> Some newbee Open Street Map questions (sorry to the old timers here > who no doubt have heard this stuff before...),
Hi Colin, Good to see that you have really caught the OSM-bug. > Earlier this month I was in Perth ON, and I have tossed up material > based on what I collected with a very cheap GPS receiver from that > trip. I have run into small issues from the trip. like: > > - In behind the Perth town hall is a bandstand, a roughly 20' across > octagon that raises a band maybe 3' above the ground, and provides a > roof in case of rain/snow. Okay, so how does one tag something like > that? For now I have used the "Arts Centre" tag, as it is a performing > arts location (of the most basic sort), but is there a better tag? Not a bad choice. Why not have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features and revive Music_venue, or add "stage" or "bandshell"? > - How do you insert traffic lights into the maps. For Perth the two > key intersections with traffic lights (there are a few other not so > key intersections) are at Gore/Foster and Foster/Wilson... Select the node for the traffic signal. Add highway=traffic_signals to that node. > - I have run into oddities with JOSM map editor, and managed by > accident to turn a small island into a roadway. A mistake I don't want > to repeat, so finding a tutorial on the use of JOSM would be nice... I find myself deselecting everything periodically by selecting an empty space to avoid accidentally changing an island to a road. > - I have not directly uploaded the GPS tracks I collected on that trip > because most start and/or stop of a family member's driveway. I would > prefer not to make things PAINFULLY obvious as to where said person > lives. Is there a painless way to delete parts of a track? vim / gedit will work. gpsbabel does wonderful things. Try an include polygon that excludes the Bat Cave. http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/filter_polygon.html _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
