I have looked through the changes in my part of the world, and it makes things much better. I would encourage you to go ahead and run it with the changes that you have made.
Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new on this list but I assume that the problem I'm talking about > has been widely discussed. Someone from the US alerted me to the fact > that TIGER only has one type of road link which was imported as > motorway_link, and therefore you have little bits of motorway_link > sprinkled liberally across the US. > > I propose to run a script that downgrades every motorway_link to the > highest road type to which it is connected. A motorway_link that > connects to a motorway remains unchanged; a motorway_link that connects > a primary and a secondary road will become primary_link, one that > connects two tracks (yes, these do exist) will become a track also, and > everything in between. > > (This will sometimes cause whole sets of interconnected motorway_links > to be downgraded, like this: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.7839&lon=-80.28898&zoom=17&layers=0B00FTFT) > > Preliminary analysis shows that there would be roughly 28k changes > across the whole US. I have prepared a full list of all proposed > changes, arranged by state and county, here: > > http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/us-motorway-link-downgrade/ > > I invite you to make some random checks (way IDs are linked to the > openstreetmap.org browse page where you get to see the map context) to > see whether my script does the right thing. > > I would then run the script after the weekend if nobody has any > objections. (Anything that is changed by hand between now and then will > not be touched by the script.) > > Let me know what you think. > > Bye > Frederik > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us