Maybe we should have a howto section on our wiki which is continuously
updated with tips, tricks and methods on doing various things with OSM
data.
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Chaitanya Kuber
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On 13 Jul 2008, at 22:19, Bob Hawkins wrote:
Out of interest, I have opened the England.shp.zip file that is inhttp://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/great_britain/
, grouped the roads.shp file by Type and ordered it by its count.
The result can be seen in the attachment.
I suppose, with so many people contributing, one should be quite
pleased that,with the exception of 'unsurfaced', all the counts over
1,000 are valid, according to the JOSM Presets drop down, so far as
I can determine.
I wonder, though:
1. could any cleaning up be done (changing footpath to footway,
perhaps)
2. does the presence of so many oddities suggest that the use of
Keys and Values needs to be more prominent within the OSM website so
that users can more readily understand what is acceptable and what
is not?
I am a newbie, and I expect experienced users will have more
valuable observations and suggestions. I should welcome discussion
on this topic.
On a final note: I have found it difficult to readily find answers
to all the questions that arise as a newcomer. They are often out
there somewhere, usually found by Googling and trolling through
countless pages. I do feel it would be such a benefit to people
like me to have a structered and detailed Help file in one place.
Bob Hawkins <Street types.csv>
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