Hi Andrew, Lester, The unclassified <-> residential is an issue that has been plaguing the US data as well (as all TIGER low class roads were imported as residential regardless of urban / rural context). Purely from a navigation / routing perspective, this is not a huge deal, but as an OSM mapper it makes me cringe. Especially the huge amounts of tracks / unpaved / non-existing rural roads imported from TIGER in the US that are still happily sitting around as residential in OSM… (see also Richard Fairhurst’s recent remarks on this persistent issue in the thread about his cycle route planner expansion into the US).
Any ideas on how to entice folks to fixing these? One thing I’ve heard proposed a few times is publishing a map that just doesn’t render anything that is TIGER / CANVEC residential and hasn’t been edited. It’s not completely trivial but it can be done. Better ideas welcome. MapRoulette? Martijn > On Jun 17, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Andrew Lester <a-les...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > If this is the consensus, I've been blissfully unaware and the wiki needs to > be updated. The Canadian tagging guidelines > (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Regional_roadways_.28below_provincially_controlled.29) > recommend using unclassified when not in residential areas, and that's how > I've been tagging. The CANVEC imports generally use residential as you > describe which has led to a lot of mis-tagged highways, but I wouldn't say > this is a consensus agreement that this is how we want it to be. It’s just > how the data was imported. I'm gradually re-tagging such highways in my area, > but there's a lot that need to be fixed across very large areas and not many > people working on it. > > Andrew Lester > Victoria, BC, Canada > > From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:27 PM > To: Martijn van Exel; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada > > A few things I can think of: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:13 PM Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: >> * Are there any Canada-specific mapping and tagging conventions? > - There seems to be a strong consensus that what elsewhere would be > highway=unclassified is highway=residential, no matter if the road is in a > populated area or not. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
