Hi all, I just discovered openstreetmap last week. I live in New York city and just to get my feet wet I took my GPS over to Union Square park and tried to map it. The gps track is very bad, (I guess because of all the tall buildings around the park,) but I did manage to draw the park and the foot paths in it. I was pleased to see my additions today: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.73859&lon=-73.99056&zoom=16
Currently most of the streets in Manhattan are marked as residential. So I started taging the major streets in Manhattan as primary or Secondary. I am just using my general knowledge of the city to determine this. Is that OK? I would also like to mark the one way streets with their direction, but so far, I don't know how to do this. I also fixed the junction of 5th avenue and Broadway at 24th street. I got it to the point where it looks good but I am not sure the streets nodes connect properly. How can I tell if two points that overlap are joined together properly? I have deleted two small streets that do not exist, but I had a hard time figuring out how to do it. I am using the Potlatch editor. If I select a line segment an hit delete nothing happens. So what I have been doing is adding a point in the center of the segment I want to delete, then splitting the segment at that point, then selecting the end points at the split and then deleting. This seems to work but I doubt if it is the recommended method. I also would like to redraw the West Side highway as a double lane divided highway with proper connections to the city streets but, being such a newbie, I hesitate to make such a major change. Is it ok if I work on the highway in my neighborhood and leave the uptown part of the highway for someone else? Any advice would be appreciated. -Joe Lertola _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
