On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all, > > The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways have released the new > scientific numbering scheme[1]. We need to decide if we should move to the > new numbering form or not. Also i think its better to have the old numbers > as well. Probably we can have ref_old and ref_new keys.Now we have a totally > new dimension to highways.(As though, we didnt have enough problems with it) > > I have been trying to figure out some kind of rationale behind the rationalized number scheme but couldnt figure out any. The pdf is quite a bit of a muddle at the moment and we should probably wait for a better document that has the old vs new numbers so that we dont incorrectly number the roads. ref_old sounds like a good plan. also, to familiarize people if the new/old numbers show up, it would really help. Definitely have > On a different note, when i visited openstreetmap.in to check if someone > has updated to new numbering scheme, i was shocked by seeing "Sudhama Nagar" > replacing "Bangalore".[2] I went and checked the data, sudhama nagar was > perfectly normal and marked as a locality in Bangalore, which it is. OSM > site displays this properly.Any idea on what could be the problem? > It was incorrectly tagged as a state, i corrected it to locality but i guess it would take time for it to show up in the low zoom tiles. > > [1] http://dorth.gov.in/writereaddata/sublinkimages/finaldoc6143316640.pdf > [2] http://openstreetmap.in/?zoom=7&lat=13.12871&lon=80.04694&layers=B > -- > Regards > Srikanth.L > Google Profile <http://j.mp/SrikanthL> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- http://j.mp/ArunGanesh
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