Someone else wrote: > Grr. "100% road name completion" has become in this thread "100% > completeness".
Which of course is completely different. Taking just one metric (.osm file size), I extracted the highways from the current Tendring district (road and name complete) .osm extract file I have here and the highways account for just 7.5% of the full extract. And there are still lots of landuse areas and houses to add. (I only thought to try this as I found myself surprised that the Tendring.osm extract has grown 5% since April with only about 3 newly built roads added in that time, so most of it is down to address information and houses being added). There are issues with traced roads, perhaps more so from StreetView than from Bing (depending on image quality) - I've seen a number of Skobbler/MapDust bugs from outside this area (where some tracing had been done - I forget where now, but somewhere I was visiting so I had it open in Potlatch 2) where the report is "wrong way down a one way street". In some cases you can make out road markings in bing which might confirm such a report, but unless people are monitoring every area where they trace for such reports they won't get picked up, and might still need a visit to verify if they are picked up. Turn restrictions are another report where you are unlikely to be able to make out the no right turns from above, and need a visit to confirm (one that annoys me is "missing roundabout" - I usually have to visit to check only to find it is a false report). I have traced some roads, but always add a source tag so I can see they still need visiting, much as I did when I started mapping when source was NPE. As far as I know I've restricted that to areas where I used to live, work, or regularly visit though, so have some local knowledge. Similarly OS Locator names, and am trying again to visit any such roads over time to remove those tags (which I notice I'm not perfect at doing thanks to an ITO overlay mentioned here recently - e.g. one road I've collected all the house numbers and other details during a survey, but forgot to remove the source tag; another road was where I later spent a day on a training course, and again the name is right but I've not removed the source now I've verified it). Ed (Loach, not Avis) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
