Congratulations! Thats maptastic! Cheers, Sam
On 10/31/09, Adam Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: > The road import of tile 093 has just been completed. This includes Williams > Lake, Quesnel, Prince George, Smithers, Dawson Creek, and everything in > between. When importing, I tried to fix all topological problems (connecting > imported roads to existing roads), and fixed roughly drawn roads (obviously > landsat sourced) so that they more closely match the geometry of the GeoBase > roads. Road names and classifications were copied over from the excluded set > where necessary, along with all bridge and tunnel locations, and unpaved > surface tags (I didn't bother with any other surfaces). I tried to go > through and mark all obvious oneway roads (dual carriageways), and > unclassified roads from GeoBase that looked like they should be *_link roads > were retagged as being *_link and made oneway. > > Naturally, there may be some small things that I missed, but hopefully > people working in 093 will now feel more free to do editing knowing that the > import has been done. > > One thing I noticed is that OSM is going to need some highways naming > "love". Highway naming in BC is still a mystery to me (even though I've > lived here many years and been on many roadtrips). I have in the past used > Wikipedia as a source for highway names, but there was some disagreement > between Wikipedia and GeoBase for naming. For example, Wikipedia says that > the Yellowhead Highway goes all the way to the coast from Prince George, > whereas GeoBase gives it no name for much of that section, and merely gives > it the moniker "Hwy 16". There were some points where GeoBase even had > internal conflicts on highway naming (near Dawson Creek, Highway 97 would > rapidly change from "Hwy 97" to "Hart Highway" then back again, several > times). Once all of Canada has been imported, we should get some official > docs and figure out the highway naming. You know; make a get-together of it; > have some fun. > > Adam > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
