I have been working in a number of areas and would appreciate some help and a second opinion on what I have already done.
I am keen on the idea of 'virtual mapping parties' where a bunch of people work on a focused area until it is done and then move on. It is good to have someone with local knowledge, but loads of the work doesn't need that. Here's my shopping list for help if you (our anyone else) is offering.... San Francisco bay area. I have been sorting out the freeways in the whole area, de-duplicated most of the west of the bay and done some detailed work in San Francisco, Foster City and Sunnivale. Could you check if you agree with my interpretation of highway tags (let's talk on the list if you disagree fundamentally on something major so the community can bottom out policy). The Haywood area needs a good 'de-duplication' pass - zoom into Haywood BART and start from there. In general I have found it best to keep the tiger version for smaller roads (which tend to have more detail and be more accurate about naming in tiger), but keep the pre-tiger data for freeways where it exists (because it has two carriageways. Dallas/Fort Worth I have done a decent about of work on the larger roads, getting the tagging somewhat correct, adding a secondary carriageway to freeways where required, de-duplicating and doing a first pass on cleaning up freeway junctions. Fyi, I have been using motorway for everything with ramps, primary for everything without ramps that has two carriageways (but no ramps), and unclassified for the parallel service roads beside 'motorways' where they are used. Finally I have been using secondary for important single carriageway roads. Not sure what, if anything, should be Trunk. Again lets talk on the list about highway tagging if you think I am well off. It would be great if you could continue with tagging of primary and secondary roads for the grid. There are also loads of 'motorway_link' sections that should probably really be 'primary_link'. More work is need on some of the more complex motorway junctions. You might like to check the directions and look for missing link roads make them flow properly. Dalla airport needs to be done if that is your sort of thing (runways, taxiways, aprons etc) Washington I have been getting the highways more consistent in the Washington area, have been sorting out the coastline/river and de-duplicating. I have done what I can without knowing the area in person. There are some freeway junctions that have defeated me which you might like to look at. The 395/110 junction is a real challenge! I am not very comfortable with my use of primary roads in central Washington where the I66 crosses the Potomac. I don't know the area and I am not sure how big they all are. You could sort out all the parks and footpaths in the central area (Lincoln Memorial to capital hill in particular). There is an island just north of I66 on the Potomac river which is missing that the riverbank is broken. I hoped someone was sorting that out, but it still seems to be wrong and I am not very good with water features yet so you might be able to help there. Davis, CA I have done a pretty complete job there but there are little stub footpaths to add to connect the footpath spines to the local residential roads. The aerial photography is great so it is quite possible to do without knowing the area. Thanks, Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk-us- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Weait > Sent: 11 May 2008 03:37 > To: talk-us > Subject: [Talk-us] mapping parties > > So who has a mapping party planned? Anybody want to have one in their > area but needs a little encouragement? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us
