Hi I'm on a train otherwise I'd fix it myself but I noticed the footpaths in Union Square were not connected to the roads?
On 7 Feb 2008, at 19:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
