On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 12:29, Joel H. <jo...@disroot.org> wrote: > > Thats pretty cool, I might compare a few of these roads. > > On 15/11/18 9:25 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > I did some brief comparison it and there was at > > least one place where it was better than what's in OSM currently > > (geometry). > > I find the a geometry of the government data to be less straight and > more jittery,
I would say unnecessarily over-sampled. > the OSM data is perfectly OK in these cases. I have seen > some rough geometry in OSM, but I think the best thing to do is to use > GPX and make it ourselves. Could you please give me the name of the road > where geometry on this dataset was better? I would like to take a look. https://osmcha.mapbox.com/changesets/64522779/ Original roads were edited in 2013 and imagery all showed this as a roundabout, as confirmed by the TMR dataset so I updated it from TMR. > On 15/11/18 9:25 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > I'm noticing that the dashes seem to be missing on a lot of country > roads, I feel like we should trust OSM more but... > > In OSM we have: Esk Hampton Road > > In QSC we have: Esk - Hampton Road > > Esk and Hampton are town names so a dash makes sense. What does everyone > think? If they are signposted with the dash in most cases then I think it's better to go for consistency and use the dash. On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 13:37, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any way of showing in OSM that "this" is a State road? Could we use > an "Operator" tag? > > I have sometimes wondered whether arterial roads around our area are Council > or TMR controlled, so I know who to complain to! +1 to the operator tag in this case. In fact that's something we could use this source for, to add operator=Department of Transport and Main Roads + operator:wikidata=Q1191482 to all of these roads. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
