Is this the right place to ask beginner (stupid) questions? If not, someone please steer me to where I should actually be.
As some of you already know, I have decided to make an effort to get my town (Melville, Saskatchewan) on the map. I have made a start, playing with JOSM this afternoon, outlining this and labelling that. This is obviously something that can burn a lot of time, but I had quite a lot of fun fiddling around with this and intend to continue with this little project. I currently have a couple of questions for folks who know a lot more about this than I do. First, with regard to street classification. I see, among others, highway-tertiary, highway-unclassified and highway-residential. What classification should the streets in a town's commercial district be, i.e. something like "Main Street"? These streets don't really go anywhere other than around the commercial district, so they're not exactly a route to anywhere else, but they're not residential because it's a commercial district, and they're not unclassified because they are the major streets in town. So... what should I call them? On a related note, sometimes streets that are commercial on one end turn into residential as they go further along. So how do I classify that? Make two separate nodes, one for the north end of the street and one for the south end, and label one residential and the other whatever you tell me in answer to my first question above? Or something else? I seem to have somehow ended up with duplicate streets, side-by-side. So the obvious fix would probably be to delete one of them, leave the other, and name and classify the one that's left. Is this correct? How accurate should I try to be with my building outlining? I'm not much of an artist, so sometimes my rectangles aren't particularly rectangular. Is this a problem or is the software smart enough to know that close enough is close enough? Also, how do you find the detailed information on the web page after entering it? For example, if I add a website or contact information to a building node, how can I read that information if I go to the openstreetmap.org website and search for my town? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
