Hi Gareth,
welcome aboard!
Gareth Walker subscr...@illmann-walker.com schrieb:
I had a little go at doing some mapping of Willenhall town centre. I
still have to work out alleyways and add on other streets I did.
I usually tag alleyways either as tracks or as service-ways depending
what they look like.
I wondered if anyone can have a quick look and see if I've done it
right so I don't start with bad practice.
It looks very nice. Good work! I only have two comments:
You seem to use highway=tertiary (the yellow roads) quite a lot. It
might make sense to use highway=unclassified for some of these roads.
Just have a look at what other town centres look like.
Wolverhampton Road seems to be almost straight. In such cases there is
no need to add lots of additional nodes along the way (unless there are
junctions, of course). Just put one node at the beginning and one at
the end.
When collecting traces on foot the gps trace is often a bit jittery
which can make it difficult to see if the road is straight. But if you
remember that the road was straight then you can just draw it as a
straight line.
I've gone through a lot of the videos and tutorials but the one thing
I haven't been able to work out is how to split roads up.
In Potlatch (the editor which opens when you click on the edit tab) you
can split a road by selecting a node in the middle of the road an press
'x'. If there is no node yet at the position where you want to split
it, you can add one by shift-clicking on the way. I find the wiki page
with the potlatch shortcuts really helpful when I use Potlatch [1].
To split a road in JOSM you also have to select a node in the road and
then press 'p' (or use the menu option). Adding nodes can easier be
done by dragging the cross in the middle of a way or by using the add
tool and then clicking on the way.
I'm a bit flummoxed for doing much walking at the moment on account
of having two toenails removed but I'll try to get some more done.
That sounds painful! I hope you get better soon.
The midlands user group is having their monthly social on next Thursday
in Birmingham centre. You are welcome to come along. We will do some
mapping before and then meet in a pub. All the details can be found
here: [2][3]
Cheers,
Christoph
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Midlands%2C_UK_User_Group
[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/Inner_Ringroad
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