On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:36:39 +1000 John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just received an message from Brentyn about roads appearing in the > Toowoomba area, they haven't been tagged as to the source but he think > they're derived from DCDB Qld data. > > I've been contemplating about how to tag a non-existent road, to > prevent people from reimporting it, or trying to survey roads that > don't exist. > > This comes back to this topic: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#What_happens_if_another_map_says_a_road_exists_but_isn.27t_really_there.3F > > A road exists on paper, but doesn't in real life and having a blank > area makes it hard to determine if a survey has found nothing or it > simply hasn't been surveyed at all. > > At least with the DCDB data we can trace over it, the only question > then is how to tag it, I can't think of anything concise that I didn't > already outline on the wiki from before. If it's from the DCDB data then highway=gazetted_road and don't put anything in the renderer to show them. They will then show up in the editors and people can then map them using gps etc when able. -- Cheers Ross _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
