two physical ways, with a dividing line of grass, etc, then yes. Maybe that's what the second copy of the road > was meant to represent, though it was failing miserably at it. > And finally, a question on customs: The Geobase data gave the road's > quadrant as "South-west". No one I've ever known would ever either write > that or type it into a search engine. It would be just two letters, "SW". > Is it appropriate for me to fix these names to be the correct local custom? What is the legal name of the street? Also, remember that south-west can be turned into SW but the reverse isn't always true. > A quick check seems to show that only the Geobase entities have it this > way. Anything created by a human is done the two-letter way. > Thanks, > Ian Cheers, Corey _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
