Hi Jason, I am happy to help. Sounds like a fun project.
John On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 1:02 PM Jason Carlson <ja...@starlandcounty.com> wrote: > While waiting for a response I think if I import roads that already exist > (albeit incorrectly) it will possibly be just as much work to fix. I tried > editing changes but the aerial photos by Bing are horribly inaccurate in > some places. I think they must pay for accuracy based on the amount of > population in an area. For example, one rural road comes to the right edge > of a Bing aerial tile and stops as on the adjacent tile the road abruptly > starts 30 meters to the south. I just noticed however I can load other > aerial backgrounds including my own which is very accurate. The only thing > that sucks is I have a lot of data that is missing such as road width, lane > numbers, surface type, road name aliases (like historical or common local > names), speed limits, even signage locations (like yield or stops). With my > 3300+ roads (of which OpenStreetMap has split into a heck of lot more > unnecessarily probably from the initial import) this is going to take some > time to fix but hopefully after I do some mapping programs that use > OpenStreetMaps will help people navigate to rural addresses in our region > as right now GPS units are pretty much useless out here. > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:53 AM Jason Carlson <ja...@starlandcounty.com> > wrote: > >> I noticed a number of roads in our county are incorrect in our area (as >> are most rural areas with next to no population). I recently rebuilt all >> our GIS road data and submitted it to an organization that then >> redistributes it to emergency dispatch services and about 25 >> organizations/companies. I did not see OpenStreetMap as one of the ones >> they send data too so I was wondering if I could submit that data myself to >> them? >> >> Jason >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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