Thanks for reaching out, Andrew.

Another issue will be highway on- & off-ramps that may be a few 00 m's long
but are often only shown as a sharp angle entering or leaving the main road.

Thanks

Graeme


On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 12:26, Ewen Hill <ewen.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed Ben,
>    There may be ways to warn in ID if a field is set. My concern would be
> traffic islands that  probably don't align so there may be two centrelines
> where OSM has one or vice versa. Any way, lot's to discuss at some point.
>
> Ewen
>
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 12:19, Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> At some level you will need to deal with the fact that people edit ways,
>> generally based on orthorectified photos, but also based on GPS traces.
>>
>> Even if the correlation started out good, it could change over time as
>> people edit the map.
>>
>> I guess it depends how much correlation you need.
>>
>>  - Ben.
>>
>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 12:00, Andrew Hughes <ahhug...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> First time poster and very new to OSM so please feel free to throw
>>> anything at me you think I should educate myself on.
>>>
>>> I'm currently the GIS Lead at the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator
>>> (HNVR). We're very serious about adopting OSM for some of our needs.
>>> However, our OSM adoption is largely dependent on a minimum correlation
>>> between the OSM ways and the streets found in Government centerline/road
>>> datasets (States and/or LGAs).
>>>
>>> Q: Would anyone be able to provide me with some insight as to what we
>>> might expect when looking to achieve the correlation we need? Please be
>>> aware, our intent is to contribute and "close the gap" but we need to know
>>> if/how this can best be done in a cohesive way within the OSM community. 
>>> *I'm
>>> also aware there may be licensing issues, please overlook these for now.*
>>>
>>> The NHVR are quite serious about what it hopes to achieve in the next 12
>>> -24 months through GIS and we are very enthusiastic to learn and contribute
>>> to OSM. I hope to be speaking with you a lot more in the near future.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Andrew Hughes
>>>
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>
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