On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:45:22 -0400 Richard Weait wrote: > > First, with regard to street classification. I see, among others, > > highway-tertiary, highway-unclassified and highway-residential. > > unclassified and residential are the same thing, except residential is > for residential areas. Anything less-important would be an alley or > driveway (highway = service) or something-not-a-street.
Therefore, an important street in a commercial area is "unclassified"? Or something else? > > > What > > classification should the streets in a town's commercial district be, i.e. > > something like "Main Street"? > > There should be no harm in making Main Street more prominent, even if > it is not a strict match to the classification guidelines. My question is how to do that. It seems that a commercial street should have more prominence than a residential street, but I don't see a commercial street category. > > I seem to have somehow ended up with duplicate streets, side-by-side. So > > the obvious fix would probably be to delete one of them, leave the other, > > and name and classify the one that's left. Is this correct? > > Somehow? Might you and another mapper have been editing at the same > time? What else might it be? Normally, if you add an object once, it > only gets added to the database once. I'm not altogether sure of what exactly happened, since I downloaded the exiting data, added the CANVEC data, and uploaded the result. It appears that I now have two streets, slightly offset from each other. I plan to delete one set of streets and fix the other once I know how to classify them. If I have to over all of the streets to classify them and name them, there's no point in doing it twice. Is it important to actually outline a street, or is a simple line from point A to point B sufficient? > > Also, how do you find the detailed information on the web page after > > entering it? For example, if I add a website or contact information to a > > building node, how can I read that information if I go to the > > openstreetmap.org website and search for my town? > > Use the search box on the left hand menu. I just looked for, and > found the right answer: > "Melville Theatre" > "restorex, melville sk" > "Flamingo Restaurant" - 2 answers returned > > Is that what you had in mind? Not completely. When I entered the data for the Flamingo Restaurant I also entered their telephone number. Where did that go? New questions: How should I classify a shop that does multiple, apparently unrelated things. For example, there is one business that sells saddles and prints a newspaper. What should I classify a towing service as? I can't find either towing or wrecker in the list of classifications. Same question for the Woo Ladies fortune telling shop. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
